A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

Every excuse in the book was at our disposal not to change and continue down the same path year after year. Moving from a fixed to a growth mindset and feeding of the daily inspiration that connected learning provides gave me with the fuel to create a shared vision that eventually became a reality as a result of action.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2014

First and foremost, make the time to learn, grown, and get better as opposed to finding the time. There is nothing more important to an educator, outside of working with kids, than professional learning. Through social media a Personal Learning Network (PLN) provides a great antidote to the age-old time excuse.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2015

It is not that our students are actually learning differently per se, but the environment in which they are learning is dramatically different. Uncommon learning refers to initiatives and pedagogical techniques that are not present in scale in a typical school or district.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

It is not that our students are actually learning differently per se, but the environment in which they are learning is dramatically different – Sheninger, xi. Throughout his book, Sheninger provides concrete examples from his former school, New Milford High School, as well as others from throughout the country.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 6, 2016

It is not that our students are actually learning differently per se, but the environment in which they are learning is dramatically different – Sheninger, xi. Throughout his book, Sheninger provides concrete examples from his former school, New Milford High School, as well as others from throughout the country.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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