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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

This year, they have decided to rely instead on what NASSP members have reported as the issues that keep principals up at night, such as Common Core implementation, new teacher evaluation models, and dropout prevention and graduation rates. So NASSP has programmed interaction into the conference.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

The Hechinger Report

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Related: Theater helps English language learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap?

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

Bilton had studied the topic as part of his graduate work at Salem State University, and later attended an educators’ workshop in Washington at the U.S. English teacher Justin Bilton and history teacher Jason Stark created and team-teach the class. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Historical documents and literary fiction make up the curriculum.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - The Conference - Next Up #Reinvent14 - Appreciative Inquiry and AERO

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We''ve also just added information about the Invent to Learn workshop on Saturday with Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez (which is the same day as our Global Ed event , but we''re magnanimous around here). The Common Core opens the door for innovative teaching techniques to ensure students are college and career ready.