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Control or Ownership

A Principal's Reflections

The failed legacy of NCLB should provide a stark reminder that pummeling students with standardized tests will not achieve the desired outcome. Success now lies in one''s ability to create solutions to problems, collaborate with peers to meet a goal, communicate effectively, and develop unique ideas that can change things for the better.

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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

These indicators have become so embedded in the minds of those judging our schools and work that we, like everyone else, worked hard to focus only on initiatives that would hopefully produce favorable outcomes in those areas. If we were doing well we continued down the same path allowing the status quo to reign supreme.

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Class Tech Tips: 3 Ways Adobe Spark Promotes Creativity in the Classroom

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Their study is titled, Creative Problem Solving in Schools: Essential Skills Today’s Students Need for Jobs in Tomorrow’s Age of Automation, and covers a topic on the minds of educators I meet during my travels. Or Spark Page might be the tool they choose to reflect on the outcome of a science experiment.

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The Free and Online 2014 School Leadership Summit Starts Wednesday! (Full Session List)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Free Synchronous Meeting Tools to Deliver Faculty Professional Development - Dr. Angel Barrett Bringing the World to Your Classroom - Kathryn Stoerzbach Educational Promotion Manager GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT - A Vision for Education and Change in Post-Conflict Sierra Leone - Jennifer D.

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Online College Classes Start Monday!

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Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. social media. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

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College Credit Classes in Remote Teaching/Blended Learning

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Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. social media. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.

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Classes in Remote Teaching

Ask a Tech Teacher

Once you’re signed up, you prepare weekly material, chat with classmates, respond to class Discussion Boards and quizzes, and participate in a weekly video meeting. social media. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Write Source, IB, Common Core, or other popular language arts curricula.