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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

Conner’s district, is schools will become hubs, teachers will become learning accelerators, and students will become co-authors of their own education. This edWeb broadcast was hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network, providing premier professional learning for educational leaders.

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STUDENT VOICES: Transfer schools offer a second chance to graduate high school

The Hechinger Report

Good Shepherd was working in Red Hook in the 1990s, during a time when Life magazine called it the “crack capital of America.”. In an effort to reengage recent dropouts, Good Shepherd founded South Brooklyn Community High School. The early days were tough,” said LoManaco.

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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

And I was describing to them that, “We got here with a long-term commitment to stay on a course of — really, if you want to call it, progressive education, but trying to really stay focused on trying to educate kids for lifelong learning, not just simply to build a transcript to take some test and to be able to walk across a stage.”

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Tuesday - Ron Wolk on "Wasting Minds"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Currently Chairman at Big Picture Learning , and the founder and former editor of Education Week , Teacher Magazine , and Quality Counts , "Wolk draws on three decades spent in the school reform trenches to question the common assumptions about the U.S. education system. Eisenhower. "I But that was not to be. "As and abroad.

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A convenient untruth

Learning with 'e's

One of the biggest myths known to teacherdom is learning styles. Time and time again, the belief that students can be placed into specific categories such as activist or theorist, or that they are predominantly inclined toward one modal category of learning (e.g. learning-styles theory has succeeded in becoming “common knowledge.”

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

Edsurge

The editor of Slate magazine at the time, Jacob Weisberg, called it a “nasty idea.” They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. But we also have had a persistent sense of all that book learning may just be too excessive for what people really need.

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Welcoming Students and Families In School to Prevent Absenteeism

edWeb.net

Students can’t learn if they’re not in school, but too often, administrators only pay attention when a student is chronically absent. In 2015, Legacy Magazine named her one of 40 Most Influential Women in Florida. Blog post by Stacey Pusey based on this edLeader Panel. Join the Community.

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