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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. The plenary Thought Leader Sessions will have more of a workshop feel, as will the concurrent sessions.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Once conditions are safer, district staff plan to visit students’ homes.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them. Dropout rates were the same for students in both the remedial and the “corequisite” courses, as the college plus extra help version is often called. “We

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Millennials: The Straw That Will Stir Higher Education’s Next Disruption

EdNews Daily

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

Edsurge

Northside High was previously named for Confederate leader Jefferson Davis, and it was once labeled a “ dropout factory ” in a Johns Hopkins University study of institutions with low graduation rates. He really wanted to go directly to the university, and it’s the first time he realized he could,” Seydel says.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

techlearning

California STEAM San Bernardino (Calif.) – for supplementing online coursework with innovative projects like virtual makerspaces, STEAM fairs, coding workshops, drone-enabled virtual field trips, and more. .) – for improving graduation rates and meeting student needs by providing online options for credit recovery and supplemental learning.

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Where Are You on Your Personalized Learning Journey?

Edsurge

When James Smith became principal at Snowy Peaks three years ago, the school was a dropout prevention program on turnaround status. To address the issue, Hanover said educators from Roots will be attending a workshop this week on how to support students with trauma in a personalized learning approach.