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4 takeaways for superintendents to drive real change

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I’ve learned leadership is about using the privilege of our position to build collaborative teams of talented and motivated individuals who can help us stay ahead of any problems and drive innovation that brings impactful change. We viewed it as a success, allowing for greater efficiency and significant cost savings. Until it wasn’t.

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3 simple ways to use interactive whiteboards in preschool classrooms

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As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. “When students listen to audiobooks or watch audio media, they are able to become experienced with different cultures, dialects, and beliefs (Parmeter, p.24).

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Embracing the Wall-less Classroom

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In 2009, when I began my first of teaching, I taught in a school without walls. I was at Malcolm X Elementary School (MXES), an imposing cement box centrally located in Washington DC’s most violent and poorest neighborhood. By the early 1980s, everyone was re-building walls within their schools. But I did not.

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How Reading Rainbow is closing the reading gap for the digital generation

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Initially the show was launched as an experiment, a summer pilot, to address the “summer slide” in which student’s lose important reading skills when they are not in school. Yet Reading Rainbow quickly proved to be more than a summer program and instantly captured young audiences’ attention and motivated children to read.

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Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education

EdTech Magazine

Each of our 10 elementary schools has a digital learning specialist. We have spent time focused on creating a culturally proficient school system , which is a framework that we use to make sure that we are putting students first, and we’re thinking and talking about our values, beliefs, and assumptions. .

Education 166
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Why Schools Need to Help Students Find Purpose — and How to Do It

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Marcus told me that he’d been viciously bullied during elementary school, peaking in middle school. Hearing this context profoundly changed how I viewed Marcus’ motivations and aspirations. Purpose dives deeper than mindsets—it taps into someone’s core motivation for choosing a path.

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The College Program Attracting — and Retaining — Black Male Teachers

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In the state’s 600 elementary schools, there were fewer than 200 Black men teaching. “So So a vast majority of the elementary schools in South Carolina did not have a single Black male teacher,” Jones says. I didn’t know what type of community or school environment I was going to be in.”

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