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#2: 10 education trends for 2018

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Currently, the average student completes 112 mandatory standardized assessments between grades Pre-K to 12, which equates to 20 to 25 hours of standardized testing each year, according to a report from the Council of Great City Schools.

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8 lessons to help school leaders manage change

eSchool News

Administrators are managing and supporting not just their students, but their faculty as well, even as they are dealing with new initiatives, new federal laws, new local regulations, new testing mandates, and more. All the disruption caused by COVID in recent years is a good example of how I/O Psychology can help schools.

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Want Transformational Teachers? Here’s Why Change Starts With Coaches

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Our coaches needed to be activated as change management leaders to truly make transformational change across their schools In my search for an answer, I tried everything in my toolkit: after school PD, sending teachers to conferences and even implementing accountability measures.

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The Secret to Being a Better Teacher? Find Your Tribe

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I quickly figured out that my administration and the other teachers didn’t care if my students were learning—they wanted my students to stay out of the hallways, off administration’s radar and to appear somewhat engaged when it was time to be evaluated through standardized testing. As our practices evolved so did our presentations.

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Reinforcing the standardized model of low-level learning and schooling

Dangerously Irrelevant

Identify and address the change management challenges that come with any reform and attend to them throughout your delivery effort. Test makers should not be driving instruction. Monitor progress against your plan, make course corrections, and build and sustain momentum to achieve your goals. To which I say, ‘Meh.’

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How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models

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They also believe schools need intensive support as they experiment, take risks, and test out changes to their currently functional models in order to find and sometimes create astounding models. Finally it helped the school leadership team figure out how to test out what was working on a whole-school level.

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Why Building a Diverse Workforce Requires Computer Science Mandates in Schools

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Those interested in teaching will see more resources and support in other core subject areas that require standardized testing or at more affluent schools. These policies should be developed with careful consideration of other student learning requirements around core subjects, with attention to change management issues.

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