A Better Path to Learning

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  • Learning Out Loud

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    Education Reimagined is a Washington D.C.-based group committed to advancing learner-centered education for our nation’s young people. I’ve written about this group before, and they are all good people trying to do good things for kids. Recently, Education Reimagined released topics for their “Learning Out Loud” series, on-line meetings scheduled throughout the summer designed to…

  • School of the Wild

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    I graduated from the University of Iowa a long time ago, so I receive Iowa’s alumni magazine periodically. In their Summer, 2022 issue, the magazine featured a one-page article on the university’s School of the Wild. According to the article, “School of the Wild teaches youth about the habitats of Iowa and the importance of…

  • Are Schools Learning Organizations?

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    Rod Paige hired me when I first became a middle school principal. At that time, Paige was superintendent of the Houston Independent School District. Later, Dr. Paige became U.S. Secretary of Education under President George W. Bush. I still remember what Paige told us during district-wide principal’s meetings – “Don’t tell me there is teaching…

  • Let’s Make Kids Feel Smarter and Stronger

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    I’m back from a week’s vacation. I hope everyone had a restful 4th of July. Now, let’s get to it. I’ve been meaning to write about an article I read a few weeks ago titled “How School Can Make Students (and Teachers) Feel Dumb.” The article appeared in EducationWeek and was authored by Patrick O’Connor,…

  • Friday News Roundup

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    It’s the Friday before July 4th. Time for the News Roundup and then some vacation. Here we go. Analysis: Many Districts Doing Less This Summer to Make Up for Lost Learning (The 74) According to a recent article in The 74, “Despite national attention on bolstering summer school options for students who lost learning time…

  • Whose Learning Is It Anyway?

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    I recently came across a report submitted to Congress by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) titled “As Students Struggled to Learn, Teachers Reported Few Strategies as Particularly Helpful to Mitigate Learning Loss.” The report was published by the GAO last May. The GAO found that “During the 2020-21 school year, students in all grade levels,…

  • Catching Up Our Kids

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    A group of American Enterprise Institutute’s researchers recently released the Return to Learn Tracker, a way for traditional districts to estimate the level of student learning loss in their schools. According to The 74, “Back when districts wrote their ESSER plans (the federal government’s COVID relief initiative,) most didn’t have the information we have today.…

  • Education Reimagined & The Big Idea

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    I noticed Education Reimagined, a Washington D.C.-based group committed to a different learning system for our young people, released a new resource titled The Big Idea. According to ER, “The Big Idea is designed to spark new conversations and inspire people to imagine a world of thriving learner-centered ecosystems. We are eager to grow the…

  • School Principals Need to Go

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    I enjoyed being a school principal. I was a middle school principal and opened a brand new high school as their first principal. I enjoyed playing the role of the school’s instructional leader, even though many of my counterparts delegated teaching and learning to others. But maybe it’s time to close the school principal position,…

  • Friday News Roundup

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    It’s Friday! Time for the Roundup. Let’s get to it. ‘The World Feels Less Stable’: Educators’ Sense of School Safety Right Now (EducationWeek) “Four in 10 educators feel less safe in their schools now than they did five years ago, according to a new survey by the EdWeek Research Center. School shootings factor heavily into…