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How one Florida district is growing its own school leaders—and transforming its system from the inside out.
How are districts actually changing and adapting to prepare students for the future and their life beyond K-12? What does this look like in practice, and how does a district move toward a new system, one that is learner-centered and future-ready?
Grove City Area School District is placing teachers at the forefront of decision-making, creating a culture where innovation and shared responsibility thrive.
McComb School District has undertaken an initiative that not only redefines their approach to education, but also serves as a beacon for districts facing similar challenges.
By studying high-flying schools around the world, some district leaders in the U.S. are driving transformative changes to yield better results.
Vicksburg-Warren School District is transforming their teaching and learning experience & seeing results with far-reaching benefits for individuals, families, and the community.
Strong school leadership is critical to shaping learning environments, supporting high-quality teachers and teaching, and improved student outcomes. A new report from the Learning Policy Institute explores what makes a high-quality school leadership professional learning program.
The pandemic has highlighted the tight connection between early childhood education and care and economic success for families and educational and social success for students. This has led to significant reforms around the world to both expand access to early childhood education and care and improve the quality of available programs.
America’s most effective teachers are often not in the classrooms where they’re needed most. Some new research shows other countries face the same challenge. But there are also places to look to for solutions.
This just-released report outlines the rich conversations that took place among leaders from a set of the world’s highest-performing education systems about the impact of digitalization and other global trends on the future of work and civil society; what this means for what students should learn and how they should learn it; and how this might change the role of educators and the design of public education systems.
There are too many incentives for teachers to leave the classroom and not enough for them to stay, NCEE’s Jason Dougal and Ann Borthwick argue in a commentary for K-12 Dive. Dougal and Borthwick lay out a vision for an education system in which teachers’ work environment is more like that of doctors and lawyers and they are rewarded for leading the growth of their colleagues. Implementing these changes in light of current teacher shortages will attract more people to education and keep them in classrooms longer.
Superintendent Cederick Ellis found that replacing rigid class structures in an elementary school with a more student-tailored approach boosted student outcomes. He is now taking that approach to the rest of the schools in Mississippi’s McComb School District.
Tracey Burns, an international education researcher, talks with NCEE’s Anthony Mackay about potential directions for education around the world.
With increased interest in and funding for apprenticeships in the U.S., Switzerland’s world-class apprenticeship model offers lessons for how to build a CTE system that is both appealing to students and valued by industry.
The pandemic has sparked widespread acknowledgment of the importance of in-person learning, the value of teacher-student relationships and the role of schools as a social hub for students, families, and communities. But that appreciation of in-person interactions does not mean that top-performing systems have just shifted back to the “old normal” as in-person ...
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The pandemic has highlighted the tight connection between early childhood education and care and economic success for families and educational and social success for students. This has led to significant reforms around the world to both expand access to early childhood education and care and improve the quality of available programs.
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America’s most effective teachers are often not in the classrooms where they’re needed most. Some new research shows other countries face the same challenge. But there are also places to look to for solutions.
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This just-released report outlines the rich conversations that took place among leaders from a set of the world’s highest-performing education systems about the impact of digitalization and other global trends on the future of work and civil society; what this means for what students should learn and how they should learn it; and how this might change the role of educators and the design of public education systems.
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There are too many incentives for teachers to leave the classroom and not enough for them to stay, NCEE’s Jason Dougal and Ann Borthwick argue in a commentary for K-12 Dive. Dougal and Borthwick lay out a vision for an education system in which teachers’ work environment is more like that of doctors and lawyers and they are rewarded for leading the growth of their colleagues. Implementing these changes in light of current teacher shortages will attract more people to education and keep them in classrooms longer.
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Superintendent Cederick Ellis found that replacing rigid class structures in an elementary school with a more student-tailored approach boosted student outcomes. He is now taking that approach to the rest of the schools in Mississippi’s McComb School District.
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Tracey Burns, an international education researcher, talks with NCEE’s Anthony Mackay about potential directions for education around the world.
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With increased interest in and funding for apprenticeships in the U.S., Switzerland’s world-class apprenticeship model offers lessons for how to build a CTE system that is both appealing to students and valued by industry.
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The pandemic has sparked widespread acknowledgment of the importance of in-person learning, the value of teacher-student relationships and the role of schools as a social hub for students, families, and communities. But that appreciation of in-person interactions does not mean that top-performing systems have just shifted back to the “old normal” as in-person ...