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1/2 The entrance area that greets visitors to a typical American high school contains two things: evidence (in the form of trophies) that its students triumphed over students from other schools + plaques listing which of its students are better than others. 2/2 Suggested assignment (for administrators, teachers, and kids): Design a school lobby that reflects a commitment to collaboration and community rather than to sorting and triumphing. https://lnkd.in/g_z-Pq_A

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If you're an educator in Georgia and on the fence about applying to the Georgia Education Policy Fellowship Program, you may be persuaded by what Henry County Schools principal, Micki Foster, had to say about her experience: https://lnkd.in/eeBUBAAq #InformingLeadersImprovingEducation

You make two solid points here, Michael, including (1) a Master’s degree itself is weakly correlated to #TeacherExcellence and (2) paying teachers more overall would widen and deepen the pool of talented candidates. If I were starting my physics teaching career today, rather than 30 years ago, I would be able to command a near 6-figure salary in select parts of the country and that figure will only increase in the near term. One key point to add here regards the leaders with whom teachers work. Teachers are attracted to schools with world-class leadership…instructionally, organizationally, developmentally, etc. Teachers leave education due to factors that #SchoolLeadership directly controls. If we increase #PrincipalExcellence we will do more to improve the teacher pipeline than exorbitant raises ever could. s4e.com

We are spotlighting Marva Collins to honor her contributions to education, and motivate fellow educators working to positively impact students. Whether you are a full-time educator, substitute teacher, school administrator, or district leader, there are countless lessons we can learn from Marva’s approach to educational excellence. Watch her story in the 1981 film on YouTube! https://lnkd.in/ecM2CYu5

What a great story about a young man with a goal and the motivation to accomplish great things! Check out his story on the latest episode of the Reading Revolution! #literacyforall #literacymatters #inchystory

Real change and real results are happening!

YES! YES! YES! President Niemi. LOVE MY NEW JOB!   "...Not only are our students deeply interested in understanding the conflicts and complexities of the world, they also demonstrate the desire to act—to engage in discussion with us, to find out what they can do to help make change. To be that change.    And we—faculty and staff alike—are uniquely equipped to help our students, and by extension our community, learn about these things, for what is public higher education if not a place where we can demonstrate how respectful civil discourse happens? A place where hard things can be debated, where people can disagree and still learn? A place where democracy is practiced without fear?    Higher education is the space where we are supposed to make powerful, thoughtful, respectful noise. Our students deserve to hear it and to be part of it." Nancy Niemi  

Here is my panel on Liberation of Education w/ Kerry McDonald and Hannah Frankman. You can watch it here!