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By Amanda Kocon and Mike Marriner
This fall, a new kind of video is playing in classrooms, not as a break from the coursework but as an integral part of connecting curriculum to the world.
In one, Luis Padilla, an animal health director at the St. Louis Zoo, takes his post at the Sea Lion Sound exhibit while a group of high school students watch...
Education’s challenges are not due to a lack of new ideas. Every veteran teacher knows the feeling when the next “shiny object” emerges and the school or district jumps on it. While these initiatives are almost always launched to improve student outcomes, they often end up in the alphabet soup of school change. Parallel to this are top-down mandates from the state or federal ...
By: Jennifer Poon and Doannie Tran
What do you picture when you hear “stakeholder engagement?” A warm scene of solidarity and shared purpose, or a cold image of lip service and performative posturing? Too often, we’ve seen education leaders invite feedback from stakeholders in superficial ways that lead to the latter impression.
Many of us are wor...
This blog post is the final in a series documenting Norwalk Public Schools’ journey to create, implement and be formed by a living Portrait of a Graduate (PoG). Abby & Kimberly met through a PoG workshop in May of 2025, and are documenting how their intersecting work is supporting the PoG coming to life in Norwalk.
By: Andy Szeto
A team leader asks a simple question during a leadership team meeting: Who will take the lead on this initiative?
“I can help.”
“I can assist.”
“If you need me, I can see if I can help.”
In organizational teams, you hear variations of these responses all the time. They sound supportive, signal willingne...