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True leaders model how to listen to others | Commentary
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Leaders who understand the importance of working through differences to advance a common goal seem to be in short supply these days — and divisiveness in our country is at an all-time high because of it. Americans need to step up and model this kind of leadership for our youngest generations. Certainly, we should expect this from our political leaders.
Commentary: Getting, keeping talented teachers is way forward — Eva Chiang
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Since 2019, student academic achievement has fallen rapidly. This may feel like an unprecedented and impossible shift to recover from, but there is one clear way to recover the learning loss: Get and keep talented teachers and leaders for our students. Like other fields, the educator talent pipeline has taken a hit.
The answer? Talented teachers
Since 2019, student academic achievement has fallen rapidly. This may feel like an unprecedented and impossible shift to recover from, but there is one clear way to recover the learning loss: Get and keep talented teachers and leaders for our students. Like other fields, the educator talent pipeline has taken a hit. Some estimates show the school year started with more than 30,000 teacher roles open and more than 100,000 roles filled by uncertified staff.
Eva Chiang: Getting and keeping talented teachers (Opinion)
Since 2019, student academic achievement has fallen rapidly. This may feel like an unprecedented and impossible shift to recover from, but there is one clear way to recover the learning loss: Get and keep talented teachers and leaders for our students. Like other fields, the educator talent pipeline has taken a hit. Some estimates show the school year started with more than 30,000 teacher roles open and more than 100,000 roles filled by uncertified staff.
Agreeing to disagree
Many Americans clearly are divided today, as witnessed in the 2021 Pew survey that shows the United States has the highest perceived divides of any country measured. Some claim this division is even here to stay. There are now two generations above voting age who have seen very little bipartisan policymaking - or, frankly, bipartisan anything. The oldest in Generation Z are turning 25 this year, and Millennials are between the ages of 26 to 41.
We can rebuild trust
People placing trust in institutions - and each other - is critical to our society flourishing. When people are filled with mistrust, they spend money differently (or not at all), facts are doubted, and anxiety is high. And, worryingly, there has been a decline in trust over the past five decades. The 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer provides a window into where we stand.
Commentary: Eva Chiang - Distrust is real, but trust can be built
People placing trust in institutions — and each other — is critical to our society flourishing. When people are filled with mistrust, they spend money differently (or not at all), facts are doubted, and anxiety is high. And, worryingly, there has been a decline in trust over the past five decades. The 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer provides a window into where we stand.
Distrust Is Real, but We Can Rebuild Trust – InsideSources
People placing trust in institutions — and each other — is critical to our society flourishing. When people are filled with mistrust, they spend money differently (or not at all), facts are doubted, and anxiety is high. And, worryingly, there has been a decline in trust over the past five decades. The 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer provides a window into where we stand.
Conditions for Change: The School Leadership Initiative
Report Bush Institute research with four district partners revealed certain conditions that need to be in place for practice and policy change to occur. Educators, policymakers, philanthropists, and others have worked for decades to improve education by implementing new policies and practices to better serve students. But the desired improvement has been elusive – more sporadic (and anecdotal) than systemic.
Texas, don’t throw out the STAAR exam just because you don’t like the results
By Anne Wicks and Eva Chiang 8:00 AM on Jan 25, 2020 Texas Rep. Matt Shaheen has vowed to lead the charge to replace the State of Texas Academic Assessment of Readiness (STAAR) exam with a different kind of test. If you read his critique of the STAAR, you would swear that Texas’ annual exams are as valid as a Russian Twitter bot.
Books to Read to Your Children | Bush Center
Reading with your child inspires imagination, sparks creativity, and cultivates engaging conversations. More than anything, it provides a strong foundation for increasing vocabulary, developing literacy skills, and making personal connections to a text. From the magical realm of Hogwarts to the dusty wagons on the Oregon Trail, reading takes you and your child on an adventure to worlds beyond compare.
Want better Texas schools? Improve training for principals
Texas continues to lag nationally when it comes to educating our children, especially in reading. Only 28 percent of Texas 8th graders met the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) proficient standard in 2017, and only 71 percent met the basic standard. This is lower than the national average of 35 percent of students meeting the proficient standard and 75 percent meeting the basic requirement. Texas State Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) data confirms NAEP’s findings.
Lebron James Battles Chronic Absenteeism in His New School
Eva Myrick Chiang, serves as Director of Research and Evaluation for the Bush Institute. She also works on the School Leadership Initiative and provides support in other areas of the education reform initiative as well. Prior to joining the George W. Bush Institute, she taught pre-k through college level students in a variety of teaching roles in private, public, and charter schools, and her passion is teaching students to read.
Support and Keep Your Best Principals
I know that starting a new school year can be exciting and nerve-wracking for students, teachers, and even principals. Since having effective school principals is key to ensuring students get the best possible education, I wanted to offer some advice to district leaders on how they can do just that—spend the school year supporting and keeping their very best principals. First, I encourage every superintendent to think carefully about who is supervising principals in their district.
The Making of a Great Principal
This fall, Katie Lundgren began her third year as leader of Marie Reed Elementary School in Washington, D.C. She describes her journey to becoming a principal as unintentional. But the 36-year old educator's pathway to leading a diverse, urban school is nonetheless instructive to educators, parents, and policymakers alike. Her story provides a way to understand how school districts can prepare principals for their critical work.
The Great American Principal Turnover -- And How Districts Can Stop the Churn | RealClearEducation
New Abilene High School Principal Robert Morrison, left, helps student Chris Patterson find his classroom on the first day of class Monday, Aug. 22, 2016, in Abilene, Texas. (Nellie Doneva/The Abilene Reporter-News via AP) As students start heading back to school this month, many newspapers are announcing changes in school leadership for the new year.
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