Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/00317217241251891
Jonathan E. Collins
{"title":"Policy Solutions: Policy, not politics","authors":"Jonathan E. Collins","doi":"10.1177/00317217241251891","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241251891","url":null,"abstract":"The 2024 presidential election features a rematch from four years ago: President Biden and former President Trump. While all presidential elections matter, columnist Jonathan E. Collins argues that this election is especially pivotal to K-12 education policy. Collins poses major education policy questions that we should be asking heading into the upcoming election.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":"19 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140837332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/00317217241251879
Jenna Fournel, Aleta Margolis
{"title":"Good conflict","authors":"Jenna Fournel, Aleta Margolis","doi":"10.1177/00317217241251879","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241251879","url":null,"abstract":"The capacity to navigate conflict and solve problems will persist as an essential skill of the future, even if today’s students will be doing jobs that haven’t been invented yet. What are we doing in schools right now to ensure students have these skills? For nearly a decade, a program called Speak Truth has taught students to use their voices, concerns, and capacity to build bridges as tools for understanding different viewpoints and collaborating to lead change.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140837506","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/00317217241251893
Amanda S. Frasier
{"title":"Backtalk: The harm in assessment-backward practices","authors":"Amanda S. Frasier","doi":"10.1177/00317217241251893","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241251893","url":null,"abstract":"The deprofessionalization and mechanization of teaching that comes from teaching to the test and scripted instruction is prevalent in the United States. Teachers now enter their careers in schooling contexts where they are often expected to apply scripted curriculums with high fidelity, sometimes at odds with the pedagogy and methods they learned in teacher education programs. Amanda S. Frasier argues that the shift to assessment-backward design and the focus on controlling actions and micromanaging behavior of teachers is harming the profession and public education.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140837547","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/00317217241251883
Thomas R. Guskey
{"title":"Addressing inconsistencies in grading practices","authors":"Thomas R. Guskey","doi":"10.1177/00317217241251883","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241251883","url":null,"abstract":"School leaders struggle in their efforts to implement standards-based grading reforms in large part because they fail to address the inconsistency in grading practices among individual teachers. This article describes three crucial steps necessary to gain greater consistency in teachers’ grading practices: (1) Reaching consensus on a purpose statement for grading; (2) using grading scales with four to seven categories of student performance; and (3) reporting multiple grades to describe academic achievement and non-academic aspects of students’ performance separately. These steps provide the necessary foundation for successful implementation of standards-based and competency-based grading reforms.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140837794","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/00317217241251876
Dane Stickney, Julissa Ventura
{"title":"Possibilities of student voice","authors":"Dane Stickney, Julissa Ventura","doi":"10.1177/00317217241251876","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241251876","url":null,"abstract":"Student voice initiatives like surveys, student councils, and classes focused on leadership and agency all provide youth a way to share their opinions about school-based issues and take action to rectify them to some degree. But the way each initiative is leveraged, the experiences of the young people and educators involved, and the initiatives’ varied goals complicate a singular definition of student voice. Dane Stickney and Julissa Ventura identify levels of student voice to help educators and school leaders in assessing current student-centered approaches and create new, more transformative options that deeply motivate and engage youth.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140811867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/00317217241251884
Maury Grebenau
{"title":"First Person: Learning to have difficult conversations as a school leader","authors":"Maury Grebenau","doi":"10.1177/00317217241251884","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241251884","url":null,"abstract":"One of the greatest challenges for school administrators is navigating the difficult conversations that come with the territory of the role. Maury Grebenau shares his own path as an administrator who feared such conversations to someone who embraces them.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":"2012 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140837256","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/00317217241251878
Natalie Sew, Adrianne Billingham Bock, Danielle Allen
{"title":"Creating student leaders through civics","authors":"Natalie Sew, Adrianne Billingham Bock, Danielle Allen","doi":"10.1177/00317217241251878","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241251878","url":null,"abstract":"Building on the literature of student leadership development, Natalie Sew, Adrianne Billingham Bock, and Danielle Allen share an approach to civic education: Deeper Civic Learning. This approach offers students the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills, and key civic dispositions needed to engage in their communities and develop their leadership capacities. This article shares insights from the authors’ work co-designing an 8<jats:sup>th</jats:sup>-grade civics curriculum with Massachusetts educators. It highlights student perspectives on their experiences with the curriculum through extended stories of the application of civic skills and dispositions in their lives.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140837629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/00317217241251873
{"title":"Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00317217241251873","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241251873","url":null,"abstract":"Research summaries, past articles, quotes, and discussion questions related to the May 2024 Kappan theme, “Students as Leaders.”","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140811994","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-04-29DOI: 10.1177/00317217241251882
Raffaella Borasi, David E. Miller, Patricia Vaughan-Brogan, Karen DeAngelis, Yu Jung Han, Sharon Mason
{"title":"An AI wishlist from school leaders","authors":"Raffaella Borasi, David E. Miller, Patricia Vaughan-Brogan, Karen DeAngelis, Yu Jung Han, Sharon Mason","doi":"10.1177/00317217241251882","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241251882","url":null,"abstract":"To better understand the current challenges surrounding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in K-12 schools, a team of researchers (Raffaella Borasi, David E. Miller, Patricia Vaughan-Brogan, Karen DeAngelis, Yu Jung Han, and Sharon Mason) interviewed 36 western New York school leaders in late 2023. Their concerns moved beyond potential cheating, as they instead identified four main priorities: receiving guidance to inform their decisions about AI, empowering all stakeholders to better understand AI and its implications, capitalizing on AI to support the work of teachers and staff, and enabling better technology solutions. These should inform future interventions aiming at leveraging AI in K-12 education.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":"76 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140812102","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Phi Delta KappanPub Date : 2024-03-26DOI: 10.1177/00317217241244897
{"title":"Browsing: Further thoughts on this month’s theme","authors":"","doi":"10.1177/00317217241244897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00317217241244897","url":null,"abstract":"Past articles, research reports, discussion questions, and quotes related to inclusive schools, the theme of the April 2024 Kappan.","PeriodicalId":47826,"journal":{"name":"Phi Delta Kappan","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2024-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140580745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"教育学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}