The pandemic started a domino effect of issues that are still affecting schools today. Principals must attend to so much, and there are so many urgent items nagging at them, that it is sometimes hard to focus on instructional leadership. As principals face the challenge of moving their schools forward, they must shift to empowering […]
Teacher Retention: Challenge and Innovation
Schools, districts, and parents are being dealt a wake-up call that, if not heeded, will result in a disastrous lack of teachers in the near future (it’s already happening in some locations). In-service teachers are leaving the profession, and fewer students want to enter it. “Few professions have been more upended by the pandemic than […]
Remote Teaching — But Not Like Spring!
With COVID cases on the rise, many schools are returning to remote instruction, at least through mid-January, as a “pause,” as one district put it. Last spring was a very trying time, and not a lot went well, but it’s important to realize that you have the opportunity to #DoSomethingDifferent and ROCK remote learning! My […]
Carrie Gentner, IDE Consultant and Coordinator of Digital Content, Awarded Ph.D.
IDE Corp. is pleased to announce that Carrie Gentner, IDE Consultant and Coordinator of Digital Content, has been awarded a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies from the University of South Florida. Dr. Gentner’s dissertation is titled “Problematizing Florida’s Extended Reading Time Policy: A Critical Investigation of Place, Demographics, and Curricula.” Her research explores […]
IDE Appoints Shané Beauford to Director of Educational Equity
IDE Corp. is pleased to announce, effective immediately, the promotion of Shané Beauford to the position of Director of Educational Equity. Shané graduated from Florida State University with a bachelor’s degree in Middle Grades Mathematics and went on to teach for about 10 years at the middle school level, all in Title I schools working […]