Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2018

A ‘grand challenge’ for building-level leaders might be a leadership issue such as: turning around a low-achieving school; repairing a dysfunctional school staff culture; preparing future-ready graduates; meeting the needs of students with unique needs (including ELL/ESL, special education, gifted, transitory; etc.);

Archiving 87

Archiving Leadership Cultures High School 87

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber also analyzes the “bullshitization” of “real jobs,” such as in education, where new cultures of neoliberal “managerialism” have seen teachers and academics doing increasing amounts of administrative work, taking up more and more of the time that, most agree, would be better spent doing actual teaching or research.

Anthropology 135

Anthropology Economics Sociology Archiving 135

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. She is the recipient of the Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagement (American Democracy Project, June 2024) and the Stand Out Faculty Award (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, November 2019).

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Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Ten years later, the teachers gathered on this balmy afternoon are the inheritors of Huinker’s legacy, tasked with preserving a vibrant culture of collaboration and a commitment to helping teachers master math. That rate for eighth graders peaked in 2012, with about 16 percent reaching proficiency or advanced status.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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K-12 Cultures Library Middle School 111

Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. This is part of what is called curriculum leadership. There are some excellent suggestions for readings in this important area contained in this section, including Mark Sheehan's work on a "culturally responsive" curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2022

There’s an entire culture around the classic car, and at the center of that world is McPherson College,” declared Michael Schneider, president of the college, which is home to this one-of-a-kind program in automotive engineering. Credit: Chase Castor for The Hechinger Report.

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Leadership History Cultures Education 124

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. Nearly a decade in, the culture of competence is deeply ingrained in the district; most of today’s high schoolers have never experienced anything different.

High School 111

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Along with orientations and admission seminars open to all students, there is also an institute for leadership development specifically for Black and Latino students. “We Proyecto Pa’Lante is a program designed to help Latino students and students who are interested in learning more about Latino cultures during their first two years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

It’s a cultural rebuild,” said Randy Emery, a welding instructor at the College of the Sequoias in California’s Central Valley. It says tradespeople also are older than workers in other fields — more than half were over 45 in 2012, the last period for which the subject was studied — meaning looming retirements could result in big shortages.

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Economics High School Tradition Humanities 111

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The courage and bravery that shamanic plants offer—succinctly captured by the Spanish word valor—are prized qualities within Shuar conceptions of personhood and leadership. A Shuar warrior marched in 2012 during a protest organized by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador and the Shuar Federation.

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Economics Government Leadership History 129

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. Meanwhile, teachers help make decisions about the school’s future in their roles on the different committees — personnel, instructional leadership, scheduling, budget and finance — that meet monthly.

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Charter School Government Sociology Social Studies 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. He said that “there’s always resistance from what I call the elite … who think that gifted children look a particular way.” Absolutely,” districts can diversify gifted education without a lawsuit, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In 2012, city officials became convinced that the school could not improve and began the process of shutting it down. We have been able to develop a culture where they learn that there are people here to support them,” said Jackson. We have been able to develop a culture where they learn that there are people here to support them.

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Cultures Charter School Public School Teaching 89

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In surveys of 230,000 students in grades three through 12 conducted from 2012 to 2017 by YouthTruth, an education research and consulting nonprofit, only 46 percent of high school respondents felt that what they were learning in class helped them outside of school. If leadership sees the benefits, it allows for creativity to happen.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Alumni Teach Project was launched in 2012, when two alumni finished college and followed up on their 2008 PUC graduation-day-letter job offers (PUC started including the letters with students’ diplomas in 2007). This prompted Rodriguez and the other co-founder of PUC Schools, Jacqueline Elliot, to formalize the program.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

There, Meghan McFadyen asks kids in her mixed fourth- and fifth-grade classroom who have “Presence” among their top strengths to help peers, because in theory no performance anxiety will block them from taking leadership positions. When the district won federal Race to the Top funding in 2012, Schauer expanded the strengths program.

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Elementary School Psychology K-12 Private School 89

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business.

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Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Between 2012 and 2016, the number of kids in foster care around the country rose by 10 percent. She knows what’s possible with the right combination of support and school culture. The leader, Mary Beth Bonaventura, said she was responding to budget cuts, leadership changes and complacency over outmoded technology.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. Compared to their white peers, students of color are more likely to attend low-performing public primary and secondary schools with inexperienced teachers and high leadership turnover. They are still behind .

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Tutoring Economics Sociology High School 87

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 But clearly there is a college-going culture among the Hispanic population.”.

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Research K-12 Archiving Advocacy 67

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

obert Roark, the son of a coal miner, became principal of Leslie County High School in 2012 after most of the mines had closed. The culture was pretty toxic when we got here,” said Roark, who began at the school as a guidance counselor in 2008. “To The culture was pretty toxic when we got here. We want your questions.

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High School Library Public School Charter School 76

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. “Our children, because they come from homes of poverty, are cultured into avoiding anything that costs money,” Eastwood says. Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Tradition 80

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. Our children, because they come from homes of poverty, are cultured into avoiding anything that costs money,” Eastwood says. The district also benefits from longevity in its leadership; Eastwood’s 12th year in Middletown comes at a time when the average superintendent tenure in the U.S.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Tradition 66

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

But the increasing power and cultural influence of black women don’t equal protection. The successes of the recent movies Girls Trip and Hidden Figures and the economic and cultural power of the Essence Music Festival are testaments to the power of black women. percent), exceeding Asian women (8.7 percent), white women (7.1

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K-12 Economics Cultures History 75

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2019

The two-hour course combines sports with exercises in leadership and goal setting, with the hope that each girl will identify a way that she wants to make history and change the world. But since 2012 that number is up by 9 percent — a bright spot for a sector that lost 19 percent of its overall enrollment during that time. Jon Marcus.

Education 63

Education Global Perspectives History Leadership 63

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

86) and hosted at UNC in summer 2012, was a signal accomplishment for Professor James. The NEH Summer Institute for Higher Educational Faculty on Roman comedy in performance, which she co-directed with Timothy J. Moore (Ph.D. ’86) She was key in the recent creation of the International Ovidian Society.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Human brain evolution has long fascinated scientists, as it underpins the development of intelligence, culture, and complex behavior. ” This complexity underscores the multifaceted nature of evolutionary pressures, including environmental challenges, social interactions, and the development of tools and culture. Source: PNAS.

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Humanities Ancestry Anthropology Tradition 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

A self-described Southern conservative and man of faith from rural Alabama, Grimes, 48, set about overhauling instruction for English learners, establishing culturally relevant extracurriculars and reaching out to the Hispanic community. It is just amazing to see what he’s been able to do in a small district with not a lot of resources.”

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

In pockets across the country, institutions are adding Latino leadership programs, hiring more diverse faculty and expanding their cultural programming. Cultural expectations can create additional hurdles. More than half of Hispanic students — 54 percent — now finish college within six years, up from 46 percent in 2002.

Education 92

Education Leadership Cultures Elementary School 92

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2021

It was 2012, and construction work had yet to rebound from the recession. Men, who make up more than 97 percent of the employees in construction and nearly all of its leadership, have tended to view females entering the trades as intruders, routinely denying them equal opportunities for training and work.

Leadership 145

Leadership Cultures High School Research 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous.

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Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 96

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In a 2023 brief , AFL-CIO leadership encouraged these partnerships. Historically a lot of the high-paying skilled trades were handed down from father to son, said Lauren Baker, a former education director in the printers union who also led Milwaukee Public Schools career and technical education program between 2002 and 2012.

High School 117

High School K-12 Leadership Public School 117