Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. They need to be experts in the subjects they are teaching." So what knowledge we teach now will retain its power during the students' life time - let alone beyond. All of these are referenced in the book. As Richard says on p.22,

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). In addition to these benefits, active learning methods can enhance learners’ experience in classes of mixed ability and knowledge.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Washington teaches a class in 1916. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Better teaching should be aimed at the source of schooling problems – future policy makers. White students absorb these same cultural cues.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Economists estimate that 120,000 elementary, middle and high school teachers lost their jobs between 2008 and 2012. Others have suggested keeping a seniority system in place but adding additional protections for certain kinds of teachers, such as those who teach in hard-to-staff, high-poverty schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

But when she returned to teach at Union in 2012, the white student population had shrunk to a little more than half of total enrollment. Recently, principals and veteran math educators have persuaded some former students to join Union’s teaching ranks. But the district remains committed to its changes. her teacher invited.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Consequences of Teacher Turnover Myriad factors can lead a teacher to leave the classroom, from being unable to make ends meet on their teaching salary to mental health preservation to the deep frustration with systemic challenges, like Aion and Bowyer experienced. She decided in December 2021 that this would be her last year teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. It’s about shifting a culture. Photo: Amadou Diallo.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. And she was running for the school’s governing board.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Red Wing High laid off its full-time college adviser in 2012 amid budget cuts. The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. When she got to high school, nobody disabused the ace student of that notion.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nurturing bilingual students is the mission of the 400-student public school where Menéndez teaches, Dos Puentes Elementary in Washington Heights, a predominantly Latino neighborhood of New York City. In other schools, bilingualism was not accepted or important,” said Menéndez, who has been teaching for 27 years.

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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. After a year of teaching there, he’d come to believe that he could help any student get into college. 1 Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Teaching counting and basic arithmetic sounds like a simple task. 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. Put yourself into the mind of a child,” Robinson said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. Back at Onalaska High, Kaylene Kenny teaches a class that’s all about ensuring students know their options. Kenny’s been teaching at Onalaska High School for seven years. Census data. The median age declined from 36.6

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And even if there were standardized measures for traits like integrity and compassion, whose cultural norms should be used to judge the results? “I Samantha Clarke teaches a sixth-grade combined math and science class at Capital City Public Charter School. The results they cite are promising.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. Teaching was not my initial goal. In 2011-2012, the university had 52 teaching interns. CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. This year there may be as few as 19.

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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. Jackson was new to the community school model, but having spent 16 years teaching in another high-needs Brooklyn school, she found it made sense to her. “I We take the onus off of them so they can teach.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

BOSTON — Katie Cardamone teaches second grade in the Mendon-Upton Regional School District, about 40 miles southwest of Boston. Barely 1 percent of Mendon’s population is Latino and about 2 percent of Upton’s is, but Cardamone teaches her entire class in Spanish. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Related: Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class. He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. If a child needed language support, he said, put them in the general gifted class with language support.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. Now 24 years old, he is one of 11 new residents joining the PUC Schools network through the school system’s Alumni Teach Project.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

and Jessica Hockett found in 2012. Related: Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class. “We have far too many kids in the city who just need an opportunity like I did, to go to a school that pushes them,” said Valenzuela, who teaches history at Boston Latin Academy.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. Intersectionality Under the Sunshine State Teaching Intersectional Anthropology was significant because, in my (bio)archaeological work, I engage with intersectional thinkers in my writing and was eager to share the vast body of thought with my students. Earning a Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2016

Katie Rossi teaches kindergartners vocabulary at Franklin Elementary School in Syracuse, N.Y. When you think about the numbers of students, and we have this huge language barrier, and there are these cultural differences,” LeRoy said. Sometimes cultural differences keep parents from understanding that schools want to hear from them.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

to teach undergraduate and graduate programs. universities that opened a spate of campuses abroad from 2000 to 2012 based partly on the promise of generous startup money from host countries in the Middle East and elsewhere have seen those schools struggle. But spinning off campuses can also be risky. Eighty-four U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

They got small grants in 2012 of $50,000 each from the Appalachian College Association , or ACA, to work on the issue. With the help of several scholarships, Jose Perez enrolled at the school in 2012 as a freshman. In 2012, there were 66 Hispanic students, or 4 percent of the total. Photo: Jesse Pratt. Alan Miramontes (l.),

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. The Muñiz Academy is unique in the breadth of challenges it strives to overcome while teaching in two languages. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Once the state introduced the Common Core-aligned tests in the spring of 2012, that percentage dropped 28 points in reading (to 48 percent) and 33 points in math (to 40 percent), according to the Kentucky Department of Education. This lesson helps to teach them that multiplication is repeated addition. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In keeping with that spirit, the evenings are designed to be far more interactive than a typical curriculum night, in which teachers run through what they’ll be teaching that year. Related: Parents, it’s not your job to teach Common Core math when helping with homework. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

Careful not to offend the charter school community, which upholds autonomy as sacred, King added, “But I believe the goal for all schools should be to create a school culture that motivates student to want to do the best.”. The racial disparities in school discipline reflect the cultural appetite to punish black children.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. In fact, many U.S. It has worked.”. Nearly 80 percent of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When the first few Central American students applied to Cohen, the high school drafted its Spanish instructor to teach them. By 2015, the number of Spanish-speakers grew too large to be handled by one teacher, and the school hired specialists in teaching English as a Second Language.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

In the residency model, turnover is mitigated as residents commit to teaching in Seattle for at least five years. Most programs continue to support their grads with induction support in the first teaching year. The residency model is a better way.

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