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APRIL 17, 2024
Boulan Park Middle School math teacher Jordan Baines gives tips to help her students figure out a mathematics problem in Troy, Michigan. The email blast spurred opponents to show up at a board workshop and a town hall, and a petition demanding that the middle-school plan be scrapped got more than 3,000 signatures.
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OCTOBER 29, 2020
Mendoza’s involvement in civic participation started in middle school, when she signed up for the All City Council Student Union, a student-led group sponsored by the Oakland school district that gives students a voice in school district decision-making. In 2012, it became the first U.S.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2022
But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. I became a teacher back in 2012 and I realized it’s [play] not even accepted anymore as a way to learn, even in the younger grades,” Rosecrants said.
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APRIL 25, 2023
She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. Phung Ninh is one.
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JUNE 20, 2017
The Beaverton school district, west of Portland, Oregon, is a case in point. In 2012, budget shortfalls led Beaverton to axe more than 40 school librarian positions. Several schools in the district have added small, pleasure-reading libraries to ELA classrooms, for instance. I go wherever teachers need me.”.
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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. This story also appeared in The Independent en Español. “We But Hunt has another way to measure success.
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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training. I always thought that social studies and literacy were more of my thing.
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