The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Back in 2013, when New York was one of the first states in the nation to adopt Common Core standards and administer tougher tests, children’s test scores initially plummeted. Then, as teachers had time to develop lesson plans and adjust to new curricula, student performance began to improve.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

CodeCombat AI League trailer (credit: CodeCombat) A Foundation of Game-Based Learning Founded in 2013, CodeCombat was born from a simple idea: Make learning to code engaging and accessible to all. The best of these young coders are learning to use code creatively and developing a tangible skill set that they will use in future careers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013. And we had a whole host of indicators that we were not connecting with our students in the right way,” he said. The new focus has paid off.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

In North Carolina, where I live, teachers are paid for “show time” with students, but there is little regard—and certainly no reward—for the hours of unpaid preparation and lesson planning it takes to keep a classroom running. In 2013, North Carolina got rid of master’s pay increases. It’s just a reality of the job.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

In July 2013, the Mississippi legislature mandated the consolidation of Starkville and Oktibbeha County school districts in an effort to save money and ensure a better education for students in the low-performing Oktibbeha County schools. Related: Is consolidation the answer for Mississippi’s struggling schools?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

sat at my computer in the summer of 2013 pondering whether I’d be able to begin my student-teaching. I had the opportunity to practice those and other essential skills, like creating strong unit and lesson plans, aligning content to standards and collaborating with other teachers during my student-teaching experience.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The NGSS was released in 2013. She said timely and even controversial topics can help ignite students’ interest, and she’s currently developing a lesson plan on the “nature of science” that will use the coronavirus as the main theme.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It focuses on lesson planning, instruction, assessment and academic language – all in support of student learning. The most common performance assessment used to review, assess and support teacher candidates is edTPA. Related: New Orleans’ uphill battle for more black and homegrown teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

“CoderDojo is open-source, meaning people support and contribute to the project just like developers can contribute to open-source software,” said Ross O’Neill, the lead community liaison of the CoderDojo Foundation, established in 2013 to manage the club’s rapid growth. Still, not everybody loves the unstructured approach.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

In addition, when children know about their own family history, they are more resilient and emotionally stable, according to research as reported by Bruce Feiler in 2013 in the New York Times. Family-sourced primary sources can help students see themselves in the past and realize just how important and relevant history is to each of us.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

After three years in an expeditionary learning school, students outpaced traditional school peers by 7 months in reading achievement and 10 months in math, according to a 2013 study by Mathematica Policy Research that EL commissioned. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Between 1989 and 2013, the percentage of students with disabilities who were in a general education class for 80 percent or more of the school day increased from about 32 percent to nearly 62 percent. At the very least, “You should have a special education class, and an English language learner class,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2013, Senator Inouye was awarded posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama. He lost his right arm in the war. Inouye’s awards for his service include the Congressional Medal of Honor, the Distinguished Service Cross, the Bronze Star, and the Purple Heart with Cluster.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

It breaks up traditional courses into specific skills and abilities, called “competencies,” that students master through a personalized blend of traditional lesson plans, offline projects and real-world experiences. It puts a focus on building strong student-teacher relationships.

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Transcending Pedagogy

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Yes, it’s been on the wall since about 2013. Then he asked it to write a lesson plan helping high school students work on the concept of theme. There’s nothing wrong with my non-smart TV. And yes, the remote no longer works to turn it on / off or to adjust the volume. No, it’s not a battery problem. And it did.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In 2013, she was a nominee to become the U.S. .” She wrote a book on her experiences, titled, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear which discusses this desire to combine Navajo healing philosophies with western medicine. Surgeon General.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

That started to change in 2013, with the release of new national science standards , which instructed science teachers to introduce students to climate change and its human causes starting in middle school. Historically, climate change has not been comprehensively taught in U.S. Related: Are we ready?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Since 2013, when the school switched to its skills-based curriculum, Juarez has seen gains in graduation rates and college acceptance that seemed unlikely for a school that had been on academic probation since 1996. The results have been dramatic. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. Today, nearly every DelSesto lesson plan unspools from a Summit-brand “playlist,” a menu of personalized activities.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences. The C3 Framework was released in 2013. We really waited for the phones to ring the day it was published. C3 dropped like a feather.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

In 2013, 7,758 were enrolled, and in 2016 that number fell to 3,944. She uses the New York Times lesson guides, the U.S. Doing lesson plans, tracking learning and engagement is not as easy as I thought it would be. Arkansas Public Media found that 23 districts are using non-certified teachers this year.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Under Grimes, “Russellville was a little gem,” she said, “where English learners were not seen as a burden.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Jennifer Daughtry, who became principal at Hobbton in 2013, said the key to her school’s improvement was forging closer relationships with students and their families. “It’s It’s just basically getting to know your students,” said Daughtry, who was tapped to oversee all five of the district’s high schools in January.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Since she graduated in 2013, the name of the old high school had changed, but not much else. Back in 2013, more than a fifth of her senior class didn’t graduate. No one had left lesson plans for their substitute teacher, so most of the time, her class just filled out worksheets. The class of 2018 didn’t fare much better.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. In 2013, then-Interior Secretary Sally Jewell assembled a study group to diagnose the root causes of academic failures in BIE schools. Teachers used no lesson plans, in any subject, and the school had no librarian.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. Branch’s group supports wide-scale adoption of Next Generation Science Standards , a joint effort by states and educational organizations to revamp K-12 science that has met with political backlash since the standards were published in 2013.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

14, 2013: Jonathan Ferrell Killed by Police Aug. I teach very young students (6-8 year olds), but plan on expanding our conversation of race and gender being social constructs to include crime as a social construct. I will try to make lesson plans incorporating the history of criminalization and abolitionist ideas into K–5 Art.

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