A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Educators could then use those badges to build and communicate their own reputations to their colleagues and to senior staff, capturing a complete picture of their own professional development for others to see.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 24, 2013

She is a High School French Teacher in Columbia, SC, 2013-14 SCFLTA President, and #langchat Co-Moderator. My first anecdote this year was about the professional development sessions that our school faculty must attend every other Thursday. The following is a guest post by Cristy Vogel ( @msfrenchteach ).

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

But sometimes video self reflection mixed with other types of evidence analysis can improve the professional development experience. Explorations enable all organizations to implement research-informed strategies for evidence-based learning within a professional development cycle. Explorations™ is our answer.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Her newest book, Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ), was written to replace 2013’s The Art of Coaching , which is being taken out of circulation now that the new book is published. Elena Aguilar While the new book contains some elements of the original, this one takes a much more humanistic approach.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

According to a recent report from the National Rural Education Association, 80,000 more English-learner and multilingual students were enrolled in rural districts in the 2021 school year than in 2013. Historically, rural school districts have struggled to provide high-quality education to non-native English speakers.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Accessed and awarded online, micro-credentials leverage an online technology platform to provide educators competency-based, on-demand, personalized, and shareable opportunities to demonstrate and be recognized for their professional learning. Brenda Pearson Director of Professional Learning, Clark County Education Association.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

teachers have less time for professional development, teacher collaboration, lesson preparation, working with students individually,” said Schleicher. the 2013-14 school year, the most recent year for which data is available, but, after adjusting for inflation, it is still well below the 2009 peak. “In the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless. In 2013, the administration of former mayor Michael Bloomberg began phasing out the school. Recently, Russo had seen a little boy wrapping up some of his school lunch.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2019

In 2013, no female students or black students in Mississippi took the Advance Placement exam in Computer Science Principals. In 2013, no female or black students took the Advanced Placement Computer Science Principles exam in the entire state. Lee said the program overall has reached roughly 1,000 students since 2013.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Unfortunately, it is not a universally required part of educator training or professional development. Students do emergency drills, but staff seldom run scenarios and simulations that provide time to develop and practice appropriate trauma-informed responses to use with students in crisis. In 2013, Mary C.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

The standards , released in 2013, are based on up-to-date scientific research and aim to give teachers more flexibility when creating learning experiences, yet some schools have been slow to implement the standards due to a lack of funding earmarked for teacher training and textbooks. We're all having lots of team meetings,” Strachan says.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2019

State and local policies need to spur teacher engagement in the design of a more effective system of professional learning which they need and want. Teacher buy-in in the process is insufficient. Teacher ownership is a must. Micro-credentials can help identify teachers as leaders.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

After she took office in 2013, her agency interviewed tribal elders around North Dakota to create a professional development program for teachers on incorporating Native culture into their classrooms. Baesler has seen firsthand the impact that culturally relevant curriculum has on older students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2019

in the STEM fields, through intense mentoring, financial aid, faculty support and professional development. In 2013, UMBC partnered with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Pennsylvania State University to replicate the Meyerhoff model. But this is just one school’s success story – until now.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first schools to implement what Public Impact calls an “Opportunity Culture,” did so during the 2013-14 school year, and Edgecombe County Public Schools is set to become the first district to bring the model systemwide. Teachers essentially get real-time professional development targeted to the exact areas in which they need to improve.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2022

When it comes to educators and technology… Learn about robust, technology-infused learning at the 2013 Iowa 1:1 Institute. Please don’t hesitate to reach out! Related Posts. Connected Educator Month launches today. Innovation academies help build shared understanding, capacity, and commitment.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

Teachers didn’t get much professional development to learn how best to use the iPods in the classroom and there wasn’t a lot of clarity around how the technology could help the district achieve concrete learning goals. “I I wandered through blindly – excitedly, but blindly,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

A decade later, the state’s 2013 Literacy-Based Promotion Act focused on K-3 literacy professional development for teachers and funded literacy coaches in schools with the most students performing at low levels on the state’s literacy assessment.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. Teachers received training and professional development to fully integrate technology into their classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Those included everything from counseling fees to lab fees to art studio fees to access to the recreation complex to a “professional development fee” in the school of business that turned out to pay for a subscription to the Wall Street Journal. This was why students were annoyed, and we needed to fix it,” Reinoehl said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2017

This is the harsh reality that data from Stanford’s sweeping 2009-2013 study bears out. Another tool that is crucial to social-emotional learning are the continued professional development programs that assist teachers in use of practice.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

For example, last year the Community Consolidated School District 59 in Arlington Heights, Illinois, was able to create sixty-three hours of professional development for administrators around modern learning contexts in an effort to begin real culture change. We in schools need to make the time to understand these shifts for ourselves.

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Edthena

JULY 6, 2023

Promotes Technology-Enhanced Learning —Teachers utilize new and familiar digital technology to accomplish shared learning goals, rather than simply learning about how to use the digital technology (Ertmer & Ottenbreit-Leftwich, 2013). Check out our recent resources and highlights on teacher professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2019

In 2013-14, an estimated $43 million was left on the table by Pell-eligible high-school graduates in Louisiana who did not complete the FAFSA. Related: OPINION: Let’s make the FAFSA required for a high-school diploma, to increase college enrollment — and more counselors wouldn’t hurt either.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2019

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

Privacy and data-security themes are also woven into Raytown’s professional development workshops, curriculum planning sessions and even parent-teacher conferences. Since 2013, state legislatures have passed more than 70 student data privacy bills, according to Data Quality Campaign.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

New York City has spent a lot on professional development training to improve the instruction in low-quality programs, but other than some big improvements in the first couple years after universal pre-K launched in 2014, Fuller didn’t detect meaningful improvements after 2016. But participation was low.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2017

Nationally, more than 1 in 4 teachers missed 10 days of school or more during the 2013-14 school year. The same is true for literacy and math coaches, who normally visit classrooms to provide real-time professional development for teachers. This leaves substitutes with a critical role in educating the nation’s students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In 2013, she took on leading a ninth-grade remedial class and taught nearly 50 students the regular Algebra 1 curriculum. Reed, then chair of the school’s math department, intervened. She wanted to experiment with detracking, or eliminating classes that separated students by level. She started with a small test.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. In 2013, North Carolina got rid of master’s pay increases. School boards have kicked things into overdrive to make up for lost time. In 2014, the teacher pay scale was overhauled, eliminating longevity pay.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

I would think that number would be higher for those who wanted to do one but couldn’t,” Katie Nailler, director of the college’s Career and Professional Development Institute, said. Web story: Looking for an internship?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

In just five years, we’ve seen tremendous growth: from 74 enrollments in 2013-14 to 10,066 in 2018-19. Since 2013, early-college students have passed their classes at a rate between 84 percent and 92 percent each term. This success rate connect to another goal of the program: increasing college-going rates.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

With a growing body of research showing that the early years are a critical window for brain development and learning, calls to require a bachelor’s degree for early childhood educators in both the public and private sectors have increased over the last decade. By 2015, almost 75 percent had bachelor’s degrees ).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 27, 2019

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2019

Another defining moment came when I received the call in June 2013 that I had passed my GED exam. I was able to make a connection with One Million Degrees , the Chicago-based nonprofit that provides a range of services, from mentoring and professional development to financial assistance and networking.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Since 2013, the program has served almost 8,000 students in its four education centers and awarded $8.5 The program also spends over $2 million per year on professional development and coaching, which it makes available to any pre-K through third grade teacher in San Antonio.

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