ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. Performing the Autopsy Proponents of the detracking effort see themselves as fighting against the tide of the countrys education system and, even more difficult, its culture.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

Photo by Mathias Reding on Pexels.com We both began our teaching careers shortly after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. It also constitutes really good history teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

The grads can also seek out new communities, learning about cultures they might not be familiar with. Going into student-teaching, I already had a lot of ideas, not only from my own tutoring experiences but from observations and conversations with many teachers during my two years of service. I had lesson-planning experience.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2021

— When Sandra Jenkins started teaching at Betty H. Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. And yet, few districts have achieved the goal of building a teaching workforce that looks like its students. PHOENIX, Ariz. He’s listening to us.”.

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Digital Promise

JULY 31, 2019

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative has reached more than 86,000 students and nearly 6,000 teachers in 100 middle schools across the country. The post Growing the Culture of Learning with Verizon Innovative Learning schools appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 18, 2019

In this second post, we explore how Powerful Learning is authentic and challenging, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Culture and learning are inextricably connected 3. Culturally responsive teaching (Document No. Yeager, D.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Teaching counting and basic arithmetic sounds like a simple task. 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. Every teacher wants to learn and do a better job teaching,” Huinker said.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this third post, we explore how Powerful Learning is collaborative and connected, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning.

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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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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

As we all take time to reflect on 2014, now is also a good time to look forward to 2015. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. ” Kasey Van Ostrand. Project Manager. League of Innovative Schools. ” Paul Nauert. ” Robert Bajor.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Commodore, who is black, couldn’t help but wonder whether race played a part as she was rejected from one college teaching job after another. citizen or permanent resident research doctoral recipients in 2014 were black and 6.5 But after a year of looking, she still didn’t have a job. percent of U.S. percent and 17.6 Sixteen — or 2.9

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Digital Promise

MARCH 11, 2019

In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014. Teach a Growth Mindset. Teach the Value of Failure. However, the scientific evidence indicates that these preferences are shaped by cultural beliefs. Similarly, scientists’ work is assumed to be lonely and isolating.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

By bridging the gap between what high schools teach and industries need, P-TECH, initially a partnership among IBM, the New York City school system and City Tech, has opened doors for thousands of students in communities with high concentrations of poverty.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Apple joined President Obama’s ConnectED initiative and pledged $100 million of teaching and learning solutions to 114 underserved schools across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

They do not have the necessary funding to offer professional development to boost culturally relevant and responsive teaching. Erika Kitzmiller is a faculty member in education at Barnard College and author of “ The Roots of Educational Philadelphia’s Germantown High School, 1907 -2014. ”.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

Twenty-nine states allow districts to define their own credits, according to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. For the 2014-15 school year, Piedmont Middle School, in rural northeast Alabama, reimagined how its students learn by letting them progress based on their mastery of skills and standards.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

said teacher Kierston James, 40, who oversaw Albert, a fellow with the Brothers Empowered to Teach (BE2T) Initiative. Though Wilson has maybe a dozen African American male teachers on its K-8 staff, only one of them teaches within Wilson’s primary school, in the second grade. Growing up, Albert, now 22, saw almost no men teaching. “I

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Teaching academic subjects in Spanish, or any foreign language, has been widely understood to be illegal in California since 1998. For the most part, that has been interpreted as: Don’t teach in Spanish. “I 693 — Number of newly certified bilingual teachers in 2014-15. For most, earning their teaching degrees was no different.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

From just before the recession until 2014, the latest year for which figures are available, higher education central system office staffs grew by nearly 4 percent, according to federal data analyzed by the American Institutes for Research in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. It does take a few years to change a culture.”.

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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. Today, Junge’s group, which coined the term “teacher-powered” in 2014, identifies roughly 300 schools nationwide that follow the model. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

In 2014, the U.S. In 2014, the U.S. Connecticut’s Department of Education reports that preschool through second-grade suspensions and expulsions dropped by nearly one third since the 2014-15 school year — from 2,365 children then, to 1,674 last school year. Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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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.”. Earlier this fall, Tozier’s instructor had to travel for her other job and was teaching from afar.

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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. Leer en Espanol.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative, Digital Promise Global is launching two new programs that celebrate teachers and schools who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. This spring, we announced the inaugural cohort of the HP Teaching Fellows. Halloran School No.

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K-12 Leadership Professional Development Public School 91

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2017

Black and brown teachers don’t parachute into a culture they don’t know, so they are able to connect with the students they’re teaching. And black and brown teachers give students role models who affirm their culture. Recently, mainstream institutions began asking, Where did all the black teachers go ? They also account for 27.9

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Personalized learning” is defined differently by many of the schools and districts that employ the model, but in general, it refers to a style of teaching and learning that prioritizes student wants and needs. In Mesa County, a focus on improving school culture and climate has been at the core.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

Colleges are closing or merging at an accelerating rate, from about eight per year between 2004 and 2014, to an estimated 20 per year moving forward, with small private colleges particularly vulnerable. Nichols College is not immune to these issues.”. Some of that transparency has prompted pushback. While we’re pruning we’re also adding.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School. Teaching ranks among the most stressful professions, according to Gallup research from 2014, in which about half of teachers reported high daily stress at work, tying medical professionals for the most-stressful jobs.

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Elementary School Professional Development Classroom Management Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Trial arguments closed last month in the Harvard University discrimination case brought in 2014 by Students for Fair Admissions claiming that Harvard discriminates against Asian Americans in the admissions process. They have come to expect such diversity and want, in addition, a focus on inclusive culture and campus environments.

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Social Justice Sociology Library Professional Development 88

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Enrollment in the Onalaska School District — which includes the town and outlying areas — rose by about 14 percent between May 2014 and May 2018, to 851 students. 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.

High School 111

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

According the Louisiana Department of Education, enrollment of African-American students decreased from 93 percent of total enrollment in 2004 to 87 percent in 2014. In addition, 84 percent of students enrolled in public school were deemed economically disadvantaged in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

These historic national protests should be seen as a call to improved social studies education and a culture that supports student voice and political participation. Give students the know-how so they can respond to, or engage in, the protests effectively. This should not be a one-off happening.

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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. At Union High School, an Algebra II position remained vacant for more than a year.

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Tutoring Middle School High School Elementary School 140

Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

They are connecting across cultural and national borders to promote global awareness and tolerance. In the old model of education, the job of schools was to teach students everything they needed to know for life and work. Students are designing, making, coding, composing, animating, and publishing. school and library to the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff listened intently as a group of veteran teachers listed what they think rookie teachers need before entering the classroom: more time student teaching and more training in how to communicate with colleagues, parents and students themselves. Photo: Peggy Barmore. COLUMBIA, Mo. And then she spoke. Photo: Peggy Barmore.

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Classroom Management Lesson Plan Pedagogy Elementary School 110