The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

An ongoing preschool expansion project in Massachusetts, funded by a federal grant in 2014, required all lead preschool teachers to have a bachelor’s. I don’t think piecemeal professional development for 20 hours a year is enough to cover everything that comes up with preschoolers.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation. In response, the district set up opportunities for professional development, programs that continued during the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

In 2014, the newly elected O’Sullivan, along with frustrated faculty, decided to overhaul the program. A history of reform. Looking on, Kevin Winkler, a curriculum and professional developer for mathematics at CUNY Start, noted, “It’s hard to get kids to write in sentences this early on. This is math class.”.

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K-12 Teaching Tutoring Professional Development 73

Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2017

In Arizona , for instance, where districts reported a 29 percent increase from 2013 to 2014 in the number of positions that remained vacant, special education was one of the areas with the highest vacancy rates. Many had histories of trauma and abuse. Special educators serve students with significant learning and behavioral needs.

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Education Professional Development Pedagogy Cultures 56

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

That’s why Murray said Jackson is also stepping up efforts to hire new teachers by increasing starting pay and offering curriculum support and professional development opportunities. She taught English for 33 years — 14 of them in Jackson Public Schools — before retiring in 2014 to take care of her disabled son.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Out of 14 scheduled visits, dating from October 2014 to June 2015, the hospital counted Jacob as a “no show” for nine of them. Kast has a long history of distrust with the district, alleging physical and verbal abuse and racial discrimination against her grandchildren by teachers there—her grandchildren are all half-black, and Kast is white.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

So if you use both public and private providers, the question becomes: How do you nurture and sustain quality across all those different settings when their resources, missions and histories can be so different?”. This year, I find that if I say ‘I’ll pay you this DoE-mandated salary,’ it just doesn’t feel attractive to teachers anymore.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

The challenges in rural communities are very real—funding, teacher recruitment and retention, access to technology, poverty, ever-changing expectations, and professional development and support,” U.S. Related: How teacher-training programs are trying to get teachers into rural schools. Secretary of Education John B. Republican Gov.

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Middle School High School Government Advocacy 76

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Two of his core courses — English and history — were delivered online. “I We offer schools and districts comprehensive, in-person and online Professional Development training for their teachers, counselors, program leaders and administrators. and I can’t do it with a computer [teaching me],” McKenzie said.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Teacher preparation programs, Superintendent Todd Lile said, are not producing graduates who are ready to do this work, leaving districts like his with steep professional development costs. 227 years, meaning most of them didnt develop an academic vocabulary in Spanish. But startup costs for dual-language programs are expensive.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy. It fosters an awareness of these critical issues and encourages students to think critically and develop well-informed solutions. history and prompted a nationwide push for revision and improvement.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschooling mom Andrea Forte, right, pauses in her reading to answer a question from her daughter, Elena Forte, left, during Elena and her brother Devon’s language arts and history class time upstairs in the Forte family home on Aug. 11, 2014 in Wake Forest, N.C. Wire photo: © Harry Lynch/TNS/ZUMA Wire.

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K-12 Private School Charter School Advocacy 89

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

She provides professional development sessions at schools by invitation, but said expectations are often unrealistic. She walked educators through a brief history of immigrant rights, including attempts in California and Alabama to circumvent the Plyler decision.

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