Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

She is the recipient of the Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagement (American Democracy Project, June 2024) and the Stand Out Faculty Award (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, November 2019). Dr. Athena M. King is an assistant professor of political science and geography at Old Dominion University.

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Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science Civics 68

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. 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.

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Teaching Leadership Lesson Plan Professional Development 103

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In the ‘90s, the district got rid of many tracked classes in its middle school and high school, and provided significant professional development for teachers so they could properly handle students of varying levels in the same classroom. It really allowed me to really own my leadership skills,” she said.

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Middle School High School Professional Development Leadership 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In the Henry County Schools district, individual schools have been applying to be part of a personalized learning initiative since 2014. Aaryn Schmuhl, assistant superintendent for learning and leadership at Henry County Schools, said the district’s path to personalized learning is built around a philosophy rather than a model.

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Charter School Professional Development Leadership Tradition 85

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired. Between the 2014-15 and 2017-18 school years, teacher retention grew from 60 to 90 percent.

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Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

HP Spotlight Schools are also characterized by a school culture in which risk-taking and instructional innovation are supported by leadership. Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) was nominated as a HP Spotlight School district based on their recognized leadership in educational technology. District leadership nominated William F.

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K-12 Leadership Professional Development Public School 70

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

While federal privacy laws have been on the books since the 1970s and a 2014 effort identified 10 high-level Student Data Principles , CoSN’s seal is the first to enumerate the day-to-day practices around safe handling of data that should exist in schools.

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K-12 Professional Development Leadership Humanities 72

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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Junior High Charter School Social Studies Elementary School 133

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

But in 2014, after the government-appointed principal barred a Tewa teacher from campus, tribal leaders took control of the school from the federal government, said Porter Swentzell, the school’s executive director and an enrolled member of the Pueblo. For decades, the school (then known as Santa Clara Day School) was run by the U.S.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 126

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They said that giftedness could also be creativity, and found that a high IQ score did not necessarily correspond with leadership, professional accomplishment or even success in school. In 2014, a group of Buffalo parents filed a racial discrimination complaint with the U.S. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition.

Education 145

Education Elementary School High School Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

In 2014, she received her master’s degree in teaching students with disabilities from New Jersey City University; she now teaches a class for Montclair State University’s dual-certification teacher preparation program. She became a teacher through an alternate program.

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Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 100

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. In 2015, the University of Washington’s District Leadership Design Lab helped developed the nation’s first research-based standards for principal supervisors.

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Middle School Leadership Professional Development Charter School 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

A November statement from Mississippi State University said the Department of Human Services “will assume full leadership of these programs” and stated MSU and MDHS will work together “to seek solutions that keep the flow of services from being interrupted during this orderly transition.”. Staff have conducted 235 training sessions.

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Library Humanities Professional Development Leadership 84

Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Through this work, we see powerful examples of innovation across education — from students creating their own virtual reality (VR) films, to researchers working with technology developers to improve edtech efficacy, to educators rethinking their own professional development with the use of micro-credentials.

EdTech 68

EdTech K-12 Middle School Leadership 68

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

After selling her business in 2014 for $500 million, she has launched new companies and invested many women-owned businesses. In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese American computer programmer who founded Yahoo!

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Heritage Teaching Museum K-12 59

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

In that respect, Kansas City, where in 2014 nearly 90 percent of the students were poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, is not unusual. “I reuse the M&M’s because a bag of M&M’s is $4 or $5 a piece and 100 of those per group would add up over time as far as cost,” McIlvaine says. You’re going to lose good people.

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Tutoring High School Middle School Humanities 44

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Half of all new principals quit their jobs within three years, according to a 2014 study. Today, research suggests that school leadership can have a profound impact on student learning. Rural school leaders have some of the most complex, multifaceted jobs in education. They also have some of the highest turnover.

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Elementary School Professional Development Museum Pedagogy 112

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. But education and disability-rights advocacy groups have a different opinion of special-needs voucher programs than the state’s education leadership. I beg your pardon?” Kast asked. Public-school Failures.

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Private School Advocacy Elementary School Public School 86

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

Her work as Placement Officer set a new model for the field for professional development, and she created the gold-standard format for a Classics c.v.—one She established the Placement Service at UNC, committed to seeing all graduated students fully employed. one can always recognize a c.v. in the James lineage.

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Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Tradition 52