The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

When the school’s farm opened in 2014, Freight Farms staffers taught students about crops that have a proven hydroponic track record and their preferred mixes of temperature, nutrients, moisture and other factors. The plants grew out of a recycled plastic mesh rather than soil and were lit by thin strips of LED lights.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

1 recommendation of new and veteran teachers, as well as district leaders and teacher preparation advisers in focus groups and a survey of more than 6,000 educators that Louisiana undertook in 2014, according to Dietsch. It was the No. Related: This may be the best way to train teachers, but can we afford it? But “it’s a starting point.

Classroom Management 110

Classroom Management Lesson Plan Pedagogy Elementary School 110

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 2014, the teacher pay scale was overhauled, eliminating longevity pay.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

In 2014, Jay McTighe asked Julie to join his group, McTighe and Associates, to conduct workshops for educators using the Understanding by Design curriculum framework. She has served on several state leadership teams, including the North Central STEM Hub Advisory Board and the Design Team for the Iowa Competency-Based Education Collaborative.

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K-12 Leadership Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan 97

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The median household income in Oktibbeha County for black residents is $21,795 annually while the median income for white households is almost double, at $41,501, according to American Community Survey 2014 estimates. The school district had a 27 percent dropout rate in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

This is hard because the reality of teaching is that you’re on every hour of the day, you’re lesson-planning, you’re calling parents, you’re writing curriculum. Between the 2014-15 and 2017-18 school years, teacher retention grew from 60 to 90 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

In some ways, it’s nice to just have something that you can pull off the shelf and use when it comes to curriculum, lesson plans, and resources,” said Arnett. Clarksdale had 38 non-certified teachers last year, more than four times as many as in 2014-15. Related: How one Mississippi college is trying to tackle teacher shortages.

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Education K-12 Tutoring High School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

When I went to college [to study teaching], they tell you: ‘Here, this is the lesson plan for reading, for math, etc.,’ In 2014, Cáceres’ first year at the school, just 19 percent of the students tested as proficient on the statewide English Language Arts (ELA) test, compared to 31 percent statewide.

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Public School Teaching Lesson Plan Research 110

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

We’re not trying to force anyone into teaching,” said Kristyna Jones, who co-founded BE2T in 2014. Kellogg Foundation to help scale up its organization’s work, which has grown from seven fellows in 2014 to more than 40 fellows in 2018. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before.

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Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 108

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. One teacher is trained as a math specialist and they tutor the other teachers to help them construct lesson plans. In this Thursday, Oct. Photo: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson.

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Elementary School K-12 Professional Development Tutoring 76

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

She has learned through experience how to teach students with a variety of disabilities, and works with a veteran special education teacher to modify lesson plans and tests. These days, Mary Fair navigates her classrooms with ease. She became a teacher through an alternate program.

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Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 94

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Families must register in advance because, like any school, there is a specific curriculum with lesson plans that build on one another. Each program is in the same place, with the same teacher, and on the same two days during its entire 38-week run. The continuity extends to the participants. But environment is crucial to this growth.

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Library Museum Lesson Plan Government 75

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. Business Toni Ko is a successful entrepreneur who was named one of Forbes’ Richest Self Made Women, according to womenshistory.org.

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Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

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.

Education 0

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Under a set of new standards adopted by the Vermont State Board of Education in 2014 , the class of 2020 will be eligible for graduation when they’ve demonstrated “evidence of proficiency” in the curriculum. I think that’s being answered in different ways across the state.”.

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High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 96

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund. Most Basecamp schools make a lot of changes to the platform’s lesson plans, projects and assessments.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 81

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Lesson plans for teachers help high school students understand if they qualify. A 2014 investigation by the Government Accountability Office found that eight of the 20 school districts its staff interviewed acknowledged they had problems identifying homeless students.

Advocacy 89

Advocacy Government Public School High School 89

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2021

My former high school students in rural Arkansas now teach at the schools they attended during their childhoods, in the same political conditions of Blackness in which I taught them in my civics class in 2014, as they tried to process the Ferguson, Missouri, police killing of Mike Brown , a man they had never met but who looked like them.

Civics 105

Civics Heritage Lesson Plan High School 105

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Salvatore was born in Italy and immigrated to the United States when he was 15 in 2014. But Salvatore is finding that so many students lack basic background knowledge that he sometimes teaches a mini lesson from instructional materials that he discovers online. Reviewing essays has helped him improve his own writing. “It’s

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Tutoring Lesson Plan Library Elementary School 114

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Founded in 2009 by the retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics also offers readings and standards-aligned lesson plans about the Constitution, the three branches of government, media and influence, and many other topics.

Civics 85

Civics Education K-12 Primary Sources 85

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

It’s Cruey’s job to keep track of these particulars, even more than lesson planning or standardized test preparation. “My In 2014, the county led the state in opioid-related hospitalizations. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”. Greg Cruey, teacher, Southside K-8 School, McDowell County, West Virginia.

Middle School 111

Middle School Heritage Lesson Plan High School 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. Today, nearly every DelSesto lesson plan unspools from a Summit-brand “playlist,” a menu of personalized activities.

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K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 110

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. ” Robert Bajor. Project Manager. Educator Micro-credentials. "With " Jennifer Kabaker. " Phil Martin.

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Education Civics Pedagogy Lesson Plan 108

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

From 2014 to 2016, Ebola ravaged several West African countries, killing thousands and spreading isolated cases to both Europe and the United States. “Remember,” Ross said to her class at one point, “all these numbers represent people.”. The partnership behind Operation Outbreak began with an international crisis and a star-struck 6-year-old.

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Civics K-12 Middle School Lesson Plan 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Seventy-nine percent of Latino students graduated from Sampson County schools last year, up 3 percentage points from 2014 and just about matching the state average. Teachers modified lesson plans to help students not yet fluent in English, and she introduced a separate English as a Second Language class for students who needed more support.

High School 111

High School Elementary School Middle School Lesson Plan 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2016

I have guidelines for cellphone and smartphone use, but it’s a constant struggle to keep kids engaged in lessons and off their phones. Even when I know I’ve created a well-structured and well-paced lesson plan, it seems as if no topic, debate or activity will ever trump the allure of the phone.

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Political Science Economics High School Project-Based Learning 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Debilitating slowdowns and districtwide outages in past years have been so common that some Nome teachers even now prepare two lesson plans per class—one to use if the internet cooperates and one that requires only textbooks. As a result, the district is finally within sight of the FCC’s 2014 target speed, she said.

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 98

MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

It was published in PS: Political Science and Politics in 2014. For the final ideology, populist/communitarian, I chose a talk Pope Francis gave to the European Parliament in 2014. Graham and I produced our article, Teaching Active Citizenship: A Companion to the Traditional Political Science Curriculum , during my sabbatical.

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Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52

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. Valencia Stinson leads a kindergarten class through a lesson matching lowercase letters with their corresponding uppercase letters. Teachers used no lesson plans, in any subject, and the school had no librarian.

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Education Elementary School Government K-12 103

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. In 2014, The New York Times reported on Pruitt’s extensive industry ties — which included oil and gas companies, utilities and lobby groups. The idea caught on. He added that the board itself doesn’t engage in lobbying.

K-12 70

K-12 Education Charter School Elementary School 70

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

9, 2014: Michael Brown Killed by Police July 6, 2016: Philando Castile is Killed by Police March 13, 2020: Breonna Taylor Killed by Louisville Police Participant Reflections With more than 270 attendees present, the conversation and chat was lively, engaging, and full of history, teaching ideas, and more.

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Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52