2014 Professional Development Social Studies 
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024
Melissa Hedges, the math curriculum director for Milwaukee schools, shows teachers at a professional development seminar how folded paper can be used to demonstrate the solution to a fractions problem. He helped develop a “spectrum” that became the centerpiece of the program. Why am I enjoying myself right now?” I hate math.”
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. Middle school students use pre-crafted story maps to learn standard classroom content in science and social studies.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 17, 2020
Experts say teachers need weeks — if not months — of training to develop and implement an online class. In this file photo from 2014, veteran teachers attend a Blended Learning Institute workshop in Manhattan. Photo: Alexandria Neason for The Hechinger Report. It was a monumental lift, but the community pulled together.”.
ED Surge
AUGUST 16, 2022
I hope no behavioral concerns arise, because if I can avoid a parent phone call I might be able to get some of this done—well, that is if I do a virtual assignment during social studies. Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. Oh, shoot.
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. That can come in the form of a class that focuses on content for teaching class or in the form of professional development, instruction that teachers receive on the job.
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.
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. It’s a new innovation lab that combines two different disciplines — social studies and math.
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