Digital Promise

AUGUST 12, 2021

The continued partnership between Digital Promise and Verizon Innovative Learning equips students and teachers at select schools with devices and internet access, as well as professional learning for educators and opportunities to collaborate with a national network of innovative, technology-driven school leaders and educators.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 1, 2021

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative has provided every student and teacher at select middle and high schools with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom.

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Professional Development Middle School High School Teaching 133

Digital Promise

JULY 25, 2017

In 2014, I wrote – The problem with education in America is not the lack of excellence. Many times, the problem is due to lack of vision, professional development, resources, or adequate support. Coaching, unlike a single day professional development session, provides sustained and specific support and collaboration.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

spending on elementary and high school education declined 3 percent from 2010 to 2014 even as its economy prospered and its student population grew slightly by 1 percent, boiling down to a 4 percent decrease in spending per student. education system differs from others is in asking teachers to carry a heavy teaching load.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

For K-12 students to develop strong skills in design thinking, they rely heavily on the acumen of their educators. As we recognize that educators’ capacity is already limited with classroom-related responsibilities, we also understand their time for seeking out professional learning opportunities is also limited.

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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. Professional Development Manager. Where do you see education moving in 2015? Krista Moroder. Digital Promise Schools.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I’ve spent two decades as a literacy specialist coaching teachers and providing professional development and I’ve seen a lot of transition in the field. Many of these kids (falsely) believe that there is nothing their teacher can teach them that they cannot discover online. That, of course, comes with drawbacks.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A classroom using the Teach to One math program. In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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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 14, 2019

“It’s fun; it’s the way you should do planning—you should plan with other people to get other ideas.”.

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Middle School Professional Development Leadership Teaching 91

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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2019

“They start where they need to be and then they can grow from there.”.

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Middle School Professional Development Public School Teaching 91

Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative—which expands to 152 schools this year—has equipped every student and teacher in select middle schools across the country with a device and up to a four-year data plan, as well as extensive professional development and support towards powerful teaching and learning that leverages technology (..)

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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

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. I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and now you’re gonna make me do what?”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I

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Museum Elementary School Professional Development K-12 112

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. Some colleges ask teachers to complete nine credits to receive a certificate in online teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

When learners show different achievement levels, should we teach them separately or together? Eight Bay Area school districts found similar results when they de-tracked middle-school mathematics and provided professional development to teachers. It is a question that has long intrigued and divided people.

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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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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. Teachers and students develop learner profiles together, and they shape instruction for the student for the rest of the academic year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Since 2011, our schools – one charter, one district – have participated in a partnership that demonstrates that when schools step out of their comfort zones they not only can improve student outcomes, but can effect positive change across entire teaching communities. It found a perfect partner in a district school just a mile down the road.

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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. Some of that transparency has prompted pushback. There were more students than there were seats,” Engelkemeyer said.

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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. We used to teach procedural math, but now students have to understand the ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’.”. In this Thursday, Oct. Photo: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson. This is not true.

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Elementary School K-12 Professional Development Tutoring 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That limits the salary she can earn at a community center like the Y and prohibits her from working in the higher-paying public pre-kindergarten sector, where the qualifications required of a preschool teacher are similar to those needed to teach elementary school. By 2015, almost 75 percent had bachelor’s degrees ).

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Elementary School Professional Development Tradition Teaching 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Barraza teaches Native literature at the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque. 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.

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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

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. It’s amazing; it’s just changed education altogether,” said Cynthia Fields, an English/language arts teacher at Newburg.

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Cultures Middle School Professional Development Teaching 64

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. The ruling in the case in federal district court is likely to favor Harvard.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

In schools across Mississippi, teachers are focusing more on teaching basic reading skills in early grades to make sure students are ready to pass the third-grade reading exam. Overall, the number of students who were held back in third grade dropped from 3,064 at the end of the 2014-15 school year to 2,307 at the end of 2015-16.

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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Classroom Management 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. The need for teachers who have both the knowledge and the ability to teach special education students is more critical today than ever before.

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Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 100

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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

When learners show different achievement levels, should we teach them separately or together? Eight Bay Area school districts found similar results when they de-tracked middle-school mathematics and provided professional development to teachers. It is a question that has long intrigued and divided people.

Professional Development 76

Professional Development Elementary School Middle School History 76

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading. Margaret Adams, assistant superintendent of teaching and learning, is leading much of the district’s professional development relating to this shift. Related: Inside Maine’s disastrous rollout of proficiency-based learning.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) initiative has provided every student and teacher at select middle and high schools with a device equipped with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom. Verizon Innovative Learning Schools were better prepared for distance learning. “We

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Middle School Professional Development Tradition Teaching 71

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But educators in Lindsay say that, while there’s more work on the front end, the district’s model actually makes teaching easier in the long run. In response, the district set up opportunities for professional development, programs that continued during the pandemic. Related: Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

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