The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Back in 2015, my colleague Nichole Dobo reported that nationally schools paid $225 per student plus between $50,000 and $125,000 a year for professional development and support services. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. Those schools no longer use it. In scientific speak, it was a “null” effect.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts. Allison Rank is an associate professor of American Politics at SUNY Oswego.

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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. Social and emotional learning, which gets beyond the traditional academic subject areas, has played an important role in District 51’s changing school system, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

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. Does teacher stress contribute to student academic and behavior struggles, or is it the other way around? “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing.

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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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Elementary School Professional Development Tradition Teaching 110

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. My heart ached as I swapped out favorite classroom activities and traditions for ones that required less prep, hoping the kids wouldn’t notice. “I I felt trapped. It has barely been touched again since then.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The new approach threw out many traditional facets of education such as the A-F grading scale and time-based learning in which students advance to a new grade level each year. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

But when schools compete for children and revenue, the relationship can become strained, making it politically difficult to share strategies and results with traditional districts. The schools are incorporating these practices into their current professional development structures and hope to sustain them over the long term.

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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. Related: When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk. considered passing. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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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. I was prepared for the regular ed student.”

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Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 98

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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Veteran or master teachers like Eckhoff, who often have rated highly under the new teacher evaluation standards and agreed to share their classrooms with aspiring teachers, are advising them on issues from the soft skills teacher candidates need to how to keep professional development useful and relevant once they’re on the job.

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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

MAY 16, 2016

District officials say training and development for those in high-level roles have traditionally been neglected. So [we’re] really taking the time to invest in their professional development.”. During the 2014-15 school year, only 31 percent of sixth graders were reading at or above grade level. Training the trainers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

SEATTLE — After years of declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools. Therese principal. “It

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2019

The idea was to expose our preservice administrators at the University of Colorado Denver to a variety of ways to foster and facilitate adult learning beyond schools’ traditional, moribund professional development sessions. Professional development [VIDEO]. Making learning a part of everyday work.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Collectively, New England Basecamp and Highlander have trained hundreds of educators at dozens of schools in the state since 2014.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

What distinguishes micro-credentials from traditional PD workshops is the way in which teachers and educational leaders provide evidence of learning. Traditional PD uses an attendance sheet as the primary measurement of “learning”. 6] “Learner‐Centered Professional Development.” Citations. [1] 1] Education Consumer Guide.

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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. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Traditional bilingual education essentially lets students use their first language while they learn English. 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.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

11, 2014 in Wake Forest, N.C. No doubt other alternatives to traditional public education, such as charter schools, have encoun­tered some of these same impediments. The homeschooling emphasis on depth and mastery, rather than traditional concepts of time and place, could offer some ideas on addressing the needs of individual students.

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