The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Today, Junge’s group, which coined the term “teacher-powered” in 2014, identifies roughly 300 schools nationwide that follow the model. Carrie Bakken, a social studies teacher and program coordinator who has been with the school since 2001, said the model appeals to younger workers and has helped the school avoid hiring challenges. “We

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Digital Promise

APRIL 22, 2019

Since 2014, the initiative—made possible by a partnership between Digital Promise and Verizon—has worked to bridge the Digital Learning Gap by equipping every student and teacher at these select middle schools with devices and up to a four-year data plan. We had a sixth grade social studies teacher, for example, using a podcast.

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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

JULY 6, 2019

Oklahoma’s standards , introduced in 2014, are based on the Next Generation Science Standards, but while they discuss human effects on the environment, they do not directly attribute climate change to human activities. The social studies curriculum at Piedmont Intermediate emphasizes human interactions with the environment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

In this file photo from 2014, veteran teachers attend a Blended Learning Institute workshop in Manhattan. Experts say teachers need weeks — if not months — of training to develop and implement an online class. Many districts provided teachers a crash course in using online platforms, as fears around the spread of Covid-19 shut down schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

By 2014, the district had just $24,000 in the bank with a $600,000 payment coming due for salaries, benefits and day-to-day operating expenses recalls Superintendent Tom DeKeyser. In 2014, Whitmore Lake was not the only school district in the area looking for a way to improve its future prospects. The housing development never came.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. In 2011, South Carolina established academic standards for what students should learn in social studies classes, including “the economic necessity of slave labor.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

While this was not a study of personalized learning, per se, but student choice more narrowly, the results are illustrative. A review of more than 6,800 middle school assignments found only 10 percent of the assignments in English language arts, science and social studies offered students choice in any of these three areas.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The hope is that if kids can become proficient in reading early on, they’ll be much more likely to succeed in all of their subjects, from science to social studies, because students need to know how to read to learn the material. Nevada and Michigan will join them in the upcoming 2019-20 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In 2014, the high school was chosen as the top urban high school in America by the National Center for Urban School Transformation. He did odd jobs — bagging groceries, working in a laundromat — to support his family while he attended college, on his way to a job as a social studies teacher in Brockton. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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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. In 2014, the teacher pay scale was overhauled, eliminating longevity pay. Oh, shoot. I actually can’t get much of this done.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

But Goldstein, who helped create a hands-on manufacturing course at Randolph Union in 2014, says “retention is much easier than recruitment.” Cadow didn’t want Gus to miss out on the social aspects of school, so he offered him a deal: Come to school for six hours a week, and you can spend the rest of the time on the farm.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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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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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. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

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. Read about math , science and social studies. We have very good teachers but they did not know how to teach reading,” Cáceres said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

“Personalized learning is not something you buy,” emphasized Chris Liang-Vergara, a consultant from the Chicago organization LEAP Innovations who helped charter Firstline Schools pilot its personalized learning programs between 2011 and 2014. “It’s It’s a teacher practice; it’s a teacher design.”. Teira Rucker, 11.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2016

Students pursuing those diplomas are required to attain industry credentials but are allowed to graduate with fewer foreign language, social studies and science credits.) As of 2014, eight states were requiring districts to provide teachers with work-based learning opportunities if they wanted to access Perkins funding.

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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. In this Thursday, Oct. Photo: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. And not always as reward for a correct answer.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

I always wanted to teach higher-level history and government,” said Ray Mertz, a social studies teacher who joined Meadowbrook in 2014. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes. They expect to add five more next year. “I Mertz jumped at the chance.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

“When there are new standards, there is new attention put on what the standards are asking us to do,” said Cristina Trecha, director of the Oregon Science Project, an organization that provides science education training to rural and semi-rural teachers in Oregon, which adopted the standards in 2014. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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. It’s a new innovation lab that combines two different disciplines — social studies and math.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Kate Lord didn’t have a plan when she graduated from Brunswick High School in 2014. He loved math, social studies and working on a computer. Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. Sign up for our newsletter. For two years, she was unemployed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2016

After a mixed review in 2014-15, P.S. 3 teachers were advised to add more dress-up options in their dramatic play area, purchase outdoor play equipment like tricycles and grow their block collection. People don’t tend to think of teaching young children as complex work as teaching older children, but in fact it is.”.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan. Social studies teachers must lay the groundwork by earning students’ trust. Ashbrook Publishing, 2014. No wonder political discussions become contentious.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Teachers double up on subjects — one of her colleagues teaches social studies and science in one 90-minute block. The area has lost thousands more jobs since mid-2014 , when plummeting oil prices sparked layoffs. The decline of the area’s industries is a big factor, too.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Take a game like, ‘Do I have a Right?’ ” said Brian Furgione, a middle-school social studies teacher near Orlando, Florida. “In Indeed, teachers often use iCivics games as a prelude to more topical class conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If In 2014, the county led the state in opioid-related hospitalizations. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

The San Francisco Unified School District, which in 2014 detracked math through ninthgrade, recently announced that it’s testing the reintroduction of a tracked system, following a lawsuit from a group of parents who alleged that detracking hurt student achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Chris Bacon-Chang, an assistant professor at the University of Virginia who studies language policy, has seen recognition of the model grow among his students, both future teachers and teachers returning for more training.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

They can learn social studies in Spanish; its still history and geography. In the meantime, Madera teachers are using bilingual education to give Spanish speakers grade-level material, knowing that once they sharpen their English skills, all that information will transfer. These subject matters dont exist only in English.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2016

At Fern Creek, where I’d estimate that at least 80 percent of students have smartphones, this would seem like a logical choice, given the relatively low numbers of tablets and computers we have available for student use in English, science, social studies and math classrooms. That matters. Here’s why.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

This fall, enrollment was on pace to top 950, a two-thirds increase since 2014. Deadlines for assignments in social studies in particular were tight, and he stopped handing them in. Laura Schad teaches social studies to seventh and eighth graders at Southwark School. Before this year, I didn’t like school.

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