Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2015

Five of these awards are new for 2015, including: The Parents as Partners award recognizes an educator who engages parents and caregivers in creative ways to support student learning in and outside the classroom. Check out last year’s winning video submissions here.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

Even though more than half of Mississippi’s public high school graduates in 2015 were African American, they only made up 10 percent of that fall’s freshman class at the University of Mississippi. African-Americans comprised 10 percent of freshmen at Ole Miss in 2015, an 8-percentage-point drop since 2010. . More than a third of U.S.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 3, 2015

— Angela Estrella (@am_estrella) January 30, 2015. “Micro-credentials can help school leaders retain teachers, inform staffing decisions, distribute leadership, sustain initiatives, and offer a pro-teacher approach to professional development.” mc4pd @MJMadda : Big takeaway: Teachers need to drive their learning.

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Professional Development Leadership Elementary School Tradition 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Director of Hispanic student services Teri Mora regularly accompanies members of the school’s Hispanic American Leadership Organization student group to the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute conference. OPSU students also won the National Hispanic College Quiz in 2015 and 2017.

Leadership 111

Leadership Cultures Education High School 111

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) has prioritized a culture of technology-enriched student learning through its Students and Teachers Advancing Tomorrow Initiative (S.T.A.T.). BCPS leadership thought educators would be better prepared to apply S.T.A.T. The central mission of S.T.A.T.

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Education Professional Development Leadership Public School 113

Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Building faculty capacity outside the classroom includes both understanding governance processes and structures and creating cultures and conversations. We will continue the conversation with both APSA and WPSA Community College faculty members.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

After analyzing public school civil rights data from the federal Education Department for the 2015-16 school year, the most recent available, researchers were startled to find very few bright spots. Dozens of sessions focused on “equity” or “cultural competency” or “underserved populations.”. As many as 3.6 million U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Torrey enrolled at the university fully aware that the student body president had been called the same epithet in 2015; she hoped things had changed. A University of Missouri spokesperson said that since 2015 it had increased faculty diversity and raised graduation rates “among underrepresented minorities.”. I changed majors.”. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

A panel commissioned by the mayor recently released a report calling for schools to mirror the demographics of their surrounding neighborhoods and to implement principles of culturally responsive education as a way to combat the city’s persistent achievement gap. These schools are also among the most diverse in the city.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

HP Spotlight Schools are also characterized by a school culture in which risk-taking and instructional innovation are supported by leadership. Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) was nominated as a HP Spotlight School district based on their recognized leadership in educational technology. District leadership nominated William F.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To He noted that many of the challenges began well before he came on in 2015. Lewis cut more than 40 positions from the district’s central office between 2015 and 2018, about a third of all central office employees.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. I feel like school should be a place where I can learn about their culture and where they came from and for them learn about mine. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Six schools were chosen to redesign learning for the fall of 2015, with subsequent cohorts of seven to nine schools selected each year since then. Aaryn Schmuhl, assistant superintendent for learning and leadership at Henry County Schools, said the district’s path to personalized learning is built around a philosophy rather than a model.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

So in the fall of 2015, P.S. 67 began the year with yet another new principal, this time as part of the city’s “Renewal” program, a last-ditch effort to rescue failing schools. We have been able to develop a culture where they learn that there are people here to support them,” said Jackson. Photo: Tal Bar-Zemer.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. but Allen made it through, graduating in December 2020.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2015

This post is part of a series on the big ideas and ongoing conversations from the 2015 #MC4PD Summit. In the previous post, we discussed building authentic cultures of professional learning. Today, we explore one of the design principles at the heart of micro-credentials – embracing learning as continuous process.

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Leadership Cultures Education 81

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It is designed to expose students to organizational skills, peer support and leadership activities. A 2017 study by the Houston Independent School District, for example, found that students participating in AVID in 2015-16 enrolled in higher-level courses and received higher scores on AP exams and on standardized tests than those who did not.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If At the first tier, schools are supposed to be fostering a positive culture of attendance for all students and collecting consistent data to track absenteeism. The culture of attendance is huge. Danielle Burnett, truancy prevention social worker at Alamosa Elementary School.

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Elementary School Public School Cultures Leadership 102

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

In February 2015, I arrived on a snowy Brown University campus for the first 1vyG conference. Rochelle Jackson-Smarr, Assistant Director, student leadership, Office of Engagement Initiatives, Cornell University. They didn’t notice the culture of their campuses and the assumptions about “what everybody does” and “what everybody has.”

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Leadership Psychology Government History 92

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Alexis Smith, a senior majoring in communications, began taking remedial courses at a nearby community college in January 2015, and eventually finished her associate degree before transferring to Northeastern Illinois in January 2019. As a Black woman with a physical disability, Smith struggled to find community on campus.

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K-12 Advocacy High School Leadership 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Last summer’s racial justice protests jarred the district’s leaders, as did the results of a May survey in which one-fifth of responding students said that they had personally experienced discrimination or unequal treatment at school based on their ethnicity or culture.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

On the 2015 state assessments only 5 percent of eighth grade English language learners met English standards for their grade level and none exceeded those standards. Forty-nine percent of English language learner fourth graders at Sherman met or exceeded the English standards as measured on the 2015 Common Core-aligned tests.

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Charter School Elementary School K-12 Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

About two-thirds are guaranteed positions on the faculty, often with the help of graduate assistants, and get free admission to campus sports and cultural events, VIP parking and continued paid-for memberships to country clubs and social organizations. These are complex corporations that require real bold leadership.

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Government Leadership Economics Teaching 99

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

In a 2015 national survey conducted by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 20 percent of high schoolers said they had been bullied at school the prior year, while 16 percent said they had been bullied online. That’s not the culture and community we’re trying to encourage here,” Freeman said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

They may need to learn to assume a new manner of speaking, navigate a new culture and demonstrate new behaviors. In 2015, the City Council of New York City passed the School Diversity Accountability Act, which requires the city’s Department of Education to publish school-level diversity numbers.

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Civics Middle School Leadership Public School 81

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them. Because local unions can reflect the racial attitudes of the confined geographic area, leadership and involvement from the national-level group is almost always necessary.

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Economics Civics Geography History 84

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. New state leadership will likely shape the future of rural broadband, but in what ways is yet to be determined.

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Social Studies Public School Charter School High School 103

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Parents and advocates have also called for more teachers who can relate culturally to black New Orleans children and make connections with the communities they serve. And you’ve got to make sure that they understand the culture of the school, but at the same time, you’ve got to make them feel needed.”. It’s not a stop.

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Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

As of fall 2015, Coahoma County’s three private schools collectively had 7 percent African American enrollment amid public school systems that are more than 90 percent black. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. She liked the people and the culture and the history.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Read a full recap of our fall 2015 League of Innovative Schools meeting. These projects help create a culture of collaboration that produces real, tangible results for students. Educators in Sitka School District work with local tribe leadership to develop culturally relevant curricular experiences for students.

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Museum Library Middle School Leadership 48

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

In the fall of 2015, after Williams failed a third semester, she began to question whether college was the surest path to the life she wanted. When the semester ended in late 2015, Williams withdrew from Delgado. “These things are make-or-break for our kids and we hadn’t even thought about them.”. But she was tired.

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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Dave’s 1968 dissertation summarized brief excavations and surveys of several Morelos Formative sites, but the archaeological data led him to question the conventional culture-historical presumption of Olmec “influence” in the highlands. Throughout his active research career, he was a dedicated and well-beloved teacher.

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Archaeology Anthropology Archiving Artifacts 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

In 2015, the state passed legislation banning the suspension of children from preschool through second grade unless it is first determined at a hearing that the child’s behavior is of a violent or sexual nature that endangers others. Related: The painful backlash against ‘no-excuses’ school discipline.

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Elementary School Classroom Management High School Leadership 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

On the 2015 state assessments only 5 percent of eighth grade English language learners met English standards for their grade level and none exceeded those standards. Forty-nine percent of English language learner fourth graders at Sherman met or exceeded the English standards as measured on the 2015 Common Core-aligned tests.

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Charter School K-12 Elementary School Public School 80

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Nearly a decade in, the culture of competence is deeply ingrained in the district; most of today’s high schoolers have never experienced anything different. Portland’s district leadership has said it plans “ to stay the course with its transition to a proficiency-based diploma,” regardless of changes in the law. They’re up to five now.

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High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Many are taking steps to diversify their faculty and staff and training them in “cultural competency.”. Compared to their white peers, students of color are more likely to attend low-performing public primary and secondary schools with inexperienced teachers and high leadership turnover. They are still behind .

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Tutoring Economics Sociology High School 96

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

“Our children, because they come from homes of poverty, are cultured into avoiding anything that costs money,” Eastwood says. At the start of the 2015–2016 school year, all K-8 math and ELA elementary school classrooms in Middletown used some form of blended learning as part of their instructional approach.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Tradition 85