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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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2022

In 2015, the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust set out to develop a computational thinking (CT) and coding education initiative of world-class standard, based on up-to-date teaching tools and proven pedagogy. Successful professional development creates a sustainable teaching capacity inside the school system.

Pedagogy 101

Pedagogy EdTech Professional Development Leadership 101

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. LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

Our research shows that social emotional learning is usually incorporated into one of four areas in state policy: early learning guidelines, school readiness definitions, teacher preparation/professional development requirements and/or kindergarten entrance assessment measurements. While 36 states, plus Washington, D.C.,

Education 75

Education Professional Development Elementary School Leadership 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In the ‘90s, the district got rid of many tracked classes in its middle school and high school, and provided significant professional development for teachers so they could properly handle students of varying levels in the same classroom. It really allowed me to really own my leadership skills,” she said.

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Middle School High School Professional Development Leadership 112

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

At BWRSD, we have used the opportunity to develop and communicate a new, shared vision of personalized instruction that fosters deeper learning for all students. Our journey began in the Fall of 2015 with the convening of a Future Ready Leadership Team representing a cross-section of school and district leaders.

Teaching 74

Teaching Leadership EdTech Professional Development 74

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

It was launched in 2015 out of a recognition that schools adopting mastery-based principles were often doing so in isolation. Visiting other schools is the best professional development that exists. There’s no slide deck that is going to lead to seeing new things and being able to apply them to your school.”.

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Cultures Leadership Economics Tradition 111

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership.

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Research Education Professional Development Leadership 56

Digital Promise

JUNE 30, 2020

As a requirement of the 2015 Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA), CSIU had to report on performance measures, such as credential rate and measurable skill gain, and address barriers to employment for adult learners in the community. Leveraging Existing Resources.

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Government High School Professional Development Leadership 90

Edthena

JUNE 7, 2021

Dr. Bryan Carter is the undergraduate program director and a professor at the City University of Seattle in the School of Education and Leadership and is passionate about teacher self-reflection. Video can and should also serve this larger purpose of student equity. We already have tools to support student equity and inclusion.

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Social Justice Leadership Humanities Teaching 80

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. In 2015, the University of Washington’s District Leadership Design Lab helped developed the nation’s first research-based standards for principal supervisors.

Middle School 76

Middle School Leadership Professional Development Charter School 76

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2019

Race to the Top also placed a greater emphasis on professional development for educators through professional learning communities, coaching and instructional leadership — something we’ve seen carried through under the Every Student Succeeds Act. over the same time period.

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K-12 Charter School Professional Development Public School 61

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Out of 14 scheduled visits, dating from October 2014 to June 2015, the hospital counted Jacob as a “no show” for nine of them. But education and disability-rights advocacy groups have a different opinion of special-needs voucher programs than the state’s education leadership. I beg your pardon?” Kast asked. Public-school Failures.

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Private School Advocacy Elementary School Public School 97

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. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Nonetheless, she was watching.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

The traditional way is more convenient — for some, says Dan Condon, associate director of professional development at the Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center in Colorado. Multiage education, say its proponents, puts learners at the center, socially and academically.

Elementary School 75

Elementary School Psychology Tradition Professional Development 75

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Teachers’ time is one of a school’s most valuable and scarce resources, yet it’s often wasted because of poor leadership and management. In her latest book, Where Teachers Thrive , Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Susan Moore Johnson describes 14 schools studied between 2008 and 2015. Read the original version here. .

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Lesson Plan Professional Development Leadership Teaching 48

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

One of the first things the new nonprofit did was hire Beatrice McGarvey, from Marzano Research, a consulting organization that offers professional development to schools across the country, to craft a common curriculum, said Linda Laughlin, now the Maine group’s executive director. That view is shared by policymakers like Rep.

High School 111

High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

Dr. Preece

MARCH 6, 2023

From the early stages of improving our understanding of the science and issues (Knight & Adger, 2015; Knight et al. Resources are available to support the deployment of this activity (see references) which help teachers to build their confidence with leadership of the climate simulation and discussion of impacts. Dunlop et al.

Geography 52

Geography Economics Classroom Management Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. School administrators often see gifted education as a frill. Nationally, 3.3 The Hechinger Report’s analysis of U.S.

Education 145

Education Elementary School High School Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

The seeds for the HISD takeover were planted in 2015, with the passage of a state law mandating that the TEA step in if any school in a district were rated academically unacceptable for five consecutive years. HISD leadership is a disaster…. It failed on a 5-4 vote. On January 3, Gov. In Houston, some blame the district, not the state.

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Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

Related: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson In the aftermath of this national tragedy, I was tasked to take over leadership at Stoneman Douglas to guide the school in its recovery. The number of incidents has been rising dramatically since 2015.

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Civics American History High School Professional Development 120

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

The report found: “In 2015, public school teachers’ weekly wages were 17.0 What is creating an impasse is the taxpayer-funded Denver Public Schools’ Professional Compensation, a pay-for-performance system popularly known as ProComp. It was developed in 2005, by DCTA leadership, in collaboration with the school district.

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Professional Development Public School Social Studies Leadership 86

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel.

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High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Back when she arrived in Tulsa from Rhode Island in 2015, she was the last person local teachers would have imagined as their standard bearer. From 2009 to 2015, Gist embarked on an ambitious mission to reform education in a state tiny enough to make it a perfect petri dish for quick and dramatic change.

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Charter School Junior High Political Science Elementary School 107

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

Her course on Ovid and literary theory, which she brought from Bryn Mawr to UNC, introduced dozens of students to ideas that fundamentally challenged and enriched their thinking, and resulted in numerous publications by those students in peer-reviewed journals, as well as a two-decade retrospective she published in Classical World in 2015.

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Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52