The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2017

When Deborah Gist took over as superintendent in 2015, after leaving her position as the blended-learning-focused education commissioner in Rhode Island, she created a new office – the Office of Data Strategy and Analytics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2019

As instructors finalize lesson plans and schools across the country head back into session, there’s been a recent and significant surge of interest in social and emotional learning (SEL) curricula at both the federal and state levels.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

The quality of a teacher’s relationship with their students has the most significant impact on their emotional engagement at work (Hagenauer, Hascher & Volet, 2015; Tucker 2020). The Quality of a Teacher’s Relationship with Students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Louisiana’s fourth graders also had the highest learning gains in the nation in the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress reading test. Using open educational resources has become a key part of this progress, even if it wasn’t the starting point. Using OER wasn’t our goal,” Kockler said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. Teaching experts say that will mean slowing down to fill in knowledge gaps —detouring from lesson plans, adding extra periods for tutoring, and more. A student works on a pre-algebra?problem.?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. “We Shawn Lambert, Brunswick School Department.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

In 2015, the OpenAg group gave a handful of local schools prototypes of their “personal food computers,” which are tabletop hydroponic farms that users program with “climate recipes.” The idea is that lesson plans, like climate recipes, will be created, shared and improved upon by the community of school food-computer users. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

With the ability to log into lessons online, students at the secondary level won’t have to miss instruction even if they’re suspended, says Superintendent L. During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4 Oliver Robinson.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Croft and Nardolilli also launched their own STEM game design company, Catilli, in 2015. “It These improvised or newly created tabletop games do have to go through a fair bit of testing before being introduced as a lesson plan. It started off with trying to figure out what concepts are boring or difficult to teach,” says Croft.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

This is hard because the reality of teaching is that you’re on every hour of the day, you’re lesson-planning, you’re calling parents, you’re writing curriculum. Alanni said teachers would sometimes accommodate her by printing out lesson plans from the computer program and allowing her to complete the lessons offline.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Teachers create individualized lesson plans for students during each tutoring session, employing a variety of items to help students better understand math concepts. In 2015 and 2016, the city spent $6 million to roll out a new math curriculum featuring games, building blocks, art projects and songs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Brewer uses case studies to teach the science of vaccines; last year she used the example of a 2015 measles outbreak linked to Disneyland. She said timely and even controversial topics can help ignite students’ interest, and she’s currently developing a lesson plan on the “nature of science” that will use the coronavirus as the main theme.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Although Mississippi is still ranked among the bottom five of all states when it comes to connectivity, more than 158,000 students have gained access to high-speed internet since 2015. The improvement comes as many districts are expanding or launching programs that give students access to a digital device each day.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It focuses on lesson planning, instruction, assessment and academic language – all in support of student learning. As noted in our recently released 2015 Administrative Report, across more than 21,000 candidates taking edTPA consequentially that year, the average score was 44.53

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

In California, seven of the ten most destructive fires on record have occurred since 2015. On the one-year anniversary of the fire, rather than sticking to the lesson plan, Marsters decided that students would watch Bob Ross videos and paint. “As As a mom, I want to fix it, as a teacher I want to fix it. But I can’t.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Her parents agreed. That’s the norm right now.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Pleasant View Elementary in Providence, Rhode Island, for instance, started Summit with fifth-graders in 2015, and this year introduced a few aspects of the approach to fourth-graders.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

The result was BlocksCAD, a free Web-based program released in June 2015 that has spread to about 1,000 active users in schools, maker spaces and fab labs worldwide. “Being a community of DIY hackers, we decided to make our own software,” said Solomon Menashi, BlocksCAD project manager.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In her latest book, Where Teachers Thrive , Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Susan Moore Johnson describes 14 schools studied between 2008 and 2015. Do teachers really need to submit lesson plans for each class every week, or would a sample of lessons be just as informative?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Each was started between 2011 and 2015 as part of a national pilot launched by the YMCA to provide free early childhood education programs for young children in low-income families. “A That’s an income of less than twice the federal poverty level, which, in 2015, was $24,036 for a family of four with two children under 18.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

Between fall 2012 when the standards were first enacted and spring 2015 when he left the classroom for a coaching position, Ward remembers teachers being pulled out a few days for professional development. One teacher is trained as a math specialist and they tutor the other teachers to help them construct lesson plans.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

The district plans to build on that success. Arlington is a fast-growing district, and Discovery Elementary opened in 2015 as part of an ongoing school-building program (it shares a campus with a middle school with a trailer park to accommodate its overflowing student population). My lesson plan is: Here’s a problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A 2015 Stanford study that looked at the performance of students in online charter schools found that the majority lost learning equivalent to a standard 180-day school year. She developed a virtual teacher certification program in 2015. And they aren’t alone in showing poor academic results. Successful student characteristics.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

In 2015 she began testing her shaking table contraption to see how well young kids, ages 6 through 8, could learn basic physics principles from it. Yannier began with two lesson plans: one given to kids only on the computer; and one given to a different group of kids using her mixed-reality contraption.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Education Week. Carter, E. Promoting Inclusion, Social Connections, and Learning Through Peer Support Arrangements. TEACHING Exceptional Children , 48(1), 9-18. Gottfried, M. Chronic Absenteeism in the Classroom Context: Effects on Achievement. Urban Education, 54(1), 3-34. Kirksey, J Jacob, et al. Tracking State Trends in Chronic Absenteeism.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

Wilder’s version of personalized learning means no more lesson plans and no homework, two key changes that helped teachers pivot their jobs from dispensing information to mentoring students. percent of Wilder middle school/high school students were proficient in 2015-16, compared to about 37 percent statewide. In math, only 3.4

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

That was also the primary question in January 2015, when Jan Morrison, president and CEO of TIES ( Teaching Institute for Excellence in STEM ), invited BADM staff along with other early childhood experts, software developers and representatives from MIT’s Fab Foundation to meet in Washington, D.C. We need to ask, what’s the added value?”.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

” In 2015, Johnson received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the U.S. According to NASA, Johnson recalls Astronaut John Glenn saying about her before a spaceflight, “If she says [the calculations] are good, then I’m ready to go.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Across the city, post-Katrina hiring patterns led to overrepresentation of white teachers, according to a teacher-diversity study published in 2015 by the Albert Shanker Institute. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before. That uptick in the hiring of white teachers was counter to national trends.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

2015; Zoll, Feinberg, & Saylor, 2023). For more information, download our free lesson plan describing how to use Matching Cards. This is backed up both by science of reading research and by neurobiological research (Hong et al., 2018; Marks et al., 2019; McBride-Chang, et al., 2005; Romeo, et al., 2018; Rueckla et al.,

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment).

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

You balance lessons, planning, creating, preparing, copying, data assessing, meetings, grading, paperwork, responding to emails and phone calls while trying to teach the students in your care. You do this day after day, week after week. It is exhausting physically, mentally, and emotionally. They are not available for homeschools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

It’s Cruey’s job to keep track of these particulars, even more than lesson planning or standardized test preparation. “My In 2015, the abandoned school was burned down in an act of arson. If my students learn other stuff, too, that’s great.”. Greg Cruey, teacher, Southside K-8 School, McDowell County, West Virginia.

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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. Looking to 2015, what will the new year bring for the future of education? Where do you see education moving in 2015? To stay up to date on Digital Promise’s work in 2015, sign up for our email updates !). Krista Moroder.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2020

We’re pulling out our hair trying to figure out lesson plans, distance learning platforms and assignments. The percentage of public school teachers who are women increased from 75 percent in 1999-2000 to 77 percent in 2015-16, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. Today, nearly every DelSesto lesson plan unspools from a Summit-brand “playlist,” a menu of personalized activities.

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