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. 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

OCTOBER 17, 2018

By 2015, almost 75 percent had bachelor’s degrees ). And in 2015, after a comprehensive review of early childhood research, the Institute of Medicine , part of the National Academy of Sciences, recommended that all lead teachers in early childhood settings have a bachelor’s. She encourages all of her staff to get a four-year degree.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” A classroom using the Teach to One math program. Photo: Nichole Dobo. Those schools no longer use it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. In 2015, Bell partnered with the local newspaper to distribute a four-part “explainer” about competency-based grading. But people who are geniuses also have things that they’re not strong in.”.

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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. By 2015, Taymore decided she needed a system with an organizing principle.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. . “I hope that our findings spur institutions to do some reflection on whether there is more they could do to help all students succeed,” she said. Related: Federal data shows 3.9 That helped accommodate low-income students who have to juggle work and school.

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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. “We Visiting other schools is the best professional development that exists. This may be a missed opportunity. What they get is ‘You got it wrong.’

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Among teachers who stay on the job, about 28 percent are “chronically absent” (more than 10 school days a year), according to the most recent Department of Education statistics, which cover the 2015-16 academic year. If we want to improve our test scores, then let’s all calm down.”.

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Elementary School Professional Development Classroom Management Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. The 16-year-old likes the school’s course-intensive program, in which students take just one or two classes at a time but complete them much more quickly than at a traditional school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Yet multiage advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on an arbitrary birthdate range is illogical. Advocates say the traditional approach of dividing students into single grades based on arbitrary birthdate ranges is illogical.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kathryn Toppan switched to a 1-4 scale even before the administration required it, finding it “less arbitrary” than the traditional 1-100. In the city’s two traditional high schools — Deering and Portland High School — classes look, and sound, much as they did prior to 2012. That view is shared by policymakers like Rep.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

That’s the number one obstacle,” said Blaine Dauzat, who became Avoyelles superintendent in 2015. Locals worry that some families’ ability to opt out of the traditional schools has diverted resources from the kids who need the most help. In 2019, the share of white students in the parish’s traditional public schools was 46 percent.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. Job-Embedded Professional Development. Above all, it is most important to remember that effective professional-development programs are job-embedded and provide teachers with five critical elements (Darling-Hammond et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. Elsewhere in the Deep South, charters have lived up, or rather down, to that fear. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Citing figures from a New American Economy report, Walsh says Massachusetts businesses posted nearly 15,000 positions seeking bilingual candidates in 2015. They hope to create a professional development center to help educators from around the country learn from their work. That somehow. they can only learn one thing at a time.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

In 2015, the University of Washington’s District Leadership Design Lab helped developed the nation’s first research-based standards for principal supervisors. District officials say training and development for those in high-level roles have traditionally been neglected. Photo: Jackie Mader. That doesn’t equate to results.

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Middle School Leadership Professional Development Charter School 76

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

When McWilliams first took the Praxis in March of 2015, she easily passed the reading portion but failed the math and writing sections. To become certified in Mississippi, teachers must meet three requirements: Earn a bachelor’s degree; complete a traditional or alternate teacher training program; and pass the Praxis.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator. percent in 2015-16, outpaced only by special education, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. percent in 1966 to 8.5

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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”. 2015) Who believes in me? 6] “Learner‐Centered Professional Development.”

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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. We are not what they’re saying we are,’” said former Wheatley social studies teacher Kendra Yarbrough-Camarena.

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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. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2017

“Building talent pipelines that meet the demand for effective teachers and principals is arguably New Orleans’ most pressing citywide challenge in coming years,” wrote researchers in a 2015 report about the state of New Orleans public schools. Photo: Sarah Gonser/The Hechinger Report.

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Teaching Charter School Professional Development Public School 89

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

They include traditional public schools and charters. The $60,000 to $75,000 annual fee for the first four years (it then goes down), covering professional development, strategic planning, coaching and resources, can be an obstacle. . … It’s awesome when you get to the place where the work is making kids want to do their best.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

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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. On May 11, 2015, Grimes was voted in unanimously as Russellville’s new school superintendent. Yet their success matters: Today in the U.S.,

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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 108

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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Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Utah launched a program in 2015 that uses work-based learning to teach high school students about the state’s aerospace industry. Such jobs made up about 49 percent of the state’s jobs in 2015. Next year, the state will ramp up professional development opportunities for work-based learning coordinators, state officials said.

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