The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

All of our districts are members the members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools, an 86-district coalition recognized for innovation and leadership in education. of Mentor Public Schools in Ohio, and was named one of the National School Board Association’s “20 To Watch” in 2016.

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Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition Middle School 106

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

The program began in March 2016 at MIT, a comprehensive middle school with 6th, 7th and 8th grades. Key components of the one-to-one Literacy Initiative include: Increasing student access to devices to help support oral language development, language production, and efficiency. Real change requires supportive professional development.

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Professional Development Leadership Critical Thinking Middle School 88

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2018

14, 2016 — Former U.S. We must support teachers with strong preparation, appropriate compensation, quality professional development and leadership opportunities so they may fulfill their calling: to ensure that every child receives an excellent education. Secretary of Education John B.

Professional Development 111

Professional Development Leadership Public School Elementary School 111

Digital Promise

JUNE 29, 2016

In March 2016, Digital Promise and Maker Ed issued a call-to-action for school leaders around the country to commit to growing the next generation of American makers. Empower teachers through professional development and leadership opportunities. Over 1,400 U.S. Albemarle County Public Schools.

K-12 90

K-12 Professional Development Public School Leadership 90

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

I served on the initial advisory board for ISTE’s Standards for Education Leaders (back then, they were the NETS-A) and in 2016 I received ISTE’s global Award for Outstanding Leadership. I have worked with ISTE in a number of other service and professional learning roles and currently am serving as one of ISTE’s Community Leaders.

Leadership 117

Leadership Tradition Teaching Professional Development 117

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

She is the recipient of the Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagement (American Democracy Project, June 2024) and the Stand Out Faculty Award (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, November 2019). He joined the faculty in 1995 and led the university’s nationally recognized First-Year Learning Communities Program (2003-2016).

Civic Engagement 68

Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Erin Swanson, the district’s director of innovation, said administrators latched onto the model as both a recruitment tool and a way to retain good teachers who might otherwise be tempted to leave Edgecombe County Public Schools for more money elsewhere or school leadership positions outside of teaching.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

To be fair, I’m not the only one making her feel this way — she gets this message from professional development, from people who write books and articles and create media directed at teachers, and from her school leadership. None of us are sending that message in quite those words.

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Lesson Plan Library Leadership 130

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

A decade later, the state’s 2013 Literacy-Based Promotion Act focused on K-3 literacy professional development for teachers and funded literacy coaches in schools with the most students performing at low levels on the state’s literacy assessment. Related: Mississippi made the biggest leap in national test scores this year.

Teaching 82

Teaching Professional Development Leadership Education 82

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

However, to the extent that we have found high quality professional development focused on helping educators understand and respond to learning differences, these efforts are almost exclusively for K-12 educators. With CAST, we have created the Learning Differences Leadership Cohort of Fellows.

K-12 81

K-12 Professional Development Leadership Tradition 81

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

At their best, college athletics inculcate exactly the leadership, interpersonal and teamwork skills that employers are asking for. The University of California at Davis developed its Aggie EVO System to prepare student-athletes for postgraduate success.

Professional Development 101

Professional Development Tradition Leadership Cultures 101

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

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. The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies. You can view our evolving implementation timeline here.)

Teaching 68

Teaching Leadership EdTech Professional Development 68

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

I would think that number would be higher for those who wanted to do one but couldn’t,” Katie Nailler, director of the college’s Career and Professional Development Institute, said. Web story: Looking for an internship? About a quarter of interns receive offers to extend or get hired full time, Holroyd Pearce said.

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Government Tradition Professional Development Critical Thinking 136

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

Visiting other schools is the best professional development that exists. In 2016 the Mastery Collaborative began hosting anti-bias workshops for teachers and staff, spurred by member schools’ ongoing interest in culturally responsive education practices.

Cultures 111

Cultures Leadership Economics Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2019

The study found that work-study supervisors, those directly responsible for professional development of the students, are the linchpins of the student experience. Having a central repository of all available jobs, such as an online jobs board, can help.

Professional Development 95

Professional Development Research Leadership Education 95

Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2016

The Maker Promise will build a national network of school leaders committed to making, and will connect participating schools with a suite of resources that will include things like maker curriculum, professional development, makerspace design, and storytelling strategies.

Professional Development 85

Professional Development Pedagogy Middle School Education 85

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

By comparison, the Health Department, the agency responsible for licensing child care centers, had a budget of roughly $2 million in fiscal year 2016 to monitor health and safety regulation compliance.). The state has provided limited information about what, if anything, will replace the Early Years Network.

Library 94

Library Humanities Professional Development Leadership 94

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Since then, the numbers have slipped to the single digits, with just 5 percent of the class of 2016 finishing within six years, according to a data analysis from the charter school network. Still, the network dispatches experts on finance, community engagement, student experience, curriculum and professional development.

Charter School 135

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 135

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. million in grant support for the Summit Learning Program.

Junior High 128

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 128

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

Charter School 108

Charter School History Library Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Baray, a former teacher and principal in the Austin schools, has also taught at Texas State University, where she conducted extensive research on educational leadership, community involvement, and school improvement. The program’s CEO, Sarah Baray, says the approach makes a big difference.

K-12 83

K-12 Professional Development Public School Advocacy 83

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

Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

See the benefits of early childhood education now with Studies Weekly’s Early Learning/TK curriculum that fosters academic, cognitive, and social development. 2016, January 6). References Barnett, W. S., & Gomez, R. Universal Pre-K. National Institute for Early Education Research. Rasmussen University. 2020, September 7).

K-12 52

K-12 Professional Development Economics Tradition 52

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. A first-generation Korean American, Ko started her business in the beauty industry at age 25 and founded NYX Cosmetics. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese American computer programmer who founded Yahoo! Inc, according to ilctr.org.

Heritage 59

Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Overall, we heard that while alignment between actual skill development needs and available training opportunities was lacking, there was considerable funding being funneled into programs that were not held accountable for the cost. Identify wasteful spending and position workforce development as a strategic, cost-saving decision.

Humanities 48

Humanities Professional Development Leadership Education 48

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

A study by Brett Lane, president and founder of the Institute for Strategic Leadership and Learning, an education research and policy consulting firm, reported that the percentage of students in the district proficient in math increased by over 50 points and in reading by over 40 points between 1996 and 2008.

Tutoring 51

Tutoring High School Middle School Humanities 51

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

While on my journey, I observed three patterns in particular that I’d like to share: Teacher leadership, social and emotional learning, and fellowship. Teacher leadership. Kevin’s story reminds me that in the most functional and successful educational environments I saw last year, teachers were respected as professionals.

Leadership 103

Leadership Social Justice Middle School Public School 103

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But education and disability-rights advocacy groups have a different opinion of special-needs voucher programs than the state’s education leadership. The National Education Association, a labor union that advocates for public education and teachers, wrote a policy brief that describes vouchers as a “scheme.”.

Private School 98

Private School Advocacy Elementary School Public School 98

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

Her work as Placement Officer set a new model for the field for professional development, and she created the gold-standard format for a Classics c.v.—one She established the Placement Service at UNC, committed to seeing all graduated students fully employed. one can always recognize a c.v. in the James lineage.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Teacher pay continues to lag behind the pay of other college-educated workers, according to a 2016 report published by the Economic Policy Institute, a left-leaning think tank. What is creating an impasse is the taxpayer-funded Denver Public Schools’ Professional Compensation, a pay-for-performance system popularly known as ProComp.

Professional Development 81

Professional Development Public School Social Studies Leadership 81

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

HISD leadership is a disaster…. Related: Inside an ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Nationally, takeovers are relatively rare: Between 1988 and 2016, states took control of 114 school districts, about four per year. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke.

Charter School 98

Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

Robert Mujica is the executive director of the Puerto Rico Financial Oversight and Management Board, first convened under President Barack Obama in 2016 to deal with the islands financial morass. If you have permanent governance, then even when the leadership changes, the work continues. There are some encouraging efforts.

Education 91

Education Government K-12 Elementary School 91