Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools serve as examples of how forward-thinking leadership can transform learning. the district’s dynamic leadership team uses innovative learning environments to achieve meaningful results for its students to successfully graduate their students and prepare them for college and career.

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K-12 Leadership Middle School Public School 48

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Charter School Heritage Education K-12 135

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

He spent the 2015-2016 school year traveling to schools in all 50 states and he discovered that teachers, when trusted and supported, often innovate on their own. Dintersmith points to North Dakota as a place where the people at the top of the state leadership hierarchy are making room for schools to innovate at the local level.

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K-12 Leadership Tradition Humanities 105

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

The collaborative is primarily funded by the Nellie Mae Foundation, which is among the supporters of the Hechinger Report, and, since its formation in 2016, regularly brings together researchers and education experts to share findings and disseminate them to schools. Sometimes, the students had clear roles and rotated the leadership role.

Charter School 111

Charter School Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Ninth-graders at the Science Leadership Academy work on a group project in science class. Tamir Harper, 18-year-old senior at Science Leadership Academy and founder of a nonprofit that advocates for quality urban education. James Thomas wrote and published a novel for his senior year Capstone project at the Science Leadership Academy.

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Project-Based Learning Leadership High School Tradition 104

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. That’s where federal leadership comes in.” Subscribe today! Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Administration (ETA).

Education 137

Education K-12 High School Civics 137

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts. Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics.

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Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. In the semester-long course, volunteers from employer partners coach and mentor a small cohort of students on career skills, including leadership, problem-solving and communication.

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Government Tradition Professional Development Critical Thinking 136

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

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. This may be a missed opportunity. It was launched in 2015 out of a recognition that schools adopting mastery-based principles were often doing so in isolation.

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Cultures Leadership Economics Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

So far, eight of its 13 traditional schools have hired teacher-leaders who not only put their great teaching to use in front of students, but also coach their colleagues to spread their best practices. Next year, the remaining five schools will do the same.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

At their best, college athletics inculcate exactly the leadership, interpersonal and teamwork skills that employers are asking for. These engagements disproportionately attract younger alumni who are difficult to reach using traditional athletics fundraising approaches, such as donor seating programs at football and basketball games.

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Professional Development Tradition Leadership Cultures 101

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With 106 years of classroom leadership among them, seven educators over the next two years grappled with a key question: Could you keep the same 6 ½-hour school day, and the same school personnel, but design a radically different learning experience for students? In 2016-2017, it was expanded to the entire school, where it continues.

Elementary School 95

Elementary School Public School Leadership Tradition 95

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The courage and bravery that shamanic plants offer—succinctly captured by the Spanish word valor—are prized qualities within Shuar conceptions of personhood and leadership. For instance, in 2016, Shuar demonstrators burned down a mining camp located on Indigenous land. He dismissed my worries. Hesitantly, I agreed to help.

Economics 129

Economics Government Leadership History 129

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

New Orleans schools that have embraced some element of restorative justice include Akili Academy, Langston Hughes Academy, Andrew Wilson, KIPP McDonogh 15, Edna Karr, Crescent Leadership Academy and Sci Academy. There are no traditional grade levels at the Net and students may attend class at any time from 8 in the morning to 6:30 at night.

High School 112

High School K-12 Charter School Cultures 112

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Many Opportunity Youth have had traumatic experiences within the traditional school setting, and often these educational struggles are rooted in undiagnosed learning differences. With CAST, we have created the Learning Differences Leadership Cohort of Fellows.

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K-12 Professional Development Leadership Tradition 84

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York.

K-12 111

K-12 Psychology High School Leadership 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said. in a splashy competition.

Charter School 111

Charter School Project-Based Learning High School Public School 111

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

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K-12 Government EdTech Economics 78

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Institutions including Lebanon Valley College face demographic shifts, constrained family incomes, student preferences toward professionally oriented majors over some of the traditional liberal arts, and rapid technological change. Chamber of Commerce Foundation as saying that “employers have ‘less and less confidence’ in traditional degrees.”

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Tradition Leadership Government Critical Thinking 62

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Of the district’s nearly 91,000 students, 69 percent were considered economically disadvantaged during the 2016-17 school year. In 2016, the Obama administration highlighted it with a report that it called “an unprecedented look at a hidden educational crisis.”. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary School Public School Cultures Leadership 98

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. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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Charter School History Library Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The ( Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) is short by $172 million statewide for 2016-17. This tendency gives conservative legislators, adverse to big-government, further ammunition to deny adequate funding to traditional districts like JPS. To their credit, JPS has shown an ability to do more with less.

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Charter School Public School Social Justice High School 109

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

But in short order, a whirlwind of leadership turnover — four superintendents in four years — led the partnership to a very public impasse that pitted the school district against its fundraising partner, the alliance. “We I think if you strip away the emotion, the district was saying: ‘We just want you to be a traditional school foundation.

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Elementary School Library Leadership Public School 75

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education.

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High School Tutoring Education Policy Leadership 103

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Since 2016, when the couple launched an LLC to coordinate much of their charitable giving, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed $142.1 Teachers in other schools have found the shift to project-based learning to be a massive, unwanted change from traditional instruction. million in grant support for the Summit Learning Program.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 128

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

While a humanities class such as English costs a college just $52 per student credit, a respiratory therapy class costs $265 , according to a 2013 report by the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy. Equipment and trained instructors in some specialty fields can be prohibitively expensive for a college.

Economics 111

Economics High School Tradition Humanities 111

Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2016

Every year, The School Superintendents’ Association (AASA) awards the title "Superintendent of the Year" to exceptional leaders who work to identify and implement these solutions so students can succeed through leadership for learning, communication, professionalism, and community involvement.

Charter School 39

Charter School Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Public School 39

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Despite the innovative ethos of its tech-world backers, the school’s approach to core subjects was “very traditional,” according to Wesley Davidson, an English teacher at ChiTech. The success of those four students gave Garrett and her team the confidence to place the entire senior class into internships in 2016.

High School 79

High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 79

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

This close relationship with county leadership gives schools a direct connection with local businesses, allowing them to be nimble and responsive to employers’ needs. After she earns her license, she’ll enter a heavily male-dominated trade: As of 2016, 97.9 percent of electricians are male. I’ll always be able to find good work’.

Education 110

Education High School Tradition Geography 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The other program, the Honors College, has existed for decades; in 2016 it retooled its admissions strategy to attract students with a wider range of academic interests. The HLLC is one of two on-campus programs offering ambitious students from the Newark area a reason to stay close to home. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

Social Justice 90

Social Justice Economics Public School Library 90

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Between 2012 and 2016, the number of kids in foster care around the country rose by 10 percent. The leader, Mary Beth Bonaventura, said she was responding to budget cuts, leadership changes and complacency over outmoded technology. In this job, she has seen traditional family structures turned upside down.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School High School Tradition Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.

Middle School 125

Middle School High School Elementary School Public School 125

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Funding for McDonogh 35, New Orleans’ last noncharter school, fell from $15,594 per student in 2008-09 to $11,651 per student in 2016-17. Spending fell from $15,594 per student in 2008-09 to $11,651 per student in 2016-17, the most recent state data available. Lewis said he’s aware the leadership changes have been frustrating.

Charter School 90

Charter School High School Cultures Public School 90

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. When he got into Middlebury College, a selective school in Vermont, Barnes felt confident he would earn a degree by 2016. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

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Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

Charter School 111

Charter School Public School High School Elementary School 111

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.

Elementary School 75

Elementary School Psychology Tradition Professional Development 75