The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

More recently, in a 2016 study, Godwin calculated that classroom teachers were commonly exceeding young children’s attention spans by lecturing too long and having students spend too much time on instructional activities. Maybe attention spans are longer in the morning and shorter in the afternoon.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. Teaching experts say that will mean slowing down to fill in knowledge gaps —detouring from lesson plans, adding extra periods for tutoring, and more.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

It’s also important for all students to feel represented, Laura Thomas said in her Edutopia article from August 2016. Plus, recent anti-Asian violence in the United States proves why educators need to foster awareness and understanding, Chang said in her article.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Lesson planning : Do they come up with interesting activities to teach their content? Do you notice them modeling behaviors that students might emulate? Are there any signs that students have been given the tools they need to manage some of their own learning independently? Do they ask challenging questions?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. Teachers are going to need a lot more planning time for lesson plans.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

John Jones asks a question to his students in AP Human Geography on August 18, 2016. The hope is that by providing students access to resources they did not previously have, including after school programs and individualized lesson plans for students in need of remediation, the district can help every student reach his or her full potential.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

They understood the need to prioritise and advocate for lesson planning as an important aspect of beginning teacher’s training despite it being in conflict with wider school developments. The effects of this change have been significant and felt beyond the appearance of the staff room.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

When I went to college [to study teaching], they tell you: ‘Here, this is the lesson plan for reading, for math, etc.,’ The program is currently working in 32 schools in the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Manhattan, with plans to expand to 62 schools by 2021. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

In 2016, the district launched a teaching fellowship program to provide yearlong contracts to about 30 aspiring teachers who are placed in its six schools. It also sent templates of lesson plans that teachers can leave for their temporary replacements. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

So in 2016, the legislature established the Maryland Commission on Innovation and Excellence in Education (better known as the “Kirwan Commission,” a nod to its chairman).

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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

JUNE 14, 2016

An April 2016 study of a large urban school in Georgia reported the frustration of many elementary level teachers. One teacher is trained as a math specialist and they tutor the other teachers to help them construct lesson plans. MAF’s Ewing suggested another on-the-job approach such as the one Finland uses.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

During the 2016-17 school year, 71 schools in the state used online learning platforms, according to the Mississippi Department of Education. In some ways, it’s nice to just have something that you can pull off the shelf and use when it comes to curriculum, lesson plans, and resources,” said Arnett.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

There’s the cost of the warranty, professional development for teachers to learn how to incorporate the devices into their lesson plans and troubleshoot tech problems, repairs for inevitable damages and the price of software those laptops run. Chromebooks have become the dominant device in U.S. public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Delaware, for instance, mandates that caregivers at licensed child care centers follow lesson plans based on age-specific educational guidelines put together by the state’s Department of Education. Since 62 percent of 2-year-olds had working mothers in 2016, according to U.S. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The curriculum, which was developed by the Seattle-based Children’s Music Foundation, includes videos, music and lesson plans that teachers can incorporate into their lessons each day. In 2016, the district purchased the Rosetta Stone foreign language software for Spanish instruction. Students] couldn’t speak it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

I have never worked in a situation where the collective stress level has been this high or this acute,” said Eckhart, who had retired in 2016 after 24 years with the district. 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

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Einstein’s Workshop also offers educators a four-hour training, which the teachers in Hudson, Ohio, completed in February 2016, even though their school did not yet have a 3D printer. Courtney Bedzyk, a middle-school science teacher in Hudson, Ohio. We want to make this useful and relevant for classroom teachers,” said Menashi.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2017

According to a 2016 survey by the CoderDojo Foundation, nearly one third of all Dojo attendees are girls, and about the same proportion of mentors are female. Recalling her previous negativity about programming and how few girls were in her computer science class at school, Garima was eager to get girls interested in coding early.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

At Northern Cass, momentum for change began during the district’s 2016 accreditation renewal when staff checked up on students after graduation. This summer, Northern Cass teachers and administrators have continued rewriting lesson plans and assessments, including those for “habits of work.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Supporting these efforts, the Department of Energy published a how-to report on building net-zero K-12 schools in 2016 and created a “Zero-Energy Schools Accelerator” program to give districts technical guidance. My lesson plan is: Here’s a problem. ” Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Solve it,” said Becker.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2773–2777. Backes, B., & Cowan, J. Is the pen mightier than the keyboard? The effect of online testing on measured student achievement. Economics of Education Review , 68 , 89–103. Words onscreen: The Fate of Reading in a Digital World. Oxford University Press.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Of the more than 200,000 children ages 5 and younger in Silicon Valley, some 50,000 live in low-income families, according to a 2016 analysis by the Urban Institute. Families must register in advance because, like any school, there is a specific curriculum with lesson plans that build on one another.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

At Bricolage, there are more white students than black students, 51 percent to 37 percent, according to 2016-17 demographics. I’d send him the lesson plan the night before. Only 42 percent of its students come from economically disadvantaged households, compared to 94 percent of Wilson students.

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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.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

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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 I’m getting directly into interventions, targeted materials, resources, lesson plans, pedagogical skills that are tailored toward the kids I have sitting right in front of me.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Lesson plans for teachers help high school students understand if they qualify. Washington state, which got the lowest amount in the 2018 fiscal year at $29 per identified student, passed a law in 2016 to provide additional support and resources. “I

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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 2016, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ranked McDowell County as second-most at-risk in the country for an HIV outbreak due to intravenous drug use. average of 369. . average of 369.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

In 2020, only 10 percent of Kenyan teachers were using the more than one million laptops distributed through a Digital Literacy Program between 2016 and 2018. Working with 15 schools, ChalkTalk built a fully adaptive, highly personalized curriculum-design technology to reduce teachers’ lesson-planning time from 2.5

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

The 2016 election and the tumultuous start to Donald Trump’s presidency, which hits the 100-day mark next week, have presented civics teachers in red, blue and purple states alike with a double-edged sword. They go home and keep playing and playing, and it reinforces everything.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

They also added a school support coach to help teachers improve their lesson plans and use more data to track students’ progress. Haw River was one of the first schools in the state approved for the Restart program in the spring of 2016, along with four others: Barwell Road Elementary (Wake County). The varieties of Restart.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

In a city that recorded 762 murders in 2016, the most in the nation , security measures like these were authorized years ago for every public high school. Ocon describes lesson plans that were based around presenting content and then giving quizzes and tests at predetermined intervals.

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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. According to a 2016 press release from the U.S. To help reduce the spread of coronavirus, districts across the country have closed schools, many for the rest of the academic year. Teachers earned 11.1

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

From 2014 to 2016, Ebola ravaged several West African countries, killing thousands and spreading isolated cases to both Europe and the United States. Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school.

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