Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

As immigrant students from Somalia, Venezuela, and elsewhere have swelled the student population in her district, students attitudes toward racial, religious, and cultural diversity have shifted toward greater openness. I have two masters degrees, one in educational leadership and one from MAHG. Some of them encourage her.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile. Other schools have embraced culturally responsive mathematics instruction in efforts to boost the achievement of Mori and Pasifika students.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

The researchers argue that economic inequality is not an inevitable byproduct of complexity or innovation, but a social and political outcome shaped by cultural norms, leadership decisions, and institutional structures. “What this study suggests,” said Feinman, “is that we have choices. Bogaard, A., Feinman, G.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2017

Leaders from the League of Innovative Schools, a network of the country’s most forward-thinking educators, recently convened in Mentor, Ohio, for the League’s Spring 2017 meeting hosted by Mentor Public Schools. These stakeholders include, but are not limited to, students, teachers, parents, local political leadership, and businesses.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance. Encouraging teachers to collaborate, coach and mentor others can also improve climate, culture and retention.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

In a new study published this summer, pre-K educators in New York City saw clear benefits to students speaking multiple languages but found that more professional development and support was needed to fully embrace those languages and cultures in the classroom. Educators agreed that there were gaps in their understanding.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2018

UCF hit that enrollment threshold in the 2017-18 school year. Latino students at Hispanic-Serving Institutions typically have higher graduation rates than Latino students at non-HSIs, according to a December 2017 report from The Education Trust , a nonprofit organization that advocates for low-income students.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education. Despite my hesitance, I recently took on a leadership role at my school for a few reasons. You can pursue more than one path,” I told myself. I wanted to grow. I wanted to grow.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2019

In 2017, while speaking at the National Association for College Admissions Counseling conference, University of Southern California’s Director of the Race and Equity Center Shaun Harper pointed out , “Your profession is 80 percent white. Does this include calling out flagrant abuse and discriminatory practices?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. I feel like school should be a place where I can learn about their culture and where they came from and for them learn about mine. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2022

As enrollment elsewhere continues to erode, “there’s a lot of dialogue going on, and many, many more senior leadership teams are confronting the big questions,” he said. Still, MECA&D and the handful of other institutions that are making wholesale changes appear to be exceptions to that longstanding culture of inertia.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. The district, which is 8 percent white, went from having 38 percent white gifted enrollment in 2015 to 28 percent in 2017 , according to federal data.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2020

In part to start addressing issues raised by its namesake, our university in 2017 named a prominent plaza on campus for Roger Wilkins, a professor of history and American culture who was one of George Mason University’s most prominent Black faculty members. Others are obvious, overdue and simply require executive leadership.”.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Take a look below at our proposed sessions, and click each link to vote now through August 25, 2017. Leadership Competencies for Engaged Learners. Maker Learning and School Leadership. We’re excited for the opportunity to spread the word of what’s happening – and what’s possible – in education.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2023

I met Olga in 2017 when I began coordinating the MEP; since then, I have become the regional director of the largest migrant education region in California. My sister participated in the Migrant Education Leadership Program at UCLA after a migrant ed worker came to our house and spoke to our parents. She knew my sister was special.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. 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).

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Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2019

With the explicit support of its community, Burlingame School District (BSD) created a director of innovation position in 2017, a role I was excited to take on. Generating buy-in from leadership is key to a successful micro-credentials pilot. With our leadership team onboard, we took the next step.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Previous researchers conducted a similar analysis in 2017 with whole school districts instead of individual schools. Instead, these schools shared a commitment to doing three core things well: they create a culture of belonging, deliver consistent grade-level instruction, and build a coherent instructional program.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. Aon, a London-based insurance giant, opened its U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It is designed to expose students to organizational skills, peer support and leadership activities. A 2017 study by the Houston Independent School District, for example, found that students participating in AVID in 2015-16 enrolled in higher-level courses and received higher scores on AP exams and on standardized tests than those who did not.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million. A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

College wasn’t a part of their culture, and before last year Rafael and Margarita had no idea how complicated and competitive the landscape would be for their bright, hardworking daughters. percent in 2017 to 9.2 Of all U.S. racial or ethnic groups, Hispanic Americans are the least likely to hold a college degree. percent in 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly. In leadership and life, symbolism counts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Republican Senatorial candidate Roy Moore waits to be introduced to speak about the race against his Democratic opponent Doug on December 12, 2017 in Montgomery, Alabama. The manifestation of logic can also be found in art, culture, business and religion. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images. It may start small. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

The district enlisted help from School by Design starting in the fall of 2017 to figure out how to implement a more innovative model for its middle schools. Together with my leadership team, we introduced the staff to what we were trying to achieve in large groups, small groups and through individual conversations.

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Professional Development Middle School Project-Based Learning Leadership 73

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To United Teachers of New Orleans President Jim Randels said yearly leadership changes made it hard to plan or carry out improvement efforts, and impacted instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In the fall of 2017, he moved to Boston and enrolled in a community college, planning to transfer to a four-year program. Rainville had to persuade 10 people from the sales leadership team before she could make the change. He received an associate degree, hoping to eventually get a bachelor’s and work as a financial adviser.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. It’s social work.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

His comments at the 2017 meeting were ineffective: The board had already approved the charter’s application before they opened up public comment, according to MCSA’s minutes. “We Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. She liked the people and the culture and the history.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

We found that the combined effect of tutors' knowledge of both reading development and culturally responsive pedagogy was significantly correlated with students' reading development,” Sodani shared in an email. A legislative change in 2017 allowed the college to begin offering bachelor’s degrees for the first time.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Students lost more than 11 million days to out-of-school suspensions during the 2017-18 school year, the last federal count, and they spent many times that number in in-school suspension rooms, kept from the classrooms where their teachers were teaching. Scott Ervin, creator, Behavioral Leadership model That’s ultimately the path Lubin chose.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Parents and advocates have also called for more teachers who can relate culturally to black New Orleans children and make connections with the communities they serve. And you’ve got to make sure that they understand the culture of the school, but at the same time, you’ve got to make them feel needed.”. It’s not a stop.

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Political Science Now

JULY 28, 2024

How can faculty establish a classroom culture encouraging constructive and inclusive political discussion around the 2024 U.S. She was recognized as the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Endowed Professor for 2017 – 2020. election and other common political science themes?

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Political Science Civic Engagement Civics Leadership 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

We underestimated the cultural gaps between the communities our students come from and the more elite highly selective institutions that a lot of people got placed into.”. We underestimated the cultural gaps between the communities our students come from and the more elite highly selective institutions that a lot of people got placed into.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

She has also developed the following readers: Women in Politics, American Public Policy and the current Anthology, Social Justice Movements ©2017, Cognella Academic Publishing and the 2nd edition, Social Justice Movements ©2023.

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