ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. Teacher induction involves components such as mentoring, professional development and coaching for those entering the field.

Social Justice 145

Social Justice Leadership Professional Development Cultures 145

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.

Professional Development 104

Professional Development Leadership Cultures Research 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A 2017 report found most principal certification programs “do not provide comprehensive instruction focused on children prior to kindergarten.”. These are topics that help educators understand “the course of typical and atypical development as well as age appropriate expectations for learning and behavior,” according to the report.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Professional Development Leadership Humanities 111

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

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. Providing professional development to support teachers’ effective use of technology in classrooms. Citations. [1] ” [link]. Accessed 2 Oct.

Professional Development 88

Professional Development Leadership Critical Thinking Middle School 88

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Some counties and school districts are also adding professional development opportunities for counselors, amid a push to boost graduation and college enrollment rates. That totally opened up my entire world because in my graduate school it was more about mental health.”. Felicida Barajas, school counselor, Jurupa Valley High School.

Professional Development 145

Professional Development High School Middle School Leadership 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The teaching track focuses on practice, professional development and advancement opportunities for classroom teachers. It is different from both the leadership track and the innovation-conscious senior specialist track. He is currently on government-funded professional development leave while he pursues a master’s degree.

Professional Development 76

Professional Development Leadership Government Teaching 76

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. It has barely been touched again since then.

Teaching 104

Teaching Leadership Lesson Plan Professional Development 104

Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Through this work, we see powerful examples of innovation across education — from students creating their own virtual reality (VR) films, to researchers working with technology developers to improve edtech efficacy, to educators rethinking their own professional development with the use of micro-credentials.

EdTech 97

EdTech K-12 Middle School Leadership 97

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Mississippi’s gains came as students in many states did worse in 2019 than they did in 2017 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — to the disappointment of leaders, educators and parents across the United States. Mississippi is delivering, and its students are the beneficiaries.

Teaching 83

Teaching Professional Development Leadership Education 83

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). Dr. Athena M. King is an assistant professor of political science and geography at Old Dominion University.

Civic Engagement 68

Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

In 2017, UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access surveyed 1,535 teachers from over three hundred geographically and demographically diverse public high schools, asking them to reflect on their experiences from January to May of that year.

Civics 90

Civics Professional Development Leadership Humanities 90

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Schools also have access to professional development gatherings in the fall and spring, a Summit “success manager” assigned to their schools and online support, all at no cost. Facebook has not been one of them since 2017, but the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has full access to the Summit Learning platform’s content and traffic data.

Junior High 132

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 132

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Our new learning design and schedule allow us to differentiate and accelerate instruction, offer new learning opportunities in both STEM subjects and the humanities, and increase the amount of time available for teacher planning and professional development. Related: How high school would be different if students could design it.

Professional Development 71

Professional Development Middle School Project-Based Learning Leadership 71

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. The job description emphasized professional development as a key focus area. Generating buy-in from leadership is key to a successful micro-credentials pilot.

Leadership 75

Leadership Professional Development Cultures Teaching 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired. Between the 2014-15 and 2017-18 school years, teacher retention grew from 60 to 90 percent.

Education 145

Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

At BWRSD, we have used the opportunity to develop and communicate a new, shared vision of personalized instruction that fosters deeper learning for all students. 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. Scaling Innovation.

Teaching 68

Teaching Leadership EdTech Professional Development 68

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Yet teacher candidates and their classmates who aren’t majoring in education are paid $22 an hour for tutoring DC Public Schools students, as well as for their time spent in weekly training and professional development. A legislative change in 2017 allowed the college to begin offering bachelor’s degrees for the first time.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

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.

Political Science 55

Political Science Social Justice Pedagogy Sociology 55

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. We never really integrated.”. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

Charter School 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

But Republican leadership never brought the measure to the House floor for a vote, after other members of the party expressed concern that lawmakers would be removing a tool schools rely on to give parents a “wake-up call.” Both efforts aim to help teachers and school leaders move away from punitive responses to absenteeism.

Elementary School 93

Elementary School K-12 High School Professional Development 93

Edthena

AUGUST 2, 2017

The Colorado Education Association (CEA) is partnering with Edthena to embed video observation and feedback into courses offered on COpilot, the state’s online professional learning platform. Now, with COpilot, educators across the state can experience video feedback as part of their professional development.

Professional Development 40

Professional Development Artifacts Education Leadership 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

From the start of his tenure, Cambridge Street’s professional development sessions were peppered with cultural proficiency topics and activities. She says by making cultural proficiency mandatory, “leadership is signaling that this work is important. “I told the superintendent we’re going to deal with issues of race and culture.

K-12 111

K-12 Cultures Library Middle School 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says. ” Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

High School 69

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 69

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. In 2018, only 62 percent of district third graders passed the state reading tests, up from 55 percent in 2017.

K-12 80

K-12 Professional Development Public School Advocacy 80

Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

This question was addressed by the Scottish Government's recent report, ' Teacher Workforce Planning for Scottish Schools ', and also featured in the i nitial findings from their panel of international advisers earlier in July 2017. Professional Development in Education, 35 (1), 5-22. Reference McGeer, J.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Psychology Research Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2020

Anyone who insults a woman who pursues a leadership position as being too ambitious has an agenda of their own — sexism. While the vast majority of teachers are women, it’s hard for women to move up into leadership roles in the public-school system. Aiming for leadership is also about survival. Representation matters.

Education 145

Education Leadership Elementary School Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It’s the middle of my first year back in the classroom after a year away as the 2017 National Teacher of the Year. 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. Sign up for our newsletter.

Leadership 102

Leadership Social Justice Middle School Public School 102

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Partly because of these and related efforts, the number of teachers from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups more than doubled over the last 30 years—from about 327,000 in the late 1980s to 810,000 in the 2017-18 school year. s worry, expressed shortly before his death, that he had integrated Black Americans “into a burning house.”

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Another law passed in 2017 incentivized districts to contract with outside entities, including charter school managers, to assume control of schools that aren’t meeting state standards. HISD leadership is a disaster…. That new rule tipped it from a D to an F under an A-F rating system Abbott had signed into law in 2017.

Charter School 97

Charter School High School Professional Development Government 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Many of these students got their start in Christopher House’s early childhood program, including 80 percent of kindergarten students in the 2017-18 school year, and more than 40 percent of the elementary students overall. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Higher Education.

Charter School 109

Charter School Elementary School Public School Leadership 109

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 16, 2025

As Bakker and Demerouti (2017) highlighted in their Job Demands-Resources model, resources like social support and feedback can buffer the impact of job demands, leading to enhanced well-being and engagement. Ignoring or dismissing feelings can lead to resentment and disengagement. Bakker, A. & Demerouti, E. Koestner, R., &

Psychology 293

Psychology Professional Development Cultures Teaching 293

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. The entire district had just one teacher certified to teach English as a second language, no interpreters and very little by way of professional development. “We

High School 144

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 144

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

MARCH 27, 2025

Yabucoa, a small town in southeast Puerto Rico, was one of the regions hardest hit by Hurricane Maria in 2017. A school bus under a tree that fell during Hurricane Maria, which hit the island of Puerto Rico in September 2017. If you have permanent governance, then even when the leadership changes, the work continues.

Education 116

Education Government K-12 Elementary School 116