Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

Prior to joining Digital Promise, Gupta served as Vice President of the Chicago Public Education Fund (The Fund), where she drove the organization’s strategic programming and initiatives and directly oversaw its external engagement, operations, and talent management work.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Schools and districts must help educators foster their own social and emotional competencies. Frustrated. Overwhelmed. There are different approaches.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders. For every $2 a parish generates, the state adds $1.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. Some teachers in Hickory Public Schools, where Viewmont Elementary is located, have been focusing more on the science of reading in recent years, spurred in part by the influence of a local education college. Shawn Clemons, director of accountability at Hickory Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 9, 2016

Many more public school districts are rethinking how students learn and how teachers teach. No longer is “innovation” reserved for a select few charter and private schools. Yes, we still hear from the media about public schools’ alleged failures to effectively use electronic devices. million students.

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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. Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. He ruled that the gifted program was discriminatory.

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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. School leaders continue to report difficulty finding reliable evidence about ed tech efficacy. Leadership Competencies for Engaged Learners. Maker Learning and School Leadership.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

There has been a history of fights in the state legislature over public-school funding, voucher programs that support private schools and teacher credentials—with Republicans on one side advocating for more school choice, and Democrats joined by public school groups on the other side calling for support for public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

They wanted a better education for all students, not just a few, Coahoma County lawmaker Johnny Newson told the Mississippi Charter School Authorizer Board. 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

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

school system is a “mess.” A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The Hechinger Report visited Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School in January to hear students present their ideas for a new high school of their dreams. School leaders wanted to include their input as they plan the opening of a new high school in 2017 (check out the story here ).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

The introduction of choice into the public education system in the 1960s and 70s through magnet schools designed with integration goals — followed by an expanding charter school sector and district choice programs — created avenues for parents to actively select public-school settings for their children.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2020

There are proposals to rename public schools, streets and military bases named for Confederate soldiers and sympathizers, and questions being raised about memorials that honor Founding Fathers, including George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Others are obvious, overdue and simply require executive leadership.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

If they have school-age children, the residents of the ornate homes tend to send them to private schools outside the neighborhood. It is designed to expose students to organizational skills, peer support and leadership activities. Most of the students at Ridgeview live in modest apartment complexes a few miles away.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In what now looks prescient – years before the “personalized learning” craze ignited a new national interest in tailoring schooling with the student at its center – a group of teachers saw trouble with the lockstep approach to progress. In other words, could you innovate within the rigid confines of a traditional public school?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Fears about data privacy and screen time, along with concerns about Silicon Valley’s conflicting interests as it pushes into public schools, have battered Summit’s reputation. There have been highly publicized problems in some districts that have adopted the program. But at Rhodes, Christie doesn’t hear complaints like that.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. Other school districts are also trying to elevate student voices in education policy and avoid “tokenism,” as Cristina Salgado puts it. That’s held true in Takoma Park, a Maryland town of 18,000 near Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

The IT staff at Nome Public Schools would have strongly discouraged this kind of lesson just two years ago, lest it strain the bandwidth shared by the district’s 720 students and 100 staff members. Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million. At that time, a YouTube video took two minutes to buffer.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Los Angeles is home to nearly 300 charter schools, more than any other school system in the nation, drawing one-fifth of all kids out of its traditional public schools. Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) is the nation’s second-largest school district after New York City. public education.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C. Wish granted. That’s true at American University, and that’s not likely to change, according to faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

The county-based programs for high schoolers are so popular that of the nearly 30,000 young people who applied for spots in the programs in 2017, only about 13,000 students received a seat. The model is also notable because the schools are run by county governments, not school districts. I’ll always be able to find good work’.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2019

Children of color make up the majority of public school students under age 18, and their share of the population will only grow, even as the total number of college students is projected to drop by 15 percent over the next decade. “If Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, ED Data Express. LSU President F. LSU President F.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. The state is creating new ways students can receive high school and college credits: through internships as well as through traditional career and technical programs.

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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. There are currently 10 teams (33 total teachers) representing all six of our district’s schools. You can view our evolving implementation timeline here.) Scaling Innovation.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 31, 2023

In the 2020-21 school year: 12.4 percent had 15 or more years That breakdown is similar to what it was three years earlier in the 2017-18 school year. She believes schools are missing opportunities to invest in veteran teachers as leaders who can help to improve well-being for other staff members.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

He wanted a school in which he, a white, middle-class New Orleans native, would feel comfortable enrolling his young children. The state-run Recovery School District, which assumed control of nearly every public school in the city during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, already had its own plans for the Gentilly Terrace campus.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. UTLA has organized charter-school teachers and sued Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a local charter network, for union-busting.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

This is unusual among teacher training programs and vital for the jobs STR graduates will eventually fill in Seattle’s public schools. How will I go about getting those types of supports when I’m working in a Title 1 school ? We want to empower school districts to be more active players in teacher prep,” said Listak.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In New York City, the nation’s largest public school system, a $23 million initiative is underway to combat implicit bias, the unconscious attitudes formed about racial and cultural groups different from one’s own. She says by making cultural proficiency mandatory, “leadership is signaling that this work is important.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Together, we were able to innovate, plan and produce a flexible school model aimed at improving student performance, engagement and equity. Aurora Hills Middle School is the first school in the Aurora Public Schools district to pilot the model. STEM subjects also figured prominently in the plan.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

The century-old high school — the city’s first public school for black students — boasted alumni who went on to become mayors and judges. McDonogh 35 was one of the few schools that weathered the storm mostly intact. He was formerly the principal of Edna Karr High School. Then Hurricane Katrina hit.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2018

The curriculum encourages a group activity involving both caregivers and children, caregiver training on the importance of play, opportunities for both caregivers and children to interact with each other and chances for caregivers to step into leadership roles. Or people who think that they didn’t want their kids in N.C.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. No one in her family had ever left home for college.

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