Digital Promise

JANUARY 21, 2020

In 2017, we partnered with Google and EdTechTeam to launch the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP), a classroom-based coaching program with the goal of increasing educational equity and the impactful use of technology. As such, coaching is becoming more prevalent in schools and districts in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017. The inconvenient truth, however, is that it is not easy to come by high-impact professional development.

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Digital Promise

JULY 1, 2020

Since 2017 they have provided maker learning activity kits that were included in our free resource boxes. We hosted three Edcamps at the Department of Education, held nine Leadership Summits around the country, and presented at numerous conferences, sharing this simple and powerful idea of professional development with all types of educators.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years. AI-based professional development is gaining traction at a time when a record number of teachers are feeling burned out, underpaid and demoralized about their profession.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Each participating school received a grant which included tools, resources, professional development and mentorship for coaches, and support for administrators and their goals. The coaches, as well as school and district administrators, receive sustained mentoring and ongoing professional development throughout the school year.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Starting in the 2017-18 school year, two innovative Nevada educational organizations, Lyon County School District and Northeastern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, will provide video coaching to educators via Edthena to enrich educator professional learning.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A 2017 article by Edutopia states that students do not retain memorized facts and dates very well but they do remember first-person accounts that emotionally connect them to the subject.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Department of Education’s National Education Technology Plan (2017) calls for “thoughtful intervention and attention” to close this digital use divide, namely by enabling educators to “design highly engaging and relevant learning experiences through technology.” The Dynamic Learning Project is now open to all interested schools. References.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2020

What makes the credential unique is that it represents multiple sources of evidence of competence: 120 hours of academic training; 480 hours of experience; a passed national exam; a portfolio; and a site visit by a professional-development specialist. Related: Stuck at home with young kids due to the coronavirus?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Delaware’s literacy plan , released in 2019 by the state department of education, included professional development for teachers and guided districts toward high-quality teaching materials. Mississippi was the only state that saw a statistically significant increase in elementary reading scores in 2019 compared to 2017.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2020

For many, this transition wasn’t easy, and is a reminder that professional development is critical. The curriculum helps coaches develop skills they’ll use throughout the school year, like aligning coaching with school and district goals, building strong teacher relationships, and measuring coaching impact.

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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. High-quality professional development in remote teaching practices and technology can help. Frustrated. Overwhelmed.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2020

Empirical studies suggest that instructional coaching can be more effective than traditional professional development workshops in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement. Over the past decade, instructional coaching has increasingly attracted the interest of researchers and practitioners alike.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A 2017 report found most principal certification programs “do not provide comprehensive instruction focused on children prior to kindergarten.”. A 2015 report found only one in five principals nationally who were supervising a pre-K program at their school felt well-trained in early childhood concepts.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

We selected this timeframe because each year actually represents the tailend of five-year data estimates, with data gathered from 2005-2009 and the newest from 2017-2021. The trend lines compare the race/ethnicity proportions estimated in 2005-2009 to the estimates for 2017-2021. Census Bureau. Source: American Community Survey.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Santa Ana’s enrollment losses accelerated during the pandemic, according to the California Department of Education, from about 5 percent overall from 2017 to 2019, to 12 percent from 2019 to 2021. Others started home schooling, which ballooned by 35 percent from before the pandemic in the 18 states that shared recent homeschooling data.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Nevertheless, during the 2017-18 school year, the CRDC reported, 69,492 students received corporal punishment, on top of 92,479 students in 2015-16. To make this change, advocates must demand that their education leaders end this inhumane practice. Corporal punishment has been banned in a majority of states since the mid 1990s.

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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. In addition, prospective school counselors now have to spend at least 100 of the 800 hours of required fieldwork on career and college readiness.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

But she said professional development and support are essential, too. There are few high-quality purveyors of whole curricula to begin with, she said, and “most curriculum developers don’t embed professional development and support” in their programs. And they’re lacking.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

Valerie Brock Computer Science Education Manager, NYC Public Schools Computer Science for All Brock: In 2017, after 10 years of teaching in NYC Public Schools, the largest school district in the country, I transitioned to an “out-of-classroom” position. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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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.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

The League of Innovative Schools team had the opportunity to visit multiple districts in the first quarter of 2017 — and we have so much more to see! — Mentor Schools (@mentorschools) February 3, 2017. — Melissa Gedney (@melissaged) February 9, 2017. — Vina Vo (@vinavo) March 7, 2017.

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Edthena

JULY 6, 2023

Check out our recent resources and highlights on teacher professional development. Learner-Centered —Adult learners are treated like adults, while engaging in similar ways to how their K–8 students could be expected to participate (Darling-Hammond et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Nia Keith, director of professional development for the Museum of Science. Teacher professional development options run the gamut from a one-day class for teachers new to the curriculum to a three-day session for teachers learning to train other teachers. Engineering “allows for all kinds of learning to shine.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“We want to create a sense of urgency to continue to close those gaps,” said Roberto Rodriguez, assistant secretary in the Department of Education’s Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

About 8 percent of teachers leave the profession annually, and only half of those leaving retire, according to a 2017 report by the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank. Teacher stress fuels turnover, and staff shortages are hitting districts nationwide. Studies also suggest that lower teacher stress improves student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Papay cited his own 2015 study with Matt Kraft , along with a 2017 study of middle school teachers in North Carolina and a 2011 study of elementary and middle school teacher s. Just because inexperienced teachers are improving the fastest also doesn’t mean that professional development should be targeted at them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

This staffing figure is through 2017, the most recent year available, and includes a 16 percent jump in the number of administrators and support personnel — a perennial target of critics — but also a 7 percent increase in the number of full-time faculty. percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

In the end, the researchers had an estimate of how much each high school boosted soft skills, based on how ninth graders answered surveys from 2011 to 2017. The students who went to the high schools that were good at developing soft skills also had fewer disciplinary incidents. .

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Credit: Julia Nikhinson/ Associated Press In 2017, as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice intended to address widespread racial disparities in how students were disciplined, schools in Wicomico County agreed not to misuse emergency petitions. “You’re It’s like they give up on them.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2017

The teaching track focuses on practice, professional development and advancement opportunities for classroom teachers. Professional development packages and leave schemes where different types of scholarships, study loans and leave provisions are also made available to teachers. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

— Jenn Brackenbury (@jennbrac) January 18, 2017. In 2017, the cluster held site visits to Pascack Valley Regional High School District and Leonia School District, ignite talks, immersive professional development experiences, and an “edcamp” summer program for leaders. @BergenMakers #northernignite.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Eight Bay Area school districts found similar results when they de-tracked middle-school mathematics and provided professional development to teachers. Now is the time to invest in the teacher professional development that allows this to happen. From 11th grade on, students can choose different pathways.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

According to the Oklahoma State School Boards Association , in August, 2017, there were more than 500 teaching vacancies in Oklahoma. This is the most intense professional development that one could have, so it really speaks to the retention of teachers,” said Robyn Miller, a deputy superintendent at the state Department of Education.

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