Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2024

Those possibilities became a reality for Nakia and her classmates when Chilhowee became a Verizon Innovative Learning School in 2017. These six schools were part of Cohorts 4 and 5, first joining the program in 2017 or 2018. “We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow, I wish we had those possibilities.’”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? Teaching is hard.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. I was always completing tasks for other people.

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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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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. These courses ground all new Mississippi teachers in what it takes to teach young children to read.

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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. Let’s support teachers as they do that.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2018

. – When David Krulwich decided to make a mid-career switch from attorney to math teacher in 2001, he was delighted to find that teaching was a profession he found rewarding and fun. Every day he’d teach in a classroom, alone, and at night he’d go home and plan the next day’s lessons, alone. But he was also troubled. Rivera and Ms.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Eighteen states and the District of Columbia have said they’ll use federal Covid funds to train teachers or change the way they teach reading. 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.

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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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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Join APSAs Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession for the third event of their professional development workshop series! She also helped to create, implement, and now teaches in the Bachelors of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices degree at Cascadia.

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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.” To learn more, visit DynamicLearningProject.com and fill out the interest form.

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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. One way schools can support educators is through instructional coaches, who work hand-in-hand with educators to help them achieve their teaching and learning goals with technology. How coaching will impact schools.

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K-12 Professional Development Research Teaching 115

Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2020

The DLP was an instructional coaching program in which teachers were coached to use technology in more powerful ways that enhance their teaching practices and their students’ engagement and learning. We learned many lessons during these three years, and we are thrilled to share what we’ve learned in our new Instructional Coaching Playbook.

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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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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

MARCH 13, 2018

When they have a whole curriculum, aligned to the state’s common core standards and flexible enough to be adapted for the schools’ own particular students’ needs, she said, teachers can spend the bulk of their time teaching. But she said professional development and support are essential, too. And they’re lacking.

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K-12 Professional Development Lesson Plan Middle School 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates popularized the notion in a 2009 TED Talk when he said “ once somebody has taught for three years, their teaching quality does not change thereafter.” Higher test scores, in this case, would probably not be a sign that the teacher is getting a lot better at teaching.

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Middle School Professional Development Research Teaching 143

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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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. Ensuring safe and supportive teaching and learning environments is also key. We embrace our families and spend the bulk of our time on what matters most: teaching our students.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Putting a thoughtful transition to digital learning in place affords us the opportunity to provide greater clarity and coherence regarding our district’s vision of teaching and learning to educators, students, and our community.

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Teaching Leadership EdTech Professional Development 72

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I

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Museum Elementary School Professional Development K-12 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2017

This profound reminder to make periodic assessments has shaped much of my belief system and identity as a teacher, including my decision to pursue the teaching track, one of three possible career tracks on which Singapore’s teachers may embark. “I am still honing my teaching craft in the classroom.” Weekly Update.

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Professional Development Leadership Government Teaching 88

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

MARCH 28, 2019

I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School. I don’t want to leave teaching. The analogy is that you can’t teach somebody to play piano if you don’t know how to play piano.”. Her immediate reaction: “What a bunch of baloney!”. “I

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Elementary School Professional Development Classroom Management Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

The thing that we’re trying to debunk with this research is to actually show that project-based learning is a rigorous form of teaching and learning. The Lucas foundation originally tried to finance the development of a project-based curriculum to teach math. Not every attempt at project-based learning worked.

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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 Ocheze Joseph And these students aren’t just getting relevant teaching experience. A legislative change in 2017 allowed the college to begin offering bachelor’s degrees for the first time. They’re also getting paid.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A classroom using the Teach to One math program. In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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Middle School Tutoring Teaching Professional Development 109

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. I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and now you’re gonna make me do what?”.

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Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

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

JUNE 6, 2018

The goal was to help teachers learn more about the practical applications of what they teach, in fields like construction and environmental testing. She teaches science in 7 th through 12 th grades in rural Butner, Oklahoma. A typical day might involve touring a concrete-making lab, testing soil samples or visiting a construction site.

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K-12 Professional Development Middle School Humanities 101

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. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Civics Professional Development Leadership Humanities 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

When learners show different achievement levels, should we teach them separately or together? Eight Bay Area school districts found similar results when they de-tracked middle-school mathematics and provided professional development to teachers. It is a question that has long intrigued and divided people.

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Professional Development Elementary School Middle School History 99

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

One of the most popular English lessons in the instructional marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers is a unit on how to teach William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” and claims to explain how to teach the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers in a fun-filled way while hitting almost 50 Common Core standards in five weeks.

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