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.

Middle School 92

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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.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Professional Development Classroom Management Teaching 111

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

When traditional systems seem to be working in a highly localized educational ecosystem, leaders are sometimes hesitant to innovate in small districts. — Jenn Brackenbury (@jennbrac) January 18, 2017. Richard Kuder of Wyckoff School District addresses Northern Ignite at a biannual meeting in 2017.

Cultures 77

Cultures EdTech Professional Development High School 77

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Mountain View schools dropped the Teach to One curriculum in 2017. Back in 2015, my colleague Nichole Dobo reported that nationally schools paid $225 per student plus between $50,000 and $125,000 a year for professional development and support services. In 2017 it stopped educating that low-achieving population.

Middle School 107

Middle School Tutoring Teaching Professional Development 107

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. percent between 2009 and 2017. considered passing. percent to 89.1

High School 101

High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 101

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 144

Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 144

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts. Allison Rank is an associate professor of American Politics at SUNY Oswego.

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Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. My heart ached as I swapped out favorite classroom activities and traditions for ones that required less prep, hoping the kids wouldn’t notice. “I I felt trapped. It has barely been touched again since then.

Teaching 104

Teaching Leadership Lesson Plan Professional Development 104

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 19, 2021

The new approach threw out many traditional facets of education such as the A-F grading scale and time-based learning in which students advance to a new grade level each year. to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”.

High School 138

High School Tradition History Tutoring 138

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Claudette Bautista, a 2017 Muñiz graduate who now attends Lesley University, was born in the Dominican Republic but spent her K-8 years in Boston, learning in English. Headmaster Dania Vázquez hugs 2017 graduate Claudette Bautista during the Margarita Muñiz Academy’s second graduation ceremony. There should be more schools like it.”.

High School 112

High School Heritage Economics Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. William Carey University in Hattiesburg joined RISE’s efforts to help teachers become certified in October 2017. Her eyes welled with tears as she recalled the struggle.

Tutoring 99

Tutoring High School Civics Teaching 99

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 Johnson was opening outside the traditional public system not to create some kind of segregated fiefdom but because that’s where she knew how to run a great school.

Charter School 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

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. I prefer the traditional system.”. In the end, the school switched back to a more traditional grading system.

High School 76

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. In Avoyelles in 2017-18, in addition to the high turnover rates, about 20 percent of the instructors either weren’t certified in the subject they were teaching or weren’t certified at all.

Charter School 82

Charter School Elementary School High School Tradition 82

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The increase included $753,687 more than was spent in 2017-18 for accompanists, instruments, travel, entry fees and uniforms, among other essentials. Traditional arts ensembles like marching band and big band don’t necessarily resonate,” said superintendent Paul Gausman, a musician and long-time music educator.

K-12 103

K-12 Elementary School Middle School High School 103

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

What distinguishes micro-credentials from traditional PD workshops is the way in which teachers and educational leaders provide evidence of learning. Traditional PD uses an attendance sheet as the primary measurement of “learning”. Retrieved October 1, 2017: [link]. [2] 6] “Learner‐Centered Professional Development.”

K-12 98

K-12 Professional Development Artifacts Tradition 98

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. That new rule tipped it from a D to an F under an A-F rating system Abbott had signed into law in 2017. It failed on a 5-4 vote.

Charter School 98

Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support.

K-12 111

K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 111

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. Everywhere I went last year — red states and blue states, urban areas and rural, traditional public schools and charters — educators were talking about social and emotional learning (SEL).

Leadership 105

Leadership Social Justice Middle School Public School 105

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 110

Charter School Elementary School Public School Leadership 110

Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The manualized approach to professional education is not meant to replace the traditional approach. They can also be used as a professional development tool for schools trying to creating common ground across different trainings. They take a course to go through this manual with an instructor. Then, they use it.

Psychology 52

Psychology K-12 Pedagogy Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

They include traditional public schools and charters. The $60,000 to $75,000 annual fee for the first four years (it then goes down), covering professional development, strategic planning, coaching and resources, can be an obstacle. . … It’s awesome when you get to the place where the work is making kids want to do their best.”.

K-12 65

K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 65

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

college students with lifetime diagnoses of mental health conditions in 2017 was 36 percent, compared with 22 percent in 2007. The pandemic will continue to have profound and lasting consequences on American higher education, even long after a vaccine or cure is developed. The pandemic, of course, is now triggering additional changes.

Psychology 128

Psychology Professional Development Economics Tradition 128

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. The 2017 Tubbs Fire caused evacuations and killed more than 20 people in the county. That’s been a reality the last few years.

Charter School 128

Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 128

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Traditional bilingual education essentially lets students use their first language while they learn English. The school opened a dual language program in 2017. In 2017, it funded six grants, totaling $20 million, to help districts coach up bilingual staffers and prepare them to lead bilingual classrooms.

Elementary School 121

Elementary School Education K-12 History 121

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

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 The district also invested in professional development for teachers, ensuring that it happened during work hours, said Ezzell.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Between September 2016 and June 2017, the number of licensed work-based learning coordinators in Vermont increased from 38 to 53. Next year, the state will ramp up professional development opportunities for work-based learning coordinators, state officials said.

High School 96

High School Economics Tradition Social Studies 96

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. It meant a huge difference for the school, Caraballo said. More than a year later, it had not been removed.

Education 126

Education Government K-12 Elementary School 126