The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

How can classroom teachers balance their roles in preparing students to meet the interpersonal and leadership demands of the new economy with classroom management? Related: ‘Hamilton,’ cultural relevance and the quest to personalize learning. “A At the beginning of the program, we asked each student to define “leadership.”

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2018

It expects to be on the Department of Education’s list of Hispanic-serving schools by the end of 2018, Muñiz said. OPSU was recognized as a Hispanic-Serving Institution in February of 2018, and the administration says it’s trying to cater to its Latino students. UCF hit that enrollment threshold in the 2017-18 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

The school saw 90 percent of its inaugural class graduate in 2018 while surpassing the citywide average in measures of college readiness. At Maker Academy and about three dozen other mastery-based schools in the city, culturally responsive teaching practices are already taking root. The results are promising.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The core of our improvement has been a collaborative professional culture led by teachers where learning, experimentation and reflection are encouraged. It can create lifelong connections that go beyond language or cultural differences to help students become the best versions of themselves that they can be.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at Stanford University that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

The report’s authors called on “ school systems , school boards, mayors and governors nationwide to make urgent changes to shift the gender balance at the very top levels of education leadership.”. When you’re the only one, you don’t have much choice but to conform to the culture. Lieberman thinks gender plays a role. It’s strategic.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

.’ on March 19, 2018 in New York City. NEW YORK — When the embattled principal of the celebrated “Fame” high school left last month after an epic controversy over arts education, she also left me with a huge, unanswered question: How do you remove a leader who creates a toxic school culture? Photo by Walter McBride/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

When Diamante Hare stepped onto Northeastern Illinois University’s campus in Chicago for the first time in 2018, he was gambling with thousands of dollars of grants, scholarships and loans — and his future. Diamante Hare, a senior at Northeastern Illinois University, felt uncomfortable and out of place when he first started in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Seeing a need to balance the scales, in 2016, several members of Monroe’s 70-year-old Hispanic Culture Group, myself included, formed an organization aimed at creating educational opportunities for a demographic that seemed forgotten by everybody else.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

In the decades following, the school became one of the city’s most prestigious educational and cultural institutions. “To In 2018, nearly half the student body had to attend summer school to make up credits. “I In 2018, the board hired Harold Clay as executive director of the school and Jennifer Chapman as principal.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Other awesome books in the series include: Embracing a Culture of Joy , Dean Shareski. Creating a Culture of Feedback , Bill Ferriter & Paul Cancellieri. and, hopefully in early 2018, my and Julie Graber’s very-practical book on redesigning technology-infused lessons for deeper learning and student agency! Happy reading!

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2019

We’re sensing that adding micro-credentials as an option in an array of approaches to professional learning and growth is contributing to our district’s positive culture of continuous learning and improvement. A newly launched grant program in 2018 from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) provided an opportunity.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Over the few weeks of the World Cup in 2018, the games were inescapable, as they will be again this November and December. Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. I feel like school should be a place where I can learn about their culture and where they came from and for them learn about mine. I want to use my master’s degree to change that.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Education Department civil rights data, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater professor Scott Peters found that on a state level “equity got worse” in gifted education from 2016 to 2018, with underrepresentation of Hispanic children in a majority of states and of Black students in three-quarters of states, he wrote in an email.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. but Allen made it through, graduating in December 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2020

But then the Jefferson Parish district hired Jason Beber to take over as principal in fall 2018 with a mandate to get Adams back on a path to academic success. In Beber’s first year, 2018-19, the school’s rating improved to a C, and teachers and staff reported that student behavior and teacher morale improved too.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” Casco Bay’s principal, Derek Pierce, credits much of the school’s success to the way Crew culture personalizes each student’s journey over four years. “We And how to listen to each other.”. How am I doing?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

based Virtual Internships was established in 2018 with the goal of removing barriers to internship participation, especially abroad, co-founder Ed Holroyd Pearce said. The experience “changed my life,” she said, opening her eyes to new career possibilities as well as a new culture.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Parents and advocates have also called for more teachers who can relate culturally to black New Orleans children and make connections with the communities they serve. Kellogg Foundation to help scale up its organization’s work, which has grown from seven fellows in 2014 to more than 40 fellows in 2018. It’s not a stop.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Efforts to recruit teacher candidates from the local community date back to the 1990s, but programs have “exploded” in number over the past five years, said Danielle Edwards, assistant professor of educational leadership, policy and workforce development at Old Dominion University in Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

As new financial, cultural, demographic, consumer, and program pressures build, these “Mom and Pop” shops do not have the flexibility or capacity to meet the new demands. Its leadership must grow/shrink the college to create a better fit among people, programs and facilities. For many schools, it was that simple.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

They are connecting across cultural and national borders to promote global awareness and tolerance. In 2018, 98 percent of K-12 school districts met the FCC’s minimum connectivity target of 100 kilobits-per-second per student in schools. Students are designing, making, coding, composing, animating, and publishing.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

But at the nation’s most selective schools, where most students follow the traditional pipeline from high school to a degree within four years — and from which many go on to leadership roles in government and industry — veterans like Fendler are an anomaly. In leadership and life, symbolism counts.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In October 2018, my mother, my first teacher, passed away. We had a school leader who understood the power of story and the necessity to take a multidimensional approach to select the text that allowed for considerations of critical literacy and cultural responsiveness. Two months later, Mildred D.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. New state leadership will likely shape the future of rural broadband, but in what ways is yet to be determined.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

Fuller’s report encouraged employers to push back against the trend: “Once the logic of resisting degree inflation takes root in an organization, it soon permeates different aspects of the organization’s culture — and eventually embeds itself at the heart of its strategy,” the report states. A ‘1-percent market’. I said, ‘That’s got to go.’”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Both the Clarksdale and Coahoma systems were rated F on the state’s 2018 school report cards and are eligible for state takeover. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Dupree, who retired from Clarksdale schools at the end of the 2018-19 school year, declined several requests for an interview.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In a 2018 study conducted by TINYPulse, a company specializing in employee engagement, it was reported that the top 5 reasons employees choose to leave their jobs are: poor performance management, lack of recognition, feeling overworked, company culture isn’t a priority, and lack of growth opportunities.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

Overall, a better learning environment and culture is formed. In fact, another valuable outcome of having someone support teachers and students in their innovative endeavors is that the culture of the school will eventually be affected by this. It is this type of culture that supports teacher progress as well as student progress.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Students are navigating an increasingly polarized landscape where they feel isolated and disconnected from our democratic institutions and civic culture. Moreover, partisanship impedes their ability to address key public policy issues and be fully engaged citizens.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. At Lusher, in 2020, 13 percent of teachers were Black compared with 22 percent of the students.

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