The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

Diversity does exist in the leadership pipeline,” said Sarah Guthery, a co-author of the study and an assistant education professor at Texas A&M University – Commerce, “but it tends to squeeze out women and Black candidates much earlier than studies of school leadership usually capture.”. years, seven months longer.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Visit the Digital Promise Maker Learning Leadership Framework to access more resources and tools to support your work.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

To highlight some of the standout programs and great work that has taken place at Verizon Innovative Learning schools across the country over the course of the 2018-19 school year, we’re excited to announce the initiative’s annual Schools of Excellence Award winners. Verizon Innovative Learning schools standouts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 23, 2019

Aaron also received one of ISTE’s 2018 Making It Happen Awards! How to take our leadership and teaching to new levels. I recently had the good fortune to talk with Aaron Maurer , an amazing Iowa educator who I’m proud to call friend. Aaron invited me to participate in his Coffee for the Brain podcast and the end result is below.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The League of Innovative Schools, Digital Promise’s flagship network of forward-thinking leaders of our nation’s school districts, is honored to welcome 13 districts into the 2017-2018 cohort, bringing the League’s membership to 93 districts in 33 states. We also recently welcomed Kimberly A.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 19, 2018

You can learn more about our work over the past year in our reflection on 2018 , and today, we’re sharing this year’s most popular posts on the blog.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

When he was released in 2018, Maxis immediately applied for a masters program at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health. Havens is still involved in the Prison Mathematics Project, but handed leadership of the program over to Jeffers in October 2023. She’s now recovered.)

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The lab was the second of its kind when it opened in October 2018, and it has been replicated in six other Verizon Innovative Learning Schools across the country over the last year. Coles also noted how the lab is bringing out leadership in students, and that skills learned in the lab have translated into other subjects. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. In a state where almost one-third of residents are Black, in 2018, only 8 percent of students at the flagship university were Black and only 3 percent were Black men.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

Her resume is too long to list here, but she’s been a special ed teacher, the 2018 Louisiana Teacher of the Year, a mentor to many, an award-winner, and a leader in too many education initiatives to name. I can’t think of a better person to dig into this topic with me than Kimberly Eckert. And so it was just like, Oh wow.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Community Impact and Student Leadership In 2018, I worked with a group of students who inspired the creation of MIStudentsDream , a community organization focused on immigration and education justice. I will learn about resources for immigrants in the neighborhood, so I know how to support my students when they need it.” “I

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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 17, 2018

But during the past four years, New York parents have actively excluded about one in five students from taking the annual state tests (including 18 percent in the spring 2018 test administration). Partly because it’s a grassroots movement without clear leadership or an elaborate organization. Indeed, in 2016, the U.S.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 18, 2019

In July 2018, representatives from 10 Pittsburgh-area schools excitedly gathered with the goal of growing maker learning opportunities as the Southwest Pennsylvania Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. Cohorts Spur Collaborative Progress for Maker Learning.

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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? Here are three things I learned about how to teach students to meet the interpersonal and leadership demands of the new economy: 1. Build interdependency.

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Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. This cohort effort also informs updates and extensions to the Maker Learning Leadership Framework. This cohort program is dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2020

In Spartanburg County , districts adopted a continuous improvement model, piloting the approach in the 2018-19 school year. This has resulted in significant progress across four schools , including a 60 percent increase in third grade reading proficiency from 2018 to 2019. Take what’s happening in South Carolina.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2020

And researchers have reached consensus on the common features found in different types of successful community schools: integrated student supports; expanded learning time and opportunities; family and community engagement; and collaborative leadership and practice. “We Mary Walsh, executive director, City Connects.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Protecting core principles matters — but so does leadership. Rasmusen’s boss, Lauren Robel, provost at Indiana University Bloomington, sets a fine example of the leadership we need. Compare Robel’s actions to those of another university leader in the same state, and you’ll see why leadership is so important.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The study looked at 50 pre-K centers in NYC during the 2017-18 and 2018-19 school years to see how early educators taught multilingual learners, which includes children who are learning English. At age 3 and 4, many pre-K students learn to speak a new language on top of a home language they are still learning.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome. Foundry10’s 2018 study focused on technology usage in U.S. middle and high schools for 1,700 students across 22 schools.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 28, 2018

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. The Nollie Jenkins Family Center led a fight against school-based corporal punishment here in rural Holmes County from 2012 to 2018, when a new superintendent asked for a policy change.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

When alpine ski racer Andrew Kurka won the gold and silver medals at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, a group of U.S. The athletes help deliver the SEL K-8 curriculum through monthly lessons covering goal-setting, emotions, community, perseverance, teamwork, feedback, healthy living, and leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Other districts and states have also started to promote hands-on civics education.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 17, 2024

In a 2018 survey of over 2,000 CFOs, 44 percent of them said crying at work too often can undermine career prospects, and 26 percent said any crying at work would cause people to perceive you as weak or immature. Maybe you work in an incredibly toxic school with ineffective leadership — the solution might be to switch to a new school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

By 2018, the LDO had entered into a contract with the Mexican Government to offer the Plaza Comunitaria at MCC, an online program that provides a basic education certificate (much like an American GED) that is recognized in Mexico. Related: OPINION — The devastating consequences of leaving higher education out of prison reform.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

’ on March 19, 2018 in New York City. Her leadership soon heralded a volatile era marked by cuts in arts programming, from shortened rehearsal times for musicals to less investment in trained arts staff and proper equipment. Students from LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts perform ’42nd Street.’

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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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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 22, 2019

A newly launched grant program in 2018 from the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) provided an opportunity. Our proposal was funded, and in fall 2018 we began our collaborative work. Generating buy-in from leadership is key to a successful micro-credentials pilot. With our leadership team onboard, we took the next step.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. Attending weekly team planning meetings made me anxious, because usually, that’s where we would learn of the latest effort leadership had come up with. There was the NCELI (N.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

In the 2018-2019 academic year, the university enrolled 6,763 undergraduate students, compared to 5,372 in the 2021-2022 academic year (the most recent year available from the National Center for Education Statistics). There is intentionality, there’s leadership here,” she said of the Davenport program.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Collectively, those research designs formed the basis for a shared research agenda for all EdClusters, to be released in January 2018. Participants also developed two tools that regions have piloted in beta form over the past few months, and which will be refined and released more broadly in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Student circles have not only been transformative in strengthening our classroom communities but also have given students opportunities for leadership, as they have grown to design and facilitate student-led circles. Jordan Weymer is principal of the Donald McKay K-8 School , winner of the 2018 Thomas W. Sign up for our newsletter.

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