ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Now that the firestorm has passed, some say the initial judgments were too harsh: The percentage of students enrolled in math classes in San Francisco beyond Algebra II increased from 2018 to 2021, according to data recently highlighted by detracking advocate Kentaro Iwasaki, founder of Concentric Math.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

APSAs Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Professions virtual workshop series features accessible, high-quality professional development opportunities for political science graduate students. In 2018-2019, she was a Fox Fellow at the MacMillan Center at Yale University.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The Dynamic Learning Project is a classroom-based coaching program in which participating teachers are coached to use technology to support student engagement and promote the development of agency, as well as skills such as critical thinking, collaboration, and creativity.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2020

A 2018 PwC survey reported that many U.S. Coaches reported that they provided significant support in ensuring learning continuity during school closures by providing teachers with professional development (PD) on effective practices, strategies, and technology tools for transitioning to online instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

A 2018 survey found students in kindergarten through third grade are taught science for an average of 18 minutes a day, compared with 89 minutes for English language arts and nearly an hour for math. Researchers found the long-term professional development experiences provided much-needed support as teachers taught science to young children.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

2019; Kleekamp & Zapata, 2018). As new equity-focused, anti-racist professional development programs emerge to help educators better center the identities of their students, it will be important to explore: The learner mindsets of educators. Educators’ experiences during these professional development programs.

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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. Eight more are expected to open before the end of the 2019-20 school year, and 40 more are planned in the next two years. “I

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Education Elements

MAY 17, 2018

Personalized learning, like so much of what we value most in our schools, should be aligned to the particular educational needs of individual learners – that’s what it’s all about.

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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 was granted tenure in 2010 and promoted to Senior II Tenured Faculty in 2018.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

A 2018 national survey found that K-3 teachers spend an average of 89 minutes per day on ELA and 57 minutes on math, but only 18 minutes on science and 16 minutes on social studies. Successful integration requires strategic planning and professional development to ensure teachers feel confident in implementing this approach.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

The school-based coaches, as well as each school’s principal, received sustained mentoring and ongoing professional development throughout the year. Throughout the year, Dynamic Learning Project coaches provided individualized support to teachers to help them select, tackle, and then reflect upon solving a classroom challenge(s).

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Studies suggest that instructional coaching is one such thoughtful intervention, providing a critical form of professional development to improve teacher practice (Kraft, Blazar, & Hogan, 2018; Knight, 2007). New rubric guides classroom technology use. West Virginia Department of Education. SAGE Publications.

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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. Innovative Learning Spaces. With the necessary funds secured, the work of creating exciting new teaching and learning spaces could begin.

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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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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

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. The plan also emphasized early literacy programs and improving new teacher preparation. Reading Remedies. Samuels/The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2021

I served my Title 1 school as a sixth grade math teacher for four years and as a learning strategist for nine years before making a move in 2018 to the Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, which provides professional learning to the five southern counties of Nevada, as a regional math trainer.

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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 2018 it had the second highest rate among California’s ten largest counties. This investment in counseling has paid off.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2019

In 2018, of the 5,126,000 Americans who held a job in the computer and mathematics field, 26 percent were women and 8 percent were black, according to the BLS. In 2018, 65 female students – 12 of them African American – took the exam. Related: Mississippi lags in computer science, teachers — but it has a plan to fix that.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

A 2018 national survey found that K-3 teachers spent an average of 89 minutes daily on ELA and 57 minutes on math, but only 18 minutes on science and 16 minutes on social studies. According to the Council of Chief State School Officers , of the total instructional time in elementary schools, only about 10.6 percent for mathematics.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While the percentage of white students has steadily decreased nationwide in recent decades — from 54 percent in 2009 to 47 percent in 2018 — nearly 80 percent of public school teachers are white, according to the most recent federal survey. In 2018-19, 45 percent of new teacher hires in Highline were people of color.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In 2018, my journey took a new turn as I stepped into the role of a computer science education manager, with a mission to sprinkle the seeds of meaningful computer science education across the vast educational landscape of NYC Public Schools.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

In 2018, ISTE and General Motors launched a professional development course to train educators on how to use AI for teaching and learning. “In five years, we will have something that has been built without any input from teachers and without any shaping around the needs of education,” Culatta said.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Beginning in the fall of 2018, North Salem partnered with Digital Promise to provide professional learning opportunities for teachers in the district. Over the course of three years, two cohorts of teachers received CT professional learning.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Edcamps are free, public, professional development opportunities organized by educators, for educators. This year’s Edcamp: Maker Promise was hosted as a pre-conference session to the 2018 California STEAM Symposium. Educators building circuits with Circuit Arcade kit at an ELA Edcamp.

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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. LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms.

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Education Elements

MAY 9, 2018

It is hard to make something better each year and yet, somehow, as I reflect on the Education Elements Personalized Learning Summit 2018 , it feels like we have done it. It’s five days since the Summit ended and I am still energized by the energy and passion of every one of the 750 people who attended.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2018

In late April, League educators joined researchers and other leaders in the education industry at the spring 2018 League meeting in Charlotte, NC, to talk about the challenges they face and develop ideas for solutions. — Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) April 26, 2018. — Eric Levitt (@ericjlevitt) April 26, 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2018

“Any woman doing ‘women’s work’ is not seen as skilled,” said Marcy Whitebook, co-director of the Center for the Study of Child Care Employment at the University of California, Berkeley, and lead author of the 2018 Early Childhood Workforce Index. All of the statistics cited above come from the new report. “We That’s what we have to do.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

A man watches an artificial intelligence (AI) news anchor from a state-controlled news broadcaster, on his computer in Beijing on November 9, 2018. Related: Youth will determine the outcome of the 2018 midterms. Both teachers and students develop the skills that are in demand in settings that foster higher-order thinking.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2018

2018 was an incredible year for the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools and Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters). In 2018, we welcomed 12 new districts: Arcadia Unified School District , D.C. Representatives from our 12 new districts and 7 interim districts met at the fall 2018 League meeting in Park City, UT.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

This unique educational makerspace, which features four separate studios dedicated to fabrication, design, media and computing, and natural sciences, was an inspiring venue to bring educators together for a day of professional development around making.

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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. Scientific American, August 2018.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Through ConnectED, Esri made a billion dollar offer: any K-12 school in the United States could acquire professional online Geographic Information Systems (GIS software), instructional activities, professional development events, and resources for educators and mentors. Vista Innovation & Design Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2018

We increase our chances of reaching this goal if our teachers receive the support and professional development they need. As the only federal money focused on teacher improvement and growth, Title II funding supports the development of our educators. House of Representatives to fund the federal government through September 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Developer: Michigan State University Research. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. Developer: Stanford University Research. Developer: University of Washington Research. Curriculum. 2nd grade social studies. Curriculum. 6th grade science.

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