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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents. In April 2021, the district launched monthly parent advocacy meetings focused on restorative justice, literacy, and college and career readiness. Potential for impacting student learning and educational leadership.

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Homeless Students Are Missing School. Does Having a Separate School for Them Help or Hurt?

ED Surge

By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy. What does Monarch School's leadership think?

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

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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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. It is paying off: Over a five-year span ending in 2019, the number of students reading at grade level in the district grew at a rate that outpaced the state as a whole. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. Puh,” he enunciated.

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Child care workers organize for better pay and treatment

The Hechinger Report

In California, Child Care Providers United, which represents more than 40,000 home-based providers, won the right to collective bargaining in 2019 , and last year secured a second substantial reimbursement increase from the state for many home child care providers. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Hameed said the format lets teachers engage students in a more meaningful way, even when they have to connect over Zoom. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

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Sent home early: Lost learning in special education

The Hechinger Report

In March 2019, McBride finally succeeded in getting her daughter identified as having an emotional impairment and given an individualized education program, or IEP. One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018.

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