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Different Ways to Show Learning

A Principal's Reflections

For many of us, our preparation to become teachers consisted of courses focusing on classroom management, lesson design, grading, and proven strategies that had withstood the test of time. We were also exposed to learning style theory and the many benefits it had on meeting the diverse needs of students. Husmann, P.R., O'Loughlin.

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Let’s talk: Teachers pushed to converse more with youngest kids

The Hechinger Report

The trend crosses traditional political divides. Since 2019, the program has coached more than 400 teachers in more than 60 child care programs in the area, including center-based and home-based settings. A growing number of cities, states and individual programs, including Texas , Virginia , Mississippi and Washington, D.C. ,

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 04

Dangerously Irrelevant

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. Prior to 2019, an emergency certificate in Alabama could only be used for one year. But that’s slowly changing as the teacher pool for all content areas diminishes,” he said.

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What It Takes to Recruit Future Teachers During the Pandemic

ED Surge

Based on a recommendation made in 2019 by a “ teacher shortage task force ” commissioned by the Oklahoma department of education, the state allocated some of its COVID-relief money to pay student-teachers a total of $3,250—half up front, and half after they’re hired into a teaching job by a school district. Why are they leaving?

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Progress in the Deep South: Black students combat segregation, poverty and dwindling school funding

The Hechinger Report

Locals worry that some families’ ability to opt out of the traditional schools has diverted resources from the kids who need the most help. Two charter schools opened in 2000 and have been attracting white students away from the traditional schools ever since. White families also began to leave the system altogether.

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‘More than a warm body’: Schools try long-term solutions to substitute teacher shortage

The Hechinger Report

Last fall, in the district, nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled, compared with 26 percent in fall 2019. Administrators, principals, librarians and other staff members regularly covered those classrooms. They can earn a higher daily rate than traditional substitutes, or put the extra amount toward health benefits.