The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Melissa Hedges, the math curriculum director for Milwaukee schools, shows teachers at a professional development seminar how folded paper can be used to demonstrate the solution to a fractions problem. He helped develop a “spectrum” that became the centerpiece of the program. We had such a strong leadership base,” she said.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I say a few affirmative words aloud to center myself, then I reach into a drawer and pull out a small bottle of lavender aromatherapy that my leadership team gave me as a “wellness gift.” Wellness Efforts Fall Short Our middle school opened its doors to roughly 100 fifth graders in 2019. For a moment, like Calgon, I’m taken away.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

HP Spotlight Schools are also characterized by a school culture in which risk-taking and instructional innovation are supported by leadership. A Closer Look at Our 2019 HP Spotlight School. Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) was nominated as a HP Spotlight School district based on their recognized leadership in educational technology.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

He shares his own experiences as a reference point and encourages the group to outline professional development goals. It’s the type of support that the union hopes will help teachers grow in the classroom while empowering them to pursue leadership roles. Bradley, who has 15 years of teaching experience, acts as a mentor.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Mississippi’s gains came as students in many states did worse in 2019 than they did in 2017 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — to the disappointment of leaders, educators and parents across the United States. The Magnolia State has been making steady progress on NAEP since 2005.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

Support Through the Pandemic As the safer-at-home orders extended into the 2019-2020 school year came to an end, the leadership team met to discuss how we would support our students. After the meeting, we decided to create a task force that included the school leadership team, staff, and students.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Today, after a key vote, it's official: Two giants in the education space will join forces, creating a professional development powerhouse for their educator members. million in the tax year 2019. The two nonprofit associations serve different constituencies and are noticeably different in size. “The

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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. Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. In 2018 and 2019, teachers in my state were ready to strike.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

One morning in 2019, close to 40 educators gathered in a commercial building on the Chicago riverfront that houses the offices of LEAP Innovations. The shift from a traditional ‘sage on a stage’ role to helping students learn at their own pace can be challenging, requiring a lot of professional development for teachers.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 27, 2019

When we launched the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP), a program from EdTechTeam, Google, and Digital Promise that empowers school leaders to transform instruction across every classroom for every student, we wanted to put teachers in control of their professional development. 3 Steps: How to Use the Strategy Menu.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

She is the recipient of the Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagement (American Democracy Project, June 2024) and the Stand Out Faculty Award (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, November 2019). Dr. Athena M. King is an assistant professor of political science and geography at Old Dominion University.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Since 2019, I’ve worked with students in the metro Detroit area to advocate for sanctuary schools through an organization called MIStudentsDream. In 2019, Detroit Public Schools Community District officially declared themselves a Sanctuary District , a testament to parent organizing and advocacy in the city.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began. She was tasked with overseeing and supporting membership, accreditation, conferences and events, global outreach and engagement, and professional learning—all areas that had to be retooled in some fashion for a pandemic environment.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Schools also have access to professional development gatherings in the fall and spring, a Summit “success manager” assigned to their schools and online support, all at no cost. She and her leadership team quickly convened all-staff meetings to talk about collaboration and student discourse.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

According to a 2019 national survey , close to half of American Indian and Alaska Native students reported knowing “nothing” or only “a little” about their cultural heritage. Still, the network dispatches experts on finance, community engagement, student experience, curriculum and professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

But Republican leadership never brought the measure to the House floor for a vote, after other members of the party expressed concern that lawmakers would be removing a tool schools rely on to give parents a “wake-up call.” According to data from the Arizona Department of Education, 14 percent of K-12 students were chronically absent in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hope Reed, former chair of Blythewood High School math department Math scores for Black 13-year-olds had dropped by 13 points between the 2019-20 school year and the 2022-23 school year, shows the latest data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, often referred to as the nation’s report card. That’s what it did for them.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

New EL schools must first go through several months of professional development, classroom observation and co-teaching — both at the schools and at three-day intensive “institutes” off-site. That said, EL’s leadership now relies heavily on technology to spread Crew and expeditionary learning concepts more broadly.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. First, she got a fellowship with Building Excellent Schools, a charter leadership incubator. In September 2019, the school office said she had retired. Her passion plus her leadership skills are allowing them to build a strong foundation. …

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

During the Apollo program he held several important management and leadership positions, including the lead Retrofire Officer on the Apollo 13 mission. These spacewalks are commemorated on the reverse of the 2019 Sacagawea dollar coin. He began working for NASA 1966 immediately after graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Starting in the 2018-2019 academic years they’re going to score (tests) above the two lower achievement levels, which is a much higher bar than they currently have right now. I want them to be able to experience leadership positions that don’t require them to leave the classroom. When you’ve got the right leadership.

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Dr. Preece

MARCH 6, 2023

2021) and resources available (Rackley, 2019), we are increasingly seeing climate education in Geography classrooms as a synoptic and decision-making activity at the local scale (Hicks, 2019; Barton & Noyes, 2022). Dunlop et al.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2023

A report published in Transforming Education in 2019 examined what happens when school leaders establish a culture of trusting relationships. I shared that I wanted to hone my skills and grow into a special education leadership role. We set professional goals and talked vaguely about a plan to get there.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2020

Anyone who insults a woman who pursues a leadership position as being too ambitious has an agenda of their own — sexism. While the vast majority of teachers are women, it’s hard for women to move up into leadership roles in the public-school system. Aiming for leadership is also about survival. Representation matters.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Unlike at Olmsted, the highest-scoring elementary school in the city, students at Eve scored around the dismal city average in math and English in 2019, when fewer than a quarter of students passed state tests. Purdue University’s Gifted Education Research and Resource Institute found in 2019 that inequity is the norm.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Denver high school social studies teacher Nick Childers, right, chants as teachers picket outside South High School on February 11, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. What is creating an impasse is the taxpayer-funded Denver Public Schools’ Professional Compensation, a pay-for-performance system popularly known as ProComp.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

HISD leadership is a disaster…. Credit: Joseph Bui for The Hechinger Report In December 2019 Morath, the TEA head, sent a letter to the district announcing that the state was taking over and removing the school board. It failed on a 5-4 vote. On January 3, Gov. Abbott responded with a scathing tweet : “What a joke.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. The entire district had just one teacher certified to teach English as a second language, no interpreters and very little by way of professional development. “We

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