ED Surge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

There was a time when I would come to school sick beyond belief because I did not want to disappoint anyone, and let’s face it, because the hassle of leaving lesson plans for subs who never completed them drove me absolutely crazy. That is, until the 2018-2019 school year, when several staff members fell ill. All day, every day.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

The current level of political polarization is having a chilling effect, making civics education into a third rail, according to Holly Korbey, an education reporter and the author of a 2019 book on civics education, “Building Better Citizens: A New Civics Education for All.” “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Last fall, in the district, nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled, compared with 26 percent in fall 2019. Teachers collected extra stipends to sacrifice their planning periods to cover for a missing colleague. It also sent templates of lesson plans that teachers can leave for their temporary replacements.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Part of the challenge of the question is that it’s easier to think about classroom instruction in terms of lessons or units of curriculum than moments or actions. I can show you my lesson plans, my binders, my Google Classroom pages, but it’s harder to show you a moment when a young person felt challenged or included or inspired.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

They understood the need to prioritise and advocate for lesson planning as an important aspect of beginning teacher’s training despite it being in conflict with wider school developments. 2009; McCormack et al. Early Career Teacher Professional Learning. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education , 34 (1), 95–113.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Then, as teachers had time to develop lesson plans and adjust to new curricula, student performance began to improve. Those figures are expected to be released later in January 2019. A big question is whether the spike in Regents exam failures will translate into a first drop in the state’s graduation rate in 17 years.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

As personalized learning advocates push forward with plans to roll out their approach to many more of the nation’s schoolchildren, it’s worth considering how lessons from 45 years of educating students with disabilities might help shape this latest educational experiment.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

During my teacher preparation in college, I had fears about how to create engaging lesson plans, how to make connections with students and how to help students who needed more support. We went on strike in 2019 for 11 days , in part so we could make sure every Chicago Public School had a social worker by 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

JumpStart provided a pipeline to NOVA as more than a third of students enrolled in the fall (while community college enrollment fell by around 10% at the start of the school year compared with 2019, NOVA enrollment increased by 2%). The program also bolstered access to learning opportunities at times limited by availability and affordability.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2024

In early 2019, they began working with the nonprofits Empower Schools and Lyra Colorado to formally create a regional collaborative and visited a similar project in South Texas. Woodworking instructors from different districts started to gather monthly, comparing lesson plans and creating wish lists for new classes and equipment.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

In North Carolina, where I live, teachers are paid for “show time” with students, but there is little regard—and certainly no reward—for the hours of unpaid preparation and lesson planning it takes to keep a classroom running. In 2018 and 2019, teachers in my state were ready to strike. It’s just a reality of the job.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Jacobs, the researcher from the University of Colorado Boulder, conducted her own study in 2019 for an application that her team developed called TalkMoves.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Another net-zero elementary school, also designed by VMDO, is to open in 2019. My lesson plan is: Here’s a problem. Starting in 2019, the plan is for all Discovery students to do sustainability audits, not just the Eco-Action club. And as the district keeps growing, Lin is pushing for more. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In 2019, Jackson started pulling her daughter out of school for part of each day to teach her math at home. “I Teachers create individualized lesson plans for students during each tutoring session, employing a variety of items to help students better understand math concepts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

She said timely and even controversial topics can help ignite students’ interest, and she’s currently developing a lesson plan on the “nature of science” that will use the coronavirus as the main theme. In 2019, Amazon removed the film from its offerings following criticism from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Ca.)

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

There are groups working to vet different social and emotional curricula, to infuse discussions about how to cope with feelings and trauma into academic classes, ensure the lesson plans are culturally responsive and create a community mental health advisory group.

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 31, 2020

I am one of the lucky teachers who did not have to figure out how to change all of my lesson plans and adapt to online teaching overnight, because I have been teaching at a virtual school for a couple of years now. History classes from this amazing location in Costa Rica in February 2019! It is pretty mind-blowing.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

It waged battles that mattered for some, “but rarely made us feel like we were having a profound impact on the system,” said Sujatha Hampton, who became chair of the committee in 2019. The district gave all kindergarten through second-grade teachers scripted lesson plans featuring phonics. That changed in the summer of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

Throughout 2018, members of the Playful Journey Lab met three times with three Corte Madera teachers – Sarrie Paguirigan, the maker-space coach, ELA teacher Donna Kasprowicz, and Teresa Richard, who teaches science and math — looking for places in their lesson plans that could accommodate hands-on collaboration.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

A 2023 survey conducted by EducationWeek researchers reports that 70% of teachers say student misbehavior has increased since 2019, and 68% say their students have lower morale than they did pre-pandemic. Soft Skills in Health Teachers report that behavior issues have increased since the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

In 2019, Paradise was left with about 1,700 students, compared with 3,400 before the fire, but even with fewer students, it has been struggling to help kids cope with basic needs. On the one-year anniversary of the fire, rather than sticking to the lesson plan, Marsters decided that students would watch Bob Ross videos and paint. “As

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Schools that implement comprehensive emotional learning and well-being programs saw a 10% reduction in absenteeism rates within a single academic year, according to a 2019 Journal of Educational Psychology study. Emotional resilience is a key factor in reducing absenteeism. Darling-Hammond, Linda. Jones, M., Mindful Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level. Indeed, this year, the district’s new math curriculum is aligned with units from the web-based Khan Academy, and Young started directing students to the site’s online videos and lessons for extra practice or new challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That changed in the 2019-20 school year when the federal government for the first time made public the race and ethnicity breakdowns for individual school districts. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20. Data disclosed in U.S.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

The 2022 Stanford National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that math and science reading test scores dropped significantly between 2019 and 2022. Now, with schools back in-person, many teachers are seeing the toll the pandemic took on students’ reading abilities. Help your students improve their reading scores!

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Promoting Inclusion, Social Connections, and Learning Through Peer Support Arrangements. TEACHING Exceptional Children , 48(1), 9-18. Gottfried, M. Chronic Absenteeism in the Classroom Context: Effects on Achievement. Urban Education, 54(1), 3-34. Kirksey, J Jacob, et al. Mervosh, Sarah, and Francesca Paris.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

These spacewalks are commemorated on the reverse of the 2019 Sacagawea dollar coin. Sources: Ashley Marranzino, “Bertha Parker, the Trailblazing First Indigenous North American Archaeologist, Taught Herself How to Excavate a Site,” June 6, 2019 for massivescience.com. The total mission duration was 13 days, 18 hours and 47 minutes.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

2019; McBride-Chang, et al., For more information, download our free lesson plan describing how to use Matching Cards. But, this isn't just about reading literacy, it's also about social cognition and connection. This is backed up both by science of reading research and by neurobiological research (Hong et al., Kovelman, I.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

I’m getting directly into interventions, targeted materials, resources, lesson plans, pedagogical skills that are tailored toward the kids I have sitting right in front of me.”. She finds the program gives her extra time to meet individual kids’ needs. I’m not spending as much time on the ground level,” McIntosh said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

More than 16,000 students in Greenville County Schools had at least one F on their fall report cards this year, or more than triple the number of students with Fs in fall of 2019. More than one-fifth of third graders at Ida Greene were held back at the end of the 2018-2019 school year. State education officials took notice.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

By 2019, the World Bank’s PRIEDE project had exceeded several of its goals. Educators’ heaviest time burdens include lesson planning as well as creating and grading assignments—yet few firms target this issue, explains Rhys Spence, head of research at Brighteye Ventures. hours to 10 minutes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

That means that students have tutoring sessions at least three times a week, working one-to-one with tutors or in very small groups with tutors using clear lesson plans, not just helping with homework. In 2019, before the pandemic, 31 percent of Tennessee’s low-income students were reading on a “below basic” level.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

The “virus”spread by Blue-tooth when participants were in close proximity for an extended time, and was slowed by digital masks and vaccines that students could get after taking quizzes based on the in-class lessons. In late 2019, reality caught up with Operation Outbreak. Credit: Becky Morris. “We Credit: Becky Morris.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. Between 2019 (when the bilingual aides were hired) and 2021, English learners in some grades recorded big increases on language proficiency tests. And it hasn’t been easy to sustain all of the gains.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Even before the bans, LGBTQ characters were underrepresented in curricula and lesson plans, according to a 2019 survey by GLSEN, an LGBTQ advocacy organization. A third of the banned books included LGBTQ themes or characters, the study found.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In 2019, the state education department launched teacher residency programs in four districts, two of which are nearly all black and in which more than two thirds of students qualify for free lunch. No one had left lesson plans for their substitute teacher, so most of the time, her class just filled out worksheets.

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