ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A researcher at the University of Southern California, she has been working on AI-based professional development for math teachers for several years. AI-based professional development is gaining traction at a time when a record number of teachers are feeling burned out, underpaid and demoralized about their profession.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 1, 2021

The program, which reached 264 schools in the 2020–2021 school year, also provides extensive professional development to teachers that supports powerful teaching and learning. Argyle Middle School in Silver Spring, Maryland, joined the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) initiative at the start of the 2019–2020 school year.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Additionally, while teachers reported having less say into the educational technology they use now than in our fall 2019 survey, those who have this input are much more likely than those without it to see their online classes as effective. Edtech and Professional Development.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, average fourth and eighth grade math and reading scores fell for most states between 2019 and 2022. In math, fourth graders fell five points nationally since 2019. In 2019, 31 percent were considered below basic level. That’s up from the 2019 results, which showed 34 percent below basic.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

The mother I met on a May evening in 2019 at the Pittsburgh Youth Filmmakers premiere had never heard of the local student film program before that night. Some events might also offer professional development for educators attending.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

In it, the report authors list the myriad tasks, in addition to instruction, that teachers do as part of their jobs — meeting with parents, participating in professional development, grading. Those responsibilities all regularly tip teachers’ work weeks past 40 hours. It’s a reality that troubles teachers across the country.

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Edthena

MAY 30, 2019

Here’s a few of the articles we’ve been sharing this month focused on teacher professional development and professional learning. One thing that caught our eye was the call-out for providing PD to the mentors: Districts also must provide professional development for mentors.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

She recognizes that tools must align to teachers’ instructional goals and must be accompanied by professional development that covers not just how individual tools function, but also how they fit into effective teaching practice. “I I need to reiterate with my teachers that the tech tool itself isn't the be all, end all,” Ballard said.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

The latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores reveal a troubling trend: the average reading scores for both fourth graders and eighth graders were two points lower than in 2022 and five points lower than in 2019.

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

During a discussion I facilitated at the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools spring 2019 meeting, administrators shared some of the barriers their school communities face in trying to embrace CS and coding.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. Washington State has been the leader in that area, Spikes said, having passed legislation in 2019 that set aside funds for media literacy education.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 27, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Within these contexts of teacher autonomy and empowerment, teacher professional learning does not fit traditional patterns. Teacher professional development isn’t typically decided by administrators.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

I knew what Edcamps were; I had always wanted to attend one and had actually modeled professional development events in my school after them. As the 2019–2020 school year came to a close, a request came from a statewide teacher support agency. In this post, Dr. Tina M.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

The MindCatcher team supports the cohort virtually through participatory, hands-on professional development. Pre-COVID, students at the 2019 TSEP Overnight Camping Conference. Want to stay in touch with the Center for Inclusive Innovation?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

To help them succeed, the school — which last year served just over 500 high schoolers , roughly 80 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily professional development and coaching on literacy instruction and other topics.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Then, in 2019, when I became the lead Arabic teacher at my current school, I attended my first professional development conference. One staff member asked, "Did your father force you to cover yourself?" Another student even questioned if I was hiding a burn or bald head underneath my hijab.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the 2019 Hanover Research report “2019 Teacher Perspectives on Professional Development,” 92 percent of teachers reported that the most satisfying professional learning experiences were those which external partners provided. Not sure how to set a five-year plan? Understand your teachers’ needs.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

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 believe that one of the defining characteristics of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program is the professional development (PD) that comes with it,” Lubas added.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

By 2021, 91 percent of schools in New York City offered computer science (up from 76 percent in 2019). We are also focused on expanding our internal offerings, encompassing professional development, instructional coaching and extensive support for teachers and school leaders.

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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). Retrieved on September 25, 2019 from: [link]. New rubric guides classroom technology use. References. Hixson, N.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

A Closer Look at Our 2019 HP Spotlight School. 22 as the 2019 HP Spotlight School. In honor of their recognition as the 2019 HP Spotlight School, William F. Halloran is receiving 40 hours of customized professional development on using technology to support Powerful Learning. Halloran School No. Halloran School No.

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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. While the pandemic may have raised public awareness of the plight of education and the stress teachers and administrators face, this has always been a reality.

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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. Why am I enjoying myself right now?” I hate math.”

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

. “I can’t rule out that Teach to One had no effects” on student’s math achievement, said Doug Ready, a professor at Teachers College, Columbia University and lead author of a January 2019 study of the program. “Math is cumulative,” he said. ” Related: Putting an ed tech darling in context.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

According to NAEP, in 2019, only 37 percent of American high school seniors had reached reading “proficiency” — a rate that hasn’t edged above 40 percent since NAEP started measuring it in 1992. That’s why simply focusing on fixing early years’ reading instruction won’t work.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Key happenings in 2022: Class became a maybe- unicorn selling a classroom management tool within a video conferencing platform—a category of company that literally did not exist in 2019. Venture capitalists invested north of $100 million in virtual reality companies after years of avoiding the sector due to hardware and bandwidth concerns.

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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. The research was published in the nonprofit’s 2019 report “If You Listen, We Will Stay: Why Teachers of Color Leave and How We can Disrupt the Turnover.”

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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 25, 2022

No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. In 2019, we wrote about our school’s journey in revising its 20th century schedule to align more with the most promising research in MBE, prioritizing things like sleep (i.e., “Don’t go back!”

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

The center worked with the National Indian Child Care Association to analyze 184 tribal child care plans submitted to HHS for the 2019-2022 fiscal year. The high school graduation rate among Native students rose from around 52 percent in 2013 to a high of 84 percent in 2019, she says.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

In 2019, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that one in six U.S. I completed my bachelor’s degree last year, and never once did I have any kind of professional development that addressed social-emotional learning. How would I engage with students? How would I foster classroom culture?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

In the fall of 2019, over 18 million students were enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the U.S. Faculty who participated in professional development opportunities like the Student Experience Project revised their syllabi to clearly signal their belief in student potential. million students, a drop of 9.4

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Wellness Efforts Fall Short Our middle school opened its doors to roughly 100 fifth graders in 2019. Sometimes they’d give everyone a few unexpected hours back by canceling a professional development (PD) meeting. As we’ve added grades, we’ve welcomed in some new staff members and bid farewell to others.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Even before the pandemic, widening access to student services, increasing enrollment and retention and developing a higher-quality online or hybrid learning experience were a pretty familiar slate of issues. Likewise, student mental health and wellness had become a significant concern on college campuses long before the pandemic.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning.

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