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

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

JANUARY 11, 2022

In addition, I worried about whether we would meet our students' academic, emotional, and social needs, especially for students that attend a non-traditional school. Throughout the pandemic, discussions about supporting students have centered on traditional, comprehensive schools. Mental Support: Finally, we addressed mental health.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When Monroe Community College in New York added an accelerated certificate in addictions counseling in January that takes about half the time of the traditional full-year version, enrollment spiked by 50 percent, the college reports. And that’s not a mode of operation in which traditional colleges and universities have thrived.”.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2020

But the outgoing superintendent, Cyndy Taymore, is four years into an effort to fundamentally rethink traditional schooling here. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

I was looking for something that was backed by great research, had good tech support and would have professional development,” Van Fossan says. Kindergarten teachers at Sto-Rox transitioned from traditional assessments like DIBELS to EarlyBird at the start of the 2022-2023 school year.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts. Her research agenda focuses on African-American politics, race and ethnic politics, and American political development.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The college’s efforts were explained at length in a story published September 2019 in Politico. For example, biology professors at the college erased a rule banning late assignments or makeup exams. That helped accommodate low-income students who have to juggle work and school.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. My heart ached as I swapped out favorite classroom activities and traditions for ones that required less prep, hoping the kids wouldn’t notice. “I In 2018 and 2019, teachers in my state were ready to strike.

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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 20, 2024

A few months before the pandemic, Johns had seen a presentation about AHN’s Chill Project, launched in 2019, and longed to bring it to her district. The district first invested in professional development to educate teachers about, and train them on, the Chill program.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In 2019, he got a job with a general contractor building food carts. More than half of students qualified for free or reduced-price lunch in 180 of the 623 districts honored with the “Best Communities for Music Education” award in 2019. In 2019, six of seven had that honor. Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We 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.

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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. Teachers in other schools have found the shift to project-based learning to be a massive, unwanted change from traditional instruction.

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Becoming a History Teacher

APRIL 16, 2023

It also lacked an understanding of the pedagogical tradition underpinning the subject. Their day-to-day mentor was not able to induct them into the rich tradition of their subject community. It requires an appreciation of the what, why and how of the disciplinary tradition of the subject. & London, L. link] Grande, J.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Across the city, 40 percent of traditional public schools had no full-time social worker, city data shows. In 2019, it tapped Schonfeld and the New York Life Foundation to offer that training to all city schools. De Blasio said he knew about these deficiencies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. In September 2019, the school office said she had retired. It would, first and last, be better than the schools the area already had.

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 31, 2020

History classes from this amazing location in Costa Rica in February 2019! One perk of my virtual teaching is that my daily schedule allows for a bit more flexibility/time for lesson planning than my traditional schools have. There were literally monkeys swinging from those trees during class.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As of this fall, it had 198,645 students, compared with 205,778 in the 2019-2020 school year, and was still trying to track down students who’d gone missing. The high-poverty district saw enrollment drop significantly in the pandemic, especially among kindergartners. Teachers were taking their time off to spend on planning and grading.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The manualized approach to professional education is not meant to replace the traditional approach. They can also be used as a professional development tool for schools trying to creating common ground across different trainings. They take a course to go through this manual with an instructor. Then, they use it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

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 The district also invested in professional development for teachers, ensuring that it happened during work hours, said Ezzell.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Traditional bilingual education essentially lets students use their first language while they learn English. A limping recovery: 2016 to 2024 Flores spent 40 years training future teachers before retiring in 2019. Student work hung up in a classroom at Washington Elementary School celebrates Mexican food and traditions.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Her research is on the tradition of Latinx and Latin American Political Thought, the thought of W. The book relies on the Black radical tradition to analyze the imperial roots of popular sovereignty and self-determination—i.e., Ines Valdez and Tony Carey were awarded for exemplary mentoring of junior faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

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. Austin Senior High School, in Houston, who participated in a walkout protesting the Texas Education Agency’s takeover of his school district.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Legislators also sought to cut professional development requirements in half for child care workers, from 16 hours a year to eight. Given the political polarization and our lack of a history or tradition of social democratic support for public social service … I don’t see that happening,” she said.

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