The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

When COVID closed the door on in-person schooling in spring 2020, one of the biggest concerns for school districts was how to address the needs of students who experience cognitive learning challenges and/or physical disabilities. Advisor for Innovation & Educational Technology, U.S. Department of Education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. Dozens of companies raised venture funding at equal or lesser values —“down rounds”— compared to rounds raised during the pandemic-induced edtech boom of 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs. If you build it, will it work?

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2022

The grant will help Lumen bring together the company’s three separate platforms for humanities, professional development and online homework management, executives from the company say. In 2020, Lumen acquired Faculty Guild , a coaching company for instructors, now called Lumen Circles.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I applied for the role, was accepted and served as a PCM from October 2020 to June 2022. During that period, I continued my duties as a para, ensuring the students I worked with met the goals and mandates of their Individualized Education Plan (IEP). I didn’t have to attend professional development or training to become a PCM.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

Then, in 2020, in the throes of a world turned upside down, where screens became windows to knowledge, we noticed a spark: Students, now with ample screen time, took to teaching themselves coding skills. These initiatives aim to bolster the adoption and effectiveness of computer science education, beginning at the elementary level.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Support for Educators Historically, it’s been challenging to find adequate time and resources to train teachers on using edtech effectively in the classroom. Education is always evolving, and that’s how it should be—for the good of every student and the world that they will help define.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Key components of the one-to-one Literacy Initiative include: Increasing student access to devices to help support oral language development, language production, and efficiency. Providing professional development to support teachers’ effective use of technology in classrooms.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2022

When John first came to me in fall 2020, he was a ninth grader and we were in the thick of the pandemic, doing emergency remote learning. During virtual learning from 2020 to 2021, that was condensed to 60 minutes and we spent much of our time focused on reading texts, answering text dependent questions and writing essays.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

The region overall is still trying to recover from enrollment drops that started in the fall of 2020, the first full school year following the COVID-19 pandemic’s start. Those resources include bilingual teachers, professional development for staff and the ability to communicate with parents, she adds.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The murder of George Floyd in 2020 changed American culture, in part by invigorating interest in diversity, equity and inclusion. For some schools, this meant making a commitment to diversity in their mission statements, as well as creating plans intended to increase equity.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

“Teachers’ jobs are harder, and we need to be intentional about getting them professional development to help them change their practice to cope with that increased need for differentiation,” she says. 2019 and 2020 were unconventional years that literally threw the world into disarray,” she says.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

By the end of the 2020-2021 school year we resumed in-person learning with full days. Sometimes they’d give everyone a few unexpected hours back by canceling a professional development (PD) meeting. During the height of the pandemic, every school was struggling, but we faced unique challenges given how new our school was.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

In the fall of 2020, I re-entered the classroom in a new district and with a new mindset. Non-educators assume that teachers only work from 7:30 a.m. My income quickly dried up, and despite my extreme working hours, no support came from the company for which I worked or the districts that I had been killing myself to help. to 3:30 p.m.,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

On March 18th, 2020, my principal pulled me into a meeting with the superintendent, principals, and assistant principals from other high schools in the district. 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.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Take the actual dollar amounts received by tribes in 2020. After she took office in 2013, her agency interviewed tribal elders around North Dakota to create a professional development program for teachers on incorporating Native culture into their classrooms. million in mandatory funding.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

American University Pays Tutors American University’s School of Education established the Future Teacher Tutors Program in fall 2020. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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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. There remains an urge to do everything (sometimes the same way) that we were doing pre-March 2020. “Don’t go back!” We still have work to do at St.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

And then, of course, there was the great toilet paper shortage of 2020. In recent years, our district has dedicated significant professional development time to provide teachers and staff with an understanding of trauma and its impact on children.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In this instance, like so many others in school, a counselor would be helpful for the student to process this trauma, but preventing the trauma from occurring in the first place through things like inclusive gender practices and professional development around gender identity would be more impactful.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

For those who are considering entering the field, Colorado is offering incentives such as free professional development to get folks trained and up to speed, as well as $5,000 bonuses after they become licensed. Early childhood educators are tired and burned out from the onslaught of changes since early 2020.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

17, 2023 • by Studies Weekly Since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the United States have relied on emergency ESSER funding from the federal government to hire more teachers, purchase instructional resources, and more. Now that this program is coming to an end, educators wonder what the future will look like without this funding.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

Since 2011, Adam has overseen the evolution of Edthena from a paper-based prototype into a research informed and patented platform used by schools districts, teacher training programs, and professional development providers. And what thoughts do you have about professional learning, especially under the current conditions?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In 2020, Baltimore County Public Schools was hit with a cyberattack that disrupted the district’s remote learning programs, froze its operations and cost the school system nearly $10 million. Atlanta’s Aina said school districts aren’t usually able to pay top dollar for cybersecurity professionals.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

‘Game-Changing’ Operational Grants Child care providers who work in home-based and center-based settings are able to use their C3 funds on costs such as payroll and benefits, professional development, supplies and curriculum, rent or mortgage payments, utilities, and facility upgrades.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The staffing shortages “got really acute” at the end of last year, says Steve Daly, who’s been CEO of Instructure since 2020. Substitute teachers have a role in teacher retention, Teng says, allowing teachers time off to avoid burnout and to pursue professional development.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

But in 2020, the program requested $9 million more to rollout a teacher training campaign. percent decline in the grade 2 math skills it was trying to improve, having omitted to train educators on how to use the new resources effectively. Halfway through, it had recorded a 2.5 More concerning is that it’s not an isolated case.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Courtney Groskin are Learning Coaches with the Office of Professional Development in St. They recently interviewed Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller about video coaching and how best to incorporate using video in schools to support educators improving and deepening their practice. Violet Christensen and?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2023

On April 15, 2020, high school teachers in the Newton Public Schools district near Boston were doing what K-12 teachers were doing across the country: They were teaching on Zoom. Finally, many teachers took on programming, curriculum development and professional development by themselves. Participants from across the U.S.

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