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TEACHER VOICE: It’s up to us to replace a culture of fear with a culture of trust

The Hechinger Report

As I begin the new school year, I make a list of all my priorities: Lesson planning, grading, classroom setup, data analysis and new teacher mentorship. Since January 2021, 44 states have proposed legislation or sought other means to restrict the ideas teachers can present in the classroom. Not all teachers have this luxury.

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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

ED Surge

It’s September 2021 and as one of the district’s instructional technology content leaders, I have finally been given the green light to host in-person professional development (PD) for this group of eager teachers after months of meeting online.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

The experiences included an online seminar (which included a virtual tour of UGRR), a self-guided walking and driving tour of significant underground railroad landmarks in Niagara Falls, NY, and the task of creating inquiry lesson for UGRR with the intent of being posted on the heritage center’s website.

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

The Hechinger Report

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. Lesson plans for teachers help high school students understand if they qualify.

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NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading

The Hechinger Report

By 2021, it had committed to its most ambitious goal yet: overhauling the way Fairfax County Public Schools teaches students to read and supports struggling readers. The district gave all kindergarten through second-grade teachers scripted lesson plans featuring phonics. This story also appeared in The Washington Post.

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Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve

The Hechinger Report

Jacqueline Rodriguez, vice president of research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said she worries the bills will discourage LGBTQ individuals from pursuing teaching careers by sending the message that “this is not the profession to pursue if you want to bring your whole self to work every day.”.

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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

The Russellville City school district created De La Rosa’s position in early 2021 as part of a larger effort to help educate its growing population of students who speak English as a second language. Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning.