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MARCH 6, 2023

Among the many changes the commission recommended — which became law in 2021, under the “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Act,” and will increase state education funding by $3.8 In the 2021-22 school year, Houston ISD offered a starting salary of around $57,000, which put it among the lowest of 12 peer districts in the region, he says.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

As the research leads on the project, we drew on literature and educator focus groups to investigate how technology could be leveraged most effectively in instruction, the barriers to adoption, and the strategies that could best support teachers in adopting effective instructional practices.

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APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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JULY 18, 2024

In Ohio, for example, state lawmakers passed anti-hazing legislation in 2021 that requires colleges to create an educational program on hazing that students can complete during orientation. Before the pandemic, orientation leaders typically held leadership positions in high school, as a club president, for example, Brister says.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Despite these benefits, school technology leaders across the country struggle to implement data interoperability in their schools. In the latest State of EdTech Leadership Report from the Consortium for School Network (CoSN), interoperability was identified as one of the largest needs in school districts—second only to cybersecurity.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

I say a few affirmative words aloud to center myself, then I reach into a drawer and pull out a small bottle of lavender aromatherapy that my leadership team gave me as a “wellness gift.” By the end of the 2020-2021 school year we resumed in-person learning with full days. For a moment, like Calgon, I’m taken away.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 31, 2023

A recent analysis by Chalkbeat found that, between the 2021 and 2022 school years, eight states — Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Washington — faced their highest teacher turnover rates in the past five years. And there was significant turnover in the workforce.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

In 2021, Gundy recalls, one of her supervisors pulled her aside, and said, “You’re very promising. As of last year, 35 states had an apprenticeship program for child care and early childhood education, and another seven states were developing them, according to a report published by the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC).

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APRIL 19, 2023

In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education. In 2021, while teaching sixth grade humanities, I united my love of writing and teaching and penned a memoir about my experiences teaching.

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APRIL 12, 2022

Fourteen years after its founding and with a misinformation landscape many magnitudes more dire than anyone could’ve predicted, the News Literacy Project will herald in a new CEO this summer, marking a transition in leadership but not a change in direction for the education-focused nonprofit. 6, 2021, chief among them.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. But when schools returned fully in person for the 2021-22 school year, my workload increased dramatically. I have always put in extra hours outside of the school day.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2023

Ector County in Texas chose a campus-by-campus launch that started with the highest-need schools, and each one came with its own support team for logistics and technology. Chicago Public Schools leadership found out that the greatest barrier to effective tutoring was, perhaps unsurprisingly, absenteeism among students.

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AUGUST 28, 2023

students (48 percent) were absent for 10 percent or more of the 2021-2022 school year, according to a report from the D.C. For a teacher like Wallace to take a risk and try a new instructional approach, she said, the education ecosystem has to have the right conditions to support her. For example, nearly half of D.C.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It had always been his plan, and he had no reason to doubt it: He’d earned a full scholarship to college and acceptance into a leadership program designed to attract and retain Black male teachers. By 2021, that had declined to 15. Everett Anderson was determined to become a teacher. This story also appeared in USA Today. asks James.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

That’s according to Matt Townsley, an assistant professor of educational leadership at the University of Northern Iowa, who has written books about changing grading systems and who has helped schools switch to standards-based systems.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

When the Center for Community College Student Engagement surveyed more than 80,000 students at community colleges in 2021, it found that 44 percent of students who needed help getting food and 21 percent who needed help finding affordable shelter said that their colleges provided them with that kind of assistance.

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APRIL 23, 2024

While she says she still fully believes in the importance of educating the future generation, she hopes to be able to do so outside of a classroom setting. In the 2021-22 school year, I moved to an elementary school in Santa Rosa, California. There were many factors that contributed to that decision. It is really amazing and truly fun!

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

A poll of 27 teachers at a keynote event in 2021; courtesy of Stephanie Malia Krauss.A School leadership has implemented an open door policy for families and regular check-ins with staff members, which has strengthened personal relationships and provided a space for individuals to ask for the support they need.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

In the summer of 2021, the Society for Human Resource Management surveyed 500 executives, 1,200 supervisors, 1,129 human resource professionals, and 1,525 workers who don’t supervise other employees about their attitudes toward alternative credentials.

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MAY 23, 2022

We’re still providing and still lifting up high-quality early education,” she explains. A Time of Transition And then in spring 2021, NAEYC’s CEO of nearly a decade announced she would be stepping down in the coming year. McClain Terrell calls it an “extraordinary time for early childhood education.”)

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Parachuting In, Unprepared for Duty During the first quarter of the 2020-2021 academic year, I needed to make my first-ever parent call. As TFA cuts a quarter of its staff after reporting its lowest recruitment numbers in 15 years , I feel angry.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

It started enrolling students in upper-level courses in fall 2021, boasting “one of the most affordable bachelor’s degrees in the country,” according to Sara DeLano, dean of educator pathways at the Dallas College School of Education. Department of Labor in 2021 to designate education as an eligible sector.

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JULY 5, 2022

Since that time, CoolThink@JC has won multiple awards and gained recognition on the international education stage. And in a clear demonstration of its potential and early success, the program earned ISTE’s Seal of Alignment in 2021, obtaining full scores in the categories of Innovative Designer and Computational Thinker.

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APRIL 10, 2023

The Engage Every Student Initiative is a national campaign, started in 2022, that calls for communities to provide high-quality, out-of-school-time learning opportunities for all interested students by using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. We don't have enough places for our youth to go.”

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MARCH 9, 2022

“We're closer to a reset in education than ever before. We've already been disrupted,” said Cardona, who worked as an educator and administrator in Connecticut before becoming Secretary in early 2021. “So So why are we building it back the way it was when it didn't work for everybody?”

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Through our Voices of Change project, EdSurge has been conversing with educators and school leaders to understand how schools are adapting to meet the needs of their learning communities as they face the 2021-22 school year.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2023

“It can be a useful tool going forward,” says Robin Lake, director of the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), a research organization at Arizona State University. “It In February 2021, a RAND report that CRPE collaborated on found that one in five districts planned to continue offering some form of virtual learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2022

Some colleagues announced that they did not intend on returning to the 2021-22 school year. Like many teachers, I felt exhausted and pushed past my limit trying to hold together under-resourced schools. My own school saw many unexpected retirements, a trend happening throughout the state and nationwide.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

Price Middle School (LJPMS) families after the city of Atlanta condemned property in the Forest Cove neighborhood in 2021. This was the reality for many of the students and their families at Luther J. There were over 300 families that resided in Forest Cove, and many of the children from these households attended our school.

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

percentage points from 2021 represents the first increase in the overall SPM poverty rate since 2010. percent in 2021 to 12.4 He said that, “We have to change the [educational] systems that students experience, because it is pretty obvious, our systems are designed to work against students as a whole.” This increase of 4.6

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JULY 24, 2023

percent of American school teachers, according to a widely cited federal survey of the 2020-2021 school year. And then number two is usually something very similar that we hear from all teachers: just the lack of respect, not being listened to, leadership and autonomy being eroded, lack of community. So that's the number one reason.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2023

From its onset, then-President Donald Trump, eager to distract from the failures of his leadership, glibly referred to COVID-19 as the “Chinese virus” and “kung flu,” using racist slurs to blame China for the virus. She then recounted a time when she demanded that she herself be seen by school leadership.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Recommended Resources The Endless Key app, a path to equity in education in 2023 Top five things to do first on Endless OS 5 Endless Key Endless Operating System The digital divide is not merely anecdotal but a pervasive issue affecting countless learners. Bridging this gap is a complex task that demands comprehensive strategies.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders.

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