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How the Substitute Teacher Shortage Is Impacting Teacher Professional Development

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Excited for the opportunity to focus on their learning, teachers find their seats and start to chit chat about the lesson plans they’ve left for their students. This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district.

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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. But no one told Petersen that.

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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

Kristie Ezzell, who retired from Russellville schools in 2022 after 31 years under four superintendents, saw the transformation firsthand. Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. “I was ready for him to come in and make a big impact,” Gist said.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. As of early 2022, it had the highest number of January 6 arrestees of any locality, according to local media.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which includes Arizona, heard their arguments in February 2022. Teachers used no lesson plans, in any subject, and the school had no librarian.

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