Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Read a book, blog, or magazine. Stuck in the Shallow End by Jane Margolis & colleagues (a book that will deepen your understanding of racial equity in CS education). Incorporate books to teach CS concepts, explore impacts of computing, and/or highlight diversity. Teaching CS Fundamentals from Code.org (3-8 hours).

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K-12 Advocacy Professional Development Middle School 92

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In Illinois, individual districts are ultimately responsible for creating an implementation plan and revising or developing curriculum, but that’s a lot of pressure. Professional development is a key part of building awareness of this absence and a knowledge-base for the educators who will be teaching students directly.

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Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104

ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

As trauma-informed education expert Alex Shevrin Venet points out in her recent book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education : This is the uncomfortable truth: schools cause trauma and harm. However, when it comes to sources of mental health struggles, schools themselves are not blameless.

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Charter School Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 101

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

The word just hasn’t gotten out about the ability to do this,” said Todd Ziebarth, a senior vice president of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. The third graders juggled the books as they traversed a courtyard ringed by adobe houses-turned-classrooms, with teacher Paul Chavarria trailing them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

And classrooms needed more books and educational materials. Program officials purchased books, science materials, blocks and musical instruments for the center. Educating officials : PRE4CLE has prioritized advocacy at all levels of the government, according to Kelly. In September 2016, that all changed abruptly.

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K-12 Advocacy Professional Development Government 80

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

In many cases, the $6,500 stipend covers most of the cost of tuition at these MDE-accredited schools, but not all, and might not cover registration, books or extra services a child might need. But education and disability-rights advocacy groups have a different opinion of special-needs voucher programs than the state’s education leadership.

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Private School Elementary School Advocacy Public School 101

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. Many students had their laptops open but ignored them, looking at McIntosh while she spoke, and at sample comic books she had placed at their tables.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Then she praised the book “American Born Chinese”. Because of this, Li agrees it is important to retrain teachers and offer professional development classes on changing attitudes towards people of color. “I When he explained that he had already finished next week’s, she began to go on about “how much he loved math.”

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History Heritage K-12 American History 113

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Schools used their professional development budgets, and were able to use federal money, for teacher training to support work toward the switch. The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States.

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High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 102

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. To the end of his life, Du Bois never stopped his research, and he published dozens more books, essays, and articles on his own in pursuit of freedom.

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Museum Social Studies Advocacy Heritage 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The group’s acronym, RISC, was deliberate, according to a book by its creators, “Delivering on the Promise.” To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

The challenges in rural communities are very real—funding, teacher recruitment and retention, access to technology, poverty, ever-changing expectations, and professional development and support,” U.S. But when the new building opened in 2015, the school district didn’t have enough money for her to order new library books.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The desire to increase agency in the form of voice, choice, and advocacy should be viewed as just as important for educators (teachers and administrators) as it is for students. Planning professional learning – How many of us dreaded professional development (PD) days?

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Education Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 222

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In a dense, polemical book called “The Flickering Mind,” he warned of the industry’s tentacular reach into schools, steered by futurists such as Seymour Papert, the co-creator of the Logo programming language, who had a habit of proclaiming, every 20 years or so, that schools had 20 years left to either adapt or die.

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Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Among other things, Talbott says the book contained grammatical errors and introduced instructional ideas that teachers did not think supported students’ needs.) They have not spent a second thinking about what kind of environment they are recruiting people to,” says El-Mekki, who invokes Martin Luther King Jr.’s

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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education. “For a lot of parents, students and teachers, remote learning will be completely new, and where it’s new, it’s important to set realistic goals every day,” said Susan Patrick, C.E.O.

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Elementary School Tutoring Public School Charter School 95

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

Classes have also discussed self-advocacy, including if, when and how to disclose a disability. She recalled a mentor at La Guardia Community College who developed a dictionary of sorts for one student, who, like many people on the spectrum, understood things very literally and would get confused by some professors’ use of language.

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Psychology High School Advocacy Professional Development 76

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When Flores was a child, California still had an English-only law on the books from the 1800s. They just made everybody throw away their Spanish books. Childrens books in Spanish and English line the wall of a classroom at Washington Elementary School in Madera on Oct. We were hit with rulers, pinched, our braids were pulled.

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Elementary School Education K-12 History 123

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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High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

Educare Arizona classmates Nathan Jaramillo, far left, Esteban Cuevas and Melissa Gordillo “read” books during free time in their toddler classroom. Coltin McNitt, age 2 in this photo, sits on his couch with a book at his home in Wichita, Kan. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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Economics Government Advocacy Professional Development 96

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Books Social Justice Books list of titles for K-12 and educators on Palestine. The collection includes picture books, chapter books, poetry, and background reading for educators. Her art could be a prompt for student designed visualizations. A History of Modern Palestine on American Prestige with Rashid Khalidi.

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Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

Homeschool advocates and practitioners have overcome opposition from the National Education Association; they’ve cleared the restrictions, regulations and other hurdles erected by state or local school officials; and they’ve developed a network of support for parent-instructors who otherwise have little access to professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

On a typically balmy December afternoon, a dozen students in teacher Olivia LeDuffs fourth grade structured language arts class at Louisiana Key Academy discussed the book Hatchet, which tells the story of a young boy surviving in the wilderness after a plane accident leaves him stranded.

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Charter School Education Private School K-12 93