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Edgecombe is still a rural district with a high-poverty student body, but a new staffing model has made its schools newly desirable for teachers who want to be school leaders without leaving the classroom. Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs.
Without a significant change in the economics of education, changing the grammar of schooling is actually the most realistic approach. How could school work if teachers only taught 4 days out of a 5 day school week? At elementaryschools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation.
Teachers Ivonne Kendrick and Milagro Nuñez lead preschool students at Houston ElementarySchool in a song during a time of “música y movimiento.” In Ivonne Kendrick’s classroom at Houston ElementarySchool, 3-year-olds sit cross-legged in a circle, listening to their teacher sing about the fall season. WASHINGTON, D.C. —
Instead of working in her dream role as an elementaryschool teacher, she spent her days hauling cow organs for inspection. Through the local advocacy of several organizations, the community will have nine Spanish-speaking providers by this summer — including Aguilera. Stuck at her job at a Tyson meatpacking plant.
In the Austin Independent School District in Texas, administrators recognize that same value for their native Spanish speakers who enter the public schools without English fluency. In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools.
But schools throughout the country sometimes fail to provide those services. Cultural and linguistic differences can convince some parents not to question what’s happening at school — a power imbalance that, advocates say, means some children miss out on critical support. There’s also an issue of context.
Elementary teachers report more anxiety when it comes to teaching math, which can make it harder to teach struggling learners. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. Experts say that there are ways that all schools can make math instruction more accessible.
Simón López, the Coordinator of Special Education at the Sarah Greenwood ElementarySchool for Dual Languages, is calling attention to the failure of Boston Public Schools’ dual language programs to accept students with certain types of disabilities – a violation of the spirit, at least, of state and federal laws.
She became an educator in 2007 and has spent most of her career teaching special needs students at a majority-Hispanic public elementaryschool in the Bronx. They don’t speak the language; they don’t understand the culture, the routines—all of that invisible stuff that we take for granted. There’s such stigma around the label.
Creating a culture of care, that’s been our focus,” said Andrea Tote-Freeman, assistant superintendent of student support services for the district. Each class year in the district’s only high school has its own cohort of administrators, a social worker and a psychologist who all move with the student cohort over four years.
But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. And when kids should stop going to elementaryschool and start attending a middle school across town.
“We see that advanced math coursework is a huge predictor of college success, but this stuff is all foundational,” said Lakisha Young, founder and CEO of The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group focused on better supporting low-income students of color in Oakland. It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods.
It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group that works with underserved communities, also joined the partnership. The homework gap isn’t new. It’s social work.”.
Raylan Li, 15, is excited to become a co-president of the Asian Culture Club this fall. Lab High School for Collaborative Studies, Li sees a noticeable difference between the predominantly Asian elementaryschool he attended in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and middle school and high school, where the student population is predominantly white.
Arnett also said that schools must be ready to foster a shift in classroom instruction and, on a larger scale, a change in schoolculture towards technology in the classroom. In order to target these deficiencies, LPS launched a new math course to help students who were performing below grade level get back on track.
“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Inside Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, N.H.
Fifty-one percent of those who graduate go on to college , according to the Youth Development Institute of Puerto Rico, compared to 67 percent of suburban American high school graduates and 63 percent of rural and urban ones. We don’t have that culture of studying for [the SAT]. It’s not a thing.
In a survey conducted by Educators for Excellence, a teacher-led advocacy group, gun violence ranked as teachers’ No. 1 school safety concern. Lockdown instructions posted in Nivia Vizurraga’s elementaryschool classroom. She currently teaches K-5 special education at an elementaryschool in Reseda, California.
A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.
While working with other teachers on an instructional leadership team planning an anti-bias and anti-racist curriculum, Katherine Hanna, an elementaryschool teacher in Massachusetts, identified herself as a person of color and began to share her perspective on the importance of teaching others about her culture.
In the past year, they’ve endured culture war attacks, worsening student behavior, and endless health and safety regulation changes. She watched her school climate turn increasingly anti-teacher, as workloads surged and parents accused them of indoctrinating students, taking cues from right-wing talking points like critical race theory.
In a recent survey drawing responses from 1,219 teachers and conducted by the charter schoolsadvocacy organization the Thomas B. Instead, Alan has been bullied by peers and ostracized by school staff, said Moreno, who, with her attorney Gail Stewart, has taken administrative legal action against the school district.
When schools use child protective services as a weapon against parents. Many more have seemed unfounded, with cultural differences in child-rearing clearly playing a role. Skene added: “We are starting to work with local communities to identify cultural and racial disparities and how we can respond better.”. Out of options.
. — Lindsey Johnson and Yesenia De La Rosa were taking different approaches to teaching the same English lesson on silent letters as they sat at opposite ends of this first grade classroom in West ElementarySchool. The shares are even higher in some classes at the district’s West ElementarySchool. They love family.
In 1953, Brbara Flores entered kindergarten at Washington ElementarySchool in Madera, California, a small city in the Central Valley surrounded by farm fields. Brbara Flores stands inside her old kindergarten classroom at Washington ElementarySchool in Madera on Oct. The school opened a dual language program in 2017.
I never really wanted to go from school to school.”. Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park ElementarySchool in Charleston, Friday, Nov. “Preston Thorne was a unique piece of what made our schoolculture so great,” she said.
“School districts have a lot on their plates so [counselors] haven’t really gotten directives about what their role should look like.”. The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementaryschools, puts students there at particular risk.
In Alabama, the governor signed a law last month requiring schools to notify parents if their child is questioning their gender identity. In each case, teachers are being deputized as culture war cops, called upon to police their own behavior, and that of their students. Neither poll asked specifically about culture war issues.
Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars. courses in middle school and high school, he said.
The ACLU continues to fight the issue at the local level more than a decade after wrapping up its national “ Don’t Filter Me ” campaign against school web blocks of resources for the LGBTQ+ community. Yet as the culture wars play out in U.S. I’m worried there’s a lot more content filtering reemerging.”
Luis Antonio Hernandez reads a story about Cinco de Mayo to students in Christy Crotwell’s first grade class at Morton ElementarySchool. He’s the only full-time translator at the school, which has 152 Spanish-speaking students in its 21 classrooms. Crotwell, at rear, has been teaching at the school for 16 years.
Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementaryschool teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I After Election Day, headlines in key locales all around the country spoke of moms fighting extremists in local school board races and winning.
Bills that restrict trans students from playing on sports teams that correspond with their gender identity have been introduced in 36 states in 2021 and have passed in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Mississippi, Montana, Tennessee and West Virginia, according to the legislative tracker run by the advocacy group Freedom For All Americans.
They’re familiar rituals in rural communities throughout the state, where public schools can play an outsized role, serving as social and cultural hubs, major employers and sources of collective pride and community identity. “I Charles Johnson, executive director of Pastors for Texas Children, a public-schooladvocacy group. “It
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. One elementaryschool principal declared it was as if Adams had “asked Alexa to ‘Show him curriculum.’”
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