Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Superintendent Pat Deklotz and Assistant Superintendent Theresa Ewald have worked with their team to create a culture that empowers teachers and students to be thoughtful critics and advocates of their own learning and to explain and advocate for their experiences with the community.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

It seems to work: Vertus says that 71 percent of its students pass their Regents exams, required by the state of New York for graduation, compared to 38 percent in the Rochester City School District. The LEAP Learning Framework urges schools to personalize learning in multiple ways. I’m probably going to learn more.”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Still, despite these challenges, I believe my story is important — not only to create a better understanding of Muslim culture and Muslim women’s identity, but also to build a more welcoming educational environment for Muslim educators and students. The hijab and what it represents in Islam is often misunderstood and unfairly stereotyped.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. ” Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools. “A

Leadership 143

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

As a middle schooler, Alan says he was bullied relentlessly even as he was repeatedly suspended. And while the pandemic closed middle schools across the country, it doesn’t appear to have shutdown school discipline. Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In 50 elementary schools, according to officials, these students now take classes in Spanish and English with an ultimate goal of achieving academic proficiency in both languages by middle school. In Boston Public Schools, Superintendent Tommy Chang has placed an emphasis on culturally and linguistically inclusive schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

But other districts, like the Schenectady City School District near Albany, New York, are ramping up social work services to address the need, including a relatively new program targeting kids who land in trouble for the sometimes destructive reactions to the trauma they’ve experienced. Credit: Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these shifts in coaching and how they have contributed to cultures of continuous growth and changes in how the instructional technology coaching role is perceived: The shift to distance learning has removed many logistical and scheduling challenges coaches previously faced in a traditional school day.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

She was outside supervising a group of students during a mask break at her middle school in South Berwick, Maine, when she felt a sense of overwhelming dread. In the past year, they’ve endured culture war attacks, worsening student behavior, and endless health and safety regulation changes. I didn’t have time to exercise.

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Teaching Middle School Museum Advocacy 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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 elementary school he attended in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and middle school and high school, where the student population is predominantly white.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college? The culture changed. Rural ones. You’re losing a connection with those students,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

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 elementary school and start attending a middle school across town.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

In early 2015, when its superintendent announced his retirement, the district recruited Heath Grimes, then superintendent of the nearby Lawrence County school system, for the job. A Cuban refugee herself, she led discussions with teachers on similarities between Hispanic and Southern culture. They love family.

High School 140

High School K-12 Heritage Professional Development 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. Without it, what little mental health support schools can offer students may fray further in the coming months. About 19 percent reported anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

While working with other teachers on an instructional leadership team planning an anti-bias and anti-racist curriculum, Katherine Hanna, an elementary school 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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

WILDWOOD, Missouri — A middle school student in Missouri had trouble collecting images of people’s eyes for an art project. 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.

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Library Advocacy Humanities Geography 79

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

But, while Alabama earned an A after revamping its standards, eighth-ranked Mississippi earned a C from the advocacy group, which rates state standards for inclusion of leaders, groups, events, history, opposition and tactics. In the Canton Public School District, Howard Hollins teaches sixth-grade world geography and citizenship.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

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.

Cultures 21

Cultures Library Elementary School Advocacy 21

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Fuller’s stance on school choice has created unlikely alliances with deep-pocketed conservatives and has put him at odds with mainstream civil rights advocates, but his work is impacting a younger generation of black school leaders striving to create culturally relevant institutions for the students they serve. The trade-off.

Charter School 98

Charter School Private School Heritage Social Justice 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

In a white paper she co-authored this year, Mooney cited research that connected officers hired through the federal “COPS in Schools” program to a reduction — about 1 percent to 2 percent — in disruptive criminal incidents on campus. There’s no teeth to it. There’s no way to really enforce it,” Hairston said.

High School 140

High School Advocacy Research Middle School 140

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

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.

Advocacy 85

Advocacy High School Middle School Elementary School 85

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Maria, 13, left rear, is a student at Morton Middle School. Matias’s daughter Maria, a student at Morton Middle School, grew up in Mississippi and speaks English with a southern drawl. “I The Tupelo School District, in the northwest corner of the state, has found the approach to be effective. Photo: Ben Stocking.

Elementary School 87

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

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. A middle school reading program would be altered because the books, one board majority member said, were too “doom and gloom.”

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