The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

But when it comes to selecting ed-tech products or figuring out how to use them in the classroom, they could still learn something from the successful partnership between Leadership Public Schools (LPS), a charter network that serves the San Francisco Bay area, and Gooru , an ed-tech nonprofit.

Advocacy 71

Advocacy Classroom Management Elementary School Public School 71

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said. She held it together all day at school and then would explode.” Often these schools also use the discrepancy model to determine whom to admit.)

Psychology 145

Psychology Elementary School High School Humanities 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The three middle schools each have at least one psychologist and two or more school social workers, and each of the 11 elementary schools has at least one school psychologist and two social workers. Leadership over time has invested and really understood the impact around trauma,” Tote-Freeman said.

Tutoring 142

Tutoring Middle School High School Advocacy 142

ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

Education 52

Education Advocacy Middle School Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

School districts that forgo competitive bids often make their decisions based on relationships — which financial firms will go to great lengths to forge. The firms will sponsor school board or leadership conferences and take school leaders out to dinner. Some firms have gotten in trouble for going even further.

K-12 84

K-12 Middle School Elementary School Government 84

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. It’s stuff that we learned.”. The last was struggling to reach 60.

Charter School 77

Charter School Elementary School Leadership Advocacy 77

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Baray, a former teacher and principal in the Austin schools, has also taught at Texas State University, where she conducted extensive research on educational leadership, community involvement, and school improvement. The program’s CEO, Sarah Baray, says the approach makes a big difference.

K-12 83

K-12 Professional Development Public School Advocacy 83

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

His leadership isn’t out there on his shirtsleeve,” said Robert Villanova, director of the executive leadership program at the Neag School of Education at UConn, who worked with Cardona when he was a doctoral student. He’s not a General Patton. They have a voice — right? We’re just sometimes not designed to listen.

Education 127

Education High School Leadership Advocacy 127

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.

K-12 115

K-12 Education Advocacy Human Rights 115

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. A ‘Blessed’ Coast School.

Private School 98

Private School Advocacy Elementary School Public School 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

. — 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 Elementary School. The shares are even higher in some classes at the district’s West Elementary School.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They’re constantly looked over for promotions and leadership opportunities, or pigeonholed into disciplinarian roles. 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 Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov.

Education 140

Education Elementary School High School Leadership 140

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. The school had 10 principals in as many years. She graduated valedictorian of her class.

Education 104

Education Elementary School Government K-12 104

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

In 2015, Guthrie, a sixth-grade teacher and father of three, had approached the superintendent of the school district where he worked, hopeful she would sign a resolution endorsing action on climate change. But after attending an advocacy event in Washington two years later, and hearing that the U.S. He says he got nowhere.

Advocacy 105

Advocacy Government History Elementary School 105

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. One elementary school principal declared it was as if Adams had “asked Alexa to ‘Show him curriculum.’”

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

As a young attorney, she worked for the Children’s Defense Fund, an advocacy group. Her leadership will matter because she’ll elevate it in conversations. Her leadership will matter because she’ll elevate it in conversations,” Perry said. Related: Read Hechinger’s full interview with Clinton. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

Government 72

Government Economics Advocacy Leadership 72