The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. Still, the network dispatches experts on finance, community engagement, student experience, curriculum and professional development.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 135

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Through the local advocacy of several organizations, the community will have nine Spanish-speaking providers by this summer — including Aguilera. It benefits Latino children to have a Latino provider because they have the same lived experience, same heritage — it’s easier for them to connect to families, to get more family engagement.”

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Advocacy Heritage Library Elementary School 134

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Karen Kong, 16, has unwavering pride in her Chinese American heritage, rooted in her sense of family and honor.

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History Heritage K-12 American History 107

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

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. He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression.

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Museum Social Studies Advocacy Heritage 52

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

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Legislators also sought to cut professional development requirements in half for child care workers, from 16 hours a year to eight. Sixteen-year-olds, previously required to be supervised by an adult, would be able to work unsupervised. And they wanted to give these potentially younger caregivers more children to care for on their own.

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Government K-12 Heritage Research 143