The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. In past years, these programs met societal and student needs through instruction on culturally responsive teaching, trauma-informed education, conscious leadership and many other progressive approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

With help from Hameed, the lead instructor, and several teaching assistants, students learn how to use search engines like Google, how to research and verify information, create presentations online, answer emails in a professional manner and use Google products like Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Drive.

Project-Based Learning 145

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students. Once my students had a clear idea of the lessons they wanted their teachers to learn, they devised a plan for presenting this information. “I The impact of substandard and irrelevant PD is also noticeable to students.

Professional Development 140

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

The world of higher education is at a crossroads, said Amy Lloyd, executive director of the education advocacy nonprofit All4Ed and former assistant secretary for the Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education at the U.S. Department of Education.

High School 58

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

EL , Design39 , or EPiC ), most of the schools that are featured in deeper learning research, advocacy, and publicity conversations often are at the secondary level (e.g., Related Posts Leadership Day 2010 – The final list! However, with some exceptions (e.g., The Met or High Tech High ). Stay tuned!

Middle School 86

Middle School Leadership Advocacy Critical Thinking 86

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. More information can be found at [link]. With teacher librarians across the U.S. Create More! Consume Less?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Taylor School District officials said they could not discuss student information without authorization. Similarly, the vast majority of states do not gather any information about how often they place students on shortened schedules. “They brought up safety of staff and other students, which as a parent, I understand,” she said.

Education 145

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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. These students carried those outside stressors into the classroom when in-person schooling resumed.

Charter School 101

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Our languages are quickly becoming in danger of being lost,” Around Him says.

Advocacy 110

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

We were able to get further out there and get people more informed. After that, I will put it into either a phone bank or a text bank so one of the organizers from the early education campaign can send them a text or get more information from them. There were a lot of centers closing down. We were running ads on social media.

K-12 128

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

The report’s authors called on “ school systems , school boards, mayors and governors nationwide to make urgent changes to shift the gender balance at the very top levels of education leadership.”. Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I

Education 143

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Not just so students could keep learning during the shutdown, but so that the whole family had access to information and resources.”. “We We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021.

High School 118

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

We’ve run into challenges where legislators are reluctant to pass an unfunded mandate,” said Nicole Gibson, the senior director for state policy and grassroots advocacy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. Birkholz believes state leadership is necessary.

Education 129

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

A position announcement , including information on how to apply, is available here. To ensure a successful and diverse pool of candidates, we encourage all qualified applicants to apply. We also encourage members to share this announcement widely and to nominate or recommend colleagues for the position.

Political Science 66

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

In dozens of interviews, Summit leadership, education researchers, and the people who teach and learn in schools that use Summit agreed that the platform offers a systematic way to achieve the otherwise complicated, messy objective of personalizing learning.

Junior High 129

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Watching includes the acts of staying informed and of being a participant observer. Among other actions, she articulated two concepts – watching and naming – that she thought were particularly important for members of a community who wish to be deeply involved and fully present.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Able to quickly absorb information that is of interest, they long to put this knowledge to practical use in work and career exploration. Second, they have walked a mile — or 100 — in their peers’ shoes, and the stories they have to share go well beyond information. The math is not just about increasing matriculation percentages.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

Civics 143

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Grant Callen, president of “school choice” advocacy group Empower Mississippi, speaks before a crowd at the Capitiol at the beginning of National School Choice Week in February. But education and disability-rights advocacy groups have a different opinion of special-needs voucher programs than the state’s education leadership.

Private School 98

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 7, 2024

Instructor : Titus Alexander has four decades of experience in civic education, engagement, and advocacy at a local, national, and international level. Instructor : Titus Alexander has four decades of experience in civic education, engagement, and advocacy at a local, national, and international level.

Civics 53

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Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Research has shown that students are more successful learning new content when the new information is tied to their background knowledge. Students need a way to organize the new information with what they already know. This strategy is also referred to as mind mapping.

Social Studies 52

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Leadership over time has invested and really understood the impact around trauma,” Tote-Freeman said. Before the pandemic and his move to the diversion program, he had more informal interactions with students. Most of Wylie’s time was spent behind closed doors, in confidential meetings and conversations or on phone calls.

Tutoring 142

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. On other days, they brainstorm math problems using information from the many placards lining Discovery’s hallways, offering scientific facts about native songbirds, the ecology of Virginia’s forests, the ocean or the galaxy.

K-12 111

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

“Certainly, as long as human beings are running schools, you’re going to have that possibility,” she said, adding that the goal is to have policies and procedures in place that uphold the law and protect kids, while keeping parents informed. In the end, a leadership change paved the way to victory in Holmes County.

Elementary School 145

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The condition impedes a person’s ability to process written information and can negatively affect their career and well-being. The dyslexia advocacy community has in some states also been predominantly white and financially privileged, with low-income families and parents of color more likely to fear the stigma of a disability diagnosis.

Psychology 145

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The firms will sponsor school board or leadership conferences and take school leaders out to dinner. About half the tickets went to school superintendents and one-third to school board members who stopped by its booth at the annual Missouri School Boards’ Association conference and filled out a piece of paper with their contact information.

K-12 85

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2024

Listen to the whole series TRANSCRIPT Scroll to the end of this transcript to find out more about this topic, and for links to more information. But the fact that it even exists, Kirk, proves there’s demand for this kind of information. I think what I would do is, frankly, look at a few sources of information.

Government 96

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

She also learned how to keep students with disabilities on task and break down lessons into smaller, easier bits of information for students who were struggling. Mike Flom, a parent and co-founder of the advocacy group New Jersey Parents and Teachers for Appropriate Education, said many factors impact inclusion’s effectiveness.

Middle School 96

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Or are they exposed to information via social media that is leading to a greater sense of anxiety and depression? Climate advocacy group EARTHDAY.org released a “state of climate interactive map” to highlight how climate change is taught and the policy efforts happening in every state. Youth “all could use more support relationships.

Tradition 58

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Logistical hurdles, resistance from teachers fed up with top-down reforms, confusion about exactly what the law requires, and missing information about how districts will be judged on their compliance are among the challenges that come with overhauling the state’s high schools. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

Education 0

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

As the authors debated, drafted, and shaped the meaning and purpose of this book, the following questions came to the forefront: How does democratic erosion in the United States inform our teaching of political engagement?

Political Science 55

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Sign Up to Host an Event Leadership These events are coordinated by the Zinn Education Project (coordinated by Rethinking Schools and Teaching for Change), Black Lives Matter at School , and the African American Policy Forum. We will send the email to you to check first to make sure all the information is correct.)

Teaching 52

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Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2025

A group of forensic anthropologists argues their field must reject the myth of pure objectivity and challenge systemic inequities through advocacy and activism. The AAFS did not issue a formal statement on its anti-advocacy position. This is the flagship U.S.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Once again, we invite educators, students, parents, and community members to host an information table or event to defend the right to #TeachTruth including about Palestine and the rights of LGBTQ+ students. The right has declared war on teaching the truth about structural racism and sexism and on LGBTQ+ youth. Sign up today.

Teaching 52

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

The Texas sex education standards make no mention of LGBTQIA+ identities , therefore denying LGBTQIA+ students the relevant information their cisgender and heterosexual classmates receive. However, teaching policy fellowships can potentially be the most impactful route for advocacy.

Education Policy 107

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Since 2012, when the department began publishing complete information on how schools are funded, the group of 13 schools has received more than $100 million from the bonus. David Bloomfield, a professor of Education Leadership at Brooklyn College. Kids called in ‘Broken Tech,’ ” she said.

High School 66

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2024

To make data-enhanced decisions, it's crucial to have access to reliable and relevant research, something I stress in Digital Leadership extensively. Inform Policy Decisions : Data-Driven Policymaking : Use Consensus AI to identify research that supports or refutes proposed educational policies.

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