ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Just last week, the director of the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, Jen Easterly, listed K-12 as one of three “ target rich, resource poor ” priority sectors for the agency, which is tasked with toughening the country’s cybersecurity infrastructure. But it’s something that lawmakers are only beginning to wake up to.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? How can infusing creativity in the K-12 setting help them when they leave our institution? It gives them a stronger self-identity and voice to tackle challenges.

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Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 106

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 23, 2024

Changes to SCS Dues Rates kskordal Tue, 01/23/2024 - 12:33 Image We hope to see many of you again in Philadelphia next year (2-5 January 2025), and urge you to renew your membership now if you haven’t done so already, as dues rates are scheduled to rise on February 1st. K-12 Teachers $38.00 $40.00 Student membership $34.00 $34.00

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

This year marks the first time since 2012 that a majority of undocumented high schoolers who are graduating won’t be able to apply to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known simply as DACA, according to a new report from the immigrant advocacy group FWD.us. They have the right to this education thanks to Plyler v.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2022

In a deal quietly announced last week, K-12 educational software services company Renaissance Learning acquired Illuminate Education for an undisclosed amount. The deal was announced last Monday on both companies' sites and in an email sent to Illuminate customers. Why the pairing?

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EdTech K-12 Education Advocacy 103

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 11, 2017

Integrate more opportunities for play in K-12. Emphasize student agency (voice, choice, advocacy) as a right for all Re-think homework and outdated grading practices to create a culture focused on R.E.A.L learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. That makes it even more important to fight for justice within the American K-12 educational system and ensure that our students learn the truth. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs. This is dire.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

She got up early and stayed open late to accommodate people who worked 12-hour shifts and needed to drop kids off as early as 5 a.m. There was enough space — three units and one house — for four classrooms, and as soon as renovation was completed on the first room, she enrolled 12 more kids. The timeline for renovation grew longer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA. Nearly 15,000 of Philadelphia’s more than 197,000 students attended a virtual cyber charter school last year — a 55 percent increase since the 2020-21 school year.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

For instance, a program called Educators Rising has chapters in high schools for students who might be interested in teaching that also provides info and arranges tours of education schools, says Jacqueline King, a consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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K-12 Advocacy High School History Education 95

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Why has this happened, and how does it affect black male students in their K-12 academic journeys? Her interests include research and advocacy for children of color, children from impoverished backgrounds and children involved in athletics. But black men account for only 2 percent of all teachers in American public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2020

And the level of advocacy and support for a solution has snowballed. Digital Bridge K-12 has a guide for collecting that data. House of Representatives and Senate have introduced legislation to spend billions on home internet connectivity for the nation’s students. His team launched a new website, digitalbridgek12.org

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K-12 Advocacy Library Education 132

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2016

The major advocacy group for public charter schools is concerned that failing online charter schools may be hurting the credibility of the movement as a whole. The post Virtual charter schools need “bold action” for change, says national charter school advocacy group appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. To help, district leaders turned to Daniel Joseph, a veteran educator and national consultant who has led the design of Parker-Varney’s competency system, and asked him to adapt it for the rest of the district’s K-12 schools.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Monarch School, a public-private K-12 school, is an arrangement between the San Diego County Office of Education and a local nonprofit. That includes Barbara Duffield, executive director of SchoolHouse Connection, a nonprofit focused on homeless education advocacy.

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K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 116

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

Yet many of them receive little to no introduction to climate science in K-12 schools. This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. This month, in Illinois, she’s part of the program’s art team.

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ED Surge

MAY 18, 2022

Tommy Sheridan, the deputy director of the National Head Start Association (NHSA), a nonprofit advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start, was hearing stories about just how challenging it is to be in early childhood education right now. And it’s not because of COVID-19—not directly, anyway.

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K-12 Advocacy Elementary School Education 101

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs. Common Core for the not-so-common learner: English language arts strategies grades K-5. References Dove, M. & Honigsfeld, A. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin. Honigsfeld, A., &

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

“This year’s NAEP results confirm the absence of political will in the last two years to do anything revolutionary to change the trajectory for our children’s futures,” a statement from Memphis Lift and Nashville Propel, two Tennessee-based parent advocacy groups said.

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K-12 Advocacy Professional Development Education 100

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in many communities.

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K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 115

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

They leave for K-12 or other educational systems that will pay them a fair wage and provide benefits.” The outcomes were the result of many years of effort, advocacy and coalition building, Lloyd notes. So oftentimes what we find in early childhood is that when people get degrees or credentials, they don’t stay in the field.

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Government K-12 Leadership Advocacy 103

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Standardized testing is a common feature in K-12 schooling in the United States, with federal legislation requiring since 2002 that states test virtually all children in grades 3-8 in mathematics and English language arts. Moreover, the movement has yet to form an advocacy arm that calls for specific changes and a reform agenda.

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K-12 Advocacy Leadership Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2020

Our district decided to start grades K-2 in person and grades 3-12 virtually. Music teachers need your advocacy and your help. But this school year brings a new kind of uncertainty, not just for us, but for every teacher, administrator and district across the nation.

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K-12 Advocacy High School Cultures 143

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Delaware Department of Education has added to their 17 early literacy micro-credentials that were launched in 2020 with 12 new micro-credentials to support early literacy throughout the state.*. Teach for America Las Vegas has published their first micro-credential, Solving Challenges Using Design Thinking in a K-12 Classroom.

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Professional Development K-12 Project-Based Learning Civics 84

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report This year, Harpeth Valley flagged just 12 third graders as needing extra reading support, but the requirements of the expansive Tennessee law could put far more students at risk of retention. Because it is just one assessment.” Because I email, I call.

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Tutoring Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 105

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

And then when you go into more affluent communities or communities where there's stronger advocacy, you're gonna see projects and you're gonna see stories and you're gonna see kids sharing their own voices. “And we're gonna see, unfortunately, a lot of spreadsheets that have numbers and yellow and red cells,” Gonzalez says.

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Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 91

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Elementary schools could have “one day where younger kids engage with experiential learning with partner organizations,” suggests Scott Goldstein, founder of a teacher advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. We can get more creative with school employees, too.

Teaching 145

Teaching K-12 Elementary School Advocacy 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

In the past, we saw more of these local or state driven initiatives focusing on pre-K, but over the last three years, we’ve seen voters approve ballot measures to invest in child care and early learning across a handful of states, cities, counties,” she said. The program has also been a boon for the child care centers themselves.

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K-12 Advocacy Professional Development Research 103

Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Online communities include: CSforAllTeachers (a virtual community of practice, for all teachers from Pre-K through high school who are interested in teaching CS). csk8 Twitter chats (K-8 CS teachers chat about designated topics on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of each month at 5pm PT / 8pm ET). Girls Who Code clubs (grades 3-12).

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K-12 Advocacy Professional Development Middle School 84

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year.

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Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 101

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it. “To What are you going to do?” Ortiz-Licon said.

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K-12 Advocacy High School Leadership 144

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

Just as often, though, it’s not a K-12 school the educators are leaving for. The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I This predicament is not rare. So Kang is listening. That’s one of the two priorities weighing heavily on her mind.

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K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 101

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Efforts that seem to be working have had a common ingredient: close ties between colleges and local K-12 school districts.

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K-12 Teaching Advocacy Classroom Management 98

Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

The media literacy micro-credentials developed by KQED and PBS allow teachers to demonstrate expertise in teaching Pre-K-12 students to think critically about their roles as media consumers and creators—or in training teachers to do so. Emphasizing digital equity and advocacy.

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Library K-12 Pedagogy Advocacy 109

All Things Pedagogical

JUNE 24, 2023

I know that K-12 will soon be on summer break, and some folk in HigherEd has been off for a month or so now, but on this Pride weekend I am seeing how much this exhaustion is impacting what folk can do to be in community. And this sort of burnout is seen in large and small ways.

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K-12 Advocacy Education 40