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. That same year, the school officially joined the NACA-inspired network as a K-6 charter school with a dual language immersion model.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. She pointed to the “p” again. Puh,” he enunciated. It sounds complicated because it is.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In June, the city of Memphis, Tennessee, lost funding for 1,000 pre-K slots due to an expiring federal grant. Under pressure to invest in education, Mayor Jim Strickland announced the city would commit $6 million toward pre-K funding, though that amount would not completely offset the lost federal funds.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Students engage in creative activities on the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center in San Antonio, Texas. SAN ANTONIO, Texas — By the end of the school year, the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center looked like a dreamscape of “DIY Outdoor Learning Spaces.” Photo: Bekah McNeel for The Hechinger Report.

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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.

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Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

Embracing AI to improve teacher performance Initially apprehensive about AI, David shared his journey of embracing it as a tool for educational leadership and improving teacher performance. “I knew I had to transform my practice if I was going to help teachers transform their practice,” David said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Students are coached in self-assessment, reflection and self-advocacy through a daily reflective writing process, in which they review their goals for the day, discuss what worked and what didn’t work, and then identify next steps for their academic progress. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

And ESSA could serve as a catalyst to super-charge new ways to educate children without tying schools to the old model that had students marching in lock-step through kindergarten and the subsequent 12 grade levels. “We And the state’s leadership has remained consistent. “A Most are trying to figure it out.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. They’d also had a hard time supporting the many early-career teachers who dominate their staffing pool and saw Opportunity Culture as a way to do that better.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Maine is the pioneer,” said Chris Sturgis, co-founder of CompetencyWorks , a national organization that advocates for the approach in K-12 schools. “I And still other schools have made changes only to have them reversed when leadership or other circumstances change. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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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. The State, she said, underfunded special education in public schools in Mississippi by more than $12 million just this year. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states.

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Political Science Now

JULY 16, 2024

Rethinking Citizen Competence in Democratic Theory and Practice Thursday, September 5, 12:00pm – 1:30pm Roundtable Participants : (Chair) Simone Chambers, University of California, Irvine (Presenter) John S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

In over 12 years of developing and running peer-to-peer access and success programming, we have come to see this abundance as a resource. Peer leadership for college access and success is the rare win-win: In the same arena, it benefits the recipients of the services as well as those providing them.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2019

We believe leadership support is vital. Our investments drive advocacy and build strong programs that are sustainable and ultimately showcase the value that music provides to students across a district. The music education community is trying to do everything it can to ensure students are successful. This starts at the top.

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Education Advocacy Leadership Teaching 76

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

“In rural areas there’s often not the tax base you find in an urban or suburban school to fund additional programs,” said Lavina Grandon, co-founder and board president of Rural Community Alliance, a nonprofit school advocacy organization. You’re losing a connection with those students,” she said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Esperanza, which has done well under Choice leadership, achieved 67 percent proficiency in 2016, but is still not at its 80 percent target. Results from 2016 show that two of its four K-8 charters had some scores in the 70s in either English or math and one of the others was a few points shy of 70 percent proficiency.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts. Portland’s district leadership has said it plans “ to stay the course with its transition to a proficiency-based diploma,” regardless of changes in the law. Staying the course in Portland.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2019

We believe leadership support is vital. Our investments drive advocacy and build strong programs that are sustainable and ultimately showcases the value music brings students across the district. The music education community is trying to do everything they can to make sure their students are successful. This starts at the top.

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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. By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

To gain more insight into our experience, I reached out to my network of Palestinian American K-12 educators. My advocacy for Palestine is professional suicide,” Sawsan Jaber said. While every school is different, Palestinian teachers are often vilified, diminished or made unwelcome.

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K-12 Education Advocacy Human Rights 117

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 grade-point average and enough financial aid to cover all of her tuition for at least her first year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In one extreme case, a California district agreed to pay 12 percent interest on a $16.7 In a separate case, Kansas City-based George K. In a memo to the district superintendent, George K. The firms will sponsor school board or leadership conferences and take school leaders out to dinner. million bond issued in 2005.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

The board is currently reviewing the state’s K-12 health standards, which mention suicide prevention parenthetically. 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.

Education 131

Education K-12 High School Advocacy 131

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2017

That dramatic transformation took four years of summer learning academies, college-preparation programs, scholarship coaching, and leadership workshops, all provided by area nonprofits, plus a 3.8 grade-point average and enough financial aid to cover all of her tuition for at least her first year.

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Research K-12 Archiving Advocacy 71

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

A study from University of California, Berkeley economist Rucker Johnson suggests exposure to integrated schools among other reforms, such as high-quality pre-K and equitable school funding, can help disrupt the cycle of poverty. Experienced teachers may also factor in: The majority of educators in Ocean Springs hold advanced degrees.

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Private School High School Public School Charter School 143

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. Interested in adding your organization as a co-sponsor?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Students who are learning English, for example, bring an extra 12 to 55 cents on the dollar. The idea behind Fair Student Funding was that the driver for school budgets was student characteristics, rather than the type of school,” said David Bloomfield, a professor of Education Leadership at Brooklyn College. “By

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High School Leadership Tutoring Public School 65

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Leadership The annual Teach Truth Day of Action is coordinated by Rethinking Schools’ and Teaching for Change’s Zinn Education Project and led by educators around the country with the support of the co-sponsors listed below. Below are examples of day of action activities, from prior events around the country.

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