The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2023

Related: To attract more students to STEM fields in college, advocates urge starting in sixth grade Number two: Youth ambassador opportunities that develop leadership and advocacy skills. Advocacy efforts need to include and be led by youth, but that means we need support from the adults who are leading these conversations.

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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? Creativity builds advocacy skills that employers want, such as communication, collaboration and critical thinking. What creative skills are employers looking for?

Advocacy 113

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

Now, a professor in the School of Leadership and Education Sciences at the University of San Diego, she’s helping to open, in August, the school’s Center for Embodied Equity and Neurodiversity. At its simplest, neurodiversity is the idea that everybody’s brains work differently, and that these differences are normal.

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MAY 12, 2024

We provided statewide access to training and tutoring for assessments in partnership with our teacher advocacy organizations and focused on building community among Black educators. Phelton Moss is the acting director of American University’s Education Policy and Leadership Program.

Education 141

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Community Impact and Student Leadership In 2018, I worked with a group of students who inspired the creation of MIStudentsDream , a community organization focused on immigration and education justice. The group of students decided they wanted to focus their advocacy on teacher practice.

Humanities 122

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Now a doctoral student in education leadership policy at Texas Tech University, Williams often thinks about the student loan debt she is still accruing. And for Williams, a higher education senior policy analyst at the advocacy group Education Trust, the personal is also professional. The reality of her debt finally hit her.

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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. 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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“One of the great paradigm shifts that has occurred with colleges that are really making headway is they no longer consider the students to be broken who come to them,” said Sugar, who was a co-founder of the advocacy group Complete College America. And when you start seeing that change, then we’ll know that we’ve made it as a community.”.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

But while this would seem to have significant potential implications for society and the economy — since college graduates make more money over their lifetimes than people who haven’t finished college — other obstacles have stubbornly prevented women from closing leadership and earnings gaps.

Middle School 142

Middle School Leadership Advocacy Cultures 142

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Hameed said the format lets teachers engage students in a more meaningful way, even when they have to connect over Zoom. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

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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. For my students, leading this PD session and experiencing a shift in the traditional power dynamic opened up a new sense of advocacy possibilities.

Professional Development 140

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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!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2022

My friends without such advocacy found themselves systematically excluded from certain courses by the invisible hand of adults who did not know them and used the school schedule to cajole them toward courses and pathways that, over time, calcified and shaped their identities — and aspirations.

High School 131

High School Advocacy Leadership Teaching 131

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The outcomes were the result of many years of effort, advocacy and coalition building, Lloyd notes. The center is developing an “early educator leadership board,” which will provide a channel for educators to give feedback on the center’s activities. Direct input from early childhood educators is also part of the approach.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 4, 2015

All sports, all clubs, all leadership opportunities… Why are you angry? State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? Along with our recess cuts , that’s more time that we can allocate toward scripted reading and math lessons and additional drill-and-kill activities. We can do better!

Advocacy 111

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Troy Alim, who has been a social justice activist for the past several years, said he is inspired by the leadership of young Black students and agrees that most of the university statements are window dressing. “I Troy Alim, Midwest engagement manager for the Young Invincibles youth advocacy group.

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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.

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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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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.

Professional Development 110

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card.

High School 145

High School Public School Leadership Tutoring 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

Deborah Santiago, president of the national advocacy group Excelencia in Education, said she’s excited about Casa Latina because it is advancing what it means to support not only Latino students but Latino communities more broadly. There is intentionality, there’s leadership here,” she said of the Davenport program.

Advocacy 126

Advocacy Leadership High School Humanities 126

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

Yes, some of our districts have teacher leadership monies in addition to the 1.25% allowable growth funding. But those teacher leadership funds were supposed to supplement, not supplant , the dollars needed to keep school buildings running and only a few teachers are benefiting from them. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Providing students personalized lessons has been a strategy “accessible to people with the means for a while,” said Maria Worthen, vice president for federal and state policy at the International Association for Online Learning, or iNacol, a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes online and blended learning.

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Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Partly because it’s a grassroots movement without clear leadership or an elaborate organization. Moreover, the movement has yet to form an advocacy arm that calls for specific changes and a reform agenda. Why haven’t we heard more about this? Why do families choose to opt out? The answer isn’t simple.

K-12 111

K-12 Advocacy Public School Leadership 111

ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In 2019, Detroit Public Schools Community District officially declared themselves a Sanctuary District , a testament to parent organizing and advocacy in the city. This declaration set forth a series of internal policies to protect undocumented students in the district.

Charter School 101

Charter School Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 101

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

But even states with Democratic leadership have struggled to do so. Looking at average breakdowns from recent data , we see that U.S. schools receive about 47 percent of their funds from their state government, 45 percent from local and 8 percent from federal. million for a 5,000-student district.”

Public School 126

Public School Sociology Government Advocacy 126

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.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

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. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Supporting and expanding these initiatives through advocacy and philanthropy would directly benefit the completion rates of historically marginalized students. Other programs, like ASAP and ACE , have helped to significantly improve degree completion at associate and baccalaureate colleges.

Education 111

Education Advocacy Economics Private School 111

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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Elementary School Tutoring K-12 Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

High-profile leadership failures, such as the case of Harvard president Claudine Gay, make the front page. Gordon is executive director of Alums for Campus Fairness, which is sponsoring an advocacy campaign at several universities across the country, including Cornell and Northwestern , encouraging them to define and denounce antisemitism.

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Advocacy Leadership Education 99

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

This story about child care advocacy was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. It’s baked into the pay and compensation, but it’s also baked into really unjust policies that have negative impacts on families and providers.

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K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 132

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

Education Education Policy Sociology Cultures 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

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Oral History 103

Oral History Advocacy Cultures Leadership 103

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I But certainly the leadership transition for the nonprofit comes during a period of incredible upheaval—arguably a crisis—in early childhood education. So Kang is listening.

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K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 104