ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

The ability to learn and grow is part of what made teaching dynamic and energizing for me. The way sessions were facilitated often contradicted research-based teaching strategies. In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students. another student added.

Professional Development 141

Professional Development Advocacy Tradition Leadership 141

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Horace Tate, for example, featured in Vanessa Siddle Walker’s book, “The Lost Education of Horace Tate, ” was a hero who, beginning in the 1940s, aggressively recruited undergraduate students from historically Black colleges and universities to teach in rural Georgia.

Education 140

Education Tutoring Pedagogy Advocacy 140

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. Teaching is inherently activist. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement.

Civic Engagement 128

Civic Engagement Education Civics K-12 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

Hameed’s students are participants in various programs through Hello Future , a nonprofit organization that works with teen refugees to bridge the education gap by teaching digital and financial literacy, critical thinking and entrepreneurship. The program teaches students how to use the internet as a tool for more than just communication.

Project-Based Learning 145

Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Advocacy Leadership 145

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.

K-12 136

K-12 Leadership Psychology Advocacy 136

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

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. Creger was showing the students how to read by using phonics, which teaches children the relationships between letters and sounds. Teaching students to read is one of the most difficult tasks for an early elementary school teacher. There are several reasons for this, Walsh said.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Tutoring K-12 Public School 145

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 125

High School Advocacy Leadership Teaching 125

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 4, 2015

Citing years of ‘across-the-board money with no accountability [while] Iowa kind of stagnated, ’ he decided to teach our schools a lesson and took some of their money away so that they will learn how to operate more efficiently under austerity conditions, much like Greece and its European Union creditors. We can do better!

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Social Studies Leadership Education Policy 111

Edthena

MAY 29, 2024

A big benefit for David is that AI Coach can scale across the district’s teaching community overcoming traditional constraints like timing and logistics. 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.

Professional Development 110

Professional Development Advocacy Leadership Tradition 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. And they leave at higher rates largely because of poor working conditions—including a lack of input in key decisions affecting their classrooms—not because of dissatisfaction with teaching more broadly.

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

The collective scramble for new leadership comes at a tense time for school boards. Although they typically hire and technically supervise superintendents, in recent months school boards have been at the center of public fights over mask mandates, Covid-19 vaccines and teaching about race. The new hire will be his fifth.

High School 145

High School Leadership Advocacy Government 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. 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. Subscribe today! But that’s changing.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Notably, the law provides financial and regulatory support for policies compatible with “personalized learning,” a teaching method that gives students custom-fit lessons, the choice to pursue individual passions and the ability to move as quickly (or slowly) as needed to master skills and concepts. Most are trying to figure it out.

Education 111

Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

School districts estimate that this fall they will have over 1,000 teaching positions unfilled or terminated across the state as they struggle to pay the bills. Yes, some of our districts have teacher leadership monies in addition to the 1.25% allowable growth funding. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Your thoughts? Related Posts.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Leadership Education Policy Teaching 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.

Library 113

Library Artifacts Advocacy Professional Development 113

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. They rarely had a teacher of color.”

High School 145

High School Public School Leadership Tutoring 145

ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Although immigration issues are specific to the community where I’ve spent most of my teaching career, every community has its own injustices from environmental racism to rural poverty and gun violence, and all of these issues have a deleterious impact on students. I remember simply replying, “Cool, thanks for letting me know!”

Charter School 102

Charter School Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 102

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. Elizabeth Franczyk teaches Spanish at Milwaukee Area Technical College.

Advocacy 124

Advocacy Economics Government Leadership 124

Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. Mealy brings a wealth of organizational experience and expertise to the position.

Political Science 69

Political Science Leadership Advocacy Human Rights 69

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

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

They can get graduates coming back for additional training that qualifies them for raises and promotions; win contracts from employers to teach workers new skills; and attract older adults who need more schooling to advance or change careers. Nursing students at Sacred Heart University. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

Tradition 131

Tradition Advocacy Leadership Economics 131

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. They don’t just want to learn physics, AP Vocabulary, and whatever else you’re teaching them. I want to use my master’s degree to change that. Sign up for our newsletters.

Oral History 100

Oral History Advocacy Cultures Leadership 100

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

The word just hasn’t gotten out about the ability to do this,” said Todd Ziebarth, a senior vice president of state advocacy and support at the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Barraza teaches Native literature at the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

Charter School 135

Charter School Heritage Education K-12 135

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage. It also has teaching tips and resources, progress-tracking capabilities, and guides for mentoring — a key component of the program.

Junior High 128

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 128

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Executive Director provides leadership and vision; gives strategic advice to the governing officials and committees and implements their goals; communicates with members; manages the staff and budget, oversees all Association activities; and represents the Association to the outside world.

Political Science 65

Political Science Advocacy Government Professional Development 65

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The Right has declared war on teaching the truth about structural racism and sexism and on LGBTQ+ youth. This is a national call. The group can be any size.

Teaching 52

Teaching Historic Sites Archiving Museum 52

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. He currently teaches an advanced apprenticeship in Campaigning, Leadership and Management for Britain’s biggest trade union.

Civics 52

Civics Advocacy Leadership Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2019

With music education as a catalyst for student success, why don’t we see these teaching philosophies being integrated across all classrooms? If classrooms better utilized their school’s music educators and their teaching philosophies, students would be encouraged to be creative in every subject. We believe leadership support is vital.

Education 76

Education Advocacy Leadership Teaching 76

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

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. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new.

High School 117

High School K-12 Public School Library 117

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.

Advocacy 70

Advocacy Classroom Management Elementary School Public School 70

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Some low-income prospective students now are working to help their families, said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the advocacy group Complete College America; others are seeing record unemployment rates and wondering whether there will be any jobs for them, even with degrees. “It’s going to affect them for a really long time.”.

High School 129

High School Charter School Advocacy Research 129

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. The need for teachers who have both the knowledge and the ability to teach special education students is more critical today than ever before.

Middle School 95

Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 95

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. Today, the school counts 11 teachers on staff who are certified to teach college classes.

High School 92

High School Social Studies Leadership Political Science 92

The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

We’re very much focused on transactional learning — the systematization of the teaching approach and the way in which we employ people to work in that model.” And faculty don’t do research; they only teach. “We Credit: Aaron Law for The Hechinger Report The idea, generally known in England as block teaching, has begun to spread.

Leadership 72

Leadership Advocacy Library Tradition 72

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. “It’s not just about getting them in the door. That’s the conundrum we still haven’t gotten figured out yet.”.

High School 103

High School Tutoring Education Policy Leadership 103

Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Recently earning a specialization in organizational leadership from Abilene Christian University, Kydra believes that continued success in social studies education requires leadership that focuses on advocacy to organize programs that engage everyone in a community.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Geography Advocacy Leadership 52