ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2023

Excited for the opportunity to focus on their learning, teachers find their seats and start to chit chat about the lesson plans they’ve left for their students. This workshop is part of a tech ambassador program, which builds technology advocacy across the district.

Professional Development 141

Professional Development Advocacy Lesson Plan Teaching 141

ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

We create entire units and lesson plans well before meeting them, let alone take the time to build meaningful connections with our students. The group of students decided they wanted to focus their advocacy on teacher practice. They feel connected to a community and empowered to advocate for change.

Humanities 124

Humanities Leadership Advocacy Lesson Plan 124

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Education Reimagined, a reform advocacy program that emerged from an unusual coalition of union leaders and reformers, recently highlighted the Cedar Rapids district’s work, and The Hechinger Report spoke with Pickering to learn more about it. I need to build a lesson plan.” A: We’re only in our third year.

Lesson Plan 85

Lesson Plan Tradition Advocacy High School 85

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

Library 111

Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Around 60 percent of large school districts surveyed by the National Council on Teacher Quality, an advocacy group, increased pay for subs during the pandemic. It also sent templates of lesson plans that teachers can leave for their temporary replacements. Credit: Terra Fondriest for The Hechinger Report.

Elementary School 136

Elementary School High School Public School Advocacy 136

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. Teachers create individualized lesson plans for students during each tutoring session, employing a variety of items to help students better understand math concepts.

Tutoring 139

Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 139

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The district gave all kindergarten through second-grade teachers scripted lesson plans featuring phonics. We really picked up steam when the organizations joined forces,” said Diane Cooper-Gould, a founder and advocacy co-chair of the Special Education PTA and a parent of a student with dyslexia.

High School 145

High School Elementary School Public School Social Justice 145

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

The experiences included an online seminar (which included a virtual tour of UGRR), a self-guided walking and driving tour of significant underground railroad landmarks in Niagara Falls, NY, and the task of creating inquiry lesson for UGRR with the intent of being posted on the heritage center’s website.

Cultures 52

Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Most states have something on the books to encourage competency-based options, but only about a half-dozen have loosened seat-time dictates enough to dispense with grade levels, according to Matt Williams, chief operating officer and vice president of policy and advocacy for the personalized-learning nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. My lesson plan is: Here’s a problem. Dozens of these ultra-green schools are going up in every sort of district – urban and rural, affluent and lower income, blue state and red state. Solve it,” said Becker. “We

K-12 111

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Let their dreams and longings be the starting point for lesson plans, not something that’s cordoned off or relegated to 20-minute enrichment. University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations. Bring out the beauty that’s in their souls. Christopher Morphew , U.

Education 91

Education K-12 Anthropology Advocacy 91

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. He encouraged his readers to be proud of who they were and to see “Beauty in Black.”

Museum 52

Museum Social Studies Advocacy Heritage 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. Lesson plans for teachers help high school students understand if they qualify.

Advocacy 89

Advocacy Government Public School High School 89

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

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. She has learned through experience how to teach students with a variety of disabilities, and works with a veteran special education teacher to modify lesson plans and tests.

Middle School 95

Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 95

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education. The district already had an internal learning-management system that housed lesson plans, organized assignments and tracked student progress online, she said.

Elementary School 88

Elementary School Tutoring Public School Charter School 88

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

I’m getting directly into interventions, targeted materials, resources, lesson plans, pedagogical skills that are tailored toward the kids I have sitting right in front of me.”. And the lessons about independence and self-advocacy lead to kids who know how and when to ask for help.

Junior High 128

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 128

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once.

High School 97

High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 97

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Still, there are some stalwart critics, notably Benjamin Riley, who visited many personalized-learning classrooms from 2010 to 2014 as the policy and advocacy director for the NewSchools Venture Fund. Most Basecamp schools make a lot of changes to the platform’s lesson plans, projects and assessments.

Charter School 82

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 82

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

K-12 110

K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 110

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Extremist groups fueled and funded campaigns in Massachusetts urging parents to “opt out” of sex education, denying their children vital information about topics including puberty, healthy relationships, consent, self-advocacy and more.

Social Justice 110

Social Justice K-12 Lesson Plan Advocacy 110

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. Grimes received a state award for his “remarkable contributions and tireless advocacy for English Learner funding in Alabama schools.” Slowly, educators began sharing strategies and co-teaching classes.

High School 145

High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Jacqueline Rodriguez, vice president of research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, said she worries the bills will discourage LGBTQ individuals from pursuing teaching careers by sending the message that “this is not the profession to pursue if you want to bring your whole self to work every day.”.

Cultures 24

Cultures Library Elementary School Advocacy 24

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

The nonprofit advocacy group EdBuild’s recommendations to increase funding for students who are impoverished, have a disability or are learning English “made sense,” Wright added. “It No one had left lesson plans for their substitute teacher, so most of the time, her class just filled out worksheets.

Private School 142

Private School High School Public School Economics 142

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Teachers were required to submit weekly lesson plans, and though distance learning “started strong … there were breakdowns,” acting Superintendent Alban Naha said in an interview. Many of the school’s educators had difficulty keeping in touch with students because they, like many students, lack a stable internet connection at home.

Government 131

Government High School K-12 Public School 131

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. Teachers used no lesson plans, in any subject, and the school had no librarian. Teachers now submit weekly lesson plans, and the school selected a curriculum and purchased computers for all grades.

Education 104

Education Elementary School Government K-12 104

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143