The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. If you lose a day of carefully planned lessons, that’s losing a key building block.

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Charter School Middle School Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

In January, the school district hired Roberts and about two dozen other “ floaters” as part of a broader effort to improve the quality of substitute teaching and alleviate a staffing crunch that grew dire during this winter’s Covid-19 surge. Why don’t people who live there, teach there? Credit: Image provided by Nathan Roberts.

Elementary School 137

Elementary School High School Public School Advocacy 137

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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

Tutoring 139

Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 139

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 teach expository writing to this group this week. I need to build a lesson plan.”

Lesson Plan 86

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By 2021, it had committed to its most ambitious goal yet: overhauling the way Fairfax County Public Schools teaches students to read and supports struggling readers. The district gave all kindergarten through second-grade teachers scripted lesson plans featuring phonics. They were told to implement them immediately.

High School 145

High School Elementary School Public School Social Justice 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

The goal is to stop tethering teaching to “seat time” — where students are grouped by age and taught at a uniform, semester pace — and instead adopt competency-based education, in which students progress through skills and concepts by demonstrating proficiency. According to Baesler, however, “We were too often teaching to a test.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

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 97

Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 97

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Teachers, particularly those who teach in our most disadvantaged communities, need to be protected. Teachers are obliged to write on the board the specific skill (and number) that they’re teaching. Teachers in these schools are usually told they have to teach reading from standardized materials. scripted teaching methods).

Education 91

Education K-12 Anthropology Advocacy 91

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

One of my teacher candidates reflected upon his learning as “a meaningful experience, and I created lesson plans for the Underground Railroad museum using their documents and videos on how to rethink language.” In the summer of 2021, Mr. Broccolo and I reconnected to review and refine lesson plans created by teacher candidates.

Cultures 52

Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

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 131

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 131

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Although online energy dashboards are a popular way to turn these buildings into teaching tools, they’re not necessary. My lesson plan is: Here’s a problem. They haven’t quite succeeded, but they’re getting close.

K-12 111

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Teaching students about these heroes can inspire them to be advocates in their communities and reach for their dreams. 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. Du Bois W.E.B.

Museum 52

Museum Social Studies Advocacy Heritage 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

In others, schools use PBS’s “Nova” program to help teach science. of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education. In some cities, school buses now deliver daily paper packets of schoolwork, along with bagged breakfasts and lunches.

Elementary School 88

Elementary School Tutoring Public School Charter School 88

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

Charter School 83

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 83

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 99

High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 99

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. 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.

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 111

Social Justice Lesson Plan K-12 Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Lindsey Johnson and Yesenia De La Rosa were taking different approaches to teaching the same English lesson on silent letters as they sat at opposite ends of this first grade classroom in West Elementary School. They were never not teaching,” she said. 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

I am very cautious about a lot of things,” said Woods, a special education teacher in Palm Beach County, Florida, who teaches science. “I But he understands why many teachers, particularly sole breadwinners, won’t want to risk losing their jobs or teaching certificates. This story also appeared in USA Today. “I

Cultures 24

Cultures Library Elementary School Advocacy 24

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Rand is new to teaching at Holmes Central, but she spent three years here as a student. Rand, like nearly one in five members of the district’s teaching staff, has a temporary license. It’s still teaching kids there’s a black school and there’s a white school.”. Rand took a job teaching fifth grade at Goodman-Pickens Elementary.

Private School 143

Private School High School Public School Economics 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

“If I were a teacher, would I know how to shift to teaching online?”. 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. Another says to “plan for student learning.”.

Government 133

Government High School K-12 Public School 133

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Kambria Siyuja, right, plans to teach in Supai, like her mother, Jackie Siyuja, middle, who teaches at the tribes preschool program. But what are they teaching here? Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes.

Education 106

Education Elementary School Government K-12 106

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. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143