Advocacy Middle School Professional Development 
Digital Promise
JANUARY 13, 2021
Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coaches were often tapped to help lead the transition in their districts , drawing on the program’s tech-focused professional development to prepare teachers to engage with students virtually. Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day.
ED Surge
AUGUST 28, 2024
Then, in 2019, when I became the lead Arabic teacher at my current school, I attended my first professional development conference. Even in my current teaching position, working at a school where 90 percent of students identify as Muslim, I still see the division.
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Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
Implementing reforms in a district, like eliminating grade levels in Kettle Moraine Middle School, is not a feasible task without community understanding. Student advocacy reinforced Kettle Moraine’s implementation of CBE and expanded opportunities around personalized learning.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 28, 2018
Edgecombe is still a rural district with a high-poverty student body, but a new staffing model has made its schools newly desirable for teachers who want to be school leaders without leaving the classroom. Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs.
ED Surge
DECEMBER 10, 2024
The Board of Supervisors voted to bring back middle-school algebra, and a city ballot measure to reinstate eighth-grade algebra passed with about 82 percent of the vote. Critics also challenged the arguments and data used by the district to justify the policy. This year San Francisco unraveled its nearly 10-year experiment.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 16, 2019
middle school curricula. high school curricula. Nearly all of the options listed have professional development available. Advocate to bring CS to your school. See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. Start a club. You could: Teach a unit or course.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 20, 2017
Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based based education advocacy group. “It Often, she backs up these introductions by co-teaching a class or two. “It
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