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? She teaches students to be more inclusive by making their creations accessible to those who are differently abled. What creative skills are employers looking for?

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Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 113

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Brian Johnsrud Director of Education Learning and Advocacy, Adobe Recently, EdSurge spoke with Brian Johnsrud , the director of education learning and advocacy at Adobe , about using educational tools that not only harness the power of AI but also uphold the creative integrity of students and teachers.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Even before enslavement, teaching and learning existed in Africa. Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

During the transition to online and home-based instruction, teachers and administrators turned to instructional technology coaches for support in the meaningful, effective use of technology to ensure learning continuity and minimize teaching and learning disruptions.

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Artifacts Middle School Advocacy Lesson Plan 140

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Once considered a boutique form of education overly reliant on technology, competency-based education is increasingly seen as a way to solve a host of problems with traditional schooling, problems that became more apparent when learning went virtual. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

According to the most recent data from 2020-21 school year, two thirds of the 7 million students with disabilities who receive special education services spent 80 percent or more of their time in traditional classrooms. “Every student is different, and ‘inclusion’ for one student may look different from others.

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Research Education Advocacy Psychology 136

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The already converted policymakers, school leaders and teachers ready to transform traditional schooling came to this annual conference last week from around the world to share a common refrain: Out with the old. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Students protesting. Getty Images.

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Advocacy K-12 Tradition Economics 104

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. A Lasting Impression The experience of being fired from my first teaching job was undoubtedly a traumatic experience — and one that I later learned would be a regular, systemic experience I would have because of my Muslim identity.

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Professional Development Advocacy Cultures Humanities 23

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. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. Bobbie Lowe Teacher Librarian. Create More!

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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. He reflected on his transition from skepticism to advocacy, emphasizing the importance of staying current with technology to enhance educational practices.

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Professional Development Advocacy Leadership Tradition 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The number of institutions that have adopted this approach “is still a small group,” said Maria Flynn, president and CEO of the advocacy group Jobs for the Future, or JFF, which has announced a $5 million competition to develop more rapid-reskilling programs that reduce training time by at least 50 percent for well-paid occupations.

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Tradition Advocacy Professional Development Teaching 141

Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

CLX is part of a region-wide Education Innovation Cluster —a local ecosystem of organizations working across sectors and silos to advance transformative teaching and learning. CLX now has substantial, informative data they can use as a foundation or justification when making decisions around funding, advocacy, partnership, and expansion.

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Museum Advocacy Library Tradition 124

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.

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Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

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. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

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Tutoring Charter School Middle School Advocacy 140

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The strategy of adding career and technical education is being quietly rolled out by several traditional higher education institutions, including a growing number of liberal arts colleges that are responding to student and parent demands for a return on their tuition investment by adding practical training that has proven value to employers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At that moment, it made me realize, I had to teach my kids what to do in a crisis situation.” In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 94

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.

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Charter School Advocacy Middle School High School 111

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.

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Elementary School High School Public School Advocacy 136

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The National Literacy Council’s website also has an extensive list of helpful resources for teaching and learning, programs, and advocacy. While most people will receive forms in the mail, paid Census field workers will also visit homes in remote or rural areas without reliable mail delivery or traditional mailing addresses.

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Library Education Advocacy Economics 90

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.

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Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

It’s not just the product side of technology that needs more Latino representation, Noriega says, it’s also the teaching side. In Gonzalez’s view, just getting a piece of technology into a child’s hand won’t help them improve where they’re lagging academically or even be effective at teaching them anything.

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Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

The growth has largely been driven by advocacy from white, affluent families, as well as by districts responding to an influx of immigrant students. Public Schools, said some would rather see schools ensuring students are proficient in reading and writing in English before teaching those skills in another language.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Charter School Advocacy Public School 112

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But just before the pandemic, she says she was approached by FreedomWorks, an advocacy group funded by the Koch brothers, big political donors, and associated with the “tea party” movement in favor of libertarian ideas. She had also worked in public schools before launching Mysa.

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Public School Civics Private School K-12 133

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. Their friends weren’t in the class,” she said.

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High School Public School Leadership Tutoring 145

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. Oakland schools have made significant investments in teaching computer science and engineering.

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Education Social Justice Tutoring Advocacy 120

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.

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Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

I do miss having a social life a little bit,” she said of forgoing the traditional long summer break. The University of Minnesota Rochester is relatively small and new — it graduated its first class in 2013 and has 617 undergraduates — freeing it from some of the entrenched traditions that can stifle change in higher education.

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Tradition Advocacy High School Education 97

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Trace Pickering, associate superintendent of the Cedar Rapids Community School District, founded Iowa BIG, a district program that gives students an alternative to the traditional school day. I need to teach expository writing to this group this week. Pickering oversees innovation, school improvement and technology in the district.

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Lesson Plan Tradition Advocacy High School 85

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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Advocacy High School Social Studies Tradition 82

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

JANUARY 10, 2017

I am overwhelmed with joy for my students because I know now they each stand a better chance of being a successful student,” said Regina Trout, who teaches the second-year kindergarteners at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown. based education reform advocacy group. It’s easy to see why this is an attractive idea.

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Education Educational Technology Elementary School Advocacy 102

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

After all, a glimpse into the lives of educators working in schools right now reveals problem after problem with few solutions in sight—not exactly reassuring for someone considering a career in teaching. King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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K-12 Teaching Advocacy Classroom Management 98

Anthropology News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The central goal of the Tibetan exile government’s schools is to instruct children in Tibetan language, history, and Buddhist culture, given that, within Tibet, the Chinese government limits access to traditional Tibetan monastic educat ionand criminalizes advocacy for secular Tibetan medium education.

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Heritage Anthropology Education K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

For almost two years, we told families that school can look different and that schoolwork could be accomplished in times outside of the traditional 8-to-3 day. And the effects of online learning linger: School relationships have frayed, and after months at home, many parents and students don’t see the point of regular attendance.

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Advocacy High School Tradition Elementary School 93