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? Creativity builds advocacy skills that employers want, such as communication, collaboration and critical thinking. What creative skills are employers looking for?

Advocacy 109

Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 109

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. You should take it; it is a good reflective tool to identify levels of privilege.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Pedagogy Geography Museum 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws.

Sociology 105

Sociology Advocacy Anthropology Government 105

ED Surge

JUNE 12, 2024

Initially, whenever individual students ran into emotional outbursts, I tried traditional methods like distributing worksheets focused on mental health and wellness. However, these worksheets merely listed definitions and coping mechanisms without providing engaging content or opportunities for meaningful discussion.

Advocacy 106

Advocacy Cultures Tradition High School 106

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

K-12 137

K-12 Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 137

ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. Meanwhile, critics allege that the school’s academic outcomes are actually “terrible” compared to homeless students who study at traditional public schools. A 2020 report for the U.S.

K-12 121

K-12 Advocacy Tradition Leadership 121

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

The desire to increase agency in the form of voice, choice, and advocacy should be viewed as just as important for educators (teachers and administrators) as it is for students. Consider having some of your talented students create a wood box do this the traditional way and then leave it in the faculty room.

Education 198

Education Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 198

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.

K-12 103

K-12 Advocacy High School Tradition 103

ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

For my students, leading this PD session and experiencing a shift in the traditional power dynamic opened up a new sense of advocacy possibilities. Creating space and support for students to lead from their personal experiences and teach their teachers how to meet their needs radically disrupts that traditional PD dynamic.

Professional Development 138

Professional Development Advocacy Tradition Leadership 138

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Related: Simpler FAFSA complicates college plans for students and families “As much staff as government has, it’s not enough for students right now,” said Yolanda Watson Spiva, president of the national advocacy group Complete College America. She wants colleges to do more to directly help applicants still struggling to fill out the forms.

Advocacy 120

Advocacy Library Government Public School 120

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an advocacy group that provides professional training to schools. Since the pandemic, mental health strains on youth have been put in the spotlight.

Advocacy 130

Advocacy Psychology Middle School Tradition 130

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing affinity spaces for Black women teachers are necessary for us to not only honor our ancestors but also honor ourselves and carry on this important tradition of education and learning. How we care for our students is inextricably linked with how our ancestors cared for others, the children who were theirs and those who weren’t.

Education 117

Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 117

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. Related: Teachers, deputized to fight the culture wars, are often reluctant to serve There is a critical need to prepare teachers to be intentional voices calling out the oppression that continues to plague our education system.

Civic Engagement 96

Civic Engagement Civics Education K-12 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The loans made directly by a college, rather than a traditional lender, are used to pay for classes, but they don’t come with the same protections as federal student loans do. This story also appeared in The New York Times.

Advocacy 83

Advocacy Tradition Education 83

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The Association has a long tradition of support for advancement of underrepresented groups in the discipline. The Association facilitates the work of over 50 organized sections and supports numerous standing and project committees on topics of importance to the discipline and to the political life of the nation.

Political Science 65

Political Science Advocacy Government Professional Development 65

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Climate advocacy group EARTHDAY.org released a “state of climate interactive map” to highlight how climate change is taught and the policy efforts happening in every state. Subscribe today! Fewer teens are taking up smoking.

Tradition 55

Tradition Advocacy Economics Leadership 55

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2020

Programs & Advocacy. Programs & Advocacy, on a call with reporters. But it certainly has exacerbated those challenges and really highlighted and exacerbated those equity gaps.” Betsy Zorio, Vice President of Save the Children’s U.S.

Advocacy 120

Advocacy Economics Tradition Research 120

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.

K-12 137

K-12 Advocacy Elementary School Tradition 137

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.

Research 117

Research Education Advocacy Psychology 117

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

Thinking of New Mexico, and OLÉ’s success at making inroads for child care teachers outside unionization, how important is it to think about other strategies apart from traditional organizing? When we started doing online organizing, we would get maybe a week’s worth of work visiting centers done in one day.

K-12 110

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 110

Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

As a professor, I employ inclusive teaching approaches, including the elimination of traditional comprehensive exams and opting for in-class simulations, application exercises, reflections, and even sociopolitical games as assessments of student learning. I am a social justice activist in the traditions of W.E.B.

Political Science 49

Political Science Social Justice Advocacy History 49

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.

Tradition 76

Tradition Advocacy High School Humanities 76

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. Photo: Austin Haeberle. NASHVILLE, Tenn. – No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it. Getty Images.

Advocacy 81

Advocacy K-12 Tradition Economics 81

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

And then when you go into more affluent communities or communities where there's stronger advocacy, you're gonna see projects and you're gonna see stories and you're gonna see kids sharing their own voices. “And we're gonna see, unfortunately, a lot of spreadsheets that have numbers and yellow and red cells,” Gonzalez says.

Educational Technology 84

Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 84

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.

Library 90

Library Education Advocacy Economics 90

ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting. While legislative discussions have recently stalled , advocacy efforts continue to mobilize toward an ambitious policy package that would impact millions of little learners and families.

K-12 135

K-12 Education Humanities Advocacy 135

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. What is clear is that using the extra time for just more hours or more days of traditional instruction doesn’t appear to achieve much. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea.

Tutoring 133

Tutoring Charter School Middle School American History 133

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.

Tradition 129

Tradition Advocacy Professional Development Teaching 129

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. With teacher librarians across the U.S.

Library 84

Library Artifacts Advocacy Tradition 84

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

So far, MS 2, , as the school is nicknamed, has personalized its core academic courses by using the Summit Learning Platform, an online resource that has replaced traditional whole-group classroom instruction. Students log into Summit to learn new content and complete assignments, turning to teachers for support along the way.

Education 92

Education Charter School Advocacy Middle School 92

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I So Kang is listening. That’s one of the two priorities weighing heavily on her mind. Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting.

K-12 103

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Humanities 103

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.

Tradition 119

Tradition Advocacy Economics Leadership 119

Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

CLX now has substantial, informative data they can use as a foundation or justification when making decisions around funding, advocacy, partnership, and expansion. Though often comparatively overlooked, OST programs are where students have a chance to build social capital among peers. Social capital is highly important to future success.

Museum 103

Museum Advocacy Library Tradition 103

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.

Charter School 109

Charter School Advocacy Middle School Social Studies 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The Council for Adult and Experiential Learning and the Latino student advocacy group Excelencia in Education have joined forces to introduce an initiative this academic year to shrink this gap by helping working, adult students. Many have dependents, jobs and fewer options for federal aid.

Advocacy 70

Advocacy Professional Development Tradition Cultures 70

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

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. Next year, the remaining five schools will do the same.

Elementary School 108

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 108

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

While there are certainly exceptions, this human interaction standard can serve as a compass to guide our investments and advocacy. As NCLD’s Director of Innovation, I urge us to take a critical look at the “innovations” that may be negatively impacting our students, especially those from traditionally marginalized backgrounds.

EdTech 120

EdTech Humanities Pedagogy Advocacy 120