ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Another colleague, another friend had resigned from their teaching position at my school. While the data is incomplete because states release data at different times, it is evident that there are open teaching positions in public schools and districts are struggling to fill them. And public schools are not alone.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Best Practices Sometimes, best practices are seen as the golden standard—that thing that will “save” the urban school from low performance, perpetuating the notion that best can only look and sound one way.we In urban charter schools, SLANT has been used to manage behaviors.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Related: What if public schools never reopen? This flies in the face of common sense and human history, deBoer argued. These myths are harmful, in deBoer’s view, because they lead us to conflate academic ability and human worth. It is pernicious, it is cruel, and it must change,” he writes. Fordham Institute.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The dual crisis we are currently facing — Covid-19 and systemic racism — is teaching us valuable lessons about education in America. Social and emotional learning — or SEL, as it is known — might previously have been viewed by some as a nice add-on to academics during the school day.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

The Orleans Parish School Board effectively fired all its teachers almost four months after Hurricane Katrina made landfall. The mass firing is a case study in itself of the way educators — including the black teachers who made up approximately 70 percent of the teaching force — are often devalued in the wake of a tragedy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Credit: Photo: Shandrell Briscoe for InspireNOLA Charter Schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2024

I was offered a job at Brooklyn Laboratory Charter School as a school social worker — but with a unique spin on the traditional role. While I still have a caseload of students who I meet with regularly, my job description explicitly states that I am the mental health provider for the staff at our school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. But you got a whole bunch of direct instruction schools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Amid all the bellowing about charters, school choice and vouchers, a potentially more revolutionary reform movement is bubbling up. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning. We are teaching that in kindergarten.”. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Educators who enjoyed working remotely last year were invited to apply; most of the elementary teachers at the online school teach virtually full time, while the upper-grade teachers split their time between the virtual and in-person schools in the district. That missing piece of human interaction.”. Why is she happier?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

Alyssa in her first-grade classroom at Mott Haven Academy Charter School, where she enrolled after moving in with a foster mother who lives near the South Bronx institution. and “What can you do to help make your school feel safe?”. The classroom walls of Mott Haven Academy Charter School are covered in student work.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning has a lack of really clear data points, really clear success stories,” said Hilah Barbot, science and technology director for the national charter school network KIPP, who worked for several years as a teacher and administrator at KIPP New Orleans, overseeing their technology initiatives. “I

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. The word flowed from her mouth as though it belonged to her - as though she could teach about its essence. Eeee-maaan….kuh…Dedra,

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Big chunks went to building new KIPP charter schools and training thousands of new Teach for America recruits to become teachers. Since then, more than $1.5 billion has been spent on almost 200 ideas because Congress continued to appropriate funds even after the recession ended. Why is innovation so hard in education?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 25, 2020

Across the country, local networks known as Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters) are bringing together partners and resources to meet urgent needs and envision a new future for teaching and learning. As districts shifted to digital learning in the spring, schools strived to ensure teaching and learning continued.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2018

Teacher Juliana Rothschild teaches a lesson to student Jessica Cousins at Cousins’ home in Farmington, Maine. Rothschild holds weekly home visits to teach Cousins as part of Threshold, an offshoot of the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences charter school. Photo: Robbie Feinberg for The Hechinger Report. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Related: Rural schools have a teacher shortage. Why don’t people who live there, teach there? An Idaho nonprofit group identified Twin Falls — where student enrollment is projected to rise by an additional 17 percent through the end of this decade — as a potential growth market for new charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2019

That style of discipline has been a hallmark at the charter schools that defined the first part of her career. Leave this field empty if you're human: Neal got her start in Teach for America in 2002 and founded a charter high school in Chicago in 2008 that became one of the city’s best. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. LOS ANGELES — When students at one California charter network graduate from high school, they get more than just a diploma.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2018

NEW ORLEANS — A bubble machine and a table lined with cookies and coloring books welcomed families coming for a midsummer meet-and-greet at Noble Minds Institute for Whole Child Learning, a new charter school in the Carrollton neighborhood. It’s overseen by the state school board.). But the system has changed since Katrina.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Megan Sweet is the senior director of program and impact at Mindful Schools, a nonprofit organization that trains educators to teach mindfulness in the classroom. Four years in, they received a grant from the Family League of Baltimore City to pay themselves for their teaching. The kids were learning to self-regulate.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Parents lament the possibility of having to “teach” their children with little consideration of the teachers sitting at their computers well after contracted hours trying desperately to produce engaging and high-quality virtual lessons. No two schools are the same. Students at other schools did not have the same experience.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Nicole Molière entered a classroom at Harriet Tubman Charter School after she was selected to be part of an innovative local teacher training residency that aims to put excellent — and culturally competent — teachers into high-poverty schools. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Christopher House, a nonprofit that runs a high-performing elementary charter school and a small network of public preschools in some of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods, has infused parental support into its model. You can’t teach a child without family. Lori Baas, CEO of Christopher House. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Students need to be able to express themselves; the freedom to do so is not only a question of their intellectual development but also one of human rights. School kids may well rebel at the rules. But punishing students for their political beliefs or their opinion of their school is to chastise developmentally appropriate behavior.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2018

A middle-school student works on a math problem. For an eighth-grade math teacher like me, the arrival of spring means I’ve almost finished teaching the concepts my students need to succeed in high school. Davis Leadership Academy, a public charter school in Boston. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

The experiences and perspectives of Black and Latino students I taught at a Massachusetts charter school are very different from those of my Moroccan students. If human prejudice runs that deeply in Americans and those trusted to protect and serve us, we still have a lot of work to do. Credit: Collin Cherubim.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Like the highest-performing charter schools in different U.S. cities, the 2-year-old classrooms could be at risk of attracting a self-selecting pool of more motivated and savvy parents, like Kerrach, who understand the advantages that an early start to school can bring. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

We supplemented the Learning Salons with a broader opportunity designed to engage leaders and decision makers from states’ district and charter school teams, practitioners, researchers and funders in a showcase of BIPOC-created solutions where they learned about undiscovered teaching and learning solutions and tools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Canvassers like Bey use that opportunity to invite parents to be learn about and apply to their fellowship program, a ten-session course that provides $200 vouchers for refurbished laptops (through its partnership with the nonprofit Tech Exchange), teaches parents digital literacy and shows them how to access and understand school data.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

How do we close the black-white teaching performance gap? Naming what’s wrong with white people’s teaching skills must begin with calling out racism. A study by NYU’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development found that students of color and white students viewed minority teachers more highly than white teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

Bobbi Macdonald, founder of City Neighbors charter schools. Efforts like these to transform high school are taking off, although hard data on how many high schools have adopted practices that harken back to preschool is difficult to come by. Like Macdonald, Meier began her teaching career as a kindergarten teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

“I’ll say up front: I am not here to offer any hard-and-fast rules or directives,” said Secretary of Education John King in prepared remarks for the National Charter Schools Conference. The bottom line is that schools must teach behavior with the same patience, discipline and creativity educators employ in academic subjects.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

They envision an ecosystem where learners buy access to courses without enrolling in colleges; where teachers profit directly from their teaching; where students track progress on ever-lengthening credential chains; and where people who invest in the right tokens gather in learning groups to explore topics of mutual interest.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

When officials at Harrison School District 2, which serves some of the poorest neighborhoods in Colorado Springs, Colorado, queried families that had not enrolled for kindergarten, most reported choosing one of four alternatives: home schooling, private or parochial school, charter school or skipping kindergarten altogether. “I

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

When I came to Achievement First Brooklyn High School eight years ago as the ninth grade literature teacher, it was my fourth year of teaching and my first time in a school that was unapologetically rooted in the “no excuses” model , which centers a results-driven culture that prioritizes strict behavioral procedures and academic policies.

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