ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Youth organizers in MIStudentsDream were encouraged by this policy, but they immediately had one major concern: What about charter schools? In Detroit, almost half of the student population attends a charter school. Unfortunately, there is no clear definition of a sanctuary school, much less a whole district.

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Charter School Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 101

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2020

which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Coronavirus Chronicles 025 – International School of Amsterdam. Coronavirus Chronicles 020 – Arrow Academy Charter Schools.

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Middle School Charter School Leadership Public School 102

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University.

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High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Supreme Court tax-credit decision won’t change much in terms of public-school spending requirements. Yet their expansion has been relatively modest in comparison to that of charter schools. This brings us back to charter schools. The ripple effects may even be felt by the charter-school sector.

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Charter School K-12 Heritage Private School 108

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 11, 2020

which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 018 – Northern Cass School District.

Public School 104

Public School Charter School Elementary School Leadership 104

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2020

which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 018 – Northern Cass School District.

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Heritage High School Charter School Elementary School 99

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2020

which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 018 – Northern Cass School District.

High School 102

High School Charter School Elementary School Leadership 102

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

We are thrilled to announce the following new district members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools: Baldwin-Whitehall School District , PA. Brooklyn Laboratory Charter Schools , NY. Copper River School District , AK. Covina-Valley School District , CA. Huntsville City Schools , AL.

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Charter School Leadership Public School High School 175

ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2023

These tech teams offer a unique opportunity for students to take on leadership roles and develop valuable skills like problem-solving, teamwork, communication and critical thinking, in addition to increasing their technical know-how. But interestingly enough, some of our most vocal advocates who take leadership roles on the team are females.

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Charter School Leadership Critical Thinking Middle School 92

ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

Many of our students, who are predominantly Black and Latino, found that these posts resonated and decided to participate in the movement by publishing blog posts about surviving charter school, exposing some of the harmful racist, classist and ableist practices they experienced in school. What makes me happy?

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Cultures Leadership Charter School Economics 83

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

School budgets are getting squeezed as Covid stimulus winds down. And traditional public schools are facing increased competition from charter schools and independent schools. Within our schools, we believe in strengthening teacher leadership development.

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Education Charter School Critical Thinking High School 87

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In Milwaukee Public Schools, teachers had access to biweekly virtual coaching to support the switch to remote learning. The national public charter school network Rocketship Public Schools set aside nearly a full day every week for teachers to learn new skills related to distance learning. There are different approaches.

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K-12 Professional Development Charter School Psychology 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Overall, total virtual enrollment remains higher than before the pandemic, but, in some cases, it has declined relative to its pandemic peaks, according to Gary Miron, a professor with Western Michigan University’s Department of Educational Leadership, Research and Technology. Enrollment fell to about 600 students for this school year.

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Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 85

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. They also wanted school officials to send a clear message to the community that Lusher supported Black Lives Matter. They encountered mostly silence.

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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 140

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. UTLA has organized charter-school teachers and sued Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, a local charter network, for union-busting.

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Charter School Public School Elementary School High School 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2015

We can’t do what that other school is doing because… they are bigger and have more resources. they have a more supportive school board. they can get kids to come before school. they can get kids to come after school. they can get kids to come during school. they are a private school. they have paras.

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Charter School Leadership Private School Professional Development 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

I still remember my excitement to borrow books from the school library so that I could better understand life beyond my poverty-stricken world. Like most new school chiefs, I immediately dug into the data to find out what was happening. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Charter School Professional Development Library Elementary School 110

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2018

Davis Leadership Academy, a public charter school in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, I was eager to find a way to help students retain knowledge from the prior school year and practice their math skills over the summer. Davis Leadership Academy, a public charter school in Boston.

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High School Charter School Leadership Middle School 63

ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Like most educators, I believe that teachers and schools should be held accountable for how well they prepare their students, but just as I give students time to grow and develop, new charter schools like ours deserve the same time and support.

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Charter School Museum Public School Cultures 76

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

(The Mathematica researchers focused on borderline schools that were just below and above a federal threshold to qualify for turnaround funds and found that the schools that went through turnarounds didn’t have better outcomes than those that didn’t.). Stricter school discipline for students has been a common theme in many turnarounds.

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Charter School High School Leadership Tradition 117

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Children become conditioned to make good choices when adults are around, but they don’t internalize the long-lasting habits and mindsets that lead to leadership. At [my high-performing charter school] someone would see you struggling and go out of their way to help you.

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Charter School Private School Critical Thinking Leadership 110

Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Leigh Bozard, Director of Special Projects, SELF (Special Education Leadership Fellowship). Joel Coleman, Superintendent, Utah School for the Deaf and Blind. Jennifer Kelsall, Superintendent, Ridgewood High School District 234, New Jersey. Alexis Mays Fields, Special Education Coach for Center City Public Charter Schools, D.C.

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Charter School Educational Technology Professional Development Community Engagement 86

ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

Black America, Black Literature and Black Liberation Once I completed my two-year commitment with Teach for America, I returned home to Dayton, Ohio where I taught downtown at a charter school. Although I had the support of school leadership and families, my literature selection was not immune from challenges outside the classroom.

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Humanities Charter School History Government 94

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2017

On May 25, the Nevada-based management group of the New Orleans charter school, Crescent Leadership Academy, announced the firing of its principal, Nicholas Dean. Rite of Passage , the chain that manages Crescent Leadership Academy, then determined he wasn’t a good fit for the job.

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Leadership Charter School Psychology Cultures 89

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson opened the doors of Mississippi’s first rural charter school in this temporary space a year ago. Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes.

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Charter School History Library K-12 104

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Department of Education officials estimated that 82 percent of schools would fall short.

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Charter School Elementary School Leadership Advocacy 62

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

The Learning Accelerator winnowed it down to six top-performing schools. Aaron Academy (“ReNEW DTA”) a non-selective charter school in New Orleans. Related: How an unconventional principal used blended learning to help turn around a struggling urban school.

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Charter School Elementary School Leadership Educational Technology 49

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Groups of students, often volunteering their free time outside of class, work closely with their school’s learning coach to become experts in using tablets and troubleshooting many common tech issues. As they learn more, the tech teams take on major leadership roles in their schools.

Charter School 48

Charter School Leadership Teaching K-12 48

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Groups of students, often volunteering their free time outside of class, work closely with their school’s learning coach to become experts in using tablets and troubleshooting many common tech issues. As they learn more, the tech teams take on major leadership roles in their schools.

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Charter School Leadership Teaching 48

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Since its inception in 2002, Making Community Connections Charter School (MC 2 ) has been committed to personalizing learning. Learning for a purpose is deeper and longer lasting; leadership means taking responsibility for what matters to you, something every person, whether adult, child, or in between, can learn to do.

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Charter School Advocacy Leadership Humanities 84

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

It focused on four unidentified high schools, two in the Southeast, one in New England and one in the Midwest. They included traditional public schools, a magnet school and a charter school. Sometimes, the students had clear roles and rotated the leadership role.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School 109

The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

JACKSON — In an interview with the Jackson Free Press, Mississippi Association of Educators President Joyce Helmick, an educator from DeSoto County, called charter schools “private charter schools.” Haley Barbour, appointed by Barbour to his commissions on tax study and charter schools.

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Charter School Public School Government Tradition 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

AVID (which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination) is animated by a simple belief: Once children begin to see some success in school, their self-perceptions will shift so dramatically that they’ll commit to becoming stellar students — and this commitment will propel them through college.

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Middle School Leadership Charter School High School 110

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Related: School district secessions gather speed, new report shows. It also laid the groundwork for a robust market of goods and services designed to help families learn the “hidden curriculum” of school-choice policies and engage in choice behaviors that yield desired school assignments.

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K-12 Charter School Pedagogy Economics 90

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Just ask Christian, a sixth grader who attends the local charter school Detroit Prep. He’s been attending this after-school program for the last three years. Early on, Christian says, he was a little reserved and shy, but participating at the gym helped improve his communication skills.

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Tutoring K-12 Charter School Leadership 107

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Berry said that consistent leadership and high expectations helped the district improve under state control. A state takeover is looming for Jackson Public Schools. Philadelphia’s public schools were taken over by Pennsylvania in 2001, but test scores have dropped and the district has experienced debt. Weekly Update.

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Charter School Leadership Public School High School 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The school is one of 10 winners of the XQ: The Super School Project competition and will be awarded $10 million from the XQ Institute, an initiative designed to encourage schools to invent new ways to update and redesign America’s high schools, which it argues “remain frozen in time.”.

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High School Museum Charter School Tutoring 77