The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. At Avalon Charter School, in St. Carrie Bakken, a social studies teacher and program coordinator who has been with the school since 2001, said the model appeals to younger workers and has helped the school avoid hiring challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 133

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

The 51-year-old teacher racked up 14,000 steps that day assembling bags of books and worksheets for families of her third and fourth grade students to pick up as they were let in, five at a time, to the public charter school in South Phoenix, Arizona. Families who needed devices for their kids also picked up Chromebooks.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Cherish Miranda, a junior in the dual language Chula Vista Learning Community Charter School. SAN DIEGO, Calif. I cried the first time I took a test. It’s not the same.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Jill Henry, who graduated from Whitmore Lake High School in 1995, left a successful career teaching high school social studies in Wayne, Michigan, to return to her alma mater and help open the new high school in 2006. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

“But now they are asking me ‘can you come in and watch my social studies lesson?’”. Wiseburn operates three elementary schools, a middle school and loosely oversees four Da Vinci charter schools, which include three high schools and a charter for home-schooled children.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

There, he tried to give people information about important education-related bills, including the bill that introduced Amendment 2, which would overturn the state’s constitutional restriction that prohibits using public funds for private and charter schools. Still, the path was winding and not limited to school.

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Civics Education Government K-12 121

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. She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families.

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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Unlike most urban classrooms, the ones at Boston Collegiate Charter School are evenly divided among white and black/brown kids and include first-generation immigrants, Irish kids and African-American kids from Dorchester — all from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds and neighborhoods. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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Civics Charter School Government History 102

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

I wasn’t sure how to explain to a rising high-school junior why I’d followed her and her classmates to Belize. Douglass High School, the Ninth Ward charter school where she works, and she’d told me, in passing, that she planned to take twenty-five kids to Belize. He’s been talking since middle school.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Being in a small school, they needed help taking on extra elective sections, so I also started teaching eighth grade art in my fourth year. Finally, this year, I’ve added sixth grade math, so now I have a hand in all three grade levels at our middle school. It is a wonderful school with a wonderful staff.

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Teaching K-12 Middle School Social Studies 127

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 108

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Staring at the faces of the middle school teachers on her computer screen, Principal Laina Cox felt the tears welling up — again. She wanted every middle schooler at Capital City Public Charter School in Washington D.C. She is currently a library media specialist at South Saint Paul Public Schools, in Minnesota.

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