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. Principals also get extra professional development around literacy instruction.

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Edthena

AUGUST 17, 2015

Amanda Huza, middle school principal of Equality Charter School in The Bronx, knew that video had the potential to be a powerful tool for the teachers and coaches on her staff. When Amanda introduced Edthena as a core component of Equality’s professional development curriculum, she noticed an immediately positive response.

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Edthena

JANUARY 11, 2024

AI-Powered Coaching In a session at the National Charter School Conference , presenter Donna McDaniel explored how AI Coach by Edthena , played a critical role in helping Donna (a ninth-grade science teacher with 30 years of experience) evolve her teaching practice.

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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

OCTOBER 21, 2020

At the social and emotional learning program I direct in Massachusetts, we provide evidence-based SEL curricula and professional development for elementary schools. One of the theories that grounds our work is the Crucial C’s. In group settings, each of us — children and adults — needs to feel connected, capable and counted.

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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 different professional development. 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.

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Edthena

JUNE 6, 2024

The Big Ideas in Education podcast recently welcomed Dr. Andi Morency, the Executive Director and Principal of the Honors Academy of Literature charter school in Reno, Nevada. They also dive into her school’s unique approach to integrating evidence-based practices and literature into their curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” The San Diego charter school, known as HSHMC, has expected content teachers to integrate literacy into their lessons since its 2007 founding.

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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. We wanted to deal with that first.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Zaire Wallace, 17, a student at The Charter School of San Diego, answers questions about Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” while watching a YouTube video of someone narrating the poem. He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In this instance, like so many others in school, a counselor would be helpful for the student to process this trauma, but preventing the trauma from occurring in the first place through things like inclusive gender practices and professional development around gender identity would be more impactful.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

An investigation by Chalkbeat Colorado found that the reasons for enrollment declines varied by district and were caused by a combination of issues: high housing costs pushing families farther from the metro area, charter school competition and simply fewer children being born. Source: American Community Survey.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2018

She previously taught middle school literacy and produced network-wide curriculum and professional development at Alpha Public Schools in San Jose, California, and RePublic Charter Schools in Nashville, Tennessee. C hristina Pirzada is the program manager for social-emotional learning at Newsela.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

To support teachers in design, districts offered flexible professional development models offered in multiple modalities, centered in Universal Design for Learning (UDL) practices and peer-collaboration approaches to support teachers in creating and engaging students. Matt Miller, Superintendent, Lakota Public Schools, Ohio.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Sydney Chaffee, a ninth grade humanities teacher at Codman Academy, a charter school in Boston, already felt the toll in October. Like many schools around the country, Codman Academy has tried to offer its staff members a release valve. Related: Restorative justice is about more than just reducing suspensions.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2019

These questions and exclamations are just a tiny slice of the experience of an educator whose responsibility — often one of many — is to shepherd students to success after high school graduation. That educator may be the school counselor, adviser, English teacher or coach, among others. What is a welder?”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Since 2011, our schools – one charter, one district – have participated in a partnership that demonstrates that when schools step out of their comfort zones they not only can improve student outcomes, but can effect positive change across entire teaching communities. Burke High School in Dorchester, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Gehlbach, together with two other researchers, put perspective taking to a real world test at a charter school network in the northeastern United States. The researchers only had discipline records for middle school students so they weren’t able to perform the same analysis for younger kids.). The paper, “??

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Administrators from Henry County Schools, southwest of Atlanta; School District 51 in Mesa County, Colorado; and CICS West Belden, a Chicago International Charter School campus, discussed their efforts to personalize learning during a panel at the recent iNACOL symposium in Orlando, Florida.

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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. Lori Baas, CEO of Christopher House.

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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

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Schools also have access to professional development gatherings in the fall and spring, a Summit “success manager” assigned to their schools and online support, all at no cost. They share impressive results.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

With a student population of more than 30,000, serving a large Latinx population, Bakersfield College in Kern County, California, began to reevaluate how it could help increase high school graduation rates and serve more students at its campus locations. The early college model is already drawing attention within California.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

— Mentor Schools (@mentorschools) February 3, 2017. Kettle Moraine School District – Wales, WI. Kettle Moraine School District has created charter schools like KM Perform within its traditional high school to accommodate student interests. Evergreen School District – San Jose, CA.

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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.

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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

JUNE 27, 2023

One of the places that I first encountered where I was like, ‘Oh, there's some kind of interesting teaching and learning here,’ was a charter school that I visited in Southern California, and they had adopted Google Docs relatively early and were making really great use of it. Teachers sort of have two spaces that they learn.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

19, decided to run for school board last year because of the inequalities he witnessed at his hometown schools. In 2017, he graduated from the Louisiana School for Agricultural Sciences, a charter school with one of the highest graduation rates in the parish. Stanley Celestine Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

At some KIPP charter schools in New Jersey, teachers will receive training in suicide prevention, grief counseling and how to spot signs of distress in an online environment. Social-emotional lessons sometimes require curricula schools must purchase and professional development for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

She recently sat down with the Jackson Free Press to talk about education legislation, school funding and charter schools. Considering the financial condition of JPS and the City of Jackson, how do you think the growth of charters will affect that district? Well, the charter schools can open up anywhere.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2016

He was joined by Nora Newcombe, who directs a federally-funded Science of Learning Center at Temple University and Mayme Hostetter, the dean of the Relay Graduate School of Education. The problem doesn’t stop when teachers graduate from schools of education. There is a more immediate threat,” said Newcombe.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Related: Young and inexperienced, a new principal tries to turn around a New Orleans charter school. For some districts, the support program involves assigning a school staff member to work with a principal to help that principal improve time management skills. “Not That doesn’t equate to results. Training the trainers.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) is a federal funding program to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education. The federal government offered three rounds of funds to public, private, and charter schools nationwide. Worthington Direct.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Online education and remote education are two very different things, said Steve Kossakoski, CEO of the New Hampshire-based Virtual Learning Academy Charter School , or VLACS, which has been hosting free webinars for educators seeking digital-learning guidance. Related: Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

Blended learning has been embraced by a growing number of Catholic schools across the country in the last five years or so. No official count is kept, but interest is very high, according to Pamela Bernards, director of professional development at the National Catholic Educational Association. Photo: Ben Stocking.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

I had a few interviews that summer – and one charter school even offered me a job without interviewing me! And check out that stack of professional development books on my desk that I fully intended to read before the school year began… The First Day Ahhh! The initial classroom arrangement I decided on!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2017

In a push to raise test scores and other metrics, such as high school graduation rates, the state of Louisiana took over most of the city’s schools and converted them to publicly funded, privately run charter schools. Photo: Sarah Gonser/The Hechinger Report.

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