ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job. So then she retired. That's what I do.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 109

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 Public School 109

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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High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But that’s not what is easing the transition to remote learning for schools like Rhodes. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states. Now more than ever it’s clear that Summit’s greatest strengths lie offline. They share impressive results.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 131

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

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

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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Artifacts EdTech Charter School Teaching 104