The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 17-20, Pizmony-Levy led a first-of-its-kind professional development institute for NYC public elementary school teachers who want to teach climate change in any subject. According to her research, “Five-year-olds tend to have ‘the earth is scorched and unsavable’ models when they come to school.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Through ConnectED, all 89 LCPS schools were able to get their own ArcGIS Online Organization from Esri.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

This work needs to begin in elementary school, where students’ ideas about their place in the world are shaped. Here are some ways to do that in elementary school classrooms: First and foremost, it is vital that young people have a place to process disturbing news and to be reassured that their lives matter and that they are safe.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

For each student who drops out, high schools earn a zero. Leave this field empty if you're human: In the past, some have viewed Louisiana’s accountability incentives with caution, fearing schools may sit back, knowing that they can push low-performing students into a high-school equivalency program and earn 25 points.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

They organized to change the name of an elementary school where three study group members work. The Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) Human Rights Committee of 20 members formed a study group that is embedded into their regular monthly meetings. Check out their overview. The ideas above are suggestions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

It was founded as a contract school (similar to a charter) with Chicago Public Schools, by civic-minded tech leaders appalled that their booming industry was struggling to find enough new talent despite being surrounded by neighborhoods where, quite often, roughly 50 percent of the young adults were unemployed. didn’t.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

The step from public teacher to public office holder is, for many, intuitive, says Kelly Siegel-Stechler, a senior researcher at Tufts University’s Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement. They’re already public servants,” Siegel-Stechler points out. Arguably the highest form of service is to teach every day.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In 1968, Johnnie Turner was a teacher at Hamilton Elementary School and served on the board of the local NAACP chapter. Leave this field empty if you're human: In this story, we relive the days before and after King’s murder through their own words. Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news organization. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Without social studies, we lose the civic mission of public schools,” said Stephanie Serriere, a former early-grade teacher who is now an associate professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. Border Crossers trainers Ben Howort and Ana Duque are both former elementary school teachers.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 9, 2023

The textbooks are for elementary and middle school social studies classes as well as civics, economics, U.S. The new passage reads, “Critics say these planned economies have slow development and fewer technological advances” in part because they limit “human incentive. history and world history courses.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

It’s about teaching human beings, and it’s not science or English or social studies or math … It’s about teaching human beings how to become good people.”. Marie Hydukovich was teaching middle school when she heard that 20 children had been murdered at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2018

McMicken Heights Elementary School principal Alexandria Haas sits with second-graders during a morning activity developed by the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence. Good morning, Mahlet,” says one student to another at McMicken Heights Elementary School. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. BURIEN, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. The school district is working to raise money for more computers and technology training, hoping to better prepare its students for an increasingly digitized economy. I could never go back to the old model,” says Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Related: COLUMN: Tolerating failing schools in New Orleans — so long as they’re for black kids. What do y’all think about school being this cold?” author and former NFL linebacker Aaron Maybin asked a group of Baltimore elementary school kids wearing winter coats and hoodies, though they sat in their classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Take Delaware, which in 2000 passed a law requiring schools to notify parents about state rules regarding bomb threats, destruction of property, disrupting school and reporting crimes. The second swell of laws arrived 13 year later, after a man killed 20 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

For instance, a year ago, President Donald Trump rescinded an Obama-era regulation crafted in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting that required the Social Security Administration to report beneficiaries with severe mental disabilities to the FBI’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System. “If Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Denise Metz is principal of Belmont Charter School, an early grades elementary school in a largely black neighborhood in Philadelphia. I’m going to approach it from, first of all, I’m here for you, the school is here for you, and the community is here for you,” Laird said. And one man does not run the country.

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