The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis. This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

What this makes abundantly clear is that the future of education depends directly on our commitment to the success of new teachers. From field placement to the critical first three years, K-12 schools and teacher prep programs must implement proven strategies to improve the quantity and quality of support that new teachers receive.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2021

It also requires a mindset shift away from the teacher as the classroom manager and deliverer of content. Silver Lining for Learning, Episode 03: Delivering education when schools are closed. Laura shared: We want teachers to move away from this idea that ‘you’re a curriculum writer’ to ‘you’re an instructional designer.’

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A large-scale study of more than 50 elementary school classrooms found that decorations, such as these in a 2014 kindergarten room, are a frequent source of distraction and off-task student behavior. Teachers are crying out for help to keep kids on task, but student behavior is difficult for education researchers to study.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

In Boston, an all-day training in a high school gym attracted about 100 educators for instruction in yoga, meditation and mindfulness, part of a 200-hour training offered on weekends by a company called Breathe For Change. Teacher stress is growing, experts say, pushing educators out of classrooms and hurting learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Longtime educator Hymethia W. Thompson, 69, came out of retirement to teach English after learning that Jackson Public Schools were looking for help in local classrooms. Thompson was happily retired after 46 years as an educator when she saw a television news conference last summer that changed her life. “I Hymethia W.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

Across the country, disciplining children by kicking them out of school, referred to as exclusionary discipline, affects kids as young as 3 years old. Department of Education reported 5,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once , and 2,500 preschoolers were suspended more than once. Schram and a first-grade student.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As schools across the South grapple with vacancies, many turn to those without teaching certificates or formal training to serve students. Alabama administrators increasingly hire educators with emergency certifications, often in low-income and majority Black neighborhoods. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. Credit: AP Photo/Vasha Hunt.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Many people might think the main benefit of a high-quality preschool program is the academic boost it gives young children when they enter elementary school. They want to ensure that the children are being set up for success in school, they’re being set up for success in life,” Kane said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Thirty-plus teachers and teacher educators gathered in the conference room nodded emphatically as Eckhoff, 35, told of seeing more and more students coming to school not just deficient in academic skills, but carrying a lot of emotional baggage. Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. MORGAN CITY, La.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Thousands of Mississippi’s third graders will sit in front of computers later this month to take the statewide reading test, but the eyes of teachers and administrators at Finch Elementary School will be intensely focused on a dozen students at this Wilkinson County school. That’s what the state has put in place.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Generative AI has stormed into education. Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

We get you talking about your educational experience, get you working with children.”. Those destined to be teachers will enter the classroom and find their purpose in the classroom, Jones believes. Black students who have a black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate high school and go to college.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Done well, this powerful and effective professional learning model fosters teacher leadership and supports collaborative school cultures focused on improving teaching and learning. Classroom Management: This is one of the biggest struggles for incoming teachers. Read more about teacher preparation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

Yet as educator preparation programs are redefining the ways in which they train teachers, this type of circumstance no longer needs to be the norm. One such narrative highlights Michael Duklewski, a first-year educator whose attempts to navigate the complexity of the classroom often complemented the experience of a fraternity hazing.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. Gooru was a good fit because they were also committed to designing education products driven by specific instructional needs, not a one- size-fits-all approach.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Yet they face many of the same challenges, including low funding for schools, intergenerational poverty and few well-paid career opportunities, to motivate students. High school dropouts are much more likely to be unemployed and earn thousands of dollars less per year than people with higher levels of education.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Professional Development Workshops and Training Attend workshops or training sessions now to gain new ideas and strategies for classroom management and design. Networking Connect with other educators to share ideas and gain inspiration! Submit your info by Aug.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

I bet “Abbott Elementary” character Janine Teagues will not stay in the teaching profession that long. I am an educator in West Philadelphia, blocks away from the fictional school in the TV show “Abbott Elementary.” As we analyzed rhetoric, a side conversation emerged about educational experiences. Five years.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

My experiences as both a teacher and a student have shown me how schools can make creative and brilliant kids feel stupid and make energetic and joyful kids feel like a problem. Instead of proceeding with facts and figures, I would like to share three personal vignettes about my experiences as a student, educator and parent.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. In the last decade, educators have focused on boosting literacy skills among low-income kids in the hope that all children will read well by third grade.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Over the past few months, Nathan Roberts has witnessed dozens of substitute teachers stumble through their first days at Penny Creek Elementary School. Nathan Roberts, a full-time substitute at Penny Creek Elementary School, teaches a class of kindergarteners how to count. Related: Rural schools have a teacher shortage.

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