Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In the very first minute of my first day teaching at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC, I received a rude awakening. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

Two main factors can have a significant impact on a teacher’s emotional engagement at work: The quality of their relationships with students Student behaviors and classroom management. In high school, I was the lead in the musicals Little Shop of Horrors and Bye, Bye Birdie. I am a vegetarian and love to cook.

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Classroom Management Psychology Lesson Plan High School 146

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Experts argue over whether the best classroom-management approach is a consistent, strict discipline or a more forgiving response where students discuss their grievances with an adult’s guidance, a process called restorative justice. Credit: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I had an aptitude and love for science, so when I graduated high school, I enrolled in a nearby university with plans to major in biology. It wasn’t until an instructional coach from STEM Ed Innovators visited our school that I saw my dictatorial classroom management as oppressive.

Middle School 120

Middle School Classroom Management High School Economics 120

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. Herman’s earlier 2018 study of a praise-heavy classroom management program for elementary school students called The Incredible Years also found positive results.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 5, 2015

. … [We need to address] the dearth of opportunities for teenage students to feel like [they are] respected and valued in the asylum-like settings of many middle and high schools. The goal of classroom management. Crack student ‘engagement’ and you’ve cracked 21st century schooling.

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Classroom Management High School Education Teaching 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Spend the week with high school teacher and basketball coach Ed Bradley and you’ll likely hear someone ask him for help making a breakthrough with a challenging student. “As School leaders, he said, should question whether they’ve set up environments that allow teachers to link their values and beliefs to the classroom.

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Psychology Classroom Management Professional Development Public School 120

ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

As educators, mental health professionals, and authors of a new book on helping students cut through stress and pave the way to purpose, we’ve spent our careers supporting students to manage their mental health and reach their potential. And only 12 percent of teachers report that they are very satisfied in their roles.

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Classroom Management Private School Cultures Humanities 134

Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 13, 2024

At Garden City High School, where Latin is an elective, she has built a program that draws students in from all over the school, many of whom have heard of her teaching through siblings or friends. A cornerstone of Kathleen's teaching philosophy is her belief in the power of Latin to inspire and challenge students.

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K-12 Teaching Classroom Management Leadership 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Instead, we were taught how to structure a lesson and given tips on classroom management. The thing that surprised me most about my teacher preparation program was that we never talked about how kids learn. I took “methods” classes that gave me strategies for discussions and activities.

Middle School 145

Middle School Psychology Classroom Management Learning Science 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2022

New and developing teachers honing these practices should not be led to believe that they only belong in a designated part of the school day, nor should they view them as separate from other instructional and classroom management strategies.

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Teaching Classroom Management Cultures Education 142

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In addition, 10 percent were teaching out of field, which means, for example, they may be certified to teach high school English but assigned to a middle school math class. . But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The research also shines a light on the impact preschool can have on students beyond high school. Dale Farran, a lead author of the Tennessee research, said the findings suggest that preschool needs more focus on play-based learning, as opposed to whole-group instruction and other classroom management tools used with older children. “[We]

Elementary School 113

Elementary School Classroom Management High School Public School 113

Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

In a high school math class, when learning about graphing equations, teachers can invite students to decide if they would like to graph on paper or use Desmos, an online graphing tool. The 3rd Pillar: Control Over Pace The third pillar of high-quality blended learning centers around student control over the pace of learning.

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Classroom Management History Research High School 91

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

So the district expanded math and English language arts to 80 minutes every day in the middle school and 120 minutes each day in the elementary school. The school also had to help teachers adjust classroom management techniques so that small groups and independent work could both occur effectively.

Middle School 139

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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. The teachers’ own stress levels and emotional reactivity were causing problems in their classrooms.”

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Elementary School Professional Development Classroom Management Teaching 111

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. Getting Personal With Professional Development Not all teachers may need or have time to sift through the transcripts generated by TeachFX and similar tools.

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Research Professional Development Tutoring Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Rather, the focus should be on ensuring that these programs are tightly integrated with real-world, commercial standards and generate job-ready or baseline skills upon which post-high-school work can build for all students. The second is the utilization of the early-college high-school framework, such as the P-Tech “9-14” model.

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Education Policy Classroom Management High School Leadership 78

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

Research shows that when young children, many of whom are still learning classroom coping skills, are pushed out of school early and repeatedly, the impact can be irreversibly damaging. Department of Education reported 5,000 preschoolers were suspended from school; 2,500 were suspended more than once. In 2014, the U.S.

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Elementary School Classroom Management High School Leadership 102

Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2024

Combine all of this with the data showing that almost seventy-five percent of high school students reported negative feelings about school , and it’s clear we need an education transformation. It’s no surprise that nearly three-quarters of high school students report feeling tired, stressed, and bored at school.

Education 112

Education K-12 Classroom Management Teaching 112

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children regularly miss elementary, middle and high school. She’s also director of the Center for Teaching Excellence there, which provides faculty with support for instruction, edtech, course design, classroom management and grading. If so, what’s driving the trend?

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Economics K-12 EdTech Classroom Management 133

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. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images. For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math.

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Advocacy Classroom Management Elementary School Public School 72

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

The study connects the dots between gains in early academic and self-regulatory skills made in preschool and, years later, grades in high school. Broadly, it suggests that providing support for preschool teachers in low-income settings can benefit children in ways that last into high school.

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Classroom Management High School Professional Development Research 48

ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

And this summer, we have 200 Black and brown teachers, apprentices, in high school and college, who are interested in teaching. Actually, teaching comes up twice in the top 10 professions for Black men attending HBCUs: [teaching both] elementary and high school. So it's less about classroom management.

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K-12 Classroom Management Economics History 19

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In 2020, Reach University started the program focused on school employees without a degree. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report In growing the Reach program, Eckert drew from her teacher-of-the-year class, hiring people who understood the realities of classroom management and could model what it’s like to be a great teacher.

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Elementary School Tutoring High School Leadership 97

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

FIRST STEP TO THE MIDDLE CLASS: More than 27 million Americans age 25 or older don’t have a high school diploma or GED, the basic credential needed to qualify for nearly 80 percent of jobs in this country. Getting students to class is just the first step toward Jacobs’ ultimate goal: increasing the school’s graduation rate.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

They’re backed by research showing that teachers of color who instruct students of the same race are more likely to set high expectations, discipline appropriately, and identify students for gifted programs. 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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Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 109

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

In my own teacher training many years ago, I took various courses in curriculum theory, classroom management, education history and educational psychology along with content-based courses like political science, economics and history. Related: Will high school segregation for refugees lead to better integration?

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Heritage Political Science Government Psychology 73

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

It’s no surprise that by high school, nearly 75% of students report negative feelings – tired, stressed, and bored– about school (Moeller, Brackett, Ivcevic & White, 2020). High school students’ feelings: Discoveries from a large national survey and an experience sampling study. Moeller, J., Brackett, M.

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Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning Psychology Tradition 78

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Thompson, 70, is among a small cadre of retired educators who returned to Jackson classrooms for the 2017-18 school year to teach science, math and English, the courses for which the school district has the direst need. Related: A ‘civil rights camp’ teaches kids a history they’re not learning in school.

Education 84

Education Middle School Public School Teaching 84

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

According to the CRDC , 11 percent of black students, 9 percent of Latino students and 7 percent of American Indian or Alaska Native students attend schools where more than 20 percent of instructional staff are first year teachers, compared to 5 percent of white students. high schools lack a school counselor. More than 1.6

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K-12 Classroom Management Public School Research 61

Digital Promise

AUGUST 22, 2018

10 adopted PowerSchool Unified Classroom , an interoperable classroom management solution that combined its SIS, learning, gradebook, and assessment solutions on one platform. Students and school staff benefit from an accurate and comprehensive view of student progress. “I

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

In the five classrooms I’ve had in my career, I’ve discovered the must-haves that make my social studies classes run smoothly. Things that go way beyond classroom décor. While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific.

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Social Studies Civics Sociology History 52

Letters and Ink Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

Creating a set of classroom expectations for your students is more challenging than it seems at first. When I first started out teaching, I tried to stick to the same rules my own teachers had for me in high school. The thing is, kids today are not the same as they were back then.

Humanities 52

Humanities Cultures Teaching High School 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Philadelphia schools are not missing an occasional classroom reading rug (“Abbott Elementary” season 1, episode 3); they are missing environmentally safe classrooms and safe working conditions. Every single student at the table had witnessed a stabbing in elementary school that was critical enough to lead to an arrest.

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Pedagogy Library Classroom Management Elementary School 134

ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

If you've ever taught middle school writing, which I have, or if you taught early high school writing, their writing does not change that much in eight months. Classroom management is a delicate balance. You're always managing kids' emotions, and where they're at that day, and your own emotions, too.

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Classroom Management Middle School Government High School 134

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

The creators of the website-building platform Wix have created Wix Tomorrow, a free suite of resources designed to teach middle and high school students how to create their own websites. Video is currently not available.

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