Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. We wanted to know: what do educators see as their top challenges? Challenge-based, problem-based, project-based, and civic learning through community engagement are approaches that share a common interest in authentic learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We’re leading these schools.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Pioneering districts in the League of Innovative Schools are at the forefront of incorporating computer science education in K-12, leading large-scale initiatives to integrate coding and computational thinking into their curricula. Community Engagement and Advocacy. Relevance to Students. The post What Is Your Why?:

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This trend was linked to factors like physical health and community engagement, which play a crucial role in subjective well-being in these societies. Instead of a consistent U-shaped curve, the researchers often found flat or even inverted U-shapes, with well-being increasing into middle age and declining in older years.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Kettle Moraine School District (KMSD), a member of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , is a suburban district in Wisconsin leading some of the most advanced competency-based education (CBE) efforts in the country. The post Activating the Community to Support Education Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This year, I began another complicated questwith an institutional behemoth: the New York City Department of Education. He is entitled to an education in a city that guarantees universal free public education to all of our children. Related: Is the pandemic our chance to reimagine education for students with disabilities?

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 14, 2024

But over the last ten years, whenever I set out to find information about teaching strategies, educational resources, technology for schools, or pretty much anything related to improving learning for our students, someone would inevitably pipe up and say, “Librarians can also help with that.” That was about it.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2017

For me, the ultimate goal I establish when taking on a book project is to try to write a unique piece that either greatly enhances existing work in the education and leadership space or creates an entirely new niche. I eventually settled on branding in education, but not for the reason you might think. Define before being defined.

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Geogramblings

JUNE 23, 2024

Gemma Bailey, the Climate Ambassadors Regional Hub Manager for Southeast England, is a passionate advocate for sustainability and community engagement. She believes that education and collaboration are key to achieving this vision.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Although I was doing interviews at that time for a piece on low morale in higher education, I didn’t have a good answer to her question. How do we re-engage faculty and staff for the next phase, whatever that might be? We can talk about it in terms of community engagement, faculty engagement, family engagement, relationship engagement.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban and suburban districts.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. Me being a first-generation student, I've never had the resources to be able to step into education. She signed up. “Me

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2023

Personalized learning has been a buzzword in education since the turn of the century. This past fall, I met with several education leaders to discuss this very topic and codify what it looks like in the classroom. But what does it really mean? Students aren’t the only ones who need to feel empowered in their learning.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2020

And researchers have reached consensus on the common features found in different types of successful community schools: integrated student supports; expanded learning time and opportunities; family and community engagement; and collaborative leadership and practice. “We Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Geogramblings

JULY 6, 2024

Leading the London hub is Annie Risner, a true Londoner with a diverse background and a deep-rooted passion for community engagement and creative expression. The Climate Ambassadors scheme, a national initiative empowering young people to tackle climate change, has nine regional hubs across England.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2023

I am a Harvard graduate, nationally recognized advocate for homeless youth and an education professional supporting family engagement in a network of charter public schools. I’m not asking educators to take on society’s larger systems of oppression, but we can certainly disrupt our own. As educators, we can change this.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2020

I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. I especially appreciated your emphasis on family and community engagement and our conversation about some new possibilities for next school year. Episode 018 is below.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Institutional biases block career advancement for educators of color , who constitute only 1 in 5 U.S. This is a serious problem: The caliber and stability of our educator workforce affects our education system’s quality and capacity for improvement. Research confirms the intertwined success of Black students and educators.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2023

Public flagships were created to educate the residents of their states and most make that explicit. Olivia Sanchez contributed reporting Development by Fazil Khan This story about race in college admissions was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Let’s Hear It for the Boys Lately, as educational outcomes for women have improved, men’s performance has not kept pace. The education profession feels more female than ever. Entering education as a profession at all is sometimes a tough sell. What’s that mean for early childhood education? Thomas asks.

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ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

The pandemic has led to big questions about the value of higher education, and that has been especially true of liberal arts colleges. Steven Volk: I was driven to go into higher education by the potential of education to upset social hierarchies and to open possibilities that didn't exist before.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Education is today’s civil rights movement, and we must act boldly and with urgency to stamp out injustice. Related: OPINION: Educators have a basic but essential role in dismantling racism. We are building equity-based staffing formulas to ensure that the highest-quality educators are in schools with the highest needs.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2024

Often, the assumption is that parents don’t make time to engage with their child’s learning community or do not care about their student’s academic progress — even if that student is performing poorly or below academic expectations. As the great educator Marva Collins would say, “It is not a crime not to know.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 12, 2020

As another school year begins, many families are now tasked with educating their children at home, changing the way we think about and prioritize learning. How can edtech shift from a focus on district administrators and classroom educators to better understand families’ needs during and after the COVID-19 pandemic?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

School Psychologist Dani Roquett greets Anne and James Hutt with their daughters, Ellison, 5, and Quinn, 10 months, at the “Zone Check-In” at the GET Together family educational event in January. The school calls the events, held twice a year, GET Togethers — Guaranteed Education Teams. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

In 1998, I began my journey as an elementary teacher under the tutelage of my aunt and revered educator, Marva N. My mother was also a teacher, so I saw firsthand what it meant to be a passionate educator who is deeply committed to students. Their commitment and passion for teaching were the reasons why I chose this profession.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Mississippi’s statutes and regulations were found to be “comprehensive” in six of these domains, including health education and employee wellness.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

The team then decided to apply the strategies from the “Implementation” section of the edtech systems guide, focusing on clear communication with stakeholders (caregivers, teachers, admins) and providing ongoing support and training opportunities for staff.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

“So when you have a situation like these storms that continue to keep coming …” Now help is arriving from an unexpected source: The University of Vermont, or UVM, the state’s flagship higher education institution, has opened a new center to help rural communities like this one. They aren’t going to pick up and leave.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. As a veteran educator with over 20 years in the classroom, I’ve seen the consequences of teacher turnover.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

“Of course it’s important that Penn at least recognizes the profound challenges that the School District of Philadelphia faces with things like lead poisoning and asbestos,” Campano, a professor at Penn’s Graduate School of Education, said. They suggest paying it into an education equity fund managed by the city council.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Department of Education, there are signs that the disruptions from COVID-19 may be exacerbating long-standing disability-based disparities in academic achievement. Essentially, every student should have a personalized learning plan which will help to enrich family and community engagement.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Most Americans agree that education is a national priority. public education system falls in the middle of international quality rankings. But let’s be clear: the problem with education in America is not lack of excellence. Education researchers and neuroscientists are learning more about how people learn.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 2, 2024

election presents educators across the United States with the opportunity to help their students engage in the democratic system. Why is it essential to teach democratic citizenship and civic engagement? What concrete steps can higher educators use to connect students to the U.S. The 2024 U.S. Elizabeth A.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

A recent Brookings Institution report notes that students regularly discuss civics issues in class but have few opportunities for community engagement and participation in our democracy. In my junior year of high school, we explored educational inequity in South Carolina. The experience was transformational for me.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

With each of its 2,500 adult learners, Savannah Technical College (STC) takes an approach to education that is pragmatic without losing a sense of the value of education for education’s sake. This is reflected in the values of Dean of Adult Education Brent Stubbs. Dean of Adult Education, Savannah Technical College.

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