Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

Vista Unified School District’s (VUSD) mission is “to inspire each and every student to persevere as critical-thinking individuals who collaborate to solve real-world problems.” Kindergartners place their backpacks outside in the “hallway” next to a community garden in a Vista elementary school hallway.

Middle School 91

Middle School Elementary School Critical Thinking Social Studies 91

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Decades of research documents the benefits of coaching for teachers, students, and school culture. Beyond that, a recent evaluation of instructional coaching programs shows that coaching is more effective than traditional professional development (PD) models in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement.

Tradition 100

Tradition Elementary School Cultures Professional Development 100

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Mineola High School student Pamela Lopez records a podcast with the help of librarian Jeffrey Appelbaum. Some research suggests students thrive when curriculum is focused on content knowledge, while other studies have found a focus on skills, such as critical thinking, isn’t effective if students don’t have background knowledge.

K-12 143

K-12 Library Elementary School High School 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

In Wilder Elementary School, students not only pick which subjects they want to learn, but they can also spurn their desks and work on the floor if they want. My kids begged me to come to summer school,” said Chantelle Mullins, a mother of two elementary school students. I keep thinking, ‘Is this real?’”

Elementary School 80

Elementary School High School Middle School Lesson Plan 80

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. She said, “Let’s give them the data points to critically think and draw conclusions.”

Teaching 96

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We Nor are seniors.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

individualization – Interrogating our instruction: An elementary school scenario. Day 5: The Affordances of Digital – Review of last session’s evaluations and our rules of play – Digital v. analog: Examples of the affordances of multimedia storytelling – How is writing changing because of digital and online?

Leadership 107

Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning 107

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. Related: What the country can learn from Boston about bringing the arts back to public schools. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. As they discovered, that’s not so simple.

Education 75

Education Elementary School High School Critical Thinking 75

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Estonia’s traditional educational system still often favors more teacher-centered classrooms and emphasizes learning facts over developing soft skills. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. They just vegetated.”.

Elementary School 0

Elementary School Economics Cultures Tradition 0

Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The new PhD (The Chronicle of Higher Education) Many doctoral students will not go on to tenure-track professorships, so why should they devote their grad school years to producing a traditional dissertation mainly of value inside academe?

Controversial Topics 52

Controversial Topics Psychology Elementary School Pedagogy 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

The jobs that once kept the city prosperous are being replaced by skilled jobs in service sectors such as health care, finance and information technology — positions that require more education than just a high-school diploma, thus squeezing out many of those blue-collar, traditionally middle-class workers. Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it.

High School 104

High School Geography Middle School Critical Thinking 104

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

has a long tradition of deferring to the family when it comes to the education of very young children. Bush performs the timeless and bipartisan presidential ritual of reading to young children at Highland Park Elementary School in Landover, Maryland in the summer of 2003. But the U.S. Former President George W. Photo: Paul J.

K-12 69

K-12 Public School Government Elementary School 69

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

—Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. In lieu of a traditional exam for one of my U.S. Jared Leone High School Social Studies Teacher, Springfield, Massachusetts In U.S. History I and II to 10th and 11th graders, respectively.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Starting in elementary school, roughly half of the program’s students would be native Spanish speakers and the other half native English speakers. That has been the more traditional way of dealing with this ‘problem’ of there being students in our classrooms who are not English speakers.

Education 120

Education Tradition Cultures History 120

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

[Maria Flynn] What are the alternatives that can give someone that post-secondary education and training that they need, but in ways that can also kind of get them into the labor force and earning for themselves and their family in ways that traditional paths really don’t designed for? We’re just going to stay the course.

K-12 108

K-12 Education Economics Education Policy 108