The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first schools to implement what Public Impact calls an “Opportunity Culture,” did so during the 2013-14 school year, and Edgecombe County Public Schools is set to become the first district to bring the model systemwide. Swanson said that Opportunity Culture could be transformational. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

I have a closer view of the effects of school board decisions than most school board members. Related: Do fraught school board meetings offer a view of the future? I ran for the Littleton Elementary School District governing board while I was 17, and was elected while finishing out my senior year of high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2020

Sara Knueve, a Student Services coordinator who supports an elementary school and system-wide work in the Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin, recently told me how early efforts to introduce social-emotional learning led some staff to shape students into dominant cultural norms. “It

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

Facing a teacher shortage, Littleton Elementary School District had to hire many new teachers from outside of Arizona. Kelley Clark, Professional Development Coordinator in Dodge City, Kansas, has also leveraged reflection and classroom video to support new teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Their premise is simple: By partnering with families and community-based organizations, community schools tackle challenges like hunger and homelessness and seek to support students’ mental and physical health. 1425 Walton Avenue, once home to P.S. 64, now houses the Walton Avenue School and Lucero Elementary School.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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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. Now, over 200,000 students in 4,000 schools have ArcGIS Online accounts. Here are just a few of their stories.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Despite mostly feeling supported by colleagues and family members, many of the male educators reported facing societal barriers or cultural resistance in their careers as early ed teachers. “It’s important for children to see other possibilities and other paths they can take.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Yet, despite the gains I made with my students, despite research that shows the substantial positive impact of teachers of color on all students, despite the fact that having just one Black teacher in elementary school makes a Black child 13 percent more likely to go to college , my career nearly ended shortly after it began.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2018

We must support teachers with strong preparation, appropriate compensation, quality professional development and leadership opportunities so they may fulfill their calling: to ensure that every child receives an excellent education. It is necessary to lift up and thank teachers. It is also crucial to recognize that thanks isn’t enough.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Early in my teaching career, when I was 26 years old, I was offered and accepted a position as a dean at an elementary school in East Oakland, California. The following school year, I was promoted to assistant principal, and a year into that role, I had to cover our principal while she was on maternity leave.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

We’re not preparing teachers well in math, especially at the elementary level, says Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California, whose research focuses on teacher education. I definitely think we need to invest a lot more money in high-quality professional development,” Brown says.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. Celebrating Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month can also help you keep students engaged toward the end of the school year. Math Integration: Ask students to calculate how much food they would need to make a meal for the whole class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

A few years ago, Amy Lopes, a veteran fifth-grade teacher in Providence, Rhode Island, learned that teachers at her school could try a mindfulness and yoga training along with their students. I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Instead of working in her dream role as an elementary school teacher, she spent her days hauling cow organs for inspection. The group, founded in 2017, helps develop quality early care and education programs in Nebraska communities that don’t have enough of them. “If Stuck at her job at a Tyson meatpacking plant.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

That said, the effort has come with challenges: Northgate spent many months getting buy-in from school staff and families at a time when school-based mental health had become a target of the culture wars elsewhere. Related: Mental health: Is that a job for schools?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Franetta Sinsabaugh’s frustrations with her children’s schooling had been building for a long time. Too much of the school year revolved around preparing for Texas’s standardized tests. The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

individualization – Interrogating our instruction: An elementary school scenario. No great answer to this is apparent other than a cultural reframing, one that is already underway. And that means schools should consider a reframing of their own learning time. They have continued learning, talking, and implementing.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

schools double. Decades of research documents the benefits of coaching for teachers, students, and school culture. The reason emotions and the socio-cultural environment are so powerful is that they are intertwined with our cognition. A Dynamic Learning Project elementary school teacher.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Stephenville Independent School District – Stephenville, TX. Hook Elementary School reimagined the structure of their third and fourth grade classes by organizing schedules in “pods,” where elementary teachers are given the opportunity to dive deep on more specific areas of expertise.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

And indeed, 51 percent of David Douglas high school students currently enrolled in a music class qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, compared to 66 percent at the high school as a whole. Typically, high schools have lower poverty levels than elementary schools because parents are older and able to earn more.).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Finland has a wide range of cognitive diversity among its own students, with a third receiving special-education services at some point in their school experience. Many of the insights that Finland has put into classroom practice have come from the United States and are applicable to children and cultures the world over.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

American University Pays Tutors American University’s School of Education established the Future Teacher Tutors Program in fall 2020. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

AARP’s Experience Corps , which engages older adults in tutoring elementary-aged children in high-need elementary schools, shows similar results for older children. We need investments in teacher preparation and professional development. We need effective, culturally relevant and inclusive curricula.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Lori Baas, CEO of Christopher House, said she commonly hears preschool advocates claim they prepared kids for kindergarten, and blame grade schools for any fade-out; elementary school staffers point the finger of blame back at the preschools, claiming they failed to prepare kids for kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Raylan Li, 15, is excited to become a co-president of the Asian Culture Club this fall. Lab High School for Collaborative Studies, Li sees a noticeable difference between the predominantly Asian elementary school he attended in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and middle school and high school, where the student population is predominantly white.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” The network was purposefully capped at about 150 schools, because the partnerships rely on intensive, in-person training and coaching. Every year, about 10 new schools join EL and a similar number leave.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 16, 2020

School leaders should actively engage in creating a more diverse school setting to drive cultural awareness among students. One new idea to consider: Find a virtual speaker from outside your school community. Preparing schools and educators will take more than a single professional development course.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

This is one of many multisensory activities Welch uses in her reading intervention class, a 30-minute pull-out session that meets daily at the elementary school. Coming back from remote instruction, many of the 575 students at Hardwick Elementary School in Lubbock were lagging in reading, said Principal Kim Callison.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School. And candidates also struggle with how to navigate their relationships with colleagues; they don’t always understand school culture or a teacher’s other responsibilities, such as hallway and lunchroom duty, veteran teachers said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

These programs also incorporate intensive professional development for experienced teachers. Related: Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards. In partnership with a district, Residencies train graduates to excel in areas where districts need them most. million annually, according to one study.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2017

In other words, in our first year as uncertified teachers, we were responsible for the totality of our students’ learning experiences during the school day, for everything they needed to know to be successful in school and beyond. Take Diedre (name changed), an elementary school special educator. Teachers Need Support.

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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 Hayward study group decided to “adopt the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework (HRLF) as something we want to develop lessons around to share from the Teaching for Black Lives perspective.” Check out their overview.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

At Barack and Michelle Obama Academy, an elementary school in southern Atlanta, Principal Robin Christian has hired a staff of teachers who are willing to track data to better understand what works with students. But principals can play a role in setting the right tone. One of our mottos is ‘Let teachers be great teachers.’”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

She liked the people and the culture and the history. After TFA, she joined the KIPP charter network at KIPP Delta in Helena, Arkansas; when the network opened an elementary school, she became its leader. However, she believed that high school failure rates showed that the lower schools weren’t getting it done.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

“I think it’s very amazing that our district — I mean we’re getting paid, we’re on the clock — but that our district has committed time for us in this way,” said Trish Curran, a teacher in Taos Municipal Schools. Reimagining how school districts use professional development days could be one solution to an increasingly urgent problem.

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