The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

“I did poorly in middle school because I didn’t care,” Tendilla told me. He credits his rising ambitions to encouragement from his teachers at his Brooklyn high school, part of what was then a relatively new and untested high school network known as Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH).

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High School Middle School Social Studies Teaching 145

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

For many years New Milford High School was just like virtually every other public school in this country defined solely by traditional indicators of success such as standardized test scores, graduation rates, and acceptances to four year colleges. Online courses through the Virtual High School implemented in 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

More than 75 percent of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50 percent of high school math teachers said they did. Related: Education research, condensed. The survey results varied by grade level. Teacher-curated materials may be disjointed.

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High School Tutoring Lesson Plan Elementary School 145

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Luckily for me, but more importantly my students and staff, Laura jumped on the opportunity to become a part of the transformation that has been occurring at New Milford High School the past couple of years. This involved using online maps and doing some research. Numerous NMHS teachers participated in this educational game.

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Library High School Tradition Cultures 352

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 21, 2022

A meta-analysis of 213 school-based, universal social and emotional learning (SEL) programs involving 270,034 kindergarten through high school students showed promising results. Relevance : There is a great deal of research out there on the importance of relevance in the classroom and school, which you can read HERE.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Eighth grade, they’re just in full-on puberty, hormones, said Zach Loy, another math teacher at the high school, an hours drive from Minneapolis. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. BRAHAM, Minn.

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Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

Even before the pandemic shunted them into online learning, many high school students failed to see a connection between their work in the classroom and their real-world futures. At a minimum, every high school student should have a work-based learning experience. The rare exceptions? The time is right.

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High School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 145

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2022

There is also a robust research base to validate its importance. for feedback in his synthesis of 800 meta-analyses of education research studies. The valuable information, in many cases, aligns with what the research has said constitutes good feedback. Research says good feedback is targeted, specific, timely.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Theres a half-billion-dollar federal program that is supposed to help students with disabilities get into the workforce when they leave high school, but most parents and even some school officials dont know it exists. I just wish we could have gotten help while he was still in high school. That was the hope.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 16, 2016

Recess in particular is needed not just in our youngest grades, but also even through the middle and high school years. Read about why high school should be more like kindergarten and the point becomes clearer. Research has found that play develops students in four ways: physical, cognitive, social, and emotional.

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Professional Development Critical Thinking High School Cultures 419

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 19, 2018

Growing up as a child I played numerous sports recreationally and in high school. Upon entering high school I was not the best athlete by any means, but football was one sport where I excelled more than others, and this led to some time playing in college.

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Leadership Professional Development Pedagogy High School 365

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

A ‘Knowledge Revival’ A 2025 book by 10 education researchers in Europe and Australia, Developing Curriculum for Deep Thinking: The Knowledge Revival , makes the case that students cannot learn the skills of comprehension and critical thinking unless they know a lot of stuff first. Weve all been there.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

Laila Ibrahim and Amy Monroy, students participating in the YARI Project, give a virtual presentation of their research on “How do the racial and ethnic background of students and teachers affect student-teacher relationships within the classroom?” ” in late November. Credit: YouTube.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

We live in exciting times as unprecedented access to knowledge, research, and effective strategies at our fingertips can assist educators in creating meaningful experiences for students that align with both needs and strengths. This is yet another testament to the culture of learning that has been established.

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Junior High Pedagogy Professional Development Leadership 482

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance.

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Cultures Civic Engagement Civics Pedagogy 135

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

As a high-school senior in New Jersey, Ernesto Reyes Velasco couldn’t envision himself taking the leap to become an independent college student. During her sophomore year, Jimenez Delgado went out on a limb and asked her ecology professor about open research positions. MONTCLAIR, N.J. — He didn’t have close friends as examples.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 10, 2013

Effective leadership is extremely important in any system, but it is even more imperative in schools if we are to provide all learners with a world-class education. At New Milford High School , we have been working for the past four years to transform our culture to one that is primed for student engagement, learning, and achievement.

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Leadership Educational Technology Cultures High School 332

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

For starters, I have now been going on four years since transitioning from high school principal to Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE). More and more schools have gone 1:1 thanks to the cost-effectiveness of the Chromebook and cloud-based tools. What should be removed?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2023

But a few months later, in June of last year, Carver suddenly announced he was departing his position as a high school teacher because of the constant discrimination and threats he said he faced as an openly gay man. “I Carver said he received little to no support from his school administration. When Willie Carver Jr.

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Cultures High School Leadership Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

This is the prevailing mission for the pluralistic CivxNow Coalition , whose more than 370 members span the country, and whose contributors include classroom teachers, school leaders, curriculum providers, out-of-school clubs and organizations and cultural institutions. Naturally, spending class time on civics helps.

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Civics K-12 Middle School High School 75

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Instructional leaders understand that management is a necessary evil associated with the position, but not something that should come at the expense of improving the learning culture in order to increase achievement. Below I offer ten specific strategies implemented during my time as high school principal that you can begin to adopt now.

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Leadership Archiving Lesson Plan High School 358

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

New data released this week from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, known as the “nation’s report card,” should raise the alarm for America’s high schools. Those students are now freshmen in high school. But while the task facing high schools is daunting, this is no time for hand-wringing.

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High School Tutoring Cultures Research 115

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 10, 2016

It is a common misconception that today’s learners can seamlessly transition from the routine use of devices for personal reasons to using them for learning, research, and enhanced productivity. Our program began early in the school year with assemblies for every grade level.

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Archiving Artifacts High School Government 265

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

Research shows that everybody finds things like that annoying, but if you're a first-generation college student, those start to trigger worries about belonging, because there's a belonging uncertainty there,” he says. Walton has spent decades researching how to foster a stronger sense of belonging in education settings.

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Research Psychology K-12 Artifacts 140

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

LIFO is not very good for kids,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research, speaking to journalists about expected teacher layoffs at the 2024 annual meeting of the Education Writers Association in Las Vegas. A more detailed list of teacher layoff laws by state is in the appendix.

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ED Surge

MAY 10, 2022

But you wouldn’t know it by looking at the makeup of public-school teachers, who are overwhelmingly white. To learn more about the research, and about the new approaches they surfaced, we sat down with Smith for this week’s EdSurge Podcast. We have to start all the way back in high school to understand the pipeline challenge.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

For example, an algorithm that prioritizes test scores might inadvertently favor schools in affluent, historically less diverse neighborhoods while marginalizing less-affluent schools that excel in cultural responsiveness, inclusivity and fostering equitable learning environments.

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Advocacy Cultures High School Research 68

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 11, 2017

There is a great deal of research and evidence out there that pretty much debunks the claims of many in the world of education reform that accountability systems based solely on student achievement data have any merit. A school can and should provide a meaningful learning experience for students.

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K-12 Advocacy Cultures High School 245

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Or perhaps when a friend from high school shares a questionable meme on Facebook. In other words, previous research shows that young people tend to rely on outdated techniques or surface-level criteria to determine a source’s credibility,” Bowman explained. “If How often do you come in contact with a conspiracy theory?

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Civics Psychology Critical Thinking Teaching 145

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

Once we got rolling though we realized that our improving school culture did not warrant so much attention to, and supervision of, duties, which eventually made it much easier on all of us. Google Innovation Laura Fleming Learning New Milford High School professional growth period professional learning'

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Artifacts Professional Development Lesson Plan High School 315

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 16, 2017

Mandates and top-down directives rarely become embedded and sustained components of school culture because once the focus changes (and it always does) then all the time, energy, and frustration transfers to the new initiative. Do your research - In this case, we had to adopt a new evaluation tool and there were many choices available.

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Leadership Professional Development Cultures Tradition 255

ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Through our Voices of Change project, EdSurge has been conversing with educators and school leaders to understand how schools are adapting to meet the needs of their learning communities as they face the 2021-22 school year. If I’m referring a student, I should be able to refer myself too, right?”.

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Cultures Education Elementary School High School 120

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Some recent research provides great insight into this issue (Darling et al., 2017): Research has noted that many professional development initiatives appear ineffective in supporting changes in teachers’ practices and student learning. When I was the principal at New Milford High School, I created the Professional Growth Period (PGP).

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Professional Development Artifacts Leadership Research 417

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Decades of solid research have laid the foundation for current studies that bring to light how we can improve teaching, learning, and leadership. As Tom Murray and I highlighted in Learning Transformed , this research has been taken to heart by schools across the world as they have transformed learning while improving results in the process.

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Pedagogy Professional Development Leadership High School 266

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

From halted curriculums to debates at school board meetings, social-emotional learning, or SEL, has quickly become the newest target of America’s ongoing education culture wars. Many who oppose it see SEL as a back door for schools to teach critical race theory. The social emotional needs of students are at an all-time high.

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