ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Research in psychology suggests that, though some programs demonstrate promise in changing individuals’ unconscious cognition, the impacts of these programs are small, do not necessarily persist over time and seldomly lead to shifts in behaviors.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2023

Marvin Dunn, a former professor of psychology at Florida International University and a specialist in the state’s Black history, told the Daily Beast on Thursday that the latest African American studies ban “means an insult to me, it means an injury to me.” There’s nothing objectional.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. But what is it, exactly? Expense is not the only hurdle.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) Or as Evans points out: “We define restorative justice as a shift in culture. We don’t change culture quickly.”. Photo: Jim Vaiknoras for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. Duckworth’s own research is currently delving deeper into passion, trying to understand how people develop it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation. Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. It wasn’t popular.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Dahl describes himself as a developmental scientist, practicing in a field that combines many subjects such as neuroscience, psychology and medicine. Between the ages of 12 to 15, there are more differences than similarities in each person’s connectome. Culture is shaping it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

There’s so much information and so many personal stories about how the coronavirus has negatively affected the global community from health, economic, psychological and social perspectives. First, do your research. Before addressing the issue, build some time for yourself and read up on coronavirus to gain insight, clarity and empathy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

He advocates tackling the “systemic and cultural barriers” that can create roadblocks for teachers of color. Dixon, an assistant professor of developmental psychology at Hampton University, said retention efforts like the one in Mississippi ultimately need buy-in from administrators too.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Reviewing existing literature and studies, Heather Hill found 2 types of teacher-centric programs that had an effect on positive classroom environment and culture. Empathy-based programs come from the work of Jason Okonofua at Berkeley, rooted in social psychology principles. They’re rooted in empathy and mindfulness.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The proportion of students in kindergarten through 12 th grade nationwide that is Hispanic has increased to 25 percent from 19 percent since 2003, while the black, non-Hispanic population has dropped to 16 percent, and the white, non-Hispanic population, to 50 percent from 59 percent. In 2000, about one in 12 Hickory residents was Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Mingus Union reinforces an aspect of American culture that has educators believing they can teach students by punishing and shaming them. Batcho in a Psychology Today article last year. In the book “Hacking Classroom Culture,” authors Angela Stockman and Ellen Feig Gray show how ubiquitous shaming is. It isn’t right.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Some 3,200 students, many of them the first in their families to attend college, are participating in the inaugural year of the New Deal-esque program , in service jobs in K-12 education, food insecurity and climate mitigation. Eighty percent of college happens outside of class time,” Jack said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

y Christmas, 12 percent of Sci Academy’s first graduates had either dropped out or transferred to a community college. psychology class. That fall, Williams switched her major from music business to psychology in hopes of becoming a counselor. while she puzzled over psychology homework in the one hour she had to spare.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

No matter where you go, you see people from all different cultures and heritages.”. Now a senior, Cristian is enrolled in four AP classes (Psychology, Biology, Computer Science, and Spanish) and two dual-credit classes with the local college (physics and calculus). Gitu Gobana, 12, moved to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

My degree is in psychology but I’m teaching history! You’re taught really about cultural competencies. She isn’t required to get certified under the waiver but says she wants to for job security and because she isn’t so sure about her teaching skills. She is 35, and this wasn’t exactly her plan. “My It affects teaching quality.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Bilingual PreK-12 teachers. Although the two Connecticut events occurred back-to-back, Malloy likely failed to connect the dots: Given their diverse instructional, linguistic, and cultural competencies, paraprofessionals could help address the state’s recurring bilingual teacher shortage. First on the list? report similar shortages.

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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. The result has been both the richness and the complexity of diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 11, 2017

Some have argued that our country’s success throughout the past century was built upon free K-12 education. To many observers, these data reflect a broader and often harder to achieve impact: the embrace of a college-going culture. Today we can’t imagine a world in which our young people don’t attend high school.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

Therefore, by providing relevant psychological services to address these difficulties, an intervention agent shows sensitivity to the needs of the entire family. Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is the application of principles derived from the psychology of learning in order to teach skills and manage problem behavior. Turnbull, A.P.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Michelle Fine, a professor of psychology at the Graduate Center at City University of New York, said the problem is much deeper than an information gap. They see this is not a parent who I can pull the wool over their eyes. I’ve seen so many doors opened for parents,” Brown said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Also, there’s a psychological factor. She said the challenge for these project fellows is to lead a culture change in schools, so that their colleagues don’t just tolerate data, but actively demand it. “They’re trying to develop in students and teachers and principals the need to have data to make better decisions.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Now, several years later, after pursuing a degree in psychology and taking courses in child development, Foster is more educated about Montessori education and realizes little about the “Montessori garden” actually adhered to Montessori practice. The cultural area introduces students to puzzle maps, flags and globes.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 20, 2016

The legend of the superhero teacher who steps into a crumbling, underresourced school and singlehandedly changes the lives of a group of indifferent or hostile students is a pervasive one in popular culture.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2024

In recent years, our schools have become increasingly aware of the unique needs of military children, whose parents deploy and sometimes spend months and years away from home, moving six to nine times on average in their K-12 education.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You can’t interview Asians because they won’t say anything substantive due to the norms of their culture,” she said. And what depth of knowledge, background, or experience gives you the authority to speak on what works best culturally for Asians anyway? I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

That’s about 15% of K-12 public schools in the United States. It’s one thing to have it baked into the pie and another thing to make it a deliverable and a piece of the curriculum as compared to an endemic part of school culture,” he says. School staff need proper training and oversight, he says.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

When she works in a classroom, Niobe Way, a professor of developmental psychology at New York University, wants to dive into the deep end. Way says that people are starving for these questions, a sad consequence of what she sees as a culture and education system that have shut off people’s natural penchant for deep relationships.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

During my K-12 schooling experience, the story I learned about what it meant to be a Black person taught me two things: that I was less than human, a victim of America’s anti-Black violence, and in order to be seen as human, I had to be successful. As an educator, I’ve tried to offer a view of Black life that I didn’t see as a student.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

As a case in point, peer-to-peer programs can be a source of culturally sensitive support when colleges ’ and K–12 schools ’ counseling staffs are overwhelmingly white. Instead, they enlist peers as close, credible messengers who are especially attuned to one another’s struggles.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Knowing his culture and practicing his religion help ground him, Helgeson said. As a teacher at Hays-Lodge Pole High School on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in Montana, Helgeson works hard to pass on that cultural knowledge. There’s a real urgency that people know the culture which they come from.”. I want to earn it.”.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. struggles with math instruction, there’s interest in cultural perceptions about who possesses strong math abilities. But in a sense, American culture values qualities it affiliates with math too much.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Even in death people have value; history and culture remains. Dunbar Elementary School, said a month after the storm : “The people who were there should be the ones given the opportunity to rebuild… We know the history, we know the culture of the city, the district, and the people.”. Woods, then-principal of Paul L.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The challenge here is that the training program must adapt to the culture. I am forever indebted to her encouragement and "permission" to be a scientist, unbound by a limiting cultural restriction that albums must not be shared. Arendt, K., & Thastum, M. Journal of School Psychology, 50(3), 379-401. Johnsen, D.

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