Edthena

MAY 13, 2022

Hartford Public Schools, a Connecticut district with 39 schools, uses district-wide video coaching aligned to their larger instructional vision. Using Edthena, Hartford Public Schools captured 116 teaching videos in under a year, each tied to a specific aspect of the district’s instructional vision. .

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2019

It provides access to vast libraries of content, which can be curated to reflect the interests and cultures of diverse classrooms. Students with interests, passions and cultural backgrounds outside of the core curriculum will become disengaged with a classroom that does not meet their needs. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Efforts to enhance these relationships should include culturally responsive teaching and creating a sense of belonging to ensure that each student can participate at the fullest level. Be laser focused on building strong and lasting relationships among students and teachers, students and their peers, and teachers and parents/caregivers.

Teaching 143

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. Fernandez, principal, Cambridge Street Upper School.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections. White students absorb these same cultural cues. Cultural differences influence teaching efficacy, however.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Remnants of this practice slowly trickled into public schools as teachers switched school districts. Conversely, schools began to embrace the work of Dr. Sharrocky Hollie in places where Black and Brown children were the primary learners. In 1994, Dr. Gloria Ladson Billings published a book titled “ The Dreamkeepers.”

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

It’s kind of a cultural moment where educators know what’s best for kids but then they’re sometimes prohibited from following those recommendations by either their school district policies or by state law. ” Despite those recommendations, he says, “many states have laws specifically prohibiting best practice.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

But in this case, the critical fact was that the student used offensive language on school property and during a school-sponsored event. The court reasoned that it is proper for schools to uphold standards of civil speech during school activities. Pico (1982).

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. Even then, many Southern school districts stalled for time, some waiting until the 1971 Supreme Court ruling in Swann v. 7 and 8, JulyAugust 1956], p.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

All 50 states offer property tax exemptions for private, nonprofit entities, which supporters argue are crucial so that these organizations can provide social, economic and cultural benefits to their communities. But this is a point where we have to look where all revenues are coming from and where all revenues are leaking.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

For the purpose of standardized tests, this principle serves as a reminder that efforts around assessment are not separate from the necessary work of culturally responsive teaching , equity, trauma-informed practices , and research-based pedagogy. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. link] Reese, W.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

If you can’t communicate, or your culture is different, trusting a white English-speaking woman with your child — that’s a lot of trust,” said Shonna Werth, Communities for Kids’ assistant vice president of early childhood programs. Some [places] serve only Hispanic children, and they have Hispanic providers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

More than 27,700 school-age youth live in Pasadena , Altadena and Sierra Madre , the communities served by the district, but only about half of them attend public school. Pasadena High School. In Pasadena, Dufford said, it has been tradition for established families not to send their children to public schools. “So

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

There is no doubt that our schools are in crisis. The trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing culture wars and disappointing academic performance results have made education discourse particularly fraught. Books are getting banned from classrooms and libraries. School board meetings are devolving into hostility.

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Library Cultures Public School Teaching 102

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

Rural universities are also often cultural oases, Huisman said. Southern Virginia University was cleared to borrow nearly $23 million for a new academic center, student housing, a dining facility, the renovation of its library and refinancing of other debt. Dordt is home to the Northwest Iowa Symphony Orchestra.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

“It made me very sad to see the school closed.”. Dominguez is part of a neighborhood activist group fighting to retake the abandoned school and turn it into a community arts and culture center. Goyco school in San Juan. Goyco is one of the more than 600 public schools in Puerto Rico that have closed in the past decade.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Students were prompted to find images that represent contemporary pop culture, and then to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to create their own Warhol-inspired work. One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS). Kalama Intermediate School. Safari Books.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. The Muñiz Academy is an open-enrollment school, so administrators can’t restrict who attends.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nurturing bilingual students is the mission of the 400-student public school where Menéndez teaches, Dos Puentes Elementary in Washington Heights, a predominantly Latino neighborhood of New York City. At Dos Puentes Elementary School, kids can browse classroom libraries stocked with books in English and Spanish.

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Elementary School Middle School Library Research 126

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

At its annual retreat in January, the office rolled out four essential elements to guide programs: create an inclusive culture, build trusting relationships, design capacity-building opportunities and dedicate necessary resources. The six-week session, conducted in Spanish, her primary language, was held at the Loveland Public Library.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Vince Scheivert, chief information officer for Albermarle County Schools, gives computer advice to Cassidy Watkins (left) and Madeline Rice, both Burley Middle School students. Photo: Lorenzo Dickerson, Albemarle County Public Schools. There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. We can flip the classroom.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 15, 2018

As UVA Professor Edward Hess notes, the Smart Machine Age rising in our homes, communities, schools, and workforce is fundamentally altering society, culture, and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Students at Revere High School in Revere, Massachusetts, worked in groups in the school library in 2015. Revere hosted a learning tour for other schools last year, to share its experiences with personalizing learning. Public Schools. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

That rapid growth, however, threatens the reputation — and sustainability — of its public schools. The new Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont., After winter break, the school enrolled enough new kindergartners to require the hiring of a fifth kindergarten teacher. opened in fall 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sylvan Hills Middle School Assistant Principal Monica Blasingame, center, and Principal Artesza Portee, right, discuss “big life goals” with a student as part of a goal-setting exercise in Atlanta Public Schools. public schools. Screenshot of teacher dashboards from Atlanta Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

That lack of attainment is perhaps not surprising: Until last year, Newark’s public schools had been under state control since 1995, when a state investigation revealed school environments that “virtually assure academic failure.” Rather than commuting back and forth from home, they can use those 30 minutes in the library.

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Social Justice Economics Public School Library 94

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2017

The National Council on Teacher Quality’s database shows that most schools offer at least 10 sick and personal days to teachers each year, on top of the standard vacation schedule. Outliers include Toledo, Ohio, where public school teachers get as many as 26 paid leave days, and Burlington, Vermont, where the district gives 24.

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Library Professional Development High School Economics 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. No one in her family has ever gotten a degree.

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High School Charter School Economics Leadership 101

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Foster’s experience in finding a “Montessori school” that didn’t actually adhere to Montessori ideals is not unique. It was revitalized during the 1960s and grew quickly after one of the nation’s Montessori schools was featured in a Time magazine article titled “The Joy of Learning.”

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Library Middle School Teaching Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Columbus School, Carteret, N.J The Carteret Public School District, in a diverse area of northern New Jersey, cobbled together several strategies at Columbus, which enrolls nearly 700 students, about 75 percent of whom are economically disadvantaged, according to district administrators.

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Elementary School K-12 Economics Tutoring 120

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

This is the first incident of its kind coming from the school. But the same article also mentioned that in 2013, two teachers from Manhattan Public School 59 had incorporated the killing and whipping of slaves in a math lesson on subtraction and multiplication. Cummings’ slavery lesson wasn’t only cruel; it was redundant.

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Psychology History Library Teaching 73

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

School, district-based, or statewide book study Regular meetings to discuss chapters and create individual and/or collective action plans around each of the book’s five sections. They organized to change the name of an elementary school where three study group members work. Check out their overview.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52

Maitri Learning

JANUARY 18, 2022

We partnered with Libertas School of Memphis to run a pilot Teacher Residency program. We started by designing a two summer residency; this meant we set up our model classrooms right in the public school where the teachers would be working. Most of the adult learners were already public school teachers or assistant teachers.

Education 52

Education Library Public School Cultures 52

Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. We are excited to share their story as the second in our series of Maker Promise videos.

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