Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

These experiences provide a framework for learning that uses surroundings, communities, and cultures to invite inquiry, investigate biases, and deepen understanding. What happens when this same approach is applied to school districts? Chief George Dan Public School provides culturally responsive, literacy-based invitations to learning.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Still, despite these challenges, I believe my story is important — not only to create a better understanding of Muslim culture and Muslim women’s identity, but also to build a more welcoming educational environment for Muslim educators and students. The hijab and what it represents in Islam is often misunderstood and unfairly stereotyped.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

In it, the report authors list the myriad tasks, in addition to instruction, that teachers do as part of their jobs — meeting with parents, participating in professional development, grading. Those responsibilities all regularly tip teachers’ work weeks past 40 hours. It’s a reality that troubles teachers across the country.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Districts, schools, educators, and families scrambled to get plans in place for distance learning. Fortunately we have seen possibilities become reality in our Verizon Innovative Learning Schools, where one-to-one devices are provided along with up to four years of data, as well as ongoing professional learning for all teachers.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Superintendent Pat Deklotz and Assistant Superintendent Theresa Ewald have worked with their team to create a culture that empowers teachers and students to be thoughtful critics and advocates of their own learning and to explain and advocate for their experiences with the community.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It’s common for her to hear, “Oh, you know, I decided to be an elementary school teacher because I don't want to teach math.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Nicholls State’s department of teacher education, in partnership with Louisiana State University’s school of education and the Louisiana Sea Grant program based at the university, was awarded a two-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for the project.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. schools Given this public trust, science museums across the nation are taking on a bigger role in supporting teachers in the classroom and helping learners think critically about science.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

At the start of my teaching career, I was the only full-time, Black, male classroom teacher for a predominately Black student population in a southwest Philadelphia middle school. Principals and school leaders need professional development so that they can better advocate for their teachers and students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

All I can think about is how frustrated I am about the lavender—and the failed efforts to support teacher well-being at my school. Wellness Efforts Fall Short Our middle school opened its doors to roughly 100 fifth graders in 2019. Back in teacher mode I gather my materials and head to first period. The problem?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In interviews, dozens of students, parents, educators, lawyers and advocates for students with disabilities in Wicomico County said that a lack of resources and trained staff, combined with a punitive culture in some of the schools, are behind the misuse of emergency petitions. The school called the police.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

million students , continue to show that this standards-first approach to curriculum, instruction and professional development can help students effectively double their growth each school year. So, why aren’t more schools doing this? Here are a few: There is a culture of low expectations. There are many reasons.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

Vista Unified School District – Vista, CA. Located in southern California, Roosevelt Middle School is part of an interstate collaboration with two other middle schools located in Mentor, Ohio, and Kettle Moraine, Wisconsin, to further competency-based education (CBE).

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

School leaders and teachers may need more time, tools, expertise and professional development to collect, analyze and interpret data effectively. Before her administrative roles, Mathison was a middle school science teacher, leading grade-level teams and the science department.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared. Faculty who participated in professional development opportunities like the Student Experience Project revised their syllabi to clearly signal their belief in student potential. There are some potential solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Melissa Hedges, the math curriculum director for Milwaukee schools, shows teachers at a professional development seminar how folded paper can be used to demonstrate the solution to a fractions problem. Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. I hate math.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

This is the story of what happened when teachers and administrators in Aurora, Colorado, worked side by side to redesign a middle school. Together, we were able to innovate, plan and produce a flexible school model aimed at improving student performance, engagement and equity. STEM subjects also figured prominently in the plan.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Other essays published by fellows examine pressing themes related to the intersection of teaching, learning and identity including embracing identity , leading with joy , teaching through grief , feeling undervalued in the profession and rethinking classroom culture.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

As first period gets underway at Cambridge Street Upper School, veteran math teacher Stephen Abreu leads a small-group discussion. But the conversation isn’t about middle school algebra, and Abreu isn’t talking to students. They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2023

Alongside always available access for students in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools , teachers receive robust professional development and coaching to cultivate a culture of powerful learning with technology. EdSurge: What was the device rollout planning process like for Newburg Middle School?

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Hillary Robbins, who spent 10 years as an elementary and middle school teacher in Texas, says she scoured the internet for information on making the jump to edtech before making any moves. She was familiar with roles held by former teachers who visited her school, like Brown mentioned — training consultants or people in edtech sales.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good? No great answer to this is apparent other than a cultural reframing, one that is already underway. How could we make them better?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In November 2015, middle-school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in Southern Sudan mingling with a crowd of refugees fleeing civil war. Cayne Letizia, middle school English teacher, Valhalla, N.Y. “We Photo courtesy Global Nomads Group.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

A panel commissioned by the mayor recently released a report calling for schools to mirror the demographics of their surrounding neighborhoods and to implement principles of culturally responsive education as a way to combat the city’s persistent achievement gap. These schools are also among the most diverse in the city.

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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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Through this work, we see powerful examples of innovation across education — from students creating their own virtual reality (VR) films, to researchers working with technology developers to improve edtech efficacy, to educators rethinking their own professional development with the use of micro-credentials. Short Answer: Yes!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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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?” According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” Every year, about 10 new schools join EL and a similar number leave.

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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

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. ” Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools. “A

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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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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. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. It’s not a bad thing if your kids don’t do well.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. — Cleveland native Toni McWilliams didn’t feel like she was putting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration to good use working as an administrative secretary for a middle school in her hometown. The job, which paid around $19,000, barely brought in enough money to support her two young daughters.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

After graduating from the preschool, most kids stay in the program, attending Christopher House’s public elementary charter school, which follows the same wraparound-style and provides ongoing services to families. In just a few years of operation, the school ranks at the top of Chicago Public Schools in academic performance.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 5, 2024

ASHP/CML conducts professional development programs for middle and high school teachers and college faculty focused on new historical scholarship and active-learning pedagogy. The Assistant Director will report to the Executive Director. ASHP/CML also leads other programs at the Graduate Center such as the New Media Lab.

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