The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Recent research shows that investing in student supports, including social and emotional learning and mental health, is a better way to make schools truly safe, along with professional development for teachers and school staff. Stephen Kostyo is an Impact Fellow at the Federation of American Scientists.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

Related: One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies Instead of caving in, educational institutions should double down on DEI efforts. Universities can offer professional development to faculty and staff.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

It draws on listening sessions with more than a thousand educators, students, parents, state and district leaders and advocacy organizations, according to Erin Mote, CEO of education policy nonprofit InnovateEDU, one of several education organizations that collaborated with the government on the plan.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ).

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It’s crucial to make sure that teachers have enough professional development to understand how to powerfully use technology, in ways that are creative and that push students to collaborate, Krueger says. Another challenge: whether teachers are supported.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Illinois’ law doesn’t include language about how media literacy should be taught or where it should be taught, whereas New Jersey’s bill spans education from kindergarten through 12th grade, requires the creation of media literacy standards, and includes professional development for teachers.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Our credentialing process - which traditionally includes a litany of required college-level coursework, licensure steps and extensive professional development - can admittedly be frustrating and difficult to traverse.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s not a cure-all, but other Appalachian areas have shown positive results with such policies — especially when paired with professional development for teachers that helps them add that academic rigor and trains them to teach AP courses. I often wonder where I would have ended up without it. We must do better.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Just like doctors in training, aspiring teachers need sustained clinical experiences alongside expert practitioners to build links between educational theory and practice and to develop the hands-on techniques and strategies that help children learn. Such professionalism develops over time and through relationships.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Laurie Smith, education policy advisor at the Office of the Governor, said at the SECAC meeting that the system is “designed to take a holistic approach to the life of a child.” In the past, without these agencies being connected, “services were lost,” Smith said, and “gaps might not have been caught.”.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Longer term, state leaders are trying to improve internet infrastructure across the state, said Sarah Armstrong Tucker, chancellor for the West Virginia Higher Education Policy Commission. How do we make sure that our students have access in this changing world?” she asked. “If

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2019

Implementing a Reggio-inspired approach requires not only ongoing professional development for teachers, but also training for principals so they’re able to walk into a classroom and distinguish intentionally planned play-based learning from open-ended play unconnected to a larger purpose. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The director of professional development formed faculty book clubs to discuss Claude Steele’s “ Whistling Vivaldi ,” a book about “stereotype threat,” which is a psychological theory about how minorities perform worse in environments where people like them traditionally don’t succeed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

As young people, families and educators near the end of yet another hectic pandemic school year, new research studying the early impact of remote learning offers a sobering look at experiences and outcomes, including interrupted and incomplete learning. is the interim president and CEO of the Nellie Mae Education Foundation.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

They have pulled administrators out of offices and into classrooms, canceled professional development sessions and asked teachers to give up planning periods and juggle multiple classes. Many school districts report an ongoing daily struggle to put adults in front of students. Some of them have received great feedback,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Intermediary funders and education-policy groups that depend on their grant dollars — including iNACOL, Excel in Ed, the Learning Accelerator, Big Picture Learning and Jobs for the Future — have, in turn, made personalized learning a priority. Most districts invest in professional development that’s the least expensive,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2016

But these conversations tend to overshadow the primary purpose of evaluation: to act as a single — albeit important — part of a robust system for supporting educators’ growth. These types of policies promote a growth mindset that supports success for students and teachers alike. “As Involve teachers in meaningful ways. Danielle M.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 17, 2017

After a three-year project that showed the promise and challenges of video observation as a tool for teachers’ professional growth, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard has released a comprehensive toolkit to help educators get a successful start with video observations in their own communities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2016

This type of information helps leaders make decisions, such as what kind of professional development is most needed. “We As a former educator and school information technology leader, he was inspired to create a solution. We were never really able to peer into how somebody feels about technology before,” Fox said. “We

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Digital Promise

JUNE 13, 2017

Symposium participants agreed that the type of evidence needed to inform a particular edtech decision varies significantly across settings, and depends on a number of factors, such as how much the product costs, how many students will use it, and how much professional development is required.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In the ‘90s, the district got rid of many tracked classes in its middle school and high school, and provided significant professional development for teachers so they could properly handle students of varying levels in the same classroom. Welner pointed to the Rockville Centre school district on Long Island, N.Y.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Schools used their professional development budgets, and were able to use federal money, for teacher training to support work toward the switch. But what the state wasn’t able to do, she said, was provide much in the way of on-the-ground support and professional development for educators. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

There’s no evidence to show that a one-day training for teachers and staff will foster change,” says Circe Stumbo, president of West Wind Education Policy, an Iowa-based group that provides analysis of school equity policies. This isn’t a quick fix. The effort must be ongoing. We’re going to deal with it every day.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2019

We’ve seen state education agencies move from compliance-driven systems to ones that emphasize continuous improvements in state and local policies that, in term, help boost college and career readiness.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. So [we’re] really taking the time to invest in their professional development.”. These new tasks were added. That doesn’t equate to results.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2017

The cases also give educators a chance to consider diverse perspectives. Right now, our conversation in the United States about education policy and practice is so polarized, and so dismissive of the other side,” explains Levinson.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

The traditional way is more convenient — for some, says Dan Condon, associate director of professional development at the Eagle Rock School & Professional Development Center in Colorado.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

“They’re trying to develop in students and teachers and principals the need to have data to make better decisions.”. Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. Also, there’s a psychological factor. But it’s a bad thing if you don’t do anything about it.”.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ).

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Leadership Education Policy Lesson Plan Tradition 48

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Only 13 states publish data on enrollment in arts courses and none publish data on how much time is devoted to the arts, according to a 2019 study by the Education Commission for the States , a nonprofit think tank dedicated to studying education policy.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Having teachers who feel that way, especially influential veterans, is a poor start to creating a new system, said Erika Stump, a research associate at the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research and Evaluation at the University of Southern Maine. Figure it out,’” Adler said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

It’s difficult to find enough teachers with the subject-area knowledge to teach it, and over the years, many of the teachers who’d initially received professional development in the subject had left, Jimenez said. That said, the district has had its struggles with the mandatory course.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

The challenges in rural communities are very real—funding, teacher recruitment and retention, access to technology, poverty, ever-changing expectations, and professional development and support,” U.S. Secretary of Education John B. Dillon was lucky to have the president personally invested in improving its schools.

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Dr. Preece

MARCH 6, 2023

It is designed to provide a synthesis of the best available science on climate solutions and put it at the fingertips of non-specialist users through education, policy workshops and roleplaying games. These experiences enable people to explore the long-term climate impacts of global policy and investment decisions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

A recent study of the academic supports that JCPS offers to limited English proficient students found that JCPS has both a financial and human capital “commitment to the support of ESL programs and students” but also said that JCPS is not giving teachers and others enough professional development to help these students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2020

Alanna Bjorklund-Young, director of research at the John Hopkins Institute for Education Policy said one strategy schools might consider is keeping students with their previous teacher for part of the next school year. The tool to do that is not just professional development; it’s curriculum,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

SWIFT was designed to be a national K-8 technical assistance center for schoolwide inclusive education. ” The TIES Center is partnering with the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction to increase the meaningful inclusion of students with significant disabilities in general education from kindergarten through 12th grade.

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