A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2023

While educators can leverage many high-agency strategies, choice might be the most essential element of personalization because it allows students to take ownership of their own learning in so many different ways. Leverage your best resource, which is other educators invested in the work. Below you can see a few examples.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

While you can read specifics by clicking on the hyperlinks above, the one common thread has been a collective belief held by all educators that improvement was and always will be a natural component of teaching, learning, and leadership. My work with Quest Academy Junior High School (UT) validates why change succeeds or fails.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Board of Education , finding segregated schools inherently unequal. Still, to those orchestrating the integration process, this first year of limited integration succeeded well enough, and plans were made to send other carefully chosen black students into the elementary and junior high schools in September 1965.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. They didn't want to work in groups.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

David Rosenberg, Education Resource Strategies. The recent conversions represent a return to old ways of educating early adolescents. Up until about 1900, the American education system operated on a two-tier structure, with eight years of primary school followed by four years of secondary school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. He is a teacher at Hopewell Junior High School in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

This story about the foster care and education was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Marianne Stewart teaches eighth grade English at Lexington Junior High near Anaheim, California. Subscribe today!

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Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

As schools and districts across the country transition to remote learning, educators are seeking new ways to engage their students in powerful learning experiences at home. When Josh Luukkonen’s school closed due to COVID-19, Luukkonen’s junior high social studies students were studying economics.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. The person who really helped me along this journey has been educational technologist Jaime Donally.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The majority of educational technology is designed for student use. Higher Education. Subscribe today! Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2024

In states such as Idaho and Texas, where funding for early childhood education is limited, some schools are spearheading initiatives to provide quality, affordable child care. The schools hope parenting teachers don’t have to choose between career and motherhood, as the education workforce remains predominantly female.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

One in four universities were test-optional by the end of 2019, but the obstacles to group test-taking created by the Covid-19 pandemic increased that number substantially; two-thirds of four-year higher education institutions in the U.S. Sign up for our higher education newsletter.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I grew up surrounded by educators, and I always knew there was a special bond that develops between teachers and students. Coming from a family of educators inspired me but it also scared me at times. It is through my students that I can perfect my craft and be the educator I envision myself to be.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

For many early adolescents — and not a few of their teachers — middle school isn’t about choice and agency, “it’s about surviving,” said Melissa Wantz, a former educator from California, with more than 20 years’ experience. Don’t go back to the old normal,” Pope implored educators during a recent conference.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

At the beginning of the 2022-23 school year, 53 percent of public schools reported being understaffed, according to the Institute of Educational Sciences. In the absence of paraprofessionals, special education services wouldn’t be possible.” million educational support workers they employ.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Folks here have always been willing to step up for education,” said Morgigno who has served as superintendent since 2010. Folks here have always been willing to step up for education.”. Department of Education in the late 1980s. million and house fine arts classrooms and a practice gymnasium. percent are Hispanic or Latino.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

Related: How Mississippi got an award for education. The replacements will prove to be sweeping improvements for the school district, which is currently dealing with 25-year-old dilapidated equipment that was constantly breaking down and incurring high maintenance costs, Craig says. Repairs in Order. Read more at jfp.ms/education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Zach Osborn, teacher at Clinton High School. Board of Education mandated the end of segregated schooling, Mississippi’s children still largely attend schools identifiable by race. Sumner Hill Junior High, now the district’s ninth-grade school, used to be a majority-black school before the district incorporated it into its zone.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. They were so bright, so eager, and yet if the current statistics held, 25 percent would not graduate from high school. he Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Yet our reporting has discovered just how difficult it is to educate and train the next generation of nurses. Higher education is falling behind, hospitals are stretched thin and getting through programs can be an arduous journey. She remembers being named valedictorian of her junior high, and as a result winning a scholarship to St.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

In over 20 years, the problem has escalated, according to data from the Mississippi Department of Education. At some high schools, more than half of the classes were taught by uncertified teachers, including nearly 70 percent of courses at West Bolivar High School in Rosedale, and 61 percent at Heidelberg Junior High School in Heidelberg.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. The school’s rebirth as Vaux Big Picture High School symbolizes the latest great experiment in the Philadelphia school district.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 30, 2016

Related: How Mississippi got an award for education. The replacements will prove to be sweeping improvements for the school district, which is currently dealing with 25-year-old dilapidated equipment that was constantly breaking down and incurring high maintenance costs, Craig says. Repairs in Order. Read more at jfp.ms/education.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 21, 2024

As they had done 40 years earlier, many city officials, citizens and journalists ignored the three decades of Black organizing against segregation and educational inequality that led to Judge W. She also learned the NAACP didn’t have a subcommittee on education, so the organization asked her to chair one. Arthur Garrity Jr.’s

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2017

Sumner Hill Junior High is the district’s 9th-grade school. Educators in Clinton say having grade-based schools has helped the district remain integrated. He says the entire community of Clinton, from parents to educators, invests time and attention to make sure all students can succeed, regardless of their racial background.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

In this series we profile vulnerable children whose education was already precarious and how the disease has exacerbated gaps in opportunities and resources for communities already on the edge. Still, he was held back twice, in fifth grade and again in junior high. “It Read the series. Related: Held back, but not helped.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

educational inequality, concluded that if desegregation were to work anywhere in the Deep South, it would be in this town, an oasis of tolerance and pragmatic gentility in the Mississippi Delta, the blackest, poorest, “most southern place on earth.”. Board of Education decision in 1954. “If Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win. This story also appeared in Wyoming Public Media. “I Ultimately, the bill failed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Dana Douglas, a Republican Christian Conservative who is “100 percent pro-public education, and I am pro every child” readies to make voter reminder calls on Election Day. It’s about the viability of public education in their community. But who they are and why some of them don’t support public education is a more complicated question.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

Before enrolling at schools in Utah this past winter, she and her brothers missed out on roughly two years of regular education while their family sought refuge in the United States. Throughout their journey, Vásquez tried to continue educating her children, teaching them addition, subtraction, vowels, painting, and whatever else she could.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. According to the most recent available Department of Education figures, Oklahoma spends less money per pupil than all but three states. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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