A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2020

The COVID19 pandemic has radically disrupted both society and education as we know it. Through it all, though, we have seen triumph and perseverance that serve as powerful motivating forces that can be used to collectively develop a new normal that might even be better. Hence, it is crucial to start to develop critical supports now.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Its the best-kept secret in education, to be a school librarian, Rhue says with pride. Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians. I had earned my masters in the art of teaching elementary education.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 108

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

No one can deny the pandemic’s devastating impact on America’s public schools. Since March 2020, districts across the country have experienced alarming declines in student achievement in math and reading, a mental health crisis among students and widespread job dissatisfaction among educators.

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Public School Professional Development K-12 Tutoring 141

ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side. Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself.

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K-12 Teaching Professional Development Leadership 133

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Schools will be forced to close or cut corners on quality; inequality will soar as parents with means find and fund alternatives to public schools — paying private school tuition or home schooling — while families who already struggle to get access to a quality school will be stuck in a flailing public education system.

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Public School K-12 Private School Professional Development 127

C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

Scaling Up: Bringing Inquiry to Every Classroom With a vision to implement one full inquiry in every K-6 classroom, we knew that professional development and support for teachers would be critical. Some educators were initially hesitant, concerned about time constraints, student readiness, and adapting to a new instructional approach.

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Social Studies Public School Primary Sources Civic Engagement 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

As a sector, we are being bombarded with reports of our failings in the teaching of maths, which leaves teachers and principals across the country feeling uncertain of what to do, and how to teach maths effectively, Rodgers wrote in a report to her school community at the end of the sabbatical. Who or what do you trust now? Not any more.

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Digital Promise

MAY 10, 2021

After a year of fast-paced, high-pressure decision making, you’re now called on to figure out which edtech products will support your learners and educators. Should you expand the use of new tools that educators found to meet immediate learning needs? What professional learning is required to support educators with implementation?

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Yes, we have policies in place, the right infrastructure, and support our teachers with professional development and guidance. Our BYOD initiative at NMHS has succeeded and grown up to this point based on the basic premise of trust and respect.

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High School Professional Development Cultures Education Policy 355

ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2023

It is not often that we see an overhaul of the furniture in our public school classrooms, let alone in the middle of the school year. Last November, there was an anonymous donation of mobile desk chairs to our school. It was then that I saw the ingrained sense of worth that society has etched into our public schools.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

Educators face the challenge of engaging students in STEM amidst limited resources. As the demand for digital skills grows, schools must develop inclusive programs to engage diverse learners. For example, we used Minecraft in one classroom long before Minecraft Education.

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Education K-12 Critical Thinking Public School 137

TeachThought

JULY 31, 2024

Improving The Relationship Between Schools And Communities by Terry Heick Education is a series of learning experiences informed by policy, and actuated by teachers. They are ambitious, designed to work on various scales, and are commissioned (quite literally) to enact the policies that govern the institutions (schools) they work in.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2012

I was recently introduced to an education reform model called TAP: The System for Teacher and Student Advancement that is making really great use of the tablet and mobile platforms to provide teachers with better access to teacher resources with an iPhone or iPad app. If you use any apps like this in your school, I''d love to hear about it.

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Professional Development Educational Technology Public School Education 208

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

In a recent report , the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School explored the opportunities and challenges that home-based childcare presents for the city’s evolving 3-K program. The report identifies goals that a public preschool program might set in a home-based environment. There are ways this could go wrong.

Public School 102

Public School Professional Development Education Teaching 102

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The binders resemble, to a degree, the individualized education programs, or IEPs, that are at the heart of education for students with disabilities. But Arianna and Alanni aren’t special education students. Every child at their pre-K-8 school, Belmont-Cragin, has one of these so-called individual learner profiles.

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Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction. She also fields email requests from teachers.

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Elementary School Middle School Pedagogy Humanities 125

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) has prioritized a culture of technology-enriched student learning through its Students and Teachers Advancing Tomorrow Initiative (S.T.A.T.). To affect this change district-wide, BCPS needed to shift professional learning for educators to a more competency-based, autonomous model.

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Education Professional Development Leadership Public School 107

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The unique and pressing needs of the ongoing global pandemic accelerated the adoption of education technology and innovations that could support urgent and evolving needs and provide on-demand and flexible learning. higher education) within the state. higher education) within the state.

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Education Professional Development Educational Technology Public School 147

ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

In a world where technology is evolving at an unprecedented pace, education stands on the cusp of transformation. Imagine classrooms where teachers are empowered by cutting-edge technology and where students don't just learn from textbooks but co-create their educational journey. It's one thing to say: Go learn about AI.

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Education EdTech K-12 Humanities 143

Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

In 1854, the American Party gained power in Massachusetts and mandated the reading of the King James Bible in public schools, disbanded Irish militia units, confiscated their weapons and deported nearly 300 poor Irish immigrants. This party claimed to uphold American ideals by only voting for Protestant US-born citizens.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Kettle Moraine School District (KMSD), a member of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , is a suburban district in Wisconsin leading some of the most advanced competency-based education (CBE) efforts in the country. Deklotz stressed, “Public schools belong to the public.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 14, 2012

As a social studies teacher, being asked to take a professional development trip to Washington DC is an extremely exciting offer. 21st Century Teaching educational technology New Milford High School Nicolette Perna Rebecca Millan' For more information on this event check out the summary provided by ISTE.

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Social Studies Professional Development Educational Technology History 206

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As an educator creating antiracist classrooms, I have wrestled with how to teach children about race and race relations since far before our country’s recent racial reckoning. And I believe that, to catalyze systemic change and create a better world for our children, we need to elevate race education, not restrict it.

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Teaching Social Justice Education K-12 132

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Those who were enrolled in — or considering enrolling in — American University’s School of Education said they wanted more classroom experience, more opportunities to practice their craft before being released to do it alone every day to a room full of kids. Wish granted. Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We’re leading these schools.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 137

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Generative AI has stormed into education. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. Copur-Gencturk says the frequency and quality of the feedback shouldn’t depend on how rich or poor a school district is.

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Research Professional Development Tutoring Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Early childhood care and education before pre-K or kindergarten has not traditionally been considered a public school system priority. But as school leaders tighten their budgets, they would be wise to invest money earlier, when the return on investment is highest. Summit County in Colorado is doing this well.

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Education Government Professional Development Tradition 138

ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

There were also highly read pieces about the ways that educators and school systems are grappling with rapid change: how to make access to algebra equitable for historically disadvantaged students and catch up to new technology standards aiding students with disabilities. Should States Force Schools to Enroll Them?

K-12 72

K-12 EdTech Professional Development Psychology 72

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms.

Education 112

Education Economics Civics Government 112

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. We want to celebrate the extraordinary collaborations between educators and the private sector that have occurred because of ConnectED.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 102

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

“As educators, we must tell the truth — to ourselves and then to our students,” writes Deaunna Watson, director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at a Montessori school in Cincinnati. Sometimes, though, the truth can be difficult to face and uncomfortable to talk about. How much longer will the status quo suffice?”

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Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Unusually for Buffalo’s public schools — where 20 percent of students are white and 46 percent are Black — about half of the fourth grade class was white. Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning. In PS 61 Arthur O.

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Education Elementary School High School Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Across the hall, Beth Schefelker and Claire Madden, two other math education specialists, led a group of teachers and principals in adding fractions. Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. What does it mean for a number to be bigger? What does it mean to be a part of a whole?

Professional Development 127

Professional Development Public School Leadership High School 127

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. EdSurge: What experiences laid the foundation for your role as a leader in STEM education in NYC Public Schools?

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K-12 EdTech Public School Elementary School 138

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. We wanted to know: what do educators see as their top challenges? It takes time, strategy, and rethinking professional development.” What kinds of solutions can be created to help?

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K-12 Education Civics Middle School 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2018

From the mountains of Tennessee to the West Side of Chicago, teachers represent our best chance of achieving the goal we have for every child in this country to graduate from high school. We increase our chances of reaching this goal if our teachers receive the support and professional development they need.

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Education Government Public School Professional Development 103

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

But black men account for only 2 percent of all teachers in American public schools. Board of Education Supreme Court ruling, African American teachers were pushed out of schools and out of the teaching profession to make integration more appealing to white families. We need more black male teachers in public schools.

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