Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to pivot a bit to something equally revolutionary yet rooted in ancient tradition (somewhat)–Socratic Seminars. I’ve got 5 transformative strategies you can use to update Socratic Seminars for today’s learners. What is a Socratic Seminar? Socratic Seminars bring history to life.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to pivot a bit to something equally revolutionary yet rooted in ancient tradition (somewhat)–Socratic Seminars. I’ve got 5 transformative strategies you can use to update Socratic Seminars for today’s learners. What is a Socratic Seminar? Socratic Seminars bring history to life.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Davidson has spent her career encouraging innovation in education. A classic example: Back in 2003 she led a groundbreaking experiment at Duke University to use iPods in education. Nobel Prize-winning physicist Carl Wieman, who's a professor of both physics and education at Stanford, wrote a book about how to teach science better.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

On windswept fields outside Fargo, North Dakota, a bold experiment in education has begun. Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

She transferred to the University of Massachusetts at Amherst a year later because she wanted to try the “traditional college thing” — dorms, dining halls and leafy quads. So after dropping out for a while, Dzindzichashvili returned to education part time. Dzindzichashvili’s slog through higher education is surprisingly common.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. So, for Barbour, there’s some logic to Khan’s focus on mastery.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Remedial education has been the proverbial thorn in the side of higher education for decades. A Hechinger Report investigation of 44 states found that nearly all two-year schools that award associate degrees report having students who are placed into developmental education. But not Guttman.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fogel, 18, can recite a list of typical college experiences she has missed out on: study groups, small seminars, office hours with professors, parties, football games, a chance to meet new people from around the world. Weise, vice president for workforce strategies, Strada Education Network. They had no way of knowing that U.S.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching. Educators are no different.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The district rolled out the class in fall 2020, in an attempt to offer an alternative math course to students who might struggle in traditional junior and senior math courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. Two states — Oregon and Ohio — offer it as an alternative to Algebra II.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. Many district leaders, ed tech entrepreneurs, education consultants and politicians have congratulated themselves for the swift, if bumpy, move to remote learning. But it’s not a joke. Now, it’s all that matters.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Siwaju is a seminar-style program that gives students a platform to discuss various topics that influence their own lives. Higher Education. Related: Using creative classroom design to promote instructional innovation. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In a few minutes, I would be arriving on Dongmen Island with a group of strangers to collaborate on an educational program called by its conveners “ a summer utopia with humanistic knowledge.” They draw a diverse student body in terms of ages, places of origin, and education levels. Could you tell me more about its history?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

For the past twenty years, I’ve heard this question asked many times about online education. We should consider asking this question in the context of the traditional classroom. Have our experiences in traditional classroom been stellar? All of us have had great classes in traditional settings and perhaps some that were not.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Neriman now plans to become an educator working with grade-school children. often placing kids onto university tracks or vocational education starting at age 10. amid growing disenchantment with university education. The next school year, she spent three weeks supervising older children as they did their homework.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Secretary of Education John B. told educators, policy experts, and students that the next generation of high schools must “give every student an opportunity to have a vision for their own future.” In 2001 we described the reinvention of the traditional high school as the “clarion call of our new century.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When she walked into his first-year seminar at Dickinson College, Steve Riccio was impressed by his new student’s enthusiasm. billion a year, collectively, in foregone tuition, according to a review of 1,669 institutions by the Educational Policy Institute. Photo: Harrison Jones for The Hechinger Report. CARLISLE, Penn. That’s $13.3

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Since developing this system, named “ GradeCraft ,” five years ago with two colleagues, education professor Barry Fishman gleefully admits he’s awarding many more A’s. Related: Fitbit for education: Turning school into a data-tracking game. In another graduate seminar, Fishman assigns only one paper.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Their questions highlight a deep gulf many low-income, first generation students face as they attempt to navigate the mysterious world of higher education. Related: The end of “no excuses” education reform? Related: Fixing a higher education “caste system” that screams inequality. Photo: Liz Willen. A long school day.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

At my school, Bard High School Early College Cleveland , students finish the traditional four years of high school in their first two years, and the last two years they are both high school students and college students. Higher Education. The seminar-style discussions have improved my relationships with my friends and peers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Here is what we learned: Student learning in hybrid and traditional classrooms is comparable. We found that faculty-reported gains in student learning in Teagle-funded hybrid or online courses were comparable to gains in traditional classrooms, in line with research findings to date. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Among Rutgers’ goals is boosting the educational fortunes of a city that has some of the lowest rates of college attainment nationwide. While the Newark Honors College still hews to a relatively traditional approach, the Living-Learning Community is redefining from scratch what it means to be an honors student. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

At first glance this strength-based approach seems like the educational equivalent of kitsch, a bit fringe and hardly necessary. It’s different from “character education,” a method focused on instilling various traits like grit and perseverance, because a strength-based approach focuses on what children already have going for them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. The line between Texas and Arkansas in front of the bi-state federal building, which straddles both.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.” A similar proportion receive special education services, on par with the statewide average for high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system. His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. bill to pay for his education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom. Such cases were even more “soul-sapping” than the rigidities of the traditional education system. ” MAHG seminars, in which teachers work and learn cooperatively, “cause teachers to pause over the documents they teach, thinking them through.

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Jonathan Firth

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

I became interested in teaching when I was an undergraduate, through the experience of giving talks to my Honours class and leading small seminars – I found that I enjoyed explaining concepts and research to others. In contrast, those with a joint honours degree combining it with a traditional ‘school’ subject (e.g.

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Plus, the interactive transcripts can give even your most introverted students a chance to demonstrate what they learned from a Socratic Seminar where they remained silent. Reflecting on these talk ratios is a powerful reflection point for teachers. Class Companion. 4AItools for the slides I used to present this material.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Having worked at the University of Minnesota for six years, it was super fun to connect with old educator friends and new (including a lot of goofiness with Shelly Terrell while at Flipgrid headquarters). On Monday I was in charge of TIES’ annual all-day Leadership Seminar. compared to those in more traditional schools].

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Several weeks ago, for example, staff offices at Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Inclusion, Diversity Education and Advocacy in Boca Raton were vacant, with name plates blank and abandoned desks, plus LGBTQ+ flags, posters and pamphlets left behind. There is also mounting resistance to the laws. Cassanello feels compelled to object.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Just 24 percent of 18- to 24-year-old American Indian and Alaska Native students were enrolled in college in 2019, the lowest of any group, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. angu Lakota, San Carlos Apache and Quechan, holds a traditional Great Lakes lacrosse stick. Nina Polk, who is Diné (Navajo), Si?angu

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

More than two-thirds of those students — about 70 percent — are women , according to Education Department data analyzed by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. But Castillo said that getting a higher education is probably the hardest thing he’s ever done. College is geared more toward the traditional student,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Traditional language learning in the U.S. Language educators lament that courses in STEM are celebrated for teaching real-world skills, but language classes are not. “It Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In interviews and survey responses, more than a dozen public school teachers, social workers and administrators described inadequate staffing for mental health support, limited training, and a lack of clear guidance from the Department of Education. New York City schools have yet to do that. De Blasio said he knew about these deficiencies.

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