Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We founded the DILAs last year to share innovative education practices and raise the bar across teaching, leadership, and development. Detroit Country Day School, Bloomfield, MI. Avondale Elementary School District, Avondale, AZ. Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD. Region 10 ESC, Mckinney, TX. Grant Smith.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2018

Throughout elementary school, I was always known as the girl who talked a lot and turned simple conversations into debates. On a piece a paper, I wrote “Black History Month.” ” I asked my peers to sign it if they agreed that we should celebrate Black History Month at our school. About voting?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

All of this work is enveloped in the history of the region. Within the footprint of the past and present, students in the region are determined to tell their own story and contribute their own inventions to the region’s history. This area of Virginia was a hub of the Confederacy.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2021

In my work as an elementary school teacher and principal, too often I saw teachers and administrators struggling to serve Black families. In my work at Silicon Schools Fund , I partner with and learn from leaders across Northern California who are creating solutions to education’s challenges — in and out of a pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

As teachers we are often nervous about discussing current events with elementary school students. I prepared by selecting supporting books that would allow us to talk about identity, history, children’s voices and white privilege. No specific structure is required, nor should your class structure or setting be limiting factors.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

and World History classes. In the process, the high school students end up strengthening their own skills. Within a single academic year, these high school tutors show, on average, two years of reading gains. The elementary school students they teach show almost as much growth. Not these two.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Among reasons a school might leave the network: the fee, which starts at about $50,000 a year for new schools that need a lot of support and drops to about $15,000 for more seasoned members; a new principal who wants to champion his or her own approach, or simply a poor fit. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It had always been his plan, and he had no reason to doubt it: He’d earned a full scholarship to college and acceptance into a leadership program designed to attract and retain Black male teachers. It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In part because of an accident of scientific history, however, this essential assistance has been far more available to kids who score higher on IQ and other cognitive tests. During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. BOSTON — Taryn Snyder’s third graders were leaning over their desks, scratching out short essays on what they’d done over the weekend.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I embarrassed myself early enough into the game to recognize I needed to do what I always did in elementary school gym class: fade into the background until no one noticed I was sitting on the bench. And how might individual players’ personal histories contribute to their athletic strategy and performance?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

Parker Charter Essential School in Devens, Massachusetts, believe multiage education fosters cooperation and collaboration between students, like these ninth- and 10th-graders working together on a Holocaust-related history project. It looks like a typical class in a suburban high school. Photo: Stuart Miller. DEVENS, Mass. —

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

“Sometimes things get very isolating just because you're in the confines of your own classroom…teachers don't necessarily share things with one another, especially when it involves a traumatic situation such as this,” said Oakland, California elementary school teacher Nikita Gibbs, referring to the upheaval due to the pandemic. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Similar to Lang’s approach, the Ariel Foundation offered support, mentoring, and paying the cost of postsecondary education for a cohort of sixth-graders at a Chicago elementary school. The vast majority of these youth graduated from high school, which Duncan describes as “intensely gratifying.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

He described his swirling thoughts in that moment — wondering if he looked like a punk in front of the whole school, feeling the humiliation — all pulling his internal triggers as he became angrier and angrier until he struck out. He shared his history to “make [the students] realize people make mistakes,” he said.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2023

Name : Sarah Cardoza Age: 29 Location : Eagle River, Alaska College : University of Alaska Fairbanks Area of study : History and secondary education Hometown : Homer, Alaska EdSurge: What is your earliest memory of a teacher? History] class my senior year of high school, and my teacher was fantastic. My teacher was amazing.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Scott Ervin, creator, Behavioral Leadership model That’s ultimately the path Lubin chose. The model the Greater Dayton School used this past year is called “Behavioral Leadership.” Like other successful approaches, Behavioral Leadership emphasizes the power adults have over children’s behavior.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

But Beard and others know the district has yet to overcome the deep disparities that have defined so much of its history. They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. The same court ordered Longview to integrate both its faculty and students.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Even as poverty rates have grown in the district of about 5,000 students, Clinton has consistently remained an academic powerhouse in a state where many schools are still separate and unequal. For the first few years, white students refused to elect black students to the homecoming court and to leadership positions, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Most still read at an elementary school level. By her sophomore year, Williams was earning all A’s and B’s, and Sci’s test scores were the best of any open-enrollment high school in the city. But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

Many times during the course of its history it’s been underfunded and run into issues of quality,” Lombardi said. Bush performs the timeless and bipartisan presidential ritual of reading to young children at Highland Park Elementary School in Landover, Maryland in the summer of 2003. Former President George W.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Kami Karr , senior at Redmond High School. Even when we were in elementary school, like with the stock market crash, everyone moved. And then you get into middle school, and then, like, the internet starts becoming a thing. The Philadelphia school district is among many nationwide facing a leadership change.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

While working with other teachers on an instructional leadership team planning an anti-bias and anti-racist curriculum, Katherine Hanna, an elementary school teacher in Massachusetts, identified herself as a person of color and began to share her perspective on the importance of teaching others about her culture.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2017

When my colleagues found out that my husband, an elementary school teacher, had asked me to join his school for Career Day, they were incredulous. What’s missing is the public awareness, executive branch leadership, and sense of urgency required to organize a broad-based social movement against this disease. one asked.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 29, 2019

They will also receive opportunities for networking, presenting, and sharing thought leadership at national conferences and virtual events. The first round of recruitment identified six innovative middle and high school educators in Canada: Jen Giffen, Digital Literacy Coach at York Region District School Board, Ontario.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Home to more than 12,000 public school children, the district was the first in Mississippi to defy the governor and voluntarily offer real choice for white and black children to enroll in each other’s schools. Good leadership and good will” had created a district where “not one school was left with an all-black student body.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and walked through an exhibit that highlights the history of the building as well as former President John F. With experience teaching in elementary, middle and high schools, I can attest to the trend that students do seem less motivated and engaged as they progress through school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

NEW ORLEANS — Frank Rabalais had big plans for the school just around the corner from his house in Gentilly Terrace, a leafy neighborhood that is one the most racially and socioeconomically diverse corners of the city. The charter school that was closing was 98 percent black. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2023

I’m tired of living through history,” a student complained. In it, he discussed why he advocated for sad scenes to be included in his picture book " Love ", which I’d brought with me to school that day. But current events continued to weigh on me. D killin’ the vibe again.” I thought I was commiserating with them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Teaching real history will not bring children down based on the color of the skin, but will raise them up and inspire them to stand up and not repeat gruesome patterns.” Lizzie Koschnick, student, North Central High School, Indianapolis. history teacher. “I Purple for Parents Indiana. It’s a reaction to social advances.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They’re constantly looked over for promotions and leadership opportunities, or pigeonholed into disciplinarian roles. Tyler Wright congratulates one of his 4th grade students with a fist bump at Stono Park Elementary School in Charleston, Friday, Nov. Credit: Grace Beahm Alford/Staff.

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