ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

I have taught the same grade, transitional kindergarten (TK), since I started teaching, but I have moved schools twice. In the 2021-22 school year, I moved to an elementary school in Santa Rosa, California. That school has a lot of strengths and I learned a lot, but it had its flaws and complications as well.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

This spring, Digital Promise is working with six school districts conducting education technology pilots. They are outstanding districts with strong leadership - and we know they’re not alone. Fulton County Schools. It seems like it’s really built for high school students. ” Larry White.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

All of our districts are members the members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools, an 86-district coalition recognized for innovation and leadership in education. Notably: In reviews of 17 middle school math programs , just one was deemed standards-aligned across grades six to eight.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Cultivating leadership in staff, parents, and community partners. Focus on Student Learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 24, 2023

She enrolled in an online undergraduate program to pursue her bachelor’s degree, with plans to become a high school social studies teacher. I do remember being very young and helping one of my aunts, like every year, set up her classroom before school started. She decided to give college another shot.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. Villafuerte is now studying kinesiology, with the hope of becoming a baseball coach at LA High. At 7 a.m.,

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Charter School Public School Elementary School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Both the Clarksdale and Coahoma systems were rated F on the state’s 2018 school report cards and are eligible for state takeover. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Amanda Johnson had become an Arkansas charter school principal and made a home in Clarksdale.

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Charter School History Library Public School 108

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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K-12 Education Advocacy Human Rights 102

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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Oral History History High School Public School 97

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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High School Education Social Studies Elementary School 51

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They’re constantly looked over for promotions and leadership opportunities, or pigeonholed into disciplinarian roles. He started teaching social studies at Blythewood High School in Richland 2, a school district in the Midlands, in 2005, the same year the school was founded. “I

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Education Elementary School High School Leadership 137

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

It will take a combination of summer school and at least the first six weeks of the school year for students to readjust and get back to “normal.” As an elementary school teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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K-12 Elementary School Library Professional Development 136

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2020

Or when she enrolled at Lamar University, where she earned her second master’s degree, this time in teacher leadership. She loved her job in the school system. The center lost more than a dozen students after local elementary schools opened free public pre-K programs. She and her family were also secure. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Then came the anti-CRT movement Andy Rotherham, who was appointed to the state board of education in 2022 by Youngkin, said the outcome of the social studies debate shows that people can get past politics to a good result. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 79

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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Charter School K-12 Elementary School Archiving 104

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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Charter School K-12 Elementary School Middle School 78

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

After all, she was workplace-close with Wesley Smith, the custodian at Cahaba Heights Elementary School, in this affluent suburb of Birmingham. This past legislative session, the House passed a bill to ban LGBTQ+ flags and symbols from schools. She was banned from school grounds until mid-August. VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala.

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High School Elementary School Geography K-12 137

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Citizens who spoke almost uniformly opposed the proposal, with many arguing it was the first step in an effort to privatize district public schools. HISD leadership is a disaster…. If ever there was a school board that needs to be taken over and reformed it’s HISD.” It failed on a 5-4 vote. On January 3, Gov.

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Charter School High School Professional Development Government 90

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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