Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures.

Leadership 121

Leadership Classroom Management Elementary School Tradition 121

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

Library 106

Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 106

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Two years ago I had the incredible opportunity to work with the entire leadership team of District 59 in Arlington Heights, Illinois for SEVEN days. They labeled it their ‘21st Century Leadership Academy.’ individualization – Interrogating our instruction: An elementary school scenario.

Leadership 107

Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning 107

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

Diversity does exist in the leadership pipeline,” said Sarah Guthery, a co-author of the study and an assistant education professor at Texas A&M University – Commerce, “but it tends to squeeze out women and Black candidates much earlier than studies of school leadership usually capture.”. years, seven months longer.

Research 145

Research Leadership High School Elementary School 145

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

“ Because of her work with Educators Rising, Eckert’s name was passed to the leadership of Reach University, a nonprofit university that had started to offer an alternative credentialing path to teacher candidates in California. And so it was just like, Oh wow. We got some stuff to fix. Let’s see what we can do.

Social Justice 204

Social Justice Pedagogy Library Leadership 204

Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. Some compelling examples are emerging. Grappling with these matters is not simple.

K-12 133

K-12 Leadership Education Policy Elementary School 133

The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Yet, despite the gains I made with my students, despite research that shows the substantial positive impact of teachers of color on all students, despite the fact that having just one Black teacher in elementary school makes a Black child 13 percent more likely to go to college , my career nearly ended shortly after it began.

Social Justice 144

Social Justice Leadership Elementary School Professional Development 144

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. AJ the robot is the school mascot at A.J. Whittenberg.

Elementary School 136

Elementary School Education Middle School K-12 136

Digital Promise

MARCH 3, 2015

" Shirley, Elementary school teacher. And there are a tremendous number of learning opportunities for teachers, both traditional and informal. .” Drive Professional Growth. "I "I relish the idea that I can direct my own learning." Austin, Texas. — Angela Estrella (@am_estrella) January 30, 2015.

Professional Development 106

Professional Development Leadership Elementary School Tradition 106

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first schools to implement what Public Impact calls an “Opportunity Culture,” did so during the 2013-14 school year, and Edgecombe County Public Schools is set to become the first district to bring the model systemwide. Next year, the remaining five schools will do the same.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Our nine districts have been considering free or low-cost open educational resources alongside traditional options. 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.

Lesson Plan 106

Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition Middle School 106

ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

Improved methods of new teacher support Providing adequate support for new teachers has long been a top priority for schools. Yet, many of the traditional strategies employed, while absolutely essential to professional growth, can be cumbersome and disruptive for teachers, their students and even those responsible for offering support.

K-12 122

K-12 Classroom Management Professional Development Elementary School 122

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

That measurement mania has dominated what being in school feels like for students (and teachers), as well as what counts and what gets discussed. Which is what stirred teachers at Orchard Lake Elementary School in Minnesota back in 2011. In other words, could you innovate within the rigid confines of a traditional public school?

Elementary School 95

Elementary School Public School Leadership Tradition 95

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.

High School 145

High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Lori Baas, CEO of Christopher House, said she commonly hears preschool advocates claim they prepared kids for kindergarten, and blame grade schools for any fade-out; elementary school staffers point the finger of blame back at the preschools, claiming they failed to prepare kids for kindergarten.

Charter School 110

Charter School Elementary School Public School Leadership 110

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

In Molly Nealeigh’s fourth-grade math classroom at Piney Grove Elementary School in North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, students spend most of the time studying at their own pace on skills they identify that they need to improve. More traditional classrooms proceed through a curriculum based on class time.

Elementary School 108

Elementary School Leadership Tradition Teaching 108

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. At one table, the conversation turned to the growing pains of changing course from the traditional “sage on a stage” teaching model, where a teacher holds forth at the front of the classroom while students listen, to a student-focused, personalized model. “We

Education 145

Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

The February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gave new life to student activism, prompting a level of civic engagement among students that many had never considered. For him, the lessons students learn in this program are as important as the ones they learn in the traditional curriculum.

Civic Engagement 81

Civic Engagement Civics Leadership Elementary School 81

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2017

Schools have traditionally applied punitive procedures, including detention, suspension or expulsion in response to behavioral infractions, in hopes that these aversive responses will deter students from future problem behaviors. Is it easy to ensure our schools are safe places – physically and emotionally – for students and personnel?

Elementary School 106

Elementary School Leadership Tradition Cultures 106

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Danielle Burnett, a truancy prevention social worker in Albuquerque Public Schools, spends her days figuring out why students miss school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

Elementary School 98

Elementary School Public School Cultures Leadership 98

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.

Elementary School 97

Elementary School Tutoring High School Leadership 97

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

. – Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. The school’s “energy use index,” a measure of power use per square foot, is about a third of the average for district elementary schools. RELATED: Psst!

K-12 111

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Some traditional universities say they want to add them, too, but longstanding practices are hard to alter. That’s because, even before the coronavirus created new problems for them, traditional higher education institutions already appeared to be losing business to those quicker, cheaper credentials. Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX.

Leadership 142

Leadership Tradition High School Elementary School 142

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Attrition data for charter schools is outdated, but the most recent data reveals that the odds of a charter school teacher leaving the profession is substantially higher than a traditional public school teacher. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years. In my first school, the workload was unbearable.

K-12 139

K-12 Charter School Public School Elementary School 139

The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

As an example, Hudson cited a lower elementary school in the Delta where none of the K-3 teachers are certified to teach. Until recently, Jackson State’s Master of Arts in Teaching program had the same testing requirements as the university’s traditional route.

Education 115

Education Elementary School Social Studies Leadership 115

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Now the middle school, along with two of the district’s other elementary schools and its high school, have makerspaces. Walking through Havre Public Schools this year, a visitor would likely take note of the makerspaces. But this is hard. It’s the people.”

Project-Based Learning 99

Project-Based Learning Public School Elementary School Professional Development 99

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Because Summit requires new schools to spend almost an entire year preparing to adopt its model, the coronavirus is not expected to cause a surge in the number of Summit schools next fall. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix.

Junior High 128

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 128

The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2023

Addressing the first mechanism, many districts rely on traditional, often outdated funding models, like those based on school size. Yet students at some of the smallest schools are often the most marginalized or the furthest away from opportunities. In the past, a name change would have involved just two meetings with families.

Public School 97

Public School Elementary School Cultures Leadership 97

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Delaware, meanwhile, is in the process of writing standards for career and technical education in the middle grades, after finding that middle schoolers are often making uninformed decisions about which high school to attend. In a recent class at The Young Men’s Leadership Academy at Fred F.

Middle School 141

Middle School High School Tradition Elementary School 141

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

Adams Elementary School resource room teacher Zoe Leverson, and STR graduate student Maria-Elena Velásquez, check in with a fifth-grader following the lesson. Toward the end of Studio Day, visibly exhausted, Velásquez and her classmates gathered around a library table at Adams Elementary School, snacking on popcorn and tangerines.

Elementary School 75

Elementary School Library Leadership Public School 75

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Every school system has pockets of innovation. Those three forward-thinking teachers in the elementary school, that one grade-level team in the middle school, the department that’s really trying to do something different at the high school, that amazing principal over there, and so on.

Middle School 94

Middle School Elementary School Tradition High School 94

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. Like the Dears, most families who came to the charter were black, and they believed Johnson when she said her school would be different.

Charter School 108

Charter School History Library Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Meanwhile, teachers help make decisions about the school’s future in their roles on the different committees — personnel, instructional leadership, scheduling, budget and finance — that meet monthly. In addition to the school-wide model, there are lighter-touch ways of embracing a teacher-powered philosophy, educators said.

Charter School 136

Charter School Government Sociology Social Studies 136

The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2017

A long-time staple of Montessori schools, multiage classrooms spread to progressive elementary schools in the 1990s, although their use was always just one ingredient in a mix intended to provide more personalized instruction. Though there are no hard numbers, educators acknowledge the total is miniscule.).

Elementary School 75

Elementary School Psychology Tradition Professional Development 75

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 17-20, Pizmony-Levy led a first-of-its-kind professional development institute for NYC public elementary school teachers who want to teach climate change in any subject. Broadly speaking, she said, in indigenous traditions, it’s the latter.

Teaching 96

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

This tendency gives conservative legislators, adverse to big-government, further ammunition to deny adequate funding to traditional districts like JPS. Kindergarten students participate in class at Sylvanie Williams College Prep elementary school, on January 16, 2015 in New Orleans, Louisiana. So what’s left to do? “We

Charter School 109

Charter School Public School Social Justice High School 109