ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Protecting Student Data School principals want to know how AI can be used in the classroom beyond having students copy and paste from it, Paul Liabenow says, and are of course concerned about students using it to cheat. If you magnify that to 10,000 students in a district, you can imagine how many end user agreements you’d have to read.”

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K-12 Lesson Plan Humanities Middle School 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Related: Why a team approach to teaching is taking hold And despite federal laws ensuring that employers treat mental health conditions just as they do physical health concerns , many state and local government workers, including teachers, have health plans that limit treatment or have strict preauthorization policies. I love math.

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Teaching Elementary School Middle School Lesson Plan 73

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! government as well.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

She said having someone at school who could help was “really, really important.” Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. “If

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Students are suddenly eager to talk politics and government, but the hyper-partisan reality beyond school walls makes it hard to pull off these discussions in class. Johnson (on screen) overlooks the AP government class of Jo Boggess Phillips in Ripley, West Virginia Photo: Jo Boggess Phillips. President Lyndon B.

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Civics K-12 Education Primary Sources 77

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The reasons include a federal law so little-known that people charged with implementing it often fail to follow the rules; nearly non-existent enforcement of the law by federal and state governments; and funding so meager that districts have little incentive to survey whether students have stable housing. Is this actually what we want?’”.

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Advocacy Government Public School High School 70

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

The term describes game-like measures of knowledge and abilities, but also the tracking of skill development in playful learning activities, which was piloted over the past year by middle school teachers at Corte Madera and at Community Public Charter School in Charlottesville, Va.,

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Education Project-Based Learning Charter School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Educator preparation is moving in this direction and taking a major step to becoming a profession governed by agreed upon standards that are both enforced and regulated by a system of assessment that is reliable and valid. It focuses on lesson planning, instruction, assessment and academic language – all in support of student learning.

Teaching 78

Teaching Pedagogy Tradition Leadership 78

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Additionally, the standards themselves influence teacher mentoring, leadership, team building, professional development and evaluation, curriculum development, efficacy, and overall school leadership ( NBPTS: Impact of National Board Certification page ; NBPTS Research page). Lesson study. Focus on Student Learning.

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Research Education Professional Development Leadership 49

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

law — what makes it a unique and hopeful case — it’s unclear anyone in government will be watching to make sure it achieves its goal. The school district, in partnership with Mississippi State University, has plans for a new school for sixth and seventh graders. One county, two districts worlds apart.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

NEW YORK — Pink and purple posters adorn the third-floor hallway at University Neighborhood Middle School on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They’re advertising the after-school and summer programs the school runs with Henry Street Settlement , a community organization. Credit: Andre Joyles/New York Edge.

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Elementary School K-12 Middle School High School 116

Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

I loved what middle school teacher Dylan Huisken told the AP, “Not addressing the attack is to suggest that the civic ideals we teach exist in a vacuum and don’t have any real-world application, that civic knowledge is mere trivia.”

Lesson Plan 52

Lesson Plan Social Studies High School Civics 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school. Sabeti’s team returned to the Florida middle school in 2018 to help pilot the app. It wouldn’t make sense to kind of force congregation in the middle of a pandemic.”.

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Civics K-12 Middle School Lesson Plan 107

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. I found that, in Rhode Island, personalized learning seemed to exist only at schools with a one-to-one student-to-Chromebook ratio. The George W.

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K-12 Charter School Middle School Elementary School 97

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They shared stories of wolves in sheep’s clothing, covered by titles of police officer, government official, social worker, friend, or teacher, who had in some way or another sabotaged their family’s safety or livelihood. The primary and secondary sources are perfect for middle school readers at multiple levels.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies Middle School 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. Her daughter loves school, she said, and her son in middle school can’t wait to try out for the soccer team. Slowly, educators began sharing strategies and co-teaching classes.

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High School K-12 Professional Development Heritage 140

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Mayko, now 19, has spent most of his summers since middle school working with his father in the fields and greenhouses of this rural county in central North Carolina. Neither she nor his father, who emigrated from Guatemala in 1993, had finished middle school. Lee en Español. It had been constant.

High School 111

High School Elementary School Middle School Lesson Plan 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. Most of those gains were lost, however, in 1877 when the federal government pulled troops out of the South. Once the federal government left, a backlash began. Related: How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Students at a Washington, D.C.

Teaching 102

Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 102

MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

The political science teaching world was abuzz with ideas about how to get students to roll up their sleeves, get involved in government at the local level, and prepare for lives of civic engagement. My new plan was to create a course in which students learned to be educated, thoughtful, registered, frequent voters.

Civics 52

Civics Civic Engagement Teaching Political Science 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

As she would later argue in school board meetings, Hillsdale’s 1776 Curriculum was “supposed to be overlaid” with the district’s lesson plans, yet “there was never any evidence of that overlay” actually happening.

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Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 142

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. The programs occupy a gray area between corporate sponsorship and promotion at a time when climate science has increasingly come under siege at the highest levels of government. The idea caught on.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Sarah Swanson-Hysell, a teacher at Lighthouse Community Charter School in California’s Oakland Unified School District, sympathizes with students like Benjamin. government and making clear that President Barack Obama will remain in his position until January. “I I think it must be so terrifying to be a kid.

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Charter School Middle School Government Civics 111