A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 17, 2013

As the Wiki states the lesson plans, unit plans, centers, textbook supplements, and other resources found on Wiki-Teacher are created and shared by educators. I will most certainly be sharing this resource with my staff upon my return to New Milford High School. Common Core teachers'

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 21, 2011

Education is so much more than just standardized tests, lesson plans, and teacher evaluation methods. It is about the embedded lessons that we might not realize at the time are being taught, inspiring others, and making the time to help all students succeed. You are an inspiration to New Milford High School and beyond!

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Lesson Plan High School Education 257

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2017

I fondly remember developing and testing out numerous hypotheses in the many science courses I took in high school and college. The process itself was guided by inquiry, problem solving, and reflection. This type of learning was messy, unpredictable, and challenging, but it was also fun.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

I grew up in an area with a large Asian American population, including 25 percent of the students in my high school. Our school district is currently developing an Asian American Studies course that would provide an opportunity to grapple with misconceptions about our community and the civil rights issues we continue to face.

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High School American History Social Studies Leadership 113

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

With all the many state mandates and district directed professional development, as well as time after school devoted to grading and lesson planning, in her mind and many others, time was not readily available. Google Innovation Laura Fleming Learning New Milford High School professional growth period professional learning'

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

A student in a high school just outside of New York City. Then, as teachers had time to develop lesson plans and adjust to new curricula, student performance began to improve. But in New York, the exams are necessary for high school graduation. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. What do you wish you could change about your school or the education system today?

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Theyre part of Samsungs Solve for Tomorrow tech competition for public middle and high school students, and winning means big prize money for their schools to purchase more tech tools. Even today, many businesses expect students coming out of high school to have the skill to be able to use these tools in the workplace.

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K-12 Education EdTech Lesson Plan 95

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Many teachers, already, are looking for ways to use AI to build lesson plans and improve student feedback, Huh says: We know its coming. Its AI-leveraged, Kennelly clarifies. Its driven by our students, by their expertise, by their passion.

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Education Charter School Civics Lesson Plan 115

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2025

Manaaki Waretini-Beaumont, now 18 and an environmental science major at the University of Canterbury, learned about the downside of streaming when she enrolled in Avonside Girls, a 1,000-student high school in Christchurch. Like a high school diploma, the NCEA Level 3 is a minimum qualification to enter college in New Zealand.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

Students gather once a month at my high school for what we call “equity lunch chats” with teachers and administrators. Gathering a team of students and educators to advise on an inclusive curriculum would give students a voice in the process and create a starting place for teachers like me as we build our own classroom lesson plans.

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History World Religions Inclusive Curriculum Heritage 137

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Related: How ed tech can worsen racial inequality There are many reasons for these challenges, including a combination of outdated state standards and tests that incentivize teachers to push data-related content to the bottom of their lesson plan lists. A majority of states received a “D” or “F.” Our country must do better.

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K-12 Civics Lesson Plan High School 143

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 27, 2012

Share lesson plans, class projects, technical tutorials, background materials, and other resources and get feedback and recognition from the community on your content. Educators can share best practices, discuss and collaborate around topics of interest, and gain inspiration for using Adobe software in the classroom in innovative ways.

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Lesson Plan Educational Technology High School Teaching 177

ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Higher Academic Achievement: Longitudinal studies reveal a strong correlation between early math skills and academic performance through high school. Common barriers such as limited resources, gaps in teacher training and competing curriculum priorities often hinder progress.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2011

With the first month of the school year in the books, I am extremely pleased with how more staff members are embracing educational technology and effectively integrating a variety of tools into instruction. At New Milford High School we clearly articulate that technology is a powerful tool.

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History Tech

AUGUST 7, 2024

I was chatting on a text thread with a group of teachers and administrators last week when one of the high school admin types casually mentioned that her first day back with students had gone pretty well. Seriously!? Cue my stunned surpise. I know more and more districts are cranking up during the first few […]

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Social Studies High School Lesson Plan Geography 221

Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

However, high school students do not remember the day like teachers do due to their age. With the 9/11 Lesson , students will be sure to understand the tragedy, heroism, and unity that occurred from this day. Since teachers have much to handle, there are lesson plans and answer keys included.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

The bot, called Khanmigo, told me I had answered a basic high school Algebra 2 problem involving negative exponents wrong. I also worry about teachers using ChatGPT and other generative AI models to write quizzes or lesson plans. For basic high-school algebra, AI’s error rate fell from 25 percent to zero.

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Research Tutoring Lesson Plan High School 140

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 18, 2020

On the second night of class, I had an awesome discussion with a couple of high school teachers about the perpetual issue of forcing students to learn math that they likely will never use again in their life. I started a new principal licensure cohort this spring. Our conversation led me to this question: Which is bigger?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 20, 2024

Many of the students had already taken college-level environmental science courses, on subjects such as pollution mitigation and water quality, at local high schools and Fort Lewis College. I like the let-me-work-outside model,” said Autumn Schulz, a rising sophomore at Ignacio High School. Nationally, more than 9.5

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High School Lesson Plan Education Humanities 134

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Other student entrepreneurs have applied their hard-earned wisdom to improving virtual school, too. A team of students from INCubatoredu, a high school entrepreneurship program based in Illinois, reworked their business Trashbots to make robotics and coding accessible and provide hands-on STEM education at home.

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Civics Digital Resources K-12 Lesson Plan 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”

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Teaching Civics K-12 Civic Engagement 133

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As I begin the new school year, I make a list of all my priorities: Lesson planning, grading, classroom setup, data analysis and new teacher mentorship. The novel follows the twins Joshua and Christophe, who recently graduated high school. Building relationships with parents is at the top of the list.

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Cultures Advocacy Lesson Plan High School 137

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Even before the pandemic, her daughter asked to be pulled from high school. Early in fall 2020, Hidalgo and her husband scoured the internet for curriculum and lesson plans that they could use at home to teach their kids. The pandemic really took a toll on kids, mostly middle school and high school,” said Siddiqui. “It

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Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 141

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. That’s hard.

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

Meanwhile in Indiana, a bill would have required teachers to turn in a year’s worth of lesson plans in advance. I’ve taught high school English for years. Yes, I’m deviating from my lesson plans. The lesson plan would still be there. Both failed to pass their respective state legislatures.

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Lesson Plan K-12 History Professional Development 120

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Many of Kaler-Jones’ students — most of them Black — weren’t taught about important Black figures or positive history lessons from a non-white perspective in school. When she discovered this, Kaler-Jones began weaving culturally responsive lesson plans into her dance classes.

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Oral History History Pedagogy Lesson Plan 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

One 2021 study found tutoring led to strong math gains for even high school students , enabling those who started two years behind grade level to catch up. When the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor students who were behind. Not all tutoring has been successful. ACCELERATION.

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Tutoring High School Charter School Research 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. “I I personally would advise school districts not to rush into buying a particular product, but really treat this year as a chance to educate yourself,” he said.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Tutoring High School 97

Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sociology is such a fun class to teach in high school. So, it is essential to have exciting lessons and activities to support this eagerness to learn. Therefore, lesson plans and required resources are ready to go. Furthermore, the organization of each resource is impeccable for easy planning.

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Sociology Lesson Plan Social Studies High School 130

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. EdSurge: Why did you decide to take the ISTE U AI course? What were your goals?

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Primary Sources Lesson Plan Professional Development EdTech 136

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

is a stickler for notes when he teaches algebra I to ninth graders at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. Ishmael Brown Jr.

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Tutoring Middle School K-12 Lesson Plan 131

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea. When students miss a lot of school because of snowfall, academic achievement suffers , particularly among low-income students.

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Tutoring Charter School Middle School Advocacy 139

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

High school Advanced Placement. Each concluded that students who learned science and social studies through a detailed project-based curriculum over the course of a year posted higher achievement scores than those who learned those subjects the way teachers in their schools usually taught them. Curriculum. 6th grade science.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It recruited a group of around 30 teachers who hail from places where conflicts over science during the pandemic have been especially heated, including Florida and Mississippi, to field-test a series of lesson plans on the nature of science — along with a series of climate change lesson plans that had been delayed by the pandemic.

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Controversial Topics Lesson Plan Teaching Research 134

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

And this past school year, dozens of elementary school administrators started training in LETRS, or Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling, which teaches them the “science of reading,” including how students learn to decode letters on the page and form meaning from words. They were told to implement them immediately.

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High School Elementary School Public School Social Justice 145

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

MagicSchool offers more than 50 different AI-assisted tools to help speed up so many of the teaching tasks that take so much time: lesson planning, assessment building, feedback, communication with parents, even an IEP generator. So teaching them how to do this well while they are in school is time well spent. The Tools 1.

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