The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2020

My parents were the first in their families to graduate from high school. Whether it’s an after-school program or a club, creating a place for girls to connect and share with one another makes the career exploration journey less daunting and more fun! My grandparents never made it beyond eighth grade.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

That study could be used to help administrators overhaul their teachers’ schedules, the task force writes, and free them up from non-teaching tasks that eat away at time that could be spent collaborating with peers, reviewing their students’ learning data and generally making their lessons better. “I I work at least one day every weekend.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Meanwhile, the Data Science Academy is collaborating with the state’s Department of Public Instruction, hoping to roll out data science education in schools across the state, according to Levy. ‘Shelton’s team also hosts events like mini hackathons where high schoolers can work with data. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Notably: In reviews of 17 middle school math programs , just one was deemed standards-aligned across grades six to eight. Of the 14 elementary school math programs, only two products were found to be standards-aligned across grades K-5, again both published by nonprofits.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Green beans and other vegetables growing in the computer-controlled climate of a hydroponic farm in an old shipping container at Boston Latin School. who teaches a high school vocational course in hydroponics and aquaculture. Boston Latin has a cheaper, earlier version, paid for with a green-schools grant.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. My middle school choir teacher recorded and released an acclaimed gospel album. My high school English teacher starred in commercials and made a name for herself as a voice actor. It’s about more than tests and grades.

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Teaching Humanities Lesson Plan Middle School 145

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

AUGUST 19, 2021

While not everyone who tutors will want to become a teacher, tutoring is a low-stakes way to get meaningful and extensive experience and participate in a school community without making a long-term commitment. I had lesson-planning experience. Additionally, I uncovered a sense of purpose and found joy in a rewarding career.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Her mother was a middle school science teacher whose parenting “really incorporated a lot of that curiosity and wonder and awe, kind of like we saw at the Smithsonian here today,” she says. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too. It was a huge celebration for all of us.”

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. I’ve planned my class around a game, only to find that the website’s been blocked.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Students face many challenges in high school. Since teachers understand the stress of high-stakes tests, they do everything they can to make review fun. Amendments While students begin learning amendments in middle school, it is so hard to remember them all!

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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! Washington University in St.

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Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

No one wants to search through hundreds of example videos one-by-one to find a middle school classroom showing student discourse around math objectives or a high-school classroom implementing sheltered instructional strategies for ELL students. Make it easy for your teachers to find videos of exemplar teaching.

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Library Teaching Digital Resources Lesson Plan 105

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Mercado had wanted to be a teacher ever since she’d spent time in high school working with preschool kids. Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. Next it’s time for a math lesson on quadrilaterals. In high school, she despised the subject.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

TeachStart has also created scheduled times for me to lesson plan and collect my bearings at the beginning and end of each day. If legislators, teacher prep programs and school leaders can commit to breaking down barriers to entry for future teachers, we will all benefit. Utilize skills parents bring to the table.

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Middle School Lesson Plan Teaching Education 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Remote learning has changed the approach to out-of-school suspension at Shenendehowa Central School District, where more than a fourth of students identify as nonwhite. Grades K-5 in the district are in person, but middle and high schools are mostly hybrid.

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K-12 Tutoring Public School Lesson Plan 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. When Rebecca Brewer started teaching high school biology 20 years ago, it seemed like everyone trusted science.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Alicia Sewell, a middle school teacher in Alabama, has made a job transition that’s essentially the opposite of the one Bass made. Suddenly, she says, no one seemed to care what she thought about the tech tools the school adopted. The private school is tiny, with just about 100 students in first through 12th grades.

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EdTech Educational Technology Middle School Lesson Plan 123

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?” A 2011 study by University of Massachusetts researchers had also found standardized test-score gains by students in two EL schools in Rochester, New York, compared with peers in other city schools.

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Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

According to a RAND study released in January 2017, the state has seen record growth in the number of students taking Advanced Placement courses, as well as in its high school graduation rate and its rate of college attendance.

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K-12 Professional Development Lesson Plan Middle School 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

This is hard because the reality of teaching is that you’re on every hour of the day, you’re lesson-planning, you’re calling parents, you’re writing curriculum. Alanni said teachers would sometimes accommodate her by printing out lesson plans from the computer program and allowing her to complete the lessons offline.

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Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sylvan Hills Middle School Assistant Principal Monica Blasingame, center, and Principal Artesza Portee, right, discuss “big life goals” with a student as part of a goal-setting exercise in Atlanta Public Schools. The Atlanta district is in its third year of rolling out the dashboards to members of the school community.

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Public School Middle School Lesson Plan Psychology 85

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. Her parents agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips.

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Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

WILDER, Idaho — Eight years ago, the principal of Idaho’s Wilder Elementary School, Jeff Dillon, made a tough decision: He pulled his children out of the district high school to send them to private school. “I Other schools around the country are starting to take notice — and schedule visits. Photo: Wayne D’Orio.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The teenagers attend high schools and middle schools in the lowest-scoring school district in the state of Mississippi, West Bolivar Consolidated. This fall, 91 schools across the state have students signed up to take courses online, a number that could rise if schools add classes this spring.

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Education K-12 Tutoring High School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Throughout Mississippi, where there are still 43 open desegregation orders, the process of integrating schools traditionally pitted the courts and the DOJ against school districts. “And the Department of Justice bought into that.”.

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Private School Elementary School Public School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Related: For teachers who fear math, banishing bad memories can help At Brand’s organization, Made for Math , intensive tutoring based on Zecher’s approach often stands in for a lack of school-based support. Many parents don’t realize their child has a math disability until later in elementary school or middle school, experts say.

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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. At Rhodes, educators see a lot of good in the program.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 131

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It focuses on lesson planning, instruction, assessment and academic language – all in support of student learning. In addition, states can support innovations in teacher recruitment and preparation, such as Educators Rising , which guides young people on a path to becoming accomplished teachers, beginning in high school.

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Teaching Pedagogy Tradition Leadership 85

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2017

There’s an introductory curriculum guide , lesson plans , and sample Scratch projects for teachers to replicate or use as inspiration. On ScratchEd’s website, teachers can find a wide span of resources to build their knowledge of computer science and the interactive programming projects they can launch in their classrooms.

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