ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The one I started with was a multimedia challenge asking students to share what high school is like for them.

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High School Museum Education History 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate.

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High School Tutoring Lesson Plan Elementary School 145

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. I think I refuted more hypotheses then validated, but the learning experience kept driving me to pursue eventual degrees and a teaching certificate in the sciences.

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Artifacts Lesson Plan Leadership High School 302

Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

However, high school students do not remember the day like teachers do due to their age. To ensure students understand the magnitude of this day, teachers must focus on teaching September 11th. With the 9/11 Lesson , students will be sure to understand the tragedy, heroism, and unity that occurred from this day.

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Teaching Lesson Plan History Social Studies 130

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. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 100

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. This raises a necessary question: Who is going to teach these classes? When planning for this course, I met with a group of 12 peers from six different high schools.

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High School American History Social Studies Leadership 120

Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 14, 2024

So, students must have lessons that focus on teaching the election. Thankfully, teaching the election will be a fun, exciting, and motivational process with The Political Socialization Lesson , Campaign Finance Lesson , and Electoral College Lesson ! Thankfully, there are amazing resources out there to help.

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Teaching Government Social Studies High School 130

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. In the end we created our own Google 80/20 model at my school even though Google axed the program last year.

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Artifacts Professional Development Lesson Plan High School 315

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 Related: How do we teach Black history in polarized times?

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Teaching Civics K-12 Civic Engagement 134

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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High School Tutoring Lesson Plan Education Policy 112

ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me.

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Teaching Humanities Lesson Plan Middle School 145

Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

The same goes for teaching skills. However, educators don’t have time to search through random teaching videos online and determine which are actually helpful or the best to learn from. Up pops the exact teaching video they need to see CFUs implemented skillfully. Videos cannot be shared or embedded on any other site, either.

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Library Teaching Digital Resources Lesson Plan 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

We can do this by investing in, supporting and leveraging the unique role of educator preparation programs at minority-serving institutions, which have a long and successful track record of preparing diverse educators to persist and thrive in teaching. Related: Widen your perspective. Sign up for Hechinger’s weekly newsletter.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Public School Tradition 121

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

I can’t do this anymore,’” Sherlock recalls about that clarifying moment and the many difficult weeks that followed, traversing school hallways and hauling around musical instruments on crutches. I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching. Julie Sherlock She meant it, too.

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Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 130

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. Related: Teaching social studies in a polarized world It’s time we listened to our students and strengthened our curriculums to teach a balanced history that honors all cultures and narratives.

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History World Religions Inclusive Curriculum Heritage 139

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Teach for Tomorrow’s Job Market Many parents want their children to study computer science. Yet, in the United States, just over half of high schools actually teach it. And enjoy access to an educator portal with lesson plans, tutorials, activities and other resources. Need a hand?

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Teaching Lesson Plan Library Professional Development 113

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. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 27, 2012

K12 and Higher Education faculty and staff can share and receive recognition for their teaching and learning resources and search for specific resources by subject, grade level, software product, and resource type. Find the best resources for preparing for new courses and projects or learning the skills you need to teach using Adobe software.

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Lesson Plan Educational Technology High School Teaching 177

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Involving children in this discussion could be an important part of building a sustainable future, especially as more states and cities officially integrate climate change into their teaching, as New Jersey has. When we complete our pilots, we plan to start releasing the lesson plans as open-source tools available to schools nationwide.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Humanities Education 120

ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In my current role as a special education teacher at a junior high school in New Orleans, I teach 24 neurodivergent students in three classes across two grades, and I’m a case manager for 14 students. This meant that I needed to shift my lesson-planning time, but it really paid off.

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Teaching Junior High Humanities Lesson Plan 128

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

Going into student-teaching, I already had a lot of ideas, not only from my own tutoring experiences but from observations and conversations with many teachers during my two years of service. I had lesson-planning experience. And I knew how the approaches to teaching had evolved since I was a student.

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Tutoring Teaching Middle School Lesson Plan 122

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

In K-12 schools, students are facing an onslaught of emerging technologies — new developments arrive by the day — and yet we’re still teaching many of our core school subjects as if our daily lives are unchanged by these tools. The goal is not to create an army of professional data scientists straight out of high school.

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K-12 Civics Lesson Plan High School 141

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

While these issues can seem overwhelming to young students, exploring them within the context of their school can not only make lessons stick, but also encourage students’ sense of civic agency. It gives kids a chance to learn about climate change, but also learn about being positive forces for change for the better,” she said.

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Teaching Elementary School Civics Project-Based Learning 121

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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Educational Technology History World History Lesson Plan 200

ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Higher Academic Achievement: Longitudinal studies reveal a strong correlation between early math skills and academic performance through high school. Technology can also play a pivotal role by blending gamification and pedagogy to sustain student interest while teaching key skills.

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K-12 Professional Development Pedagogy Psychology 64

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. The number of students who use technology appropriately in school or the number of students who don’t?

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Lesson Plan Leadership High School Cultures 144

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Leveraging AI in the classroom can enhance teaching while preparing students for a future where AI is integral to the workforce. ISTE U serves as a digital hub offering top-tier professional learning courses designed to assist educators in developing fundamental skills for teaching and learning in a digital world.

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Primary Sources Lesson Plan Professional Development EdTech 136

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

sat at my computer in the summer of 2013 pondering whether I’d be able to begin my student-teaching. I wondered whether spending four years learning to teach was worth the time and money, and whether my dreams of leading a classroom would ever come to pass. Related: Are teachers losing their grip on the middle class?

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Teaching Economics Lesson Plan High School 82

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension. 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.

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

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 140

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

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 135

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 137

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Many teachers were not motivated to teach the young people, and they felt like the students were not being respectful toward them.”. Even before the pandemic, her daughter asked to be pulled from high school. 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 142

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

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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Local History Civics Lesson Plan Social Science 128

ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

At school you teach and support students. At home you answer emails, grade, plan, and analyze data. One 45-minute planning period is not enough time to prep for three different classes,” a high school teacher surveyed by the task force wrote. At school you teach and support students.

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Professional Development Lesson Plan Middle School Teaching 145