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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Cierra Kaler-Jones wasn’t your traditional dance teacher. When Kaler-Jones taught dance, her students didn’t come just for the dance lessons. Her classes involved lessons on Black history and women’s history, as well as wide-ranging conversations about was happening in the world. Subscribe today!

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The vast majority of Saridis’s students are Latino, and at the Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, a dual-language high school in Boston Public Schools, connecting the curriculum to their culture is a top priority. Related: A Spanish-English high school proves learning in two languages can boost graduation rates.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools. What is clear is that using the extra time for just more hours or more days of traditional instruction doesn’t appear to achieve much. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea.

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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.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Most of the schools where I coach have a wonky Wednesday schedule that I have to navigate with teachers when we co-lesson plan together. At the high school level, I had students email their parents and CC me. The class periods on Wednesday are markedly shorter than classes on a regular day.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2021

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 Torres, on the other hand, said she misses a more traditional way of learning.

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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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This content goes far beyond traditional formats like film, television and print because it isn’t static; it’s both immersive and interactive. 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.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 23, 2022

I wish I had worked with John to develop more traditional writing skills and set him up for the reality that he would not always be in a quiet environment where the computer could clearly hear what he wanted to say — or for that matter, that he would have access to a computer at all. Young people are tech savvy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Several states that previously required substitutes to have a bachelor’s degree lowered that threshold and now allow candidates with only a high school diploma to apply for emergency certification. A lot of substitutes only need a high school diploma and know very little about education,” Basile said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Kelly Dole, the school’s science teacher, says that when she first started teaching at Telstar High School, in 1998, students were often unprepared for life after high school. In her decades at the traditional high school, she saw her students becoming increasingly aimless and disengaged.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

Schools have begun to recognize the value of esports, with more than 8,600 US high schools having started video-gaming teams since 2018. The game does the heavy lifting, while the included lesson plans and student-facing lesson slides make in-classroom implementation turnkey and enjoyable.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

In high school, I was the lead in the musicals Little Shop of Horrors and Bye, Bye Birdie. I was on the varsity soccer, track, and cross-country teams in high school. I am a vegetarian and love to cook. My sister, Erin, makes me laugh. I enjoy Mexican food and anything spicy. I’m wild about butterflies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

According to a recent report , last school year, 45 percent of public schools said they were understaffed, and nearly 9 in 10 school districts reported struggling to hire teachers heading into the 2023-24 school year. They are still struggling.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

But some school districts that arguably have no reason to change are shaking things up, too. Trace Pickering, associate superintendent of the Cedar Rapids Community School District, founded Iowa BIG, a district program that gives students an alternative to the traditional school day. I need to build a lesson plan.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

The concept could eventually “be a more efficient way of distributing grants than a traditional foundation, government funding agency, or corporation structure,” Werbach told EdSurge, also noting, however, that there are “a variety of concerns and reasons for skepticism about DAOs.” DAOs have popped up with various goals and functions.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

School leaders, especially those who are advocates for students who learn differently, must begin having more strategic conversations about AI now. The traditional education system has never worked for students with disabilities, and we could redesign it. It can generate word lists, decodable texts and basic lesson plans.

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Lesson Plan Tradition Public School Teaching 123

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 25, 2017

Throw away the books and stop asking each teacher to individually “reinvent the wheel” by creating lesson plans from scratch. Reverse the order of traditional science instruction: teach physics in ninth grade, followed by chemistry and then biology. Related: Can all students succeed at science and technology high schools?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The popularity of games and play-based learning has waxed and waned in the traditional American classroom, according to Alicia Miller, a science educator from Evans, Georgia, who’s always used “hands-on” activities in her classroom. I’ve planned my class around a game, only to find that the website’s been blocked. That’s frustrating.”

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago.

High School 99

High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 99

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

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. Relationships Matter.

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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. Extensive piloting and field testing ensured that edTPA met all the requirements for high-stakes licensure assessment according to AERA, APA and NCME technical standards. Why do we believe so strongly in edTPA?

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Teaching Pedagogy Leadership Tradition 85

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

11, 2001, high school social studies teacher and football coach Robert Lake stood outside with students waiting to get picked up from school. Lake and his high school students watched the world change that day. But even then, teachers of traditional U.S. Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images.

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History Social Studies Museum Civics 75

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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Elementary School High School Middle School Lesson Plan 79

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. Photo: Nicole Lewis. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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Private School Elementary School Public School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A parent believed people were motivated by memories of the 1999 Columbine high school shooting, which happened a half hour drive away. “I At every middle and high school in Aurora, the ratio of mental health providers to students is 1:250. The national average ratio of school counselors to students, by contrast, is 1:430.

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Tutoring Middle School Elementary School High School 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

The teachers participating committed to creating lesson plans — like the shade simulation — that will be made available freely for others to use on platforms including the website SubjectToClimate.org. Broadly speaking, she said, in indigenous traditions, it’s the latter. Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

Teaching 96

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Since 2017, Summit has revised its middle and high school curriculum and teachers routinely say it’s high-quality. I’m getting directly into interventions, targeted materials, resources, lesson plans, pedagogical skills that are tailored toward the kids I have sitting right in front of me.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

It’s one of the state’s only virtual schools operated by a traditional district. They also learned to develop clear communication plans that allowed students to know exactly how to reach an instructor and get the needed support. Related: Free, no frills programs lead the class in new federal study of remote learning.

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Private School Charter School Tradition Project-Based Learning 69

Transcending Pedagogy

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Because the latest, greatest, technological advance is really the one that has terrified me to my core, and it’s not because I’m stuck on giving students loads of traditional writing assignments. Then he asked it to write a lesson plan helping high school students work on the concept of theme.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Lesson Plan Tradition High School 52