The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Clair principal, who helped provide professional development to teachers during the Numeracy Project years.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

It was these changes that took an average comprehensive high school and transformed it into the current institution that many have come to know through social media over the past three years. To put some perspective on this, not one traditional classroom had an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) in it four years ago.

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Professional Development Pedagogy Cultures Educational Technology 275

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

For starters, I have now been going on four years since transitioning from high school principal to Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE). As educators lust for knowledge, parents and other stakeholders desire more information about schools and how the needs of learners are being met.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

In 2020, 44 percent of high school youth reported having no source of supportive relationships either adults or peers, a reduction by half from a decade earlier. Thats why some of the most effective initiatives dont look like traditional schools at all. for adults and children. Family hubs in the UK and the U.S.

Humanities 78

Humanities Economics Professional Development High School 78

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 16, 2017

The tips and strategies below are framed around one large change initiative that I helped facilitate as a high school principal - a new teacher evaluation system in our district. NJ mandated every district to adopt an evaluation tool that was more detailed and moved away from the traditional narrative report.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

If I'm reading a story to them, I also teach about parts of a book by way of creating citations, because when they go to high school and college, they're going to have to create a research paper that requires citations. What do you wish you could change about your school or the education system today? We do a read-aloud.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. We get them in high school, not when they’re little,” Vázquez says. “We

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In the news What if professional development could be as dynamic and personalized as the classrooms we envision for our students? Vrain Valley Schools in Longmont, Colorado, is making a reality. Vrain Valley Schools is transforming professional development with AI, read the full article from NASSP.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 30, 2017

Never did I once think that my professional life would have evolved as it has. Three years later I became the Principal of New Milford High School. They should never perceive that they are inferior to their peers if they don’t do well on standardized tests or more traditional, one-size-fits-all assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

Our jobs require us to seek out solutions that will help our students reach new heights so they can get the most out of the hours they spend in school. Among the many solutions we have tried, one has proven transformational: teachers across schools learning from one another. The partner was the Jeremiah E.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Each of Maine’s 124 high schools is required to offer such diplomas to the Class of 2021, next fall’s ninth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We fill an entire school here.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Like many school districts at the time, Juab (pronounced Joo-ab) passed out the devices to all its students before really stopping to think about what personalized learning could – or should – mean. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

As high school teachers, we often saw Black teenagers — mostly boys — who were simply bored with their lessons deemed incapable of high academic achievement, shunted off to remedial classes or special education and encouraged to be happy with merely making it to graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. PHOENIX, Ariz.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Yet, traditional ESOL teacher certification processes are often burdensome, inflexible and financially onerous. This is especially true in rural communities with few options to support professional learning experiences. One core underlying issue is the shortage of ESOL educators.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Developer: Stanford University Research. High school Advanced Placement. Developer: University of Washington Research. Curriculum. Related 2018 Hechinger coverage. 6th grade science. Curriculum. Government and Politics curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms. The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired.

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Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2018

High school junior Tania Toriz, 16, and sophomore Jade Boling, 15, fix a screw on the top of a shed that their “Geometry in Construction” class constructed at Ritenour High School near St. Instead, teachers are constrained within a traditional school day with six or eight periods of an inflexible length.

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Tradition Professional Development High School Teaching 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

These struggles are more prevalent in schools that traditionally serve students of color and those from low-income backgrounds. Principals and school leaders need professional development so that they can better advocate for their teachers and students.

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Social Justice Leadership Elementary School Professional Development 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Every 4- and 5-year-old in this transitional kindergarten classroom was doing something different, tailored specially to their academic development. It’s a scene that is replicated across the seven elementary schools and two high schools in this agricultural community of around 13,500 in California’s Central Valley.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

The decline in the number of high school graduates, projected before the pandemic, combined with plummeting high school graduation rates in multiple states, has left fewer high school graduates applying to enroll in colleges and universities this fall. By June, many U.S. Not this year.

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Psychology High School Professional Development Middle School 129

Digital Promise

JUNE 9, 2021

122 billion of unprecedented federal funding is now available to school districts, providing an opportunity to make significant strides in closing the Digital Learning Gap —but only if we think differently about how schools use technology to meet the needs of every learner.

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Cultures K-12 Professional Development Leadership 118

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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

No school governance model is predominant. First, high-performing schools use data as a common thread to drive, monitor and adjust every aspect of their operations — including core instruction, small-group instruction, attendance interventions, social-emotional learning and professional development.

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K-12 Professional Development Tutoring Government 121

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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Yet many students, even those who perform well in high school English classes and those who enjoy writing, struggle to express themselves effectively through personal essays. The dismal student-to-counselor ratio in American high schools is another challenge.

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Tutoring High School Professional Development Critical Thinking 126

Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

To ensure access to high-quality educational experiences at the high school level, students enrolled in Grades 9-12 were provided tuition to attend one of two neighboring high schools. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit. Innovative Learning Spaces.

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K-12 Artifacts Leadership Library 131

ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

On March 18th, 2020, my principal pulled me into a meeting with the superintendent, principals, and assistant principals from other high schools in the district. The first words out of my principal’s mouth were, “we may have to close the school down for a few days.” AVIHS follows an independent study model of schooling.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

Today, Northgate’s three school buildings each have two full-time therapists who, like Hubal in Bellevue, are AHN Chill Program employees, in addition to three school counselors. Through a donation from nearby Chatham University, Northgate received its first greenhouse, built next to the football field outside the middle/high school.

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High School Cultures Elementary School Professional Development 136

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Through ConnectED, Esri made a billion dollar offer: any K-12 school in the United States could acquire professional online Geographic Information Systems (GIS software), instructional activities, professional development events, and resources for educators and mentors. Safari Books. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 102

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.

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High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 101

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

It was Halloween afternoon and the first floor of the McKenna Center — a renovated Victorian house located across the street from Central Falls High School in Rhode Island — was abuzz with teenagers chatting and admiring one another’s costumes. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor.

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Tutoring High School Tradition Museum 105

ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching.

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Teaching Professional Development Humanities History 102

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. The teenager is behind on credits, but hopes to catch up and graduate on time this school year. SAN DIEGO — Zaire Wallace looked forward to playing sports in high school.

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Charter School K-12 Tradition High School 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

NEW YORK — At New York City’s Urban Assembly Maker Academy high school in lower Manhattan, two things immediately stand out. Danielle Salzberg, principal, Frank McCourt High School, on mastery-based learning. Maker Academy teacher Gerry Irrizary assisting students in his Design Principles class.

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