ED Surge

JUNE 11, 2024

Last year, when Jayla Arensberg was a sophomore at Burnsville High School near St. Paul, Minnesota, a teacher showed her a flier saying that a program at the school could save her $25,000 on college. “I It’s a stark example of how the line between high school and college is blurring for more students.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

The question itself highlighted the limitations of traditional grading, a system that has been shown to be problematic by so many people in education circles but still remains as the most common way schools manage and assess student learning. What Is Competency-Based Learning? “They’re really respectful.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Early on, I used more traditional strategies since this was a new arena for me. It was at this point about four years ago, where I began to embrace and model the very same strategies that were being used at my high school when I was a principal. The above ideas are more teaching-facing.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

The summer of 2013 was probably one of the most important hiring years during my seven-year tenure as a high school principal. The learning space that was once in the traditional library has now been taken over by the students. In my opinion great leaders surround themselves by great people.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2015

In its current form, it doesn’t tell you anything about anyone.” - Shara Senderoff via Dell Tech Page One I started to think about the value of resumes for today’s high school students after a Twitter conversation I had with New Milford High School junior Sarah Almeda.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. That push is evident at Brookdale.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Early college high school students graduate college in greater numbers. Research shows that their expected future earnings and public subsidy savings more than offset the cost of these expensive small high schools. All students take both high school and colleges classes simultaneously. Weekly Update.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 6, 2014

This technique typically makes students uncomfortable at first as they have become so conditioned by our traditional culture of education where they would rather be spoon-fed information instead of having to think. best practices inquiry New Milford High School pedagogy science Tahreen Chowdhury'

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

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. One high school teacher in Louisiana who participated in the survey said his students needed a more advanced curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For too long, incoming students not deemed fully prepared to do college-level work have had to enter a remediation track intended to teach foundational concepts that institutions assume students haven’t learned yet. More than 20 states have adopted corequisite support to supplement or replace traditional approaches to remediation.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

SES has an impact on learning and teachers need to be aware of these impacts if they are going to teach all students. Palardy (2013) investigated high school-aged students to examine socioeconomic segregation’s impact on student attainment outcomes. The first was peer influence. The second factor was low teacher morale.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 15, 2013

It is a distraction to the teaching and learning process. If students are allowed to use social media in school they will stay off task or exhibit inappropriate behavior. This is the misguided stigma that social media carries and, as a result, it is often banned in schools. Social Media is bad and has no place in education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Slide from a RAND webinar, “Racial and Socioeconomic Divides in Algebra Teaching and Learning,” presented in November 2024. Math teachers at high-poverty schools tended to have weaker professional preparation. And they were less likely to have a graduate degree or hold a mathematics credential.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available. Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Several years ago, two high school chemistry teachers from Colorado shifted their teaching practice dramatically. Whereas the traditional classroom has been very teacher-centered, the use of 1:1 technology allows for a much more student-centered classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Since our school was small, there was a chance you could even have him multiple times before moving up to the high school. He didn’t teach science. Mr. South had us actively learn science instead of just taking notes and then a traditional assessment. We learned science. All of his classes were amazing.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Not only was I not in classrooms enough, but also the level of feedback provided through the lens of a narrative report did very little to improve teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. Below I offer ten specific strategies implemented during my time as high school principal that you can begin to adopt now.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 22, 2014

It goes without saying that education, schools, and professional practice need to change in order to provide learners with the necessary skill sets to succeed in today’s ever-growing digital world. This is no easy feat, something that I experience each day of my professional life as a high school principal.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This hurt her teaching time, and she wanted to know if I experienced the same phenomenon in my teaching career; without hesitation, I admitted to facing the same problem. In my fifth year of teaching Arabic as a second language, I often reflect on how frequently my subject is undervalued.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

Education is currently at a crossroads as traditional methods and tools are changing as a result of advances in technology and learning theory. We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology. Rest assured everything else will fall into place.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 15, 2025

Her defiance was bold and vulnerable, a refusal to let fear or tradition dictate her path. Teaching as Transformation That spark carried me into student teaching in Townsville, Queensland, Australia where I was pushed to grow in ways I hadnt expected. I remember thinking, is this what teaching is supposed to look like?

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

It was at this school that I saw tracking firsthand, and students knew who was in gifted programs and who was in lower-level classes. Like any other middle school student, I was on a rough journey of self-discovery. Still, I pushed on, determined to prove I belonged academically.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

I took calculus as a high school senior. Only 20 or so students at the large Catholic all-girls school I attended in Chicago were in the class. Yet calculus continues to enjoy a singular status in high school advanced math. It was the ultimate destination on the advanced math track.

High School 114

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 26, 2015

wikispaces.com/ Most teachers and education leaders today agree that our schools need a nudge in the direction of rigor and relevance. This year’s Model Schools Conference is going to be worlds apart from the traditional education conference. Image credit: https://khspd12.wikispaces.com/

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2014

After having assumed the duties of both athletic director and vice principal at New Milford High School I became the principal in 2007. It was at this point that I began to take more risks to create a better teaching and learning culture at NMHS. Obviously my journey continues.

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Leadership High School Cultures Tradition 293

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

A year before the pandemic began, my school district examined how this connection could help guide a student’s career path. In Alabama, jobs that require more than a high-school diploma but less than a bachelor’s degree account for 59 percent of the labor market. We already had the online curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2023

When I took calculus in high school, I didn’t understand a single concept. Today I teach biology at a private high school in New York City; I’ve also taught math for the past six years. I no longer struggle to understand the fundamental concepts of calculus, but I’ve chosen not to teach the course.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

As a sector, we are being bombarded with reports of our failings in the teaching of maths, which leaves teachers and principals across the country feeling uncertain of what to do, and how to teach maths effectively, Rodgers wrote in a report to her school community at the end of the sabbatical. Not any more.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. The old ways of teaching seemed to leave students without an understanding of the importance of math for their chosen field. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When my 8-year-old started asking questions about the world, it hit me that there wasn’t a lot out there to guide parents in teaching their kids about being active, engaged citizens. There are multiple hurdles facing K-12 schools in teaching civics. Middle schoolers and high schoolers can handle broader concepts and ideas.

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Civics Teaching K-12 Social Studies 131

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

But We Can’t Teach? This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth. At least 44 states have passed or proposed legislation to prohibit teaching about structural racism.

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Teaching American History Museum Library 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2024

When Natalia Molina began teaching her second grade students word problems earlier this school year, every lesson felt difficult. I saw how overwhelmed they would get,” said Molina, who teaches at Segue Institute for Learning, a predominantly Hispanic charter school in this small city just north of Providence.

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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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Charter School Library Education Lesson Plan 95

ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

And two episodes of our narrative series about the growing skepticism of college made the cut, both of which focused on how students are changing how they think about what to do after high school. But some teaching experts say tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with.

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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. Related: Widen your perspective.

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