Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

The best laid plans can fail when you overlook the simplest of details. Teachers have been surfing the Web for lesson plans and ideas for their classroom for years. Welcome your panelists and attendees to your SXSWedu panel.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. But there is only so much that the schools can do.”.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Now, we're ready to help teachers seamlessly create lesson plans and send them out to all students — even those who don't have broadband. We will package all of that content, whether it's an ebook or an educational video, along with the notes from the lesson plan and send it where it needs to go. Can you explain that?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

Riling up many of these no-holds-barred K-12 scraps is “inclusivity.” If the textbooks, courseware, lesson plans and worksheets used in schools reflect all students’ realities, the argument goes, it will set all students up for real learning. But figuring out whether texts are inclusive can be difficult.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. She is the co-author, along with Valerie Tagoe, of the 2022 book Liven Up Your Library: Design Engaging and Inclusive Programs for Tweens and Teens ( Amazon | Bookshop ).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

And, when teachers share lesson plans with one another in closed or proprietary online learning platforms, they may be ceding ownership of their lessons to the technology providers, depending on the agreements made between their school and the provider. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Lillian Agard looks on as her 3-year-old granddaughter Siena paints and colors at the art table during free choice at the Y’s pop-up preschool in the Hillview library in East San Jose. Just an hour earlier, this room in the Hillview neighborhood library of East San Jose, California, was completely empty. Photo: Kathryn Baron.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

ATLANTA — School had already let out for the day, but the teachers at Hollis Innovation Academy in northwest Atlanta were gathered around tables in the library, laptops open, strategizing. He has already been structuring his pacing and lesson plans based on this early prep. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

That training time is also when teachers work on their “albums,” or lesson plans. Paved pathways weave between flowers and grassy areas to connect the six different cottages that house the school’s early childhood through middle school classrooms, library, and administrative offices.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Jamil Maroun, a former district supervisor for science, social studies and library/media services, partnered with Lake last school year to develop the semester-long class, which examines 9/11 in historical context. Last school year, the district piloted a new set of lessons created by the Newseum , a museum in Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Jaguar Academy is often library-quiet. Prepackaged lessons from an online curriculum provider comprised about 80 percent of students’ work in the first year. This summer, Northern Cass teachers and administrators have continued rewriting lesson plans and assessments, including those for “habits of work.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

In a windowless room in the library, first- and second-graders experiment with a strange teaching device that’s half computer and half wooden play table. Yannier began with two lesson plans: one given to kids only on the computer; and one given to a different group of kids using her mixed-reality contraption.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Emily Duggan demonstrates a dance move at the Amherst, NH, studio where she spends about 12 hours a week. She puts in about 12 hours a week at the studio, including classes and rehearsals with the dance team for weekend competitions. Emily’s mom, Debbie Duggan, looks on in the background. Photo: Chris Berdik. EXETER, N.H.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

If you brought a pencil to class or not, that would be factored into your grade,” the high school senior said during a study period in the library. . — 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. “If

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Under the “Don’t Say Gay” law, Florida teachers in grades 4-12 will need to ensure that instruction in sexual orientation and gender identity is age and developmentally appropriate, as defined by the state. I guess you have spoken to the same teachers who support sexualizing children in K-12 schools,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This strategy of tapping into students’ own experiences as part of a lesson plan is an increasingly common one in U.S. In Henrico County Public Schools, near Richmond, Virginia, the district is building new libraries and stocking them with books whose characters reflect the demographics of the student body.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

This disparity in home computer and internet access, dubbed the “homework gap,” was a slow-burning problem for most districts in the days when schools were in session and students could get online at libraries, after-school programs, coffee shops and other community gathering spots.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

At least once a week, the student and teacher meet to choose academic units from Edgenuity’s library — all the lessons are aligned to California state standards and are curated by the school — and to schedule times for the student to take Edgenuity’s unit exams on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

The board has spent upwards of $40 million over the past two decades on K-12 education with a pro-industry bent, including hundreds of pages of curricula, a speaker series and an afterschool program — all at no cost to educators. Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Its “ 1776 Curriculum ” for grades K-12 has been criticized for revisionist history, including whitewashed accounts of US slavery and depictions of Jamestown as a failed communist colony. Meanwhile, according to documents published by WHYY shortly after the election, school administrators were imposing new restrictions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

The two schools share the gym, cafeteria and library. Will Spalding is new to teaching English language learners this year, but says training sessions helped him to revamp his lesson plans to make them more accessible. Read more about K-12. “We thought they were trying to get rid of us, just kick us out.”.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

So what started in the public arena of K through 12, and extended to higher education and Florida public college and universities, has now extended to private universities. 21, 1939: African Americans Arrested for Going to Public Library Sept. 6, 1865: 13th Amendment Ratified Oct. 14, 1941: Rally Against Police Brutality Feb.

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