The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools. Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. He anticipates that some teachers will be hesitant.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. How would you respond to that?

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Still, phenomena-based science instruction helps develop the skills students need to navigate their world today. Thus, many states are aligning their science standards to NGSS or its Framework for K-12 Science Education. Constructing lesson plans around the 5Es improves instruction and allows student-driven learning.

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The lesson plan provides examples that you can discuss with students to show them how to track income and expenses as well as how to create short and long terms savings plans. Educators receive free resources like books, curriculum guides, and activity kits at all ACRE professional development events.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

Recently, lawmakers in Iowa penned a bill that, if passed, would have required cameras in every K-12 classroom in the state. These cameras would allow parents to livestream their children’s lessons throughout the school day. Yes, I’m deviating from my lesson plans. The lesson plan would still be there.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

I’ve spent two decades as a literacy specialist coaching teachers and providing professional development and I’ve seen a lot of transition in the field. Currently, I coach teachers across 18 K-12 schools in the Campbell Kapolei Complex Area in Ewa Beach and Kapolei Hawaii.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

The 20 K-12 educators are part of a two-year fellowship from the Louisiana Sea Grant, in partnership with Nicholls State department of teacher education and LSU school of education. Teachers in the fellowship will work with Hollander, Touchet and others this year to create and implement the lesson plans in their classrooms.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 17, 2024

ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) is a federal funding program to address the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on K-12 education. Studies Weekly’s research-based K-8 curriculum fulfills this requirement and is a great resource that teachers and administrators can use to close the learning gap.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

In 2023, EducationWeek reported that 12 states accept mental or behavioral health challenges as a valid excuse for missing school. Occasional absences due to stress and anxiety are not unusual but may indicate that a student needs additional mental health support if it happens frequently. Tracking State Trends in Chronic Absenteeism.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bradshaw tries to share that passion with her students every day, and in every location she teaches.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

But she said professional development and support are essential, too. There are few high-quality purveyors of whole curricula to begin with, she said, and “most curriculum developers don’t embed professional development and support” in their programs. And they’re lacking.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

Learn more about Phonological Awareness and strategies to support structured literacy in our five-part Professional Development webinar series. Scientific Studies of Reading , 12 (1), 90–105. Register for the first webinar, Phonological Awareness, here. References Explicitly Teach Rhyming. Reading Universe.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Start a 60 day FREE trial for Studies Weekly Online to gain access to K-6 social studies curriculum, primary source videos, and more. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

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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.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 6, 2024

Warmly, Debbie Learn more about Studies Weekly Teacher Advocate Debbie Bagley and how she can help you succeed with your Studies Weekly curriculum!

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Engagement and Focus According to the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and the American Academy of Pediatrics, children ages 8-12 spend three times more on screens than is recommended daily. E., & Lafreniere, K. R., & Brønnick, K. References American Optometric Association. Annisette, L. Walgermo, B.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

If you have 12 cookies and four friends, how can you give an equal number of cookies to each friend? You can have the same 12 cookies, but if you divide by ¼, the old approach won’t work. Preparatory programs have to be more attentive and have a way to develop teacher expertise.”. It works intuitively enough with whole numbers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

There’s the cost of the warranty, professional development for teachers to learn how to incorporate the devices into their lesson plans and troubleshoot tech problems, repairs for inevitable damages and the price of software those laptops run. Chromebooks have become the dominant device in U.S. public schools.

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Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

Teachers can search your video library by lesson objectives or standards, and they can filter to specific grades and subjects, too. Forget scouring YouTube and welcome to your district’s secure video library hosted by Edthena, where you can curate model teaching videos to your professional development heart’s content.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

Most of us are well aware of the needs in our local K-12 schools; rarely does a light shine on the adults in our communities who haven’t completed high school and are now left with few opportunities to improve their skills. We developed a Design Guide for students to follow. Create a clear design guide. The Impact.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Each video can also have supporting documents like lesson plans and other materials relevant to understanding the classroom context. This ensures other teachers who watch the video later can quickly jump to the most relevant parts. We’ve made each organization’s library searchable by grade, subject, and tags.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2018

Instead, every day, new teachers work with veteran teachers and administrators to write all of their lesson plans together. While it’s common for teachers to plan long-term goals or curriculum together, the fact that teachers at this Bronx school plan each individual lesson together is unusual.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Veteran or master teachers like Eckhoff, who often have rated highly under the new teacher evaluation standards and agreed to share their classrooms with aspiring teachers, are advising them on issues from the soft skills teacher candidates need to how to keep professional development useful and relevant once they’re on the job.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2016

A master teacher could be a curriculum and lesson planning partner, a critical friend, or a coach. Second, schools need an established system for identifying and developing master teachers and evaluating their fitness to serve as mentors, including training, clear standards of practice, and a means of evaluating and improving practice.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

What is Universal Pre-K? 15, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Universal pre-K is a state policy framework to provide every child with a quality, publicly funded preschool education. What makes a Universal Pre-K Program universal? This gives states more flexibility to fund existing childcare programs rather than create their own.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Related: When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk. Schools used their professional development budgets, and were able to use federal money, for teacher training to support work toward the switch. I think that’s being answered in different ways across the state.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

The district already had an internal learning-management system that housed lesson plans, organized assignments and tracked student progress online, she said. But then “we agreed that kids need to be in class, so to speak.” Now, with students logging into it from home, “this is school until further notice.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

New EL schools must first go through several months of professional development, classroom observation and co-teaching — both at the schools and at three-day intensive “institutes” off-site. 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

JULY 8, 2016

It offers a mix of programming for the general public and for school classes from pre-K to third grade, which means that the staff is familiar with skepticism about technology in early childhood education. They’ll also share their lesson plans online. Indeed, they say they share it. “We

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Museum Lesson Plan Elementary School Professional Development 74

Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

On this episode of the Teaching Leading Learning K-12 Podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked with Steve Miletto talked about all things professional learning, including how video is changing the game for giving educators feedback about their teaching. Could you share a little bit about your book?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

But for the best results, the program must be used in combination with direction from a teacher knowledgeable in the content areas, said Tom Arnett, a K-12 education researcher for the group. The district renewed its 12-month license term with Edmentum in September, using $18,090 in Title I funds.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Of the 14 elementary school math programs, only two products were found to be standards-aligned across grades K-5, again both published by nonprofits. District sponsorship allows for the development of broader materials: entire units, rather than lesson plans.

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Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition Middle School 91

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

The data dashboards make clear which students need extra help and which need more challenging work, giving teachers an opportunity to tailor their lesson plans accordingly. He has already been structuring his pacing and lesson plans based on this early prep. And next year, many more teachers may do the same thing.

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Lesson Plan Middle School Public School Psychology 69

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Nearly 400 schools use the Summit Learning Program across 40 states.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Public colleges couldn’t admit students without immigration documents and, even though, under federal law, K-12 schools are required to serve students regardless of citizenship status, the Alabama legislation also called for school districts to collect information on their students’ citizenship status. But even though most are U.S.

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