Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

Digital Promise has been working with districts and educators from across the United States to integrate computational thinking (CT) and computer science (CS) into K-12 classrooms. In addition, a CT “Look for” document might be particularly helpful to administrators since defining CT has been an ongoing challenge for school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Three recent reports from our organization, Education Reform Now , highlight transformative strategies that high-poverty schools across three states — Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado — are using to drive stronger student outcomes. Here are our top four takeaways from these three states: Demography Does Not Equal Destiny.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and fostering early intervention. EdSurge: Why is data-driven decision-making important in K-12 education at the classroom and district levels?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

To help them succeed, the school — which last year served just over 500 high schoolers , roughly 80 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily professional development and coaching on literacy instruction and other topics. It’s so nice to understand,” Omar said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

When they have a whole curriculum, aligned to the state’s common core standards and flexible enough to be adapted for the schools’ own particular students’ needs, she said, teachers can spend the bulk of their time teaching. But she said professional development and support are essential, too. And they’re lacking.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. 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.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In a time when technological advancements shape our daily lives and drive economic growth, focusing on STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) education in K-12 schools is not just a trend but a necessity. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2021

I served my Title 1 school as a sixth grade math teacher for four years and as a learning strategist for nine years before making a move in 2018 to the Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, which provides professional learning to the five southern counties of Nevada, as a regional math trainer.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These innovative art programs are the brainchild of Robert Hoang, who joined the Burbank team last year to teach visual arts to K–6 students, and to work with his colleagues to plan arts integration lessons. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Nicholls State’s department of teacher education, in partnership with Louisiana State University’s school of education and the Louisiana Sea Grant program based at the university, was awarded a two-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for the project. Credit: Image provided by Aimee Hollander.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

“Our recommendation is for schools to pause for a minute to take a couple days to think about the learning experience they want to create.”. In an ideal world, schools would adhere to the standards agreed on for K-12 online learning. Related: Reframing ed tech to save teachers time and reduce workloads.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

As first period gets underway at Cambridge Street Upper School, veteran math teacher Stephen Abreu leads a small-group discussion. But the conversation isn’t about middle school algebra, and Abreu isn’t talking to students. I would see him walk into school and his facial expression would change. CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

I don’t think there’s a good connection between the classroom and what people actually do in their jobs,” said Beth Bryan, a middle-school enrichment teacher in Edmond, Oklahoma. She teaches science in 7 th through 12 th grades in rural Butner, Oklahoma. Photo: Jackie Mader for The Hechinger Report. “I

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

During the drive, Jenkins used her experience in education, public safety and health care to help me tell my own children, who are 9 and 12 years old, and who both have a sibling-like relationship with my godson. The middle school my older son goes to did not respond as well. This is more urgent than ever.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Nia Keith, director of professional development for the Museum of Science. High schools and colleges have been aware of the imbalance, and tried to remedy it, for years: There are many programs aimed at pulling women and students of color into science and math fields as teens and young adults.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Online communities include: CSforAllTeachers (a virtual community of practice, for all teachers from Pre-K through high school who are interested in teaching CS). csk8 Twitter chats (K-8 CS teachers chat about designated topics on the 1st & 3rd Wednesdays of each month at 5pm PT / 8pm ET). middle school curricula.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Through this work, we see powerful examples of innovation across education — from students creating their own virtual reality (VR) films, to researchers working with technology developers to improve edtech efficacy, to educators rethinking their own professional development with the use of micro-credentials. Short Answer: Yes!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Some counties and school districts are also adding professional development opportunities for counselors, amid a push to boost graduation and college enrollment rates. High school counselors also study alongside middle school and elementary counselors for whom college and career planning is less of a priority.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Notably: In reviews of 17 middle school math programs , just one was deemed standards-aligned across grades six to eight. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

He used that money to buy enough laptops and iPads for every high school student to have their own device, and for every elementary and middle school student to have access to a device in their classroom. Initially, Hickman said, this move caused an uproar in the community. “A

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

It’s a way of reimaging classroom practice, weaving creative thinking into the entire K-12 curriculum and connecting many subjects to cities built by students, with the help of educators she wishes were also thought of as artists. Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Indeed, the Brooklyn school, which added two public prekindergarten classes last year under New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s expansion of pre-K, earns high marks on reviews from independent evaluators — but it’s not alone. The pre-K age is crucial to their development,” she said. They are sponges now.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

To tease out how much of these skills could be credited to a student’s high school, the researchers factored in students’ prior academic achievement and how they responded to the surveys in middle school. “Once we figure out what those are, maybe we can attach stakes to those behaviors,” said Jackson.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Researchers began rigorously studying coaching in the late 1990s and have been ramping up in the past 10 years to see how well coaching works and if coaching programs are any better than the kind of training seminars that teachers typically attend to further their “professional development.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2018

This is the story of what happened when teachers and administrators in Aurora, Colorado, worked side by side to redesign a middle school. Together, we were able to innovate, plan and produce a flexible school model aimed at improving student performance, engagement and equity. Here are the five pillars of the new schedule: 1.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The teenagers attend high schools and middle schools in the lowest-scoring school district in the state of Mississippi, West Bolivar Consolidated. We offer schools and districts comprehensive, in-person and online Professional Development training for their teachers, counselors, program leaders and administrators.

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Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

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. Support professional learning and school initiatives with a library of teaching videos.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” Those schools no longer use it. 12 of the study. Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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Teaching Civics

MAY 15, 2023

K-5 Join us as we consider how economic and civic concepts and skills foster reasoned decision-making for ourselves and our community. K-5 Prepare yourself to teach the new MN elementary economics standards by discovering fresh standards-aligned resources from MCEE and national economic education experts. Integration!…Using

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In November 2015, middle-school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in Southern Sudan mingling with a crowd of refugees fleeing civil war. Cayne Letizia, middle school English teacher, Valhalla, N.Y. “We Photo courtesy Global Nomads Group.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs. One of Edgecombe’s elementary schools created three teacher-leader positions to focus on improving literacy among students in third grade and younger.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2018

She previously taught middle school literacy and produced network-wide curriculum and professional development at Alpha Public Schools in San Jose, California, and RePublic Charter Schools in Nashville, Tennessee. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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