ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Having seen such positive changes firsthand, Elliott Levine , director of business development at Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. , Before transitioning to EdTech, Levine enjoyed 30 years working in various positions in K-12 and higher ed. The fourth leg is professional development, mentoring and coaching.

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K-12 Education Human Rights EdTech 141

ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

The AI applications range from tutors supporting foundational knowledge gaps to social connection facilitators designed for online learners who might otherwise feel isolated. Professional Development: Faculty and administrators must understand why interoperability matters and how it benefits learners.

EdTech 55

EdTech K-12 Educational Technology Tutoring 55

ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Research from McKinsey revealed that, on average, K-12 students lost up to four months of mathematics and four months of reading progress in the last school year. Summer and after-school programming, tutoring, truancy intervention, teacher hiring and training, and improved data systems are all part of the solution.

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EdTech K-12 Tutoring Professional Development 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. That same year, the school officially joined the NACA-inspired network as a K-6 charter school with a dual language immersion model.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 135

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

A retired math teacher who lived a half mile up the road from my family, he opened his home to me every Wednesday afternoon for tutoring. AARP’s Experience Corps , which engages older adults in tutoring elementary-aged children in high-need elementary schools, shows similar results for older children. Read more about early education.

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Tutoring K-12 Elementary School Professional Development 89

Edthena

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It also means ensuring staff have adequate time and professional development to effectively engage and support families, the CRPE paper said. The district hired dedicated remote tutors to support temporary online learners and developed protocols for identifying and tracking remote students. Planning PD?

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K-12 Professional Development Tutoring Public School 98

ED Surge

JULY 29, 2022

Meanwhile, school and district leaders continue to try to regain ground against so-called “learning loss” that occurred during the pandemic, investing in tutoring programs and summer school options. The telehealth partnership also leverages the expertise of UMMC’s professionals in delivering telehealth services.

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K-12 Tutoring Professional Development Research 98

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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Elementary School K-12 Professional Development Tutoring 76

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. The district is also planning to hold several professional development training sessions to help educators learn how to use AI in the classroom, he added. He anticipates that some teachers will be hesitant.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Tutoring High School 97

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

When he wasn’t at football practice, he spent most evenings last year at the Rosedale Freedom Project, taking advantage of the program’s free, in-person tutoring. 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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Education K-12 Tutoring High School 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

I had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing. Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. Some of these stories even win awards. Instead, my attempt to persuade her to write three sentences was a disaster.

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Tutoring Professional Development Social Studies Tradition 117

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Part of Altus Schools, a network of K-12 alternative charter schools in Southern California, it even won recognition from the federal government for its operation. Students spend the rest of their time at resource centers receiving in-person instruction or tutoring.

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Charter School K-12 Tradition High School 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

The changes at San Diego State and in other colleges’ math classes are similar to components of the Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice — the movement driving change at the K-12 level in the 40-plus states that have adopted it — which also place an emphasis on asking students to communicate their reasoning and construct arguments.

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K-12 Tutoring Teaching Professional Development 68

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. We developed a plan that if we can train our own educators, we could, No. “I was just a secretary fighting to be a teacher,” she said.

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Tutoring Civics High School Teaching 95

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. The experts told them they should “get to the heart of the science of reading,” said Kimberly Davis, principal of the pre-K to grade 8 school.

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Elementary School K-12 Economics Tutoring 115

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

These 12 students are among about 2,300 across the state who were held back in third grade this school year — out of 39,000 third graders who took the test — because they were unable to pass the statewide standardized reading test last year. But kids who repeated third grade still have a hurdle to overcome before they move on to fourth grade.

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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Classroom Management 84

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Back in 2015, my colleague Nichole Dobo reported that nationally schools paid $225 per student plus between $50,000 and $125,000 a year for professional development and support services. 12 of the study. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation. See Figure 2 on p.

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Middle School Tutoring Teaching Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

To stave off this learning loss, Miami-Dade is adding summer sessions and working to identify vulnerable kids and pair them with virtual tutors and mentors, among other steps. But even with online learning plans, school districts around the country could face an “unprecedented historic academic regression” unless they do more, he said.

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Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 123

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Public Schools offer on-demand online tutoring sessions. Many teachers use “synchronous” classes, where they and students meet simultaneously on platforms like Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams. Some also record those lessons for students who can’t meet at the appointed hour. The Richmond (Va.)

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Elementary School Tutoring Public School Charter School 86

Edthena

OCTOBER 30, 2020

K-12 educators have long-held tutoring and work-space time for their students after school, and the idea of virtual office hours is comparable to this. This allows students to have more direct interaction as they can have one-on-one time with the teacher if no other student is present in the meeting.

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Artifacts K-12 Tutoring Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

And not a babysitting service but a time they can get engaged whether it’s a homework follow-up or it’s tutoring—a lot of communities offer that. It’d be an opportunity for our high-school students to get involved with not only tutoring but also with mentoring children who are smaller.

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Education Charter School Leadership Tutoring 75

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Much of that spending supports private tutoring. That means that 7 th graders only spend 21 hours a week following the national curriculum (instead of the usual 33), with 12 hours a week devoted to activities that expose students to different careers and to skills like playing the guitar not normally addressed in schools.

Middle School 58

Middle School Government Tutoring Economics 58

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

With the resources to provide tutoring and extended school day and all the other supports that our kids needed, we were beginning to really see meaningful change. And then you could see the performance begin to decline as we had to cut back on people, human resources and all kinds of things to support our students.”.

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Tutoring High School Middle School Humanities 50

ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

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K-12 Education Government Tutoring 123

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2020

Another research-based approach is the use of one-on-one or small group tutoring. Depending on the program, Bjorklund explained intensive tutoring could occur before, during or after school. The tool to do that is not just professional development; it’s curriculum,” he said. Related: Double whammy?

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Tutoring Elementary School Professional Development Education Policy 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Harper went to a professional development day at one of the district’s lowest-performing elementary schools. Seidenberg knows of a child who was struggling so much with reading that her mother paid for a private tutor. Teachers in the K-12 education system are used to professional development.

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Elementary School K-12 Teaching Research 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

With $6,500 at their disposal, students who qualify may use the funds for a variety of education-related needs, including tuition, a tutor or textbooks. The State, she said, underfunded special education in public schools in Mississippi by more than $12 million just this year.

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Private School Advocacy Elementary School Public School 97

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

During his tenure, Cardona signed off on almost $6 billion in federal dollars for the islands educational system, leading to a historic pay increase for teachers, funding for after-school tutoring programs, hiring of hundreds of school mental health professionals and the creation of a pilot program to decentralize the PRDE.

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Education Government K-12 Elementary School 118