ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. During talks with a K-12 public charter school in Phoenix called Arizona State University Preparatory Academy, Khan thought he’d found a way to bring quality education to top students all over the world.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

“Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions. Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. Russell Thompson teaches a statistics class at Boston’s Henderson K-12 Inclusion School. I was really unhappy with Colin when he did not give us the ‘how,’ ” says Patricia Lampron, principal of Boston Public Schools’ Henderson K-12 Inclusion School.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

To an extent, yes, hold K-12 accountable, but now they’re your students. You can’t continue focusing on K-12 and what they didn’t do.”. Along with orientations and admission seminars open to all students, there is also an institute for leadership development specifically for Black and Latino students. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Now, she spends four days a week in an unusually small seminar-style calculus class with 31 other aspiring mathematicians and engineers. “I Hernandez, for example, was taking her 12 th grade math class via Zoom in her family’s living room when her father returned from work hours early, visibly upset.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2020

Liz Willen is editor-in-chief of The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit news organization that covers K-12 and post-secondary education. It’s not the same thing as being in a classroom or in a seminar. There are a lot of professors who were not equipped or ready to teach online learning.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Match’s charter network, governed by a board of trustees, spans four campuses from pre-K through high school. or 4:30 for senior seminars; many students stick around for homework labs and other activities. In a later seminar, they discuss current events. Classes don’t end until 4:00 p.m. So is punctuality. My mom yelled at me.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

27, 2020 seminar on adolescent learning and well-being in Berkeley, California. Between the ages of 12 to 15, there are more differences than similarities in each person’s connectome. It’s a perfect storm of change,” said Dahl, speaking before education reporters at a Feb.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Three years later, the center boasts assets many parents can only dream of: teachers who have bachelor’s degrees, Mandarin classes twice a week, cooking and yoga lessons and seminars for parents on topics like financial literacy and how to extend learning at home.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2020

Seminar discussions on Zoom, Teams or Google Hangouts can be lively, lectures can be understood, and breakout sessions and team projects can be completed. The problem wasn’t just the platform, it was my own limitations as a creative teacher. Still, many students want nothing more than to be back on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Fiorini hosts seminars during the school year to recruit area college students, along with writing workshops to help them construct strong personal statements on job or graduate school applications. He also reaches out to K-12 schools to try to get more students interested in STEM at an early age. “It

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

When the school held a mandatory seminar last fall to discuss the impact of race on student learning, some teachers and staff walked out, accusing the school of sowing division between teachers. Teachers and administrators here acknowledge lingering tensions over last fall’s seminar.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Jon Burt, who heads Gallup’s K-12 education consulting arm, said that each year over 1 million students in the U.S. Photo: Gail Cornwall for The Hechinger Report. While the number of schools using the method isn’t tallied anywhere, the number of tests taken could serve as a loose proxy for interest in it.

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Edthena

JUNE 1, 2021

Pedro Noguera suggested also searching for resources that can help such as videos for conducting mental health check-ins with students, building relationships with kids, or designing engaging Socratic seminars. Interacting with students and the debate between depth versus breadth.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 4, 2022

You can apply to volunteer using the following link: Volunteer at the Annual Meeting Update 10/4/2023: To view the Program Outline for the 2024 Annual Meeting, please visit the following page: Program Outline This is the schedule of SCS paper sessions, panels, seminars, and workshops at the 2024 Annual Meeting.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

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

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

Siwaju is a seminar-style program that gives students a platform to discuss various topics that influence their own lives. When I entered the classroom as an adult, I promised myself that everything I accomplished, everything I did with and for my students, would center on introducing them to an appreciation for their own blackness.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

Demonstrations of competency : Support portfolios , which are tangible exemplars of work ( mostly written or spoken ) such as exploratory essays, infographics and recorded clips from a Socratic seminar or podcast. Additional data is a blessing but shouldn’t be the main result on display. “Good enough” isn’t great, in my view.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2024

Additionally, we hosted pedagogical panels and workshops on K-12 and collegiate collaborations and also several roundtable discussions and workshops on comparative perspectives of Classics across the Americas and on the classical east and west.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Since it was launched in 2013, Opportunity by Design has helped seven urban school districts create 12 small high schools that reflect the communities’ ideas and priorities. The Opportunity by Design initiative offers a roadmap for communities that want to embark on this mission. Five more such schools are on the way.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The authors analyzed 232 studies at all academic levels (K-12 and higher education) examining achievement (based on 57,019 students), attitude (based on 35,365 students) and retention (based on 3,744,869 students) outcomes. A Meta Analysis of the Empirical Literature ) examined the literature between 1985 and 2002.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

In another graduate seminar, Fishman assigns only one paper. In one undergraduate class, Fishman offers a menu of 1.4 million points. Students need to reach 900,000 to get an A. “You could never earn a good grade just by doing dumb stuff,” he said. But students can revise and resubmit it over and over again to earn an A.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

The seminar-style discussions have improved my relationships with my friends and peers. I remember being a little scared and hesitant at the freedom of thought I was given when I first started at BHSEC Cleveland. The classroom set-up made me feel safe and continues to make my opinions feel valid.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

A half-hour drive from Dunakin’s school, in the Spring Garden section of Philadelphia, the Julia Reynolds Masterman Laboratory and Demonstration School enrolls roughly 1,200 students in grades 5 through 12. Known to locals as Masterman, it is a top-tier magnet school that draws high-achieving students from across the city.

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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. The free sessions consist of two days of training in both the fall and spring. percent failed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

The largest population of students of color are Hispanics, at about 12 percent. One way the school has tried to encourage students’ to keep their options open is by introducing college seminar-style classes like the Genocide Studies course, currently an honors-level elective.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

y Christmas, 12 percent of Sci Academy’s first graduates had either dropped out or transferred to a community college. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Her mother drove across Lake Pontchartrain, then Williams’s old neighborhood appeared.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

She brings her class together through Socratic seminars, debates and technology, and she encourages conversations about topics that many consider “too hard” for fifth-graders. This past year, for example, they researched and discussed the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as gun violence in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2018

They are required to live on campus during their time at Western Michigan and take a first-year seminar together. “We Scholars are invited to campus the summer before their freshman year for a special transition program designed to introduce them to one another and to mentors and other staff.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2017

At Marshall Pomeroy Elementary School in Milpitas, California, Deanna Sainten leads sixth graders in a Socratic seminar about A Long Walk to Water by Linda Sue Park while students at other tables work on book reports or online lessons in several subjects during personalized-learning time. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Teachers-to-be participate in a master’s seminar on their way to earning a bilingual certification from San Diego State University in San Diego, California. At Chula Vista Learning Community Charter , a dual language K-12 school near the Mexican border, that idea is anathema to both teachers and students. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Teachers-to-be participate in a master’s seminar on their way to earning a bilingual certification from San Diego State University in San Diego, California. At Chula Vista Learning Community Charter , a dual language K-12 school near the Mexican border, that idea is anathema to both teachers and students. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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