The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. She recently worked with a young woman who loves libraries. They know how to ask for accommodations at work. She was so excited about the courses, said Kerne.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Jenn David-Lang Kim Marshall Jenn David-Lang, meanwhile, has been doing a similar project since 2007, when she began publishing The Main Idea , a single, detailed monthly summary of an important education book to help education leaders connect to the most important ideas on leadership, teaching, and learning. ” Come back for more.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

Nicole’s work has resulted in hundreds of professors across the country choosing free texts over traditional costly textbooks and lowering the cost of higher education for thousands of students. P2PU creates a model for lifelong learning alongside traditional formal higher education. Learning for the people, by the people.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. In addition to this partnership, assessors were recruited from national library leaders participating in the Lilead Fellows program.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

“ Because of her work with Educators Rising, Eckert’s name was passed to the leadership of Reach University, a nonprofit university that had started to offer an alternative credentialing path to teacher candidates in California. And so it was just like, Oh wow. We got some stuff to fix. Let’s see what we can do.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Next, the traditional library space was repurposed as Duquesne Media Central, outfitted with flexible seating, new technologies, and a recording studio.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

” This is a big shift from traditional coaching, she says, “which is about data cycles and analyzing student work, learning targets and all of that. Teachers don’t need more of that. Come back for more. Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them. Some of these new efforts are dramatically different from traditional higher education experiences, and their focus is almost entirely on nontraditional students.

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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. That said, EL’s leadership now relies heavily on technology to spread Crew and expeditionary learning concepts more broadly.

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Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Come back for more. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

“It gets people’s attention anytime you say, ‘Free,’ ” said Jimmy Kidd, the director of admissions, who spoke between in-person student orientation sessions in the library of the school’s downtown Louisville campus in late June. Traditional institutions have treated adults “as a kind of afterthought,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

Toward the end of Studio Day, visibly exhausted, Velásquez and her classmates gathered around a library table at Adams Elementary School, snacking on popcorn and tangerines. I think if you strip away the emotion, the district was saying: ‘We just want you to be a traditional school foundation. But that’s not how we operate. “We

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Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2016

To help students like Octaviano, adult education programs across the country are finding new approaches that incorporate simple technologies to engage students outside of the traditional classroom. Though the programs are popular and successful, RIFLI’s leadership realized it wasn’t enough to give students access to computers in class.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 12, 2016

Students will be able to take multiple pathways to get there, including projects, traditional coursework, online classes, and anything else that feeds into the district’s profile of a graduate. Image credit: Free library made from a milk vending machine, Van Meter Schools. Van Meter also has framed its work appropriately.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Credit: Aaron Law for The Hechinger Report The library, for instance, has only books connected to the subjects of the classes. universities are also older than the traditional 18 to 22. Ashkan Bahgozen, who just graduated from CU Coventry with first-class honors, the highest level, in management and leadership. “I

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Giving parents choices beyond the school closest to home would open the door to innovation and put pressure on traditional schools to improve, these advocates argue. Leave this field empty if you're human: Sitting on the floor of their library, the dozens of students dressed in red and navy blue were an eager audience. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

While the Newark Honors College still hews to a relatively traditional approach, the Living-Learning Community is redefining from scratch what it means to be an honors student. Rather than commuting back and forth from home, they can use those 30 minutes in the library. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Cultivating leadership in staff, parents, and community partners.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Over 250 organizations and 3,000 people comprise Pittsburgh’s Remake Learning Network , which brings together teachers, students, and parents, in addition to universities, museums, libraries, after-school programs, education technology startups, funders, and nonprofits to shape the future of teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Cynthia Leck of the Center for Public Research and Leadership shared new impact measures for harbormaster/intermediaries and how the approach evaluating that impact within a network. HawkinsatKVEC if we believe that kids learn differently, we have to think about how to measure differently #edclusters16. edclusters16.

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K-12 Government EdTech Economics 78

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. White settlers were either unwilling or unable to recognize that a renegade band of Cheyenne and Arapaho had committed the atrocities— not the warriors under the leadership of Black Kettle and Left Hand. Buffalo were disappearing from their traditional hunting grounds, and their people were hungry.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

schools, as teachers attempt to make a traditional, Eurocentric curriculum personally interesting to a diverse student body. In the Colonial School District in New Castle, Delaware, educators are moving away from traditional textbooks and using open educational resources to bring more diverse perspectives into the curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

The college, whose name in Hebrew means “God with us,” has stared down mortality before under the leadership of a long-serving president and treasurer, both of them nuns, who have come up with the sorts of survival strategies that many schools are scrambling to figure out. This view of the city’s skyline is from the library.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Despite the innovative ethos of its tech-world backers, the school’s approach to core subjects was “very traditional,” according to Wesley Davidson, an English teacher at ChiTech. Folks like Laura McBain, director of external relations and the Education Leadership Academy at High Tech High, say standardized tests are the wrong focus. “If

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High School Project-Based Learning Psychology Charter School 82

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2019

I printed them all out and spread them around our classroom (which is a school library). The idea was to expose our preservice administrators at the University of Colorado Denver to a variety of ways to foster and facilitate adult learning beyond schools’ traditional, moribund professional development sessions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Adding more vocational training to traditional education appears to be a popular way of addressing this. Students walk to Shipman Library at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. “You can’t fault parents and students for not seeing the one-to-one between the major and the job it’s going to lead to,” Finley said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

With their actions, they grabbed headlines in national papers, prodded Republican leadership to action, and in some cases won long overdue concessions in their contracts. Consequently, this will be a major blow to those in government jobs with high unionization rates like protective services, library services and education.

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Charter School Leadership Library Government 87

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

HISD leadership is a disaster…. Libraries in those schools are being turned into centers where students considered disruptive will participate remotely. She fears lower-performing traditional schools being turned into charters and the remaining traditional schools like Roosevelt being forced to absorb more kids in special education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

They use these to consider questions about and qualities of leadership and see how what they learn can be applied to technology trends including data privacy and artificial intelligence. He purposely picked leadership instead of humanities for the name of the program, he said. It will help her in a future job, she said.

Humanities 136

Humanities Leadership Social Science Anthropology 136

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

He did it at Tuskegee in 1906, and in his remarks which were covered in the New York Times , he said such things as: “Today, you graduates of Hampton are continuing a tradition of law-abiding Black men, because at this college something like 6,000 graduates have come from here, but only two have proven to be criminals.

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Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women.

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Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 22, 2025

These include traditional walking tours, a tour via kayak, and a variation where everyone went to a different site around the county. Kansas City, Kansas The event began in the auditorium of the Kansas City Kansas Main Public Library where participants learned from local Palestinian-American organizers.

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History Teaching Historic Sites Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A few days a week, they set up camp in a study room in the library. Day and Black History Month, including an educational panel, a march and a pop-up library event. For example, a group of queer and transgender students formed a student-run Pride Center, with support from the local Utah Pride Center.

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