Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It’s not every day that a top executive from a Fortune 500 company visits a middle school located more than 600 miles from the company’s headquarters. Coles also noted how the lab is bringing out leadership in students, and that skills learned in the lab have translated into other subjects. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Melissa Hedges, the math curriculum director for Milwaukee schools, shows teachers at a professional development seminar how folded paper can be used to demonstrate the solution to a fractions problem. Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. I hate math.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

At the start of my teaching career, I was the only full-time, Black, male classroom teacher for a predominately Black student population in a southwest Philadelphia middle school. Principals and school leaders need professional development so that they can better advocate for their teachers and students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Middle and high school teachers may also be hesitant to embrace the approach.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I say a few affirmative words aloud to center myself, then I reach into a drawer and pull out a small bottle of lavender aromatherapy that my leadership team gave me as a “wellness gift.” All I can think about is how frustrated I am about the lavender—and the failed efforts to support teacher well-being at my school. The problem?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

At Newburg Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky, coaching is a key to success. Watch the video below to see how Newburg Middle School is coaching for success thanks to the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative, then learn more about Verizon Innovative Learning schools.

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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. We did not, by and large, see high-performing, high-poverty schools concentrated in certain school districts.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2021

In February, the district decided, based on data from other school districts in the area, that we would go back to school five days a week. As the Verizon Innovative Learning coach at Norris Middle School, my job is to support teachers in their implementation of technology in the classroom.

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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

All of our districts are members the members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools, an 86-district coalition recognized for innovation and leadership in education. Notably: In reviews of 17 middle school math programs , just one was deemed standards-aligned across grades six to eight.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Erin Swanson, the district’s director of innovation, said administrators latched onto the model as both a recruitment tool and a way to retain good teachers who might otherwise be tempted to leave Edgecombe County Public Schools for more money elsewhere or school leadership positions outside of teaching.

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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. STEM subjects also figured prominently in the plan.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

School leaders and teachers may need more time, tools, expertise and professional development to collect, analyze and interpret data effectively. Before her administrative roles, Mathison was a middle school science teacher, leading grade-level teams and the science department.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. Christina Rodriguez teaches a math lesson at Bloomfield Middle School. No one taught her these strategies. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Our recent analysis of teacher representation in edtech leadership revealed that former educators held a variety of top roles in the companies we sampled, heading teams that handled pedagogy, curriculum, product, marketing and sales.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school. Talbott was not the only teacher of color questioning their future at the school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” The network was purposefully capped at about 150 schools, because the partnerships rely on intensive, in-person training and coaching. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Ron Smith (left), a middle school network superintendent in Oakland, speaks to Jaime Aquino of New Leaders during a “learning walk” at a local middle school. It was almost the end of first period at Bret Harte Middle School when the five superintendents descended on math class. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms. The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

In middle school we always did work as an individual,” says Rosalia Minyeti, an 11th-grader from the Bronx who found the adjustment challenging. “I It was launched in 2015 out of a recognition that schools adopting mastery-based principles were often doing so in isolation. I didn’t like working in groups at first.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Through school visits and panel discussions with TDSB officials, district leaders explored local policies and systems, the use of data for equity, and professional development and training for teachers and leaders, keeping an eye and ear toward what they could bring back to their own school communities. Dr. Baron Davis.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Now the middle school, along with two of the district’s other elementary schools and its high school, have makerspaces. On the infrastructure side, Havre’s schools got switches and servers, but they also got a week of strategizing and support. But this is hard. It’s the people.”

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Digital Promise

APRIL 19, 2017

In each of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools , educator professional development is a major component on the journey to enhance student learning and engagement. Group professional development is a great way to model learning and put teachers back in the role of student.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

School libraries are shifting from traditional settings where information is consumed to modern library programs which support authentic student inquiry, design, and creation. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Welner pointed to the Rockville Centre school district on Long Island, N.Y., In the ‘90s, the district got rid of many tracked classes in its middle school and high school, and provided significant professional development for teachers so they could properly handle students of varying levels in the same classroom.

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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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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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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. Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 11, 2016

Clear Lake Middle School (CLMS) knew where it wanted to go. CLMS took that idea and ran with it, substituting ‘teacher genius hour’ for some of its traditional professional development. A school that used to work for a few students now gives all of its students a chance to shine and have a voice. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

After graduating from the preschool, most kids stay in the program, attending Christopher House’s public elementary charter school, which follows the same wraparound-style and provides ongoing services to families. In just a few years of operation, the school ranks at the top of Chicago Public Schools in academic performance.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2016

The Maker Promise will build a national network of school leaders committed to making, and will connect participating schools with a suite of resources that will include things like maker curriculum, professional development, makerspace design, and storytelling strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They said that giftedness could also be creativity, and found that a high IQ score did not necessarily correspond with leadership, professional accomplishment or even success in school. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition. There are gifted dropouts. But Buffalo’s golden age of integration ebbed quickly.

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Edthena

MAY 18, 2021

Putnam County Schools – Eatonton, Ga. Tasha Jones is an ELA middle school teacher and this year has set up her classroom for virtual success for students who decided to stay home due to COVID-19. Fairfax County Public School System – Fairfax County, Va. It is truly an honor to be chosen for this award!”

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

These tools, combined with the BYOD enable HPA to offer equitable access to support the capstone program at the middle school. In our lower school, our classrooms are 1:1 iPads. Whatever your school decides to do, I suggest a 1:1 environment where all students have a device to use.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

In Rachael McIlvaine’s eighth-grade science class at West Middle School here, a chatty but focused group of three takes turns closing their eyes, dipping a plastic spoon into a foil roasting pan and fishing for M&M’s, trying to capture as much candy as they can. Attendance improved among middle and high school students. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

It’s the middle of my first year back in the classroom after a year away as the 2017 National Teacher of the Year. While on my journey, I observed three patterns in particular that I’d like to share: Teacher leadership, social and emotional learning, and fellowship. Teacher leadership.

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