Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Greenfield Union School District (California). Gwinnett County Public Schools (Georgia). Highline Public Schools (Washington). Hudson City School District (New York). Kansas City Public Schools (Missouri). Linden Public School District (New Jersey). Community Schools (California).

Leadership 159

Leadership Public School Tradition High School 159

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Not any more.

Government 107

Government Professional Development K-12 Teaching 107

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Name : Jami Rhue Age : 48 Location : Chicago Title : School librarian and media specialist Current age group : PreK-8 Years in the field : 23 EdSurge: How did you get here? Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

Library 106

Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 106

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

Diversity does exist in the leadership pipeline,” said Sarah Guthery, a co-author of the study and an assistant education professor at Texas A&M University – Commerce, “but it tends to squeeze out women and Black candidates much earlier than studies of school leadership usually capture.”. years, seven months longer.

Research 145

Research Leadership High School Elementary School 145

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

On October 19-21, the League of Innovative Schools convened in Los Angeles, California, for their biannual League meeting, which was hosted alongside Compton Unified School District and El Segundo Unified School District. Rodriguez stressed exploring alternative pathways and assessments to traditional instruction.

Project-Based Learning 159

Project-Based Learning Leadership Tradition Public School 159

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Our nation’s public school population is changing, fueled by growth in the number of multilingual learners. public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Many multilingual students face ongoing challenges and discrimination in public school. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S. percent in 2000.

Tradition 117

Tradition Public School Professional Development Leadership 117

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Minneapolis Public Schools (Minnesota) already uses data to inform decision-making in more than 70 schools across the city, but they wanted to find best practices for interoperability to link different systems together for more accurate and timely data. Abby Wolf IT Strategy Process Analyst, Minneapolis Public Schools.

Public School 163

Public School Social Studies Leadership Research 163

ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. Some people are convinced that homeless-only schools are a bad idea.

K-12 126

K-12 Leadership Advocacy Tradition 126

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. This work is possible. It’s happening.”

High School 145

High School Cultures Leadership Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Schools can’t afford to lose teachers of color. And with public schools struggling to fill teacher vacancies with qualified educators, district and school leaders can’t afford to lose any more teachers,period. Many experts attribute the declining applicant pool to low salaries, a lack of respect and lack of autonomy.

Social Justice 144

Social Justice Leadership Elementary School Professional Development 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Senior James Lopes, wearing a green sweatshirt, listens to William Frey teach a lesson on polynomials, rational trigonometrics, exponential and logarithmic functions at the Calculus Project’s summer leadership academy program at Boston University. She did not respond to specific questions.

High School 144

High School Public School Leadership Tutoring 144

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. There was nothing like this.

Charter School 135

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 135

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The vast majority of Saridis’s students are Latino, and at the Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, a dual-language high school in Boston Public Schools, connecting the curriculum to their culture is a top priority. The show also adds hip hop – a genre created in the black community – to more traditional Broadway ballads.

Cultures 110

Cultures American History Tradition Lesson Plan 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

The New Jersey governor’s recent decision that all public schools would return this fall to in-person classes – without a virtual option – sent parent Tatiana Martin scrambling. Based on his age, her son is not eligible to receive a vaccine, and without one, she is skeptical that schools are capable of keeping him safe from Covid-19.

Leadership 129

Leadership Public School Private School Tradition 129

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

school district’s sixth-grade-only school. By nine school district superintendents from nine states. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money. Photo: Jackie Mader.

Lesson Plan 106

Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition Middle School 106

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Sara is the Director of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. Members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools serve as examples of how forward-thinking leadership can transform learning. We are grateful for your leadership. You can reach her on Twitter at @sschappy. In Vancouver, Wash.,

K-12 91

K-12 Leadership Middle School Public School 91

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Whether high school graduates transition to college or a career, there is a good chance that they will tap into their creative skills.

Advocacy 114

Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 114

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. So far, eight of its 13 traditional schools have hired teacher-leaders who not only put their great teaching to use in front of students, but also coach their colleagues to spread their best practices.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

While the data is incomplete because states release data at different times, it is evident that there are open teaching positions in public schools and districts are struggling to fill them. And public schools are not alone. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years.

K-12 140

K-12 Charter School Public School Elementary School 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

The toxic and ominous polarization of our politics has arrived in our school board meetings, and educators are getting pummeled by accusations that they are brainwashing children into believing “woke” ideologies. School budgets are getting squeezed as Covid stimulus winds down.

Education 119

Education Charter School High School Critical Thinking 119

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

Charter School 108

Charter School History Library Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In Havre Public Schools in northern Montana, it’s not uncommon for middle schoolers to arrive early. Parents need to get to work and the school building is a safe place to drop them off, even before classes start. “The Walking through Havre Public Schools this year, a visitor would likely take note of the makerspaces.

Project-Based Learning 99

Project-Based Learning Public School Elementary School Professional Development 99

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

While district policies can provide opportunities for improving student achievement, our results suggest that this impact varies widely and requires strong school-level leadership and effort. No school governance model is predominant.

K-12 120

K-12 Professional Development Tutoring Government 120

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.

Education 145

Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

(The Mathematica researchers focused on borderline schools that were just below and above a federal threshold to qualify for turnaround funds and found that the schools that went through turnarounds didn’t have better outcomes than those that didn’t.). Stricter school discipline for students has been a common theme in many turnarounds.

Charter School 127

Charter School High School Leadership Tradition 127

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

The February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gave new life to student activism, prompting a level of civic engagement among students that many had never considered. For him, the lessons students learn in this program are as important as the ones they learn in the traditional curriculum.

Civic Engagement 81

Civic Engagement Civics Leadership Elementary School 81

The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2023

Chief equity officers in public school districts across the country have one key mission: to help address the inequities in our education system. In practice, the work of a chief equity officer varies vastly across counties, cities, neighborhoods and the schools they serve — often even classroom to classroom.

Public School 97

Public School Elementary School Cultures Leadership 97

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. It focused on four unidentified high schools, two in the Southeast, one in New England and one in the Midwest.

Charter School 111

Charter School Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The public school built in 1989 received an “F” rating on its most recent state evaluation, as did almost a third of the schools in the Jackson school district. No one understands this struggle better than Sharolyn Miller, chief financial officer for Jackson Public Schools. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

Charter School 109

Charter School Public School Social Justice High School 109

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. One idea that’s been gaining steam since last year is to break down barriers between high school, college and career to create a system that bridges all three.

Education 137

Education K-12 High School Civics 137

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Annual test scores in math and reading helped determine the future of teachers’ jobs, classroom funding and, in the most dire cases, whether or not a school remained open.

Education 111

Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Also, Massachusetts public schools have been relatively slow to adopt student-centered learning, perhaps in part because traditional teaching approaches seem to work so well here—last year the state’s averages topped the National As sessment of Educational Progress test scores in reading and math. This approach is dynamic.

Teaching 112

Teaching Oral History High School Sociology 112

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.

High School 145

High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

The organization will soon begin construction of a middle school, allowing students to remain in its program through eighth grade. In just a few years of operation, the school ranks at the top of Chicago Public Schools in academic performance.

Charter School 110

Charter School Elementary School Public School Leadership 110

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

In what now looks prescient – years before the “personalized learning” craze ignited a new national interest in tailoring schooling with the student at its center – a group of teachers saw trouble with the lockstep approach to progress. In other words, could you innovate within the rigid confines of a traditional public school?

Elementary School 94

Elementary School Public School Leadership Tradition 94

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

Middle School 143

Middle School High School Teaching Social Studies 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Meanwhile, teachers help make decisions about the school’s future in their roles on the different committees — personnel, instructional leadership, scheduling, budget and finance — that meet monthly. Gadd, a former teacher in New York City’s public schools, said, “It’s not a top-down model.

Charter School 136

Charter School Government Sociology Social Studies 136