The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? Leveraging such changes long term could be a matter of public school survival.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sylvan Hills Middle School Assistant Principal Monica Blasingame, center, and Principal Artesza Portee, right, discuss “big life goals” with a student as part of a goal-setting exercise in Atlanta Public Schools. public schools. Screenshot of teacher dashboards from Atlanta Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. “I I personally would advise school districts not to rush into buying a particular product, but really treat this year as a chance to educate yourself,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Arlington is a fast-growing district, and Discovery Elementary opened in 2015 as part of an ongoing school-building program (it shares a campus with a middle school with a trailer park to accommodate its overflowing student population). Another net-zero elementary school, also designed by VMDO, is to open in 2019. “I

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

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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?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Image provided by Made for Math Still, schools may be resistant to assessing math disabilities, or unaware of their prevalence. Related: For teachers who fear math, banishing bad memories can help At Brand’s organization, Made for Math , intensive tutoring based on Zecher’s approach often stands in for a lack of school-based support.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. It’s been a frustrating experience, working with the Department of Justice,” said Hooks.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Foster’s experience in finding a “Montessori school” that didn’t actually adhere to Montessori ideals is not unique. It was revitalized during the 1960s and grew quickly after one of the nation’s Montessori schools was featured in a Time magazine article titled “The Joy of Learning.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

The kids worked at tables surrounded by craft supplies, 3-D printers and woodworking tools in the maker space of Corte Madera School, a public school for grades 4 to 8 nestled in the San Mateo County hills. also known as Community Middle, part of the Albemarle County district.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Figures now available down to the school district show the consequences of homelessness policy that doesn’t address race directly. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20. The entrance to Bella Vista Middle School in Murrieta, Calif.,

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. If that doesn’t sum up middle school, I don’t know what does.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Many teachers, already, are looking for ways to use AI to build lesson plans and improve student feedback, Huh says: We know its coming. Traci Griffith, executive director of the Eliot K-8 Innovation School, part of Boston Public Schools, has found the cross-school collaboration invigorating.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

By 2021, it had committed to its most ambitious goal yet: overhauling the way Fairfax County Public Schools teaches students to read and supports struggling readers. The district gave all kindergarten through second-grade teachers scripted lesson plans featuring phonics. That changed in the summer of 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

She said having someone at school who could help was “really, really important.” Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. “If

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

After working with middle school students, she felt high school would be a better fit. In the classroom, she enjoyed talking about science and answering students’ questions — even planning her lessons. But Ouyang felt that the high school students were reluctant to trust her, an accented Asian woman.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

NEW YORK — Pink and purple posters adorn the third-floor hallway at University Neighborhood Middle School on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. They’re advertising the after-school and summer programs the school runs with Henry Street Settlement , a community organization. Credit: Andre Joyles/New York Edge. Bracey Harris.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

But critics say the bill’s language is so vague that it will lead many schools and teachers to over-correct, avoiding anything that might anger a parent. Anita Carson, a middle school science teacher in Lake Alfred, Florida, said she’ll keep talking to the LGBTQ students who come to her for support, even if it costs her a job.

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MPSA

MARCH 30, 2022

For example, I asked students which ideology best-describes someone who believes that abortion should be illegal under most circumstances, that teacher-led prayer should be legal in public school, that the country needs a strong military, and that there should be less government involvement in the economy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Few schools are stepping in to help. While some school districts prioritize the topic, only Oregon , Delaware and Washington, D.C. In fact, a SIECUS review found that only 31 states require sex education at any grade level (mostly in middle and high school). You never know” what might help a child, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

The school district, like many around the country, struggled early on to accommodate the rising numbers of English learners, who were dropping out at high rates, being pushed into special education classes and showing little academic progress. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But it doesnt have to be, says Phonisha Hawkins, director of instructional excellence for secondary math at KIPP Texas Public Schools, a branch of the national KIPP charter network. So then I became an instructional coach for a middle school, for sixth, seventh and eighth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” A middle school reading program would be altered because the books, one board majority member said, were too “doom and gloom.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Mayko, now 19, has spent most of his summers since middle school working with his father in the fields and greenhouses of this rural county in central North Carolina. Neither she nor his father, who emigrated from Guatemala in 1993, had finished middle school. Lee en Español. It had been constant.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. The state government of Oklahoma, in its wisdom, has decided that oil and gas companies should have a whole lot of money and schools should have hardly any money,” Anderson said. The idea caught on.

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