The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

Through my tutoring experience, I discovered a talent for working with middle school students, the age where they begin to explore and develop worldviews. I had lesson-planning experience. And I knew how the approaches to teaching had evolved since I was a student. I knew the age group I wanted to work with.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. Currently, I coach teachers across 18 K-12 schools in the Campbell Kapolei Complex Area in Ewa Beach and Kapolei Hawaii. And I’ve heard repeatedly that engagement is low.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

During the transition to online and home-based instruction, teachers and administrators turned to instructional technology coaches for support in the meaningful, effective use of technology to ensure learning continuity and minimize teaching and learning disruptions.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Teacher summer camp,” Aimee Hollander, an assistant professor and director of Nicholls State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, jokingly called it. Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School, Louisiana. Because that’s what it felt like,” Hollander said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

The thing that we’re trying to debunk with this research is to actually show that project-based learning is a rigorous form of teaching and learning. This middle school project-based instruction was tested on more than 100 students in high-poverty schools in California. Kids like it. That’s a good thing.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2021

Do you remember that first-day-of-school excitement? Everything is placed neatly into your school bag, the classroom is beautifully made up, and all the seats and materials are ready to go for students. The lesson plans are typed up and printed out and the lesson objectives and daily agenda are posted artfully on the board.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

is a stickler for notes when he teaches algebra I to ninth graders at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. School leaders and teachers are puzzling through a tough equation: how to keep students who missed out on a lot of algebra I content moving through grade-level math next year, usually geometry.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

At school you teach and support students. At home you answer emails, grade, plan, and analyze data. One 45-minute planning period is not enough time to prep for three different classes,” a high school teacher surveyed by the task force wrote. “I At school you teach and support students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2020

Research shows that girls begin to lose interest in STEM subjects in middle school, but that they are more likely to continue exploring STEM activities, inside and outside of school, if they see role models who look like them and who are successful in STEM careers. Related: OPINION: Where are all the women in engineering?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Despite headlines about teacher shortages and a workforce that must become more diversified, recent federal regulations and a decade of policy has focused on the quality of teaching and teacher preparation to ensure that all teachers are ready to teach and meet high standards of performance from Day One. How do we know this?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

The teaching seed was planted in Autumn Rivera’s psyche when she was quite young. Her mother was a middle school science teacher whose parenting “really incorporated a lot of that curiosity and wonder and awe, kind of like we saw at the Smithsonian here today,” she says. During a memorable lesson filmed in Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Zarek Drozda, director of Data Science 4 Everyone, a national initiative based at the University of Chicago In higher ed, data science is often housed in a particular school or limited to one field of study, such as a mathematics or computer engineering. State researchers are studying the model and its impact on teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

All the while, they were teaching kids to code. If they can download an app, then they can use the robot to help teach coding.”. First, AERobot was aimed at middle school students. Finally, despite being geared to beginning coders, AERobot required at least some technical acumen to teach and troubleshoot in class.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In my last blog post titled “ Part I: Maximize the Impact of Explicit Teaching with Blended Learning ,” I explored the benefits of shifting from explicit teaching as a whole class experience to a differentiated small group experience. The focus is showing students exactly what to do and how to do it.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers. who started kindergarten in 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

When I became a mom, I thought my dream of teaching would have to remain just that: a dream. Then you have to earn your certification through an accredited program involving more tests, classes and student teaching. We need to increase pay and make teaching a financially viable profession. Teaching is no different.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Many teachers were not motivated to teach the young people, and they felt like the students were not being respectful toward them.”. Even before the pandemic, her daughter asked to be pulled from high school. The pandemic really took a toll on kids, mostly middle school and high school,” said Siddiqui. “It

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Alicia Sewell, a middle school teacher in Alabama, has made a job transition that’s essentially the opposite of the one Bass made. After she took a position teaching 6th grade English, she says she faced a stark attitude change toward her edtech opinions. Technology doesn't replace the teacher.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

When Steve Isaacs’ eighth graders enter his game design and development class at William Annin Middle School in Basking Ridge, N.J., Yes, he teaches an elective class, so one might argue he has more freedom to do these things. In Classcraft, assignments are spaced throughout the game world for students to complete for points.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

How Schools Are preparing – and Not Preparing – Children for Climate Change,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. When Rebecca Brewer started teaching high school biology 20 years ago, it seemed like everyone trusted science.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: A few weeks ago, we took a look at generative AI’s potential to change teaching and learning on college campuses around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It was built by a Boston startup called Freight Farms , which “upcycles” discarded shipping containers into “Leafy Green Machines” for small-scale growers and restaurants, as well as a dozen schools and colleges. “My who teaches a high school vocational course in hydroponics and aquaculture. Graeme Marcoux, of Salem, Mass.,

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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. That means general education teachers are teaching more students with disabilities. No one taught her these strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

When they have a whole curriculum, aligned to the state’s common core standards and flexible enough to be adapted for the schools’ own particular students’ needs, she said, teachers can spend the bulk of their time teaching. Even fewer provide resources for teaching special education students or English language learners.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. It’s not the fault of schools. I am not a math teacher, but I was so desperate,” Jackson said.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

We expanded the League of Innovative Schools , our national network of forward-thinking school districts, and partnered with middle schools to create innovative learning environments. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. ” Paul Nauert. ” Robert Bajor. Project Manager.

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Education Civics Pedagogy Lesson Plan 110

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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Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

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?” Every year, about 10 new schools join EL and a similar number leave. For a school to be eligible to join, at least 40 percent of its students must be from low-income families.

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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. Hall teaches fifth grade and Blaché teaches art, so they share students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage. MESA, Ariz. Logan Dubin is good with computers.

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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). My lesson plan is: Here’s a problem. Solve it,” said Becker. “We

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Many parents think a Montessori education encourages creativity and benefits children by providing unique teaching methods aimed at respecting young children and giving kids more control of their learning. 5 things to look for in your child’s Montessori school: 1. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. But authenticity matters.

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