The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. So it's not replacing what you see. How does augmented reality engage all students?

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Too many of our public schools are missing teachers, especially in hard-to-staff subject areas. According to a recent report , last school year, 45 percent of public schools said they were understaffed, and nearly 9 in 10 school districts reported struggling to hire teachers heading into the 2023-24 school year.

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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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Professional Development Lesson Plan Classroom Management Middle School 138

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Within the virtual setting, coaches have been able to support teachers with managing virtual classrooms, as well as leverage learning management systems (LMS) to offer teachers feedback on lesson plans and instructional resources to improve student engagement in distance learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Active Encouragement: Some schools encourage teachers to use AI tools in their classrooms. Michigan’s Hemlock Public School District provides its teachers with a list of AI tools and suggests that teachers explore which tools work best with their existing curriculum and lessons.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. When Jacob, a 10th grader with vision impairment, signed up for an AP class, it made him feel like a castaway.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Tulsa Public Schools uses visualizations to make it easy for teachers to look at student data and put their insights to use in the classroom. Over the last couple years, the Tulsa Public Schools district has shifted from using data purely for accountability purposes to using it as a strategic asset to improve students’ learning.

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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. Tapping into students’ cultures in the curriculum fits, logically, into efforts to personalize learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. introduces a lesson on quadratic formulas.?Few Few students?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Related: OPINION: Banning tech that will become a critical part of life is the wrong answer for education Teacher-led AI could provide every student with the individualized, explicit, structured, sequential instruction and expertise that is presently only available to the privileged few who can afford independent schools like mine.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Unlike the other subs — many of them parent volunteers or people looking for a little extra work — he’s a full-time, salaried employee with health benefits and a long-term contract with Everett Public Schools , north of Seattle. Nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled in the school district last fall.

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2023

In my 16 years teaching in Chicago Public Schools (CPS), I have lost more students than years I have taught. During my teacher preparation in college, I had fears about how to create engaging lesson plans, how to make connections with students and how to help students who needed more support.

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Teaching Lesson Plan Public School High School 101

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

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. But there is only so much that the schools can do.”.

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K-12 Library Lesson Plan Professional Development 145

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

MARCH 29, 2021

When the pandemic struck last March, schools across the country and in my district in Grand Island, Nebraska, quickly stepped up to the challenge of providing at-home learning and supporting our students and families. We shifted lesson plans, handed out laptops and hotspots and adjusted food distribution — all at top speed.

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Lesson Plan Community Engagement Cultures Public School 118

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Related: The climate change lesson plans teachers need and don’t have Even at the college level, it’s rare for students to study climate activism in particular, or political activism more generally. And this leads to a broader lack of knowledge about how power works in society, say some experts.

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Teaching Civics K-12 Civic Engagement 134

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

I had lesson-planning experience. He has taught secondary science in Minneapolis Public Schools since 2014. Going into student-teaching, I already had a lot of ideas, not only from my own tutoring experiences but from observations and conversations with many teachers during my two years of service.

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Tutoring Teaching Middle School Lesson Plan 116

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

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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Public School Middle School Lesson Plan Psychology 82

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Schools have to address student climate anxiety, provide them knowledge and skills, including the ability to recognize misinformation, and empower them to act, while schools also “clean up their act” by decarbonizing their physical infrastructure. We’ve been doing research with New York City Public Schools for the past 6-7 years.

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Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Should local communities determine how education gets funded and who has access to public schools —or should the federal government intervene? They’ll pop into marketplaces, where they can, say, trade lesson plans they’ve created for tokens. They’ll check out career centers where they can look for new jobs.

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Education EdTech Government Tradition 125

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

Once she was settled into her new position as a grants coordinator, she saw how similar grant proposals and project plans are to writing and evaluating a lesson plan for a class. It was usually everything else around the public school system that bothered me,” Wright says. I never didn’t like teaching the kids.

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Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 130

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Helping teachers be the best version of themselves takes a huge investment of time and energy, and schools just don't have the resources.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Columbia Public Schools teachers Brandy Ahrens, Elly Eckhoff and Heather Smith are intent as facilitator Kim Nuetzmann explains the three topic areas in which the veteran teachers were being asked for input: cooperating teacher support, teacher candidates and enhancing the partnership between PK-12 and higher education.

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Classroom Management Lesson Plan Pedagogy Elementary School 110

Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

As Zach Desjarlais, Director of Instructional Technology at Vancouver Public Schools (VPS) , puts it, “If there’s a need, a gap, or something to fill, we’d like that to be identified by data. In the case of large, time-consuming, often expensive edtech purchases, that need should generally come from concrete evidence.

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EdTech Learning Science Lesson Plan Research 124

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills. It’s simply malpractice.”.

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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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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly.

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Tutoring Charter School Research Lesson Plan 124

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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Private School Elementary School Public School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Faced with the unprecedented challenge of lengthy school closures because of coronavirus, the nation’s roughly 13,000 public school districts are scrambling to cope. At Miami Northwestern Senior High School, Julian Negron, left, and Jerrell Boykin, right, load laptops for distribution to students, on March 30, 2020.

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Elementary School Tutoring Public School Charter School 87

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools. Privilege, opportunity and happenstance led to my first encounter with TFA at a career fair during my junior year of college, where I was eventually recruited.

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Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 107

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

The program recruits college-age people of color, particularly African American men, and pays them stipends to work in schools in New Orleans and Baton Rouge. At Wilson, like many of New Orleans public schools, most of the students are black — and it was Albert’s personal mission to reach each of them.

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Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 108

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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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 138