ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. I also teach cursive writing, which is a lost art.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

We’ve developed “Look for” documents to support teachers and administrators in envisioning how this fusion could work in elementary and middle school classrooms. In addition, a CT “Look for” document might be particularly helpful to administrators since defining CT has been an ongoing challenge for school districts.

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MARCH 8, 2021

Developer: Michigan State University Research. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Developer: Stanford University Research. High school Advanced Placement. Developer: University of Washington Research. Curriculum. 2nd grade social studies.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

In it, the report authors list the myriad tasks, in addition to instruction, that teachers do as part of their jobs — meeting with parents, participating in professional development, grading. Those responsibilities all regularly tip teachers’ work weeks past 40 hours. It’s a reality that troubles teachers across the country.

Professional Development 145

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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.

Professional Development 139

Professional Development Lesson Plan Classroom Management Middle School 139

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

That teachers stop improving after three years was, perhaps, an overly simplistic exaggeration but it was based on sound research at the time. Other researchers, including Stanford University’s Eric Hanushek , found the same. . .” He argued that teacher effectiveness should be measured and good teachers rewarded.

Middle School 143

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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. I’ve spent two decades as a literacy specialist coaching teachers and providing professional development and I’ve seen a lot of transition in the field.

Education 141

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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 need a concerted approach to help schools that are not using these proven practices to adopt them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

That’s because so many students, even incoming ninth graders, arrive at the school without basic reading skills, according to Douglas Fisher, an administrator at the school. While some students also receive one-on-one remediation, Fisher said that research shows those interventions aren’t enough to close the gap. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Nicholls State’s department of teacher education, in partnership with Louisiana State University’s school of education and the Louisiana Sea Grant program based at the university, was awarded a two-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for the project.

Controversial Topics 122

Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12 122

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

Schools that aren’t getting students to improve their math and reading achievement on the standardized tests administered by each state are the ones singled out for shame, punishment and sometimes closure. Education researchers are trying to come up with different ways to measure success.

High School 145

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Yet research shows that grade-level tasks and texts should be the start — not the finish — to strong instruction. Those and other results, from a decade of research with 100,000 educators and 2.4 So, why aren’t more schools doing this? Research shows that since Covid this practice has actually been increasing.

Professional Development 120

Professional Development High School Public School Cultures 120

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2021

Some of the clues are contained in this June 2021 data analysis conducted by two researchers at Claremont Graduate University and Indiana University. They scrutinized a large federal dataset of more than 20,000 students across the nation who started high school in 2009 and were surveyed through to their third year of college in 2016.

High School 144

High School Economics Professional Development Middle School 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

But once every week or two since in December, Fernandez has trailed her son into his middle school when she drops him off for classes. Stefanie Fernandez works for a company that has encouraged its employees to substitute teach in local schools. Credit: Lebanon School District. This story also appeared in NBC News.

Middle School 142

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Aubrey is the Research Director at Digital Promise. Kelsey is the Research Communications Manager at Digital Promise. Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. You can reach her on Twitter at @aubreyfrancisco.

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K-12 Education Civics Middle School 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

From providing free field trips to creating new, education-focused spaces and expanding teacher professional development opportunities, they are on the front lines of promoting scientific literacy and filling gaps in science education. They’ve become “a real hallmark of what we do at the science center,” he said.

Museum 132

Museum Teaching Professional Development High School 132

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

While every school is unique, research has identified several elements that can almost universally increase the chances for successful teacher development and create a powerful and positive school community. Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Education researchers have been studying ways to prevent behavior problems from erupting in the first place, much like the field of preventive medicine aims to help people live healthier lives to minimize incidence of heart disease, cancer and diabetes. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. The session resembled a theater workshop.

Classroom Management 112

Classroom Management Charter School Middle School Psychology 112

Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2021

I served my Title 1 school as a sixth grade math teacher for four years and as a learning strategist for nine years before making a move in 2018 to the Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, which provides professional learning to the five southern counties of Nevada, as a regional math trainer.

K-12 139

K-12 Professional Development Middle School Research 139

Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

At the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, MindCatcher witnessed the tremendous uncertainty that school site leaders faced while leading their staff, youth, and families, and realized these leaders would need more leadership and wellness support to create the generative learning environments that our youth deserve.

Leadership 139

Leadership Professional Development Middle School Humanities 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2022

It stretches your budgets so you can’t [fund] initiatives and other things that you need to do — professional development, things like that … it limits you.” It stretches your budgets so you can’t [fund] initiatives and other things that you need to do — professional development, things like that … it limits you.”.

Public School 127

Public School K-12 Private School Professional Development 127

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Researchers began rigorously studying coaching in the late 1990s and have been ramping up in the past 10 years to see how well coaching works and if coaching programs are any better than the kind of training seminars that teachers typically attend to further their “professional development.”

Professional Development 111

Professional Development Middle School Research Teaching 111

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

In another project, students used Photoshop Elements to create typographical portraits of people and characters they researched in class. Now, over 200,000 students in 4,000 schools have ArcGIS Online accounts. First graders are working with high school honors students to map kindness. By Chloe, Age 6.

Education 102

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 102

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.

Social Justice 144

Social Justice Leadership Elementary School Professional Development 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

I found that, in Rhode Island, personalized learning seemed to exist only at schools with a one-to-one student-to-Chromebook ratio. At 360 High School, also in Providence and serving a smaller but demographically similar student body, I observed teachers use what the school’s principal, Kerry Tuttlebee, calls a patchwork of D.I.Y.

K-12 109

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The Dynamic Learning Project provides opportunities for teachers to engage in active learning that is relevant to their classroom through different types of meetings with the coach, from one-on-one formal and informal meetings, to classroom visits from the coach, to co-teaching and modeling, to coach-facilitated group professional development (PD).

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Professional Development Middle School Tradition High School 91

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.”

Professional Development 127

Professional Development Public School Leadership High School 127

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Nia Keith, director of professional development for the Museum of Science. High schools and colleges have been aware of the imbalance, and tried to remedy it, for years: There are many programs aimed at pulling women and students of color into science and math fields as teens and young adults.

Museum 112

Museum Elementary School Professional Development K-12 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared. For women in math classes, for example, perceiving a professor to have fixed views of intelligence prompts expectations of being stereotyped and lowers performance in the course, recent research demonstrates.

Psychology 129

Psychology High School Professional Development Middle School 129

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

“Schools exist in very different geographical, political, social, economic contexts, but deep truths can be transferred and applied,” said Tony Jackson, vice president for the Center for Global. Bessborough Drive Elementary and Middle School is a dynamic neighborhood school that uses technology predominately to redefine learning.

Middle School 102

Middle School Social Justice Cultures Professional Development 102

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” But the research evidence hasn’t been terribly strong. Photo: Nichole Dobo.

Middle School 104

Middle School Tutoring Teaching Professional Development 104

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

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In November 2015, middle-school students from Westchester County, New York, found themselves on a windswept field in Southern Sudan mingling with a crowd of refugees fleeing civil war. The power of VR to stoke empathy is the focus of research at Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab, led by communications professor Jeremy Bailenson.

Teaching 104

Teaching Middle School Humanities Professional Development 104

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Video Courtesy of Redwood City School District. We have made great strides to level the technology playing field in education, but unfortunately the digital divide still exists between those who have the tools to research, learn and collaborate online at home, and those who don’t. About the Literacy Initiative. Accessed 29 Sep.

Professional Development 88

Professional Development Leadership Critical Thinking Middle School 88

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. Some research shows as many as 85 percent of students with disabilities can master general education content if they receive educational supports.

Middle School 99

Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 99

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

There is no question in the research in the field,” said Micere Keels, an associate professor at the University of Chicago who studies school discipline. Schools, though, haven’t been able to keep suspensions down. Elmhurst United Middle School is among the district’s campuses suspending more students than it did pre-pandemic.

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Charter School Middle School High School Humanities 141