Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Hoang co-leads Burbank’s partnership with Turnaround Arts: California , a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that seeks to advance education in a select group of elementary and middle schools in the state. Now, over 200,000 students in 4,000 schools have ArcGIS Online accounts.

Education 106

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 106

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. I definitely think we need to invest a lot more money in high-quality professional development,” Brown says.

K-12 135

K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Notably: In reviews of 17 middle school math programs , just one was deemed standards-aligned across grades six to eight. Of the 14 elementary school math programs, only two products were found to be standards-aligned across grades K-5, again both published by nonprofits.

Lesson Plan 105

Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition Middle School 105

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 128

Professional Development Public School Leadership High School 128

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

“It was literally all hands on deck,” said Superintendent Amy Warke, who rolled out an e-learning plan, provided teachers with resources, arranged to get internet hot spots to families in need and did a test run of the technology with students to get feedback — all before the schools closed. “It

K-12 142

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Charter School 142

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. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states.

Junior High 134

Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Teaming up with Skyview’s instructional technology facilitator and early-adopting teachers, Chun frequently demonstrates new tech tools at the school’s teacher-led professional development meetings. Several schools in the district have added small, pleasure-reading libraries to ELA classrooms, for instance.

Library 111

Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

While in middle school, students need to read nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline-specific words, but these texts also include many ‘all-purpose’ academic words, such as factor , structure , function , and interpret. The treatment schools were in their first or second year of using Word Generation.

Controversial Topics 77

Controversial Topics Middle School Social Studies Library 77

TCI

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Video Activities: We added new video activities for middle school and high school social studies programs. Key Science Concept Videos: In middle school science programs, Key Science Concepts now include a slideshow, video, and interactive questions.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Professional Development Library Middle School 52

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?” The network was purposefully capped at about 150 schools, because the partnerships rely on intensive, in-person training and coaching. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

While in middle school, students need to read nonfiction texts that contain many technical, discipline-specific words, but these texts also include many ‘all-purpose’ academic words, such as factor , structure , function , and interpret. The treatment schools were in their first or second year of using Word Generation.

Controversial Topics 72

Controversial Topics Middle School Social Studies Library 72

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. A student at the N.Y.C.

History 112

History Heritage K-12 American History 112

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. Leadership is second only to teaching among school-related factors that can improve student achievement, and it tends to show greatest impact in traditionally underserved schools ( Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom, 2004 ).

Research 55

Research Education Professional Development Leadership 55

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

High School 72

High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 72

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For example, in one of TCI’s middle school social studies video activities , students “fly” over the Silk Road in a simulation inspired by Disney’s Soarin’ Around the World ride.

K-12 69

K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 69

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For example, in one of TCI’s middle school social studies video activities , students “fly” over the Silk Road in a simulation inspired by Disney’s Soarin’ Around the World ride.

Teaching 52

Teaching Education K-12 Critical Thinking 52

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For example, in one of TCI’s middle school social studies video activities , students “fly” over the Silk Road in a simulation inspired by Disney’s Soarin’ Around the World ride.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Professional Development Partnerships with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial Feb 07, 2025 Video Transcript Speaker : Julie G., 4th Grade Teacher, TX How was your experience with our Professional Development team? I had the opportunity to have a training for Studies Weekly through my district yesterday.

Professional Development 40

Professional Development Social Studies Lesson Plan Classroom Management 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergarteners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. Cari Gallagher reads a book about Hurricane Sandy to her third graders at Lawrenceville Elementary School.

Teaching 145

Teaching Elementary School Middle School High School 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. In kindergarten and middle school, we only ever talked about Rosa Parks and Harriet Tubman and Martin Luther King.” Until now, the students said, the African American history they’d been taught in school tended to be superficial. “In

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. My hope is to center the voices of the indigenous, of women, of Black people,” Talbott says.

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

Teaching about climate change got a boost six years ago with the release of the Next Generation Science Standards, which instruct teachers to introduce students to climate change and its human causes beginning in middle school. The social studies curriculum at Piedmont Intermediate emphasizes human interactions with the environment.

Teaching 110

Teaching Social Studies Humanities High School 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

While dual-language programs often stop after elementary school, the bilingual advantage stretches through students K-12 years and into their working lives. Dual-language students have been found to score higher than their peers on both math and English language arts exams by middle school.

Elementary School 117

Elementary School Education K-12 History 117

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Professional Development Partnerships with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial Feb 07, 2025 Video Transcript Speaker : Julie G., 4th Grade Teacher, TX How was your experience with our Professional Development team? I had the opportunity to have a training for Studies Weekly through my district yesterday.

Professional Development 40

Professional Development Social Studies Lesson Plan Classroom Management 40