Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

For example, South Fayette Township School District implemented computational thinking projects at every grade level, and Piedmont City School District uses competency-based learning so students can work at their own pace. Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge.

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K-12 Education Civics Middle School 120

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. These struggles are more prevalent in schools that traditionally serve students of color and those from low-income backgrounds.

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Social Justice Leadership Elementary School Professional Development 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

To help them succeed, the school — which last year served just over 500 high schoolers , roughly 80 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily professional development and coaching on literacy instruction and other topics.

High School 145

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. Another student even questioned if I was hiding a burn or bald head underneath my hijab.

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Professional Development Advocacy Cultures Humanities 23

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

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

School libraries are shifting from traditional settings where information is consumed to modern library programs which support authentic student inquiry, design, and creation. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development.

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Library Artifacts Advocacy Tradition 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. I definitely think we need to invest a lot more money in high-quality professional development,” Brown says. isn’t working.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 135

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared. Faculty who participated in professional development opportunities like the Student Experience Project revised their syllabi to clearly signal their belief in student potential. By June, many U.S. Not this year.

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Psychology High School Professional Development Middle School 131

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 96

Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

. — Mentor Schools (@mentorschools) February 3, 2017. Kettle Moraine School District – Wales, WI. Kettle Moraine School District has created charter schools like KM Perform within its traditional high school to accommodate student interests. Vista Unified School District – Vista, CA.

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Middle School Charter School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 97

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. Christina Rodriguez teaches a math lesson at Bloomfield Middle School. No one taught her these strategies. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 100

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first schools to implement what Public Impact calls an “Opportunity Culture,” did so during the 2013-14 school year, and Edgecombe County Public Schools is set to become the first district to bring the model systemwide. Next year, the remaining five schools will do the same.

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Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

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?” Ten schools began using the model in 1993. Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We

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Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

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. Professional Development Manager. Digital Promise Schools. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014.

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Education Civics Pedagogy Lesson Plan 114

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.” Those schools no longer use it. Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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Middle School Tutoring Teaching Professional Development 104

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 11, 2016

Clear Lake Middle School (CLMS) knew where it wanted to go. CLMS took that idea and ran with it, substituting ‘teacher genius hour’ for some of its traditional professional development. Students who previously struggled with the traditional school model are finding their niches of expertise and success.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Professional Development Tradition 35

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Now the middle school, along with two of the district’s other elementary schools and its high school, have makerspaces. Walking through Havre Public Schools this year, a visitor would likely take note of the makerspaces.

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Project-Based Learning Public School Elementary School Professional Development 98

Digital Promise

APRIL 19, 2017

In each of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools , educator professional development is a major component on the journey to enhance student learning and engagement. Group professional development is a great way to model learning and put teachers back in the role of student.

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Professional Development Middle School Tradition Leadership 56

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good? And that means schools should consider a reframing of their own learning time. How could we make them better?

Leadership 107

Leadership Professional Development Geography Project-Based Learning 107

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) initiative has provided every student and teacher at select middle and high schools with a device equipped with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom. Verizon Innovative Learning Schools were better prepared for distance learning. “We

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Middle School Professional Development Tradition Teaching 73

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2019

In middle school we always did work as an individual,” says Rosalia Minyeti, an 11th-grader from the Bronx who found the adjustment challenging. “I What the Mastery Collaborative has done for a lot of schools is to get educators out of their own buildings,” says Maker Academy principal Bauer. This may be a missed opportunity.

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Cultures Leadership Economics Tradition 111

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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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2016

Relay is a teacher preparation program founded in 2011 by three high-achieving charter school networks that were concerned about the quality of teachers coming out of traditional degree programs. You need materials like a video to reinforce how it would happen in a real middle school math classroom.

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Charter School Psychology Tradition Elementary School 75

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School High School 105

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Ron Smith (left), a middle school network superintendent in Oakland, speaks to Jaime Aquino of New Leaders during a “learning walk” at a local middle school. It was almost the end of first period at Bret Harte Middle School when the five superintendents descended on math class. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Middle School Leadership Professional Development Charter School 76

TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

When Thomas was a middle school teacher, he taught about the American Revolution in a hands-on, minds-on way. On-Demand Professional Development Even the best curriculum and strategies can fail if teachers are not equipped with the tools and support to implement them effectively.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Professional Development Geography 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

Kaswell — now in his tenth year teaching at MS 88 , a large middle school in the South Slope section of Brooklyn — has always been drawn to combining face-to-face instruction with online learning. Beyond traditional teacher training programs, Gray said that ongoing teacher support is another critical factor.

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Tradition Educational Technology Professional Development Humanities 88

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. By incorporating video, educators are aiming to enhance traditional teaching rather than replace it.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 69

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 ).

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Research Education Professional Development Leadership 56

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2016

The dabbawalas have been profiled by the New York Times and NBC News , among many others, and there is even a Harvard Business School case study about them. . In Mexico, what started as an experiment to improve 8 poor, rural public schools has now exploded into a national network of over 9,000 low-achieving elementary and middle schools.

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Tutoring Professional Development Middle School Teaching 67

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Finn dislikes the one-to-four grading system some schools are using, disagrees with the idea of ditching deadlines for student work and test make-ups and wants to make sure parents understand how the system will affect their kids. “I I prefer the traditional system.”. Related: High school should be more like preschool.

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High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 75

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

At his middle school, he says he felt discouraged from speaking Spanish in the building. It is pretty rare that a district is doing dual immersion and is able to meaningfully extend it into high school,” Williams says. Meanwhile, Chang hopes to find a way for the high school to add grades seven and eight. That somehow.

High School 112

High School Heritage Economics Cultures 112

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. By incorporating video, educators are aiming to enhance traditional teaching rather than replace it.

Teaching 52

Teaching Education K-12 Critical Thinking 52

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. By incorporating video, educators are aiming to enhance traditional teaching rather than replace it.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

. — Cleveland native Toni McWilliams didn’t feel like she was putting her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in business administration to good use working as an administrative secretary for a middle school in her hometown. The job, which paid around $19,000, barely brought in enough money to support her two young daughters.

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Tutoring High School Civics Teaching 96

Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

These tools, combined with the BYOD enable HPA to offer equitable access to support the capstone program at the middle school. In our lower school, our classrooms are 1:1 iPads. Whatever your school decides to do, I suggest a 1:1 environment where all students have a device to use.

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Critical Thinking Professional Development Cultures Tradition 54

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Two years ago, Isaac Paine Elementary won a competitive grant from the Rhode Island Office of Innovation to become a showcase “lighthouse school,” part of a statewide push to bring tech into education. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support.

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