The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

Public School 111

Public School Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Leadership 111

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

This past year five of the top 100 public schools in America were from NJ. Instead of celebrating and strengthening a great public education system, Governor Christie has taken a dumfounding approach with his agenda. Historically NJ is typically number one or two. This only strengthened my resolve.

Education 285

Education Pedagogy Professional Development Public School 285

Digital Promise

APRIL 22, 2019

When the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative came to Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, principals and teachers knew things were going to change as their students experienced the benefits of technology in the classroom. What they couldn’t have known was how quickly those changes would occur.

Pedagogy 106

Pedagogy Middle School Social Studies Public School 106

ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction.

Elementary School 123

Elementary School Middle School Pedagogy Humanities 123

Pedagogy and Formation

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

I was asked to speak to the 300 delegates about the key points of difference in pedagogy in Christian schools compared to public schools. The brief was to unpack the ideas in my book 'Pedagogy and Education for Life'. Is There Such a Thing as Christian Pedagogy?" Is There Such a Thing as Christian Pedagogy?"

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Teaching Public School Education 52

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. First Class: The Legacy of Dunbar, America’s First Black Public High School. first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. Stewart, A.

Pedagogy 244

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 244

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Name : Jami Rhue Age : 48 Location : Chicago Title : School librarian and media specialist Current age group : PreK-8 Years in the field : 23 EdSurge: How did you get here? Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 101

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. “My first job as a teacher was as a special education teacher in Chicago Public Schools, and I had third and fourth graders who were learning to read for the first time,” he says.

Pedagogy 244

Pedagogy Psychology Library Social Justice 244

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Not any more. We all want to fix it.

Government 106

Government Professional Development K-12 Teaching 106

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Only 10 percent of public school principals nationwide are Black , which helps explain why hiring and retaining Black teachers has been so problematic. Fenwick notes that policy efforts today must acknowledge and deal with the relics of that “systematic dismissal of Black educators from public schools.”

Education 140

Education Tutoring Pedagogy Advocacy 140

ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

In urban charter schools, SLANT has been used to manage behaviors. Remnants of this practice slowly trickled into public schools as teachers switched school districts. Conversely, schools began to embrace the work of Dr. Sharrocky Hollie in places where Black and Brown children were the primary learners.

Pedagogy 120

Pedagogy Charter School Cultures Library 120

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

Books: School leadership for social justice. Books: Culturally-relevant pedagogy. Say their names , Chicago Public Schools. Still learning… Still growing… . Some anti-racism resources that have been helpful to me in my journey. Books: Anti-racism. Equity Literacy Institute , Gorski.

Social Justice 109

Social Justice Leadership Pedagogy Social Studies 109

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The four teachers who traveled to Korea—Jennifer Dralle-Moreano from Mineola Public Schools in New York, Cindy Duncan from Sitka Public Schools in Alaska, Elizabeth Nelson from Highline Public Schools in Washington State, and Kennan Scott from Oakland Unified School District in California—shared their reflections from the experience. “I

Education 109

Education Global Perspectives Global Connections Pedagogy 109

ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

Gregori, an innovative learning specialist at Henrico County Public Schools in Virginia, notes that digital literacy is a “modern life skill” that goes beyond digital competencies to include strength in character and citizenship. But Young cautions teachers not to fall back to pre-pandemic habits.

Artifacts 128

Artifacts Pedagogy Digital Resources Public School 128

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

First, there was a hierarchy of university professors, district administrators, teacher leaders and classroom teachers that bridged the needs of educators in the field and the latest research surrounding math pedagogy. Milwaukee Public Schools has definitely focused on early childhood educators in recent years.

Pedagogy 105

Pedagogy Classroom Management Leadership Public School 105

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Parents have always supported educators, but the pedagogy of these curriculum authors encourages educators to dismiss parents as hapless and unknowing while defending the righteousness of their work. Further, they throw educators under the bus by claiming that Hanford’s reporting reveals that educators are naively inadequate.

Education 125

Education Tutoring Pedagogy Private School 125

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Ask most adults if they remember anything they learned in high school, and what you’re likely to hear is a lot of different versions of no. first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

Project-Based Learning 130

Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Humanities Leadership 130

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 17, 2017

Here are a few of my favorites: Would you please state, concisely, any relevant experience you have had in public education, either as a student, a teacher, a school leader, a public school board member, a parent of a public school child, a PTA member, a volunteer in a traditional public school or as someone who once drove past a public school?

Charter School 76

Charter School Pedagogy Public School Tradition 76

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C. Teacher candidates at most colleges are not paid when they work in schools as student teachers.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2024

In Texas , where roughly 40 percent of residents are Hispanic, nearly 1 million students in public schools are English learners who speak Spanish at home. has nearly 41.8 million Spanish speakers, giving it the fifth-largest population of Spanish speakers in the world, according to data from Spain’s Instituto Cervantes.

Multicultural Education 143

Multicultural Education K-12 Pedagogy Research 143

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

Public school teachers should observe a high-fidelity Montessori classroom. This is possible by allowing children to have freedom within limits, and giving children increasing levels of choice in what they work on as they become increasingly independent.

Pedagogy 110

Pedagogy Psychology Critical Thinking Economics 110

ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2024

Although no one specifically cited bell hooks or Patricia Hill Collins, several participants describe their teaching styles as akin to revolutionary feminist pedagogy characterized by a sense of radical care for their students. Some have started their own schools, and some have transitioned into higher education.

Education 127

Education Charter School Pedagogy Research 127

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. As such, we have to establish standards that differentiate strong and weak pedagogy in edtech tools and help us decipher between real innovation and snake oil. We need to make a change.

EdTech 133

EdTech Pedagogy Humanities Advocacy 133

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

The introduction of choice into the public education system in the 1960s and 70s through magnet schools designed with integration goals — followed by an expanding charter school sector and district choice programs — created avenues for parents to actively select public-school settings for their children.

K-12 109

K-12 Charter School Pedagogy Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Fuse fellow Debbie Ramm, the instructional technology coordinator for Johnston Public Schools, was one of the first to begin fielding calls from teachers. The hotline launched on March 23 in partnership with the Rhode Island Department of Education. Many of them were repeat users of the helpline.”.

Pedagogy 136

Pedagogy High School Library Humanities 136

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Through the generous support of the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the National Public Education Fund, nine League districts traveled to Toronto: Cajon Valley Union School District. Compton Unified School District. The School Board of Broward County, Florida. Highline Public Schools.

Middle School 102

Middle School Social Justice Cultures Professional Development 102

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

The mockumentary sitcom follows second grade teacher Janine Teagues, portrayed by the actress and show creator Quinta Brunson, as she navigates the intricacies of the large urban school district. Teachers bear the emotional burden of their surroundings, witnesses to the trauma and heartbreak embedded in the buzzword “trauma-informed pedagogy.”

Pedagogy 126

Pedagogy Library Classroom Management Elementary School 126

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. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths? The concept just wasn’t intuitive. And the curriculum isn’t always good.

K-12 135

K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 135

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students.

World History 120

World History World Religions Civics History 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. But many charter schools get about the same results and sometimes charter schools do worse.

Charter School 95

Charter School Middle School Tradition Public School 95

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. The mainstream may not fully recognize them, but that hasn’t stopped Black changemakers with a grassroots appeal, like former DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson.

History 107

History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2020

Moreover, although a majority of public school students are students of color , white teachers account for 80 percent of the workforce. Good preparation is fundamental to a foundational understanding of effective pedagogy and the deep subject-matter knowledge necessary for teachers to impart it to learners.

K-12 103

K-12 Professional Development Pedagogy Teaching 103

ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

For example: $25 million of Chicago Public Schools’ $525 million Moving Forward Together investment is slated to hire 850 tutors in the fiscal year 2022 who will focus on literacy in kindergarten through fifth grade and math in grades six through 12. Salcito advocates for a mix of tutoring offerings.

Tutoring 100

Tutoring K-12 Research Pedagogy 100

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2019

Dionne Grayman, a staff developer at Morningside Center for Teaching Social Responsibility , helps public schools integrate restorative practices as well as social and emotional learning into their pedagogy. Sign up for our newsletter.

Pedagogy 112

Pedagogy Public School High School Teaching 112

Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

But specialization also has costs: It gives teachers fewer opportunities to tailor pedagogy to individual students and to follow through on behavior coaching. For elementary school teachers, in-depth knowledge of specific subjects might not be as valuable as in-depth knowledge of individual students.

Teaching 84

Teaching Elementary School Pedagogy Social Studies 84

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Revere hosted a learning tour for other schools last year, to share its experiences with personalizing learning. Blended learning was the gateway to personalized learning in the Natick Public Schools, about 20 miles west of Boston. Public Schools. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

EdTech 86

EdTech Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library 86

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Of course, we can talk about pedagogy and state standards, but teaching is a people profession. Was your own experience in school largely positive or largely negative? I've always been in public schools, and I’ve had ups and downs. That's always been my ‘why.’ Also, I want to be there as a role model.

History 128

History Museum Social Studies Geography 128