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

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 135

Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Low science and math proficiency in Nevada’s public school system indicates there are inherent and structural inequities that exist. For K-12 students to develop strong skills in design thinking, they rely heavily on the acumen of their educators.

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K-12 Professional Development Tradition Public School 134

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

In January 2018, I signed up to work as a substitute teacher at a public school in Columbus, Ohio. 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.

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Professional Development Advocacy Cultures Humanities 23

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coaches were often tapped to help lead the transition in their districts , drawing on the program’s tech-focused professional development to prepare teachers to engage with students virtually. Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day.

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Artifacts Middle School Advocacy Lesson Plan 141

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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Schools can’t afford to lose teachers of color. And with public schools struggling to fill teacher vacancies with qualified educators, district and school leaders can’t afford to lose any more teachers,period. Many experts attribute the declining applicant pool to low salaries, a lack of respect and lack of autonomy.

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Social Justice Leadership Elementary School Professional Development 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. So far, eight of its 13 traditional schools have hired teacher-leaders who not only put their great teaching to use in front of students, but also coach their colleagues to spread their best practices.

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Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Early childhood care and education before pre-K or kindergarten has not traditionally been considered a public school system priority. But as school leaders tighten their budgets, they would be wise to invest money earlier, when the return on investment is highest.

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Education Government Professional Development Tradition 136

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Jenkins said one of the reasons she has been teaching in the Phoenix Union High School District, one of 30 public school districts here, for so long is that she doesn’t feel alone. And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. And they are committed to the district.”.

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High School Cultures Leadership Public School 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In Havre Public Schools in northern Montana, it’s not uncommon for middle schoolers to arrive early. Parents need to get to work and the school building is a safe place to drop them off, even before classes start. “The 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 99

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

average and they do even better than their peers in similarly wealthy school districts, according to the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing. Competency-based education demands a shift away from traditional teaching, testing and grading.

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Elementary School Public School Tradition Private School 122

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 16, 2018

The Milwaukee Master Teacher Partnership is a partnership between the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Milwaukee Public Schools, funded by the National Science Foundation. It is dedicated to improving student achievement, classroom practice, and teacher leadership within Milwaukee Public Schools. I was almost out.

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Research Professional Development Public School Leadership 84

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. Wish granted. That’s true at American University, and that’s not likely to change, according to faculty.

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Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools. Van Fossan is the superintendent at the Sto-Rox public school district in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It’s what Megan Van Fossan calls the “lack of bias.” Teachers need time to operationalize their learning.”

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Teaching EdTech Professional Development Tutoring 122

ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The challenge lies in the fact that while the college essay is essentially a personal narrative, this is a genre in which students receive little experience in traditional high school curricula. So, how can schools help students overcome these challenges?

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Tutoring High School Professional Development Critical Thinking 124

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

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I

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Teaching K-12 Professional Development Civics 96

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Through ConnectED, Esri made a billion dollar offer: any K-12 school in the United States could acquire professional online Geographic Information Systems (GIS software), instructional activities, professional development events, and resources for educators and mentors. Kalama Intermediate School.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 102

Edthena

APRIL 17, 2024

In Spokane Public Schools , a forward-thinking approach to professional development is making waves, under the strategic direction of Nick Lundberg, Title I and Special Programs Coordinator. The program doubled its size for the 2023-2024 school year (to 60 teachers).

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Professional Development Public School Educational Technology Tradition 64

The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2019

Related: In professional development for online teachers, highlighting failure led the way to success. Technology has enabled me to connect with my students in ways I never had when I taught in a traditional classroom. school districts offer online or blended courses. I had a hunch that his vision might be to blame.

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Tradition Professional Development Teaching Public School 85

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

APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. Windsor Locks Public Schools parent Cheryl Picard.

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K-12 Advocacy Tradition Public School 99

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. I had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing. Instead, my attempt to persuade her to write three sentences was a disaster.

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Tutoring Professional Development Social Studies Tradition 117

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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Charter School History Library Public School 108

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Michael Paul Ida Michael Paul Ida , a high school math and computer science teacher in Hawaii shared insights on the importance of bringing a healthy dose of skepticism to edtech and how teachers are disengaging from professional development.

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Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 109

Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

While the highlights of each of these visits are vast, below are five amazing schools we visited in League districts that are educating students in creative, forward-thinking ways. Mentor Public Schools – Mentor, OH. Mentor Public Schools has a school dedicated to serving students with autism.

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Middle School Charter School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 92

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

With the growth of public pre-kindergarten, those who have the ability to get a traditional four-year degree have an incentive to get a bachelor’s in elementary education and a Pre-K-to-second grade teaching certification. Lisa Kuh, Director of Early Education, Somerville Public Schools.

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Elementary School Professional Development Tradition Teaching 110

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Public schools by their nature share data publicly. But as Mary Beth Hertz, an art and technology teacher and technology coordinator in the School District of Philadelphia, notes, “Some product [vendors] don’t understand schools and how they function differently from corporate businesses.”.

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EdTech Professional Development Library Public School 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

The organization will soon begin construction of a middle school, allowing students to remain in its program through eighth grade. In just a few years of operation, the school ranks at the top of Chicago Public Schools in academic performance. Christopher House teachers start at between $46,000 and $50,000 a year.

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Charter School Elementary School Public School Leadership 110

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Like many online schools, students at the school took self-guided, online lessons at home or somewhere with adequate broadband and the support of an offsite teacher who could also work outside a traditional schoolhouse.

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Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

But when schools compete for children and revenue, the relationship can become strained, making it politically difficult to share strategies and results with traditional districts. Ultimately, this partnership enriched and improved practice at both schools with each school learning from the other’s strengths.

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High School Charter School Professional Development Public School 65

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

The new approach threw out many traditional facets of education such as the A-F grading scale and time-based learning in which students advance to a new grade level each year. Her organization estimates that now 6 to 10 percent of public school districts across the United States are piloting or planning competency-based approaches.

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High School Tradition History Tutoring 136

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

THE CITY, Columbia Journalism Investigations, Type Investigations and City Limits have spent a year documenting the NYC Department of Education’s response to COVID-bereaved children in public schools. We discovered that decades of underfunding mental health care left schools unprepared to handle the spike in needs during the pandemic.

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Public School High School Middle School Elementary School 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

There are, of course, larger, longer term costs to consider, like the larger toll the traditional vehicle may take on the environment and the health of those living around it. These programs also incorporate intensive professional development for experienced teachers.

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Elementary School Professional Development Tradition Humanities 76

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

To do this, they use “ Basecamp” software developed by Summit Public Schools in California, a charter network whose personalized learning platform stresses self-directed learning and project work within a teacher-driven curriculum. Every computer and iPad has it.”. Dr. Sean J. Photo: Sarah Gonser. Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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Tradition Educational Technology Professional Development Humanities 83