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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Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

Experience with Studies Weekly Frances recently attended a Professional Development training hosted by Studies Weekly. Studies Weekly does an excellent job of incorporating age-appropriate text and engaging activities, and I loved exploring the online components that make it such a robust program.

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Primary Sources American History World History Social Studies 52

Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Now, having taught social studies for two years at Oakcrest School in Vienna, Virginiaan independent girls school in the Catholic traditionshe knew what she didnt know. This organization offers amazing professional development! She needed more knowledge to answer students questions.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources American History Library Government 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. Developer: Michigan State University Research. 2nd grade social studies. Developer: University of Michigan and Michigan State University Research. Developer: Stanford University Research. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Our nine districts have been considering free or low-cost open educational resources alongside traditional options. As many states adopted new state standards in recent years, educational leaders voiced concerns that traditional publishers had not developed adequately aligned materials.

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Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition Middle School 105

Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

How to Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month You may feel like you don’t have time to teach students about Asian Pacific heritage, but there are many fun ways to integrate this annual celebration with ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Well-Being.

Heritage 98

Heritage Museum Social Studies Artifacts 98

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

This is one example of many in our paper that demonstrates how those with traditional power — leaders, researchers and solution developers — emerge from the Inclusive Innovation and adapt to support the leadership of teachers, students and families in the R&D process.

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Education Leadership Professional Development Tradition 115

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. Vista Innovation & Design Academy.

Education 106

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 106

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? 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

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 figure the educational videos she watches while I work are good enough to cover science and social studies for now. Instead, my attempt to persuade her to write three sentences was a disaster.

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Tutoring Professional Development Social Studies Tradition 125

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. Related: When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk.

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High School Tradition Professional Development Social Studies 100

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 134

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I hope no behavioral concerns arise, because if I can avoid a parent phone call I might be able to get some of this done—well, that is if I do a virtual assignment during social studies. Teachers have been accosted with endless professional development training, increased testing, and frequent surveys. Oh, shoot.

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Teaching Leadership Lesson Plan Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

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 New EL schools must first go through several months of professional development, classroom observation and co-teaching — both at the schools and at three-day intensive “institutes” off-site.

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Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

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.

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High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 72

ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

LEGO Education designs standards-aligned sets for K-8 students and offers plenty of free support for teachers, including more than 400 online lesson plans —ranging in focus from computer science and English Language Arts (ELA) to robotics and coding— self-guided professional development and an online community where teachers share tips and ideas.

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Lesson Plan Classroom Management Professional Development Social Studies 98

C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

I recently zoomed with Nick S tamoulacatos, Supervisor of Social Studies at Syracuse City School District and one of the writers on the article “Countering the Past of Least Resistance” in that latest Social Education. And then overtime we then developed it in our school district. What keeps you coming back?

History 52

History Social Studies Sociology Professional Development 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.

K-12 69

K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 69

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kathryn Toppan switched to a 1-4 scale even before the administration required it, finding it “less arbitrary” than the traditional 1-100. In the city’s two traditional high schools — Deering and Portland High School — classes look, and sound, much as they did prior to 2012. Nearly half the enrollees are students of color.

High School 111

High School Tradition Cultures Advocacy 111

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. Job-Embedded Professional Development. Above all, it is most important to remember that effective professional-development programs are job-embedded and provide teachers with five critical elements (Darling-Hammond et al.,

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Research Education Professional Development Leadership 55

Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs. Preschool prepares children for the structured learning programs, social interactions, and schedules of traditional K-12 schooling. 2021, May 10).

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K-12 Professional Development Economics Tradition 52

TCI

APRIL 30, 2024

A recent study suggests that video lessons led to higher content retention than traditional lectures. Video Activities are available in TCI’s middle and high school social studies programs, while the elementary social studies programs incorporate videos through fun songs, storylines, and inquiry projects.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Library Tradition High School 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 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

Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities. Submit your info by Aug.

Heritage 52

Heritage Primary Sources Library Lesson Plan 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. They would have science and social studies, because you can’t read if you don’t know anything about the world, she said.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Wheatley principal Sabrina Cuby-King credits several moves for Wheatley’s gains: professional development for teachers on how to fill gaps in student learning caused by Covid, holding teachers accountable for “bell to bell” instruction to wring every minute out of each class, pairing each student with a teacher or staff mentor.

Charter School 97

Charter School High School Professional Development Government 97

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

Heritage 59

Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 1966, she won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording. See how Studies Weekly Social Studies teaches world history from different cultural perspectives by requesting a sample. Biography.com records how her anti-apartheid songs raised awareness of the injustice happening in her native homeland.

World History 98

World History History Social Studies Archaeology 98

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

And over the next two decades, researchers studying programs across the United States released a stream of evidence about the benefits of bilingual education, especially a version called dual language. Traditional bilingual education essentially lets students use their first language while they learn English.

Elementary School 117

Elementary School Education K-12 History 117

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. It’s astonishing because what it turned out to be was that there was a tradition, a new tradition then, of counting the alumni of Black colleges in terms of their crime statistics.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Next year, the state will ramp up professional development opportunities for work-based learning coordinators, state officials said. Eurich also earned credit in economics, part of the social studies curriculum at Harwood, which meant he graduated with a full four years of social studies credit on his diploma.

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High School Economics Tradition Social Studies 97