The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun, recent high school graduate Benjamin Handelman notes that what is more helpful is for teachers to show enthusiasm for the subjects they teach and offer rigorous and engaging learning opportunities. Even students don’t like the go-easy-on-them approach.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

The AI applications range from tutors supporting foundational knowledge gaps to social connection facilitators designed for online learners who might otherwise feel isolated. Professional Development: Faculty and administrators must understand why interoperability matters and how it benefits learners.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Through our Qualcomm Wireless Reach Initiative, we work closely with partners to collaborate and identify local schools that need high-quality technology with the goal of bringing in connected solutions to drastically improve teaching and learning outcomes. The fourth leg is professional development, mentoring and coaching.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Administrators are looking for ways to squeeze in more time for math help during the school day and are considering extending traditional school hours for tutoring. Also, it is planning professional development to help teachers identify gaps in learning and understand curriculum in the grade above and below.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Some teachers also lack the confidence and experience as writers to adequately teach their students elements of the craft. First, schools should invest in professional development and training opportunities for teachers to enhance their own writing skills and deepen their understanding of how to effectively teach writing to students.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Summer and after-school programming, tutoring, truancy intervention, teacher hiring and training, and improved data systems are all part of the solution. But some respondents noted that “any professional development for technology is the barest it can be to save time and money.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

There were stories of teachers who went to every game, teachers who stayed late to tutor students without extra pay, those who made home visits or chaperoned every field trip. I am not suggesting that these are signs of bad teaching or that great teachers don’t often do these things.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

I had begun the week pretty excited about tutoring my own child in narrative writing. Not long after, I was allowed to listen in on a professional development seminar with a group of public school principals. I laughed out loud when one shared, “Parents are co-teaching at home!”. Some of these stories even win awards.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

This can include investments in tutoring, summer programs and other interventions that help students catch up and regain their footing. Boost curriculum and professional development: Schools can use funds to develop new curriculum materials or purchase new textbooks and other educational materials.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

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. I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and now you’re gonna make me do what?”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Some well-to-do families hire tutors — sometimes paying a teacher’s salary — to work alongside a child who is attending remote kindergarten. The district will also administer diagnostic testing before school starts to make grade placement and support decisions, reduce class sizes and teach in small groups to address gaps.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

From building relationships with parents to supporting students in the return to in-person teaching, we have highlights and article links for you. The recent reliance on distanced teaching actually helped boost teacher-parent communication. This shouldn’t fall to the wayside with the return to in-person teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

So McWilliams decided to try teaching. “My My mom had always encouraged me to teach,” she said. Then, in May 2017, a friend told her about a new Delta-based nonprofit, Regional Initiatives for Sustainable Education (RISE), which offered tutoring for the Praxis. Mississippi is dealing with a dire teaching shortage.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

I was recently teaching my eighth grade science class a lesson on volcanoes, and we got to talking about Mount Vesuvius when one of my students shot her hand up in the air and said, “Mr. I teach at Zama American Middle-High School , a Department of Defense school in Kanagawa, Japan. Pope, I used to live near there.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

—Aaron Thompson Yet just because people can access technology doesn’t mean they know how to use it effectively for teaching and learning. You not only had to do ‘stuff’ online—you had to be somewhat digitally literate to do it, and that’s including the faculty,” Thompson said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A classroom using the Teach to One math program. 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.” Photo: Nichole Dobo.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

We used to teach procedural math, but now students have to understand the ‘why’ as much as the ‘how’.”. The problem is that elementary school teachers did not learn math that way, and many now struggle to teach to the new standards. It’s a change in thinking. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S. This is not true.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Barraza teaches Native literature at the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque. Half of the school’s teaching positions were unfilled, largely because of its remote location and lower salaries, according to Swentzell, who took over as head of school in 2022. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The district eventually found one retiree to teach science, in January. When he wasn’t at football practice, he spent most evenings last year at the Rosedale Freedom Project, taking advantage of the program’s free, in-person tutoring. and I can’t do it with a computer [teaching me],” McKenzie said. I don’t have any purpose.’”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: A few weeks ago, we took a look at generative AI’s potential to change teaching and learning on college campuses around the country.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

After school, staff and tutors work individually and in small groups of six or seven with teens deemed most at risk for not graduating. In addition to keeping tabs on homework and grades, pod leaders teach students how to manage their time, apply for summer jobs and create goals for life after high school. But students wouldn’t go.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

In schools across Mississippi, teachers are focusing more on teaching basic reading skills in early grades to make sure students are ready to pass the third-grade reading exam. At Finch, those measures took the form of one-on-one instruction, tutoring, daily monitoring, a new third-grade teacher and smaller third-grade classes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. And they leave at higher rates largely because of poor working conditions—including a lack of input in key decisions affecting their classrooms—not because of dissatisfaction with teaching more broadly.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

Some are turning to tutoring (which, if done well, can be effective ), while others are expanding after school programs. Ken Kunz, literacy coach and founder of For the Love of Literacy, provides ongoing support at Columbus School observing instruction, doing model lessons, and co-teaching to give teachers tips on how to improve.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

For educators, who have carefully cultivated their teaching methods over the years, the suggestion of a radical shift of any kind, can trigger profound unease. The apprehension that generative AI could revolutionize the very core of teaching and learning is not unfounded.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

This nine-part series explores how we’re teaching through climate change. To stave off this learning loss, Miami-Dade is adding summer sessions and working to identify vulnerable kids and pair them with virtual tutors and mentors, among other steps.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

But educators in Lindsay say that, while there’s more work on the front end, the district’s model actually makes teaching easier in the long run. In response, the district set up opportunities for professional development, programs that continued during the pandemic. Related: Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

In others, schools use PBS’s “Nova” program to help teach science. Public Schools offer on-demand online tutoring sessions. In some cities, school buses now deliver daily paper packets of schoolwork, along with bagged breakfasts and lunches. This story also appeared in The New York Times. The Richmond (Va.)

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

Gregory Fein teaches a CUNY Start math class at Borough of Manhattan Community College. San Diego State has joined a couple of dozen math departments across the country that are rethinking the way they teach math. We’re teaching, not just selecting.”. Photo: Karen Shakerdge. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Seoul – Retired English soccer star David Beckham teaches South Korean children some soccer skills during a publicity tour for insurance group AIA. Much of that spending supports private tutoring. Photo: © Yonhap News/Newscom via ZUMA Press. In a world where education is supposed to drive the economy, is it possible to be overeducated?

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Edthena

OCTOBER 30, 2020

This creates opportunities for confirming that students are developing the correct understandings from the lessons. Online office hours are one form of distance teaching that teachers are implementing as a result of the pandemic. Like with many other forms of distance teaching, one positive is the ease of recording capabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

And not a babysitting service but a time they can get engaged whether it’s a homework follow-up or it’s tutoring—a lot of communities offer that. It’d be an opportunity for our high-school students to get involved with not only tutoring but also with mentoring children who are smaller.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

With the resources to provide tutoring and extended school day and all the other supports that our kids needed, we were beginning to really see meaningful change. Some elements of the reform, including a family advocate system designed to bring families and schools closer together, were developed as the initiative moved forward.

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Tutoring High School Middle School Humanities 51

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2020

Another research-based approach is the use of one-on-one or small group tutoring. Depending on the program, Bjorklund explained intensive tutoring could occur before, during or after school. Steiner said the challenge educators will face in the fall is to pull up students who are in rough academic shape, rather than “teaching down.”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

Too many schools think the cost of training and professional development and support are optional,” Epstein has told EdSurge. Educators were kept engaged through WhatsApp groups and sent videos of themselves teaching post-training,” says Rewane.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

“There are thousands of studies,” said Louisa Moats, an education consultant and researcher who has been teaching and studying reading since the 1970s. Harper went to a professional development day at one of the district’s lowest-performing elementary schools. No one has to teach them to talk.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2022

More resources to make teaching jobs attractive and sustainable. He challenged district leaders to provide students who are falling behind with 30 minutes of tutoring, three times a week, with well-trained instructors. More mental health support for students. More engagement with families and parents.

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