The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2024

School systems leveraged these funds to pay for high-dosage tutoring, early literacy support, leadership development, enhanced counseling, expanded student exposure to career pathways and other endeavors. Can educators free up essential resources from ineffective programs and nonstrategic professional development?

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ED Surge

APRIL 9, 2025

Current AI professional development often narrows on specific tools and platforms, missing the broader opportunity to build lasting digital competencies. Preparing educators to use it effectively is not. These tools change rapidly, sometimes daily, making tool-specific training quickly obsolete.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

First, high-performing schools use data as a common thread to drive, monitor and adjust every aspect of their operations — including core instruction, small-group instruction, attendance interventions, social-emotional learning and professional development. All these findings are consistent with a wide body of literature on what works.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2024

An AI tutor that helps middle and high schoolers become better writers. Over five weeks this spring, about 300 people – teachers, school and district leaders, higher ed faculty, education consultants and AI researchers – came together to learn how to use AI and develop their own basic AI tools and resources. Playlab.ai

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Additional strategies adopted by Illinois and Louisiana include tutoring and interventions for struggling learners and professional development for educators. Mississippi is among three states, along with Illinois and Louisiana, where research shows that students have returned to pre-pandemic achievement levels in reading.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Educators, particularly those entering the field with insufficient training or experience, need immediate access to job-embedded and asynchronous professional development that they can access easily and on their own schedule. We must invest in our teachers.

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/ The Hechinger Report Researchers at the Erikson Institute, a child-development focused graduate school in Chicago, started the Early Math Collaborative 16 years ago to provide educators with research-backed professional development to help them better teach young students math.

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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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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. Some of these stories even win awards. Instead, my attempt to persuade her to write three sentences was a disaster.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

The fourth leg is professional development, mentoring and coaching. But Qualcomm is the whole package; we offer all four legs of the stool to provide a robust foundation of support for teachers and professionals in the learning community. And any good stool has four legs on it. The second leg is technical knowledge and support.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

A retired math teacher who lived a half mile up the road from my family, he opened his home to me every Wednesday afternoon for tutoring. AARP’s Experience Corps , which engages older adults in tutoring elementary-aged children in high-need elementary schools, shows similar results for older children.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2023

To that end, the survey did reveal that schools with higher rates of students who are racial minorities and students experiencing poverty were more likely to employ tailored accelerated instruction, family outreach and professional development in attempts to help with learning recovery. And research from the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

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. So, how can schools help students overcome these challenges?

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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. To start, teachers will need professional development and ongoing coaching so they can help kids make up for lost learning time. Other families are skipping the school year entirely.

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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. Here’s a look at how this plays out in the minds of educators.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2016

On any given day in one of these schools, a teacher might be tutoring a student, a student might be tutoring another student, or a student might even be tutoring an adult parent, community member, or educator. Students learn both the content they study and the practice of tutorials.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It also means ensuring staff have adequate time and professional development to effectively engage and support families, the CRPE paper said. The district hired dedicated remote tutors to support temporary online learners and developed protocols for identifying and tracking remote students. Planning PD?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

That was a problem identified in Kentucky, prompting the state to invest in technology training and professional development for professors, said Aaron Thompson, president at the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education. Those are the kinds of things that allow students to really thrive and be successful.”

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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. LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

The director of professional development formed faculty book clubs to discuss Claude Steele’s “ Whistling Vivaldi ,” a book about “stereotype threat,” which is a psychological theory about how minorities perform worse in environments where people like them traditionally don’t succeed. We have a problem in America.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

Its superintendent, Alberto Carvalho, my fellow member on the National Assessment Governing Board—which sets policies around NAEP — has cited professional development, tutoring and summer learning as some of the interventions that led to success there.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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. We developed a plan that if we can train our own educators, we could, No. “I was just a secretary fighting to be a teacher,” she said.

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ED Surge

JULY 29, 2022

Meanwhile, school and district leaders continue to try to regain ground against so-called “learning loss” that occurred during the pandemic, investing in tutoring programs and summer school options. The telehealth partnership also leverages the expertise of UMMC’s professionals in delivering telehealth services.

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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 the past, she tried to connect homeless students to a tutoring program run by a local social services agency to help them boost their grades. I think this model brings hope.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

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. Teachers can also attend professional development seminars, provided by the state, to improve their literacy instructional strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

That can come in the form of a class that focuses on content for teaching class or in the form of professional development, instruction that teachers receive on the job. If a third-grade teacher were to take advantage of all the professional development offered, Fancher said she or he could have over 100 hours of help.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Here are a few articles for educators about professional development. Extensive tutoring programs, both locally and nationally, and accelerated academics are two strategies that could help students recover from Covid learning loss. Research has shown this type of tutoring can help students gain a year of progress, Stevens said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

The district is also planning to hold several professional development training sessions to help educators learn how to use AI in the classroom, he added. He anticipates that some teachers will be hesitant.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Still, the network dispatches experts on finance, community engagement, student experience, curriculum and professional development. On a weekday last year, a team from the network met with Niiha to discuss options for the school’s location, training for teachers and an upcoming charter reauthorization.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Back in 2015, my colleague Nichole Dobo reported that nationally schools paid $225 per student plus between $50,000 and $125,000 a year for professional development and support services. Related: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation.

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Middle School Tutoring Teaching Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

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. We offer schools and districts comprehensive, in-person and online Professional Development training for their teachers, counselors, program leaders and administrators.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

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. But even with online learning plans, school districts around the country could face an “unprecedented historic academic regression” unless they do more, he said.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Sophisticated AI tutors, built into simple and affordable platforms, can solve this challenge for those who have access to mobile devices. Keep reading for some of our favorite potential uses of AI for education after reading this Getting Smart article. Potential uses of AI for education Access. Try out the platform here.

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