Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Minneapolis Public Schools (Minnesota) already uses data to inform decision-making in more than 70 schools across the city, but they wanted to find best practices for interoperability to link different systems together for more accurate and timely data. Abby Wolf IT Strategy Process Analyst, Minneapolis Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

Seattle Public Schools did the same, publishing a sample schedule for K-3 that would offer live instruction from 7:55 until 2:25 p.m., CLICK TO ENLARGE: Seattle Public Schools proposed a schedule this summer that would have K-3 students toggling between online and offline learning from 7:55 am until 2:25 pm.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

But very few schools currently integrate effective literacy practices into content classes, according to experts on reading. That said, a handful of states and school districts are starting to explore the approach. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

Building STEM Literacy at a Large Florida School District Broward County Public Schools is the sixth-largest school district in the United States, serving over 250,000 students across 326 schools and education centers in the Fort Lauderdale area. Many industry certification opportunities are tied to the courses.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. For Katie Cryan Leary, the principal of the newly opened Magnolia Elementary in Seattle Public Schools, creating an antiracist, anti-bias school can be a messy, uncomfortable journey.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

schools, especially those that serve low-income children, have moved in the opposite direction. Educators have felt pressure to cut time for science, social studies and the arts in order to carve out more time for reading and math, the two subjects that are tested annually by every state and by which schools are judged.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2019

Last year, a student intern created a similar tour of the town’s high school, and it was so popular that Liberman wants one for every school. About 16 percent of the 3,800 students in Danvers Public Schools get services because they have disabilities. Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

From work to school to home, digital technology is everywhere. Public school students’ computer use must move beyond consuming information and performing routine tasks like reading, writing and presenting.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

As a history major in college and former Social Studies teacher, I am aware of the racial abuses that have permeated our nation’s history and continue to be present. Taking action in your classroom (because good intentions, social media posts, and emoticons aren’t enough) , EquityEDU. Say their names , Chicago Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Carrie Bakken, a social studies teacher and program coordinator who has been with the school since 2001, said the model appeals to younger workers and has helped the school avoid hiring challenges. “We Gadd, a former teacher in New York City’s public schools, said, “It’s not a top-down model.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

One Thursday this fall, a middle schooler in Florida’s Brevard Public Schools received an in-school suspension. Related: They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. For teachers around the country, school discipline during the pandemic has been confounding. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As a social studies teacher and a Chinese American immigrant, I find myself subconsciously asking the following questions: How are Asian Americans viewed by the American public? What stereotypes and misperceptions still abound? Even more importantly: How can policies and education help improve our status in the U.S.?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training. In the early 2000s, she saw a grant from the National Science Foundation as a possible solution for Milwaukee’s public schools.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. The McGraw Hill program is releasing a social studies and language arts component that integrates the two content areas.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2024

Nkomo Morris, a special education teacher at The James Baldwin School, a public school in New York City, said education technology companies often pitch products to schools without a real understanding of what teachers and students need. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

school district’s sixth-grade-only school. By nine school district superintendents from nine states. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Working in partnership with public school districts and charter schools, Malliron Hodge, director of community collaboration and design for Digital Promise, convened educators of color for seven regional Design Studios. The “world” (or at least, their world) was more accustomed to seeing Black men teaching PE or social studies.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

By fall of 2021, Butterworth was hired as a general education paraeducator at Farmland Elementary in Maryland’s Montgomery County Public Schools, a large district just outside of Washington, D.C. Photo courtesy of Montgomery County Public Schools. “I knew there was a need, and I could fill it,” she says, “so I did.”

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

For the fall, district leaders are working with Dr. Hasan Jeffries, associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, to modify, update, and provide cultural relevance and accuracy for the Social Studies curriculum. The knowledge of these tenets will then be infused into other core content areas as appropriate.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. He started his career teaching high school social studies for 14 years. At one point he directed a teacher-education program that prepared returning Peace Corp volunteers to teach in inner-city schools.

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Education Week - Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Our students are among the youngest voters in the country. Are they being targeted as pawns in an illicit political game?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

“These kids just missed 18 months of school. Maybe you can do that in social studies. This educator quit her public school teaching job in 2022 and has since been tutoring students to help them catch up from pandemic learning losses. But math builds upon itself. How am I going to factor?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. Her other two girls, in third and fifth grades, would be home on alternating days under the school’s hybrid schedule. Many parents, unaware of the history of virtual charters, continue turning to these schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. At 7 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. She started the Black Student Union at the middle school and formed enduring friendships with several colleagues and Lusher families.

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Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

Fryer’s study, published by the National Bureau of Economic Research , describes a two-year, randomized field experiment in grades three, four, and five at 50 traditional public schools in Houston. In the schools in that latter group, students stayed with the same class all day; only the teacher changed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Other school districts are also trying to elevate student voices in education policy and avoid “tokenism,” as Cristina Salgado puts it. She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Pat Yongpradit, chief academic officer for Code.org, said Nevada is the only state so far to embed math, science, English language arts and social studies into its computer science standards. Since then, Code.org has been tracking state policy changes and a number of other metrics about computer science education.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. During the 2022-2023 school year, Lindblom designed a new sophomore course — “Changemakers” — to teach civil discussion and build students’ political efficacy.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Mapping the curriculum to college success, especially at schools with high concentrated Latino student enrollment is a vital part of making sure graduates are ready for the academic work that lies ahead. Hispanic students represented 24 percent of public school enrollment in 2011, and are expected to represent 30 percent by 2023.

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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. Or even newer math ?)

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

OF MERIDEN “ It is hard to talk about real history — the history of oppression in this country, that it was built on slavery and stolen land, and genocide and Holocaust studies — but we must talk about this real history in order to understand modern social ills and how to combat them.” Kids are not born racists.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

For generations, intelligence tests have played an outsize role in America, helping at times to control who can join the military and at what rank; who can enroll in the nation’s most elite private schools, and even who can be executed under federal law. The district relented, agreeing to let him attend the school.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me. Elephant knowledge is spreading.

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Education Week - Social Studies

JUNE 5, 2023

Petersburg, Fla., a summer program focuses on the diverse histories of Africans and African Americans.

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