ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) : Teachers perceived their students’ top problem as missing social interactions at school or with friends (88 percent), followed by keeping up academically (82 percent). Social-Emotional Learning as Part of Whole Child Learning.

Teaching 147

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

That’s why she’s back as a counselor teaching hands-on science lessons to her campers and learning more about what she’s capable of as a leader. “I Bodor said the best environmental education programs teach kids “how to think critically about complex issues and much less about what to think.”. I was shy.”.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

However, there’s not much guidance for teachers on how to teach about Native Americans with sensitivity and respect. The following suggestions will help you to teach about Native American cultures respectfully and sensitively. Be careful when teaching the history of the United States. Now that I know better, I do better.

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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? We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. What stereotypes and misperceptions still abound?

American History 118

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Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

Division of labor has worked wonders for the production of clothing, computers, and automobiles — but it doesn’t have the same transformational effect on productivity in teaching, a new study by economist Roland G. 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

AUGUST 6, 2020

Related: OPINION: When Black parents benefit from school choice, it doesn’t perpetuate racism. Overt racism like this is, I hope, less prominent in today’s public-school classrooms than it was 30 years ago in my own — if for no other reason than no one can ever again claim that a Black person can’t become president of our country.

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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. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. But I did enjoy teaching. Not Caleb Brown.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Amid the growing debate over how best to teach math, there is another ballooning problem: grades. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. in 2010 to 3.32

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

The e-mail, written by a principal for an elementary school in central Texas, detailed a complex new plan for remote learning in the fall and was full of jargon: asynchronous time, maximum continuous minutes and a separate plan to teach special subjects like art, music and physical education. Credit: Screenshot. Credit: Screenshot.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The study, a working paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, came to two dramatic conclusions. The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. However, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. At Avalon Charter School, in St.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Teaching counting and basic arithmetic sounds like a simple task. 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. Every teacher wants to learn and do a better job teaching,” Huinker said.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

To make matters more tenuous, teachers of color leave the teaching profession at higher rates than white teachers. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. This is about building relationships, and social-emotional learning.”. Stephanie Hinton, director of early childhood in Oklahoma City Public Schools.

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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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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. The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math.

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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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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. Lindblom based it on a summer seminar she attended in the early 2000s: the Presidential Academy, a forerunner of Teaching American History’s current programs.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. But it didn’t lead to a revolution in radio teaching. He started his career teaching high school social studies for 14 years. Schooling is intricate, and very complex. The first thing I would say is teach.

History 107

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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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 Playlab.ai

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

CREDIT SARAH WHITES-KODITSCHEK / ARKANSAS PUBLIC MEDIA. Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. This story was produced by Arkansas Public Media and is reprinted with permission. Teaching was not my initial goal.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Does a sixth-grade teacher have the same skills and tools to teach reading that a second or third grade teacher does? 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.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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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.”.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. Nilsson teaches at Deerfield Academy , a private school in western Massachusetts. Subscribe today!

Humanities 112

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 16 letters opposing the repeal, most argued there was a need to keep teachers from indoctrinating students in critical race theory (a legal concept not typically used in K-12 schools) and that only parents should teach children about political doctrine. Teaching them this sort of thing trains them to be.”

History 95

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Diane Ravitch

MARCH 8, 2024

State legislatures these days tthjnkbthat they should pass laws telling teachers how to teach reading and what to teach in social studies. Ohio Republicans have decided that teaching about capitalism is more important in troubled times than strengthening student learning opportunities about democracy. That’s right.

Social Studies 86

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. But while computers are the heart of Summit’s model, they’re designed to play a supporting role in teaching kids, not take center stage. MESA, Ariz. Logan Dubin is good with computers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills. It’s simply malpractice.”.

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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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Public School History Teaching 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 29, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative, Digital Promise Global is launching a new program that celebrates teachers who demonstrate powerful teaching and learning with technology. We are pleased to present our inaugural cohort of the HP Teaching Fellows. Six HP Teaching Fellows Announced.

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High School Education Social Studies Elementary School 69

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

“The biggest problem is there is not enough time to really do the training that a teacher needs to understand how to teach online,” said Jennifer Mathes, interim chief executive officer of the Boston-based Online Learning Consortium , a nonprofit that offers webinars and resources on online teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nurturing bilingual students is the mission of the 400-student public school where Menéndez teaches, Dos Puentes Elementary in Washington Heights, a predominantly Latino neighborhood of New York City. In other schools, bilingualism was not accepted or important,” said Menéndez, who has been teaching for 27 years.

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