ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Back then, remember your why felt like a genuine invitation to reconnect with the passion that first brought me to teaching; this made it easy to hold on to purpose and to find meaning in the day-to-day connections and small victories. Together, their legacies have shaped my teaching practice.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

In each school, I found it interesting that we seem to always be able to identify giftedness in our white students because there is always at least one on an ALP. This includes recognizing talents in areas such as creativity, leadership and problem-solving as well as traditional academic measures.

Education 104

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Too many of our public schools are missing teachers, especially in hard-to-staff subject areas. According to a recent report , last school year, 45 percent of public schools said they were understaffed, and nearly 9 in 10 school districts reported struggling to hire teachers heading into the 2023-24 school year.

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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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Charter School Library Education Lesson Plan 107

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.

Cultures 130

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

Supporting teachers in shifting from traditional instruction to an inquiry-based framework required ongoing encouragement, classroom modeling, and troubleshooting challenges as they arose. In a time where misinformation is widespread, teaching students how to think rather than what to think is a powerful and necessary shift.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. The old ways of teaching seemed to leave students without an understanding of the importance of math for their chosen field. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

Teaching 136

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. But very few schools currently integrate effective literacy practices into content classes, according to experts on reading.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

School district leaders have taken note, developing multi-year adoption plans for their schools. Van Fossan is the superintendent at the Sto-Rox public school district in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. It’s what Megan Van Fossan calls the “lack of bias.” Teachers need time to operationalize their learning.”

Teaching 123

Teaching EdTech Professional Development Tutoring 123

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

In our nation’s capital, 81 percent of the public schools require a uniform; 65 percent regulate the length of skirts; 58 percent forbid tank tops; 42 percent ban tights and/or leggings; and 45 percent require students to wear belts, according to the findings of the report, which was published by the National Women’s Law Center.

Teaching 89

Teaching Charter School Middle School Public School 89

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. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The Research.

Teaching 89

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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 26, 2022

"BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching. Our work is more than just the hours spent with young people in the classroom.

Teaching 102

Teaching Professional Development Humanities History 102

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2019

What didn’t come up at “ Public Education Forum 2020: Equity and Opportunity for All ” is that a part of any educational equity platform should be eliminating the politics that give K-12 public-school parents who know how to work the system preferred access to good teachers. a parent’s) political support.

Public School 71

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

Charter School 139

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic may have disrupted traditional classroom instruction, but it has not stopped schools from fostering meaningful connections and engaging in robust, student-centered teaching and learning. – Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools (Connecticut). A lesson that I am carrying with me is…. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Credit: Jill Barshay/ The Hechinger Report / The Hechinger Report For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. Meanwhile, some schools have successfully made the switch, such as Santa Fe Public Schools.

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Tradition Teaching Public School Research 143

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

Montana Department of Revenue , those who think that more private learning options should be available to families and those who disagree are squinting to see an outcome that — like it or not — immediately shakes up traditional K-12 schools in the United States. Supreme Court ruling about school choice be careful what they wish for?

Public School 57

Public School K-12 Heritage Private School 57

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

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. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers. Some postponed starting kindergarten that year.

Charter School 145

Charter School Geography Public School Private School 145

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education. Coordinating with the private sector.

K-12 126

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Public School 126

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. I was scared to teach them, and they knew it. I played in ensembles.

Cultures 111

Cultures Education Middle School Tradition 111

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.

Charter School 111

Charter School Tradition Public School Civics 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2020

Shelby County Public Schools, a district serving about 7,000 students halfway between Louisville and Lexington, has had state approval for “nontraditional instruction” for several years. That means if a bad snowstorm hit the county, they could keep school going remotely and count the days like any others in the school calendar.

Project-Based Learning 145

Project-Based Learning Critical Thinking Public School Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. As they pulled their children out of public schools, they also worked to dismantle state and local regulatory hurdles that kept kids in brick-and-mortar institutions.

Lesson Plan 142

Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 142

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

— When Sandra Jenkins started teaching at Betty H. Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. And yet, few districts have achieved the goal of building a teaching workforce that looks like its students. PHOENIX, Ariz. He’s listening to us.”.

High School 145

High School Cultures Leadership Public School 145

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

Cervantes-González is now the program manager at the California Center on Teaching Careers, a public agency tasked with increasing the pool of qualified teacher candidates in the Golden State. Another 18 states and the District of Columbia have been struggling to find enough people who teach English as a second language.

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Geography Tradition Public School Teaching 127

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Another colleague, another friend had resigned from their teaching position at my school. While the data is incomplete because states release data at different times, it is evident that there are open teaching positions in public schools and districts are struggling to fill them. And public schools are not alone.

K-12 140

K-12 Charter School Public School Elementary School 140

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

We now know that formative or “real-time” assessment can support student learning better than traditional evaluations. In large urban districts, like the Los Angeles Unified School District or Chicago Public Schools, poverty, violence and trauma can be barriers to learning for thousands of students.

Teaching 98

Teaching Civics Tradition Public School 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

The pandemic forced school systems across the world to move to virtual platforms for teaching and learning. She was not alone: A December report revealed that nearly one in five Nashville public school students was failing at least one class. I believe this is wrong. How can we fail young people during a pandemic?

Psychology 140

Psychology Tradition History Public School 140

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Charter schools serve just 6 percent of the nation’s public school students, but they have prompted bitter debates about educational priorities – and fair competition – particularly in cities that have a lot of them. Massachusetts now has 41 innovation schools.

Charter School 103

Charter School Tradition Public School High School 103

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools. But many charter schools get about the same results and sometimes charter schools do worse.

Charter School 101

Charter School Middle School Tradition Public School 101

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As schools across the South grapple with vacancies, many turn to those without teaching certificates or formal training to serve students. Texas, meanwhile, allowed about 1 in 5 new teachers to sidestep certification last school year. Most of the school’s 200 students, about 70%, are from low-income families.

K-12 127

K-12 Middle School Elementary School Tradition 127

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

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

Education 145

Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

public schools, in addition to completing the long-standing requirement of student teaching for a semester. “We Ocheze Joseph And these students aren’t just getting relevant teaching experience. Earlier in their education programs, aspiring educators might engage with students in an after-school program or club.

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Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

In 2018-19 , almost 14 percent of the state’s 8,500 school principals were Black, 24 percent were Latino and 60 percent were white. Indeed, there’s a higher proportion of Black principals (14 percent) than there are Black students in the public schools (13 percent of Texas’s 5.4 million public school students).

Research 145

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