A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

Lastly, I used Poll Everywhere in my senior seminar the next day and it was a big hit. His research focuses on the effective usage of social media, texting and other digital technologies with enhancing instruction and learning. Also, his research looks at race, social class, and gender in educational settings.

Psychology 249

Psychology Elementary School Leadership Professional Development 249

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2025

Bringing down the price of a degree was certainly a key part of the appeal when online higher education began, said Richard Garrett, co-director of that survey of online education managers and chief research officer at Eduventures, an arm of the higher education technology consulting company Encoura. Online was going to be disruptive.

Economics 118

Economics Tutoring Educational Technology Tradition 118

Living Geography

DECEMBER 14, 2024

On the 4th of Decemember, the Geographical Association and Institute of Education held a joint seminar exploring the geography curriculum in the light of the Curriculum and Assessment Review.

Geography 52

Geography Research Education 52

ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2025

Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB, an education and consulting research firm, and his colleagues have found that students entering college now will likely struggle the most in math. How should colleges adapt? Now, the school is loosening that policy to give students a better chance of staying and succeeding, she says.

Tutoring 113

Tutoring High School Middle School Teaching 113

Living Geography

MARCH 14, 2025

A GEReCo Open Seminar will be held online via TEAMS next Wednesday (the 19th of March) GEReCo is the Geography Education Research Collective. Details and sign up form can be found here.

Geography 52

Geography Research Education 52

ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

I was in the middle of research and realized I was completely wrong. I prepared a few Socratic Seminars about their impressions of AI and its potential implications for the future of writing and education. Look,” a student pointed out in one seminar. “It Can I start over?” They all balked at what it churned out.

Elementary School 143

Elementary School Humanities High School Research 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

It’s rare for researchers to test a promising treatment on only a portion of students in real schools to see if it’s effective. Students were required to attend college full time, participate in a first-year seminar and meet frequently with an adviser. Extra academic tutoring and career counseling were also part of the program.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring Research Education 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

While some progress has been made since then, institutions can still do a better job connecting their educational and economic mobility missions; recent research indicates that college graduates are having a hard time putting their degrees to work. Raise awareness of realistic careers.

Economics 124

Economics Advocacy Critical Thinking Research 124

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to pivot a bit to something equally revolutionary yet rooted in ancient tradition (somewhat)–Socratic Seminars. I’ve got 5 transformative strategies you can use to update Socratic Seminars for today’s learners. What is a Socratic Seminar? Socratic Seminars bring history to life. And how do we do that?

Library 52

Library Critical Thinking History Social Studies 52

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to pivot a bit to something equally revolutionary yet rooted in ancient tradition (somewhat)–Socratic Seminars. I’ve got 5 transformative strategies you can use to update Socratic Seminars for today’s learners. What is a Socratic Seminar? Socratic Seminars bring history to life. And how do we do that?

Library 52

Library Critical Thinking History Social Studies 52

ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

When Teaching Students Math, Concepts Matter More Than Process By Nicola Hodkowski Researcher Nicola Hodkowski makes a case for moving beyond students memorizing the process of doing math and instead fostering a deep understanding of mathematical concepts. Here are the most popular K-12 stories of 2024.

K-12 71

K-12 EdTech Professional Development Psychology 71

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Tom Loveless, an education researcher and former senior fellow at the Brookings Institution Welner said studies of schools that have detracked classes show that achievement gaps have been narrowed to varying levels of success. Kianna Livingston was one of the ninth-graders enrolled in the math seminar and detracked Algebra 1 in 2014-15.

Middle School 112

Middle School High School Professional Development Leadership 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

Leadership 145

Leadership Economics Government Research 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

In fact, administrators often encourage part-time students to “take their time,” said Davis Jenkins, senior research scholar at the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College. The seminar covers themes relevant to students’ lives, with topics including hip hop and “The Immigrant Experience.”

Advocacy 103

Advocacy Government Tradition Research 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

27, 2020 seminar on adolescent learning and well-being in Berkeley, California. Dahl pointed to research that found that these circuitry brain maps for younger children, ages 8 to 10, are fairly similar. It’s a perfect storm of change,” said Dahl, speaking before education reporters at a Feb. But soon after, circuits diverge.

Psychology 140

Psychology Humanities Research Cultures 140

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Researchers began rigorously studying coaching in the late 1990s and have been ramping up in the past 10 years to see how well coaching works and if coaching programs are any better than the kind of training seminars that teachers typically attend to further their “professional development.”

Professional Development 111

Professional Development Middle School Research Teaching 111

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. This inspired Lindblom to design an elective sophomore course on the same three periods, using many of the primary documents she’d studied in the TAH seminar.

American History 98

American History History Civics Political Science 98

Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 7, 2024

As the field of Classics grows and changes with the new millennium, so, too, should the pool of researchers called upon to advance the field. To look to the future, we invite abstracts from advanced undergraduates on the cusp of their application to graduate programs to participate in a research symposium with their peers.

Research 52

Research Archaeology History Humanities 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

Universities would do well to consider requiring DEI seminars as part of orientation and encourage faculty to include DEI content in every course. Research shows that women and educators of color, particularly Black, Asian, Latinx and Indigenous women, receive worse evaluations than their white and male counterparts.

K-12 124

K-12 Sociology Social Science Education 124

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Austin Community College is one of 50 community colleges in Texas that researchers analyzed to determine how much ought to be spent educating students. The American Institutes for Research is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report. *) The team applied the same cost analysis used in K-12 education to the community college context.

K-12 141

K-12 Research High School Education 141

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

These days she works as the senior adviser to the chancellor on transformation at the City University of New York’s graduate center, and she co-wrote the book with a postdoctoral research associate at the university, Christina Katopodis. Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. Active learning wins.

Tradition 144

Tradition Teaching Research Education 144

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Ninety-minute weekly seminars are a cornerstone of the model. as well as a LEAP leader who facilitates seminars and coaches teachers through regular classroom observations, said that’s a far cry from what used to be the norm. No cookie-cutter seminars for entire teaching staffs. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

Professional Development 84

Professional Development Elementary School Public School High School 84

The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

“One key question is why these differences occur and what do these differences mean for students,” said Mike Garet, head of the survey team at the American Institutes of Research (AIR), a nonprofit research organization. I was surprised to learn that the difference in instructional hours can’t be simply explained by poverty.

High School 128

High School Research Public School Teaching 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

The premise is that students can learn grammar while learning how to structure a research paper; that they can master algebraic concepts while learning statistical theories. In English, all students are enrolled in a four-strand program called City Seminar. She said she’s never written a paper like the one assigned in City Seminar.

Tradition 93

Tradition High School Cultures Research 93

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2020

“It’s bad with the potential of getting worse,” said Michael Griffith, an analyst at the Education Commission of the States, during a session of the Education Writers Association’s national seminar. The last time that schools had to slash spending was after the 2008 recession.

Public School 145

Public School Education Teaching Research 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Each study is a meta-analysis, which means they are supposed to sweep up all the best research on a topic and use statistics to tell us where the preponderance of the evidence lies. Researchers who study intelligence tend to think of it as cognitive abilities, such as brain processing speed and memory, which are relatively stable over time.

Psychology 137

Psychology Research Teaching Cultures 137

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

A Socratic seminar? A teacher interested in bringing more authentic field research to her eighth-grade life sciences classroom, for instance, might begin by taking our winter 2019 course on Connecting the Geo-Inquiry Process to Your Teaching Practice. Sounds great! Maybe in October. A historical role-playing activity?

Library 129

Library Digital Resources Social Studies Teaching 129

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Rather than sitting in a PD seminar all day, instructional coaching provides support relevant to the teacher’s specific classroom and content. “If Personalized learning—a hot buzz phrase for the 2018-19 school year—occurs when teaching is tailored to meet each student’s unique needs and goals.

Professional Development 127

Professional Development Middle School Teaching Education 127

HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This time, I asked them to select a passage from their research, record the grade level, and then document that they could bring it down to the sixth-grade level. They confirmed what Jon Corippo says in his EduProtocol seminars, “More reps mean more confidence!” Some were more successful than others.

Archiving 130

Archiving Social Studies Tradition World History 130

ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. Some researchers worry particularly about the incentives these schools set up, blurring public education dollars with private profits.

Charter School 117

Charter School K-12 Tutoring Tradition 117

ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A former student of mine shared this opinion in a class seminar about Transcendentalism. I’m so sick of hearing about self-care and feelings. Life just happens to us, and there’s not much we can do about it. Not exactly what Whitman had in mind, but I digress. Increase reading levels without lifting a finger?

EdTech 127

EdTech Humanities Pedagogy Lesson Plan 127

ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2023

To find out, last week we gathered a panel of experts at the intersection of brain research and teaching practice to hear their latest thinking for a live taping of the EdSurge Podcast. EdSurge: What do you see as the most exciting insight or area of research as far as what research is revealing about how we learn?

Learning Science 113

Learning Science Research Humanities Teaching 113

Political Science Now

MARCH 12, 2025

The American Political Science Association (APSA) is pleased to announce a call for applications for the Professional Development Grants program for the 2024 MENA Workshops Alumni.These grant programs support research and networking activities and promotes collaboration between scholars and institutions across the Arab MENA region.

Professional Development 35

Professional Development Political Science Pedagogy Research 35

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The brain research on emotional intelligence as it relates to student learning is clear.” Research indicates that educator wellness directly affects education quality , student achievement and school climate. Timothy Kanold excitedly shares.

Education 115

Education Psychology Professional Development Cultures 115

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

The thought is so alluring that parents often ask early education teachers what the best apps are, said Lisa Guernsey, speaking at the national seminar of the Education Writer’s Association in Nashville this week. She’s also come up with guidelines based on what a scant – but growing – body of research is finding.

EdTech 91

EdTech Psychology Humanities Research 91

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

The system gives students “a pretty good chance of finding a well-paid stable job,” said Leonard Geyer, a researcher at the European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research. Mile Glisic, a 15-year-old student at Ursula Kuhr Schule, is doing a long-term work placement at a hardware store and considering an apprenticeship in sales.

Middle School 134

Middle School High School Project-Based Learning Teaching 134

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

Siwaju is a seminar-style program that gives students a platform to discuss various topics that influence their own lives. When I entered the classroom as an adult, I promised myself that everything I accomplished, everything I did with and for my students, would center on introducing them to an appreciation for their own blackness.

Middle School 106

Middle School Economics Tradition Humanities 106