The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But EducationSuperHighway did it this week, announcing that the classroom internet connectivity gap is effectively closed – one year ahead of schedule, no less. When we started all of this, it wasn’t because we wanted to get broadband in every classroom,” Marwell said. “We Their plan seems to have worked.

E-rate 56

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

Traditional grades no longer exist, children get extra help based on their individual learning needs and classrooms run very differently. Sitting quietly at the back of the room is no longer an option in classrooms that prize student engagement. But the classroom visit persuaded Picard. They’re not slipping through the cracks.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Dan Coder, custodian of Unified School District 377 for 35 years, looks over the broken boiler in the central office building which also houses the preschool and kindergarten classrooms. The research and advocacy organization EdBuild called states’ education funding systems outdated, arbitrary, and segregating. million in 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

And classrooms needed more books and educational materials. With a higher quality rating, Smith’s center has become eligible for more grants and funding, which has allowed her to open an additional preschool classroom and offer free seats for some students. The problem was not for a lack of trying.

Advocacy 80

Advocacy Report Social Media Training 80

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2021

When I began in 2012, Raven had an ELL population of less than 5 percent. But as is the case with any classroom, some were more than challenging to deal with. The Mainstream Classroom Environment for ELL. Consequently, she had to learn classroom social structure and behavioral expectations along with English.

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The PL2C Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lindgren & McDaniel, 2012). Advocacy, choice, and voice should occur in the classroom as well as in any learning environment. The implication is that the most transformative learning experiences will be those that are directed by the learner’s own endeavors and curiosities.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Approximately 95 percent of Massachusetts’ English-learning students are placed in English-only classrooms. The same is true of the Muñiz Academy, which opened in 2012 as the city’s first such high school. With so much focus on English, however, Claudette stopped speaking her native language.

Advocacy 111

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Feliza Ortiz-Licon, chief policy and advocacy officer at Latinos for Education, a nonprofit group, said that administrators and educators who want to address racial disparities in college completion need to look at the entire system and take responsibility for their part in it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. The amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom (“seat time”) doesn’t matter, nor does the number of credits they’ve accumulated. We’re not ready for this.”.

Learning 111

Learning Report Groups System 111

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Prior to coming to Highline in 2012 Dr. Enfield served as Interim Superintendent for Seattle Public Schools. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. Dr. Chris Gaines is Superintendent of Mehlville School District in suburban St.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2023

They cost crucial classroom time as schools work to recover from massive learning setbacks. When classrooms closed in March 2020, Negrón in some ways felt relieved her two sons were home in Springfield. Absences were more prevalent among Latino, Black and low-income students, according to Dee’s analysis. Her son doesn’t want to return.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Before, the state already had two voucher programs: the 2012 Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program, and in 2013, the Speech-Language Therapy Scholarship for Students with Speech-Language Impairments. With public schools, special education is not a place, it’s not a classroom—it’s a set of services.”.

Advocacy 93

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Superintendents then leave it up to principals and often parents to decide whether to use corporal punishment on a given student, creating unequal systems of discipline within the same communities and even the same classrooms. Credit: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report. These are the only possible two things we can come up with?”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

The point of the public program, as it was presented to voters in 2012, is to boost long-term educational outcomes and eventually improve the citywide workforce. When they aren’t outside, children at the four Pre-K 4 SA centers spend their days in meticulously appointed classrooms.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Already, many teachers don’t have the skills to integrate tech into the classroom—even the young ones. While they may be proficient in using edtech, they don’t know how to create comprehensive lessons to use it in the classroom. Teachers have also been doubly challenged with the quarantine.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2019

In classrooms around the building, the school’s ninth-graders whizzed through an online mental health survey that would soon deliver real-time data to the group in the conference room. It was co-created by a University of Northern Colorado psychology professor and has been used in Boston Public Schools since 2012-13. It was 10:30 a.m.

Survey 53

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. From 2009–2012 he served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor. Does everyone feel valued?

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Back in 2012 – 2013] I was impressed (like many others I’m sure) with how Wiley was able to frame the cost-savings argument around open textbooks to build broader interest for OERs. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2020

Educators must first have a deep and cohesive understanding of what they’re trying to accomplish in the classroom and how they’re trying to do it. Otherwise, they might go off in a different strategic direction that conflicts with classroom needs. Teachers use classroom tech to support learning goals outside of the assessments.

Online Assessments 53

Online Assessments Assessment Student Data Privacy BYOD 53

EdTechTeam

APRIL 9, 2019

Another powerful project in collaboration between EdTechTeam and Google for Education and reseller partners, is Education on Tour , an event series is focused on sharing best practices for implementing Google for Education technology in the classroom. “Our team is so excited about this award.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Students in a Granite School District preschool classroom learn about the letter T. GRANITE, Utah — On a recent winter afternoon, the scene inside Dobrila Hasic-Botic’s preschool classroom in Granite, Utah, seemed typical of a high-quality pre-K. On a day in late fall, Hasic-Botic’s classroom was brimming with activity.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

He was named Maryland State Teacher of the Year in 2012. Brennan McMahon Parton, Data Quality Campaign ’s associate director of state policy and advocacy, recently spoke with him about data literacy for teachers. Josh Parker is an instructional coach at District of Columbia Public Schools.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Her previous experiences include being a classroom business teacher at the high school and post-secondary levels, assistant director of a vocational cooperative, principal at East Noble High School, and assistant superintendent at East Noble School Corporation. Department of Education Secretary in October 2016.

EdTech 61

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2020

[link] Loida Garcia-Febo International Library Consultant @loidagarciafebo Loida Garcia-Febo is an international library consultant, researcher and expert on topics such as human rights, advocacy and services to multicultural populations. She is the Immediate Past President of the American Library Association.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. In the classrooms at Nokomis, tests are now broken down into specific sets of skills so teachers can identify how well students understand each task. In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course.

Education 0

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

“In the mornings when students came into the classroom, they would write that they’d brought their lunch or that they were going to purchase lunch in the cafeteria,” she said. In 2012 when the public schools in Baltimore County refused to give the Gibson children IEPs, Rob and Maggie decided to hire a lawyer.

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Training Report Groups System 78

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates. BLOOMFIELD, N.J.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The school’s halls and classrooms are bright and airy, with high ceilings and oversize windows looking out across the lush landscape. The charter opened on the former campus of a private school, which, according to data provided to the federal government in 2012, didn’t enroll a single black student.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

Kaplan 41

Kaplan Learning Policies Report 41

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In Mrs. Peterson’s classroom, an educational film about big cats splashes across the projector screen. The cuts endanger the school’s unique mission of equipping its students with the language skills and self-advocacy that enriches their Deaf identity, the school’s administrators and teachers say.

Learning 40

Learning Elementary Report Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

According to a 2015 report by the advocacy non-profit Child Care Aware, the average cost of center-based infant care in Louisiana—one of the four poorest states in the nation—was roughly $110 a week in 2014. Sylvia Levy, a 64-year-old instructor at Beary Cherry Tree, reads to a six-week-old in the infant classroom.

Policies 40

Policies Report Comparison Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Superintendent Ray Rogers showed him around the village of rusty portable classrooms at J.V. State waivers under the old No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) also gave rural schools needed flexibility, said Ellerson, the associate executive director for policy and advocacy at the American Association of School Administrators (AASA).

E-rate 40

E-rate Course Policies Conference 40

Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

Then, discover tactics for spotting and preventing toxic stress in your classroom. More students in your classroom may be suffering from toxic stress than you know. 14] Regardless of the grade you teach, it’s likely that at least one student in your classroom deals with chronic stress. What Is Toxic Stress, Anyway?

Classroom 239

Classroom E-rate Advocacy Report 239

Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

For perspective and advice, we recently talked with José Vilson, co-founder and executive director of #EduColor , a nonprofit advocacy group dedicated to issues of race and social justice in education. And so being able to walk into a classroom and say to myself, yes, I can relate to the students. How did you come to start #EduColor?

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Conference EdTech Advocacy Assessment 202

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Instead, schools must support and address these issues in the classroom. One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018. Shortening the school day for students with disabilities as punishment for their behavior is illegal, experts say.

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Pearson Education Learning Report 145