A Principal's Reflections

MAY 9, 2013

After thirteen years of teaching high school and middle school language arts, the idea of having to mark those papers with notations like “run-on” and “fragment” ad nauseam drove me to seek a different solution. Common Core Professional Development'

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Much later, as a middle school math teacher, Robinson would cram before teaching a lesson; she was still hearing that long-ago teachers voice in her head saying she couldnt grasp the material. Robinson had to sort through her own math trauma.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2024

We first met Nakia, a student at Chilhowee Middle School in rural Benton, Tennessee, in 2018. We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow, I wish we had those possibilities.’” Every student and teacher at Chilhowee, Austin Middle School (Texas), John A.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

History in elementary and middle school; also require at least one year of U.S. History and one semester of civics in high school. Usability and Teacher Support: The materials are well-organized, properly paced, and accompanied by robust professional development resources.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Board of Supervisors voted to bring back middle-school algebra, and a city ballot measure to reinstate eighth-grade algebra passed with about 82 percent of the vote. Critics also challenged the arguments and data used by the district to justify the policy. This year San Francisco unraveled its nearly 10-year experiment.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

We’ve developed “Look for” documents to support teachers and administrators in envisioning how this fusion could work in elementary and middle school classrooms. In addition, a CT “Look for” document might be particularly helpful to administrators since defining CT has been an ongoing challenge for school districts.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I tell my middle school students, you're going to have to sign applications for high school, for college, for financial aid, for scholarships. I also teach cursive writing, which is a lost art. When you become a boss, you're going to have to sign checks. I also teach media literacy.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Professional Development Partnerships with Studies Weekly | Teacher Testimonial Feb 07, 2025 Video Transcript Speaker : Julie G., 4th Grade Teacher, TX How was your experience with our Professional Development team? Ongoing professional development (PD) is essential for both educators and students to thrive.

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TCI

JANUARY 6, 2025

Engaging Active Learning: TCIs inquiry-based approach was recognized for its effectiveness in fostering critical thinking among middle school students in Mississippi. The curriculum encourages active exploration of social studies concepts through hands-on learning and real-world applications.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coaches were often tapped to help lead the transition in their districts , drawing on the program’s tech-focused professional development to prepare teachers to engage with students virtually. Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. I’ve spent two decades as a literacy specialist coaching teachers and providing professional development and I’ve seen a lot of transition in the field.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It’s not every day that a top executive from a Fortune 500 company visits a middle school located more than 600 miles from the company’s headquarters. I believe that one of the defining characteristics of the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program is the professional development (PD) that comes with it,” Lubas added.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2021

In February, the district decided, based on data from other school districts in the area, that we would go back to school five days a week. As the Verizon Innovative Learning coach at Norris Middle School, my job is to support teachers in their implementation of technology in the classroom.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 12, 2021

The continued partnership between Digital Promise and Verizon Innovative Learning equips students and teachers at select schools with devices and internet access, as well as professional learning for educators and opportunities to collaborate with a national network of innovative, technology-driven school leaders and educators.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 1, 2021

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative has provided every student and teacher at select middle and high schools with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

This middle school project-based instruction was tested on more than 100 students in high-poverty schools in California. In others, teachers went to summer training institutes, attended extra professional development days during the school year and were given monthly coaching sessions. We know it works.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

Verizon Innovative Learning schools standouts. Congratulations to the Verizon Innovative Learning schools’ 2018-19 Schools of Excellence Award winners: District of the Year: Strong Out of the Gate. Jefferson County Public Schools, Louisville, Kentucky (Cohort 5). Rising Star/Trailblazer Award. Model for Sustainability.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

In it, the report authors list the myriad tasks, in addition to instruction, that teachers do as part of their jobs — meeting with parents, participating in professional development, grading. Those responsibilities all regularly tip teachers’ work weeks past 40 hours. It’s a reality that troubles teachers across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Three recent reports from our organization, Education Reform Now , highlight transformative strategies that high-poverty schools across three states — Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado — are using to drive stronger student outcomes. Here are our top four takeaways from these three states: Demography Does Not Equal Destiny.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2024

Elementary school teachers get about four hours of weekly planning time on average, which is 40 minutes less than their middle school counterparts and 49 minutes less than high school teachers. That works out to about four hours and 26 minutes of planning time per week. What’s a ‘Good’ Amount of Planning Time?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2021

While our book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning , introduces the protocol, has some lesson redesign examples, and includes some tips and strategies, some schools and educators are looking for more interactive professional development. Or we could do: 1 introductory session for elementary school(s).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2021

Most of the next class of ninth graders spent half of their middle school lives in an altered educational environment. Ongoing professional development is essential, especially in how to use the longer periods effectively. Creating a 4×4 schedule is more than a technical change.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

Shanley’s school, Beekmantown Middle School, partnered with the nonprofit College for Every Student (CFES) Brilliant Pathways. It included student mentorship, college or career exploration, professional development resources for educators, and help to families trying to figure out the different pathways to college.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

At Newburg Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky, coaching is a key to success. Watch the video below to see how Newburg Middle School is coaching for success thanks to the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative, then learn more about Verizon Innovative Learning schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

schools Given this public trust, science museums across the nation are taking on a bigger role in supporting teachers in the classroom and helping learners think critically about science. Emily Duguid leads Orlando Science Center’s teacher professional development programming as Vice President of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Papay cited his own 2015 study with Matt Kraft , along with a 2017 study of middle school teachers in North Carolina and a 2011 study of elementary and middle school teacher s. Just because inexperienced teachers are improving the fastest also doesn’t mean that professional development should be targeted at them.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Measure changes in classroom teaching after professional development trainings. Perhaps you want to measure how teachers improve with their questioning strategies after a professional development initiative. This is an efficient way to assess if your district’s professional development is working widely.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2019

DuBois Academy opened its doors last fall as an all-boys middle school with an Afrocentric curriculum, the first of its kind in Louisville, Kentucky. Moreover, the new school also joined the fifth cohort of the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Hoang co-leads Burbank’s partnership with Turnaround Arts: California , a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that seeks to advance education in a select group of elementary and middle schools in the state. Now, over 200,000 students in 4,000 schools have ArcGIS Online accounts.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

To help them succeed, the school — which last year served just over 500 high schoolers , roughly 80 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily professional development and coaching on literacy instruction and other topics.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Implementing reforms in a district, like eliminating grade levels in Kettle Moraine Middle School, is not a feasible task without community understanding. In talking through the challenges, Deklotz recently remarked, “The public listens to teachers before anyone else.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Nicholls State’s department of teacher education, in partnership with Louisiana State University’s school of education and the Louisiana Sea Grant program based at the university, was awarded a two-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for the project.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2021

I served my Title 1 school as a sixth grade math teacher for four years and as a learning strategist for nine years before making a move in 2018 to the Southern Nevada Regional Professional Development Program, which provides professional learning to the five southern counties of Nevada, as a regional math trainer.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

Collective Support offers school and after-school site leaders of color the opportunity to investigate their own practice and design new ways of thinking and being. The MindCatcher team supports the cohort virtually through participatory, hands-on professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Notably: In reviews of 17 middle school math programs , just one was deemed standards-aligned across grades six to eight. Of the 14 elementary school math programs, only two products were found to be standards-aligned across grades K-5, again both published by nonprofits.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Then, in 2019, when I became the lead Arabic teacher at my current school, I attended my first professional development conference. Even in my current teaching position, working at a school where 90 percent of students identify as Muslim, I still see the division.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Some counties and school districts are also adding professional development opportunities for counselors, amid a push to boost graduation and college enrollment rates. High school counselors also study alongside middle school and elementary counselors for whom college and career planning is less of a priority.

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