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Teresa Garcia estaba frustrada. Su español era mucho mejor que su inglés, y eso le impedía comunicarse con los maestros de sus hijos. Ella no estaba sola. En el distrito escolar de Federal Way, al norte de Tacoma, Washington, el 18 por ciento de los 22,500 estudiantes son hablantes nativos de español. En total, los estudiantes en el distrito diverso hablan 118 idiomas diferentes. "No podría apoyar a mis hijos de la mejor manera que se merecen porque no podía hablar inglés. Sé que muchas familias necesitan esta información en su idioma materno para apoyar a sus hijos ", explica García. García y otros padres trabajaron con el distrito para cambiar la forma en que las escuelas se comunican con las familias y para asegurar que la información se traduzca a varios idiomas. Ella también presionó a la legislatura estatal para aumentar la educación bilingüe en todo el estado. "El consejo más importante que puedo dar a cualquier padre", dice García, es no tener miedo de hablar. No sientas miedo de preguntar sobre lo que necesitas. No sientas miedo de ir a la escuela y hablar tu idioma ".
Wendy Robinson, the superintendent in Indiana’s Fort Wayne Community Schools for the last 13 years, is, perhaps, the state’s most persuasive advocate for traditional public schools, even as many Indiana politicians embrace robust school choice policies.
Her approach to fighting for public schools—particularly urban districts like Fort Wayne—is thoughtful, prepared, and confident. She is not only well-versed in research-based academic best practices, but also deeply knowledgeable about school finance, education policy, and the often divisive politics that drive the debate over K-12.
It’s an approach that has helped cement Fort Wayne as a diverse and thriving urban school system—a counter narrative to the often negative stereotype of big-city school systems—that wisely uses its resources to produce strong academic results.
“Our whole philosophy is that ‘no, we are not failing,’” Robinson says. “Our kids may need different resources, but we have as many kids who are considered highly able, who can go on to Stanford, and Yale, and all the other universities as kids in other areas [do]. But just because it’s public, it’s denigrated, and that really is a personal affront for me.”
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Teachers are the most important factor in helping children succeed academically, but it’s principals who hire, support, and develop teachers. Principals see quality teaching through an organizational lens; they can support teachers by pairing them with a mentor teacher, creating opportunities for them to observe classrooms in other schools, provide direct and helpful feedback, as well as organize teacher teams to empower educators to study data. Having good principals is also considered the most cost-effective lever to improve student learning at scale.
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Superintendent Chris Coffelt works tirelessly to recruit, retain, and improve the practice of teachers who might otherwise be drawn to bigger cities and bigger salaries outside his small Iowa school district. His work with developing teacher talent has made the 750-student Central Decatur Community School District a beacon of teacher leadership.
“Our classrooms and classroom teachers are no longer isolated,” Coffelt says. “They feel energized and supported.”
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Research shows that the surroundings that people learn, live and work in can deeply impact their mental and physical health. The International WELL Building Institute has created a certification that measures that impact, and several schools across the country have implemented those best practices to become WELL certified. In this video, IWBI’s president and CEO, Rachel Hodgdon, shares the different elements that go into the certification and offers tips for districts looking to incorporate parts of it on a smaller scale.
Patricia Deklotz, the superintendent of the Kettle Moraine School District in Wales, Wis., instills a culture of personalized learning for students and educators. Students can choose how and what they learn within the state’s standards, and teachers can create their own microcredentials to advance their careers.
“It’s important for me to show there are hard numbers behind the work we do with personalized learning, that we aren’t doing it just because we think it’s right,” Deklotz says.
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Regardless of their experience level, the shift to distance learning was challenging for teachers this spring. They adapted by finding new platforms and developing new skills to address the issues they faced. For first-time teachers, Larry Ferlazzo offers tips and resources to help them succeed in this new education environment.
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In this two-part series, Larry Ferlazzo, a high school teacher in Sacramento, Calif., goes in-depth on how to keep students motivated during remote learning. He covers the principles of autonomy, competence, relatedness, and relevance, and explains how they keep students tuned in when it’s so easy for them to tune out. In part one of this series, he focuses on autonomy and competence.
Take in some of the sights and sounds from a day at Collinswood Language Academy, a K-8 dual-language school in Charlotte, N.C. ____________________
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Preparing a child for kindergarten can be a daunting task for any parent. Beyond the challenges of managing separation anxiety, some may also try and get their children “up to speed” by teaching them the alphabet or how to count from 1 to 10. For families whose first language is not English there are also language and cultural barriers to contend with. But what are the most important skills on day one? In Portland, Ore., a kindergarten preparedness program offers parents strategies to help prepare their children to hit the ground running. Teacher Donna Shinagawa shares six tips with us.
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In Oregon, where Black students make up only 5 percent of the student body, Camp ELSO is working on introducing students of color to a multicultural approach for STEM education. From gathering in gardens, playing with plant-based dyes, and cooking up vegan meals, small groups of Portland youngsters of color were introduced to science in their community.
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Three-fourths of the roughly 500 students at Islington Junior Middle School in Toronto, speak a language other than English at home. There are also a growing number of refugee children from Syria settling here, many of whom have had interrupted schooling and are not at grade level in their home language. Canadian teachers use a variety of methods to teach these children to read and write in English, with remarkable success.
Education Week Top School Jobs virtual career fairs are designed to help you find teaching jobs and other jobs in K-12 education. They provide an opportunity to chat 1:1 with recruiters from schools and districts around the country that are actively hiring, as well as critical insights to inform your job search..
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As educators prepare for a new school year, state teachers of the year share the important lessons they’ve learned on classroom management, as well as establishing rules and expectations with students.
As the schools superintendent in the City of Jennings, Mo., a suburb of St. Louis, Anderson recognized that to improve her students' performance in the classroom, she first had to address their needs outside of the classroom. This video was produced as part of Education Week’s Leaders To Learn From project, recognizing outstanding school district leaders from around the country. More at http://leaders.edweek.org. ____________________
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Mary Newell, the director of nursing in the Kent, Wash., school district, shares her very personal journey to ensure that students are healthy and ready to learn. ____________________
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In rural Murray County, Ga., Superintendent Vickie Reed relies on meaningful student input to help inform school district decisionmaking. This video was produced as part of Education Week’s Leaders To Learn From project, recognizing outstanding school district leaders from around the country. More at http://leaders.edweek.org. ____________________
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Here’s your all-in-one guide to the Common Core State Standards, adopted by a majority of states with great fanfare—and considerable pushback in some places. Education Week’s Andrew Ujifusa unpacks the standards covering math and English/language arts, what they’re intended to do, what’s included along with what’s not. He examines the debate over the standards, along with some of the misconceptions that have accompanied their rollout in recent years.
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The students at Ron Brown College Preparatory High School are “kings.” All freshmen. All young men of color. All determined to change the dominant narrative about young black men in Washington: too many read below grade-level and won’t graduate high school. This new public school in Washington D.C. opened its doors in August 2016 and is radically different. Not just because it is a public school for boys, but because it's designed specifically to meet the needs of D.C.’s young men of color. The school’s principal and the majority of its teachers are black men. They begin each morning in a school-wide circle, navigating conversations that include neighborhood violence and police shootings, protest and poverty. Many schools do one or two of these things, but few do them all – and with the conviction of Ron Brown’s staff. For the past year, through a partnership between Education Week and NPR, we visited Ron Brown weekly -- and some weeks, daily -- to witness the birth of this new school and to see how its staff tackles some of the toughest challenges in education today. We spent hundreds of hours there, from the earliest days to the last bell.
Filmed by Swikar Patel and Erin Irwin
Edited by Deanna Del Ciello
Interviewed by Kavitha Cardoza and Cory Turner
Photos by Jared Soares and Kavitha Cardoza
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The best professional development can inspire educators long after the program ends. But other activities sold as professional development end up falling far short of the mark. In this video, we share some humorous samples of what teachers told us were their worst PD experiences.
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