The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Pandemic school closures and remote instruction made learning to read much harder, especially for young, low-income students who didn’t have adequate technology at home or an adult who could assist them during the day. Nationwide, test scores for younger students, who are just learning to read, dropped far more than for older students.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 145

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Whereas a Google search for “learning techniques” returns over 400 million results, researchers Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Mitchell, and Willingham (2013) culled through hundreds of studies to provide a “curated” analysis of the 10 most effective learning techniques commonly used by students. Dunlosky et al.

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Strategy E-rate Learning Study 120

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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Education Learning Resources Tools 268

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

.” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. “ FY 2008 $267,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $0).

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

In a diverse school district with more than 20 schools and 23,000 students, providing an equitable opportunity for every student to learn and grow is not an easy task. This edWeb broadcast was hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network, providing premier professional learning for educational leaders.

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System Strategy Education Elementary 60

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

Today Liz Kolb @lkolb talks about how we can put learning first and a very important reason technology should be second. In today’s show, Liz Kolb talks about the role of learning and technology: What is the role of technology in learning. How we can make technology improve learning and not distract from it.

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Technology Learning Software Google 109

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

on Corippo is the Chief Innovation Officer for CUE, leading CUE’s professional learning throughout California and Nevada. Jon keynotes, leads and designs Professional Learning experiences all over the country. Every week day you’ll learn powerful practical ways to be a more remarkable teacher today. Jon Corippo.

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EdTech Tools Twitter Professional Learning 378

Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. During that Summit, the leaders identified five key tenets of Competency Based Learning (CBL): Students advance upon mastery.

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Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Learning Assessment 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

There are organizations that support different kinds of transformation in schools and after researching and interviewing some of these organizations, we've learned a great deal about what these changes can look like, how schools go about redesigning aspects of their model, and what types of support they need along the way.

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Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 60

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2020

This type of curriculum teaches the basics in an authentic context of culturally relevant tasks and avoids excessive test prep and “multiple-choice learning.”. For students, a culturally responsive curriculum provides opportunities to acquire important knowledge and skills, understand larger concepts, and transfer learning to new situations.

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Outcomes Differentiated Instruction Assessment Professional Learning 67

edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

While each of the educators provided different tips based on the age of their students and the extent of their online work, they also agreed on a number of key points, including the importance of consistency and routines, and of limiting the use of new tech tools in order for teaching and learning to be effective.

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Education Secondary Policies Elementary 54

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

Although the switch was initially seen as a cost-saving measure, educators have quickly learned that longer weekends are immensely popular with families, especially in rural communities where the truncated school week is most common. “We Many policymakers lament the downsizing of education, worried that students may learn less.

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Study Analysis Policies Report 119

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

I was inspired to write this post because of the soon to be released episode 536 (to be released on August 5, 2019 ), where a third-year teacher, Edwin Thomas Minguela, and I talk about the lessons he’s learned in his first two years of teaching. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

She would receive the federal money through a state grantee, the Colorado-based nonprofit Early Learning Ventures, which would provide additional funding for some of the lower-income kids enrolled in her program, increasing her insufficient salary. The program promised to help her ramp up the quality of her center, at little to no cost.

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How To Report Accessibility Policies 145

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 5, 2017

Every week day you’ll learn powerful practical ways to be a more remarkable teacher today. geek is helping us learn five simple ways to improve physical education with technology. That’s actually got some real evidence there to drive your assessment and drive what they’ve been able to achieve in your classroom. how do we start?

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EdTech Education Tools Video 261

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. To her left, Makayla offered: “My sunshine share is the part where we learned about oak trees.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Weekly Update.

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

Reading comprehension strategies (RCS) are simply a “bag of tricks” that although are useful to teach because they are quick and easy to learn, do not provide specific guidelines on how to connect sentences. Younger students also have limited metacognition and often incorrectly assess their understanding. 2008): 407-23. .”

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Assessment Strategy Industry Study 40

Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

This is an older post, but I recently updated the bottom to include reflections on gradpoint; the blended learning digital content provider Magen David Yeshivah High School chose this past year. I hope to rectify this in the near future, but since 2008, reading acquisition has become something on the forefront of my mind.

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Technology Blended Learning Elementary Assessment 51

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

is the Founder, Directress, and Principal Consultant for Meridian Learning. And that figuring out what we love, what we’re good at, and how we can be of service, is the engine we need to fuel a lifetime of joyful learning. Tasha Ring is a licensed early childhood and elementary educator specializing in multisensory-based methodologies.

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Trends Handbook Kaplan Company 36

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. It’s stuff that we learned.”. It’s stuff that we learned.”. They completely made sense to me.”

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Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 70

MIND Research Institute

APRIL 5, 2022

As MIND Research Institute looks to grow, learn, iterate, and improve in service of our students and educators, we continue to engage in conversations between colleagues and partners. Twana was an elementary teacher, middle school math teacher, and school improvement coordinator. It has been edited for length and clarity.

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Video Elementary Conference Strategy 101

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

For the past 3 years CoSN has been involved in a project which is called " Participatory Learning in Schools: Leadership and Policy." MacArthur Foundation and is included in the Foundation''s digital media and learning program. What does "participatory learning" actually mean, and how does it intersect with digital media?

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Learning Policies Secondary Handbook 73

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Estonian students are among the highest performers in Europe on international math, reading and science assessments. But by 2008, they abandoned the practice. “It Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Secondary System Survey Study 0

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. There are quite a number of ways in which you can learn to be an online facilitator. How did you learn? link] LEARNING MATHEMATICS WITH VIDEO GAMES ( Math 2.0

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Moodle iPad Elementary Guidelines 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

And upon learning that as a member of the Say Yes operations committee he would be required to work closely with Philip Rumore, his longtime adversary and the head of the city’s teachers union, Radford remembers, “I didn’t see how this was going to work. Can you imagine the devastation to a community … year after year after year?”.

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Data Secondary System Accessibility 97

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

A study by Brett Lane, president and founder of the Institute for Strategic Leadership and Learning, an education research and policy consulting firm, reported that the percentage of students in the district proficient in math increased by over 50 points and in reading by over 40 points between 1996 and 2008. percent in 2000 to 78.4

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Common Core Report Groups Meeting 40

Waterford

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

But surprisingly, static test scores did not correlate at all with overall learning rates. Then, we’ll brainstorm a few ways you can use this research to improve learning rates for all students in your district. Learning rates indicate how a student’s test scores improve over time. After all, they do not measure growth.

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Study Strategy Resources Accessibility 154

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and the implementation of emergency remote learning dramatically accelerated the push toward 1:1 computing initiatives that was already underway. The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent.

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Broadband Survey Laptops Analysis 128

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

One part of that collaboration — ensuring smooth transitions for students from home to preschool and preschool to kindergarten — is what brought Daniel’s teachers from Alderson Elementary, lead teacher Audrey Persinger and assistant teacher Terri Webb, to his home in early May. He is ready to learn to read,” she added.

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Pearson Elementary Data Report 93

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

The Schenectady district fortified its five-year-old diversion program in 2021 when it started to see more students, even those in middle school, landing in long-term suspension because of post-pandemic behavior problems after they returned to in-person learning.

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Groups Report Meeting Elementary 139

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Jamie Gorman said Teen Mental Health First Aid helped her learn “how to be a better friend in general — checking up on your friends and making sure they’re ok and asking them what’s going on at home.” The latter program was developed about two decades ago in Australia, and has been taught in the United States since 2008.

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Training Report Course Groups 126

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. It’s very important for arts to be seen as a subject that can be and should be tested,” said Frank Philip, an arts education assessment consultant. It’s a parity thing.”.

Education 40

Education Assessment Guidelines Elementary 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Armstrong''s 2008 TED Prize wish asked to help her assemble the Charter for Compassion, a document around which religious leaders can work together for peace. In late fall 2008, the first draft of the document was written by the world, via a sharing website. She is a powerful voice for ecumenical understanding.

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2018

Crisp Elementary School in Nashua, New Hampshire. Crisp Elementary School in the small city of Nashua, New Hampshire, nodded. It’s also a fact — true, true, true, and we can prove it — that full-day kindergarten classes like Lemoine’s help kids do better in early elementary school, researchers say.

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Elementary Report Policies Study 107

Hack Education

MARCH 30, 2017

“The Year of the MOOC” – I was summoned to Palo Alto, California for a small gathering to discuss the future of teaching, learning, and technology. With enough data and some machine learning, you can identify – statistically – the most common obstacles. Is learning “like a map”?

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Education Robotics MOOC Company 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2021

Wyoming’s National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores , too, are consistently higher than the national average and on par with Northeastern education strongholds like New Jersey. “To I hope we’ve learned our lesson not to put all of our eggs in one basket,” she said. Credit: Kathryn Palmer for The Hechinger Report.

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Industry Report Training Policies 139