Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Background and Experience Prior to being appointed as Connecticut’s education commissioner in August 2019, Cardona spent two decades at Meriden Public Schools—the same school system he attended himself—first as an elementary school teacher, then for 10 years as principal and more recently in district leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. Second grade teachers Amy Hart (center) and Alina Turner (right), with her dog, Mello, meet with Karen Shutt (left), instructional coach for a planning meeting at Edmondson Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

If it were using a Common Core test, for example, New York City could be compared to other rapidly gentrifying cities like San Francisco, Washington and Boston. Related: How one innovative school district has closed gaps on harder Common Core tests. Joseph Pirozzi at Franklin Elementary in Syracuse, N.Y.,

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MindShift

JULY 11, 2018

“Social studies is like the lima beans on the curricular plate of the elementary student’s day,” said Paul Fitchett, associate professor and director of curriculum and instruction for the doctoral program in education at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report).

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wwwatanabe

JUNE 26, 2012

The Collaboration Coach training presents an opportunity for Apache Junction Unified School District teachers to explore coaching as an effective model for providing ongoing professional learning with classroom teachers focused on 21st century learning, Common Core, technology integration, and best teaching practices.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Jon’s core PL skills are focused on 1:1 deployment, Common Core, Project Based Learning, social media skills and Lesson Design. Jon Corippo. on Corippo is the Chief Innovation Officer for CUE, leading CUE’s professional learning throughout California and Nevada.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Related: Theater helps English language learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap?

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 12, 2014

https://blogush.edublogs.org/2013/06/22/15-assessments-that-dont-suck/ Don Goble -6 word video stories [link] METC eNews student bureau Ladue Broadcast Technology students partner each year with the Midwest Education Technology Conference (METC) to provide onsite conference videos of their event. I co-presented two workshops this year.

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wwwatanabe

AUGUST 15, 2013

Leadership Day 2013 Image by Scott McLeod Model what you want to see Sometimes the best professional development comes informally through the behaviors of others, influencing how I think and what I think about. Professional development manifests itself in many ways online and in person.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)? Technology Integration and the Common Core by Andrew Miller The CCSS call us to integrate technology in intentional and meaningful ways to have students meet rigorous standards. Unfortunately they are frequently used solely as word processors and for research.

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MindShift

JULY 22, 2018

In a popular 2013 article Jocelyn Sams elaborated, “I have a full schedule of classes on most days, and I don’t have an assistant. That’s a move others who genrefy say better aligns libraries with the Common Core curriculum. Back in Galt, Taylor’s new classifications continually evolve.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

They have created their own vegetable gardens and raised funds to bring plant beds to local elementary schools. A 2013 Mathematica Policy Research study of several EL middle schools found that after three years the EL students had made significant gains in reading and math compared to other middle school students.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Second-graders at Dunn Elementary in Kentucky. Related: Closing gap for immigrant students under Common Core in Kentucky is a moving target. This is exactly what Oregon did in 2013. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. Around 5 million children in U.S. schools are learning English as a new language, about one in ten students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Gary Bass Meaningful STEM-Based Learning in a University/Elementary School Partnership - Maria D. Shaheen, Ph.D.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

She assigned her students a 2013 novel by Mindy McGinnis called Not a Drop to Drink. Pamela Tarango teaches third grade at the Downtown Elementary School in Bakersfield, Calif. Assign a novel. Rebecca Meyer is an eighth-grade English language arts teacher at Bronx Park Middle School in New York City. Here are some more resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The district also embraced the new Common Core standards, despite controversy elsewhere. But we clearly did not get enough additional money in 2013-14 to cover our changes in demographics and student count.”. Harmon, Hajek has begun to see the district’s higher expectations pay off, especially in the case of the Common Core.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

It was 2013. She was the new principal of the O’Keeffe School of Excellence, an elementary school on Chicago’s South Side that had been struggling for years. Before that, he was an elementary school teacher in Japan. Two, they were thinking about the Common Core. That’s when Bankhead was hired.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The reason is that when you come to school and your language skills aren’t as good, a lot of what the teacher says—and 80 percent of classroom instruction in elementary school is a teacher talking and students listening—is going to go right over your head.”. The most recent NAEP scores showed that just 36 percent of U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 12,000 language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry. First, learn how to discover new tools rated for learning, mapped to Common Core, and see how other teachers are using them.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Via DelawareOnline : “The first step to reducing violence among young people is to have police officers assigned to elementary and middle schools, says a coalition of state officials, education administrators and police.” He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

For example, in 2013, the school reports, 56 percent of Quest middle school students scored higher than their citywide peers on the statewide English language arts test. His parents say the games have made him a risk-taker, unaffected by the frustration he often felt in elementary school if something didn’t work the first time.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. 11 states introduced bills modeled on language from the ACLU.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

“Social studies is like the lima beans on the curricular plate of the elementary student’s day,” said Paul Fitchett, associate professor and director of curriculum and instruction for the doctoral program in education at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

I think we took for granted before what 4-year-olds were capable of doing,” said Quitman Lower Elementary Principal Amanda Allen, listing some skills the youngest learners are impressing her with: advanced vocabularies, number recognition, self-motivation. The Manuel Goff Head Start center is a mile away from Quitman Lower Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Over the last three years, the proportion of students passing Common Core-aligned national math and reading tests has inched up, growing from 3 percent to 6 percent. Leave this field empty if you're human: At Gordon Bush Elementary School, pass rates on state tests more than tripled last year. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist visits a first-grade class at Penn Elementary School. Along with her strong support for charter schools and the Common Core curriculum, Gist was convinced that great student outcomes could be directly tied to teaching excellence. Related: LA’s school counselors strike back.

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