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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Creger was showing the students how to read by using phonics, which teaches children the relationships between letters and sounds. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

The Hechinger Report

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Toxic Stress in the Classroom

Waterford

How to Use Stress Management Techniques in School. The Science of Early Life Toxic Stress for Pediatric Practice and Advocacy. The link between classroom teacher burnout and morning cortisol in elementary school students. Teaching Students How to Deal With Stress. Archives of Disease in Childhood, 2015, 100(9), pp.

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Kids Co-Creating Curriculum

The CoolCatTeacher

We’ve had some kids in the county that have co-created curriculum with teachers around things that are of interest to them, such as how to create music in a sound studio, and building an elective for that. And their job is to teach all the other kids how to fly this drone.”. Drones in the Classroom. He actually ran for school board.

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Learning to Breathe: Educators Use Yoga and Meditation to Reduce Burnout

Edsurge

She spent many of her weekends this past fall at an elementary school in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, alongside 83 other peers, including fellow classroom teachers and other educators. In 2015, she started Breathe for Change. It has since trained about 2,500 people, and currently operates in eleven cities.

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Transgender Students Are Still at Risk, But Schools Can Help

Edsurge

In 2015, Vanessa Ford’s 4-year-old came out as transgender. Public Schools, she realized there was a lot she still didn’t know, such as how to make a support plan for her daughter Ellie. Vanessa, you are the parent of a transgender child and you've spoken about the desire to make your story an advocacy piece.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

How to Get Buy-in For Transformational Change from Teachers. In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county. a nonprofit organization authorized by the U.S.