The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

It also found that high achieving students who won a seat in a lottery to attend a popular magnet school did better in science but not in math or English compared to similar students who lost the lottery.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

The fourth annual Global Leadership Summit will be held on Friday, March 15th, 2019 from 8:30 am - 3:30 pm at the Marriott Marquis Chicago at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. She is the 2017 DoDEA State Teacher of the Year, the 2017 UMUC Outstanding Alumnae of the Year, and a 2016 ASCD Emerging Leader.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

A groundbreaking 2016 study, underwritten by Reading Plus , an adaptive literacy intervention platform, found that contemporary silent readers are significantly less efficient than their counterparts from 1960—and the researchers suggested a direct link to the decline in the overall amount of time students spend reading.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

TeamMakers: Positively Impacting the Lives of Children through District-Wide Dreaming, Collaborating, and Change , published by Dave Burgess Publishing was published in 2019. Schools Full of Readers: Tools for Teachers, Coaches and leaders to Support Students , is also from 2019.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Background: The 2018-2019 school year is Inquiry Hub Secondary’s 7th year since it was founded. 2016 was the first year that they used the Digital Learning Course as part of their Grade 9 interdisciplinary pod. Confluence and Influence – Inquiry Hub Secondary School.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The following school year, 2015-2016, the district’s overall score jumped to 61 percent, and the low-income Hispanic student group also rose by 10 percentage points to 41 percent. The program was called Focus on Early Literacy. Sometimes she’ll go to other second grade teachers at the school and ask for suggestions, she said.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Are you still looking for reasons to create e-textbooks for students? Well, it’s 2019, and most of the schools and universities have already accepted digital textbooks as the future of education. They are more interactive and intuitive, and keep the students engaged in the learning process.

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Buncee

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

As a teacher of foreign languages and also an eighth-grade STEAM course, I want students to create something authentic, and I want them to feel like they are creating something meaningful, that goes beyond just creating a project for a class. The goal is to have students engage in more authentic learning and how they show their learning.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Updating this policy resulted in strengthening the partnership among district educators and technical professionals as we worked collaboratively to iterate a version that would be easy to understand and could be used as an instructional resource in guiding students and staff in the responsible use of technology.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Successful schools look at assessments as a jumping off point to evaluate curriculum, teaching methods, student engagement, etc. the national movement to redefine what it means for students to be college, career and life ready while serving as the 2015-2016 President of AASA, The School Superintendents Association.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

He authored two regular columns for Library Journal Academic Newswire, "From the Bell Tower" and "Leading From the Library" from 2009 through 2019. He authored two regular columns for Library Journal Academic Newswire, "From the Bell Tower" and "Leading From the Library" from 2009 through 2019.

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Buncee

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Using Buncee, students can find what they need to be creative, communicate ideas, and think critically about the work they are doing, while having fun during the creation process. It promotes student engagement because they can truly create something that is authentic and meaningful to them. Templates are here!

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

Vodicka along with Erik Burmeister, Superintendent, and Theresa Fox, Coordinator of Technology and Innovation, both from Menlo Park City School District, CA, agreed that if 80% of students are graduating, then 20% of students are not graduating and that educational professionals can’t be satisfied with these statistics.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

showed her students the 2016 documentary Before the Flood , featuring Leonardo diCaprio journeying to five continents and the Arctic to see the effects of climate change. “It is our intention to make our students engaged citizens,” Fisher says. Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit [link].

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Participants in VEX Robotics World Championship 2019 (Source: REC Foundation) Girls in STEM: the Landscape The strategy seems simple: Include more female students in STEM subject areas like engineering and computer science, and positive changes will happen naturally over time, right? We’re already seeing the impact of our program.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And the effect was particularly noticeable in students from low socioeconomic status (SES) homes, who are more at risk for unhealthy stress levels.[8]. Exposure to art in early grades is directly linked to student engagement , as well as school readiness skills for low SES students.[4,7] ScienceDaily Staff. Hardiman, M.M.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

There has been a significant and steady drop nationwide in the proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college in the fall after they finish high school — from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 63 percent in 2020, the most recent year for which the figure is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In 2016, XQ Institute spent more millions on a public awareness campaign to promote its ideas about reforming education, papering its branding on buses and bus stops. Yet the college enrollment rate within six months of graduation has been falling — from 56 percent for the class of 2019 to 51 percent for the class of 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding. In 2016, Resnick, Duffy and members of their team began working with seventh and eighth graders at Somerville’s Arthur D. Healey School to bring student-led, project-based learning to regular math, science, language arts and social studies classes.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

Student engagement suffered. Over time, the need to quickly adapt led to heightened online student engagement, according to a CatchOn survey of 47 school districts from January 2020 to January 2021. Logged On but Logged Out: Are Students Engaged? If they are logged in, are they engaged?

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Being able to modify how students are seated enables a greater variety of tech-based activities. And variety -- over a class period, day, or week -- increases student engagement. Flexible seating also allows activities to include student choice, creativity, and collaboration. Thomas, Edutopia, September 3, 2019).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

But administrators and teachers had been trying to keep students engaged in learning and thinking about their futures, and the graduation rate had begun to tick up ever so slightly. Related: More studies mark the pandemic’s toll on student achievement. When Travis-Curtis became principal in 2019, enrollment was plummeting.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

There is no one answer for what the coming school year will look like, but it won’t resemble the fall of 2019. It’s unusual for faculty in a high school to meet regularly to discuss student success, rather than curricula or administrative details. Future outbreaks will make for unpredictable waves of closures.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. million in grant support for the Summit Learning Program.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

The “virus”spread by Blue-tooth when participants were in close proximity for an extended time, and was slowed by digital masks and vaccines that students could get after taking quizzes based on the in-class lessons. The student engagement was so strong. The student engagement was so strong. Credit: Becky Morris.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 27, 2020

In a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by Beable, educators and entrepreneurs—committed to developing students’ academic and lifelong skills—shared strategies and tools designed to propel student engagement, strengthen academic proficiency, and build young people’s capacity for gainful employment and financial well-being.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

in theoretical physics, he retired in 2019 as Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University in England, after 13 years there including a year in 2012 as Visiting Professor at MIT MediaLab in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. His activities with teachers and students are guided by a focus on learning-by-doing.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Amazon Inspire.

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