The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As teachers develop lesson plans, they also face lingering questions, in Maine and nationally, over the possibility of a return to remote learning and concerns about ensuring all students have access to the devices and high-quality broadband they need to do classwork and homework. 18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

A push to close early learning gaps in Texas. Bethel Elementary School students get a break from reading and math lessons with an engineering activity during summer school in Simpsonville, S.C. Students participate in a hands-on activity during summer school at Bethel Elementary School in Simpsonville, S.C. SIMPSONVILLE, S.C.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 24, 2023

With ESSER deadlines just around the corner, we'd like to provide a short guide on how to use those funds. ESSER, which stands for Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief , was first established as part of the CARES Act, where additional funds were added to ESSER II and III. What is ESSER? To this day, the U.S.

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5 Districts and schools may be wondering how to best use these funds.

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5 Districts and schools may be wondering how to best use these funds.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil. And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. It’s harder. school system.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 19, 2021

Thank you to Keith McCray for sharing his thoughts on the new Blended Learning with Google book on Twitter. Rethink how to use #EdTech and now more than ever the 1800s model of education is not working! KMcCray85) January 8, 2021. Synchronous and Asynchronous Online Learning Expectations. © Shake Up Learning 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Almost a year later, in February 2021, the results are in: a mere three online learning technologies have clear evidence for improving student achievement. Another improves reading comprehension among older elementary school students. The third is an online algebra course for eighth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

In the spring of 2021, $600 stood between Endele Wilson and his dream of achieving a teaching credential from Long Beach City College. Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nearly 5,800 students attend classes at one of the district’s eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and high school. When the district’s schools were forced to transition to online learning in March 2020, access to devices was paramount. All the schools worked together to pool available laptops and iPads.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

As students return to school for the 2021-22 year, educators are thinking about how to teach children who have missed months of instruction because of the pandemic. Or should they start fourth graders off at the usual beginning, learning place values through millions and billions, as if third grade hadn’t been disrupted?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7 Researchers documented that students were often learning a lot less through these prepackaged online courses compared to repeating the class with a human instructor. That’s a sign these adults didn’t learn needed skills in school. “We million to 3.3

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Meanwhile, their parents often struggled with their own language barriers and strains on the family that made it even more difficult to help their children thrive, particularly when it came to online learning. In Texas, one in five students in public schools is an English-language learner.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

In the winter of 2019, a group of college faculty members, education consultants and government employees from the Department of Education and the National Security Agency were discussing how to address a talent gap in cybersecurity — there were more 300,000 job openings in the growing sector and no one qualified to fill them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Back in April, as schools across the country shifted to online instruction to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Scott Muri saw firsthand just how damaging lack of internet access can be for students and families. We have to do something about that, especially now that so many of our students are learning remotely,” Muri said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

Even before the pandemic shunted them into online learning, many high school students failed to see a connection between their work in the classroom and their real-world futures. Young people whose education included a work-based learning experience — and with it a sampling of career opportunities they might never have imagined.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. The school also offers an array of specialized online programs and curricula at every grade level.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2021

But what happens when kids are learning at home? Rosabella Manzanares, a first grader at Betsy Ross Elementary in Forest Park, Ill., ” Schools might not know, for example, how to support a blind parent or caregiver who is now expected to help her child practice her handwriting—writing she can’t see.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

When Louisiana schools shut down due to Covid-19 in mid-March, Calcasieu Parish teachers scrambled to transition to online learning. Everybody sort of struggled through trying to develop a combination of paper packets and online instruction,” said Bruchhaus, the superintendent. Students faced barriers to virtual learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on ed tech’ Hebbar’s Ed Tech Equity Project, in collaboration with Digital Promise, launched a product certification program in 2021 to recognize ed tech companies that share plans to incorporate racial equity in their designs. AI literacy is going to be a really important part of information literacy,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. So it’s easy for me to show them how to do it, show them my way,” said Obimma.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? Sustaining lessons learned. © 2021 The Christian Science Monitor.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

But in states like New Jersey, one of at least nine states around the country that have mandated in-person learning for the 2021-22 school year , parents and teachers who were hoping to continue on the distance-learning track are on their own. An aerial photo of downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, part of Guilford County.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

The past several years have seen a rapid rise in the use of edtech in classrooms, accelerated by the pandemic and the sudden shift to remote learning. In the 2021-22 school year, the district piloted Google Sites in a small group of classrooms and collected feedback from the pilot teachers and students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Amanda Amtmanis, an elementary physical education instructor in Middletown, Connecticut, handed out cards with QR codes to a class of third graders, and told them to start running. Amanda Amtmanis, the PE instructor at Macdonough Elementary, hands a fifth grader a card with a QR code for tracking her mileage. Whoa, look at Dominic!”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

She vanished from Cambridge, Massachusetts’ public school roll in 2021 and has been, from an administrative standpoint, unaccounted for since then. Some students couldn’t study online and found jobs instead. Another Boston student became severely depressed during online learning and was hospitalized for months.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As Jones County leaders will tell you, this dynamic, one-stop-shop of connected solutions and professional learning services positioned the district well to face the unique challenges presented by COVID-19 and the 2020-2021 school year. Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s “Opening” series , we profiled five school communities that successfully reopened during the 2020-2021 school year. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. Both of these rural districts faced challenges with online learning, as many families did not have Wi-Fi at home.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2021

In a New York Times article this past April, entitled " How to Help Your Adolescent Think About the Last Year ," writer Judith Warner notes that: "On and offline, parents are trading stories — poignant and painful — about all of the ways that they fear their middle schoolers are losing ground."

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

In January 2021, Seage decided it was time to leap into the education field, leveraging the skills he acquired to make a difference at his alma mater, Christopher Columbus High School. Under his leadership, CCHS was one of the first schools to implement Samsung’s Flip 3 whiteboard in 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

This is one of many multisensory activities Welch uses in her reading intervention class, a 30-minute pull-out session that meets daily at the elementary school. Children dance to learn the letter D, for example, while chanting the sound that goes with the letter. Credit: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 21, 2021

If you love podcasts yourself and are curious about how to use them more with students, you’ll find some great practical strategies and tools here in this interview I did with Monica Brady-Myerov. Monica shares examples of how teachers are incorporating podcasts into their instruction. This is, obviously, a pre-COVID example.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. She’d noticed that Nevaeh was missing a grade in her online grade book for a major science project that the teen said she had completed. Navarro began working with Jason in May 2021.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

In normal times, students enrolled in her courses as 10th graders already knew how to navigate high school life. Preston-west Philadelphia 05: Like many non-selective high schools in Philadelphia, West Philadelphia High has a relatively low graduation rate, 67 percent in 2021. Online learning was challenging for many students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Concurrently, a portion of the funding went to LEAP to help train principals and teachers at more than 100 Chicago-area schools on personalized learning. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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