The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

As school districts continue to make and revise plans to open the 2020–2021 school year, many are considering adopting blended or hybrid learning-based schedules. There is widespread hope that some form of face-to-face interaction can be safely combined with remote learning. Different modes, different strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

26, parents from Brooklyn Arts & Science Elementary School (or P.S. 705) flocked to the school for an open house ahead of the fall 2021 semester. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. contracted Covid-19 between the start of the pandemic and early August 2021.).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As students return to the classroom this fall — many for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that upended their access to quality, in-person learning — we have an opportunity to enact standards to ensure that teachers’ instruction methods are effective and backed by science.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Research note: As Wall (2021) indicates, there is a definite connection between trauma and student behavior as well as student learning. Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

Bellevue Elementary is one of three school buildings in the Northgate School District, a district of 1,100 students two miles from downtown Pittsburgh. Students from Avalon Elementary school’s after-school Kindness Club created buttons advocating kindness to pass out in their community.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. Alongside four other school communities, it was selected because the majority of the district’s students returned to in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year — and under 5 percent of the student population was identified as a Covid-19 case.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. Alongside four other school communities, we selected it because the majority of the district’s students returned to in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year — and officials identified Covid-19 cases in under 5 percent of the student population.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Her tenure began just a few months into the pandemic when coronavirus cases were surging across the nation and education officials were grappling with whether and how to reopen schools. As hard as those first months were, the gradual return to in-person learning in fall 2020 was harder. 14, 2021, in Elko, Nevada.

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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

MARCH 3, 2023

Hebbar said she’s seen racial biases in some of the personalized learning software available for schools. Hebbar said schools can also proactively provide students and educators with the tools to understand how AI works and the risks associated with it. “AI

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

“And so, no improvement efforts big or small in any city or district could be successful without both understanding historically how that has come to be and addressing it.” Related: How to make Cleveland ‘great again’? Because of the improvements, her first grader attends William Rainey Harper elementary on the city’s south side.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Not reading yet or knowing how to use a computer or mouse or knowing how to use a keyboard — everything takes longer and requires my help. I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. First grade in particular — “the reading year,” as Miller calls it — is pivotal for elementary students, when their literacy skills “really take off.” This year, she had to backtrack — all the way to the letter “H.”. This story also appeared in USA Today. “Do

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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. They discuss topics such as bullying, toxic friendships and how to say sorry.

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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. Robinson says.

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MindShift

MARCH 30, 2021

Video classes, she learned, don’t convey height very well. ’ ” When Arcola Elementary School reopened in person in mid-March, Barksdale’s students had to adjust to a very different classroom. And, looking ahead, it’s unclear how traditional schooling will transform and expand after the pandemic. .

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Your stories.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Now, some school districts are pushing this job exploration into middle and even elementary school, convinced that helping students connect what they are learning to careers will not only deepen their engagement but also help them make more informed decisions about their educational paths.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Then came 2021. “No The following pictures capture the tragedy and resilience that marked 2021. Berta Romero is a counselor for English learners at Mary Harris Mother Jones Elementary school in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Sol Forest School students play a game that looks like follow-the-leader in February 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Despite high numbers of cases , the parish school board planned for in-person instruction for the 2020-2021 school year: All pre-K through sixth graders in person; seventh through 12th graders on staggered days. After Thanksgiving, the parish schools switched to in-person learning, though a virtual option is still available.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Not reading yet or knowing how to use a computer or mouse or knowing how to use a keyboard — everything takes longer and requires my help. I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

Jersey City Public Schools, which only opened for in-person learning at the end of April, long after many other districts, seemed unsafe for learning even before the pandemic. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, virtual learning has worked for her son, who has autism and ADHD.

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Learning Social Media Survey Policies 125

Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Many districts invested in edtech platforms and tools to facilitate online learning and to build a hybrid infrastructure that would support the return to in-person learning, all with the goal of creating equitable learning experiences for 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

JANUARY 3, 2022

One week into the semester, the district shut down in-person learning for two weeks in order to get the situation under control. contracted Covid-19 between the start of the pandemic and early August 2021.). Learning from past pandemic semesters. Last school year, the district reported under 30 total cases.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

million teenagers were set to graduate from high school in spring 2021. She previously wanted to specialize in trauma surgery but eventually decided to avoid “the terrible rates of PTSD ” in that field and instead learn how to cut into people’s brains.). It threw a huge fork into my plans.”. Jaden Huynh.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

million times from 2017-18 to 2021-22 across the 20 states that collect this data. In the Cranston Public Schools, these two categories accounted for half of the Rhode Island district’s suspensions in 2021-22. In 2021-22, disorderly conduct and insubordination made up a third of all Providence Public School suspensions.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. contracted COVID-19 between the start of the pandemic and early August 2021.).

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Libraries Data Broadband Report 118

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. Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

There were small challenges, like getting 2-year-old children to wear masks, or finding electrical outlets to accommodate all the laptops that the school-aged children in her care needed for remote learning. From December 2020 through May 2021, EdSurge followed seven early childhood educators from across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. She searched online, using phrases like “how to help grieving students” and cobbled together handouts.

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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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