EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Q&A: Leila Nuland on How to Build Equitable Computer Science Curricula. While some teachers have already started to come up with creative ways to inject computer science into their programs, others may still be lost on how to introduce the concepts into the classroom. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 10/11/2018 - 12:07.

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Waterford

MAY 11, 2020

8] Before school gets out for the summer, connect parents with guided reading activities and summer learning programs for elementary students. Summer activities may look a little different this year, depending on policies in your area, but encourage families to take advantage of any summer programs available over the summer.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2024

Given the amount of planning time he has each day, along with the assistance of an AI-powered app, Robert can easily turn a hard copy reading passage and questions into an interactive quiz for the students in his elementary classroom. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

In San Antonio, Texas, elementary school principals get hands-on coaching and advice from early childhood experts during visits to pre-K classrooms. In Alabama, principals can attend a unique leadership academy to learn about how to support teachers working with young children. But do principals know how to support them?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Look at the Motive behind our Motivation Vicki: But Tom, as we finish up, give us a 30-second pep talk about how to stay motivated this week in our classrooms. We teach people how to live lives. Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford Biography as Submitted Tom Loud is a first-grade teacher at Middlesettlements Elementary in Tennessee.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California. And he records the conversations.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Whether you teach elementary, core subjects or electives, making digital citizenship part of your instruction is essential for all of your learners. So how can you help kids practice digital citizenship in school? What is digital citizenship in the classroom?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Samantha’s parents are at a loss about how to help her. It must also include civics lessons about the role students can play, now and in the future, in influencing government policy related to climate adaptation and mitigation. It is because Samantha knows all of this that the mere mention of climate change triggers her anxiety.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

Conversations about the science of reading are happening primarily with elementary and early childhood educators. But how are we addressing the ways that the system has failed our secondary students when they first learned to read? Learn more about how different stakeholders will champion the science of reading.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

If we don't get in front of this now with a nimble, flexible, guideline policy or strategy as a collective whole, it's gonna continue to change.” That’s why the new guidelines include examples of how to cite the use of generative AI in educational materials, research or work documents. So just stop and think.”

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EdNews Daily

JANUARY 4, 2020

From elementary school instructors to college enrollment managers, many education professionals were inspired by teachers as students. Here are just a few positions for which a master’s or doctoral degree can prepare you: Teacher (elementary, secondary or higher education). You’ve Been Inspired by Teachers. You Want to Lead.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

Find some way, some moment to connect—especially with elementary students, but all your students really—because they’re challenged,” he says. How do you vet resources for special education and make sure that they’re appropriate for your needs? Something to keep in mind is whether there is a privacy policy for each tool.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Key points: Very soon, districts must closely examine the edtech they use and compare it with budget realities How to ensure edtech ROI? Now they ask teachers to check the tool’s data privacy policy and age requirements when making a request, so they have a better understanding of why a tool is—or isn’t—a good fit.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world. Other states NCTQ called out for their weak policies are just getting started.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Digital citizenship is about far more than just helping kids be safe online; it’s about empowering them to use technology to solve real-world problems, to know how to balance their time between a variety of online and offline activities, to be curious learners and to use digital tools to deepen their relationships with their family and friends.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2023

That’s why many educators are contemplating how to manage and monitor student AI use. Administrators should respect teachers’ hesitation about adopting AI, but also create policies that allow tech-forward educators and students to experiment. Wait-and-See: Many schools are taking a wait-and-see approach to drafting policies.

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MindShift

MAY 11, 2020

In the past month, his son, who is in elementary school, has been assigned multiple worksheets per day. “I Their solutions included switching to a pass/incomplete system at secondary schools and focusing on narrative feedback at elementary schools. Eakins during a recent professional development session. Switching to Pass/Incomplete.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sophia Perry, a senior at Red Bank High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, says her school has been lax in enforcing its mandatory mask-wearing policy. Like many students I spoke with, Perry is worried about her school’s mask policy: She has no problem wearing one herself, but is concerned that teachers have been lax in enforcing the rules.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2023

But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. That includes knowing how to count, understanding differences in quantities and knowing how to measure things. Recent public debates have focused a spotlight on K-12 math pathways.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As we struggle with the coronavirus COVID-19 health crisis, many of us educators are figuring out how to prepare to teach online. Note: This doesn’t discuss the policy issues involving meals, access, and equity but is meant to get you started and prepared.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Experts and educators say the Early Head Start partnership program could serve as a model, showing states how to design systems to better support child care programs and raise quality — assuming states get more funding under Biden’s plan. Linda Smith, the director of the Bipartisan Policy Center’s Early Childhood Development Initiative.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

What schools need to do, he said, is provide teachers with a better understanding of what AI is and share examples of how to use it. Don’t try to make a policy. The district is also planning to hold several professional development training sessions to help educators learn how to use AI in the classroom, he added.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2015

Through virtual colleagues, you know what’s important in their corner of education, how they handle digital textbooks, what they do about students who don’t have an internet connection at home, and where to get a grant for a 3D printer or class set of Chromebooks. How to build a PLN. Participate.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. Questions must be considered when developing policies. Micro-credentials can transform teacher evaluation and compensation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2019

We’ve seen three of our women recently land top jobs: Penny Schwinn, the new education commissioner in Tennessee; Denver Superintendent Susana Cordova; and Rhode Island Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Angélica Infante-Green. in education policy from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Marshall Scholar.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

“We want to create a sense of urgency to continue to close those gaps,” said Roberto Rodriguez, assistant secretary in the Department of Education’s Office of Planning, Evaluation and Policy Development. The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. The activities also give his students a chance to learn how to cooperate, accept failure when it happens, and solve problems as a team, he said. “I CHANTILLY, Va. – Lane the STEM Guy.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. It’s her job to guide teachers on how to help struggling readers at the 600-student school. The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading. The structure of the right-to-read settlement offers a possible blueprint for how to bring evidence-based teaching practices into more classrooms, says Stanford’s Dee.

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Hapara

MAY 23, 2022

As learners research online, they need to understand how to evaluate information and take personal responsibility for their online habits. Responsible Use Policies. Responsible Use Policies (RUPs) outline how learners and staff across the school or district should use technology and the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Of 1,000 evaluated traditional elementary teacher preparation programs across the country in 2020, 51 percent earned an A or B grade for their coverage of the key components of the science of reading — up from 35 percent just seven years earlier. Alabama passed a comprehensive early literacy policy in 2019.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Learn more about EdSurge ethics and policies here and supporters here.) Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT Even before ChatGPT was released, AI experts were exploring how to detect language written by this new kind of bot. That has academic honor committees scrambling to revise policies and provide resources to instructors.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure. Nevada is one of several states that have adopted all nine of Code.org’s policy recommendations, including recently making computer science a graduation requirement. Coding is one of those areas where it's a skill, but it’s also an art,” Ebert says.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The post How to Make an Impact as a Tech Coach appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Alison Jalufka is a Learning Coach at an elementary school in her Central Texas school district. She started her teaching career in elementary education as a first-grade teacher and now has the opportunity to make an impact as a tech coach. .

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

At the camp in Benton, Illinois, students will learn about the plan and how to advocate for it, along with participating in typical camp activities like swimming and using the ropes course. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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