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10 Reasons Why Phonemic Awareness Is Important for Early Literacy Development

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The benefits of PA instruction, according to the report, weren’t limited to a specific demographic; they spanned across various groups including normally developing readers, at-risk readers, disabled readers, and children from different socioeconomic backgrounds and grade levels. So, what’s the takeaway here? Schuster, B.

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PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach

The Hechinger Report

Arts classes were further squeezed out after a 2001 federal law required schools to test children annually. Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight.

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VHS Learning Celebrates Twenty-Year Partnerships with Schools and Educational Consortiums

eSchool News

Online learning was in its infancy, and we worked closely with a small group of innovative schools who helped us establish a strong foundation for the work we do today,” said Carol DeFuria, President & CEO of VHS Learning. Catholic Independent Schools, Everett, Massachusetts, joined the VHS Learning network of partners in 2001.

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White men have the edge in the school principal pipeline, researchers say

The Hechinger Report

schools aren’t a diverse group. The study tracked a group of 4,700 assistant principals, who constitute the main recruiting ground for principals, from 2001 to 2017 in Texas. So keeping women principals at the elementary school level also diminishes their chances at rising to the very top posts in education leadership.

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Conflict Resolution Techniques You Can Use in Your Classroom

Waterford

Group activities like role playing help children understand differing perspectives, while also being fun for the class. A Conflict Resolution Protocol for Elementary Classrooms.” March 2001. 5] Children may also benefit from coming up with other ways for characters to handle situations in the books. Teaching Commons at York.

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PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring

The Hechinger Report

Tutoring programs for elementary school children rise to the top within this body of research, which was conducted well before the pandemic and targeted to students who were considerably behind grade level. When the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor students who were behind.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

Shake Up Learning

Students learn about fills, borders, zooming, duplicating, rotating, aligning, ordering, grouping, and flipping in those four initial lessons. Small group work. I taught fifth-graders at College View Elementary School. Thirty-six Shapegrams are sequenced to build students’ capabilities gradually. Whole class lesson. ??

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