The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Rob Brown, Elementary School Principal Southside Christian School, South Carolina In brief, I realized this important fact: A teacher’s smile is a teacher’s game face. 33) Bartell, C.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Özek and Figlio studied student records of English learners in a dozen of the largest school districts in Florida dating back to 2002, when a new policy required all kids to score at least a 2, the second lowest of five achievement levels, on a reading test to move on to fourth grade.

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Learning Study Elementary Course 91

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Science Teachers Learning through Lesson Analysis (STeLLA) is a professional-development program for upper-elementary school science teachers in which teachers develop two lenses for analyzing teaching, the “Student Thinking Lens” and the “Science Content Storyline Lens,” to analyze videos of teaching practice.

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Dysart Unified’s preschool program for students with disabilities , which is offered at each of its elementary schools and staffed with teams of teachers, therapists and paraprofessionals, has become a model for Arizona. The goal of the program is to give kids with disabilities the services they need and a head start in school.

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Report Elementary Outcomes Classroom 111

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Under Jon’s Leadership, and with his CUE Professional Learning Team, CUE PL has trained over 32,000 teachers in 2015-2017. So I’m going to take you back in my way back machine, in the year 2002; I’m minding my own business, teaching sixth grade, doing Latin roots. The difference is pedagogy. We get to the quarter final test.

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EdTech Tools Twitter Professional Learning 378

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Inside the schools, the share of students qualifying for free lunch, a federal measure of poverty, jumped from 39 percent in 2002-03 to 81 percent in 2018-19.

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Strategy Training Report Company 78

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

Michele Gay and Alissa Parker founded Safe and Sound Schools in 2013, following the tragic deaths of their children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Boston University College of Communication compiled the interviews and data. About Safe and Sound Schools. To learn more, visit www.lightspeedsystems.com. About Raptor Technologies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. Once you have that, no one can take that away from you.”.

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Learning Dropout Report Elementary 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In the elementary school, art classes were cut. Ann Arbor Public Schools, a more affluent district with about 17,000 students at the time, was also predicting its enrollment to decline between 2015 and 2020. The district offered employees buyouts and didn’t fill vacancies. The middle school had to downsize its band program.

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Report Elementary System Data 86

MindShift

DECEMBER 22, 2016

We have to trust that allowing our students to tinker, question and invent, as early as elementary and middle school, will help them to develop positive identities that encourage a lifelong love of science, math and the creative process.

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Education STEM Assessment Report 28

MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Copyright © 2015. Many schools have reduced or even eliminated recess for elementary school children, and several have cut back on free play and play-based learning in the early grades such as kindergarten and first grade (Zygmunt-Fillwalk & Bilello, 2005). WHAT DO WE WANT EVERYONE IN THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW?

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Social Media Outcomes Report Study 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 23, 2022

Next Tuesday, March 29th, 2002, is our first Library 2.022 mini-conference: " Virtual Reality and Learning: Leading the Way ," which will be held online (and for free). We currently have over 2,500 registrations! Virtual Reality was identified by the American Library Association as one of the 10 top library technology trends for the future.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

The only long-term study of the program, called the Head Start Impact Study, began following enrollees in 2002 and stayed with them through third grade. Bush performs the timeless and bipartisan presidential ritual of reading to young children at Highland Park Elementary School in Landover, Maryland in the summer of 2003.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

She enrolled in the fall of 2015, and immediately felt at home, she recalled. “I Between 2000 and 2015, the college-going rate among Hispanic high school graduates grew from 22 to 37 percent, according to the U.S. More than half of Hispanic students — 54 percent — now finish college within six years, up from 46 percent in 2002.

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Education Report Secondary Survey 74

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all. Manise was the Director of Program Development and Operations at the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). extra-state jurisdictions.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Ghosts aside, Johnson, who retired as president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers in 2015, had plenty of true and truly troubling stories of more recent vintage that speak to Detroiters’ struggle to provide decent spaces for learning. For now, children walk elementary school floors buckled so badly they appear to have waves.

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Elementary Report System Meeting 91

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

As part of these modernization efforts , in 2015 the funding cap for E-rate was increased to $3.9 The Supreme Court also found the Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1998 unconstitutional in 2002. Recognizing these legal challenges, Congress took a slightly different tact with CIPA.

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