Waterford

AUGUST 9, 2022

Back to school crafts, get-to-know-you activities, and team building exercises are all great ways to encourage a friendly classroom environment. Use these first day of school read-alouds to teach social skills to your elementary students: David Goes to School by David Shannon. The Name Jar by Yangsook Choi. Miss Nelson is Missing!

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How To Classroom Exercises Examples 130

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The middle school exercise was almost not included in the study because researchers thought it was too easy, said Sam Wineburg, Stanford professor and lead author of the report. “We We’re teaching web credibility as if it’s 2002,” he said. We were stunned,” he said of the overall results.

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Social Media Data Course Report 145

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. Take time for fun!

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

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 79

MindShift

JULY 27, 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). Unfortunately, time for free play within school hours has also declined.

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Social Media Outcomes Report Study 28

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. EdLeader21 has developed a toolkit to guide districts and independent schools in developing their own “portrait of a graduate” as a visioning exercise. What can they design that works well for their community?”

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Assessment Gamification Digital Citizenship Social Media 166