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Your classroom does not have to be Pinterest-worthy: Stay reflective on the WHY & avoid comparison

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is the time of year when classroom set-up photos are everywhere. I don’t even have a classroom anymore, and looking at room arrangements on Pinterest and Instagram still makes me feel like I can’t possibly measure up. Does it make you look lazy or like you don’t care if your classroom isn’t this amazing?

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

The Hechinger Report

When the researchers compared information about the inmates’ childhoods with a population outside the prison, they found that the comparison group could provide abundant examples of free play in childhood, while the group inside prison largely could not.

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The Science Behind Spatial-Temporal Math

MIND Research Institute

Games have the potential to be perceived as an enjoyable and fun activity and, with that, might provide a preferred means to teach math (Bragg, 2003). ST Math's educational content is conveyed in a game-like format. Summary of Efficacy. Besides MIND’s internal testing, ST Math has also been independently evaluated (Wendt et al., 2014, 2019).

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

But if Delgado is right about the benefits for Nashville classrooms of a cultural match between teachers and students, the program has arrived just in time. In Nashville, Hispanic students almost never see faces like their own at the front of a classroom. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 Not like me.”.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. “The tutor taught her some of the basic skills that the child wasn’t getting in her whole language classroom,” he said. “This is the most studied aspect of human learning.”

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Is Head Start a failure?

The Hechinger Report

Lady Bird Johnson, a great champion of “Project Head Start” during her time as first lady, visits a classroom at the Kemper School in Washington, D.C., The building is clean and bright, student art covers the walls, teachers with a solid background in early education lead small classrooms of 3- and 4-year-olds in daily half-day programs.

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For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns

The Hechinger Report

Emotionally healthy, well-adjusted youth don’t tear through their classrooms armed with weaponry. His administration plans to do this in part by providing funding for educators to receive firearms training and allowing them to bring weapons into the classroom for protection. But why is connectedness so important?