EdTechTeam
APRIL 24, 2017
With the Common Core State Standards launching in 2009 and textbook publishers having to recreate their curriculums, many districts were left with their teachers having to come up with their own curriculum that met the new state standards. Ann-Marie Skaggs has been teaching elementary school in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2005.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 11, 2018
In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 7, 2017
The approach traces its origins to the ideas of Maria Montessori , inventor of the Montessori method used in preschools and elementary schools globally, who encouraged children to do self-directed projects based on their interests. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 6, 2016
A 2005 research study by the MDRC, a New York- and Oakland, California-based research group, found that Kansas City high schools produced and sustained a “double digit” improvement in the percentage of 11th-graders reading proficiently and a dramatic decline in the percentage of students scoring “unsatisfactory” on the state test.
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 21, 2016
The reason is that when you come to school and your language skills aren’t as good, a lot of what the teacher says—and 80 percent of classroom instruction in elementary school is a teacher talking and students listening—is going to go right over your head.”. It also exposes children to more complex texts than they can decode on their own.”.
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