Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. And neither is elementary-grade science. million in profit.

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Meeting Technology Company Education 105

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. They learned how to manipulate various Photoshop Elements tools to crop, select, paint and fill select areas of their work with contrast colors.

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Adobe Education Tablets iPad 120

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high schools. But when it came to how they’d really work, the attitude was, ‘Let’s let the teachers worry about it.’ ”.

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Report Outcomes System Elementary 137

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The podcast has an additional 3 minutes from Vicki Davis with recommendations about how you can help children know how to help others affected by the tragedies of 2017 during the holiday season. How do you really invest in empathizing with a particular school or group of kids down south? Joe: Thanks, Vicki!

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

User Generated Education

MAY 20, 2015

Maker education spaces can be as large as full high school workshops with high-tech tools, or as small and low-tech as one corner of an elementary classroom. Making for All: How to Build an Inclusive Makerspace ). She pleaded with the audience to reach out to a more diverse group of makers and include all types of kids.

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Maker Movement Robotics Social Media Analysis 120

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That limits the salary she can earn at a community center like the Y and prohibits her from working in the higher-paying public pre-kindergarten sector, where the qualifications required of a preschool teacher are similar to those needed to teach elementary school. They need to understand why children make certain mistakes and how to help.”.

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Course Elementary Industry Report 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other. And how to listen to each other.”. Related: Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Report 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

In 2009, just over 50 percent of children entering Immokalee’s six elementary schools were considered “kindergarten ready,” as determined by Florida’s kindergarten screening exam, the Florida Assessment for Instruction in Reading. By 2013, the last year for which data is available, the gap between the two groups had shrunk to just 10 percent.

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Elementary Report Accessibility Assessment 56

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Students at Lovett Elementary, the Clinton, Miss. Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. Joy Tyner, principal of Northside Elementary, visits a second-grade classroom. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Elementary Laptops Policies iPad 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

And while the nationwide rate of foster care entrances is not as high as it was at its peak in 2005, many states have seen drastic increases in recent years. Physicians and counselors struggle with how to treat opioid-addicted pregnant women and their children, who are born into withdrawal. It’s their safe place.”.

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Report System Survey Meeting 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

In Rachael McIlvaine’s eighth-grade science class at West Middle School here, a chatty but focused group of three takes turns closing their eyes, dipping a plastic spoon into a foil roasting pan and fishing for M&M’s, trying to capture as much candy as they can. How to pay for them? KANSAS CITY, Kan. — million in 2001.

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Common Core Report Groups Meeting 40

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

Example: A teacher may establish a daily routine that includes a clear agenda on the board, designated times for individual work, group activities, and a consistent process for submitting assignments. 2005; Gage & MacSuga-Gage, 2017). 2005; Gage & MacSuga-Gage, 2017).

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Classroom Secondary Strategy Examples 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., How much of No Child Left Behind’s legacy still lingers on in its successor? Related: The Every Student Succeeds Act includes some new ideas on how to train better teachers.

Education 40

Education Policies Learning Report 40

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Five years ago, the Napa County Office of Education piloted the use of Footsteps2Brilliance , a digital platform for building early literacy skills, with a small group of preschool students. In response, more elementary schools are adding a listening component to their station rotations, where students can listen to fluently spoken language.

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Software Exercises Common Core Elementary 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. It would be the equivalent of education malpractice to have a gifted program that does not look like the students we serve , ” she wrote in a book last year about how to make gifted education racially fair. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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Elementary Policies Data Report 120

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Free, online teacher and parent training designed to improve the executive functioning of elementary school-aged children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), is now accessible across the nation. Aurora, Colo. The availability of this training is possible due .

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Training Accessibility Advocacy Facebook 98

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

There were major headaches, like figuring out how to stretch state subsidies intended just for afterschool care to cover the costs of full-time care. The group is comprised of women who work in a variety of roles and settings, from California to Pennsylvania. She recalls when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans in 2005. “We

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Education Guidelines Survey Classroom 184

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

MindShift

MARCH 16, 2021

She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. It would be the equivalent of education malpractice to have a gifted program that does not look like the students we serve , ” she wrote in a book last year about how to make gifted education racially fair. I didn’t magically become gifted,” Wells said.

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Elementary Data Policies Report 48

Fractus Learning

APRIL 15, 2022

Cassar, Treiman, Moats, Pollo, & Kessler, 2005). By testing a child’s awareness of spoken sounds in words and knowledge of letter names, sound-symbol correspondence, and vocabulary, an elementary school teacher can estimate whether the student will be a poor reader or a fluent reader at the end of 3rd Grade and beyond.

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Examples System Outcomes Assessment 64

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Newspapers had reported that nearly everyone in Williams’s graduating class at Sci Academy in New Orleans had been accepted to college, as if they were a group moving toward one unprecedented future together. Most still read at an elementary school level. Williams had no idea how to make Birmingham Southern feel right.

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Report Study Laptops System 110

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

These issues can have a greater impact on Black male teachers and other teachers from underrepresented groups. In recent years, a movement against teaching “critical race theory” and the rise of groups like Moms for Liberty have galvanized white parents to target Black educators and literature that centers Black characters.

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Education Elementary Data Dropout 135

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2021

This school year, with the pandemic making it even harder to import teachers from elsewhere, education leaders in the state issued the highest number of emergency waivers — 122 — for unlicensed teachers to work in classrooms since at least 2005. She soon earned a degree in elementary education from Rocky Mountain College in Billings, Montana.

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Elementary Report Training Analysis 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. Yet, in the book most districts use — titled “Mississippi Studies” and published in 2005 — only five of 100 pages are devoted to civil rights struggles. Stennis as “politically moderate.”

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Study Report Analysis Course 88

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2017

The co-founders of the group are Italian and African-American, and they made their first major campaign the creation of a Spanish-English dual-language program at Houston Elementary. At Houston Elementary, the only native Spanish speakers that students hear are their teachers. By the numbers.

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Education Elementary Report Groups 87

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

The San Francisco Unified School District, which in 2014 detracked math through ninthgrade, recently announced that it’s testing the reintroduction of a tracked system, following a lawsuit from a group of parents who alleged that detracking hurt student achievement. and mapped how to handle each scenario.

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Trends Outcomes Report Study 121

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. Hawkesdale P12 College Let’s Hangout – Successful Student Study Groups – Snacks Optional , Candy R. Mowen, MS Ed.,

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

I may need to know how to use this at some point, and I don’t want to go to college or to a job totally clueless.”. Third grade students at Meeker Elementary school share an iPad in a blended learning class in Greeley, Colorado. Photo: Melanie Stetson Freeman/The Christian Science Monitor.

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Laptops Digital Divide Software Blended Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A study released in 2020 by researchers with the University of Alabama said students who were enrolled in a First Class preschool program were significantly more likely to perform better than their peers on reading and math tests beyond elementary school.

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Report Trends Meeting Study 122

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

The family had just moved and now has to wake up earlier to make the half hour drive across town to Jaslynn’s elementary school, which is in their old neighborhood. one early-March morning for the half hour drive to Jaslynn’s elementary school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was 8:38 a.m. the night before.

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System Accessibility Report Policies 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Cristian’s grandmother had told him that morning to say no if anyone tried to sell him drugs and to find out how to get one of those big yellow school buses to pick him up at their house. She now helps other teachers learn how to teach immigrant students who are still learning English. He remembers being scared. Census Bureau.

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E-rate Elementary Report Study 98