Tech Helpful

MARCH 27, 2017

In 2006 my oldest daughter was in 4th grade and part of the curriculum was called "Daily Oral Geography." At that point in her school life, she didn't have easy accessibility to technology. This was 2006, 11 years ago. With educational technology comes faster access to information and opinions. saw the world changing.

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Digital Citizenship Competency Based Learning Google Elementary 40

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

We need to teach students WHEN to divide, not how to divide. After teaching chemistry, physics, and computer science, I became an administrator for the next 30 years with experience at the secondary, central office, and elementary levels. Well, who in a career, when they don’t know something, doesn’t just go online and find it out?

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Khan Academy Elementary Company Personalized Learning 165

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Cepeda et al (2006) reviewed 254 studies, and found that students across studies recalled 10 percent more information after spaced study than after massed (all at one time) study. It has been used with elementary, middle, high school, and college students, but results were mixed for all groups. In one study by Pressley et al.

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Strategy E-rate Learning Study 120

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

Contemporary classrooms (from elementary school to graduate school) are structured similar to a manufacturing line and typically produce students who are full of information. Furthermore, each learning module lines up with Thinkquiry and Plectica; thus, each student must complete the module to understand how to deconstruct each concept.

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Classroom Flipped Classroom Comparison System 189

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The atrium of Whitmore Lake High School, part of a nearly $48 million capital campaign approved by voters in 2006. Nationally, school district debt has grown substantially, from nearly $323 billion in 2006 to $443 billion in 2016, according to U.S. In the elementary school, art classes were cut. WHITMORE LAKE, Mich. Census data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different. How to Get Buy-in For Transformational Change from Teachers. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006. Dr. Pamela R.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 191

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

I came to the Cobb County School District in 2006. The curriculum they were exposed to had already proven itself ineffective—but I didn’t have access to anything better. We spent a lot of money on devices that we didn’t know how to use. My 16, 17 and 18-year old students were entering my class reading at an elementary level.

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iPad Assessment Personalized Learning Libraries 126

edWeb.net

APRIL 23, 2020

Every two or three years, state and federal laws regarding accessibility in education change. However, the goal is always the same: making sure that every student, at every level (classroom, building, district), has access to the resources they need to meet their learning goals. Highlights. Dr. Carol L.

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Accessibility Digital Badges Elementary BYOD 56

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

There are specific procedures for everything: how to roll up your rug, how to pour liquid from one pitcher to another, how to draw lines on a paper. They have to practice with the materials; they have to be able to set up the shelves; they have to be able to know how to use the materials in teaching.”.

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Training Groups Report Study 111

MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

So, here are some thoughts about how to broach the subject with students, no matter what subject you teach: 1. Lab activities can be one of the most effective ways to show children how global warming works on an accessible scale. Pamela Tarango teaches third grade at the Downtown Elementary School in Bakersfield, Calif.

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Classroom Resources Common Core Study 50

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

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas, and 17 more wounded, in the sanctuary of an elementary school. schools now have controlled access to the building, up from 75 percent in 2000, according to Education Department data. Let’s invest in teaching our children how to love. Some 95 percent of U.S.

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Study Analysis Data Report 156

MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

A group of young women who had graduated from high school between 1997 and 2006 sat at the front of the room crying and laughing about their experiences learning math at Railside High (a research pseudonym for the school). Collaboration and Equity in the Elementary Math Classroom. More Resources on Complex Instruction.

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Groups Training Common Core Classroom 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

A lesson in a remedial English course at Baltimore City Community College, focused on teaching students how to combine sentences in a variety of ways to prepare them for writing in college-level classes. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. A student at the bottom level in math might need help with basic arithmetic.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

While there’s ample research showing the personal and cognitive benefits of bilingual education in elementary and secondary schools, less so exists evaluating the effectiveness of similar postsecondary programs in boosting student performance, second-language proficiency and employment opportunities after graduation in the U.S.

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Industry Course Training System 153

Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

In the primary (elementary) and secondary (high) school sectors some can be conspicuous, because through various Teachmeets around the world, and also online during Twitter #edchats, they make their work known to the wider community. We are fortunate to have many innovators in education. What is your vision for the future of learning?

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Social Media Mobility Assessment Wiki 58

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

The current crisis has highlighted the disparity between students with and without equitable access to technology, especially in rural schools. One of the first challenges rural districts face is broadband access. With not all kids having the same access, they need to figure out how to develop lessons to accommodate all students.

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BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 54

edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

All students need to have the same access to WiFi, and thus the ability to use the device, whether they are at school or not. Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary School District 97, IL, explained, this isn’t about deciding what technology a district uses. For instance, one barrier to access was library cards.

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Libraries Elementary Accessibility BYOD 41

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

We put them all together and with the KCK folks figured out how to implement them in an integrated way so they could enhance each other,” said James Connell, co-founder and president of IRRE. How to pay for them? He wants to keep schools open and ensure our students continue to have access to a quality education. Fair funding.

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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

edWeb.net

JUNE 17, 2020

Some are also becoming de facto internet service providers as they try to provide WiFi accessibility. Evolving school services: It’s not just the learning that’s become virtual; schools need to figure out how to continue all of their offerings, like speech therapy and counseling.

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EdTech Outcomes BYOD Advocacy 53

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Make equitable access a priority. Typically, one goal of a 1:1 environment is 24/7 access to learning for both students and teachers. Many students, though, may not have ready access to the Internet at home. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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PowerMyLearning Mobile Learning BYOD iPad 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

If all continues apace, the largest public program in the country could be just one step ahead, creating a road map for how to operate an early education program big enough to serve more than a million children without sacrificing quality. One of the key elements to Head Start has always been its emphasis on local control. Photo: Paul J.

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Study Comparison Classroom Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb. Both parents figured Caleb would return to his neighborhood elementary school before too long. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

In perhaps the only attempt to summarize the detracking literature, a 2009 summary of 15 studies from 1972 to 2006 concluded that detracking improved academic outcomes for lower-ability students, but had no effect on average and high-ability students. and mapped how to handle each scenario. We imagined a catastrophe,” he said. “We

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Trends Outcomes Report Study 117

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 103

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Lisa Grant, superintendent for the Centralia school district, makes her monthly rounds in a fifth grade class at Fords Prairie Elementary School on Dec. The school district welcomed all elementary students back for in-person learning in early December. Credit: Katie Cotterill for The Hechinger Report.

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Elementary Report Policies System 107

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

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. In many other states, you could make the case none.”.

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Report Trends Meeting Study 122

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

Fewer than 2 percent of mothers under 18 complete college by age 30 , according to a 2006 report published by the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy (now Power to Decide). But these same students who don’t have access to medically accurate, up-to-date information have to live with the consequences. And recently, the U.S.

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Report Accessibility Outcomes Social Media 135

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Laila Webb, 5 and Reezahnny Veiga Rodrigues, 5, add to the model of their home city they and their classmates have built in their Russell Elementary preschool classroom. The first story, about how little the U.S. Kinsella Scannell started working with the district in 2006 as part of a pilot public-private partnership model.

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Elementary Meeting Groups Training 40