The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The post Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Students learn about fills, borders, zooming, duplicating, rotating, aligning, ordering, grouping, and flipping in those four initial lessons. They also learn helpful keyboard shortcuts. Small group work. Station rotation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In a flipped classroom, students watch video lectures before class and use class time to work on assignments and group projects. It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. Over the past decade, flipping has spread across U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2022

Last year when I needed to take a college CEU course, I chose Advancement Courses and learned so much about teaching computer science in the classroom. Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia. Friends of mine like Larry Ferlazzo do focus groups all the time, get feedback all the time.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

because teaching is no longer an isolated profession; it’s a dynamic and interconnected field requiring teachers to work collaboratively and build expansive professional and personal learning networks. Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Many people might think the main benefit of a high-quality preschool program is the academic boost it gives young children when they enter elementary school. Kelly Kane, director of elementary and early childhood education, Tulsa public schools. Most of the new findings have not yet been officially published or peer reviewed.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Although it costs state, local and federal governments an estimated $90 billion a year, we know very little about whether special education services are actually helping students with disabilities learn more. The New York study focused only on children with specific learning disabilities, which is the largest disability category.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2021

Paul Hill, founder of the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a nonpartisan research group, noted that students missed wildly different amounts of education after New Orleans schools closed abruptly in August 2005. Some schools on higher ground were able to reopen in 2006. Some students returned much further behind. When Douglas N.

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N2Y

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Consider these questions when preparing younger elementary students to attend an IEP meeting: What do you like about school? For older elementary and middle school students, try asking some of these questions to help them learn to lead: Describe some of the challenges you face in school. What are you good at? How do you know?

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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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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

We’re exited to launch SchoolLibraryNJ , a evolving project designed to address inequitable access to resources for K12 schools and libraries and to present the value of librarians in digitally curating resources for teaching and learning. Tabor Elementary School bmraff33@gmail.com Steve Tetreault, KnowledgeQuest blogger, William R.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

For $295, this all-inclusive event (except for hotel and travel) is an amazing opportunity to learn. If every student learned as fast as they possibly could, they’d all move at different paces, and accomplish things as quickly as they can. Vicki: So we need to personalize learning. There’s a great deal of self-paced learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

But will they actually learn anything? Higher education has found itself under increasing pressure to change that, just as has happened in elementary and secondary schools, where a battery of standardized tests constantly check in on what students know. We’ve never really had to demonstrate our learning,” said McCormick.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

This week, KKR announced it has sold its majority stake in Weld North Education, a subset of the overall Weld North portfolio, to Silver Lake, another private equity group whose holdings also include Dell, GoDaddy and Symantec. Overall, nine of the 16 companies purchased by Weld North are part of the group now owned by Silver Lake.

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Learning in Hand

MAY 16, 2018

The last time I posted something like this was March 17, 2006. I have learned a lot over the last dozen years. I have truly learned so much about teaching, learning, and technology. I’m ready to learn lessons that I don't even know I need to learn. Learning & Technology Consultant?

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Conference Elementary Classroom Google 74

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. Students analyze and synthesize concepts and share mental models increasing the collective knowledge of the group. Biomimicry – Emulating Life’s Genius.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

In a diverse school district with more than 20 schools and 23,000 students, providing an equitable opportunity for every student to learn and grow is not an easy task. Srinivas Khedam, Assistant Principal and Asian Indian Coordinator in the district; and Cathi Davis, Principal of the district’s Ruby Bridges Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

A student offers Principal Macquline King-Morris a hug on his way to the gym with his class at Courtenay Elementary Language Arts Center in Chicago. CHICAGO — Principal Macquline King-Morris stepped out of the way of two lines of students heading to the Courtenay Elementary Language Arts Center gym. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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How To Elementary Report Study 98

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

In his 2006 TED Talk —still the most-watched of all time—he claimed that “we are educating people out of their creative capacities” and charged the current education system with being too rigid in adhering to traditional academic subjects. How should both groups work together? I don’t know how to feel about it.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

Yet there’s been very little rigorous research to prove that children learn more in Montessori schools than they otherwise would have. Softer skills, such as group problem-solving, executive function and creativity were not better for Montessori kids.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

From Testing to Triumphant Learning with Pam Moran. Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 190

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

They say I’m personalizing learning. I came to the Cobb County School District in 2006. If teaching wasn’t the explosion of learning I thought it was going to be, at least I could make my bosses happy. The most critical issue was always the learning gaps. I tried to tell a story about myself and make it funny—nothing.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Asians were also the group least likely to be cast in roles that did not call for a specific race. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

All students, including white students, benefit from having teachers of color, according to a summary of the research by the Learning Policy Institute. Doyle, who is Black, said the district’s affinity group for staff of color had five participants when she started the job. Such rankings have been correlated to student academic gains.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

School leaders discuss their district approaches to Social Emotional Learning. One component of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) requires school leaders to measure students’ social-emotional learning (SEL) in order to gauge school success. It was run by our elementary school guidance counselor.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

They weren’t specifically looking for a Montessori program, but that style of learning appealed to the three parents; it was a sort of added bonus to a school that advertised itself as a “Montessori garden” where kids would spend most of their time outside. And Foster’s stepson didn’t seem to be learning much.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

For the past 3 years CoSN has been involved in a project which is called " Participatory Learning in Schools: Leadership and Policy." MacArthur Foundation and is included in the Foundation''s digital media and learning program. What does "participatory learning" actually mean, and how does it intersect with digital media?

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 24, 2021

More than ever, schools realize that to facilitate learning in equitable ways, they must provide all learners with personalized supports. During elementary school years, parent partnerships build a strong foundation for student success and future engagement opportunities (Dearing et al., Epstein, J.L., & & Sheldon, S.B.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

And, Branch says, that doesn’t even mean that every student in those states learns about it: Only two states require students to take earth or environmental science classes to graduate high school. Pamela Tarango teaches third grade at the Downtown Elementary School in Bakersfield, Calif. Talk about your personal experience.

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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). But what was so different about how these women learned math in high school? Designing Groupwork.

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Waterford

MARCH 31, 2020

Because approximately 1 in 59 students are diagnosed with autism, learning how to help students with this disorder in the classroom is so important.[1] 1] Teaching young students with autism communication skills and learning strategies makes it all the more likely that they’ll reach their academic potential later on. Name Game [3].

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Strategy Resources Elementary Examples 345

MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

Research shows that including a variety of stakeholders—from parents to students to school teachers and staff—in the design and implementation of a school change is critical to its success (Mitra&Gross, 2009; Osberg, Pope, &Galloway, 2006; Rice, 2011).Will Will everyone buy into your plans for change? How much is too much?

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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. What inspires you most about learning? We are fortunate to have many innovators in education.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 23, 2012

It doesn''t take a lot of money, but a community of practice to scaffold the learning and collaboration. They first connected in the K12 Online Conference in 2006. Don Tapscott talks about customization of digital tools which leads to customization of learning environments. So, learning can improve by doing pilot projects.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

The group pledged to review all its policies to prioritize equity. In the 2006-07 school year, only five of the 231 students who entered the program were Hispanic, and only two were Black. However, U-46 created a separate, 100 percent Hispanic, elementary program that allowed those students to study the gifted curriculum.

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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. The best solution is a combination of those two, as outlined in an action plan from an interdisciplinary group of scholars who have studied school safety and gun violence for decades.

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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. KANSAS CITY, Kan. — They’re kind of nasty,” remarks one student. “I

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