The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 2, 2022

Resources Mentioned in This Show. Alana Stanton is a kindergarten teacher at Mulberry Elementary in Gwinnett County, Georgia. For more on this, read my 2006 Post About How a Disney Cruise changed my views on education.) 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

It’s a conduit for staying abreast of the latest educational trends, resources, and technologies. 9) Teaching and education in general are, as Pai, Adler, and Shadiow (2006) put it, inherently a “sociocultural process” (p. The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g.,

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Superintendents, principals, and others in positions of authority in school systems are instrumental in providing the vision, time, and resources to support continual professional learning, a positive school climate, and success for all students (Leithwood et al., 2004; The Wallace Foundation, 2012 ).

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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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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Srinivas Khedam, Assistant Principal and Asian Indian Coordinator in the district; and Cathi Davis, Principal of the district’s Ruby Bridges Elementary School. Another innovation has been the creation of a retention program in which staff members who are members of minority groups can gather, network, and talk authentically.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

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. 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.

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Waterford

MARCH 31, 2020

Whether you play them one-on-one or as group activities, these are excellent ways to keep students with autism engaged and ready to learn. Social Skills Activities for Elementary Students with Autism. You can use this as a tactile art activity if you’d like or as a science activity for elementary students. Name Game [3].

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The district’s human resources department plans to hire a staff member specifically to build this diverse pipeline of educators in the district. Doyle, who is Black, said the district’s affinity group for staff of color had five participants when she started the job. “These are educators. And they are committed to the district.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

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. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, called in 2006 for learning to be measured and reported publicly.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Reeves, 2006) Being able to identify the “go-to” or most trusted person in a network to leverage their relationships with others to effect change is more likely to result in change than working from the superintendent down, although you need both approaches. Counselors then contacted parents and put together resources to help students.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

We also heard from teachers who say they are searching for more ideas and resources to take on the topic of climate change. ” Many teachers we talked with mentioned NASA as a resource for labs and activities. Pamela Tarango teaches third grade at the Downtown Elementary School in Bakersfield, Calif.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 24, 2021

During elementary school years, parent partnerships build a strong foundation for student success and future engagement opportunities (Dearing et al., Another community resource is local businesses. If you have not tapped into these two resources, I hope you now will. Engagement strategies need to start early and be sustained.

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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). Each student in the group has a role: team captain, resource manager, recorder-reporter and facilitator.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

He obtained a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1961. He held this position from March, 2006 until June, 2008. The LearnCentral event page is [link]. His Master’s degree in education was earned at University of Pittsburgh in 1963. Additionally, he directed a U.S.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Founded in 2006, DreamBox has steadily built out a suite of online math programs for elementary and middle-school students. Since 2010, DreamBox has worked with third-party researchers from research groups including Harvard and Johns Hopkins University to conduct and publish efficacy studies.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 17, 2020

Enhanced teacher training: Professional development has always been a part of edtech initiatives, but there’s a difference between leading small group projects within the same classroom and coordinating them between students at home. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 2017, the district opened MOSAIC, a personalized learning elementary school, and created the MyPath program, which allows high school students to create their own class. Ann served as co-chair of Texas Education Technology Advisory Committee which developed the Texas Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

In this series we profile vulnerable children whose education was already precarious and how the disease has exacerbated gaps in opportunities and resources for communities already on the edge. When she was attending first grade at Willie Smith Elementary in Violet, her mom died. Read the series.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

When writing policies, rather than restating the laws and all the legal jargon, administrators need to ask themselves what each group needs to know, and what do they need to do. Then, write policies that help each group enact the laws. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 22, 2019

Educators still need to constantly evaluate the effectiveness of accessibility initiatives, advocate for resources for their students, and anticipate where they need to go next. Most important, accessibility is not limited to any one group of kids or description. They need to be a part of the normal, everyday procedures.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Use focus groups, the newspaper, town halls, etc. Moving to a 1:1 environment requires an overhaul of every district building and technology resource. During that time Ann also co-chaired the Texas Education Technology Advisory Committee which developed the Texas Education Agency’s Long Range Plan for Technology, 2006-2020.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

She was born and raised in the Mississippi Delta, in Yazoo County, and now teaches there, at Bentonia Gibbs Elementary. The teachers learned about the Tougaloo Nine , a group of students from historically black Tougaloo College in Jackson, who staged read-ins at the white-only Jackson Municipal Library in 1961. For the study of U.S.

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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. Do kids know when they’re grouped with others who are struggling in a skill?

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Department of Education “Center of Excellence” in 2006 — by 3,500 seats over five years. In Granite’s case, the district, the United Way, the investors and an evaluator at Utah State University agreed success would be measured by the number of “at-risk” preschoolers who avoided special education once they hit elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

The guide also noted that starting in elementary school, all students take Spanish, art and music classes. There’s disagreement over whether the charter school is responsible for pulling resources away from the traditional public schools. Those resources have helped Lake Oconee post some of the highest test scores in the state.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

When her classes were assigned group projects, no one wanted her in their group. Her teachers never acknowledged her growing belly, and the school counselor had no suggestions for outside resources. Georgia passed a law making it easier for nonprofits to operate group homes for pregnant and parenting women.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

I went to Isidore Newman School, a private school where tuition and fees surpassed the $20,000-a-year mark and where, in 2006, I was one of seven black students in a graduating class of over 100. Jackson Elementary School. Milwaukee Succeeds paired the school with a group called Growing Minds., which focuses on mindfulness.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

“Segregated environments breed unequal allocation of resources.” Segregated environments breed unequal allocation of resources,” says Johnson, who is working on a book about school segregation. “We In September 2012, Tim Bagwell, another dad, set up a Facebook group for Gardendale’s latest separation campaign.

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