The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

From 1992 until 2007, the state’s average score for fourth-graders remained below the “basic” level of achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Subscribe today! Mississippi has long struggled to improve reading scores. What has the district done to boost scores?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. Google’s AI literacy resource can help teachers learn more about how to effectively make the best of artificial intelligence technologies in their educational practice. Madda et al., Griffo, V.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug: Well, the people that started this back in about 2007… They just started recording their lessons. We need to teach students WHEN to divide, not how to divide. In 2006 I gave up my job as an elementary principal to care for my wife who had Lou Gehrig’s disease. And it just sounds overwhelming. Doug: Yeah.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Full of links to resources, curated sites,and discussion forums, this is a valuable ‘how to’ book for the interested practitioner and theoretician alike. Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. Philipp Schmidt (2007) provide an excellent comparison of how Education 1.0

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Education Learning Resources Tools 268

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

” In other words, this is meant as a learning technique, not for assessment. Rohrer and Taylor (2007) found that college students in a geometry class who used interleaved instead of block practice were 43 percent more accurate on a test given a week after studying the material. Dunlosky et al. In one study by Pressley et al.

Strategy 120

Strategy E-rate Learning Study 120

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2020

A 2007 study found that executive functions are more critical for school readiness than is IQ or entry-level reading or math. As students enter upper elementary and middle school, the focus on executive function strategies declines, so students show up to high school, and don’t know how to take notes or study.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. Karen Schauer, superintendent, Galt Joint Union Elementary School District. GALT, Calif. Weekly Update.

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Learning Elementary Report Personalized Learning 85

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

JANUARY 7, 2018

In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. Instead, she’s surrounded by friends, including elementary-school classmate Rory Williams, who also will be 20 when he graduates.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

During the 2007-2008 school year, Aaron Sams and I pioneered the flipped class model of education. Assessment is meaningful and a positive learning experience for students. Not harnessing the power of technology to help with assessments. Students receive timely, differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.

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Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Learning Assessment 40

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. The center has received $13.7 million from the foundation since 2003.

Elementary 55

Elementary Report Accessibility Assessment 55

Reading By Example

AUGUST 6, 2015

Pearson, 2007). Allington and Cunningham devote a couple of pages on types of portfolios that can be used in schools for more authentic assessment. This can be assessed through frequent instructional walkthroughs, student assessment results, and observation of staff during professional collaboration activities.

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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. Two things: large class sizes and assessment regimes.

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Social Media Mobility Assessment Wiki 58

wwwatanabe

OCTOBER 27, 2010

What was interesting was the learning taking place in 6th-8th grade looked similar to the elementary with the students working in small learning groups. The other was an 8th grade math class, where they were presenting their research to their small group for peer assessment.

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Differentiated Instruction Laptops Groups Microsoft 40

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. percent in 2007. All these big districts came, and what was amazing was how many would say, ‘We can’t do this in our district.

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Common Core Report Groups Meeting 40

Waterford

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

3] But this study calls into question how we define the achievement gap itself as well as how to measure success in low SES schools. But if their scores steadily improve from year to year, this may indicate a school’s efficacy better than how we currently measure it. The High School Journal, 2007, 91(1), pp. Beecher, M.,

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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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Elementary Years ? Testing and Assessment ? Blended Learning ? Brain-based Learning ? Classroom 2.0 ? College Admissions ? Connections ? Creativity ? Defining Success ? Digital Citizenship ? Educational Technology ? Engagement ? Family & Parenting ? Future of Eduction ? Gap Years & Family Sabbaticals ? Global Collaborations ?

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. We’re preparing kids for these jobs of tomorrow, but we really don’t even know what they are,” said Amy McLeod, the school’s director of curriculum, instruction and assessment. They know how to find a way to pay for it and make it the best college experience,” she says. “I

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E-rate Industry Report Survey 97

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2017

The McKinney-Vento Act requires district liaisons to be trained on how to identify homeless students; it fails to extend that requirement to teachers. Our job is to take care of the whole child, to make sure that they know we care,” said Cindy Cook, a social worker at Three Rivers Elementary, one of the schools overseen by the district. “We

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Report Outcomes Study Data 99

MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Children in fifth grade at South Fayette elementary school collaborate to make their Rube Goldberg machines do what they wish. For instance, one class of second-graders recently learned how to use simple circuits to make a game in which the correct answer to a double-digit math problem would light up a little bulb. Chris Berdik).

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Robotics Elementary Technology STEM 28

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

State and federal education leaders have feted Mississippi’s four-year stretch of improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. In the mornings, black kids like Clark rode on yellow school buses to Lexington Elementary; the white kids boarded blues ones that took them to private school. still serves students today.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

She’d lost her sister to suicide and wished she’d known what signs to look for and how to intervene. Suicide prevention education aims to teach people how to identify signs that a person may be suicidal, how to talk to that person about their thoughts and where to turn for help. CODY, Wyo. — The goal is to offer hope.

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Education Policies Survey Training 121