eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

BetterLesson launched in 2008 with a mission to provide a simple way for educators to connect and share high-quality lesson plans. I look forward to working alongside the talented BetterLesson team to bring the benefits of quality professional development into every classroom in the country.”.

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Technology Education Professional Learning Exercises 54

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Yon used to hold silent reading time in her classroom; students could read whatever they wanted for 20 minutes. In a normal year, the exercise would have been scaled back by this point, Woll said. A student reading a book in a first grade classroom. They’re now reading at a third and fourth grade level,” Yon said.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. million persons under the age of 18.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

It became know as the flipped classroom—a modern, video-based version of a model pioneered by a handful of higher ed professors during the 1990s. By 2008 it had its own conference, FlipCon (which closed in 2016). Almost by coincidence there was this flipped classroom movement and this meme—and it’s a powerful movement.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2008 study in Los Angeles public schools found that those who didn’t pass algebra by ninth grade were half as likely to graduate as those who did. In a group of 30 students in an online platform, they can’t watch everyone and check their students’ body language as in the classroom, he said. introduces a lesson on quadratic formulas.?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

The program is aimed at helping students feel connected to each other and their community in a place where — as in so many rural areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic and the 2008 recession — connectedness and a shared sense of purpose have been in short supply.

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Kaplan Study Report Academic Standards 91

Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

With headlines like “ Virtual Reality Learns How to Get Into Classroom ,” which The Wall Street Journal ran this February, the hype cycle around VR’s potential in education has returned. The search giant is also working with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a major education publisher, to create content and lesson plans for classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. Contact logs provided by the district show social workers from three schools have sent four emails and called the family 19 times since the pandemic closed classrooms in 2020.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Beginning teachers’ practice is enhanced further when their mentors also receive formal training and are released from some of their own classroom duties to provide one-to-one observation and coaching in the classroom, so they can demonstrate effective methods and help new teachers solve problems of practice.(33) 32) Ingersoll, R.

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 30, 2019

This is an experience where local business leaders and other community members are invited to visit a school, tour classrooms, meet students and teachers, and learn about the great things being done in education. I then toured the classrooms, from transitional kindergarten through fifth grade, and met with teachers and students.

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Elementary Meeting Exercises Classroom 49

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Secondly, four examples of virtual reality programming in the classroom. Third, why creativity is important and a little bit of an upsetting story from one of her middle school teachers about what testing was actually doing to harm students in his classroom. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom ”.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

While Wiggins’ suggestions on reading comprehension improvements are tenuous and unlikely to result in much progress, researchers Verhoeven and Leeuwe (2008) have generated more concrete techniques that can be employed in the classroom. 2008): 407-23. .” 2008): 407-23. vocabulary. Willingham, Daniel T.,

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Assessment Strategy Industry Study 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. It’s rare for school district big wigs to spend time in a classroom.

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 6, 2012

She is a Google Certified Teacher and has been honored as a 3E Institute Entrepreneurial Educator in 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 for collaborative challenge based learning both in and out of her classroom.' In 2009 she became an Apple Distinguished Educator.

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Blackboard Secondary Exercises Trends 55

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

Steve Steve Hargadon LearningRevolution.com | Library 2.0 | Classroom 2.0 | GlobalEducationConference.org More about this week's guests: Lian Chikako Chang: " I'm a data storyteller. Her desire to create more personalized experiences for youth-led her to the founding of Meridian Learning in 2008. See you "online!"

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

But first, the kids in teacher Meghan Groves’ first-grade classroom were taking a moment to share their favorite part of the day. “My Known as the birthplace of country music, Bristol has seen rates of poverty and drug use rise significantly since the 2008 recession. BRISTOL, Va. — Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

APRIL 24, 2020

By 2019, about 50 percent of high school courses will be delivered online" — Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn (2008). People can now see just how impractical and inferior it is to face to face classrooms. In 2008, ever hopeful, Gartner insisted that "This thing certainly isn't dead and maybe it will yet blossom."

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Khan Academy Course Conference Technology 126

MindShift

JUNE 27, 2019

The program is aimed at helping students feel connected to each other and their community in a place where — as in so many rural areas hit hard by the opioid epidemic and the 2008 recession — connectedness and a shared sense of purpose have been in short supply. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report ).

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Kaplan Learning Report Academic Standards 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And they leave at higher rates largely because of poor working conditions—including a lack of input in key decisions affecting their classrooms—not because of dissatisfaction with teaching more broadly. She arrived as an elementary teacher in 2008, drawn by the school’s racial diversity and stellar record in academics and the arts.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Instead of worrying about work while you’re driving and re-hashing that negative interaction with a parent, you can be doing mindfulness practice or breathing exercises. I never used to be a morning person, but I started getting up 15 minutes earlier in 2008 and it changed my entire life. Midday breaks.

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How To Social Media Exercises Google 75

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Flimsy foam dividers separated the classrooms, and it was hard to concentrate. Eric Eckhart, part of a fleet of a dozen counselors who came out of retirement to help after the fire, spent much of the year visiting classrooms, meeting individually with students and helping them process the fire’s aftermath.

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Report Exercises Study Groups 99

MindShift

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

He wrote about the subject in a 2008 article for The Atlantic titled “ Is Google Making Us Stupid.” A 2008 study commissioned by the British Library found that young people go through information online very quickly without evaluating it for accuracy. “It enhances our lives.”

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Google Learning Study Company 28

MindShift

MARCH 16, 2016

In the fall of 2008, Ted Gonder was studying economics at the University of Chicago as the world economy melted down around him. “We Before the groups talk money, they just talk — discussing the personal interests and goals that ground Moneythink’s spending and saving exercises.

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Social Media Mobility Blended Learning Gamification 28

MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 10, 2021

Conversations in the classroom were limited and constrained by prompts. Visit the ST Math Play Page and explore a variety of free, standards-aligned games that will create more engagement in your classroom. For example, take my personal journey to learn Spanish. We drilled and rehearsed “me llamo” and “me gusta” statements. June, 2021.

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Game-Based Learning Gamification Strategy Exercises 145

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 9, 2015

I don’t typically announce when telling the joke that my aim is to make you laugh or that I wrote that short story as an exercise in irony. Coaches of all sports have done this for decades; why is it still so rare in classrooms?). Note that goals (and the criteria for them) are often implicit in everyday situations. Hodder Murray.

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Learning Assessment Sony Exercises 40

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Some veteran teachers are noticing their traditional teaching methods are just not as effective with students in classrooms today as they once were. This new classroom reality is creating quite the debate about current teaching methods and the ability of the digital generations to learn. . Follow him on Twitter @RyanLSchaaf.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Early childhood educators here actively teach their students how to talk about their feelings, name their emotions and calm themselves through mindfulness exercises and yoga. It also makes it hard for every child in that classroom to learn. But removing troubled preschool students from the classroom is not an option.

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Pearson Elementary Data Report 92

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sylvan Hills Middle School Assistant Principal Monica Blasingame, center, and Principal Artesza Portee, right, discuss “big life goals” with a student as part of a goal-setting exercise in Atlanta Public Schools. It has been used punitively, as a way to point out their shortcomings, threaten their jobs and take away their classroom autonomy.

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Data Exercises Comparison Trends 67

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Around the country, school leaders are trying to anticipate how these mental health burdens will shape what unfolds in classrooms and via screens during a school year in which the trauma is likely to worsen. Teachers are going to have to be very understanding and considerate of the frustrations that kids have experienced.”

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Training Report Study Policies 144

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When you truly understand what is the most impactful and meaningful way to spend your time (both in the classroom and outside of it), you have a sense of clarity and focus. I am not self-publishing: I have an actual publishing company I started in 2008. I know it will be, because I wish I’d had this book when I was in the classroom.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 4, 2016

In Part IV of this series, participants share tips and techniques for creating effective collaboration in and outside of the classroom, including Ed Tech, cross-cultural communication and Project-Based Learning. Collaboration brings learners together to communicate and solve problems all over the world.

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Conference Exercises Training Strategy 28

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

Early in the history of the United States, people who were interested in protecting and exercising their copyrights were required to apply for copyright protection. As Harvard Law Professor Larry Lessig has written, modern copyright law has made criminals of us all (Lessig, 2008). New York: Herder and Herder. The Review Project.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 16, 2022

Launching Mindful Technology Consultants in 2013, she continues to train teachers at the masters level on the use of digital portfolios as alternative assessments and on bringing mindfulness practices into the classroom. Her desire to create more personalized experiences for youth led her to the founding of Meridian Learning in 2008.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

It incorporates case studies to demonstrate how the framework and its dimensions could be operationalized, and how the gaps identified in the self-assessment exercise could be addressed. He gave a speech and devoted 150 words to education and choice. This is how folks are defining innovative edtech use in teacher's colleges.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

If you try to have regimented exercises, every single person has to do the exact same thing. You’ve created what you call a “flipped syllabus,” where students start at zero and accumulate points toward their grade rather than start with a perfect score and lose points on tests and papers. How did that come about? More timely than ever.

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