Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

4] Even though the technology is likely to change from their early school years to the time they start their first career, teaching digital literacy in elementary school is a great way to get students started. Lessons that involve digital citizenship can help a student use technology responsibly well beyond their elementary school years.

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Technology Classroom Digital Citizenship Education 260

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. On a day in early fall, a large group of students tossed their backpacks in a messy pile and made a beeline towards the school’s blacktop for pickup basketball and soccer games.

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Elementary Policies STEM Exercises 137

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Airbus employees have volunteered as reading buddies for children in elementary, middle and high schools. We’re like the conductor in the orchestra,” said Akers, who is a member of that group. The post Where education systems stumble, grassroots groups step in to raise success rates appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Three university economists studied the criminal justice records of 10,000 boys who were in fifth grade between 2005 and 2008. These boys racked up more arrests and days behind bars when more of their elementary school classmates left. Seats were allocated through a lottery. Kids at “high risk” of arrest were less affected.

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Policies Study Elementary Report 91

eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

While we’ve seen tremendous support from kindergarten and elementary teachers in the past five years who individually purchased Osmo to use inside classrooms across the country, we’d love to build sales and begin support for the education community at the district level.”.

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EdTech Advocacy Education Company 57

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

2004; Vescio, Ross, and Adams, 2008 ; The Wallace Foundation, 2012): A vision of academic success for all students based on high expectations. 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). 2008): Successful Collaboration. 2004; The Wallace Foundation, 2012 ). A safe and cooperative climate for learning.

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2008, the Holly Square Shopping Center in northeast Denver was firebombed with molotov cocktails in gang-related arson. The community rallied to rebuild, and the community group in charge of redevelopment asked me to build a new school on the ashes of the former shopping center. Roots Elementary. Teacher Roles.

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Personalized Learning Elementary Groups Secondary 137

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2023

billion surplus of state revenue in 2023 , legislators finally have the means to fully fund the Mississippi Adequate Education Program (MAEP) for the first time since 2008. Evidence of this persistent struggle is the distressing fact that 32 school districts remain under federal desegregation orders.

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Broadband Digital Divide Report Guidelines 116

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. “But READ THE SERIES. Related: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. By all measures, the students who went straight to college stats did better.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

Here’s a forecast from several education officials along with my colleagues at Entangled Group, an education venture studio and consulting firm. Secondary teacher positions are harder to fill than elementary ones; as are science and math openings. What exactly will happen is hard to divine. Mark Warner (D-Va.),

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N2Y

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Since 2008, Unique Learning System ® has been changing the lives of millions of students nationwide. Some students learn a portion of vocabulary by indirect means of exposure, but providing students with specific word meanings, word groupings, and word strategies is also helpful. With standards?aligned Comprehension.

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Waterford

AUGUST 9, 2022

You may even want to start a Facebook group or Twitter account for parents. [11] Use these first day of school read-alouds to teach social skills to your elementary students: David Goes to School by David Shannon. Education Digest, September 2008, 74(1). Make sure to keep parents updated on school events. Miss Nelson is Missing!

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How To Classroom Exercises Examples 130

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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System Strategy Education Elementary 58

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Rob Brown, Elementary School Principal Southside Christian School, South Carolina In brief, I realized this important fact: A teacher’s smile is a teacher’s game face. So, what is it?

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In 2008, there weren’t too many options for a digital platform to ask students to interact outside class. This means that when the group works together more effectively they all win bigger. When a group with lots of different personalities can come together to collaborate and support one another it’s a win in everyone’s book! .

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Strategy Tools Gamification Moodle 89

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

The former Kaplan executive, who served as its CEO from 1994 to 2008, oversaw 67 acquisitions that turned the test-prep business into a global education services provider. Overall, nine of the 16 companies purchased by Weld North are part of the group now owned by Silver Lake. Yet that’s not all.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Further, Karpicke and Roediger (2008) found that undergraduate students’ performance on a language translation test was much better a week after testing (80 percent vs. 36 percent) than after solely studying the material. It has been used with elementary, middle, high school, and college students, but results were mixed for all groups.

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Strategy E-rate Learning Study 120

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Jon was the co-designer of Minarets High School , which originated as a GAFE, 1:1 Macbook and PBL based high school in 2008 and has been named an Apple Distinguished School three times. In the group that was the biggest group, it was almost 700 people; we went from three perfect scores to over 300 perfect scores in nine minutes.

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EdTech Tools Twitter Professional Learning 378

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

Some experts estimate that 85 percent of children became less creative between 1990 and 2008. According to updated research in 2017 , the creativity crisis has grown worse and is impacting the youngest age groups the most. Creativity has been on the decline for the past three decades.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

We are now working with a group of communities in our By All Means initiative where leaders have committed to piloting Success Plans. An evaluation of the program found that elementary-school students had higher attendance rates, and high-school students were more likely to graduate and less likely to drop out.

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Dropout Education System Data 107

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

When he entered first grade in 2008, after a half-day kindergarten program, his school district, in Eagle Point, Oregon, never even attempted a full-day schedule, Pearson said. In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S. Still, Pearson laments that he didn’t get that level of instruction throughout elementary school. “I

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Pearson Education Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Donna Araujo reads a story to a small group of children under her care. Children who attend Head Start programs are more likely to receive dental checkups, have fewer child welfare encounters during elementary school and are less likely to end up in foster care. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Lisa Marie Blaschke, Mr. Chris Kenyon, and Dr. Stewart Hase contacted a group of us due to our interest in heutagogy for the purpose of writing a chapter in an edited book. Andragogy has been described for teaching adult learning, but basic principles can be extracted from Andragogy and applied to the teaching of most age groups.

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Education Learning Resources Tools 268

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

In my visits to elementary, middle, and high schools around the country this past academic year, here are five tips I took away for how educators can get beyond the buzz to implementation. My visit to Maple Hill Elementary School in the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, NY blew that notion to shreds.

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Blended Learning Competency Based Learning Elementary Course 102

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Known as the birthplace of country music, Bristol has seen rates of poverty and drug use rise significantly since the 2008 recession. BRISTOL, Va. — Proof Points.

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Their first 2012 report tracked changes from 1987 through 2008. The largest racial or ethnic group among the roughly 760,00 non-white teachers are Hispanics with more than 335,000 teachers, followed by blacks with more than 250,000 teachers. This 2015-16 data shows that 20 percent of the 3.8 million public school teachers in the U.S.

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Analysis Survey Comparison Report 94

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

one superintendent asked a group. My group told me they were ‘flipping shapes around and seeing what we get,’” one superintendent responded. Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent. You’re all working together?” asked another.

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

“She goes to school, feels uncertain about who she is, tryin’ to hide behind the curtain so she lashes out, out of fear of bein’ known, inside and out.” These raw lines open the music video “ Jagged ,” written, directed and starred in by elementary school students. The bias didn’t end when I graduated.

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Meeting Elementary Video System 107

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 5, 2017

link] So there’s a big group of these. They create groups, they create teams, and Team Shake lets you do that by simply putting in the list of students, shake the device and you get your randomly-generated teams. link] So I think this is an app that has been so widely received in all contexts of teachers that I work with.

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EdTech Education Tools Video 261

eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The resource is designed to meet the needs of elementary, middle and high school classrooms, as well as college students and lifelong learners. The new website enhances the Newseum’s on-site offerings, including free classes for visiting school groups, professional development workshops and adult team-building experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Preschool students at Kruse Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado play at the water table during choice time. Since 2008, Utah has given its families an alternative to preschool called Upstart. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. In education, there are always a host of programs and policies clamoring for funding.

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Software Guidelines Training Report 68

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

In the summer of 2020, Talbott and her colleagues asked for a meeting with the charter school’s leaders to discuss racial justice at Lusher, one of the city’s most coveted for families and teachers alike; they also created an antiracism group for teachers. It did not go over well. Credit: Mariana Sheppard. Racial stress fatigue.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Asians were also the group least likely to be cast in roles that did not call for a specific race. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. percent of the U.S.

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Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 77

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

Statistically, both groups’ test scores rose by about the same amount every year. That’s been especially needed in rural communities, which were not only hit with declining tax revenues after the 2008 recession, but continued to suffer education budget cuts because of depopulation and declining student enrollment.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he founded Provost Systems an online learning platform acquired by Edison Learning in 2008.

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Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

This week, REINVENTING SCHOOL focuses on the spectacular rise in interest in pod schools--small groups of students studying with one or more teachers in an environment that is both similar to, and different from, traditional school. She has tutored and taught students of all ages with varied gifts and abilities. Ring completed her Master?

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