The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Research About Keeping Teachers First, let’s dive into some research about how to help teachers thrive (and not quit teaching.) A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. We have to do better. Geis, S., & Knepper, P.

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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

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

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 ). Deeper knowledge of content and how to teach it : Training teachers solely in new techniques and behaviors will not work.

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

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

APRIL 18, 2017

These vulnerable lines open the music video “ Jagged ,” an award-winning film written, directed and starred in by elementary school students at Rocketship schools in California. In 2008, I was turned away from a major broadcasting network internship because I was told my hair was “too ethnic”. The bias didn’t end when I graduated.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 5, 2017

link] So there’s a big group of these. VICKI: Yeah, because you’re teaching a kid how to shoot a basketball shot and they say, “No, I am doing it right, I am doing it right.” So I see a lot of teachers using video delay tools such as Replay It on the Chrome store [link] and video delay tools such as BAM Video Delay.

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EdTech Education Tools Video 261

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.

Strategy 120

Strategy E-rate Learning Study 120

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. Foster creativity and collaboration through play.

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Education Trends Policies Report 184

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. So I taught my kids how to self-correct. The other thing I like is it’s not whole group. So on Monday, I give them the test. It is horrific.

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EdTech Tools Twitter Professional Learning 378

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. Full of links to resources, curated sites,and discussion forums, this is a valuable ‘how to’ book for the interested practitioner and theoretician alike.

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Education Learning Resources Tools 268

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. Here’s how to help them. Since 2008, Utah has given its families an alternative to preschool called Upstart. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Innovation creates new options.

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Software Guidelines Training Report 66

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 92

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. —

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

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

JULY 2, 2016

. — When Dadhi Dahal first came to the United States in early 2009, the Bhutanese population in Syracuse, New York was quite small — the first refugees from Bhutan, fleeing ethnic cleansing policies in their home country, arrived in 2008, after they had spent years in refugee camps in Nepal. Fast forward eight years. education debate.

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Meeting Accessibility Elementary Policies 76

Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

At the time, I could not image ever caring how to teach little kids how to read because I was focused exclusively on high school and figured all high school students already know that. I hope to rectify this in the near future, but since 2008, reading acquisition has become something on the forefront of my mind.

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Technology Blended Learning Elementary Assessment 51

MIND Research Institute

APRIL 5, 2022

Twana was an elementary teacher, middle school math teacher, and school improvement coordinator. We must figure out how to do that. TY: I don't know if you ever read this big, long report that came out back in 2008? So, when you have students like Dante and Kayla, how can we highlight ways that they're already mathematical?

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Video Elementary Conference Strategy 101

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Vernon has achieved widespread involvement in interactive parent workshops, which have been online since last spring, by focusing on relevant topics such as understanding teenage language and behavior, and how to support virtual learning. In 2008, he was appointed as a U.S.

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Outcomes Differentiated Instruction Assessment Professional Learning 63

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Carlos and a group of other boys stole space and time when they could, but the violence left little room for dribbling. Statewide, the number of Hispanic students has tripled over the past decade, from 17,000 in 2008 to 50,000 this year. Soccer games were short and confined to the street in front of his house. Since 1982, when the U.S.

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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. In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. The series includes individual books about flipping Science, Math, Social Studies, English Language, and Elementary Instruction.

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Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Learning Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. In the late 1990s, educators at Tartu Kivilinna Kool split up their students into three groups for math classes: high, average and low. But by 2008, they abandoned the practice. “It

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Secondary System Survey Study 0

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

She authored Toys to Tools: Connecting Student Cell Phones to Education (published by ISTE in 2008), Cell Phones in the Classroom: A Practical Guide for the K-12 Educator (published by ISTE in 2011), Help Your Child Learn With Their Cell Phone and Web 2.0 There’s always a group of people working together to make that happen.

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Technology Learning Software Google 109

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

CIPA and its amendment, Protecting Children in the 21st Century Act of 2008 , require that all districts receiving E-rate funds must "provide for educating minors about appropriate online behavior, including interacting with other individuals on social networking websites and in chat rooms, and cyberbullying awareness and response.

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E-rate Digital Citizenship Broadband Internet Safety 52

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. In the 2008-09 school year, Cynthia Lane was chief financial officer. “We

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2011

If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you''ll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups! link] MELBOURNE MOODLE USER GROUP ( Australia Series ) Tue 12 Apr 06:00AM New York / Tue 12 Apr 10:00AM GMT / Tue 12 Apr 10:00PM Sydney Coach Carole.

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Moodle iPad Elementary Guidelines 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 5, 2011

If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you''ll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups! Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a new series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year.

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Elementary Meeting Groups Conference 43

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

Example: A teacher may establish a daily routine that includes a clear agenda on the board, designated times for individual work, group activities, and a consistent process for submitting assignments. This routine helps students to understand what is expected of them and reduces anxiety or confusion about daily activities. Conroy, M.

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Classroom Secondary Strategy Examples 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

On Tuesday, in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood of young professionals, a small group of 3- and 4-year-olds enrolled at the Southville Centre, a private, non-profit community center, made play-dough. Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school.

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Policies Study System Groups 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Diversion social worker Nathaniel Wylie prepares for the arrival of his first therapy group of the day. He and the Schenectady City School District’s only other diversion social worker hold eight group sessions weekly over the course of four days. Soft ambient music filled the space that also serves as his group therapy room.

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Groups Report Meeting Elementary 139

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

At last count, 14 states and the District of Columbia required districts to offer full-day kindergarten, up from 10 states in 2008. Pathfinder teacher Stevens, who started teaching elementary school in Washington in 2001, also remembers a more academic kindergarten, devoid of the toys and play areas you see in her classroom today.

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Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post The then-high school sophomore was with a group of friends at Garden State Plaza in Paramus, New Jersey, when she began to feel overwhelmed. The latter program was developed about two decades ago in Australia, and has been taught in the United States since 2008. RAMSEY, N.J.

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Training Report Course Groups 126

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Teachers wanted to know how to respond to students who appeared distraught during Zoom lessons, or what to do about the kids who didn’t log on at all. Other schools are offering grief training to teachers, counseling them on how to recognize signs of distress, and encouraging them to attend to their own emotional wellbeing.

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Training Report Study Policies 144

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The former church youth-group multipurpose room had become a shrine to academic achievement, the stained-glass window overshadowed by bold purple banners listing the students’ future college graduation years, the school’s values and the slogan “#RUReady.” If you didn’t get it all done … Friday’s the day you turn it around.”.

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Report Libraries Elementary System 106

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Newspapers had reported that nearly everyone in Williams’s graduating class at Sci Academy in New Orleans had been accepted to college, as if they were a group moving toward one unprecedented future together. But she wasn’t sure how she’d make it out of New Orleans until 2008, when she met a skinny white guy from Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2019

In Seattle, preschool teachers in the city program can qualify for higher pay at the same rate as elementary teachers, but they must first get their bachelor’s degrees, unless they have many years of experience and demonstrated success. It’s an investment in children as they enter elementary.”. Brenda Iasevoli for The Hechinger Report.

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Report Elementary Training Robotics 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

One fan is a Harvard doctoral candidate who read Carol Dweck’s best-selling book, “Mindset,” in 2008 when she was teaching low-income teens in New York City. He has incorporated mindset messages into a couple widely-used elementary school curricula for remedial reading and math. “The how part is hard.

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Exercises Study Twitter Outcomes 68