The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need. During a group science lab in Giebel and Jolma’s class, Anna Wang, 13, sat on one of the wobbly chairs the school purchased for classrooms this year. “It

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

Any time a program is changed or phased out, it can be disruptive to classroom activities, administrators tell EdSurge. Across the district’s elementary and middle schools, Yakima had about 8,400 students on the program for the last three years. They’re definitely not ideal replacements in terms of what we were looking for,” he says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Among the survey’s findings: Google Classroom is by far the most popular learning management platform, used in more than 80 percent of districts. Last week, MAPLE released its first report: a. Many organizations, including.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 29, 2017

There are a lot of definitions of creativity in the education world today. After doing a lot of research, it was my colleague, Sergio Villegas who gave me a simple and useful definition that I love: “Creativity means creating or making a change to something that improves that thing for someone else.” What is Creativity in Education?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

The hope is that these experts will help teachers remain calm and focused in the classroom so they can be patient with their most challenging students. For example, a consultant’s assistance helped a pair of teachers who were at a loss on how to deal with a boy who arrived each day to his preschool classroom crying.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

"You never want a serious crisis to go to waste," as Rahm Emanuel, then President Obama's chief of staff, said in 2009 as the world teetered on the brink of recession. As school buildings were shuttered, the district turned to the radio to replace classroom instruction. Radio wasn't entirely new to CPS.

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Kathy Schrock

JULY 1, 2016

The Dual Coding Theory “was the first systematic, scientific attempt to bridge two traditions in philosophy and psychology: the imagery tradition and the verbal tradition.” ( Sadoski, 2009 ). Hall and Russac work with teachers and have students visual note-taking in the elementary grades. Grade 2 students sketchnoted about communities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

With this “Real-World Learning” program, ChiTech joins a growing number of schools devoting big chunks of the year to internships, despite the perennial classroom time crunch. Related: In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs. Mixing term-time internships with classroom academics is not a brand-new idea.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2023

Cooper's definition is similar to the one found in Cambridge Dictionary which defines homework as "work that teachers give their students to do at home" or as "studying that students do at home to prepare for school". There is way more to homework than what these general definitions outline. Literature review: Homework. Robinson, J.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. The very first time I heard the idea of integrating the Arts into STEM education was while watching a 2009 keynote made by Daniel Pink at the NECC Conference in Washington DC… yes prior to ISTE Conferences!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many. Department of Education says.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. It is a perfect inquiry-based tool you can use in your classroom and with your students. It used to be 30-40% of my kids wanted to be a classroom teacher.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 20, 2019

Considering an education projector for your classrooms or lecture hall? Consider classroom size and number of students. Classroom projectors have been around much longer than large screen displays. Both can offer an effective classroom viewing experience. Education Projectors for Classrooms. Highly Durable.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction Denise Juneau, who is native herself, launched the state’s Schools of Promise grant program in 2009. Marchand hopes to use her decade of experience teaching in low-income schools to help her fellow teachers access resources, like grants for classroom technology, she’s learned about elsewhere.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Now, Sean, you’re currently working with iPads and some online formative assessments for STEM classrooms. Sean: About seven years ago, three colleagues and myself wrote a grant proposal for a quarter of a million dollars to implement iPads into math and science classrooms. What kind of research are you doing right now? And it’s not me.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

The Delano charter, which now hosts 1,800 K-12 students, opened in 2009. But, like many charter schools, the Wonderful Schools are fixated on college, with banners for the University of Florida and Harvard waving in the halls and classrooms, and a rigorous curriculum meant to prepare students to get there. One explores the ACT Test.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2021

And many of the methods usually used to find and enroll these kids — teacher referrals, in-person searches, visits to classrooms — were unavailable to homeless education liaisons like Carr last year. Between 2009 and 2019, the most recent year for which data is available, the number of students experiencing homelessness in the U.S.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

.” The photographic evidence clearly showed otherwise – the crowds on the mall were visibly smaller than those gathered for the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009. The annual Gallup poll gauging the public’s confidence in public schools did reach its highest level this year since 2009.

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