The Web20Classroom

DECEMBER 31, 2009

As 2009 comes to a close I wanted to take a look back and see what post did people visit the most. On Nov 18 we discussed how to motivate teachers to use more technology in the classroom. On Nov 18 we discussed how to motivate teachers to use more technology in the classroom. What a year it has been!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The yearbook company signed a three-year pledge, which will support Sandy Hook Promise’s ability to bring the life-saving, evidence-informed “Know the Signs” prevention programs into more K-12 classrooms nationwide at no cost to schools. We founded Treering in 2009 with the goal of creating a more inclusive yearbook.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Collaboration transcends classroom boundaries, involving a myriad of stakeholders – colleagues, students, parents, and the broader educational community. In my experience, these connections don’t just bring new ideas and perspectives to the classroom; they also offer support and inspiration from a global teaching community.

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Study Outcomes Elementary Data 121

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. Now, the question was how to experiment with it—and what to do when that money ran out.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 24, 2020

In normal times when students come to my classroom (I provide pull-out services for gifted elementary level kids), I get them doing hands-on activities within minutes of entering into my classroom. A focusing activity is designed to immediately focus students’ attention as soon as they walk in (or log in) to the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

That led to questions: How did they get this far not knowing how to read? What reading program did they use in elementary school? Related: NAACP targets a new civil rights issue — reading Meanwhile, Megan met Jazmine as her ninth grade English teacher in East Harlem in 2009. What interventions are helping them catch up?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The latest release, which followed students who started at the state-run pre-K program in the 2009-10 or 2010-11 school year through the end of sixth grade, found that grads of the program had lower academic scores, more behavioral problems and more special education referrals than their peers who did not attend.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Accomplished teachers are most knowledgeable about how students in their school or district learn, and thus they are ideal candidates to lead professional-learning and curriculum development efforts (Vescio et al., 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). 2008): Successful Collaboration.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. The goal was to connect with busy families in a more meaningful way: showing parents what’s happening in the classroom and, critically, how they can support learning at home.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. It’s nearly impossible to test different instructional approaches in real classrooms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

In my own classroom, I have my students run Hour of Code each December for the whole school – grades K5- sixth grade. Pairing her with an older girl in sixth grade at that time – one who wasn’t one who was really excited about turning in homework or engaging other classroom content – really worked well with this girl.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Example: Before initiating a conversation about race, discuss and agree on classroom rules such as not interrupting others, using respectful language, and keeping shared information confidential. ” ask, “What are your thoughts on segregation, and how do you think it affected different communities?

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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. Beginners in the classroom. 25) Kraft, M.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

Students always receive feedback on their answers and if they’re wrong, they’re given feedback on how to answer similar questions in the future. Mathematics Growth in Early Elementary School: The Roles of Beginning Knowledge, Student Engagement, and Instruction. The Elementary School Journal, 108(2), 115–130. Bodovski, K., &

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

Levels of empathy in youth fell by nearly half between 1979 and 2009. This requires many concurrent interventions : leadership buy-in; trauma-sensitive classroom practices; positive responses to challenging behaviors; restorative justice practices; policy changes (e.g., Our empathy and human connection crisis.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2021

That translates into a broad suite of schools and services, starting with Guidepost Montessori , a network of early-childhood centers and elementary schools. He climbed up the ladder and became its CEO in 2009. It also provides teacher training and the physical materials used in classrooms. That experience would come in handy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

But the shortage of qualified science educators may be hurting efforts to help more Americans learn how science works. To make up the gap, states are putting teachers without a strong science background in front of classrooms. In Oklahoma, to fill vacancies, emergency teaching certifications have skyrocketed since 2009.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

We need to teach students WHEN to divide, not how to divide. Doug, as we finish up, could you give us a 30-second pep talk about personalizing learning for the students in our classroom today? In 2006 I gave up my job as an elementary principal to care for my wife who had Lou Gehrig’s disease.

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Tech Helpful

MAY 9, 2019

Simon Sinek originally published his book Start with the Why in 2009. Our elementary school started with a rolling cart of iPads and we have slowly added more and more into the mix for use and a chromebook cart as well. How do we help teachers to see how to use these devices in their classrooms for transformed learning.

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Technology Chromebook iPad Outcomes 72

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. Natick Public Schools has been using TenMarks since it launched in 2009, Nolin says.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2019

Two afternoons a week, Mikala Tardy walks six blocks from Eastern High School to Payne Elementary School, not far from Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. and makes her way to a classroom, where she’ll be tutoring second- and third-graders who are full of energy after the school day. It’s run by Reach, a Washington, D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

The Cuomo administration has recruited experts but hasn’t yet outlined details for how The Cuomo administration has recruited experts but hasn’t yet outlined details for how technology might address various concerns about education in New York, such as inequality. Not every classroom or lesson is dominated by tech.

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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. Indeed, students are mostly unimpressed with how much movement they get in their day. A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Some even took action.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

In terms of student proficiency, today's classrooms are more diverse than ever. In these classrooms, teachers face a seemingly impossible task -- providing effective instruction to all the unique students under their care. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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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. Essentialists argue that classrooms should be teacher-oriented. Table of Contents. The Basics. An Introduction to Self-determined Learning (Heutagogy): Stewart Hase.

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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.

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Reading By Example

JANUARY 23, 2016

For many reasons, technology is very tempting to embed into classrooms without a lot of thought behind our intentions. It depends not on what a teacher is using, but how it is used and why it might be needed. It is so easy to state “I need technology in the classroom” without thinking about the why and how.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This guest speaker was talking about how to run group interviews, and she, a white woman, was imparting what she learned from years of research with various U.S. populations, including “tips” on how to work with diverse communities. Asians have a politeness norm, so it’s difficult to get anything useful out of them,” she continued.

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eSpark

APRIL 18, 2016

Committed to reimagining learning to better meet the needs of all students, this cohort of visionary districts has a shared set of best practices for bringing purposeful technology into the classroom to transform learning. classroom technology] has really carried students to a different level.". Elizabeth Forward School District.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 20, 2019

Finally, both talked about how, through the vetting process, they’ve been able to better educate their teachers about bringing edtech into the classroom. “We Awarded Technology Director of the Year by TCEA in 2009, he has also been featured in several educational technology magazines as well as other published books on edtech.

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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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MindShift

OCTOBER 14, 2019

When I visited Maya Lin, an elementary school in Alameda, California where art is at the center of learning, third graders were in the middle of a multi-week project on climate change. Before it was called Maya Lin, this school was known as Washington Elementary. Maya Lin’s Journey to Arts Integration Was About Equity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates. Over time, Fair figured out how to navigate these situations and talk students “down from the ledge.” No one taught her these strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Liam Frometa, 5, left, and Christopher Ramos, 5, right, play with their classroom’s smart board at Fun Time Early Learning Academy in Naples, Fla. Eliane Lebrun, a kindergarten teacher at Highlands Elementary, a Guadalupe Center feeder school, said the distinction becomes apparent within the first week of school.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 29, 2017

No one would argue with this but it doesn’t really help teachers understand how to instill something in our students that we may never have had in us. What Does Creativity Look Like in the Classroom? Students have more computing power in their cars and even their phones than the Apollo 11 systems (Computer Weekly, 2009).

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

AUGUST 10, 2015

From the official page : “ International Dot Day , a global celebration of creativity, courage and collaboration, began when teacher Terry Shay introduced his classroom to Peter H. Reynolds ’ book The Dot on September 15, 2009. How to get started. Skype in the Classroom is also a great place to make connections.

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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 ). Since my blog post in 2013, teachers have been experimenting with sketchnoting on their own and teaching students how to take visual notes.

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