The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Sanchez asked, referring to an A grade on the 0 to 4 grade-point scale. It’s not just happening in some classrooms or with some teachers, it’s happening across the system,” said Sanchez. really mean complete content mastery or not?” Grade inflation is a big trend across the country.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 28, 2019

Back in 2009, I began calling for an evolved construct of leadership that would better serve schools in meeting the diverse needs of learners and stakeholders alike. Over time I realized that the digital aspect was a supporting element and amplifier of what leaders in classrooms, schools, organizations, and districts do every day.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 23, 2021

A 2009 Vanderbilt University review in the Journal of Educational Psychology looked at over 50 years of longitudinal research on spatial ability , and concluded that “spatial ability plays a critical role in developing expertise in STEM.” The resources provided to educators include ways to extend the games and activities into the classroom.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

This tool is based on an analysis of the bibliographic record (including the title, keywords, author, cited references, and abstract) of articles from the Web of Science database; the network map structure is based on how the articles cite one another.

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Battelle for Kids

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

Driving Question: What Do Students with Special Needs Say They Want To Learn in Today's 21st Century Classrooms? Rotherham and Willingham (2009) invoked the imperative that 21st century skills "must become universal" if we are expected to acquire an "equitable and effective public school system (p. Nearly 25 years ago, the U.S.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Blended learning is an educational approach that combines traditional classroom methods with digital and online media. Breen argues that blended learning is not just about integrating classroom instruction with web-based technologies; it encompasses a wide array of technologies and methods, both traditional and modern.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2021

For millions of kids, it will be the first time they have stepped foot inside a classroom in more than a year. From 2009 to 2019, the percent of high school students who experienced persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness increased from 26 to 37 percent. On Monday, more than half of our nation’s children will return to school.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

I’ve also tapped into the collective wisdom of fellow teachers, educators, and researchers (see references) to expand upon these initial ideas, providing a well-rounded approach that can be tailored to various educational contexts. Practical Steps: Create a poster with these ground rules and refer back to them as needed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Children who attended Tennessee’s state-funded voluntary pre-K program during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years were doing worse than their peers by the end of sixth grade in academic achievement, discipline issues and special education referrals. Related: New research finds “Magic 8” preschool classroom practices.

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Outcomes Study Report Guidelines 131

Learning with 'e's

JUNE 12, 2020

From my experience in traditional classrooms lack of engagement, and its cousin, low-level disruptive behaviour, are often the result of boredom. Wheeler, 2009, p 487) Continues in the next post. References Gunawardena, C. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web. 2009) Destructive creativity on the social web.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

Have you ever walked into a classroom where students were engaged in serious on-topic discussion, debating ideas and challenging each other to provide evidence of their statements? Chances are, you entered a classroom using a discussion method known as Socratic Debate , aka Socratic Method, Socratic Circle, or Socratic Inquiry.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Flipped Classroom Guidelines 253

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2017

As I have been writing since 2009, if you don’t tell your story someone else will. When someone else controls the narrative, chances are it might not paint an accurate picture of what is truly happening in your classroom, school, or district. Each month I would send the template out and ask my teachers to share any pertinent work.

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Social Media Strategy Facebook Report 150

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

All of this made us think about two of our students — for the purposes of privacy, we will refer to them as Brandon and Jazmine. Related: NAACP targets a new civil rights issue — reading Meanwhile, Megan met Jazmine as her ninth grade English teacher in East Harlem in 2009. We have no time to waste. She was a native Spanish speaker.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Relatedness refers to the desire to feel connected to and cared for by others (4). Another strategy Dr. Callahan uses to boost relatedness is to reduce the physical separation between the teacher and students in the classroom. References : 1. Relatedness. Read more about Student Motivation on the Digital Promise Research Map.

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Education Strategy Examples Analysis 120

edWeb.net

JANUARY 21, 2021

He began his career as a classroom teacher in the New York City schools through Teach For America. Since joining NLP in 2009, he has coordinated classroom and after-school programs, served as Chicago program manager, worked on organizational strategy and developed NLP’s digital program.

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Fractus Learning

JULY 28, 2021

Teaching metacognition in the classroom can help students develop metacognition strategies for improved learning and perform particular tasks. . The term metacognition refers to the knowledge about cognition, your thinking, and regulating what you’re thinking. It’s called metacognition. What Is Metacognition?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2019

And yet, Tade Oyerinde took the plunge in 2014, leaving the University of Leeds in England to dedicate his time to developing a tool to improve digital communications in the classroom. “My Technically, I'm still on a leave of absence, and that's also how my mother prefers to refer to it.” My mom was not thrilled,” jokes Oyerinde, 26.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

The following year, it created GitHub Classroom, which allows teachers to distribute and review assignments. According to the company’s tally, more than 18,000 teachers are using GitHub in the classrooms, with GitHub Classroom used in over 10,000 courses. Just this week it bought Flipgrid , a video-discussion platform.

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Industry Tools Microsoft Software 88

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

There is nothing more energizing than hearing stories about our impact from the classrooms we serve: a struggling reader who loves a book so much that he decides to skip recess for a week to write his own prequel to the story. Cited: National High School Center, 2009: High School Literacy Facts. link] , p.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2009, Geoffrey K. She thinks it’s “kind of seen as old-fashioned,” and most college and university campuses would go with composition and writing textbooks such as “The Little Seagull Handbook,” “The Everyday Writer” or “The Writer’s Reference.”

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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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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Essentialists argue that classrooms should be teacher-oriented. This theory requires the student to passively accept information and knowledge as presented by the instructor (Pogue, 2009, para. References. The teachers also focus on achievement test scores as a means of evaluating progress (Essentialism, n.d., Blaschke, L.

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Education Learning Resources Tools 268

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

But as a point of reference: Google did not yet exist. When I worked at Microsoft back in 2002, our team basically invented the idea of Google Classroom (it was called Microsoft Class Server), but we were twelve years too early and the product disappeared by 2006. And, perhaps most importantly, when is the right time to invest?

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Learning with 'e's

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Photo by Bruce Warrington Ten years ago, in 2009, I published an edited volume entitled 'Connected Minds, Emerging Cultures' which was a compendium of papers written by leading theorists and practitioners in the field of learning technology. This is a repost from my 2009 blog series on the same subject. and Lukose, R. and Knobel, M.

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Reading By Example

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Both are grounded in inquiry, defined by Kathy Short as “a collaborative process of connecting to and reaching beyond current understandings to explore tensions significant to the learner” (2009). The teacher is not the only expert in the classroom. References. lifeworthy). Demarest, A. New York: Routledge. Alexandria, VA: ASCD.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 12, 2017

He does a lot of work with NNSTOY, and he is actually a full time classroom teacher teaching creativity and innovation. It used to be 30-40% of my kids wanted to be a classroom teacher. So great classroom teachers understand how to look outside of the box. 3 Great Teachers bring their authentic selves into the classroom.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge learners to engage in Approaches to Learning. Students’ local contexts can be their family, school, community, or even their country, while global contexts refer to international or universal frameworks.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Course 78

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

After learning that Ryder’s experiences—and the outbursts they provoked in him—signaled that he needed intervention, she requested that her caseworker from the local children’s services agency refer him to Butler County’s therapeutic interagency preschool (TIP) program, designed for children who have experienced severe childhood trauma.

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100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge students to engage in Approaches to Learning. Students’ local contexts can be their family, school, community or even their country, while global contexts refer to international or universal frameworks.

Learning 60

Learning Strategy Assessment Course 60

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug, as we finish up, could you give us a 30-second pep talk about personalizing learning for the students in our classroom today? You want to make sure that your formative assessments are based on where the student is at, not some kind of standard that every student in your classroom has to jump through.

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Khan Academy Elementary Company Personalized Learning 165

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In mission statements across the country, references to personalized learning abound, hanging proudly from schoolhouse walls. The program started with 1:1 iPads in two first grade classrooms in 2010. He was appointed Superintendent of the district in 2009 and serves the Newington community with pride and honor to this day. .

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STEM Personalized Learning BYOD iPad 107

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 14, 2012

The final phase, referred to as innovation , is where teachers have developed enough expertise to begin experimenting with new and innovative ways to use the technology. 2009) The Digital Classroom: Harnessing technology for the future. 2009) The Digital Classroom: Harnessing technology for the future.

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Technology Assessment Classroom Tools 55

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2 Colleges and universities collectively spent an average of $11 billion in each of the last four years, adding close to 70 million more square feet of classroom and office space alone, according to the private company Dodge Data & Analytics.

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Industry Report Trends Survey 132

Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Make sure they understand the key to success in this area is referring back to the calendar and following it. Have you any other tips you use to keep kids focused and disciplined, either in the classroom or out? Myers and DeWall, pg. Discipline outdoes talent.” Teach them to set personal deadlines. WORKS CITED. Myers & Dewall.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 1, 2019

However, it also means that anything you do to stay on top of educational science and bring it to the classroom contributes to the use of brain-based learning with your students. Once you discover a new brain-based learning strategy, test it out with your students to see whether it works for your classroom.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

MARCH 16, 2023

The HBR report above is from 2018 and the Forbes report is from 2009, which is eons ago. Hybrid meetings are an excellent way to introduce people to active learning classrooms set up for remote learners by the way.) And they should not be referred to as a separate group, for example What do the people on Zoom think?

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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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