The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Black elementary students in North Carolina tended to score higher on annual math tests when they were taught by an HBCU-trained teacher, but not necessarily a Black teacher, according to an unpublished study from a Stanford University graduate student. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

When parents involve themselves in the classroom, for example, their students are more likely to express self-confidence and a motivation to learn.[11] 3] For example, low-income and minority families are significantly more likely to report that school faculty made them feel uncomfortable or showed them a lack of cultural awareness.[8]

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

You may not be able to take your students to one of NASA’s space centers to witness a rocket launch, for example, but you can teach them all about rockets using resources on NASA’s website. 17] If you’re unable to go on a field trip, for example, you can access plenty of virtual field trips at no cost.[16]

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

As such, Barrett and Zang (2009) identify three key design principles: Naturalness : Hardwired into our brains, humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. Examples include altering the classroom layout, designing classroom displays differently, and choosing new wall colors (Barrett et al., Cited Sources Barrett, P., &

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Waterford

MAY 11, 2020

Children of low-income families, for example, are more likely to lose more knowledge over the summer than children from wealthy families.[1] 6] You could, for example, give low-income students a few books to take home. Limiting the Academic Summer Slide for Urban Elementary School Students. Green, A.M., Feldman, P., Baggett, P.,

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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. Example: Instead of asking, “Was segregation wrong?” Establish ground rules that promote respect and empathy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. A longtime administrator in Rio Rancho, Aaker led the district-wide transition of elementary students to online learning when Covid struck. It wasn’t just a mother’s intuition.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). On the other hand, one-shot, “drive-by,” or fragmented, “spray-and-pray” workshops lasting 14 hours or less show no statistically significant effect on student learning ( Darling-Hammond, Wei, Andree, Richardson, and Orphanos, 2009 ).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Ravenswood City School District, which has about 1,600 students in its elementary and middle schools (excluding charters) in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, saw chronic absenteeism spike from just 471 out of 2,549 (18.5 This one district is just one example of a nationwide issue. percent) in 2021-22. In 2021-22, 6.5

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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. “To

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

Each eSpark Quest includes at least two engaging instructional videos which provide direct instruction through songs, cartoons, worked examples, and more. Providing both visual representations and a range of examples instills a deeper understanding of mathematics concepts and develops strong mathematical knowledge in students (Gersten et al.,

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Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

These recent A students, for example, posted lower ACT scores than A students from a decade ago. points from a 3.0 – a B – in 2009 to 3.11 For example, a student who scored a 25, which is among the top 25 percent of test takers, had an average GPA of 3.5 As grades rose, achievement fell. In a study of actual U.S.

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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. Second grade teachers Amy Hart (center) and Alina Turner (right), with her dog, Mello, meet with Karen Shutt (left), instructional coach for a planning meeting at Edmondson Elementary.

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Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. I’ve been engaged in thinking deeply about the promise and opportunity afforded the U.S.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

I have since become a teacher educator (with some teaching of elementary gifted students at a few Title 1 schools thrown in). Hope is positively associated with perceived competence and self-worth (Marques, Pais-Ribeiro, & Lopez, 2009) and negatively associated with symptoms of depression (Snyder, Hoza, et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In one experiment, 80 schools were randomly selected to give parents a five-session workshop in supporting their children’s education during the 2009-10 school year. Elementary school students scored similarly on a national exam, regardless of whether their parents had been offered the information sessions or not.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

The gap in college counseling is yet another example of how students who need more tend to get less in the United States. Some of the recent hiring merely recouped all the school counselors laid off between 2009 and 2014 in the aftermath of the great recession. Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report.

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Data Report Trends Outcomes 145

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

Levels of empathy in youth fell by nearly half between 1979 and 2009. Some examples of impactful social-emotional programs include: Roots of Empathy , which is taught in early childhood and elementary schools, where a baby and his/her parent or caregiver join a classroom. Our empathy and human connection crisis.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 26, 2018

SweetSearch , its searchier sister site, is an excellent example of the power of a Google custom search engine to create a noise-free, focused search for children. Mark shared this image illustrating examples of websites that typically appear at the top of SweetSearch History’s results, compared to those at the top of Google’s.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Vicki: Give us some examples. After teaching chemistry, physics, and computer science, I became an administrator for the next 30 years with experience at the secondary, central office, and elementary levels. In 2006 I gave up my job as an elementary principal to care for my wife who had Lou Gehrig’s disease. Vicki: (agrees).

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

We admire them and use them as shining examples of our aspirations. In 2016, our Anna Reynolds Elementary School was the recipient of the National Blue Ribbon Award for high performance , and every school in the district routinely outperforms the competing magnet school on standardized assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

By catching students before they foreclose, schools may be able to convince more female students to consider computer science, for example. And Virginia has kids begin work on an “academic and career plan portfolio,” which includes information about their interests, values and skills, as early as elementary school.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Coping with chronic forms of overt, intentional racism is itself damaging enough and microaggressions are no different — they fester, layer and compound depending on context and other aspects of identity (for example, one’s gender, religion, class, sexual orientation, indigeneity, ability, immigration and/or citizenship status, etc.).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Kentucky, for example, requires middle-school teachers seeking certification to have a science teaching degree and pass proficiency tests. In Oklahoma, to fill vacancies, emergency teaching certifications have skyrocketed since 2009. Related: Will new standards improve elementary science education? “We

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Perhaps the most notable examples of this model are found in New Orleans and in the Achievement School District in Memphis. Some states cede control over a district or schools to private organizations, most commonly charter school operators.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Over the course of three years, starting in 2009, Kentucky’s state education commissioner, Terry Holliday, added 50,000 miles to his odometer, crisscrossing the state to bring each of the 173 school districts the message: Kentucky was adopting the Common Core. The government rate at a local hotel was $89 a night.

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Learning with 'e's

JULY 26, 2019

For example, we see the emergence of textuality - in all its possible forms of expression. Kress argues that new media will continue to change the way we communicate and that this will have enormous economic, social, cultural and political implications (Kress, 2009). 2009) Literacy in the New Media Age. Deselle, S. Mueller, P.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

See: Creating Elementary Portfolios and One Note in the Classroom. So, one of the most important things that I noticed is – teachers [need to] really intentionally use those as positive examples and find those students who are effectively using technology to build others up and then model it themselves. Vicki: Cool. Michelle: Yes.

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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. 24) Jackson, C.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While the percentage of white students has steadily decreased nationwide in recent decades — from 54 percent in 2009 to 47 percent in 2018 — nearly 80 percent of public school teachers are white, according to the most recent federal survey. Credit: Brandon Sullivan for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Nagler, who became superintendent in 2009, had lots of ideas about how to do that. In the later elementary grades, for example, students investigate broad themes spanning several subject areas, such as the conflict between individuality and conformity or how location affects survival.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students. A slow walk for example, does little to make anyone smarter. Related: The Science of Learning Column — When body beats mind in learning. Some even took action.

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Exercises Elementary Report Study 104

Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

" It happens here in California, for example. "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. In elementary schools, between 7 to 13% of instructional time was spent watching television.

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Education Report Khan Academy Examples 140

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Kenneth Klau, Director of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. It implemented a 1:1 device-to-student model in its middle schools in 2009, and expanded that to high schools in 2013.

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Personalized Learning Learning Moodle Secondary 72

Reading By Example

JANUARY 23, 2016

In my recently published book , I highlighted the conditions John Hattie found in his research about effective use of technology in schools, from his seminal resource Visible Learning: Maximizing Impact on Learning (Routledge, 2009, p. For example, one of our teachers wants to replace her desktop computers with Chromebooks. .

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Technology Chromebook Elementary Training 28

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

A perfect example of the device-before-pedagogy practice is the now-infamous 2011 Los Angeles Unified School District edtech initiative, which involved the purchase of more than 100,000 iPads for its classrooms to the tune of $500 million without any return on investment in terms of student outcomes. That's pretty good buy-in.

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