The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He has worked as a technology training specialist and a Director of Educational Technology. Bellow was honored by ISTE in 2010 as an emerging leader and then again in 2011 when he was named Outstanding Young Educator of the year. He has worked as a technology training specialist and a Director of Educational Technology.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

Students start with block-based code in early elementary, before transitioning to text-based code in middle school, where they can start to develop their own apps. It started when Aileen Owens, South Fayette’s Director of Technology and Innovation, joined the district in 2010.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This is a four part mini-series; a must watch for educators who believe in taking charge to reform the system-in their own hands. In the past, educators in Illinois who wanted to become principals merely had to get a general administrative license that was used for a wide variety of positions in education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2017

Studying the successes of black women mathematicians opens a window into how we can produce more black STEM grads. In 1940, just 2 percent of all black women earned college degrees, and 60 percent of those women became teachers, mostly in public elementary and high schools,” Shetterly writes. Education is an issue of national security.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

To solve its current problems, the organization is drawing on its original strengths: leadership and STEM. The Girl Scouts treats STEM its way: with an emphasis on changing the world. No other organization matches the scope and variety of evidence-based, out-of-school educational and leadership opportunities.” Absolutely!”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. In the last decade, educators have focused on boosting literacy skills among low-income kids in the hope that all children will read well by third grade.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Folks here have always been willing to step up for education,” said Morgigno who has served as superintendent since 2010. Folks here have always been willing to step up for education.”. Part of that buy-in stems from parents’ approval of the way kids are assigned to schools in this largely working-class central Mississippi town.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Even if educators recognize the importance of teaching computer science and programming for their students, they often face their own internal roadblocks. “I can barely fix a printer. Now, she’s referred to as LEGO Lady at P.S. 34, where she teaches science, LEGO engineering, and robotics.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

“Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself.” ? While there are several education models that promote this idea, it is a necessity in a well-planned Project Based Learning (PBL) Unit. Global School Net – Explore a site that combines education and technology to strengthen communities and benefit humanity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Through their efforts, along with those of other outside arts organizations, they are introducing theater to more and younger participants, at an age when education experts say children are especially poised to benefit from it. Related: Can testing save arts education? Higher Education. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The Bear Cave has been around for 12 years, first opening its doors in a smaller unused classroom in 2010 before relocating to a bigger, unused shop room on campus in 2014. We just knew we needed a space,” she told the Education Lab. Nancy Miser, former program manager for Fresno Unified’s Special Education Department.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam Moran has been a leader in education reform in Virginia over the past several years as the state moved from testing to transformation. Pam, what is an update on what has happened with education reform in Virginia since we last talked? I admire her so much so we are doing a multi part series with her. There were several of us.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Science achievement gaps present between racial, ethnic and socio-economic groups in the eighth grade already exist when those children are in kindergarten, according to new research published in Educational Researcher, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The pervasiveness of math tracking may be due, in part, to the persistent belief that some people are good at math and others aren’t, education experts suggest. Two years into the effort, school administrators are still contending with a backlash against detracking in this highly educated, politically liberal city.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Museum educators deliver twenty-three STEM topics—including Sound, Weather & Climate, Physical Changes of Matter, and Force & Motion—to give elementary and middle school students direct experience with how things work in the physical world. It is the only classroom-based program of its kind in Massachusetts.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Higher Education. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Department of Education. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. Even low-income students with the highest standardized test scores are more than three times less likely to go to top colleges than higher-income students , according to the Education Trust. That’s about 2 percent.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Teachers and the Future of Education" (the importance of teacher voice in education discussions, "Hack Your Education" (thinking about self-directed learning--Audrey''s in this proposal), and "Technology, Pedagogy, and the Silver Bullet" (addressing the myopia of some ed tech business ventures). The Classroom 2.0 show is back!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 8, 2011

Below are this week''s public, free, and interactive Webinars through LearnCentral.org , the social learning network for education that I work on for Elluminate. link] INTERVIEW WITH IRA DAVID SOCOL (FUTURE OF EDUCATION) Tue 11 Jan 06:00PM New York / Tue 11 Jan 11:00PM GMT / Wed 12 Jan 10:00AM Sydney Steve Hargadon.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. David Rosenberg, Education Resource Strategies. They said, ‘don’t do this to us again.

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MindShift

MAY 21, 2017

For teachers, the carefully controlled conditions of education research can seem ridiculous when the reality of the classroom involves regular interruptions, absences and general chaos. In his college courses he regularly quizzes students using word stems so that they repeatedly have to recall the information in their notes from memory.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Since 2010, the school has used public and private grants to support a student-centered learning approach in which small-group work and individual projects dominate. They reported that, since the 2010 survey was given, the percentage of girls who said they felt respected by each other declined 13 points, to 31 percent.

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MindShift

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. The recent conversions represent a return to old ways of educating early adolescents.

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techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

Baltimore, MD – July 12, 2018 – Edtech company Workbench Education today announced the expansion of a partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools (City Schools) for the 2018 - 2019 school year. Workbench enables schools to implement Project Based Learning (PBL), STEM/STEAM, and Making into their curriculum. STEM/STEAM education ?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

And, they have done a phenomenal job of upgrading it over time, of adding more educational-friendly features, of adding things like commenting, adding new layouts and columns and so on. A lot of times people don’t really think the developers want to hear from educators, or that it’s going to have much of an impact. Steve: (laughs).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so it begins… I am on sabbatical in Spring 2023, unpacking deeper learning in elementary and middle schools. Driving Question What do students, teachers, and leaders do in ‘deeper learning’ elementary and middle schools that is different from their traditional peers? Related Posts Leadership Day 2010 – The final list!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

Many textbooks don’t touch the topic, according to science educators. Educators here say they occasionally receive questions and pushback from parents when classes cover climate change. Related: Will new standards improve elementary science education? And then there are the politics, especially in ruby-red Oklahoma.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Diagrams of simple machines — a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever — appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (STEM subjects plus Art) in South Fayette, a fast-growing suburb of Pittsburgh. The STEAM labs, STEAM coordinators and technology education teachers are part of a district-wide embrace of “computational thinking.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The ninth annual Global Education Conference starts this coming Monday! This is an amazing and free online event that brings together educators and innovators from around the world. The hidden treasure of the Global Education Conference is volunteering--you will love it! LOTS of information below! Go to [link] 4.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

Since the mid-1980s, some education experts have supported such moves, citing research showing that tracking primarily serves as a marker of race or class, as Black and Hispanic students, and those from lower-income families, are steered into lower-track classes at disproportionate rates. parent Andrew Sosnoski asked the members.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Hyperactivity and poor memory are also thought to sometimes stem from childhood hunger. Created in 2010 and launched widely in 2014, the program was America’s first big step toward making school meals free for all. None of those conditions is conducive to learning, either in school or at home. Feed the damn kids.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

During the Republican and Democratic conventions, The Hechinger Report will publish a new story each day, examining what the party proposals might mean for the future of education. Our staff reporters will provide education coverage from Cleveland and Philadelphia. If we fail, public education becomes a shell of itself.”.

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