Waterford

AUGUST 18, 2023

How to Create Opportunities for Family-Teacher Partnerships The importance of partnering with families in schools is clear. They can discuss each family’s goals for their child’s education this year and how they would like to be involved in school. Child Development , 2010, 81(3), pp. Nokali, N.E.E., Bachman, H.J.,

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Parent empowerment involves both informing and organizing parents so they can participate fully in your school’s community. Additionally, some families—especially those from marginalized backgrounds—may feel unsure about how to best engage in the school community. How to Create Opportunities for Parent Empowerment. Bachman, H.J.,

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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. It’s how we recruit, how we use resources, how we conduct business in the district.”. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BERWYN, Ill. —

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Researching Students’ Information Choices (RSIC), our IMLS-funded study, uses simulated Google result lists to examine what happens when student researchers make real-time search engine result page decisions. Elementary think alouds. At the elementary stage, these quotes represent talking points from our 4th and 5th graders.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

As the amount of information available to us grows each day, many people turn to “curated” websites to find news and ideas that are are most relevant to them. Students who used practice testing were able to recall information, but also apply it in new ways. Dunlosky et al. Dunlosky et al.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

It’s how we recruit, how we use resources, how we conduct business in the district.”. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. Use the information from the survey to create a pictograph that shows the preferred ice cream flavors.

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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: Teach students how to critically evaluate media representations of race. Encourage students to analyze and question what they see.

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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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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. Teachers prior to the Internet, as we know it today, were one of the primary gatekeepers of information. Table of Contents. The Basics. Education 1.0 Education 1.0:

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

School leaders hope that the support and understandings shared by people they view as experts will help teachers learn how to perfect personalized-learning instruction. EdSurge analyzed data from the state report card on every elementary school in the first personalized learning implementation cohort. Graphic credit: Jenny Abamu.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Williams may have never considered herself to be a "tech person," but she recognized the value of code and discovered how a supportive community could empower her and her students to learn. Roadblock: I am not a programmer, so I can’t learn how to code. “I can barely fix a printer.

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The Daring Librarian

SEPTEMBER 5, 2010

Winners will be announced at the School Library Journal Leadership Summit on the Future of Reading on October 22, 2010 in Chicago. Only videos produced between January 1, 2006 to July 1, 2010 are eligible for consideration. (So, There is a wealth of information available online. Here''s a teachertube video on how to create one!

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2020

You led us step-by-step through processes and gave us extra information during Lesson Checks. This model is NOT just for elementary! Think about how to foster collaboration with your in-class students and your online students. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2010 in Sonoma County, where she taught for 16 years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2016

In 2010, to better serve this population, the Syracuse City school District created a new position — nationality workers — to serve as a bridge between new immigrant communities and the schools. Without language services, non-English-speaking parents are considered to be blocked from equal access to school information and resources.

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MindShift

MAY 21, 2017

Frequent low-stakes quizzes that force students to recall information from their memories, combined with spaced out practice show some of the clearest results. 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

OCTOBER 17, 2020

He partly blamed the 2010 Common Core requirements, which had toughened middle school math at all levels and raised the cost of moving too quickly. How would students be picked for eighth grade algebra? What research had informed the move? How would kids who excelled at math learn alongside students who were struggling?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time. Instead, she’s surrounded by friends, including elementary-school classmate Rory Williams, who also will be 20 when he graduates. Students who failed LEAP suddenly have more options than pass or fail.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Now, with the advent of personal assistants like Siri and Google Now that aim to serve up information before you even know you need it , you don’t even need to type the questions. But with so much information easily available, does it make us smarter? Just say the words and you’ll have your answer.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 8, 2011

Participants will learn how to use Audacity, to record, import and edit sound including filtering and export a sound file in different formats for classroom and web use. link] READER''S THEATER AND INFORMATIONAL TEXT (HOST YOUR OWN WEBINAR) Thu 13 Jan 04:00PM New York / Thu 13 Jan 09:00PM GMT / Fri 14 Jan 08:00AM Sydney Kimberly Lightle.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

North Star is part of the Uncommon Schools network, which has elementary, middle and high schools in Newark. In 2010, the school looked back over the previous six years and saw that just 6 percent of North Star graduates majored in STEM subjects in college. It showed me the potential I could have academically.”.

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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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The Principal of Change

OCTOBER 15, 2015

And his class was learning how to play chess with a master player, who also happened to be a grandparent of one of the students. What he appreciated most was the information and people it gave him access to. I could see how that information had been integrated to make his classroom look inviting and engaging. Everything.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 5, 2011

Shannon Miller, librarian at Van Meter Schools in Iowa, and Mark Moran, Founder of Dulcinea Media, will offer guidance and insight that helps teacher librarians teach students - and faculty - how to use the Web effectively, safely, efficiently and responsibly. What place does blogging have in eLearning?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 21, 2014

For more information, visit the website or see this announcement. This webinar builds on the popular series of articles and workshops that have been presented annually since 2010. For more information, click here. Interested in finding out how to teach effectively in a four hour school day and work only thirty hours a week?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

As rain poured outside on the chilly evening of February 24, a group of Arlington elementary school parents was imagining a sunnier place — Dorothy’s trip down the yellow brick road. Mitchell Chester, Massachusetts commissioner of elementary and secondary education, was the first to suggest combining MCAS and PARCC into MCAS 2.0. (AP

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2012

He returned to the #140 Conference in 2010 as a featured speaker, this time in New York City. One of our elementary schools came to me and a colleague wanting their school to better understand the role social media could play in not only the learning of the students but the learning of the educators as well.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Today we talk about the conference, what people can expect from the conference and how to sign up. The first year was 2010. But again, everything is free and there’s lots of good information. If anything, there’s too much information, too many good things going on. Go to globaleducationconference.com to join in.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JANUARY 5, 2011

Here''s The BEST of 2010, arranged by Topic , for the BEST GROUP of People I Know. I know some of you already use them (I would love to hear about which ones you use) Here''s a great, quick tutorial on: YouTube - Using Google Forms to Create a (sic) online Quiz I just learned how to use Google Forms and I love it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

According to a Huffington Post analysis of Department of Education statistics, 17 percent of public schools equipped their security personnel with Tasers or stun guns in 2010, up from 13 percent in 2006. The federal government cut funding to this survey after 2010. It’s a natural instinct to want to protect children.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., How much of No Child Left Behind’s legacy still lingers on in its successor? Related: The Every Student Succeeds Act includes some new ideas on how to train better teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

This year, the Green Lake Parent Teacher Association paid about half that much to cover the cost of the elementary school’s vocal teacher and a portion of a full-time counselor’s salary, among other supports for students. About 3 in 4 students at Rising Star Elementary qualify for subsidized meals. Double click image to enlarge.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

Read How to Use Padlet. It’s sort of the reason why it doesn’t seem new and sexy to talk about blogging or to evangelize blogging anymore or show people how to use EduBlog , or how to use WordPress. We will put all of your information in the Shownotes so folks can follow you. Tool #7 & 8 WordPress and Edublogs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school. Melhuish explained this as if it were unremarkable; he viewed as commonplace a government’s decision to recognize new scientific information and change course accordingly.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Between 1998 and 2010, the percentage of kindergarten classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 percent. By the 1960’s, subjects like reading, writing, math and science were informally included in the kindergarten day, which typically lasted about two-and-a-half hours. States and districts responded.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

On a shelf in her Chicago classroom, third grader Arianna has a thick binder that details her achievements, strengths and goals as a student, along with some revealing information about her personality. A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Her math teacher had just informed her that she would have to wait and take it next year. Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. Due to an illness in the family, she had missed the deadline to take her Algebra I portfolio exam.

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