User Generated Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

One of the most powerful learnings from my training as a counselor was a comment I heard at a conference, Counselors need to be purveyors of hope since many clients get in trouble and/or seek counseling due to a lack of hope. I believe that educators do more counseling of children and young people than any other profession.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. Lau Elementary. The same goes for middle and high school options.

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Waterford

JANUARY 30, 2020

But many educators argue that a focus on only cognitive ability is too narrow to measure a student’s ability and undermines the importance of emotional intelligence. And finally, if you are a school administrator, plan an emotional intelligence training session for your faculty. Teacher Education Quarterly, 11(24), pp.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

This story about science instruction was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. There was a curriculum, but in the time I’d been here, there was no training. It does now.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Generative AI algorithms, like those used to create ChatGPT, train on large language datasets. Since 2011, national math test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, fell by 17 points for eighth graders and 10 points for fourth graders in data analysis, statistics and probability.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Summer school is “boring” and it’s not productive to force kids to learn when they don’t want to, said Robert Slavin, an education researcher at Johns Hopkins University and one of the meta-analysis authors. Often summer programs don’t train the instructors well or adhere to a proven curriculum. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletters.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. Our recent analysis of teacher representation in edtech leadership revealed that former educators held a variety of top roles in the companies we sampled, heading teams that handled pedagogy, curriculum, product, marketing and sales.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As schools across the South grapple with vacancies, many turn to those without teaching certificates or formal training to serve students. Alabama administrators increasingly hire educators with emergency certifications, often in low-income and majority Black neighborhoods. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. Credit: AP Photo/Vasha Hunt.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I hear frequently from those in business that younger employees, directly out of K-12 or higher education, are looking for direction. The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. They should be.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Developed in collaboration with researchers at the Harvard School of Education, students read aloud and the tool collects data on fluency and accountability (think words correct per minute and total time read, among others) and a recording and transcript of their reading. Norwood Elementary School. Educators.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student population. Chart from the website of the National Center for Education Statistics. Condition of Education.

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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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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Achieving educational equity doesn’t just happen when schools change their expectations and goals in the classroom. While teachers and staff agree on the value of educational equity, they need a deeper understanding in order to combat it in the classroom. By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. They are most often associated with STEM education (science, technology, engineering and math). They arise from the wider maker movement and they are emerging now in formal education settings globally. A Maker Mindset.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

But Oakland is one of a growing number of districts trying to reconnect top administrators to the kids they serve as a way to help the critical middleman in education: the school principal. District officials say training and development for those in high-level roles have traditionally been neglected. Training the trainers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

Literacy experts have long known that reading to toddlers, even babies, can make a big difference in children’s reading abilities later in elementary school. published in the journal Review of Educational Research in May 2020. Credit: Shannon Finney/Getty Images. The number of free books, it turned out, didn’t matter.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

This article features contributions from the MIND Success Team, which includes Danette Morse, Education Success Manager, and Huey Pham , Education Success Manager. Sonora Elementary School is a beautiful, single-story brick building in Springdale, Arkansas. Do Things “With” Teachers, Not “To” Teachers. That comes from Dr.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. Another improves reading comprehension among older elementary school students.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2023

Homework is a controversial topic and the object of differing opinions among teachers, parents, and educators. One of the most comprehensive research studies on homework is a meta-analysis done by professor Harris Cooper and his colleagues (2006) and published in the journal Review of Educational Research. Robinson, J. Dettmers, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2016

As a first-year teacher at Antheil Elementary School in Ewing, New Jersey, one of Linda Hoffman’s favorite moments is when her third grade students have an “aha” moment. followed these four ideas for training teachers from Finland, Japan and China. Talia Milgrom-Elcott. I learned how to teach thinking,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report Social-emotional learning – aimed at fostering a wide assortment of soft skills from empathy and listening to anger management and goal-setting – has been one of the hottest trends in education over the past decade, and more recently, a new flashpoint in the culture wars.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Gifted education is often a flash point in school desegregation debates; in large cities, these programs often operate as an essentially separate school system, dominated by white and Asian children. Advocates of gifted education might see promise in the fact that high achieving students saw any gains at all from gifted programs.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

“It’s not true that teachers stop improving,” said John Papay, an associate professor of education and economics at Brown University. Papay cited his own 2015 study with Matt Kraft , along with a 2017 study of middle school teachers in North Carolina and a 2011 study of elementary and middle school teacher s.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Now is a critical time for districts to prioritize and invest in professional learning for their educators,” said Adam Geller, founder and CEO of Edthena. There is also the ability to scale best practices across the district with secure video libraries, to engage educators in flexible micro-credential-style learning, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Aliah Corona and Dakkota Ryf, both 8 in this photo, check the force it takes to move a bag of potatoes six inches using wheels during their third-grade STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington. Costs for whole-school training sessions range from $2,500 to $10,000 depending on location. QUINCY, Wash. —

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Nearly a hundred years ago, celebrated educational reformer John Dewey admonished: If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow. Never before have there been so many tech tools at our disposal for educating in entirely new, exciting, and promising ways. The Road to the Interactive Whiteboard.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

The results from my first year at the school (2011-2012) used a rubric based on the 6 traits of writing. Staff requested additional trainings for conducting portfolio assessment. It should be noted that our 19% growth is almost double what we achieved in 2011-2012. I did not include their students in the data set.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

The results from my first year at the school (2011-2012) used a rubric based on the 6 traits of writing. Staff requested additional trainings for conducting portfolio assessment. It should be noted that our 19% growth is almost double what we achieved in 2011-2012. I did not include their students in the data set.

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Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2021

Reflecting the corruption and immorality of a man who was recorded pressuring Georgia officials to “find votes” to overturn the 2020 presidential election, immigration officials are trying to deport a devoted Louisiana educator who actually loves our democracy. so we could benefit from his expertise. so we could benefit from his expertise.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report Created in 2011 by Black and Hispanic social workers at the nonprofit organization Youth Guidance , WOW’s goal is to build a healthy sense of self-awareness, confidence and resilience in a population that is often underserved by mental health programs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

Adams Elementary School resource room teacher Zoe Leverson, and STR graduate student Maria-Elena Velásquez, check in with a fifth-grader following the lesson. Maria-Elena Velásquez, a teacher-in-training, needed help, stat. Department of Education report.). Photo: Sarah Gonser. BALLARD, Wash. Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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Buncee

JUNE 23, 2021

There are a lot of buzzwords in education right now, and some represent passing fads of the latest and greatest, but others are research-backed, proven, and here to stay. As stated on the Network for Educator Effectiveness (NEE) website, “NEE focuses on teaching practices that research shows have a large effect size. Self-Awareness.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2019

To that end, the Wallace Foundation spent $85 million on a five-year project to improve school principals in six cities and large urban counties, from New York to Denver, beginning in 2011. Higher Education. Some districts partnered with universities to create training programs. Other districts built in-house training programs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

From 2011-12 to 2021-22, as suspensions for willful defiance fell from 4,500 to near zero, suspensions across all categories fell too, to 1,633, a more than 90 percent drop, according to state data. Educators were also encouraged to implement an approach called positive behavioral interventions and supports.

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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. Teachers also received 18 hours’ worth of training on the standards.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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