Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

Anxiety about grades and assessments is one of the major causes (outside of ACEs) of student stress.[12] Pediatrics, February 2013, 131(2), pp. Pediatrics, November 2013, 132, pp. The link between classroom teacher burnout and morning cortisol in elementary school students. Inability to control their emotions. Stempel, H.,

Classroom 239

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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. Such jobs made up 6.2

Elementary 39

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

-based early childhood technology and services developer best known for its GOLD observation-based assessment system and its Creative Curriculum product lines for infants, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Roden worked as an elementary school teacher and in sales for Pearson before founding ReadyRosie in 2012.

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In 2011, 78% of 4th graders scored below proficient in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). In 2013, Mississippi’s governor, state lawmakers, state education department officials, literacy advocates, and other stakeholders decided it was time to “Go Big.” Go big or go home. One thing was certain.

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Common Core Assessment Elementary Policies 62

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

In July 2013 by a unanimous vote, the Board of Trustees for McComb School District in Mississippi appointed me as superintendent of schools. My appointment came at a time when 77 percent of McComb’s kindergarteners had not met the required performance on the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment. This was my struggle.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mississippi’s elementary reading policies, signed into law in 2013, have drawn national attention. They include improved literacy training for elementary teachers and reading coaches for the state’s lowest performing elementary schools. Related: Mississippi made the biggest leap in national test scores this year.

Elementary 92

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

Utica is one of only 73 districts accepted into this exclusive cohort; 22 new districts were just welcomed in October 2015. In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school. million for technological improvements.

Blended Learning 52

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

Utica is one of only 73 districts accepted into this exclusive cohort; 22 new districts were just welcomed in October 2015. In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school. million for technological improvements.

Blended Learning 52

Blended Learning Case Study iPad Learning 52

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

This has been a goal of Simon’s since she joined Long Beach Unified in fall 2013. Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. But it has proven elusive. percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

Michele Gay and Alissa Parker founded Safe and Sound Schools in 2013, following the tragic deaths of their children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. To download a copy of the report, go to the : Safe and Sound Schools – School Safety Nonprofit, founded by Sandy Hook parents. About Safe and Sound Schools.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2013 $0. FY 2015 $0. ” FY 2012 $0.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

As the largest school district in Rhode Island, Providence Public Schools makes up 25% of the state’s entire elementary and secondary student population. Cameron Berube, who began serving as Director of Curriculum and Instruction in 2015, was part of the design team to move the district toward PL.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lynn: Sure, so we spent 2015-2016 really doing the research. And at the end of that year, we did some assessment, and we realized that we needed some more time to build this vision. What can it look like in an elementary classroom? So first of all, when did you pass this, and then second, where did you start?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

At Dunn Elementary, kids who are struggling get extra time with second-grade teacher Sarah Bowling. The second-graders in Sarah Bowling’s class at Dunn Elementary were on a scavenger hunt to find “arrays.”. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The bookshelf had a picture of three rows of five fish. Graphic: Davin McHenry.

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Common Core Elementary Groups Meeting 78

MindShift

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Hannah Hughes is playing a game with a group of second graders at Johnson Elementary School in Kingsport, Tennessee, who are still working on their reading skills. In her undergraduate studies at Eastern Tennessee State University, early elementary reading courses focused on science-based reading methods like chunking. Students shout.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

She has also worked on projects with researchers at Education Testing Service (ETS) and interned with consultants at the Center for Assessment. Recent experiences include serving as a research assistant under education faculty at Michigan State University.

Education 67

Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 67

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Under Jon’s Leadership, and with his CUE Professional Learning Team, CUE PL has trained over 32,000 teachers in 2015-2017. I mean, when I started using formative assessment like this to teach binary numbers, I used to teach – binary numbers used to take seven days. It’s like, why are people grading anything?

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EdTech Tools Twitter Professional Learning 378

MIND Research Institute

MARCH 5, 2021

Founded in 2013, the STEM Action Center is tasked with regular and rigorous reporting to the Utah state legislature on the use and impact of annual state funding for digital supplemental math programs, and for knowledge capture and dissemination for advancing STEM digital education best practices in the state. Further Reading.

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Program Evaluation STEM Analysis Software 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That limits the salary she can earn at a community center like the Y and prohibits her from working in the higher-paying public pre-kindergarten sector, where the qualifications required of a preschool teacher are similar to those needed to teach elementary school. By 2015, almost 75 percent had bachelor’s degrees ).

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Course Elementary Industry Report 106

Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school.

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Technology Digital Citizenship Khan Academy Elementary 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

At the start of the 2015 school year, about 800 new students — the majority African-American—from schools in Oktibbeha County prepared for their first year in the newly consolidated Starkville Oktibbeha County Public School District. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Each process also allows students the opportunity to fail and assess their failures so that they understand the need for perseverance. Michelle Luhtala is the Library Department Chair at New Canaan High School in Connecticut and was one of five school librarians named as a “Mover and Shaker” by Library Journal in 2015.

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Libraries eBook Twitter Elementary 47

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

But after the organization closed in 2013 and was eventually reopened in 2015 with Anello at the helm, working with parents became a new focus. A collection of PDF checklists encourages parents to consider available extracurricular activities, safety, social-emotional learning and academic rigor when assessing a school’s quality.

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Elementary System Study STEM 60

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. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 74

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2016

JACKSON — For the first time in several years, Jackson Public Schools has joined the Mississippi Department of Education’s list of failing districts in the state, with 17 JPS elementary and middle schools drawing an F in numbers the State made public today.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Report Assessment System 40

Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)? Pick and play games for intentional moments in the classroom, such formative assessment, differentiated instruction, and reflection to name a few. Then consider coming to Mobile Learning Experience 2015 in Tucson, Arizona. Switching from Math to English?

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Imperative 5: Create Balanced Assessments. Assessments look far different than 10-15 years ago, but it’s not just the switch to computerized testing. Successful schools look at assessments as a jumping off point to evaluate curriculum, teaching methods, student engagement, etc.

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Technology PowerMyLearning Learning EdTech 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

But what makes this center unique is that it is serves Bushwick, a high-poverty community in which public elementary schools don’t do well on state and city tests. “We The assessments were performed on nearly 1220 programs from 2013-15. Bushwick elementary schools have long struggled. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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Data Elementary Libraries Exercises 69

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

Michele Gay and Alissa Parker founded Safe and Sound Schools in 2013, following the tragic deaths of their children at Sandy Hook Elementary School. The Boston University College of Communication compiled the interviews and data. About Safe and Sound Schools. For more information, visit www.safeandsoundschools.org.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

And while new requirements in the 2015 federal law governing education, the Every Student Succeeds Act , are designed to help this population, a Hechinger Report/HuffPost survey has found that many states are not living up to the law’s promise. She attends a local elementary school, where Matt Rhoda is the principal. percent did.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Michael’s IEP allowed him to work in small groups, have extended time on assessments and use a computer for written assignments.

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Education Strategy Report Training 110

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., It gave states a deadline of the 2013-14 academic year to have 100 percent of their students demonstrating proficiency in reading, writing and math — a noble, if statistically improbable, goal.

Education 40

Education Policies Learning Report 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

Blended Learning 192

Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Related: How one Mississippi elementary school improved to an A rating. She was widowed in 2013, and lost her son in 2015. percent were proficient in math based on assessments for grades three through eight. 184 teaching positions in Jackson Public Schools are being filled by long-term subs.

Education 76

Education Report Groups Classroom 76

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

About one in six 16- to 24-year-olds are neither working nor in school, according to Tulane University’s Cowen Institute, which in 2015 calculated the city’s rate of opportunity youth at 18 percent, one of the highest in the nation. Related: Held back, but not helped. Related: A little girl’s school helps her deal with trauma at home.

Dropout 61

Dropout Policies Report System 61

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

The two men first conceived of the school in 2013 during their time in an early childhood leadership program and soon after discovered the long, bureaucracy-laden road to state recognition. These include evaluating students using a state-approved assessment tool. Photo by Ann Schimke/Chalkbeat). that reality could be a ways off.

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Libraries Elementary Training Assessment 42