edWeb.net

MARCH 11, 2019

The gifted group. The slow group. The behavioral issues group. Grouping in schools fell out of favor partially because educators—and parents—felt like kids were getting labeled and that groupings didn’t help students improve. both education consultants, advocated for using groups to assist student learning.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

It’s more about providing students, individually or in a group, with different learning options or providing accommodations to help them learn more effectively.[11]. How to Differentiate Instruction in Your Classroom. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013, 17(1), pp. Sounds familiar? NYUSteinhardt Staff.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Experts say it’s a promising model for alleviating some of the problems plaguing ed tech.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year. During the pandemic, these challenges have been exacerbated.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

The school year ended at Washington Elementary at 2:35 p.m. Malaysia Robertson, 9, outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., The lobby of Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — on Friday evening, July 28, 2023.

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Elementary Report Trends Outcomes 86

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. But figuring out how to operate a district within a dual system, staying true to our state’s accountability model and meeting the needs of our learners hasn’t been easy.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. A year earlier, I had graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. It was my first full-time teaching job. I decided I was well-positioned to help make a change.

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Robotics Survey STEM Elementary 155

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2021

As cities and states explore policy strategies for how to use this unprecedented funding to expand pre-K, early childhood leaders will have a great deal of control over who has access to pre-K through policy decisions that influence which students enroll, where they enroll and ultimately, what they can achieve academically.

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

Read on to discover the impact of technology in education and how to get the most from its unique benefits. Many educators aren’t motivated to use digital resources in class, often because they’re unsure how to use them effectively or are unaware of the benefits.[1] How to Get the Most from Technology in Schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Today is day three of the 2013 Global Education Conference. Special Notes: Thanks to our GREAT volunteer group! A summary of today''s sessions is shown below in US-Eastern Standard Time (GMT/UTC-5). To see the schedule in your own time zone, with the full session descriptions and a link to enter each session, go to [link].

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Today is day four of the 2013 Global Education Conference. How will you accomplish this? The five projects are listed below, and each links to a project group on the conference site--please join one or more and then let us know how Lucy and I can help turn these into realities! Hard to believe we''re almost at the end!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. And Breanna Gruhn-McLaughlin, a family facilitator who plans monthly get-togethers for families, pours over a stack of manuals on how to nurture parent-child relationships. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. I like more hands-on, where I’m in control, rather than you’re just going to tell me how to do it and then I do it. Her first internship was at an elementary school in a bilingual classroom, a safe, familiar choice for the native Spanish- and English-speaker.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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Personalized Learning Elementary Learning Case Study 144

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

The camp was held in the large open room of the museum’s education center, where excited children, separated into groups, called out answers to their teachers. Mississippi’s elementary reading policies, signed into law in 2013, have drawn national attention. Is this controversial law the reason why?

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Elementary Report Policies Study 81

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

We had a great talk about why group work is terrible and how to fix it, so check out the Q&A if you haven’t already.) The real-life Paloma was featured on the cover of a 2013 issue of Wired, which inspired the film, with the headline “The Next Steve Jobs.” But you won’t have that problem at home! See what they did there?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. Superintendent Rico Munn made mental health a priority when he came to Aurora Public Schools in 2013.

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Report Training Elementary Survey 132

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

one superintendent asked a group. My group told me they were ‘flipping shapes around and seeing what we get,’” one superintendent responded. Half of all principals quit during their third year , and districts nationwide are trying to figure out how to better support principals and improve their effectiveness. asked another.

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. Tech integrationist Eric Curtis blogs about how to add technology into almost every K-12 subject from math to art. Elementary teacher Amy Pietrowski adds a dash of STEM into all of her classes.

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Technology Twitter Digital Learning Tools 365

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

Earlier this year, the company partnered with Facebook to create a $250,000 scholarship program for women and underrepresented groups in technology. Ironhack was founded in 2013 by Ariel Quinones and Gonzalo Manrique. You may not know what a computer science major knows, but you will know how to make an app,” she says.

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Company Training Facebook Elementary 109

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

These vulnerable lines open the music video “ Jagged ,” an award-winning film written, directed and starred in by elementary school students at Rocketship schools in California. The success of the program at Rocketship Discovery Prep has allowed us to pilot a group at Rocketship Brilliant Minds, with more campuses to come.

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How To Video Meeting Elementary 60

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 1, 2017

Audiences enjoy Alan’s humor and wit as he pushes the boundaries of how to improve teaching and learning. is on the New York Times education best sellers list for 2013. Stay tuned at the end of the show for how to enter. who took a semester off to try to figure out how to improve learning. This is Episode 89.

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Assessment Robotics Groups Study 264

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Dr. Christy Beaird, principal at Laura Dearing Elementary School in Nevada, however, has actively applied research with minimal data collection to transform her school from one of the lowest performers in the Clark County School District to one of the highest. They also work with groups of struggling students identified through the data.

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Strategy Elementary Data Outcomes 108

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In the 1970s and 80s, groups of primarily white, Christian fundamentalists drove a surge in the number of home-schooling families around the country. This time, the largest growth in home schooling was among Black families, with a fivefold increase, but all racial groups tracked have seen increases.

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Facebook Groups Data Survey 134

EdTechSandyK

MARCH 6, 2013

Notes from a panel session at SXSWedu 2013 [link] Teaching is a complex undertaking. How do we approach game development and what role does it have in learning? Play is fundamental to how we learn. How to make them work in education is the question. Who are students and teachers in 2013? Schools are messy.

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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. In January, adults could attend two 30-minute workshops on everything from how to set limits to understanding trauma — topics the parents had suggested themselves. “I LOVELAND, Colo.

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Elementary Meeting Report Survey 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

In 2013, the Los Angeles Unified School District banned suspensions for willfully defiant behavior, as part of a multi-year effort to move away from punitive discipline. Back in 2013, van der Fluit recalls, his colleagues’ perspective on the ban on willful defiance suspensions was often: “What is this hippie-dippie baloney?”

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Report Data Training Policies 73

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Steadman, who teaches at Mendell Elementary School in this highly-diverse Boston neighborhood, passed along her concerns to a colleague, Madeline Gillespie, a family support coordinator. At Mendell, City Connects has had a continuous presence since 2013. And she meets with groups of students during their usual lunch breaks.

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Meeting Elementary Groups Report 112

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. Before kindergarten, Jennifer Choi’s son was denied special education services despite a diagnosis of ADHD. Rachel Blustain for The Hechinger Report.

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Advocacy Elementary Training Report 111

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. They learned how to manipulate various Photoshop Elements tools to crop, select, paint and fill select areas of their work with contrast colors.

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Adobe Education Tablets iPad 120

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. Hughes shows the group the word “bright,” but then takes a card and covers up the letter “b.” . What does the word say now?” Students shout.

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Training Elementary Course Report 68

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Lisa Marie Blaschke, Mr. Chris Kenyon, and Dr. Stewart Hase contacted a group of us due to our interest in heutagogy for the purpose of writing a chapter in an edited book. Full of links to resources, curated sites,and discussion forums, this is a valuable ‘how to’ book for the interested practitioner and theoretician alike.

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Education Learning Resources Tools 268

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Whereas a Google search for “learning techniques” returns over 400 million results, researchers Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Mitchell, and Willingham (2013) culled through hundreds of studies to provide a “curated” analysis of the 10 most effective learning techniques commonly used by students. Dunlosky, J., Rawson, K.A.,

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Strategy E-rate Learning Study 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We Still, she added, there were “just so many stories of kids using their cellphones to complete assignments, to research, or having to figure out how to get to public libraries in order to access devices.”.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 107

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

While it’s fine to use a simple “Good morning, Joshua” greeting, consider teaching students how to say “Hello” in a variety of languages. After the greeting, you can do a short inspirational reading, play a short team-building game or pitch an icebreaker question to discuss in small groups.

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Personalized Learning Learning Examples Report 107

Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 7, 2018

In 2013 I wrote my first blog post on managing technology usage in the classroom. While the devices may vary, the concepts on how to teach students good internal management of appropriate use has not changed. We are teaching students how to manage their impulses by setting expectations of appropriate usage. Use Canvas LMS?

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Respondus LMS Digital Citizenship Accessibility 71

EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

Contemporary classrooms (from elementary school to graduate school) are structured similar to a manufacturing line and typically produce students who are full of information. Students analyze and synthesize concepts and share mental models increasing the collective knowledge of the group. Biomimicry – Emulating Life’s Genius.

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