EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. Makerspaces — a key element of STEM education — are popping up in classrooms and libraries across the U.S. For its part, St. But it’s also a space where they can write a book,” she says.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

engchat — Digital Learning Day (@OfficialDLDay) February 4, 2014 4. link] — IEL (@IELconnects) January 31, 2014 8. Join the National Association of Elementary Principals @NAESP ''s tweet chat on digital safety and citizenship using the hashtag #digisafety. Join the Twitter party on Feb. 8-9PM EST (3PM HST) 9.

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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. But at first, few teachers took note.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Sixth grade teacher Kelly Woodfin works with a small group of students, including Zoe, during an advanced math class in Tulsa, Okla. The school district now uses multiple pathways to get more students, especially those from underrepresented groups, into its accelerated courses.

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EdTechnocation.com

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Nominations for the 2014 Edublog Awards is open until November 24th! For this year''s 2014 Edublog Awards I made four nominations for what I consider some of the best blogs and resources for teachers. There are a lot of nomination categories for the 2014 Edublog Awards, also known as the Eddies!

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. Paula was in my Advanced Placement (AP) U.S.

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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.

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

My 4-year-old son Niko recently started transitional kindergarten at our local elementary school. Print concepts include the ideas that letters are grouped to make words, words are separated by spaces, and reading moves from left to right, and top to bottom. January 2014. Written by Marika Ismail.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On the latter issue, researchers wrote that the negative behavioral results they found are similar to findings from other studies showing behavior challenges among children who experience group or formal care at a young age. (As A 2018 report published by New America, a progressive think tank, came to a similar conclusion.

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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]. The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues, and Ideas, 2014, 87(1), pp. Differentiation of Instruction in the Elementary Grades. Tucker, G.C.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. LINDSAY, Calif. — This story also appeared in The Fresno Bee. Ushering in a new model.

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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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Waterford

APRIL 23, 2021

1] Children may play independently or in a group, but the key is that they decide the rules and focus. Whether you’re a preschool or elementary school teacher, you’re sure to find the ideas you need to help your students learn through play. April 2014. Why Is Play Important? The Mental and Social-Emotional Benefits.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 21st, 2014 In a gentle way, you can shake the world. Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings NMC Navigator Top Stories Conversations Updates GlobalEdCon 2014 - Call for Proposals Open Until November 1st.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In 2014, they were named a model for desegregation by the Center for Diversity and Equality in Education. While growth is happening across the district, certain groups of students, including English Language Learners and low-income students, are experiencing less success than others.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2019

In 2014, we were looking for ways to modernize aging classrooms in the Tahoe Truckee (CA) Unified School District to enhance the overall educational experience. We began with a team of six teachers, two each from the elementary, middle, and high school grades. Envisioning the classroom of the future.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A large-scale study of more than 50 elementary school classrooms found that decorations, such as these in a 2014 kindergarten room, are a frequent source of distraction and off-task student behavior. In a broader group of 30 private, parochial and charter school classrooms, 26 percent of behaviors were off task.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. In this Thursday, Oct. Photo: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

Tutoring programs for elementary school children rise to the top within this body of research, which was conducted well before the pandemic and targeted to students who were considerably behind grade level. The best results occur when the tutoring takes place at school during the ordinary school day.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Before the pandemic, Akeyla Ragland essentially worked two jobs: The first, as the teacher of record for English language learners at Tussing Elementary School in Reynoldsburg, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. During the pandemic, the nonprofit gathered parents and educators in focus groups to ask about their top need to help students succeed.

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Ultimately, the team will work to create an online platform where different groups of young researchers can come together to share their research and resulting multimedia products and plan new projects. Students will conduct critical community inquiry projects that combine Common Core literacy skills with their interests. Petaluma, CA.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Since 2014, the classrooms at Magnolia Elementary reflected a mixture of teacher-led and student-led moments, most using rotation-stations or playlists to incorporate technology. Allow individual, small group, and large group workspaces (i.e., What it was like. Think three-dimensionally. Also think vertically (e.g.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Rob Brown, Elementary School Principal Southside Christian School, South Carolina In brief, I realized this important fact: A teacher’s smile is a teacher’s game face. 25) Kraft, M.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“I tell them not to read at the same pace that your neighbors are reading, not too loud that we’re distracting someone, but just enough that you can practice your reading voice,” the second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School said. “So Related: Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

” The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting. ’ They’re part of the group doing flipped learning.” 2014 ; Lag and Saele, 2019 ; Orhan, 2019 ).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

They compared two cohorts of low-income children, including one group that had been selected to receive a spot, at random, from applicants for the state program and one group of children whose parents applied for a spot but did not receive one. The graduates of the state program also performed worse on state academic tests.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Sure, you know the fundamentals backward and forwards and can probably teach similar lessons to each new group of students that enters the classroom. Everything a New Elementary Teacher REALLY Needs to Know (But Didn’t Learn in College). London: Routledge, 1982, 2014. Stay current in your field. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1995.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. By all measures, the students who went straight to college stats did better.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

For instance, in her study titled “ Adaptive Teaching: Reflective Practice of Two Elementary Teachers’ Visions and Adaptations During Literacy Instruction “, Vaughn (2014) examines how two elementary teachers adapt their teaching methods in response to their students’ needs during literacy instruction.

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EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

With the Global Student Voice Film Festival deadline fast approaching, a group of my 5th-grade students has been hard at work collaborating on their 1 minute “Activating Change” themed film. Another group of students is planning a live-action film modeled after a musical commercial for Tim Horton’s coffee.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Thirty-four elementary schools are contributing data to the district’s Project Daffodil, examining relationships between weather and plants.

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Education with Technology

JUNE 25, 2014

In groups of two or three students, one student has downloaded to a mobile device the public domain version of the literature such as Garcia Lorca’s Blood Wedding. That group of students may search for the word “knife” in the play by using the Find feature in the e-publication. English Common Core Mobile Activities.

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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. Elementary teacher Amy Pietrowski adds a dash of STEM into all of her classes. While it’s playfully called a cult, this blog is really more of a support group for teachers. TCEA | Read the blog.

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 1, 2017

Three 2014 LRNG Innovators Challenge grantees share how their work has progressed, relaying both tremendous successes and ongoing challenges. Since we last checked in with Liberty Elementary, a 2014 LRNG Innovator Challenge grant recipient , the garden project has grown, now reaching all the way to the 6th grade.

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MSEDTechie

MARCH 12, 2014

Global classroom projects: icollaboratory, Kidlink: lower elementary, Flat connections: [link] , Hello little world skypers: Skype projects World Read Aloud Day is march 5th!!! The global read aloud : read together and have a hangout and make connections.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Parents created Facebook groups to oppose the changes. In 2014, 63 percent of students were in advanced classes, whereas in 2015 only 12 percent were in advanced classes and everyone else was taking Math 8. Many believe that children learn more effectively in schools or classes with similar learners, but are they right?

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