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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We

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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. 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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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

We need to take the approach of helping them learn how to identify bias and sift bias and fact from each other and look for information and sources on the same topic from different places…Instead of teaching our students to always trust a source, we need to teach them to always read critically, look for bias, and fact check.”.

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eSpark

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Over 1,000 Mineola elementary school students are using eSpark in four buildings throughout the district, while a team of Mineola middle schoolers helped us build new product features to better engage and challenge students. The district’s culture of innovation pays off. Berwyn, Illinois.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Not long after schools closed because of the coronavirus last spring, a Rhode Island nonprofit launched a hotline for teachers who were struggling to launch new technology for remote leaning and trying to figure out how to teach with it. Up to 300 educators attended the workshops, which ran every day and sometimes on weekends.

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Learning Blended Learning Flipped Classroom Training 118

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 9, 2021

and Library 2.0 ) will be hosting an ONLINE version of the much-sought-after course: Parenting For Academic Success (and Parental Sanity) This course is a five-part series of classes co-taught by Greg Smith and Chris Loper. Chris Loper: Chris has been an academic coach since 2014. Jenifer Dobson (More testimonials below.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 21, 2023

Parenting For Academic Success (and Parental Sanity) A Six-Week Summer "Bootcamp" Are you anxious that your child isn't living up to their potential, but you're not sure how to support them? Do you worry that your child fell behind during COVID, but you don't know how to help them catch up?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 6, 2021

Chris Loper, one of the instructors for our upcoming course described below, has written an article for parents: " How to Succeed When School Returns to Normal." Chris will share the key ideas from psychology and neuroscience that are most relevant for parents, while Greg will discuss how to apply this knowledge at home.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 14, 2021

and Library 2.0 ) will be hosting an ONLINE version of the much-sought-after course: Parenting For Academic Success (and Parental Sanity) REGISTER HERE This course is a five-part series of classes co-taught by Greg Smith and Chris Loper. Chris Loper: Chris has been an academic coach since 2014.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

For my notes on Day 1 of this academy, which took place January 15, 2014, click here. High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. Are we showing kids how to do really good searching?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 21, 2014

This will take place on January 28, 2014 from 5 PM to 7 PM EST at AFS'' New York Offices. In 2014, we will celebrate the fifth anniversary of GlobalEdCon, and hope that you can join us for an evening of networking and conversation. Constructing Modern Knowledge 2014. Click here to RSVP. Check it out and subscribe at [link].

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Reading By Example

JULY 14, 2015

Check out an article I wrote for EdTech K-12 , on how to use this social media tool for better professional learning: How Twitter Can Power Your Professional Learning. We were at the local public library for a performance by a national yo-yo champion. I read about him while checking out books in the school library.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. It just wouldn’t be fair.”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Financial literacy is one of several side lessons of the full-time internships for his students, along with learning to navigate lobby security without state-issued identification and how to behave and dress at the office. From 2014 to 2016, the percentage of ChiTech freshmen on track to graduate in four years rose from 63 to 78 percent.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 12, 2014

Rookies want to know how to make flipping work with class procedures, and veterans are always tweaking what they do. For example, 2013-14 English 9 or 2014-15 Honors English 9. With Curriculet''s premium library of contemporary texts being released this Fall, I''m excited to get my students reading more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Learn more or connect with Amanda on Twitter @ AmandaFoxSTEM Brad Weinstein Brad Weinstein founded TeacherGoals in 2014 as a way to inspire educators that do such important work with students. They have a wonderful lesson library that they've created as well. The math teacher who used student loans to show you how interest worked.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

Hays-Lodge Pole High School “was in total disarray,” when Margarett Campbell, who has served as her region’s state representative in the Montana legislature, took over as superintendent in 2014. “It There is no grocery store, no movie theater, no bowling ally, no public library. The unemployment rate in Hays in 2014 was 25 percent.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Adam Holden, Assistant Professor & Chair Transforming Teacher Education through Transdisciplinary and Translational Research - Melda N. Yildiz, Teacher Educator What can we learn from ''top-performing'' education systems? RIVAS, Ed.D.,

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2021

In a New York Times article this past April, entitled " How to Help Your Adolescent Think About the Last Year ," writer Judith Warner notes that: "On and offline, parents are trading stories — poignant and painful — about all of the ways that they fear their middle schoolers are losing ground."

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

This article is about book choice as well, but it’s about the choice to say no (how to say no, how to tell when you should say no, what are the ramifications of saying no, what to do when you maybe should have said no but said yes instead, and how to turn a no into a consenting yes). Supreme Court Case such as Roth v.

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mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

JANUARY 25, 2014

Larry Ferlazzo''s The Best Sites For Learning About The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games. TeachersFirst''s Resources for the Sochi Olympics Sharemylesson''s 2014 Olympic Winter Games. Lessons are sorted by elementary and secondary, with a section on Russian history. First, what are some good ways to follow the Sochi Olympics?

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

Learn about this technique and how to help children travel who may have fears. As a teacher, you can get started with a library of 40 books as part of their free version – go to coolcatteacher.com/bookcreator to get started now. B” who was Oregon Teacher of the Year 2014. How to Find the books. This is great news!

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Normally, many rural districts work with local libraries and businesses to provide students with WiFi hotspots. While they may be proficient in using edtech, they don’t know how to create comprehensive lessons to use it in the classroom. Ann earned her bachelors, masters, and Ed.S. degrees from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

Dr. Carol Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary District 97 (IL), stated, “We were not as prepared as we could have been to have made that shift in terms of our practices and pedagogy.” Tech Enablers. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by ClassLink and co-hosted by CoSN and AASA. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 79

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 21, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update May 20, 2014 Teaching is a strategic act of engagement. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Call for Proposals.

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Game-Based Learning Conference Libraries Education 59

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 1, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update October 1st, 2014 There is not such a cradle of democracy upon the earth as the Free Public Library. We''re really excited about our special Library 2.014 preconference event for K-12 teacher librarians (and their fans), Connected Librarian Day on Tuesday October 7th from 3:30pm - 10pm US Eastern.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. You can only do that if you know how to use technology, especially really fabulous software, which teachers who use technology know how to find. Vicki: And this is so important!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

Not only do they need the skills to navigate and utilize technology, but they need to understand how technology can connect them with people, places, and resources that were previously unreachable. My high hope: Why not show students how to create with VR and AR?

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

If it is, it is not going to be successful because your principals aren’t going to know how to support the teachers on a daily basis…you have to make sure that your principals know how to support and are part of the creation of that vision.”. “This cannot be a central office issue; this cannot be a central office initiative.

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Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 4, 2014

Elementary School Samples Middle School Samples High School Samples I have so say that finding products made through project based learning is difficult. 6th grade students run the concession stand after learning about money and profit #pbl #hotdogstand pic.twitter.com/7PrtdqmyIn — Linsly School (@linslyschool) February 5, 2014.

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Android Learning iPad Assessment 79

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

During this project we’ll work through how to design SDG research projects, build partnerships with community organizations and collaborate with other educators passionate about the SDGs. Kimm will share resources and show participants how to join a community of educators ready to take action. Stevens (2014, p.162)

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Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

Barnum never said , “There’s a sucker born every minute,” but spend an hour or two with Konnikova and she’ll show you how to make anyone believe he did. Enter Mira Jacob (author of 2014’s “The Sleepwalker’s Guide to Dancing”) and her new graphic novel, “Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversations.” It’s likely P.T.

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techlearning

AUGUST 9, 2018

In 2014 I wrote what would be my most popular blog post ever. A handful of these are carry overs from the 2014, but the majority are not. One of my Ed Techs ( Ashley Pampe ) actually created a “Social Media” team on her elementary campus. However, buying a bunch of these may not be possible for every teacher.

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Robotics Education Social Media Mobile Learning 63

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2020

It records the action and then shows the athlete how to, for example, refine a fastball, analyze a golf swing, break down a volleyball serve, improve soccer skills, or demonstrate proper weightlifting form. If you have another platform, try Draw a Stickman (well-suited for elementary school ages). SmartMusic. Pro Metronome.

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Tools Digital Citizenship iPad eBook 275

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update June 10th, 2014 Children want the same things we want. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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