Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation. In the elementary and middle schools, the TAC discovered that over 50% of the students were using computers once a month or less. Presidential Scholars.

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Elementary Personalized Learning Comparison Technology 88

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.”.

Digital Divide 110

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 110

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Shortly after I received the award, it seemed like everyone wanted to visit my classroom and sit in a room with me to understand how I was getting my kids to learn. I had been working alone behind closed doors for so long that I didn’t know how to share the work in a meaningful way. That’s when the email came.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here.

Learning 85

Learning Elementary Report Personalized Learning 85

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. At eSpark Learning, we make tools that empower teachers and delight students. Berwyn, Illinois.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Prompted by district administrators’ desire to find ways to build student agency, engage student passion and personalize learning, we hoped blended learning would shake up the status quo and spark large scale change. Provide professional learning that allows participants to experience blended learning.

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Blended Learning Learning Training Assessment 127

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

A few years ago, Amy Lopes, a veteran fifth-grade teacher in Providence, Rhode Island, learned that teachers at her school could try a mindfulness and yoga training along with their students. I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

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. Keller ISD Digital Learning Blog. Mark Guzdial. guzdial | Read the blog. Eric Curtis.

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Technology Twitter Digital Learning Tools 365

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.

Learning 115

Learning Blended Learning Flipped Classroom Training 115

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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Personalized Learning Education Learning Elementary 145

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the second-largest school division in Virginia, with 55 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, 12 high schools, and a number of secondary/post-secondary specialty centers. Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

“And so, no improvement efforts big or small in any city or district could be successful without both understanding historically how that has come to be and addressing it.” Related: How to make Cleveland ‘great again’? Because of the improvements, her first grader attends William Rainey Harper elementary on the city’s south side.

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Education Report System Meeting 97

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

How To Start The School Year By Building Relationships Lesson Plan Idea: For example, I kick off the year in “Masterpiece Theater” (the name of my classroom) by having students create a masterpiece in Play-Doh representing something that’s essential to the masterpiece of their life. I want them to join Google classroom. It will help.

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Classroom Course Report Maker Movement 383

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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STEM Report Robotics Company 101

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Monica is the 2014 Texas Teacher of the Year. She taught eighth grade language arts and reading to military-connected children at Faith Middle School in Fort Benning, Georgia, has been an elementary school assistant principal, and is now a professional development specialist. Kelisa honorably served in the U.S. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Vernon has achieved widespread involvement in interactive parent workshops, which have been online since last spring, by focusing on relevant topics such as understanding teenage language and behavior, and how to support virtual learning. Gorman has been a pioneer in the area of technology integration into public schools.

Outcomes 65

Outcomes Differentiated Instruction Assessment Professional Learning 65

MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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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.

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Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 90

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. Tech Enablers. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Dr. David R.

Learning 79

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 79

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Personalized learning is one of the most popular goals in schools today. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. MESA, Ariz.

Learning 122

Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 122

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This goal-setting feature is part of the Summit Learning Platform, an online tool used in a personalized learning program created by Summit Public Schools. shows that implementing technology is only part of the struggle for public schools seeking to make the switch to personalized learning models. People cried.

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Personalized Learning Differentiated Instruction Elementary Data 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness.

Education 145

Education Elementary Report Data 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. Teacher Meghan Lewis works on math problems with a small group of fourth graders at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts.

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Competency Based Learning Learning Elementary Report 115

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

In 2014, the high school was chosen as the top urban high school in America by the National Center for Urban School Transformation. After a tornado hit the area in the summer of 2014, she assigned her students to create installations based on their impressions of the tornado. percent in 2009 to 87.9 percent in 2017.

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E-rate Report Assessment Study 111

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. Listen to Jennifer Casa-Todd talking about how to help kids become social media leaders. Vicki: And this is so important!

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Social Media Blended Learning Data Blackboard 242

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 In Smart School money, districts find different approaches to tech | The Daily Gazette → Every school district in the state gets a cut of the $2 billion NY state bonds approved by voters in 2014 to enhance technology in schools. But school district leaders are not of one mind of how to best spend the money.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Challenges Current tech practices in schools do not support the demand for personalized learning. Many activities related to learning and education take place outside walls of classroom. By 2014 mobile internet should TAKE OVER desktop internet use. billion people worldwide will have mobile phones by 2013. Equity issues.

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BYOD Poll Everywhere Mobility Laptops 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

The teacher-spectators were looking under the hood of a new classroom model at Rhode Island’s blended and personalized learning conference. “We We want to see how it works, how it’s set up,” said Kim Wilson, a second-grade teacher at North Kingstown Schools. Shawn Rubin, director of blended learning, Highlander Institute.

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Blended Learning Personalized Learning Conference Groups 100

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update June 10th, 2014 Children want the same things we want. Dr. Seuss The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" virtual and physical events and those of our over 200 partners in the learning professions. See details and registration information here.

Google 54

Google Classroom Digital Citizenship Conference 54

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

11, 2014 in Wake Forest, N.C. During the past 50 years, no segment of elementary education has prospered against the odds more than homeschooling. In Massachu­setts, for example, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education lists and links to all private and parochial schools in the commonwealth. Here’s how to help them.

Advocacy 80

Advocacy Elementary Assessment Secondary 80

MindShift

JUNE 7, 2017

The teacher-spectators were looking under the hood of a new classroom model at Rhode Island’s blended and personalized learning conference. “We We want to see how it works, how it’s set up,” said Kim Wilson, a second-grade teacher at North Kingstown Schools. Hechinger Report/Nichole Dobo ). Hechinger Report/Nichole Dobo).

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Conference Personalized Learning Elementary Groups 48

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2016

By 2014, just about half of low-income high school students enrolled in college immediately, compared with 81 percent of high-income graduates, according to the Commission on the Future of Undergraduate Education. Zar-Kessler, meanwhile, is preparing students for the next step: how to regroup if the news from colleges is disappointing. “We

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Study Report Meeting Course 40

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Via NBC News : “How to Thrive: Arianna Huffington Launches E-Learning Series.” ” (It’ll run on LinkedIn Learning , formerly Lynda.com , which means it’ll cost you $24.99 Perhaps that is how you “scale.” a month.). .”

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

AUGUST 4, 2017

” Via Techcrunch : “ Mystery Science partners with Google to bring eclipse glasse s to elementary school students.” ” From the Pearson blog : “The future of language learning: Augmented reality vs virtual reality.” Spoiler alert: it’s about learning how to teach differently.).

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