EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding,” says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. In District 36, “We have makerspaces in the resource centers of each elementary school, that’s where the robotics activities are happening,” Miller says. “We

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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. One state has a solution appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Related: Student teachers fail test about how kids learn, nonprofit finds One of the first principal syntheses of these findings with clear recommendations for the classroom was a 2007 federal report, “ Organizing Instruction and Study to Improve Student Learning.” The seven recommendations in the report represent, according to the U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

Supporting this notion, a research study out of the University of Salford Manchester (UK), followed 3,766 students in 153 elementary classrooms from 27 different schools over a three-year period, analyzing classroom design elements along the way. Understanding how the learning space itself can affect the way students learn is key. Cheryan, S.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Credit: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report One of the teachers was Connie Williams-May, a veteran reading and language arts teacher with Jackson Public Schools. “I 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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

Credit: Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report. 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. But there were many reports of tutoring fraud and fiascos.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2016

The study examined Dreambox Learning and the individual test scores of nearly 3,000 students in grades 3-5 during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years in two districts, Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) in Maryland and Rocketship Education in California.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. The efforts paid off.

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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. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. LINDSAY, Calif. — Ushering in a new model.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

This story about science instruction was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report). Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report).

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2014

Here are some graphs from Statistics Canada: Summary Elementary and Secondary School Indicators for Canada, the Provinces and Territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011. How much should a collective ‘WE’ spend on creating the best possible public education for ALL of our children? Catalogue-no-81-595-M-No-099-Statistics-Canada ).

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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. The post Translating a quarter of a million text messages for families appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

Despite concerns that kids would just stay up later at night if school started later in the morning, many students reported sleeping more. In 2014, the American Pediatric Association recommended an 8:30 a.m. A 2018 study reported increases in grades and attendance in one Seattle high school but not in another. to 8:30 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Perhaps there is some type of interaction between the K-12 system and the preschool program that just isn’t working to support children once they get into early elementary school. “I A 2018 report published by New America, a progressive think tank, came to a similar conclusion. And many states that meet them go beyond them.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Donna Araujo has run a child care program out of her home for 20 years. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Araujo’s salary has nearly doubled since she joined the federally-funded Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program in 2020.

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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. I’ve come around on this.”.

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EdNews Daily

JULY 30, 2019

The Washington Post reported (July 16, 2019) that a report filed by the National Center for Education Statistics, that online bullying and texting is the rise among middle and high school students. That was a jump of 15 percent from the 2014-2015 school year. percent jump in those who were bullied or by text or online.

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Waterford

JANUARY 30, 2020

3] Teachers who prioritize teaching emotional intelligence report lower levels of behavioral issues, classroom bullying, and chronic absenteeism.[13] Five-Minute Mindfulness Meditation : This age-appropriate meditation teaches elementary students how to clear their minds and focus on the present. Pianta, R. and Stuhlman, M. Goleman, D.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

In Afterschool Alliance’s “America After 3PM” report released last year, the organization found that between 2014 and 2020, participation in after-school programming decreased and barriers to participation and unmet demand grew. Low-income, Black and Latino households were also more likely to note these barriers, the report found.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. My Hechinger Report colleagues have written many stories about how low-income students don’t get nearly as much help as wealthy students do when it comes time to apply to college. Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. schoolchildren receive.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Back in 2016, Ben Herold of Education Week reported that grade-school students who took the computerized version of a different test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), in 2014-15 scored lower than students taking the paper-and-pencil version. Research has shown mixed results.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

Elementary Mathematics in Advanced Math Classes : In advanced math classes, students’ understanding of elementary concepts like multiplication tables and basic algebra is crucial for grasping higher-level concepts like calculus or trigonometry. For instance, the work of Cordova et al., Journal of Sleep Research , 32(4), e13834.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

What does the declining birthrate mean for elementary, middle and high schools across the country? These grade-by-grade projections start to show a drop in first-grade children beginning in 2014, six years after the 2008 recession, when Americans started making fewer babies. According to one set of projections, it could mean 8.5

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Dysart Unified’s preschool program for students with disabilities , which is offered at each of its elementary schools and staffed with teams of teachers, therapists and paraprofessionals, has become a model for Arizona. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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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. Photo: Julienne Schaer/The Hechinger Report). Distracted students are the bane of teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

The latest study is part of a series of reports by Farran and fellow researchers at Vanderbilt University about Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program. Previous research suggests that the quality of the teachers and elementary school that children attend after pre-K may boost or undermine long-term effects of pre-K.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In 2014, it was acquired for $1.1 The size of this acquisition dwarfs that of a similar one last year: Discovery Education’s $140-million purchase of Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum. The company has changed hands several times. Mystery Science had raised just $4.5 million in outside capital.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Credit: Robert Gauthier/ Los Angeles Times Transfers like Ricky’s represent a large yet hidden share of California’s exclusionary discipline, blocking students from attending their own schools and pushing them onto new campuses or into smaller, alternative schools, according to an investigation by the Hechinger Report.

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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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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

In a survey from the International Journal of Education, 97% of teachers reported never or seldom using a flexible curriculum for their students.[2] The Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues, and Ideas, 2014, 87(1), pp. Differentiation of Instruction in the Elementary Grades. Sources : Morgan, H.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report Gordon is getting a lot of that: plaques, thank-yous, T-shirts, goodbye hugs from parents, teachers and current and former students. Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The strategy was bolstered in 2019 when Gordon attracted a national college-promotion program called Say Yes.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This highlights the essential role of teacher collaboration in school reform efforts, with restructured schools reporting marked improvements in student performance. Adaptive teaching: Reflective practice of two elementary teachers’ visions and adaptations during literacy instruction. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., Leijten, P.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2023

Floyd Branch III, a restorative justice specialist for Montgomery County Public Schools, speaks about the practice at an elementary school PTA meeting. The practice spread to schools in the 1990s and accelerated after 2014 as an alternative to “zero-tolerance” suspension and expulsion policies for misbehavior. Credit: Christina A.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Officials at Alcorn say they are seeing progress, which is reflected in the test scores: During the 2016-17 school year, about 44 percent of third grade students scored proficient on the state reading assessment, up from around 36 percent during the 2014-15 school year. What has the district done to boost scores?

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