Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Breakout group questions. Girls Scouts – all girl Lego leagues, Engineering is Elementary – girls are empowered – Flying Monkeys prosthetic device patent! Sioux City CSD – opening a K-5 STEM specialty school in Fall 2015.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Small group interaction, made easier by smath. The first space is a 50-student “lecture hall” where we hold whole-group mini-lessons, complete with projectors.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2019

Nationwide, girls who take classes in computer science are a minority , and black girls, proportionately, make up an even smaller group. Makenzie believes that since the world is constantly changing, she needs to know how to fix things, like cars with advanced electronic technology. I love to work with computers.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

How could we transform a traditional, dysfunctional, low-performing system measured by high-stakes assessments into a system with exceptional teaching and learning environments that developed students empowered to change the world? After weeks of conversation, the group presented me with their suggestions to change our broken system.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Donna Araujo reads a story to a small group of children under her care. Experts and educators say the Early Head Start partnership program could serve as a model, showing states how to design systems to better support child care programs and raise quality — assuming states get more funding under Biden’s plan.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

JUNE 25, 2015

Are you going to the ISTE 2015 conference and want to find out more about Flipped Learning? But first, we (Jon Bergmann & Aaron Sams) would like to invite you to our large group session where we will be talking about our latest project. The books are: Flipped Learning for Science Instruction (In print and available at ISTE 2015).

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Turning Learning On Its Head

JUNE 25, 2015

Are you going to the ISTE 2015 conference and want to find out more about Flipped Learning? But first, we (Jon Bergmann & Aaron Sams) would like to invite you to our large group session where we will be talking about our latest project. The books are: Flipped Learning for Science Instruction (In print and available at ISTE 2015).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Nick Baskwill works with hundreds of elementary, middle, and high schools across Nova Scotia to drive technology integration and the adoption of innovative tools for tech and computer science education. This may include group onboardings, webinars, PD sessions, lesson plans, and prebuilt examples. Nominated by : Unruly Studios.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. BERWYN, Ill. —

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Research About Keeping Teachers First, let’s dive into some research about how to help teachers thrive (and not quit teaching.) A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. We have to do better. 33) Bartell, C.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Together students and teachers construct, mostly without being conscious of doing it, an environment of meanings enacted in individual and group behaviors, of conflict and accommodation, rejection and acceptance, alienation and withdrawal” (p. Madda et al.,

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. Monica explains how teachers can personalize learning through Lumio lessons. Providing whole class instruction, small groups, assign differentiated instruction, collaborative work, or individual practice. To get Lumio for FREE, head to Lum.io

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I can still picture myself sitting at a small, elementary school table over a decade ago. The support page also shows how to find and use comments in the Comment Bank. In other words, a comment that can be repeated for a group of students. Here’s how it works: . This was a common sight for me.

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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. Yet the exact nature of that support and how to provide it are debated. In this Thursday, Oct.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

I was on my way to my new gig as an elementary teacher one morning when I first heard the term “PBL paralysis” on a podcast. In some groups, students were downright mean to each other. As teachers, we often put students in groups and expect that they’ll know how to work well together.My So how to fix the problem?

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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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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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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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MindShift

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In the early years of elementary school, all children are learning to read, and all are developing their reading skills at different rates. Truly, there were interventions they needed, I just didn’t know how to help them,” says Youman, who now treats kids with dyslexia. “I Talks about how hard reading is and/or resists reading.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When four ambulances arrived at school in 2015 to transport middle school students who had taken prescription drugs in the classroom, it was a career first for me. Why Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Weren’t Enough When I came to Madison Elementary in 2015, I was the third principal in a four-year time-frame.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Additionally, some families—especially those from marginalized backgrounds—may feel unsure about how to best engage in the school community. How to Create Opportunities for Parent Empowerment. Johns Hopkins University, 2015, School of Education. The advantages to engaging and empowering families in schools are clear.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The first part of the study, released in 2015, showed slightly negative effects on the academic performance of pre-K graduates by the end of third grade. As a parent whose two children started group care in infancy, I found this part of the study especially hard to read.).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools. Marla Williams, a professor in the elementary education department at Athens State discusses ethical issues as preservice teachers took an ethics seminar provided by the Athens State college of education, Tuesday, Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

They turned their screens back on and Worthen posed a question to the group. “I In one study in Chicago of almost 200 elementary public school students, listening to 10 minutes of audio-recorded mindfulness daily for eight weeks improved students’ grades in reading and science. Credit: Sarah Garland / The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2019

Isha Brown arranges tables in small groups for her literature class at the Medical Academy for Science and Technology (MAST) in Homestead, Florida. On a recent morning, the students in Isha Brown’s literature class were huddled in groups, analyzing the symbolism in “A Streetcar Named Desire.”

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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. 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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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. Children sat together in small groups at tables and on the floor with large sheets of paper and markers spread out between them.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

In July of 2015, the district paid more than $400,000 for alignment, strategy and professional services from Education Elements, a for-profit personalized learning consultant, according to receipts obtained by EdSurge from the district. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Hispanic teachers numbered more than 335,000 and the number of non-white teachers surpassed 760,000 in the 2015-16 school year. He and his colleagues have since updated these findings twice, in 2014 and now in 2018 , with data through the 2015-2016 , which recently became available. This 2015-16 data shows that 20 percent of the 3.8

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

In December 2015, I found myself toiling away on a fifth grade figurative language lesson in a unique place—a local tech meetup called Code For Vegas. Not only was this project exciting, it also taught students how to get user feedback and revise their designs. My former self might have seen children simply playing video games.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Focusing on how to engage students more fully has the potential to reduce chronic absenteeism significantly. Disturbing chronic absenteeism trends identified during this panel involves two groups: early learners and marginalized students. In 2015, Legacy Magazine named her one of 40 Most Influential Women in Florida.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2023

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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