The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Principals lack the experience and expertise in early childhood education that is needed as pre-K programs expand in public elementary schools and that could inhibit their ability to manage and support pre-K teachers, according to a new report.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Such jobs made up 6.2

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Buncee

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Tyllie graduated with a BA from the University of Northern Iowa in 1999 with a TESOL major and Spanish minor and a MA in School Library Studies in 2015. The post 6 Ideas For Using Buncee in the Elementary Classroom appeared first on Buncee Blog.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The early years are vital to a child’s long-term achievement in reading, so teaching vocabulary and content knowledge in preschool and in the elementary grades is essential. Whenever possible, expose students to both narrative and informational texts related to the areas of study in your classroom. September 2015.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

In studying various pieces of literature on the effect of design, Barrett and Zhang began with the understanding that a “bright, warm, quiet, safe, clean, comfortable, and healthy environment is an important component of successful teaching and learning” (p. Additionally, the study indicated that whole-school factors (e.g.,

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

in this post, I share with you my perspectives, drawn from my experiences as a blogger, educator, and academic with a PhD in educational studies, on what constitutes the quintessential characteristics of 21st century teachers. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

More group work was associated with greater individual gains in a new study. I visited many elementary and middle schools where students, with bulging headphones wrapped over their heads, stared at separate computers, each learning something different at the same moment. Photo: Tara García Mathewson.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

12, 2024 column about how chronic absenteeism remains stubbornly high in elementary, middle and high schools. Dave Moyer, an education data analyst in Portland, Oregon, who has been studying absenteeism for more than a decade, helped me solve the puzzle. This question gnawed at me as I wrote my Feb. How can this be?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” That was in 2017. “It It began to become emotionally draining.

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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. Victoria was in my U.S. History class.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 7, 2023

Youtube is a great video website that since its introduction in 2015 has revolutionized the media world in unprecedented ways. It provides a wide variety of educational videos created by teachers and students.Videos are organized into several categories such as Science, Math, History, Social Studies, Language Arts, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

I assumed that I would eventually learn how the brain worked because I thought that studying education meant studying how learning happens. I was told to study my own students and investigate what worked best. But in my training in the late ’90s, the closest I got to cognitive science was the concept of “practitioner inquiry.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. To the other 13 school/district case studies, click here. In order to help, the district dedicated the summer of 2015 to transition everyone with several training sessions. To the other 13 school/district case studies, click here.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

These are the latest findings of a multi-year study that followed 2,990 children in Tennessee schools to look at the long-term impact of the state’s public pre-K program. 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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, the PISA financial literacy assessment found that 15-year-olds in the U.S. At the high school level, financial literacy curriculum is often delivered as a separate course within social studies, consumer science, or business. For youth, the outlook is not much better. scored below the OECD mean.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

For the purpose of the Modern Language Association study, programs are course offerings during a given semester, not entire departments. Part of the problem I see is that so few students in the United States – just 20 percent – study a foreign language at the K-12 level. begin language study in middle or high school.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

Chalkboard Parts Of Speech Posters For Elementary What’s to Love: These posters ooze that nostalgic chalkboard classroom feel. Greenery Parts Of Speech Posters For Elementary What’s to Love: This set brings the beauty of the outdoors into your classroom with a greenery theme.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 28, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 4: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Scholastic Study Jams. Simple interactive tutorials for elementary Math/Science concepts. Lesson Paths. Create your own to share.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Now, a new study is adding to a growing body of research indicating that high-quality early care and learning programs can positively impact children for years into the future. Together, these studies suggest that focusing on early access to high-quality programs is critical for long-term positive outcomes.

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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. And not always as reward for a correct answer.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Mississippi held back 8 percent of third graders in 2015, the first year its retention policy was in place. Literacy coach Melissa Knapp works in a first grade classroom at Harpeth Valley Elementary in Nashville. That includes some students held back for other reasons.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2022

Scientists ran an unusual summer camp in the 1970s and ‘80s—and its main purpose was to study the sleep patterns of kids and teens. What researchers found, and have continued to study in the years since, is that teens have different, and greater, needs when it comes to sleep than people of other ages. But really it was a sleep study.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The study, the second in a series of three examining the relationship between NAEP and the Common Core State Standards in math, was conducted by 18 math educators, supervisors and mathematicians convened by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel (NVS), an independent panel charged with examining issues related to the validity of the NAEP assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mississippi’s elementary reading policies, signed into law in 2013, have drawn national attention. They include improved literacy training for elementary teachers and reading coaches for the state’s lowest performing elementary schools. Related: Mississippi made the biggest leap in national test scores this year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

I was over in one of the elementary schools the other day, and three years ago we were all in awe and kind of gaga about a high school student who was all in with drones, and sort of building and flying, and learning about aviation and drones with his high school peers. Drones in the Classroom. He’s actually been back, He’s taking a gap year.

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Hapara

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Since 2015, H?para Developed by some of the division’s most experienced master teachers, this ELM comprises 64 core curriculum courses, including math, sciences, social studies and English. In addition, teachers at WCPS have also created or modified courses in Workspace for elementary through high school learners.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In January 2022, a review of 17 research studies showed that young kids can learn from “guided play” as well as if they were being directly instructed by an adult or a teacher. The same study also captured responses from 1,000 K-8 students, of whom 89 percent said play made them “more excited” to go to school.

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Waterford

MAY 11, 2020

In a meta-analysis of over 93 studies, educational researchers found that summer school generally provides lasting gains for at-risk students.[4] 8] Before school gets out for the summer, connect parents with guided reading activities and summer learning programs for elementary students. SET Journal, 2015, 1, pp. Green, A.M.,

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

An example of extrinsic motivation is a student who is studying so their parents will not ground them for poor grades. Elementary-aged children are highly motivated when their teachers prioritize content mastery and understanding over high test scores.[2] Extrinsic motivation, however, is learning because of external factors.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2016

Almost 20,000 college students and 300 instructors participated in the experiment over the course of three terms between 2013 and 2015. It’s probably the largest and most rigorous study of adaptive learning to date. Then Gates hired SRI International, a nonprofit research institute, to analyze the data.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

The report looked at how students at 435 of the biggest California districts performed on its statewide test, based on the national Smarter Balanced assessments, for three years beginning in 2015. They estimated that more than 10,000 of them were issued by the Teacher Credentialing Commission during the 2015-16 school year.

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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 Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

He was speaking during a break in a city program for promising local high school students to study calculus for five hours a day throughout the summer at Northeastern University. Among the students who decide to study STEM in college, more than a third end up changing their majors , according to the U.S. gross domestic product by 2015.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Two out of every three high school seniors graduate with an Advanced Studies Diploma, 30 percent higher than the state average for all school divisions. M-Cubed is a program that supports black middle school males in year-round advanced math studies to improve their high school academic performance.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The years between 2000 and 2015 saw the number of instructional coaches in U.S. Teachers in our study told us they were more likely to buy into a PD that empowered them to reflect on their challenges in a way that was relevant to their background, experiences, skills, goals, and classroom context. schools double.

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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

In a cross-analysis of fifty different studies, researchers found a strong link between parent engagement and student achievement.[8] 8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Sheldon, S. and Jung, S.

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