Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

school systems, the Magnolia Independent School District in Texas serves a diverse student population. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia. But in Magnolia, where all elementary teachers are using the Stepping Stones program, that isn’t the experience. Like many U.S.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 22, 2023

2015; Selmeier, 1957). As a fellow educator and researcher in the field, I’ve seen firsthand how visual elements can stimulate interest and understanding across various subject areas and grades, from elementary school all the way to higher education. Cauley, 1954; Logan, 1953; Meyerhoff et al, 2023; Shabiralyani et al.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Her books and resources are used around the world: THE WRITING STRATEGIES BOOK (2017) and THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK (1st edition) (2015) have been translated into French, Chinese, and Spanish. So these text-level systems were very popular. So these text-level systems were very popular. That's the system I used.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 27, 2019

When I wrote Uncommon Learning back in 2015, the premise was to set the stage as to how we could create schools that work for kids. However, the goal should be sustainable changes that impact all students in a school, district, or system. To get a better gist of the main focus areas check out my TEDx talk.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

school system is a “mess.” When I was in elementary school and in middle school, I always knew that I wanted to be a composer. That’s the problem with our education system now, that mistakes are the worst things you can make. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Adaptive teaching: Reflective practice of two elementary teachers’ visions and adaptations during literacy instruction. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g.,

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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. Our classroom should become a complex adaptive system (CAS) with no set leader. Systems Thinking Version 2.0. Biomimicry – Emulating Life’s Genius.

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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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2015

note : This year the editors selected ten stories we believe either highlighted an important issue in 2015 and/or signaled the beginning of an escalating trend or issue for 2016 (look for No. It’s about helping students make sense of their digital world.

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 18, 2015

From tried-and-true resource websites to Web-based learning management systems, Chrome plugins, and everything between, these tools help you boost learning right from your browser. Here's our list of 2015's most wow-worthy websites and web-based edtech tools: A.D.A.M. Interactive Anatomy Online. Mystery Science.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In 2015, I left the classroom for a year to try something different and it completely reshaped my work. Though my decision to return to the classroom was helping to change the narrative in my own school building, the gap persisted and I wasn’t in a position to change it systemically.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Imagine mastery-based grading, add colors, and you have our badging system. Realizing this, during the 2015-2016 school year, the Elizabeth Forward elementary teachers and administrative staff began to discuss the possibility of using micro-credentials and badging for their youngest students.

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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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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2014

To the Citizens of British Columbia, Canada, How important is a good, free, public education system to you and to our society? Here are some graphs from Statistics Canada: Summary Elementary and Secondary School Indicators for Canada, the Provinces and Territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

Teacher burnout is an extremely common phenomenon that can have far-reaching consequences on both individuals as well as the larger educational system. Many studies explore the factors that can lead to teacher burnout such as lack of job satisfaction, stressors from the educational system, and having too many students in classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Nevertheless, during the 2017-18 school year, the CRDC reported, 69,492 students received corporal punishment, on top of 92,479 students in 2015-16. Before working in education policy, Kostyo taught middle and high school math and science — and was recognized as a high school Teacher of the Year by his peers in 2015.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 10, 2015

We can’t revert back to past years when we operated at a loss, particularly given our new employee compensation system in which a few high fliers get a little extra in their paycheck. In Iowa, our Department of Education brags about elementary schools that cut recess. We have to keep this company in the black. Hey, quit your whining.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Melvin Love, principal at Oxmoor Valley Elementary School in Birmingham City Schools in Alabama. When I came to this school in 2015, our data from the state of Alabama showed an eight percent proficiency in reading in grades three through five. How do you know if coaching is effective?

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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. 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

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2019

In her latest book, Where Teachers Thrive , Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Susan Moore Johnson describes 14 schools studied between 2008 and 2015. They had developed in-house systems for important responsibilities, such as hiring new colleagues, developing curriculum, meeting as teams, and enforcing school-wide norms and rules.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

More play in the classroom also addresses issues currently burning precarious holes in the education system. Croft and Nardolilli also launched their own STEM game design company, Catilli, in 2015. “It Miller, the teacher from Georgia, has to get organized before her elementary class comes into play. “I

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Gaggle Speaks

JUNE 13, 2019

But with 45,000 students across 55 neighborhood elementary schools, 16 secondary schools, two alternative schools, and 16 charter schools, the district was concerned with how they would be able to monitor any inappropriate activity. Students using the system to purposefully alert adults of possible situations. That’s just smart.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Learning Space Toolkit by North Carolina State University has a system for needs assessment and space planning. Classroom Caboodle’s elementary Classroom Layout. Simmons, K.,

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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? percent enrollment drop cascades through the whole elementary-to-high-school system as these first graders age and progress into higher grades. That’s an indication of how the whole system might lose students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

Pre-K to Kindergarten Transition: As children move from their pre-K classroom into kindergarten, they need support and guidance and strong ties should exist between the pre-K program and the feeder elementary school. Our current K-3 system does not serve these children effectively.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The districtwide shift towards blended learning began in 2015 when Erica Hartman was hired as Supervisor of Technology Integration. The station rotation model is utilized across the district, at the elementary, middle and high school level, in both bilingual and mainstream classes. 2015-16: Students who Met or Exceeded Expectations.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

Learning is individualized, and we build systems to support student initiative, interest and needs. In October of 2015, attending HIVE Hackathon at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the journey of room2learn began. What might 21st century learning look like? For one, it’s student-centered. Notice that tables are absent?

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

An attendance system to fight absenteeism. Since its first cohort in 2015, AT&T’s edtech accelerator has graduated 27 companies and nonprofits. He is the CEO and co-founder of LearnPlatform, which helps schools analyze the education technology they use and was one of the original accelerator cohort members in 2015.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Since 2015, the EmpowerU solution has been developed to help schools meet the needs of struggling students—without the need for additional hires or more work for the school’s teachers or in-house student support team. “We know how hard they work to support the wellbeing of their students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

-based early childhood technology and services developer best known for its GOLD observation-based assessment system and its Creative Curriculum product lines for infants, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Roden worked as an elementary school teacher and in sales for Pearson before founding ReadyRosie in 2012.

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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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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Parent Empowerment: Key to Changing Education Systems. Johns Hopkins University, 2015, School of Education. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School. Help them find ways they can use these strengths to get involved with their child’s education.[4] Cooper, C.W., Sheldon, S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Perizzolo, Jacquez and Hernandez are among the eight math teachers of an increasingly popular data science course offered at most schools in the Oxnard Union High School district, an economically diverse school system northwest of Los Angeles, where 80 percent of students identify as Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

districts the organization is tracking were planning to offer summer school for elementary and middle school students in 2020, as of the latest update , on June 9. But he does encourage school systems to try new things this summer and track the results closely so that we can all learn from them. They do read alouds.

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