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SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

What is the bare minimum of learning technology integration in a classroom? In that light, we felt like it represented another kind of idea–a bare minimum of technology integration in an average classroom. What might be considered a kind of basic standard for education technology in 2016. Gamify your classroom.

Technology 40

Technology Common Core Academic Standards iPad 40

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. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. There’s no one size fits all.”.

Online Learning 133

Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 133

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York. Work-based learning is an instructional approach to classroom teaching that connects it to the workplace.

Company 109

Company Academic Standards Report Secondary 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. More than 40 states embraced the “Common Core” while additional states adopted similar standards.). Then, nearly all U.S.

Education 111

Education Common Core Report Academic Standards 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

So our daily greeting provides a positive interaction before they get into their classroom.”. According to data provided by district officials, in spring 2016 (the most recent year available), Webster graduated 75 percent of its seniors, a 22-point increase in just three years. The results have been impressive.

Dropout 79

Dropout Secondary Data Report 79

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. Related: Tech for tots and teachers: Promoting STEM learning in preK-3 classrooms. Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sylvester.

STEM 106

STEM Report Robotics Company 106

eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. ESSA encourages districts to bring edtech into the classroom. For over ten years, districts across the U.S.

Policies 40

Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2016

A fall 2016 Hechinger Report survey of 145 child care centers in 65 counties across the state found directors absent at half the centers. Experts say that someone in the building also needs to be in charge of maintaining a quality educational program by observing classrooms, training teachers and pitching in with child care whenever needed.

Survey 40

Survey Report Training Academic Standards 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

That was in January 2016. In 2016, unintentional overdoses claimed 1,465 lives statewide, up from 613 in 2011. A tainted batch of heroin hit the streets in January 2016, causing 40 overdoses in just two days. Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. Photo: Austin Haeberle.

Report 71

Report Meeting Study Data 71

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

He had the money, at least $13 million raised by July 2016. Esther Wojcicki, the esteemed journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, joined in 2016 as the company’s chief learning officer. In the agreement with Clark County School District, nine middle schools agreed to the Planet3 pilot program from August 2016 to May 2017.

Education 78

Education Company Chegg Pearson 78

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

Schools rely—as they always have—on the hero in the classroom, who has to somehow synthesize everything for a roomful of children, every single day.schools still seem to work in more or less the same ways as they did in 2007—or 1997, or 1987. I didn’t fully grok it until I took over Amplify’s sales team in late 2016.

Instructional Materials 141

Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 141

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

. — On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds spread out across the classroom learning about colors, shapes, engineering and design. As kindergarten has become more widely available in the last several decades, it’s also become more academic.

Common Core 145

Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

Meanwhile, the number of tools in classrooms today has ballooned. In early 2016, it launched Co-Pilot to give schools free 30-day trials of edtech software built by other companies. For instance, a curriculum director may decide that one math program does not align with the district’s academic standards, while another one does.

EdTech 120

EdTech Libraries Software Company 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In 1970, an East Texas-based federal court mandated Longview ISD tackle a long list of tasks designed to make sure its black students were learning and playing in the same classrooms and playgrounds as their white peers — including closing four all-black schools and busing black students to formerly all-white schools throughout the district.

Policies 59

Policies Data Elementary Academic Standards 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

At 8:00 on a chilly spring morning in this rural Vermont town, while most kids his age are filing into classrooms and preparing for a day of school, 17-year-old Silas Woods rolls up the sleeves of his plaid button-down shirt and hoists a tire up to a mini Cooper, suspended a few feet above ground in the corner of the noisy Duxbury Auto Shop.

Classroom 89

Classroom Report Academic Standards Company 89

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The Obama administration released a regulations package in December 2016 that they called Equity in IDEA. Another important guidance letter that came out in August 2016 was on supporting students who have behavioral issues associated with their disabilities, ensuring that those students have behavioral supports in school.

Guidelines 162

Guidelines Education Academic Standards Policies 162

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

When it comes to digital tools in classrooms, it was the same o’, same o.’ Lesson 1: When it comes to student use of classroom technologies, talk and action are both important. These distinctions are crucial in making sense of what teachers do once the classroom door closes. Differentiating between the two is crucial.

Technology 80

Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 80

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. What does a modern library look like?

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 91