Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

When parents involve themselves in the classroom, for example, their students are more likely to express self-confidence and a motivation to learn.[11] 3] For example, low-income and minority families are significantly more likely to report that school faculty made them feel uncomfortable or showed them a lack of cultural awareness.[8]

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MindShift

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.

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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. Experts say early educators are key to developing early math knowledge and noticing potential delays in math.

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Report Training Elementary Strategy 132

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids. Stream by clicking here. Enhanced Transcript. Date: January 29, 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

California, for example, had more school closures than any other state and some of the smallest declines in math achievement. But teachers were heroic during the pandemic, and data shows that students continued to strive toward meaningful learning, even with many forms of chaos erupting all around them. Students deserve the same.

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Learning Data Social Media Study 141

eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

These elements are: differentiation, adaptivity, student engagement, direct instruction, practice, formative assessment with immediate feedback and student explanation of learning. Though the students are continually assessed throughout the program to adjust to their skills, this initial reading sets them on a path tailored to their needs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Specifically, he wondered why the field of vocational psychology wasn't being translated to elementary and middle school, when the students he worked with at Qualcomm seemed invested and eager to learn. But it rarely starts any younger. The process would help them figure out what they did—and didn’t—want to do when they left school.

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Elementary Meeting Guidelines Course 205

Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Students also needed support when it came to the end of year state assessments. “We Students can see examples.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Mississippi’s gains came as students in many states did worse in 2019 than they did in 2017 on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) — to the disappointment of leaders, educators and parents across the United States. As the example of Mississippi shows, the best course is one that is careful and consistent.

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Academic Standards Policies Assessment Course 72

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. We’ve also come up with set routines that can carry over from week to week, for example daily computer-based math-centered activities. We use our co-teaching situation as an example for our students to see how people must work together in a respectful manner.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Students can see examples. Mónica Ruiz, principal at Montgomery Elementary in Chula Vista, CA.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 121

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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Elementary Report Training Groups 80

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. LINDSAY, Calif. — This story also appeared in The Fresno Bee.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 131

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lynn: Sure, so we spent 2015-2016 really doing the research. Teachers looked at those texts, tried some projects, reported out, and some of that also shaped the vision, which was then delivered to our staff, in actually 2016-2017. What can it look like in an elementary classroom? An example.

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Professional Learning Gamification Company Elementary 172

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. Distance learning began March 23.

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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 192

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. Here’s a rundown of the most relevant research. LOOKING AHEAD.

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Study Elementary Training Strategy 144

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 190

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

At South Newton Elementary School In Newton, N.C., educator Rebecca Vass, who teaches informational technology with science and social studies integration to fourth graders, uses a data wall so her students can track their progress on a quarterly benchmark assessment the district uses.

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Data Student Data Privacy Comparison Outcomes 161

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Teachers Can More Effectively Collaborate With One Another When it started in 2016, many teachers saw the Personalized Learning Initiative as just one more initiative. Just one example of this is a teacher at Hidalgo Elementary School, who last spring put the PLI ideas into practice.

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Learning Analytics Personalized Learning Learning Microsoft 128

edWeb.net

JANUARY 7, 2021

One example cited by Dr. Marks is that the word “nurse” is usually associated with a woman, while a surgeon is assumed to be a man, simply because that is what most of us have seen repeatedly when we were growing up. Dr. Marks recommends a three-step plan for working on implicit bias, based on assessment, awareness and action.

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Training Professional Learning Assessment Groups 86

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. In a 2016 Stanford University study, more than 80 percent of middle schoolers couldn’t tell the difference between sponsored content and actual news stories.

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Social Media Data Course Report 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

And in a 2016 blog post for the National Council of Teachers of English , Sacramento State associate professor Kim Zarins used the five-paragraph essay structure to show why she’s against teaching it. Croix Falls Elementary School in St. The five-paragraph essay is a topic long debated by educators, and strong opinions abound.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

We admire them and use them as shining examples of our aspirations. In 2016, our Anna Reynolds Elementary School was the recipient of the National Blue Ribbon Award for high performance , and every school in the district routinely outperforms the competing magnet school on standardized assessments.

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STEM Personalized Learning BYOD iPad 113

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

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Elementary Trends Survey Data 100

Reading By Example

JULY 30, 2019

In Shane Safir’s book The Listening Leader , she describes three sets of data that educators can look to when assessing their school’s journey toward a collective capacity for achieving equity (p. For example, I recently collected and curated data about our ELA test scores for the last three years. This is street data.

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Data Education Analysis Assessment 38

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6 Take your smartphone, for example, every month there’s a new update. For example, they can view the resulting solution after mixing four different chemicals together. Every mistake they make in an assessment helps them learn better. million as of 2017; the U.S.

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STEM Smartphone Mobility Industry 90

EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Classroom Management in the Digital Age: Effective Practices for Technology-Rich Learning Spaces (2016) by Heather Dowd and Patrick Green Cross-posted from Learning Light Bulbs by Nate Gildart Get your own copy of Classroom Management in the Digital Age! 12 for an example. Work not done can also be proof of being absent.

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Classroom Digital Citizenship LMS Strategy 115

edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Examples include the addition of a new Chinese language program, the opening of a new International Baccalaureate school, and the creation of an Innovation Lab high school. She was named Superintendent of the Northshore School District in June 2016 and is former Superintendent of the South Kitsap School District. About the Presenters.

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System Strategy Education Elementary 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2020

Katie Crook, Newington Elementary School’s only ESOL teacher, didn’t hear back from many of the parents she texted early on, perhaps because of literacy issues. percent of all school-age children in the fall of 2016, the last year for which such data is available. This story also appeared in PBS Newshour. These students made up 9.6

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Digital Divide Policies Resources Study 145

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

education technology startups ebbed in 2016, dipping roughly 30 percent in deal volume and value from the previous year. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion. Andela and Guild Education are prime examples of companies he would have liked to invest in. Venture capital for U.S. Following Edtech Money (in-depth report on U.S.

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EdTech lynda.com Education Company 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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Study Data Report Elementary 137

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Rob Brown, Elementary School Principal Southside Christian School, South Carolina In brief, I realized this important fact: A teacher’s smile is a teacher’s game face.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

A collection of PDF checklists encourages parents to consider available extracurricular activities, safety, social-emotional learning and academic rigor when assessing a school’s quality. An elementary school parent explores the Kids First Chicago website with a navigator. Does she want parent activities?

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Elementary System Study STEM 60

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 69

Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school.

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Technology Digital Citizenship Khan Academy Elementary 40

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

“Learning management systems enable a teacher (and the student) to connect learning goals with student portfolios, online assessments, and searchable resources in multiple formats.”. See also: Personalized Learning in 2016: What’s Working, What’s Missing? Student-Centered Learning Can Modernize Schools.

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Personalized Learning Report Classroom Learning 40

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For example, instead of desks, consider a room with small discussion areas, whiteboard writing surfaces, and multiple teachers moving around the space engaging students in their lessons. Imperative 5: Create Balanced Assessments. Assessments look far different than 10-15 years ago, but it’s not just the switch to computerized testing.

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Technology PowerMyLearning Learning EdTech 40