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

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. It was definitely painted in the light that ‘these problems are in the past,’ and ‘America is the land of the free’ and ‘everyone is equal here.’ ”. Ankita Ajith can recall learning about slavery, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, AI assistants helped bolster first-grade students, a majority of whom were struggling to achieve high test scores in science, technology, engineering and math courses. percent by 2016. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2018

However, no opportunity had truly satisfied my urge to improve my teaching and also prepared me to become a principal until the fall of 2016. To put it kindly, I was definitely a work in progress. At that time, I was invited to take part in Tennessee’s micro-credential (MC) pilot.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The state began collecting and publishing chronic absenteeism data from schools during the 2016-17 school year. The Ravenswood City School District, which has about 1,600 students in its elementary and middle schools (excluding charters) in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, saw chronic absenteeism spike from just 471 out of 2,549 (18.5

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Besides a very helpful website full of resources , they have also created a preK-8 Literacy Continuum published in a popular book, most recently given an expanded edition in 2016. These Principles were adapted from Aurora Institute 's updated 2019 definition of CBE, explained here.)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. Washington state’s eviction moratorium was set to expire the next month. Suka feared what a notice-to-vacate would mean for her children.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Linda Edgecomb is the principal of Golden Grove Elementary and a huge fan of Stinky Feet Day. Flashlight reading at Golden Grove Elementary School.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. We don't talk about that [grades] anymore,” says Amy Allen, principal at Parker Varney Elementary, a NG2 school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students. What is definitely tied to brain health, Hillman said, is physical fitness. There were definitely some pretty serious unintended consequences.”.

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Exercises Elementary Report Study 104

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2016

Jahana Hayes, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year , knows what it takes to be a good teacher. I’m a high school history teacher, so what affects me is going to be very different from what affects an elementary reading coach. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

But a lack of clear definition or understanding around what personalized learning is, exactly, has made it difficult for educators to envision and implement the practice. EdSurge analyzed data from the state report card on every elementary school in the first personalized learning implementation cohort. Graphic credit: Jenny Abamu.

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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

MAY 12, 2017

A student offers Principal Macquline King-Morris a hug on his way to the gym with his class at Courtenay Elementary Language Arts Center in Chicago. CHICAGO — Principal Macquline King-Morris stepped out of the way of two lines of students heading to the Courtenay Elementary Language Arts Center gym. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2022

At some point with transportation, school districts often were using the same fleet of buses for pickups and dropoffs for the elementary and the middle and the high school level. So they should definitely be the ones to start earlier. I wrote my first article about school start times [in 2016].

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Study iPhone Groups Elementary 168

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. Karen Schauer, superintendent, Galt Joint Union Elementary School District. GALT, Calif.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 21, 2018

She’s definitely integrating all that technology. Stephanie Goldman currently teaches fourth grade language arts and social studies in a 1:1 chromebook classroom at Lincoln County Elementary School in Lincolnton, Georgia. She’s like, “Well, yeah, I guess.”. Vicki: ( laughs). The students love it.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

” The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting. And it's definitely the case that these authors did a much better job of performing a meta-analysis than I am capable of doing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Kenneth Klau, Director of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. Sometimes, it is just a distraction.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

First, Whitehead says educators and students need to be using the same definitions for the same terms, such as news literacy and fake news. For her students, Whitehead often uses definitions from the Stony Brook University Center for News Literacy. She was the 2016 recipient of the Louisiana Library Media Specialist Award.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Over five academic years spanning 2016-17 to 2020-21, these districts recorded 5,800 transfers in a category for “specific discipline reasons.” But such a classification conflicts with its own discipline-related definition and state guidance. As many as 3,700 of these could be expulsions.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

In my visits to elementary, middle, and high schools around the country this past academic year, here are five tips I took away for how educators can get beyond the buzz to implementation. My visit to Maple Hill Elementary School in the Enlarged City School District of Middletown, NY blew that notion to shreds.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2018

Cambridge Analytica was able to take that quarter million accounts that it had permission to look at from Facebook and mine fifty million accounts to look at trends and how people thought about politics and then potentially use that to move the 2016 election in different ways. Vicki: Yeah. Educators, let us know what you think.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

The social media policy for employees was first drafted in 2012 and updated in 2015 to include the definition of digital citizenship and to highlight its potential as a powerful learning tool. Here are a few ways we have helped schools celebrate in the past: Support elementary school students in designing a skit on being safe online.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 29, 2016

Karen Mensing (@MsMensing) April 23, 2016. Now some people would say, “Why would you need to teach young elementary students how to use Twitter?” The “traditional definition” is the ability to read and write, but you will see that definition is a little different according to some sources. 0OBXnO0CKV.

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Twitter Social Media Elementary Examples 28

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. There’s a lot of creativity around targeted vocational programs that deliver a definite salary uplift and expand people’s life options,” he says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

Online credit recovery programs were a big driver of improving high school graduation rates, which soared from under 70 percent in 2007 to over 84 percent in 2016. We definitely wouldn’t come away from this study saying online credit recovery is great,” Rickles said. “It It may not be much different than the typical teacher option.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

So you’ll definitely want to check the Shownotes for this, and we’ll also give you links to Lee Ann’s work so you can learn more about it. As an elementary teacher, Lee Ann has a passion for teaching kids not only about content, but life lessons as well. Vicki: So much great advice! So, fantastic ideas, Lee Ann.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 22, 2016

Kids should be developing these skills while they're still in high school, college and heck why not even elementary school! Check it out, it is most DEFINITELY worth the read! Jessica is a 2016 NAESP/VINCI Digital Leader of Early Learning and an awesome person to connect with. Amazon is hiring right now for Drone Operators!

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Social Media STEM Future Ready Elementary 61

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“By definition, grit is passion for something that takes a long time to complete and perseverance. And I don’t think that your report card grades in elementary school, middle school and high school are, for most students at that age, the prime source of their passion. And many schools have embraced it.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 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. Blended and personalized learning were two topics on the rise this year. of Educational Technology and Library Programs.

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Personalized Learning Blended Learning Meeting Learning 40

Reading By Example

JULY 30, 2019

So there has to be a way to describe equity and determine at what level it has been achieved in schools, beyond only a definition. As I head into my fourth year in my current role as an elementary principal, once again re-engaging in this data analysis process, it is helpful to have these geographical metaphors for describing data.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Elementary schools like P.S. 124 are the “new frontier, because upper elementary is a great time to introduce kids to theater.”

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Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 75

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6 In many schools, AR technology is being used right from the elementary level to make learning more interesting and to explain basic concepts in an engaging and immersive manner. Related: Top 7 Innovations in K-12 Education. According to the World Economic Forum, China had at least 4.7

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Elementary think alouds. At the elementary stage, these quotes represent talking points from our 4th and 5th graders. On the other had, a smaller number of elementary students see Wikipedia as a starting point to discover additional content. 2016) Information needs, types, and qualities.” Note the binary approach.

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

It’s help teachers need: In 2016 , about 50,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once, and at least 17,000 were expelled, according to the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based liberal research and advocacy institute, which arrived at the estimate based on data from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health.

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