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 4, 2024

Sixth grade teacher Kelly Woodfin works with a small group of students, including Zoe, during an advanced math class in Tulsa, Okla. The school district now uses multiple pathways to get more students, especially those from underrepresented groups, into its accelerated courses.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Small group interaction, made easier by smath. The first space is a 50-student “lecture hall” where we hold whole-group mini-lessons, complete with projectors.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed students’ performance following Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, which hit the state in 2016 and 2018 respectively. And those groups that just don't have the means or the access will be left even further behind.” One of those researchers is Cassandra R.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2019

Nationwide, girls who take classes in computer science are a minority , and black girls, proportionately, make up an even smaller group. Makenzie believes that since the world is constantly changing, she needs to know how to fix things, like cars with advanced electronic technology. I love to work with computers.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

You can join now through July 6, 2016. (Will open again December 26 – January 4.). When the year is up, they will never be charged again and will have continued access to the Facebook group and all club materials. We’ll first start talking about target number of hours to work for the 2016-2017 school year in October.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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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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Waterford

AUGUST 18, 2023

How to Create Opportunities for Family-Teacher Partnerships The importance of partnering with families in schools is clear. Instead of using your school’s parent-teacher association as a group that just “helps” with administrative projects, give families opportunities to weigh in on school events or issues. Nokali, N.E.E.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 29, 2017

Her original research went into the design of Renton Preparatory in Seattle, which was a 2016 Top Three STEM School in the nation. See: Creating Elementary Portfolios and One Note in the Classroom. And you really do have to teach someone how to use technology to communicate, don’t you? Vicki: Cool. Michelle: Yes. Vicki: Cool!

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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. This pilot sought to understand how beneficial MCs could be for teachers and begin to determine how MCs could play into the professional learning landscape of our state.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

In an experiment on how best to study for a math test, learning through errors was pitted against working through practice problems in a Barron’s study guide, pictured above. Their teachers worked through the first half of the problems, explaining how to solve them step by step. Then, the two groups swapped.

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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. Yet the exact nature of that support and how to provide it are debated. In this Thursday, Oct.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. history, education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history with an antiracism lens. Colleges are holding professional development online events for educators on how to reimagine education with racial justice in mind.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s important to note that those impressive numbers don’t include remote students at the elementary or high school level. While the bulk of cybersecurity is in the hands of trained techs and professionals, students can learn how to effectively safeguard their online data. took at least one online course.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Billings began using ST Math at five of their schools in 2016, and have since gone on to expand use of the visual instructional program to nineteen elementary schools and one middle school. One of the kindergarten teachers was a huge advocate for ST Math, and she had figured out how to do group lessons with it,” Kim explained. “I

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Billings began using ST Math at five of their schools in 2016, and have since gone on to expand use of the visual instructional program to nineteen elementary schools and one middle school. One of the kindergarten teachers was a huge advocate for ST Math, and she had figured out how to do group lessons with it,” Kim explained. “I

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Research About Keeping Teachers First, let’s dive into some research about how to help teachers thrive (and not quit teaching.) A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. We have to do better. Geis, S., & Knepper, P.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Additionally, some families—especially those from marginalized backgrounds—may feel unsure about how to best engage in the school community. How to Create Opportunities for Parent Empowerment. Journal of Education and Practice, November 2016, 7, pp. The advantages to engaging and empowering families in schools are clear.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

School leaders hope that the support and understandings shared by people they view as experts will help teachers learn how to perfect personalized-learning instruction. 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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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 25, 2022

She won the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching in 2016—the highest recognition that a K-12 math or science teacher can receive for outstanding teaching in the U.S. She helps learners discover possibilities as a d irector of elementary math and science. December 20, 2021. Jenn Donais @jenndonais.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

On the latter issue, researchers wrote that the negative behavioral results they found are similar to findings from other studies showing behavior challenges among children who experience group or formal care at a young age. (As A 2018 report published by New America, a progressive think tank, came to a similar conclusion.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online.

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EdTechTeacher

DECEMBER 17, 2015

How can we craft learning environments that take advantage of technology to help students become independent, engaged, and reflective of their work? Knowing how to use the technology with the curriculum is critical to crafting a digital age learning environment. Using technology for whole group instruction and formative assessment.

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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. Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. “But In 2016, U.S. READ THE SERIES.

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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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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 9, 2015

I have been asked to return to teach summer enrichment classes on maker education for elementary-aged learners at a local school during the summer of 2016. The description is: Learn how to code first by playing games and then by coding some bots including Sphero, OZOBOT, and Dash and Dot. Robot Turtles Game. Read more at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

When alpine ski racer Andrew Kurka won the gold and silver medals at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, a group of U.S. In an internal survey of program participants in the 2016-17 school year, 94 percent of teachers reported that Classroom Champions enabled them to better engage their students. and Canada.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools. In a 2016 study, the U.S. The prohibition against using such certificates in elementary school was lifted, too. Some teacher groups worry about inconsistent expectations for teacher candidates.

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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. Mónica Ruiz, principal at Montgomery Elementary in Chula Vista, CA. It was phenomenal to see!” Source: Levered.

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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. Lalaine Perez Just a short drive away, Mónica Ruiz, principal at Chula Vista’s Montgomery Elementary, was facing her own math struggles.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The early results of her randomized control trial were so extraordinary that her study influenced not only CUNY in 2016 but also California lawmakers in 2017 to start phasing out remedial education in their state. By all measures, the students who went straight to college stats did better.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. In January, adults could attend two 30-minute workshops on everything from how to set limits to understanding trauma — topics the parents had suggested themselves. “I LOVELAND, Colo.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 29, 2018

If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2017 , 2016 , 2015 , 2014 and 2013. Tech integrationist Eric Curtis blogs about how to add technology into almost every K-12 subject from math to art. Elementary teacher Amy Pietrowski adds a dash of STEM into all of her classes.

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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.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

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