EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., started a journey from a traditional school and library to a place of wonder and innovation, inspired by the idea of creating makerspaces. Two years later, our school library includes a makerspace, and multiple classrooms are using technology to inspire and engage students.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., started a journey from a traditional school and library to a place of wonder and innovation, inspired by the idea of creating makerspaces. Two years later, our school library includes a makerspace, and multiple classrooms are using technology to inspire and engage students.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., started a journey from a traditional school and library to a place of wonder and innovation, inspired by the idea of creating makerspaces. Two years later, our school library includes a makerspace, and multiple classrooms are using technology to inspire and engage students.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2020

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., started a journey from a traditional school and library to a place of wonder and innovation, inspired by the idea of creating makerspaces. Two years later, our school library includes a makerspace, and multiple classrooms are using technology to inspire and engage students.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

In 2016, Anderson Elementary School in Bristol, Tenn., started a journey from a traditional school and library to a place of wonder and innovation, inspired by the idea of creating makerspaces. Two years later, our school library includes a makerspace, and multiple classrooms are using technology to inspire and engage students.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC. Finally, she made it to the charging station and her shift at the learning resource center (LRC) officially started.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Culturally responsive teaching encompasses little steps like adding diverse books in your classroom library , as well as larger ones like adjusting your curriculum to include voices from marginalized communities. Picture books for early elementary students: Drawn Together by Minh Lê, illustrated by Dan Santat. Siwatu, K.O.

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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. Parents of young children are worried.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. Maybe you think removing upsetting books from school libraries is the best thing for your child.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

Mission Move’s standards-based video program utilizes kinesthetic movement to make math, language arts, and nutrition fun for elementary-aged students. Mission Move won the 2016 Wisconsin Innovation Award following the initial success of its program in schools throughout the state.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

As the school year starts here at Dr. Pablo Perez Elementary school in McAllen — where I am the school librarian — we are enrolling 40 to 60 newcomers in Harvey’s aftermath. In the library, we’re ready to let them talk about what has happened. This is not your grandmother’s library. Sign up for our weekly newsletter.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MAY 4, 2016

We are quickly approaching summer at our school, so we have been winding down activities in the library and looking ahead to what we might read this summer. Families decorated book boxes, learned some reading strategies, and talked about the importance of a home library. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) May 4, 2016.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Our third Library 2.023 mini-conference: " EDI 2.0: Individual Responsibility for Creating Belonging and Connection in the Library Profession ," will be held online (and for free) on Thursday, November 9th, 2023, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. Please also join the Library 2.0 Please also join the Library 2.0

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Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In 2016 the Common Sense Education editorial staff evaluated close to 170 apps, games, and websites for learning potential and classroom implementation. Zearn has two big strengths that set it apart from other elementary digital math curricula. This year (as in years past) there are some very innovative tools on this list.

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Buncee

APRIL 7, 2020

She earned her bachelor’s in English from Adelphi University, her master’s in English from Queens College, her certification in educational technology from SUNY Stony Brook, and her master’s in library science from Palmer Graduate Library School, C.W. Post Campus of Long Island University. blogspot.com/. Barbie Monty.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

MAY 4, 2016

We are quickly approaching summer at our school, so we have been winding down activities in the library and looking ahead to what we might read this summer. Families decorated book boxes, learned some reading strategies, and talked about the importance of a home library. — Andy Plemmons (@plemmonsa) May 4, 2016.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2018

For 20 years, I was a teacher librarian and worked in elementary, middle, and high school libraries. In 2013, I was asked to be part of Project Connect , a Follett School Solutions initiative exploring the role of school libraries and librarians in 21st-century schools. Lead beyond the library.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

I’ve worked as an elementary and primary school teacher here in Finland for more than a decade, and spent five years as a vice principal as well. In elementary schools, we don’t have templates for evaluation. Our education system is widely considered one of the best, if not the best , in the world.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JUNE 2, 2015

Our library makerspace will feature 12 Finch Robots by BirdBrain Technologies during the 2015-2016 school year. A few months ago BirdBrain Technologies announced an expansion of their Finch Robot loan program to include libraries. Barrow Elementary. I’ll share what we do when the robots arrive in August.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Library makerspaces, including members of the YOUmedia Learning Labs Network, offer students a chance to design, tinker, and build critical thinking skills. Libraries are all about inquiry,” says Valerie Jopeck, a former librarian and current education specialist for a large public school district in Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

These same young teens were also less likely to say they talked about books or went to the library. Elsewhere around the world fourth graders had more negative attitudes about reading in 2016 than fourth graders did in 2001 in 13 out of 20 countries and jurisdictions. Positive attitudes about reading fell too.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2017

Just last year, in 2016, there have been around 19,000 people attending ISTE. ISTE attendees and educational industry representatives include teachers, technology coordinators, library media specialists, teacher educators, district leaders and policymakers.

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Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 12, 2016

One of the goals of the Barrow Elementary Media Center is to support the reading habits and curiosities of students, teachers, and families. During the school year, our library is a huge source of reading, but I often wonder what I can do to continue to support reading during the summer months when students are at home.

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Libraries Survey Social Media Elementary 28

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

APRIL 12, 2016

One of the goals of the Barrow Elementary Media Center is to support the reading habits and curiosities of students, teachers, and families. During the school year, our library is a huge source of reading, but I often wonder what I can do to continue to support reading during the summer months when students are at home.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

You can join now through July 6, 2016. (Will open again December 26 – January 4.). We’ll first start talking about target number of hours to work for the 2016-2017 school year in October. They get an email when new content is added to the membership library. There is a group for elementary (K-5) and one for secondary.

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Educator Innovator

DECEMBER 3, 2015

Elementary schoolers in rural New Mexico harvested and dehydrated herbs from their school’s garden to make soap and tea as part of a summer STEAM program. MacArthur Foundation, LRNG will be able to offer rounds of challenge grants to innovative educators in 2015 and 2016. Winners of the $20,000 grants will be announced in March 2016.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

By 2016, only 16 percent did—a huge drop, even though the book, newspaper or magazine could be one read on a digital device (the survey question doesn’t specify format). In elementary school, we often insist that students have a chapter book with them at all times. It’s that they choose not to. The love of a good story was contagious.

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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. Second grade teachers Amy Hart (center) and Alina Turner (right), with her dog, Mello, meet with Karen Shutt (left), instructional coach for a planning meeting at Edmondson Elementary.

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 22, 2016

The notice in the Federal Register shared that 50 percent of all grant funds, more than $13 million , are reserved for use by school libraries serving high need LEAs. Here’s the text from the Federal Register : We are clarifying that, in accordance with the Senate report that accompanied the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2016 (S.

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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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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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Waterford

OCTOBER 10, 2019

What can you do if you think a student is being bullied in your elementary school? In addition to keyboard and mouse lessons, teach elementary students how to be safe on the Internet.[11]. Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Clinics, April 2016, 25(2), pp. Virginia Libraries, 2018, 63(1). Rettrew, D.C., and Pawlowski, S.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary School District 97, IL, explained, this isn’t about deciding what technology a district uses. For instance, one barrier to access was library cards. The school streamlined the process and included library card registration with overall school registration. About the Presenters.

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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. I could find only one large, well-designed study , published in 2016, that tested how much kids actually learn in voluntary summer school programs.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

In a recent edWebinar, Michelle Luhtala, Library Department Chair, and Donna Burns, Technology Integrator, both from New Canaan High School in Connecticut, showcased the transformation of the NCHS library from a collection of used reference and biography books into a living, breathing makerspace. Redesigning the Space.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Normally, many rural districts work with local libraries and businesses to provide students with WiFi hotspots. Department of Education Secretary in October 2016. McGavock Elementary, where Dr. Marczak served as principal, earned Reward status by being one of the top 10% elementary schools in the state of Tennessee in 2012.

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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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