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4 actions to drive an elementary school turnaround

eSchool News

In the summer of 2016, I decided to take on a fresh new challenge and, to be honest, I was a little intimidated at the start. The fact that my own children were in elementary school at the time helped me realize that perhaps I was meant to do this job. Driving an elementary school turnaround.

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To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators

The Hechinger Report

The expansion comes at a good time: Teacher shortages have worsened in the past decade, and fewer undergraduates are going into teacher training programs. The idea is to diversify the teacher workforce (community colleges serve more Black and Hispanic students), and train up more teachers. Credit: Ellen M. Banner/The Seattle Times.

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Students Step up to Lead Tech Implementation at Their Elementary School

Edsurge

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. We planned a one day summer training for them and the TechXpert program officially launched.

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Is the trauma of training for a school shooter worth it?

The Hechinger Report

Teachers in Ames are trained to fight back against a shooter, students aren’t. The training, called ALICE Training, stands for alert, lockdown, inform, counter and evacuate. The “C” in this acronym, for “counter,” is controversial, because it means training people to fight back if a person with a gun enters their classroom.

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PROOF POINTS: When schools experimented with $10,000 pay hikes for teachers in hard-to-staff areas, the results were surprising

The Hechinger Report

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Pay raises for all teachers, or subsidies to train future teachers, may be good ideas. Fixing the problem is not easy because those shortages aren’t universal.

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Will new standards improve elementary science education?

The Hechinger Report

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. It does now.

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Elementary School Wellness Program Helps Young Males of Color Cultivate Their Identities

Edsurge

Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., After receiving training on building a prototype and marketing, a second group developed, bottled and sold infused water called “Southside Water,” using the proceeds to pay for (and hand deliver) water to community members in need.