The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In 2017, public interest lawyers sued California because they claimed that too many low- income Black and Hispanic children weren’t learning to read at school. However, before the courts resolved that legal question, the litigants settled the case in 2020. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The settlement itself was noteworthy.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Before we explore how to motivate your students to learn, let’s go over the difference between two types: intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. How to Motivate Students: Encourage Intrinsic Motivation. Elementary-aged children are highly motivated when their teachers prioritize content mastery and understanding over high test scores.[2]

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Strategy Gamification Blended Learning Examples 275

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

Industry 130

Industry Elementary Education Robotics 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. In the meantime, districts are figuring out how to serve this new, and quite different, age group without a unifying roadmap. But do principals know how to support them? The bill Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

A prominent anti-vaccine campaigner, Heckenlively made world news in 2017 when he was denied entry to Australia for a lecture tour to encourage parents to stop vaccinating their children, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Data show many of the 69,000 U.S. middle-school science teachers have no scientific background.

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Survey Report Data STEM 115

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The burned remains of the Paradise Elementary school as seen Friday, November 9, 2018, in Paradise, California. Josie Chelotti, vice principal and athletic director for the Plumas district’s Greenville Elementary and Jr./Sr. Josie Chelotti, vice principal and athletic director for Greenville Elementary and Jr./Sr.

Elementary 141

Elementary Education Report Groups 141

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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Education Handbook Course Elementary 213

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

A year ago, I wrote “ The Next Pandemic: Mental Health ” for National Mental Health Month, published in May 2020 in EdSurge. Creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability and emotional intelligence are the most-in-demand skills today, according to LinkedIn’s 2020 employer survey. It is now time to update this piece for 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

But Lynn, right now, you’re excited about what you’re calling TL 2020. What is TL 2020? TL 2020 is our teaching and learning initiative in Salisbury Township School District. We spent quite a bit of time visioning for TL 2020, and continuing to evolve our vision. What can it look like in an elementary classroom?

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Professional Learning Gamification Company Elementary 172

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2023

The idea is also based on research about how to turn novices into experts, says Valerie Sakimura, executive director of Deans for Impact, a national nonprofit with a mission of ensuring every child is taught by a well-prepared teacher. Across the spring, summer and fall semesters of 2022, 50 tutors worked with 116 elementary students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

While the state has implemented several alternative certification options to speed things up, the number of unlicensed teachers in Montana classrooms has more than doubled in the past four school years, from 88 in 2017-18 to 185 last year. But word came back in spring 2020 that her paperwork was incomplete.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Example: Teach students how to critically evaluate media representations of race. We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. Complicated Conversations: Exploring Race and Ideology in an Elementary Classroom. Encourage students to analyze and question what they see. Morris, J. link] Sosa, T.

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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 READ THE SERIES. Related: U.S. education achievement slides backwards.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

She served on the leadership team for the EdTech Coaches Network of ISTE from 2015-2020, was a Future Ready Schools Instructional Coaches Thought Leader from 2017-2020, is a cohost of the Restart Recharge Podcast for coaches, and is a Google Certified Innovator, Coach, and Trainer. Katie finished her Ed.D. That's awesome.

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Technology Training Twitter Collaborative Learning 462

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

Suspensions and expulsions plummeted during the 2020-21 school year, as most school districts closed their buildings and put instruction online to slow the spread of Covid. In 2017 it banned suspensions for students in kindergarten, first and second grade. And three days was a lot to miss.”. Some districts appear to be doing just that.

Personalized Learning 138

Personalized Learning Learning Data Report 138

edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

If we don’t get a correct outcome the first time, we learn how to build on it and do better. Dr. Davis served a transition year as the superintendent-elect prior to assuming leadership of the district in 2017. Currently, she is the principal of Jackson Creek Elementary School in Columbia, South Carolina. About the Host.

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Differentiated Instruction Professional Learning Meeting Advocacy 80

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2023

The elementary music teacher was burned out and so very tired, following years of feeling increasingly overburdened and bulldozed by students and administrators alike. Elizabeth Neilson, a semifinalist for Minnesota Teacher of the Year, in 2017. The breaking point for Julie Sherlock was a literal one. labor force, at 44 percent.

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Company Survey Elementary Classroom 183

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation. In the elementary and middle schools, the TAC discovered that over 50% of the students were using computers once a month or less.

Elementary 82

Elementary Personalized Learning Comparison Technology 82

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. A spring 2020 survey found that only 3 percent of teachers felt that administrators were addressing their social and emotional needs during remote learning.

Survey 143

Survey Training Report Accessibility 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. But based on initial data from a much smaller pilot in Long Beach, California, in 2017-18 and another in 33 tiny Idaho districts in 2013-14, he was optimistic. Schools get creative.

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Khan Academy Classroom Training Software 134

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2021

To prove his point, Jackson studied more than 150,000 ninth graders in Chicago public high schools from 2011 to 2017. Students report how much effort they believe they put into their school work and how they feel about their relationships with peers. I think what we’re showing here is that they do require attention.”.

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Outcomes Study Report Survey 143

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. It’s going to take a lot more and a lot of other support.”

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Study Course Dropout Data 117

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. JULY 19, 2020 · 1:26 AM | EDIT. JUNE 28, 2020 · 7:23 PM | EDIT. JUNE 9, 2020 · 3:18 AM | EDIT. If an LMS is in use, perhaps many educators had just started learning how to create class content area for students and parents online.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Educator Innovator

JULY 11, 2018

Fifth graders from Sherman Elementary School in Tacoma, Washington, spent much of the 2017–18 school year investigating the health of the Salish Sea. Since Sherman Elementary adopted project-based learning as a key instructional strategy three years ago, students have gotten used to presenting to public audiences. How To Start.

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Classroom Conference Elementary Strategy 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Census, we had taught them how to plumb demographic data and to understand why the census was key to both political apportionment and allocating federal funds for institutions like public schools. They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Still, we were taking a risk.

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Report Course Online Learning Meeting 144

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Although the majority of educator-preparation programs saw no or relatively small enrollment changes in fall of 2020 and fall of 2021, 20 percent of institutions saw a decline in new undergrad enrollment that exceeded 10 percent, according to survey data from the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Despite i ndications that youth are increasingly involved in civic life , voter turnout among 18- to 24-year-olds remains stubbornly low , and many young adults say they don’t know the basics of how to register to vote and cast a ballot. The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join.

Kaplan 141

Kaplan Policies Report System 141

Waterford

DECEMBER 10, 2020

2] While that data focuses on racial backgrounds, the numbers clearly show how diversity in schools is increasing. Hoping to avoid controversy, many districts have created guidelines about how to appropriately celebrate holidays in the classroom. — Russell Schwartz (@Russ_Schwartz) November 18, 2017. January, 2020.

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Classroom Guidelines Secondary STEM 246

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Related: OPINION — How to get girls into science. From 2019 to 2020, close to 90,000 girls earned the new Think Like a Programmer, Coding for Good and Cybersecurity badges, Striegel said. Even so, Girl Scouts of America remained 71 percent white as of 2017 , counting both adult volunteers and girls.

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Robotics STEM Report Mobility 110

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Once a technology plan is adopted, superintendents needs to make sure all constituents have a laser focus on implementing it as developed, evaluating successes and failures, and then discussing how to move forward. Instead of isolated lessons, students learn how to connect their studies with real-world problems.

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Technology PowerMyLearning Learning EdTech 40

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Jennifer : These are our edWeb PLC numbers from the year we started, the 2016-2017 school year, through the 2021-2022 school year. We wanted to break down specifically how our numbers have grown since we started and through the pandemic. We sent out a survey in March of 2020 to teachers and leaders and asked some basic questions.

Professional Learning 52

Professional Learning Learning Education Study 52

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Jennifer : These are our edWeb PLC numbers from the year we started, the 2016-2017 school year, through the 2021-2022 school year. We wanted to break down specifically how our numbers have grown since we started and through the pandemic. We sent out a survey in March of 2020 to teachers and leaders and asked some basic questions.

Professional Learning 52

Professional Learning Learning Education Study 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2024

For example, between 2017-18 and 2021-22, Rhode Island students with disabilities were, on average, two and a half times more likely than their peers to be suspended for any reason, but nearly three times more likely to be suspended for insubordination and almost four times more likely to be suspended for disorderly conduct.

Data 83

Data Report Training Elementary 83

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017.

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Libraries Data Broadband Report 106

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

This year, the Green Lake Parent Teacher Association paid about half that much to cover the cost of the elementary school’s vocal teacher and a portion of a full-time counselor’s salary, among other supports for students. About 3 in 4 students at Rising Star Elementary qualify for subsidized meals. Double click image to enlarge.

Elementary 145

Elementary Education Report Groups 145