The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended. JOHNSBURG, Ill. —

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

The best part is the conversations that I get to have with learners, especially at the elementary level. It also provides me with an opportunity to reflect on what I see and my take on how the field of education can continue to evolve in ways that better support the needs of all learners. Case in point.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2023

PRWEB) — Sourcewell , a trusted advisor to education leaders, announces that North Star Central Elementary School in Boswell, Pennsylvania—home to more than 350 pre-K–4 students—is seeing significant growth in students’ math scores, despite national trends. “At PAUL, MINN.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2017

For the majority of US families, public education is the only option for their child’s education. But the quality of public school systems varies widely from state to state and is often a question of funding. The Top 10 School Systems. Next page: The 10 worst school systems; more in-depth data). New Jersey.

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System Dropout Analysis Secondary 83

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

And I believe education has a major role to play in addressing this imbalance, starting in the early years. This means that the adults around our children—parents, educators and caregivers—have been feeling less well. Yet this trend persists throughout the education sector. A Three-Headed Crisis 1. Our mental health crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

“Extreme weather is going to increasingly impact and disrupt learning,” said Laura Schifter, senior fellow at the Aspen Institute where she leads K12 Climate Action, an initiative to foster climate-friendly practices and policies within the education sector. Credit: Josie Chelotti. Whether families will remain in the area is uncertain.

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Elementary Education Report Groups 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Camika Royal knows the Philadelphia school system, and not just because she was a student there in her childhood. Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education.

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Comparison Mobility Elementary System 109

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2018

Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., These students are all participants in The Creative School (formerly The Boys Institute) at Stanton Elementary School, an initiative designed to promote wellness and creativity—and to flip the narrative around young boys of color.

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Elementary Groups STEM Training 105

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, on a September speaking tour, told students she felt they mostly “just follow the same schedule, the same routine — just waiting to be saved by the bell” and that the U.S. school system is a “mess.” When I was in elementary school and in middle school, I always knew that I wanted to be a composer.

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System Education Report Elementary 74

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It wasn’t part of their teacher training program so they rely on school PD to fill the many holes in blending tech with education. What is surprising is that many teacher programs don’t prepare their graduates well for the rigors of using technology to meet current educational requirements. And here lies the problem.

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Technology Digital Citizenship EdTech Study 299

The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Education policy should be top of mind as state policymakers continue their legislative work this spring. After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. Almost half say that they want to see bold changes taking place.

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Competency Based Learning Policies Personalized Learning Education 103

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

They are the Learning Management System (LMS) I use. Check out Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen’s show on iPad apps for elementary classrooms. Storybrand Productivity System by Donald Miller – [link]. Life Planning System by Donald Miller – [link]. I’ve included links below for you.

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Tools EdTech iPhone Smartphone 278

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

(September 25, 2018) – California’s Fallbrook Union Elementary School District (FUESD) today announced it is expanding its partnership with Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms.

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Elementary STEM Professional Learning Education 42

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Among other things, the boosters who pitched international companies to come and do business in this port city promised that its high quality of education would guarantee a steady supply of skilled employees. It’s an expectation,” Carolyn Akers, the education foundation’s CEO, said with a firm gaze and an even tone. MOBILE, Ala.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

As we wind down another year of chronicling education technology, we wondered: Which stories made the biggest impact? This year, you looked to trendsetting districts, thought leaders, tech giants and one very sage high school student to help make sense of rapid changes in education technology. One tip: stay far, far away from Hawaii.

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Khan Academy EdTech LMS Trends 81

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

It’s the second year of California’s uneven four-year rollout of universal transitional kindergarten, an ambitious, multi-billion dollar initiative to make high-quality education available to each of the state’s 4-year-olds, an estimated 400,000 children. The plan is that the $2.7 That’s the hope. The bill Gov.

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Report Elementary Policies Groups 120

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Jennifer's Podcast: To the Classroom Conversations with Researchers and Educators. In 2023, she launched her podcast To the Classroom: Conversations with Researchers and Educators. She also has a podcast called To the Classroom: Conversations with Researchers and Educators. So these text-level systems were very popular.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. Subscribe today!

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Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 100

eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

CHARLOTTE, NC —Texas’ Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD) today announced it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education , which has supported student learning across the school system since 2017. Mystery Science is the latest Discovery Education service to be selected for classroom use by CCISD.

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Student Engagement Social Media EdTech Education 97

Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2017

The League of Innovative Schools team had the opportunity to visit multiple districts in the first quarter of 2017 — and we have so much more to see! While the highlights of each of these visits are vast, below are five amazing schools we visited in League districts that are educating students in creative, forward-thinking ways.

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Elementary Meeting Training Industry 172

eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

To further the mission of closing the Digital Divide for students across the United States, each grant recipient will receive up to $25,000, which they may use for any combination of Kajeet Education Broadband solutions, including WiFi hotspots, school bus WiFi, LTE-embedded Chromebooks and routers.

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Broadband Digital Divide Chromebook Libraries 98

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Flocks of educators and entrepreneurs have made their way down to San Antonio this week for the mecca of edtech conferences, hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education—better known as ISTE. Instead, educators will be able to use Microsoft Teams in Office 365 for Education. classrooms.

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SchoolDude Microsoft Company Learning Analytics 132

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). That was in 2017. “It

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Assessment Analysis Trends Study 164

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

BOSTON — After María Mejía’s son was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in preschool, the question of where he should go to kindergarten focused entirely on his special education needs. None are enrolled in the two-year-old Vietnamese-English program at Mather Elementary School. BPS has pledged to start dozens more.

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Elementary Report Groups Data 116

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Pam Moran, superintendent in Albemarle County in Virginia, shares about some cool virtual reality in Virginia, some challenges with helping new teachers get started, and how she thinks education is entering a new Renaissance of creativity and innovation. Educating Kids for Life Not for Tests. Get motivated today listening to Pam.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. LINDSAY, Calif. — This story also appeared in The Fresno Bee. Ushering in a new model.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 134

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Students weren’t showing up, and educators had to act. Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. This story also appeared in Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR.

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Elementary Report Analysis Policies 143

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Former secretary of education, William Bennett, says, “An elementary school that treats the arts as the province of a few gifted children, or views them only as recreation and entertainment, is a school that needs an infusion of soul. That arts are an essential element of education, just like reading, writing, and arithmetic.”.

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Robotics Elementary Classroom Flipped Classroom 360

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. The Urkund system is highly accurate, cost-effective , and even better, doesn’t sell licenses to students or others.

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How To Twitter Moodle Elementary 236

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Those statistics, released for the first time as part of new federal data on student enrollment in career and technical programs, help paint a picture of a school system in which Black and Hispanic students benefit less often from classes connected to higher-paying careers and college degrees than their white peers.

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STEM Education Data Course 142

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. Fourth grade ELLs at both schools grew their CAASPP scores by 252% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 125

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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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 124

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. Department of Education. This story also appeared in USA Today. Kentucky isn’t alone.

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Survey Report Data STEM 121

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Imagine mastery-based grading, add colors, and you have our badging system. Realizing this, during the 2015-2016 school year, the Elizabeth Forward elementary teachers and administrative staff began to discuss the possibility of using micro-credentials and badging for their youngest students. Day on Vimeo.

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Elementary Report Assessment System 159

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students.

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Learning Elementary Academic Standards Policies 169

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Judging from the emails, calls and tweets I’ve received in the last week, there are few early education studies with more hated results than the multi-year study from Vanderbilt University researchers, which tracks outcomes for children who attended Tennessee’s voluntary pre-K program more than a decade ago. So what happened in Tennessee?

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Study Outcomes Elementary System 110

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

In today’s increasingly diverse and interconnected world, conversations about race, diversity, and inclusion have become essential components of education. As teachers and educators, we bear the responsibility of facilitating these critical discussions with our students. Be ready to explain these concepts in age-appropriate ways.

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Strategy Examples Elementary Classroom 98