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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

The Hechinger Report

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. The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

UDL has reordered the principles and guidelines, to begin with, Multiple Means of Engagement, the Why of Learning that compliments how the Design Thinking Process involves learners in identifying an authentic problem or challenge. Additional Resources referenced from Jackie’s blog: Introducing Design Thinking to Elementary Learners.

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1st Grade digital PBL: Does it work?

Neo LMS

In my previous blog on the subject , we explored some of the better online resources for the elementary school teacher hoping to blend their elementary school classroom. Why is digital PBL so rare in foundational and elementary phases? 1st Grade digital PBL: a case study. Why is that, indeed?

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Technology and Digital Media in the Classroom: A Guide for Educators

Waterford

4] Even though the technology is likely to change from their early school years to the time they start their first career, teaching digital literacy in elementary school is a great way to get students started. Keep these guidelines in mind when you teach lessons that involve screen time in your classroom:[17]. Courville, K.

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Universal prekindergarten is coming to California — bumpy rollout and all

The Hechinger Report

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. A 2017 study of California’s pre-expansion transitional kindergarten programs found that children who attended were better prepared for kindergarten than those who didn’t. The bill Gov.

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Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Practical Steps: Include clear guidelines in your syllabus, and discuss them openly with students. We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. Complicated Conversations: Exploring Race and Ideology in an Elementary Classroom. Be consistent in enforcing these rules. Morris, J. link] Johnson, M.

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Online program expands to combat early learning disruptions caused by coronavirus closures

The Hechinger Report

Families at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty guidelines (an income no higher than $52,400 for a family of four) qualify to sign up. Waterford.org initially launched a pilot program in Mississippi in 2017. Hadley said the program’s usage guidelines are in line with what’s recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.