Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. Brook Avenue Elem (@BrookAveElem) August 19, 2017. Pedrotti took over as principal of Brook Avenue Elementary School in January of 2016, and Torres joined her that April.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

Through a special-purpose local option sales tax , the district hoped to raise over $200 million to add 65,000 devices in schools by 2017. There was a catch, however: school leaders had to commit to implementing personalized learning models as a prerequisite to receiving free laptops and iPads.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Green Bay Area PS had a laptop cart model until 2017 when they established the Ninja Deployment initiative that resulted 1:1 devices at the secondary level and 1.5:1 1 at the elementary level.

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Accessibility Digital Citizenship E-rate Broadband 55

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Credit: Julia Nikhinson/ Associated Press In 2017, as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice intended to address widespread racial disparities in how students were disciplined, schools in Wicomico County agreed not to misuse emergency petitions. The situation escalated, she said, when the teacher argued with him.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition). Tagged on: September 23, 2017 Lake Central again seeks state technology loan of $900k | NWI.com → Each school district is eligible to receive $100 per student as determined by the enrollment at the end of September. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 38 Edition). Tagged on: September 23, 2017 Lake Central again seeks state technology loan of $900k | NWI.com → Each school district is eligible to receive $100 per student as determined by the enrollment at the end of September. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Nobody really wants to carry the Chromebook or a laptop with you. Melissa is dual certified in Elementary Education and Special Education. For guests and hyperlinks to resources, scroll down. Enhanced Transcript. Six Tech Treasures for Special Ed Teachers (K-6). Shownotes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e167.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2018

I spun around my laptop, which was currently displaying Mancrates , a website that sends Valentine’s boxes to avid lovers of artisanal meats. We delivered our first Happy Apples Boxes in September 2017 to 16 teachers at the two schools. What if we could apply the subscription box model to professional learning?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

The 2016-2017 Toshiba/National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) ExploraVision competition is kicking off the 25th year of the world’s largest K-12 science competition. Registration is now open until February 6, 2017 at ExploraVision.org. for a gala awards weekend in June 2017. Series EE Savings Bonds (at maturity).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

percent in 2017 to 9.2 Rafael said as they huddled together in front of Emily’s laptop. The school admitted no Black students until 1963, but has aggressively recruited students from underrepresented backgrounds in recent years. Hispanic enrollment had been growing before the Supreme Court’s decision, from 7.5 percent in 2021.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2018

For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, freshman history teacher Matt Stuckey, one of the school’s most experienced personalized-learning practitioners, told students that change wouldn’t happen all at once.

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Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 79

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. billion under the 2017 budget. “We Schools stand to receive $2.4

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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

million as of 2017; the U.S. But now with mobile phones, tablets, and laptops being a part of school education, it is much easier to deliver STEM courses on these devices, making the courses more interactive, accessible and engaging. Related: Top 7 Innovations in K-12 Education. million recent STEM grads as of 2016; India had 2.6

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2020

She learned to walk and talk, and after spending preschool with kids with severe disabilities, she entered general education classes in elementary and flourished. In a typical school week, she receives help from two teachers, three instructional aides and seven different therapists Credit: Photo: JoAnna Van Brusselen. Iolani survived.

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Online Learning Report Chromebook Laptops 144

EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

We purged through the winners and compiled a list of educational tools and gadgets for you to look for in 2017. Samsung Chromebook Plus This Chrome OS device is perhaps the coolest laptop-tablet crossover. device is fit to be a productivity and creativity laptop. Learn more > goo.gl/hneIsI hneIsI Photo Source 3.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

The Challenger Learning Center at the Scobee Education Center, San Antonio College, Texas, in 2017. Worry less, learn more about your child’s school laptop or tablet. Many schools lend students laptops or tablets to take home each day. But by the end of the semester I was kind of quoting Plato, and I thought, ‘I can do this.’ ”.

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Libraries STEM Tablets Laptops 55

Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Doug Levin (@douglevin) March 17, 2017. Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye the week of March 13, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition). Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

an article to read on their laptops. Bedley also teamed up recently with Todd Flory at Calamus Wheatland Elementary School in Calamus, Iowa, to do a fake news challenge via Skype. Bedley’s class Skypes with Todd Flory’s fourth-graders at Calamus Wheatland Elementary School in Calamus, Iowa. .

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Social Media Twitter Study Elementary 70

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

The school used the money for a bulk order of Google Chromebooks, allowing every classroom to have a laptop for each student. The rest of the students were focused intently on their laptops. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools. Related: Laptops, Chromebooks or tablets?

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 100

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. Proof Points.

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Strategy Training Report Company 79

Fractus Learning

JUNE 11, 2021

Create custom maps with My Maps, a by-product of Google Maps, on Android devices or laptops. Since its launch in 2013, Snazzy Maps products include a map styling tool, WordPress plugin, downloading map images, and since 2017, a Map Builder helping users to create a map for their website with a few clicks. Best For Beginners: My Maps.

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Tools Analysis Software Android 64

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

Traci Pettis Johnson, who works as a family school liaison at an elementary school in the Hickman Mills School District in south Kansas City, where families mostly rent their homes, sometimes pleads her students families’ cases with landlords, trying to buy them time to pay rent and utility bills.

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Meeting Mobility Policies Report 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Students at Lovett Elementary, the Clinton, Miss. school district’s sixth-grade-only school, work on laptops during class. The district has provided iPads or laptops to all students for several years. Joy Tyner, principal of Northside Elementary, visits a second-grade classroom. Photo: Jackie Mader. CLINTON, Miss.

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MindShift

AUGUST 17, 2018

For the 2017-18 school year, they broke up Vista’s freshman class of almost 700 students into six self-contained “houses.” At the beginning of the 2017-18 school year, freshman history teacher Matt Stuckey, one of the school’s most experienced personalized-learning practitioners, told students that change wouldn’t happen all at once.

Personalized Learning 34

Personalized Learning Chromebook Learning Groups 34

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

At the Tech & Learning Leadership Summit in October 2017, several districts that have been involved in 1:1 initiatives for many years came together to discuss their experiences. Frequently, elementary-school students keep their devices at school while middle- and high-school students are able to take them home.

BYOD 41

BYOD Chromebook iPad Software 41

MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Her school gave her a laptop, but “hotel Wi-Fi is the worst,” she says. “[School] gives them that stability,” says Julie White, who lost her home to Hurricane Harvey in 2017, and is living in a shelter in Bastrop, Texas, with her 18-year-old daughter and 11-year-old granddaughter. In Eatonville, Wash.,

Online Learning 46

Online Learning Learning Laptops Tablets 46

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Over the last two years, Google piloted its Rolling Study Halls program, providing grants to help equip school buses with Wi-Fi and stripped-down laptops. Four times during the 2017-18 school year the bus was involved in an accident. It sounds fanciful, but one district has brought something along these lines to life. Things happen.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2021

Dawn Hall ha sido directora de la Escuela Lincoln Park en Brownsville, Texas, desde 2017. Les suministramos laptops y tabletas, así como puntos de acceso a wi-fi a todas las alumnas que lo necesitaban”, dijo Hall. Foto: Emily Kaplan para The Hechinger Report. Foto: Emily Kaplan para The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Along with Rose, I contacted a middle and an elementary school teacher to see how they are faring. In Wood’s suburban Massachusetts district, elementary school educators were so concerned about their students they held a car parade , driving through streets and shouting greetings from a distance. Will we get yearbooks? said Glick. “I

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Broadband Laptops Chromebook Meeting 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. In math class, students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, work on laptops but also solve word problems in groups using a white board. Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. MESA, Ariz.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 124

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

The shortages, and the way states respond to them, could have long-term consequences: Studies have documented that just 10 days of teacher absences can result in lower math and English language arts test scores for elementary students. Eleven students were at their desks at Norton Elementary School. Credit: Cheshire Public Schools.

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Policies Elementary Training Report 135

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 22, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. Tuesday, August 22, 2017. So, imagine 175 students taking a look at one laptop screen while I’m teaching them. They’re doing awesome things to drive inquiry based learning. Koen Timmers.

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Blended Learning Company Social Media Laptops 200

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. Louis, in the spring of 2022.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

The Kids Discover online platform lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners at three different lexiles. Tuesday, September 26, 2017. Really, there’s a very low bar to just get into it, especially if you have a laptop. Enhanced Transcript. Start talking.

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