The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School. The mounting stress levels have sparked a trend of “resilience” trainings and workshops, which typically include yoga, mindfulness and meditation. Her immediate reaction: “What a bunch of baloney!”. “I

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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. zHQSf3 Photo Source A simple Google search for CES2017 will result in more technologies that made the list, but hopefully this compilation is a good starting point for the best of what to expect in 2017. Learn more > goo.gl/zHQSf3

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

With those tools in place, Olathe began measuring social-emotional learning (SEL) data and teaching SEL skills in every classroom in the fall of 2017. They also can see the trend data. Gator Grit Event (Image credit: Green Springs Elementary School) How is this program impacting teachers? And we can be proactive.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Over four million elementary school children receive no visual arts lessons in the classroom.[6] As an elementary teacher, it may seem tough to find time for art lessons when your school schedule is already filled with core subjects. 5 Creative Art Activities for Elementary Students. Child Development, 2017, 88(4), pp.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. But Albert’s struggles with speech lasted all through high school. “I

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I will give a bit of a disclaimer that this is more of an elementary-focused episode, but frankly, I think we have a bigger problem with waste, plastic, lamination, and so on at the elementary level than at the secondary level where it’s more common to find paperless and nearly paperless classrooms.

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Classroom Resources Elementary Secondary 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2020

Based on a survey of nearly 2,000 school superintendents across the United States, the decennial study examines national trends in demographics, professional development, equity and other factors related to superintendents’ working lives.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As someone who has taught high school history, led a school district, and researched the history of school reform along with the use of educational technologies over the past half-century, I found little that startled me in 2017 (with the exception for one event noted below).

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Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 79

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.”

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

But this year, I’m reorganizing my analysis of these “trends,” partly because I think they can all be subsumed under the larger theme of “the new economy.” In previous years, these were also popular acquisition targets, but 2017 saw several of these high-profile acquisitions falter under new corporate leadership.

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