Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017. Here’s what they’re working on: Lambda School The San Francisco-based startup combines some of the hottest trends in the edtech industry: computer science education, small classes, and income-share agreements. And neither is elementary-grade science. million in profit.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 14, 2019

Today Darrian Tanner, the Florida State High Impact Teacher award winner for 2016-2017 and 2018-2019 talks about how to help teachers improve their classroom management skills. Topics include teaching foundational topics and emerging trends in K-12. The courses are all online and self-paced.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 6, 2020

The district is composed of five elementary schools and four secondary schools, serving more than 2,600 students. Demographics: Fairfield County Schools is a small, rural, high-poverty school district in South Carolina. Related: 6 steps for using data to improve instruction.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 12, 2018

It helps explain the step-by-step nature of coding,” says Todd Burleson, resource center director for this Winnetka Public Schools District 36 elementary school. In District 36, “We have makerspaces in the resource centers of each elementary school, that’s where the robotics activities are happening,” Miller says. “We

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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. Subscribe today! The report also emphasizes that students need to be given chances to actively, creatively use ed tech.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Here are EdSurge’s top stories of 2017 in chronological order—a healthy dose of optimism and skepticism, words of encouragement and caution for the year ahead. Tired Edtech Trends That Teachers Wish Would Retire: From the Floor of ISTE 2017 “I feel like everyone talks about blended learning, and no one really knows what it means.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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 Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” It began to become emotionally draining.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

In San Antonio, Texas, elementary school principals get hands-on coaching and advice from early childhood experts during visits to pre-K classrooms. Instead the programs are set up to prepare principals in a “general way” to work across grade levels, said Laura Bornfreund, director of early & elementary education policy at New America. “A

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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.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

Reasons given for the trend include the lingering effects of the Great Recession, declining enrollment and more colleges dropping language requirements. One of the biggest obstacles to improved language learning is a national shortage of qualified teachers,” according to a 2017 report. Most students in the U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can best benefit from near-constant change. The nomination window is open for the 2017 Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, which honors innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2021

In her remarks, Chan mentioned Nottingham Elementary School , which closed for nearly four weeks after Hurricane Harvey in 2017, but invested in mental wellness and belonging in its recovery, and later saw test scores rise. It’s not always an easy task to develop a successful digital tool that aids social-emotional growth.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

Yet this trend persists throughout the education sector. Empathy, as a theme, is trending. Source: Google Trends: “Empathy” search as of May 26, 2021. According to updated research in 2017 , the creativity crisis has grown worse and is impacting the youngest age groups the most. It should become the norm.

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

While it can be hard to keep up with every trend in educational technology, the mindset you have when it comes to classroom tech matters just as much as which ones you use. Lessons that involve digital citizenship can help a student use technology responsibly well beyond their elementary school years. Courville, K.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

This year, a couple of very clear trends emerged. Andy Plemmons and the Barrow (GA) Elementary faculty and staff are talking with their Barrow Buddies about what inspires them, how they hope they inspire you, and a few special pieces of trivia on this Flipgrid board. Engagement. Gamification.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2023

Amy Lower , an experienced teacher at Stinson Elementary, Northwest Local Schools, Ohio, enthusiastically shares her experience with this tool, after seeing her fifth grade ELA students become co-creators of their learning experience. Educators know that engaged students learn more, as evidenced in this 2017 Gallup Poll.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

But the depth of this problem was obscured as most states, and thus most newspapers, reported achievement trends by comparing each new year’s eighth graders to the previous year’s eighth graders. Before the pandemic, middle school students’ test scores in math tended to decline as they moved through each grade.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

There is a long-term trend of more counselors at schools, she confirms. which decreased its student-to-school-counselor ratio 15 percent from 560-to-1 in 2017–18 to 474-to-1 in 2018–19. Nevada bucked the national trend. Its student-to-school-counselor increased 14 percent from 478-to-1 in 2017–18 to 544-to-1 in 2018–19.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2023

percent had 15 or more years That breakdown is similar to what it was three years earlier in the 2017-18 school year. It’s an example of a trend that Danna Thomas observed while she was still a teacher in Baltimore. Joseph-Lacet has seen a new trend among teachers that she fears will have negative consequences on the profession.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

What’s causing these trends is no mystery.” 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 Fordham Institute.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Listen to the interview with Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen about their favorite iPad apps for elementary classrooms. Dates : February 8, 2017 – February 8, 2017 at midnight EST. (We give 48 hours for all reviews to show up on iTunes before drawing.). ” Want to learn about another technology? BreakoutEDU [link].

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2019

The district is composed of five elementary schools and four secondary schools, serving more than 2,600 students. Demographics: Fairfield County Schools is a small, rural, high-poverty school district in South Carolina.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

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 Clayton district’s efforts to develop more engaging and relatable lessons for math instruction began in 2017, Clarke said.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 30, 2017

Today Carol McLaughlin @missmac100 second grade teacher from Alabama and #2ndchat moderator talks about the global trends in second grade. Wednesday, August 30, 2017. And today, Carol, we thought we would talk about some of the trends we’re seeing in second grade across the world. 2nd Grade Trend #1: Project Based Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Listen to last week’s tech tools show about iPads in the Elementary Classroom with Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen. Dates : February 1, 2017 – February 2, 2017 at midnight EST. How Prizes Will be Awarded : All names of people who leave reviews on iTunes will be put into a random drawing by the prize administrator.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. It also forecasts that district spending on hardware, networks, and major system software will see a slight increase in 2017, rising to $16.2

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. But it has proven elusive.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2022

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. Subscribe today!

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

It’s a conduit for staying abreast of the latest educational trends, resources, and technologies. Adaptive teaching: Reflective practice of two elementary teachers’ visions and adaptations during literacy instruction. The importance of adaptability for teachers is well documented in the research literature (e.g., Madda et al.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

At a recent panel at SXSW EDU, he explained why “tech-enabled” teachers in particular have a trend of leaving the classroom and entering careers in tech—especially education technology. He cited statistics from a job postings report the Austin Chamber of Commerce put out in March 2017 about employer demands in the Austin metropolitan area.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

classrooms, from city college campuses to suburban elementary schools. But like many trends in education, the novelty took hold before the evidence mounted. Flipped classrooms also free up class time for teachers to help students individually, as a tutor does. Over the past decade, flipping has spread across U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Perhaps there is some type of interaction between the K-12 system and the preschool program that just isn’t working to support children once they get into early elementary school. “I A 2017 study found appropriate use of some of these practices can make a classroom excellent instead of mediocre.). Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Specific compliments for newly gained skills decorate the walls in a Colorado Preschool Program classroom at Eyestone Elementary School in the Poudre School District. Given what is known about the brain science of language acquisition, early support for dual language learners in state preschool programs could turn that trend around.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2018

Further, Johns Hopkins Medicine posits that, in addition to the estimated eight yearly colds elementary children are likely to get, they’re also prime candidates for the flu. Like the flu and MRSA, complications related to foodborne illness are on the upswing, almost doubling in frequency from 2014 to 2017. When the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

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