The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. It’s her job to guide teachers on how to help struggling readers at the 600-student school. The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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Elementary Policies Advocacy Report 107

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed students’ performance following Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, which hit the state in 2016 and 2018 respectively. Davis, an assistant professor in the department of public policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Education Analysis Report Elementary 177

techlearning

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

BEAVERTON, Oregon, February 23, 2018 — Vernier Software & Technology will host 21 free hands-on workshops to help science and STEM educators learn how to integrate Vernier data-collection technology—including the new Vernier Go Direct wireless sensors—into their curriculum.

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Data Software STEM Analysis 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In 2018, Congress increased annual funding for CTE, which now exceeds $1.4 And in 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high schoolers, college students, and adults, according to Advance CTE , a professional organization for state CTE leaders. Louisiana bet big on career education.

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Outcomes Data Education Report 122

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 142

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks.

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Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 140

techlearning

MAY 1, 2018

BEAVERTON, Oregon, May 1, 2018 — This summer, Vernier Software & Technology will host 21 full-day, hands-on training institutes to help science educators learn how to integrate data-collection technology into their curricula. Science educators can select dates from the summer schedule below.

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Training Data Technology Software 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, students have led climate marches, gun control rallies and walkouts protesting federal immigration policies and racial injustice. Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. Who is the school board really representing?

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Kaplan Policies Report System 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

When alpine ski racer Andrew Kurka won the gold and silver medals at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, a group of U.S. Olympic gold medalist Steve Mesler co-founded Classroom Champions with his sister Leigh Parise, a senior research associate at MDRC , a nonprofit education and social policy research organization.

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Elementary Social Media Report Training 111

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 2018 report published by New America, a progressive think tank, came to a similar conclusion. Coons said classrooms now look different. “We

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Study Outcomes Elementary System 109

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Those sentiments may have come as a surprise to some in the education community, especially as Fitzgerald’s tweets came during ISTE 2018, a conference where vendors push tech into classrooms and several sessions explored the use of voice assistants from Amazon and Google in the classroom. Part of that policy?

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Classroom Policies Google Data 153

edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2021

First, the district formed a Student Discipline Task Force, charged with looking at the research and taking a deep dive into policies and practices that disproportionately affected specific student populations, especially African American males. Adopt mediation as a restorative practice with specific language on how to use it.

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Policies Professional Learning Elementary Assessment 73

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2023

How to join the waitlist. Winner: ChatGPT Revisions On thing I particularly liked about Google Bard is how it will show you three drafts of answers for each question. OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has a charter published in April 2018. I hope this quiz helps you learn how to use commas correctly.

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Google Comparison How To Examples 393

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It shows that we have a lot of work to do,” said Alisha Hyslop, senior director of public policy for the nonprofit Association for Career and Technical Education. There are a lot of historical challenges to overcome in how Black students, in particular, interface with CTE dating back decades to when there was segregation in programs.”.

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STEM Education Data Course 140

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The model has shaped decades of policy regarding whose literacy is considered vital and worthy of extra help and investment—and whose is not. Reforming how the condition is defined and diagnosed could help many more children learn to read. With the right kind of instruction, most children with dyslexia can learn how to read.

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Learning Study Report Elementary 145

MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Brian Bushart is an elementary math curriculum coordinator. Yesterday, I was asked how to insert (vertical) fractions in @AppleEDU iWork files. this is how I do it. Mohammed is Chief Innovation Officer at San Antonio ISD and is a favorite to follow for insight into education policy. May 17, 2018. October 21, 2019.

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Twitter Education STEM Policies 80

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 104

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Date: January 29, 2018. I can’t even remember how long it’s been since you and I met, but just how much you shaped me and understanding that we can have educational excellence and less testing.

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Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 188

edWeb.net

AUGUST 12, 2021

Project Manager at IMS Global Learning Consortium, and Reg Leichty, Founder and Partner of Foresight Law and Policy. In 2018, CatchOn joined forces with ENA, a leading provider of comprehensive technology solutions to education institutions and libraries across the nation.

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Data Student Data Privacy Software Internet Safety 97

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Date: Friday, February 2, 2018. You just have got to figure out how to use it. We sent her the password, and she hopped on, and the minute she hopped on, my filtering policy started to take effect. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher. Stream by clicking here. 5 Home Filtering Options for Parents. It has a lot of features.

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Chromebook Smartphone Social Media Company 297

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

She invested $19 — the cost of hosting a website — and created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, in tables clearly organized by grade level and subject matter, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm.

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Online Learning Robotics Learning Instructional Materials 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The 2018 Niche.com rankings listed our district as one of the top 15 “Best School Districts in America” for the fourth year in a row. Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation.

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Elementary Personalized Learning Comparison Technology 85

techlearning

AUGUST 13, 2018

BEAVERTON, Oregon, August 13, 2018 — This fall, Vernier Software & Technology will host 38 free, hands-on workshops around the country to help science educators learn how to best incorporate probeware and data-collection technology into their curriculum. Interested educators can select dates from the schedule below.

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Software Technology STEM Data 40

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 17, 2018

Date: May 17, 2018. We were just talking about how we’re pretty sure we met just about ten years ago to the day that we are recording this, in Princeton way back in 2008. And finally, how to truly put your best self out if you’re doing that on the internet. But we have to learn how to put them down. Enhanced Transcript.

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Digital Citizenship Course Company How To 223

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Recipient of the 2016 ISTE Emerging Leader Award, recognized as a PBS Digital innovator for her initiatives in enhancing student learning with technology, Fox has also served as President of the Young Educator Network for ISTE, and received the President's Volunteer Award in 2018. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter. It's nothing new.

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 427

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. Related: With many schools choosing online learning how can we keep the music alive?

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Report Course Online Learning Meeting 144

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

In today’s show, learn how one successful district has tackled this process and how they are getting buy in from teachers on the vision during the second year of implementation. Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started.

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Professional Learning Gamification Company Elementary 172

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. He’s not a politician, he admits, but he has strong opinions about public policy, bolstered mainly by vignettes and anecdotes.

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Dropout Policies Elementary Data 69

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 4, 2018

In today’s show, Wanda Terral talks about how to help kids understand digital safety. Date: May 5, 2018. We have different policies in the service that allow us to monitor words that are common to cyber-bullying, words that are more threatening, so that we are able to — without manual intervention — keep an eye on them.

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Digital Citizenship Guidelines Chromebook Google 183

Shake Up Learning

APRIL 30, 2018

Check out her lesson in my lesson plan database, Model it Up with Google Sheets , where she uses Google Sheets to teach her students how to make five. You will learn how to get everything set up in your classroom for success, including the dreaded login process, device handling, digital citizenship, and workflow. See: Copyright Policy.

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Chromebook Digital Citizenship Google Exercises 74

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

Scientists first learning to drive a car with their minds in a project called the Brain Driver recount taking months to figure out how to focus the mind so the car could pick up simple directions like right, left and straight. Mindful Thought Control Controlling your thoughts is hard—witness my pitiful first attempt. All important.

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Skyward Training Tablets Company 136

Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

CSEdWeek and The Hour of Code arrive December 3-9, 2018, and this annual event is bigger than ever. How to Run an Hour of Code. New for 2018! Khan Academy tutorial: Learn how to draw with code (Javascript and ProcessingJS). Kodable Curriculum for Elementary. Ready to get started? The Grinch. 9 – 14.

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Khan Academy Tablets Smartphone Android 77

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. Before the pandemic, the number of Black families homeschooling was rising swiftly, doubling between 2003 and 2018. Principal Alice Hom speaking to parents and theater club students at P.S. 124 in 2018.

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Report Personalized Learning Survey Training 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2020

A child reads a book at an elementary school in Mississippi. The reading wars are back, reignited by radio journalist Emily Hanford of APM Reports, who in 2018 began arguing that too many schools are ignoring the science of reading and failing to teach phonics. How do kids actually learn how to read?

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Report Study Data Assessment 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

That same day, six other students across the district were written up for not wearing their masks correctly (including one who also faked using hand sanitizer), while an elementary school student was assigned three days of “private dining” for sharing food in violation of safety guidelines. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines.

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Guidelines Report Elementary Online Learning 143

Graphite Blog

MARCH 25, 2019

How common is cyberbullying? Reported data on how many kids experience cyberbullying can vary depending on the age of kids surveyed and how cyberbullying is defined. School, district, and/or state policies might dictate what actions you take once you've verified that cyberbullying has in fact occurred.

Digital Citizenship 74

Digital Citizenship Report Survey Resources 74

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2020

At one elementary school, third-graders had only picture books to look at until their teacher bought books to read. And at Osborn High, one student had to ask her classmate how to spell the word “the,” according to the lawsuit.

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