eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Since assuming the role of superintendent in 2018, Dr. Jara has been on a mission to move the district from pockets of excellence to an excellent school system, where every student can thrive. Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program. “In NWEA MAP points on average.

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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. Another problem is simply that youngsters’ immune systems aren’t mature enough, so they’re a more vulnerable population. When the U.S. Many aren’t vaccinated.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education. Mon, 11/19/2018 - 08:21. Each of our 10 elementary schools has a digital learning specialist. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out how to create your own modern learning classroom! eli.zimmerman_9856. Photo: Rachel Gorton.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Utah has devised a system for reducing ed tech spending waste.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2024

I cried the day I gained acceptance to Wesleyan University in 2018. I had to fight against low expectations and conditions that devalued my potential, including “accidentally” being placed into English as a Second Language in elementary school, even though English is my first language. My tears signified relief, joy and excitement.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. A year earlier, I had graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. link] #edtechchat #satchat #aledchat #fetc #iste18 — fp (@missfplunkett) January 27, 2018.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The elementary school my younger son attends was incredibly supportive. more than doubled between 2018 and 2022. Snow West Side Elementary School in Charleston, West Virginia, partnered with local first responders to pilot a model for how to support children faced with a traumatic event. In 2013, Mary C.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Experts and educators say the Early Head Start partnership program could serve as a model, showing states how to design systems to better support child care programs and raise quality — assuming states get more funding under Biden’s plan. A toddler looks at a book on an October morning at Donna Araujo’s home child care program.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The burned remains of the Paradise Elementary school as seen Friday, November 9, 2018, in Paradise, California. Josie Chelotti, vice principal and athletic director for the Plumas district’s Greenville Elementary and Jr./Sr. Josie Chelotti, vice principal and athletic director for Greenville Elementary and Jr./Sr.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That’s because Louisiana, like many states, lacks a system for tracking students once they enter the workforce. That’s about what we can do right now because we don’t have the tracking system,” she said. Without one, “How accurately can we see if these programs are truly leading to viable careers?”

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

September 25, 2018) – California’s Fallbrook Union Elementary School District (FUESD) today announced it is expanding its partnership with Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms. said, Discovery Education Partnership Manager Dominique Coulon.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

They want step-by-step guidance on how to tackle challenges. The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. But the true indicator of impact came directly from students and their eventual professors.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

For instance, in her study titled “ Adaptive Teaching: Reflective Practice of Two Elementary Teachers’ Visions and Adaptations During Literacy Instruction “, Vaughn (2014) examines how two elementary teachers adapt their teaching methods in response to their students’ needs during literacy instruction.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

Contemporary classrooms (from elementary school to graduate school) are structured similar to a manufacturing line and typically produce students who are full of information. Our classroom should become a complex adaptive system (CAS) with no set leader. Systems Thinking Version 2.0. Biomimicry – Emulating Life’s Genius.

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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. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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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 2018 report published by New America, a progressive think tank, came to a similar conclusion. What’s up with the quality of Tennessee’ s program?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Like coding, analog maps of the subway can be used to teach computational thinking, making the subway system a perfect conduit to teaching computer science ideas without the use of, well, computers. Social studies teachers considered how to use the subway map exercise as a starting point for a unit on unequal access to transportation.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Fourth grade ELLs at both schools grew their CAASPP scores by 252% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Lalaine Perez Just a short drive away, Mónica Ruiz, principal at Chula Vista’s Montgomery Elementary, was facing her own math struggles.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 15, 2018

She discusses how to incorporate the observation of phenomena and other Next Generation Science Standards in elementary science. Date: March 15, 2018. Whether we’re talking about food webs or forces in motion or the solar system or things like that. Kate Dobrzenski spotlights K-4 innovative science practice. Kate: Yeah.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Date: April 11, 2018. My favorite one is one called [Galactic] Explorer , which is a solar system. It actually looks like you’re holding a spinning solar system in your hands. My favorite one is the one about the solar system. You said there are like eight or so apps… Karen: Yeah… Vicki: How…?

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Date: February 6, 2018. Vicki: Today we’re talking to an assistant principal at an elementary school just outside Houston, Texas, Meredith Akers @meredithakers. We have about 1100 kids at our elementary school. We have an awesome automated system. This is my favorite part that I never had with my paper contact system.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Even just one student who is misbehaving can affect how much and how well an entire class is learning. When we arrived at Betty Best Elementary in Houston in the summer of 2014 and dug into the school’s data, we saw there were 627 office referrals during the previous year. Track the behaviors that matter.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 15, 2019

I accepted the position of Chief Executive Officer of East Texas Advanced Academy (ETAA) in partnership with a school district in East Texas where I served as principal at a middle and elementary school simultaneously. Educational systems do not reward a high expectations mindset as much as content and teaching methods.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. He showed off solar systems made of foam and sticks and I shared a stuffed rocket from Kennedy Space Center. Through a headset and webcam, I learned that he loved space.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Additionally, some families—especially those from marginalized backgrounds—may feel unsure about how to best engage in the school community. How to Create Opportunities for Parent Empowerment. Parent Empowerment: Key to Changing Education Systems. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2018, 51(1), pp. Cooper, C.W., Higgins, K.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

Bethel Elementary School students get a break from reading and math lessons with an engineering activity during summer school in Simpsonville, S.C. About a dozen fourth and fifth grade students sat at scattered tables in Bethel Elementary School’s media center, trying to build bridges out of toothpicks and tape. SIMPSONVILLE, S.C.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Happy holidays, and thank you for tuning into our 2018 countdown!]. After the recession hit in 2013, it was evident that something was off at Mashburn Elementary School (part of Forsyth County Schools in Georgia). As educators, one of the biggest challenges we face is learning how to put our health and happiness first.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

How do you set a vision? How can you get district and state level systems to work together to get a full picture of what is happening? Ahead of our 2018 EdSurge Fusion conference in October, we sat down with three attendees to discuss the secret sauce of what is working in their communities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2018

Date: May 9, 2018. Another person in our classroom really wanted to learn how to speak Spanish. You said they are figuring out how to use math in their passion projects. Currently, she teaches and learns in a first grade classroom at Evening Street Elementary in Worthington, Ohio. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher.

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MindShift

MARCH 4, 2020

Now, he wants to teach his peers how to meditate, too. They’re halfway through an eight-week intensive program at school that teaches them how to facilitate meditation groups. Can you imagine how many kids are not learning simply because they’re not in the right mental state?” he said at the initiative’s launch last Thursday.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With the right kind of instruction, most children with dyslexia can learn how to read. It was inadvertently codified in school systems through influential studies led by British psychiatrists Michael Rutter and William Yule on the Isle of Wight in the 1960s and early 1970s. For the child, the results were wounding.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Amesse Elementary at Denver Public Schools. Palmer High School calibrates the VR system. Amesse Elementary. Digital inequity is the thoughtful and intentional result of many interlocking systems of oppression. DEFINING EQUITY: EMPATHY, AUTHENTICITY, AND ACCESS Sean Wybrant, Digital Media Studies Teacher, William J.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

One of those opportunities is to cultivate systemic interdependence between education and other sectors. In one example of how education institutions can collaborate with other systems, Ohio has adopted a Community Learning Center model that any school district may voluntarily adopt and customize to suit its needs.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Having a systemic and systematic strategy for supporting every student made a huge difference when Covid closed the curtain,” said Mary Walsh, executive director of City Connects, an organization based at Boston College. Related: Linking home and classroom, Oakland bets on community schools.

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