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PROOF POINTS: When schools experimented with $10,000 pay hikes for teachers in hard-to-staff areas, the results were surprising

The Hechinger Report

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. On the surface, that sounds like a success and other news outlets reported it that way. Fixing the problem is not easy because those shortages aren’t universal.

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Document Learning in a Digital Portfolio

Teacher Reboot Camp

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Benchmark at regular intervals, such as progress report time, with student led conferences. My elementary students love their Seesaw digital portfolios. Digital portfolios are powerful learning tools for students of all ages. Start with goals!

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How to Redesign the K–12 Media Center

EdTech Magazine

Fri, 02/08/2019 - 11:31. When building a classroom environment, confer openly with teachers about their specific needs to guide more meaningful technology integrations. . We’ve already helped several schools plan alignments that fit under the top three learning space trends reported recently by eSchool News : .

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Fewer kids are enrolling in kindergarten as pandemic fallout lingers

The Hechinger Report

To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil. percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data. percent from the 2019-20 to 2021-22 school year. It’s harder.

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PROOF POINTS: Why reading comprehension is deteriorating

The Hechinger Report

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. In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. Credit: Photo by Allison Shelley for EDUimages.

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How K–12 Schools Can Create Flexible Seating in the Classroom

EdTech Magazine

Mon, 02/04/2019 - 14:53. When students are given a choice of where to sit, it increases their engagement and overall attentiveness and just creates a more positive environment,” Kara Adams, a teacher at at Belden Elementary School , tells WKYC.com “It goes from 'my classroom,' to 'our classroom,' and then 'total community.'".

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What does restorative justice look like?

The Hechinger Report

Floyd Branch III, a restorative justice specialist for Montgomery County Public Schools, speaks about the practice at an elementary school PTA meeting. ” Whitman’s school paper, The Black and White, reported the students received a month-long suspension from the debate team. Credit: Christina A. This is not surprising.