Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! One way for students to demonstrate what they are learning is through screencasts. While students are completing the task they are also explaining the learning with an audio recording. Subscribe for FREE to receive regular updates!

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! More important than the learning that transpires in our classrooms is the learning we inspire beyond our classroom walls. One way to motivate students to continue using the knowledge acquired in our classes is to set up a virtual learning community.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil. And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. It’s harder.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. How many kids, families, and educators were ill, recovering from being ill, or still traumatized from loved ones’ deaths, illnesses, or long recoveries? Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, said about these results. emphasis added].

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

When it comes to the classroom, there are a few strategies that you can use to make sure your students are interested in your class material and ready to learn. Elementary-aged children are highly motivated when their teachers prioritize content mastery and understanding over high test scores.[2] Education Week, 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

In California, only 10 percent of English learners were chronically absent in 2019. Since before the pandemic, the rate of chronically absent English language learners more than doubled, from 16 percent in 2019 to 36 percent in 2022. By 2022, the rate had more than tripled to 34 percent. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

(Credit: Mike Zetlow) I know from my year teaching at VIPKid that students can learn online , a conclusion researchers have also reached. This online learning model doesn’t work for every child, but it is right for some. And many educators have experimented with this kind of teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. That windfall sent educators scrambling this spring to find the best ways to spend it. That windfall sent educators scrambling this spring to find the best ways to spend it. A push to close early learning gaps in Texas.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Take an online course. There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. include: Computational Thinking for Educators from Google (15-30 hours). Introduction to Programming with Scratch in Education from University of Northern Iowa (20-30 hours).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

While a striking amount of uncertainty remains, experts largely agree on one thing: Pandemic education has exacted the greatest tolls from the children of historically marginalized groups. schools frequently marginalize these students’ languages and cultures, but they tend to host ineffective educational approaches. Not only do U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2021

While its geographical scope increased, VHS Learning’s retention rate has remained steady; 92% of schools that partnered with VHS Learning in the 2018-19 school year continued to do so in the 2019-20 school year. VHS Learning is a great program,” said Karen McGrath, a site coordinator at Sandwich High School in Massachusetts. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

The series will explore the challenges schools face in helping kids make progress in math, a pre-pandemic problem that has snowballed into an education crisis, and highlight examples of success. On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School.

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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. Pandemic-related hardships have propelled many students to choose jobs over education and online classes have been barriers for low-income students without digital resources.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

Coronavirus shutdowns across the country have thrown school districts and higher education institutions into disarray. But for some online education companies, the upheaval represents a chance to profit. Between 2017 and 2019, K12 spent on average $37.4 They’re bracing for budget cuts and other financial troubles.

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 24, 2020

Department of Education (ED) hosted a call clarifying the funding allocations that have been made available in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Multiple education funding mechanisms are articulated in the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act. Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund , $14.25

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The certainty of climate change and likelihood of more pandemics and other large-scale disruptions leave us with questions about what the future of education will look like. We should use this moment to catalyze a digital transformation of education that will prepare schools for our uncertain future.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2022

“One of the keys to our success with credit recovery is the design of our online asynchronous courses,” said Carol DeFuria, President & CEO of VHS Learning. VHS Learning course design and delivery standards were the model used by the National Education Association when they created the first standards for online learning.

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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. Now there is a significant body of research to answer the question of whether students learn more. Over the past decade, flipping has spread across U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

As a new school year begins, a number of district leaders are scrambling to address concerns from parents and staff that their chosen online learning platform features content that is racist, sexist or inappropriate for children. 25, two days before her district’s first day of school.

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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. Credit: Rosamund Looney.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Not long ago, school computer labs were a mainstay of the education environment. The impact of mobile computing on education is indisputable. Yet many educators advocate for their continued use. Portable computing power offers learning advantages in virtually any educational environment. Today, not so much.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 12, 2020

In 2019, 35% of fourth-grade students in the U.S. And this is before a projected COVID-19 learning loss. Transitioning from learning to read to reading to learn in third grade is a significant milestone, and this unprecedented nationwide disruption to student learning will likely have long-term implications.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

It was time, thought the ed tech pioneer, to bring his nonprofit online education empire to brick-and-mortar schools — lots of them. If it went well, Khan Academy would prove, on a large scale, that teachers are critical to the successful use of technology in learning. This story also appeared in The Nevada Independent.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In the Putnam County (TN) School System— a rural school district with 23 schools spread across 400 miles—our personalized learning approach has allowed us to reshape education for students on a variety of fronts. In our first year, we implemented personalized learning in our six middle schools. Intentional design.

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ). and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ). and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The school’s website promised a “rigorous education experience” delivered by highly qualified teachers. the nation’s biggest for-profit operator of charters, enrollment grew by 45 percent, to almost 157,000, and revenues in its general education division rose 37 percent. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. At Stride Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The scale of the disruption to American kids’ education is evident in a district-by-district analysis of test scores shared exclusively with The Associated Press. Online learning played a major role , but students lost significant ground even where they returned quickly to schoolhouses, especially in math scores in low-income communities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 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. We need to educate the teachers on how to educate the students … on how to secure their devices, their information.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Online learning makes it more difficult for students and teachers to form close, one-on-one relationships. Tempus is still one of my supporters, though she left the school district in 2019. Remote learning risks that connection appeared first on The Hechinger Report. She was there for me whenever I needed her support.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

inequality and innovation in education. Now, new studies warn of the pandemic’s potentially “debilitating effects” on children’s psychological, developmental and educational progress as anxiety, depression and loneliness increased over the last year. This story about trusted adults was produced by? Sign up for? Hechinger’s newsletter.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Young will be taking part in a panel discussion on cybersecurity education. Stacy will be discussing our commitment to high school computer science (CS) education to prepare students for college and careers,” said Amy Michalowski, Dean of VHS. A four-week companion module on cybersecurity will also be available in summer 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2020

It was a heartbreaking blow, but one I would overcome and learn from. In fact, each chapter of my life has taught me the empathy and professional skills that I now use as a high school math educator. I learned how to treat people with compassion. Related: A school where character matters as much as academics.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

Hameed’s students are participants in various programs through Hello Future , a nonprofit organization that works with teen refugees to bridge the education gap by teaching digital and financial literacy, critical thinking and entrepreneurship. What we’re doing is nothing new to the world of education,” Grosso said. students as well.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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! High-speed internet at home is a necessity for American families. However, 28.2 million U.S.

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