EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

TCEA 2019: How One K–12 Principal Put Google Classroom to Work. Tue, 02/05/2019 - 09:45. Neeb, the principal of Williams Elementary School, and Tickle, a digital learning specialist and Google Certified Trainer, presented “The Whole Ball of Wax: A Place for Everything,” on Monday. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

In many schools, these students were more likely to show up to class than other groups. 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.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

6] Whether you’re an elementary school teacher or work with older grades, you have the power to make a difference. Women’s History Month is just around the corner, and now is the perfect time to re-evaluate how you approach STEM in your school. If one-on-one mentors aren’t possible, group mentors can also be effective.[14].

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2021

In a previous post , I shared how members of the 4th-grade team at Red Cliffs Elementary School in the Juab School district collaborated to create a personalized experience that combined choice and data to differentiate. I was hesitant at the start of the year about starting small group instruction given the circumstances.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The Learning Counsel, a leading education research institute and news media hub, announced this year’s National Digital Transition Survey Award winners at its 2019 National Gathering held in Dallas, TX. Key takeaways from the 2019 national survey include: The U.S. By Doug Cauthen. The change in viewpoint is deeply respected.”.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Tue, 09/03/2019 - 10:08. Blended learning “can provide educators and students with a wealth of actionable insights on student learning, needs and preferences, empowering them to deliver the right learning resources at the right time for the right students,” according to the Consortium for School Networking’s Tech Enablers 2019 report.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

How to get to the site. You’ll see when you login that you start off by being able to add activities, explore the resources they have, or get some training on how to use this collaborative learning tool. In particular, math teachers and elementary teachers will love the manipulatives that you can adapt for your own lessons. .

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). They may not have received explicit instruction on how to teach writing in their subject areas. ” Dr. Novak and I wholeheartedly agree!

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Snow Horse Elementary was not one of them. A few district administrators and I visited classrooms in March 2019. After the session was completed, a team of second-grade teachers stayed after to begin planning on how to implement what they learned immediately. Fast forward to January 2019. Below are their reflections.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 11, 2019

How K–12 Schools Should Define and Act on Digital Learning. Thu, 04/11/2019 - 15:35. The tradigital learning environment encourages all teachers — elementary, middle and high school — to adopt a station rotation model. MORE FROM EDTECH: See how to prepare K–12 teachers to bring blended learning programs in their classrooms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2023

Insurance – Understanding how to make wise insurance decisions. Saving and Managing Expenses – In this scenario, students help advise a person on how to manage their paycheck and daily expenses. Collecting, Cleaning, and Validating Data – Students learn how data scientists make sure data is valid.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

But how are elementary, middle and high school teachers supposed to teach it better? “What’s very odd about writing is how small the research base is,” said Robert Slavin, director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at the Johns Hopkins School of Education. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in AL.com and The Associated Press Piedmont City schools landed in the top spot among all school districts nationwide in a comparison of math scores in 2019 and 2022. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. We’ve always done small groups in reading,” third-grade teacher Windy Casey said.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Fri, 10/04/2019 - 13:13. This requires a balancing act: How do educators leverage connected technology without putting student data and other critical information at risk? Balancing Act: Cybersecurity in the Connected Classroom. eli.zimmerman_9856. It’s essential to meet student expectations and to satisfy state regulations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2019, just over one-third of students in the U.S. Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year. Many other states are enacting similar legislation.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Fri, 12/06/2019 - 10:25. A recent McAfee survey of 1,000 college students and recent graduates ages 18 to 25 revealed some startling statistics on how little this tech-savvy cohort knows about data security. Begin by teaching them about privacy concerns and how to manage their digital identities. shailaja.neela….

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2021

Instead of teaching students to point with one finger under each word as they read, she suggested the teacher show students how to use two fingers to “frame” a word, with one finger at the beginning and one at the end of each word. “As At first, Kobal wasn’t sure how she would fit another program or curriculum into her day.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Radcliffe was beginning to think more intentionally about the brain and to explicitly teach her students about how it functions. Counselors at our school began using specific names of brain structures, such as the amygdala and hippocampus, when teaching learners how to self-regulate. She wasn’t the only one. It started with coffee.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

Like last year , we’ve also added a selection of editor’s picks—our favorite stories, op-eds and investigations from the past year spotlighting how the education system is meeting a diverse array of challenges. This Lesson Shows Students How to Recognize It. Happy New Year! Everyone Has Invisible Bias.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2019

She is the co-author of What Are You Grouping For?, Grades 3-8: How to Guide Small Groups Based on Readers —Not the Book (Corwin, 2019.) Website: www.juliewrightconsulting.com Twitter: @ juliewright4444 YouTube: What Are You Grouping For ?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Donna Araujo reads a story to a small group of children under her care. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

By 2019, Ayers had helped impoverished Perry County reach an 86 percent college-going rate (57 students), the highest in the state, according to government figures. Or, as one rural student shared, classmates don’t go to college “because they don’t know how and their parents didn’t.” serving more than 3,000 students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year ago, school would have been over around this time, and the students at Columbus East Elementary would be walking out the door. But this year, a group of fifth graders were instead sitting on the school’s stage, reading aloud about the life of Rosa Parks as they worked on reading fluency and comprehension.

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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. For students using project-approved software, the gains have been real.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. 40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. This year, she had to backtrack — all the way to the letter “H.”. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

It is a part of the Lumen Christi Academies , a group of Catholic schools in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to “nurture ethical scholars who will change the world” through active, personalized and student-led learning. Microshifts in Practice 1.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The annual rate of teacher attrition rose 20 percent from 2019-2020, at least in part impacted by the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic. Educating teachers on how to effectively manage their classrooms can lead to more positive, inclusive environments where all students can learn. Recent research shows that nearly one-third of U.S.

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SpeechTechie

APRIL 22, 2020

Reposting this one from January 2019 as in the context of readers needing resources for distance learning and teletherapy. Geoguessr lets you play one "game" a day for free. Geoguessr is a web-based game that plops you into an unknown place so that you can attempt to guess where you are.

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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. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. NASHVILLE, Tenn. Because it is just one assessment.”

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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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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. Five years ago, I ditched whole-class lectures in my fifth grade brick-and-mortar classroom in favor of small group rotations. Through a headset and webcam, I learned that he loved space.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

I was inspired to write this post because of the soon to be released episode 536 (to be released on August 5, 2019 ), where a third-year teacher, Edwin Thomas Minguela, and I talk about the lessons he’s learned in his first two years of teaching. Barsade put 94 business students into groups all doing the same task.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Recently I tested three of these science kits and in this blog post, I’ll share a review of these kits and how you can save 15% and get free shipping on your future order before October 31, 2019. See details for how to redeem this code at the bottom of this post.) ” This also includes enough for 15 lab groups.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Yet reading scores are below 2019 levels for certain grades even in some states that quickly returned to in-person instruction, such as Florida.” The good news is that groups like the Modern Classrooms Project and KnowledgeWorks are helping schools transition/. It is working in classrooms around the world. Learn more and register here!

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2024

In summer 2020, EdSurge profiled nine first-year teachers to understand what it was like for them to launch their careers during the pandemic year (2019-20). We checked in with them this month to see how they’re doing, what they’re up to and where they are now. For first-year teachers, it was baptism by fire.

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