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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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 191

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In a flipped classroom, students watch video lectures before class and use class time to work on assignments and group projects. It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. Cutting class time directly cuts into time spent actively learning.

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Flipped Classroom Study Classroom Analysis 143

Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

Take an online course. There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. See Code.org’s comparisons of CS curricula by grade level: elementary curricula. Attend the CSTA Annual Conference (July 7-10, 2019 in Phoenix, AZ). Some favorites (all free!) Start a club.

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Comparison Advocacy STEM Meeting 218

eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2022

Students will record and upload videos of themselves speaking in Spanish to demonstrate their proficiency in the speaking domain. VHS Learning will also introduce Spanish 1 as an 8-week paced summer course beginning in June 2022. Courses are approved for initial eligibility by NCAA.

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Course Learning Secondary Elementary 56

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. Ooh, it’s a gun,” and removes a silver toy gun.

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Learning Social Media Video Online Learning 201

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

To that end, his company built a new software tool designed for classroom use and piloted it in five school districts — including the massive Clark County School District serving Las Vegas and its suburbs — in the 2019-20 school year. million to NWEA in 2019-20 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to take the assessments.

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Khan Academy Classroom Training Software 133

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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Report Elementary Examples Data 109

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19.

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Education Handbook Course Elementary 211

ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

PCs with powerful processors are ideal, and often a must-have, for subjects like advanced programming, engineering, and video editing. The Consortium for School Networking reveals the extent of these gaps in its 2018-2019 annual infrastructure survey. Elementary school students have the least access to personal devices, at 71%.

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Laptops Libraries STEM Chromebook 179

techlearning

OCTOBER 4, 2018

This year, The Virtual High School will develop and launch a new 15-week online cybersecurity course for delivery in the 2019-2020 academic year. A four-week companion module on cybersecurity will also be available in summer 2019. is an online learning pioneer.

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Course Blended Learning Secondary Industry 42

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

“We’re in this revolution that is moving quickly,” said Nagler, a finalist for National Superintendent of the Year in 2019. Nagler has also pushed the idea that the spread of technology means students should learn skills rather than facts; the curriculum in Mineola reflects that.

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iPad Tablets Report iPhone 139

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The curriculum – including YouTube videos of the lectures – is also available for free to any teacher who wants to use it. A follow up report in 2019 found similarly dismal results. “You have infinite material to pull from in real time.”. We were stunned,” he said of the overall results.

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Social Media Data Course Report 145

MindShift

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The city school district plans to train students to tutor their peers, and it recently launched a “homework hotline” where teachers work one-on-one with students over video chat. Students can choose a teacher who specializes in the subject they need help with, then join the teacher’s video chat. Monday through Thursday.

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Learning Training Libraries Groups 46

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

Across New Orleans, public school officials are searching for replacements for roughly 25 percent of the district’s teachers and principals, a slight uptick from the already-high 22 percent attrition rate for principals in the city between the 2019-19 and 2019-20 school years, and higher than the state departure numbers of around 15 percent.

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Report Laptops Study Survey 106

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Clough and her granddaughter, Carter, make Christmas cookies in December 2019 Credit: Photo courtesy of Joanne Clough. Instead of putting up a fight, Wagner has allowed Holden to stay in his bedroom when he wants to, playing video games with his friends online. I’m not homeschooling,” she said. “He He has the Xbox.

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Advocacy Report Groups Policies 116

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

“How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. As we think about our work in the past 2019-20 school year, we should reflect on the online learning that had occurred for those of us fortunate enough to have the necessary technology—both at our schools and in our students’ homes.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Regardless of the experiences and interactions that led these educators to the field, each entered their first year of teaching—the 2019-20 school year—filled with excitement, eagerness and anxiety. Some held live video calls with students during remote learning in the spring. before the pandemic.

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Elementary Video Meeting Technology 211

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2021

Kali took to online learning immediately. And given that tens of millions of students were involuntarily enrolled in a sort of pilot version of online learning for much of the last year, more families than ever are realizing that they prefer it and are asking their children’s schools to accommodate them moving forward.

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Online Learning Survey System Meeting 207

MindShift

AUGUST 12, 2020

Regardless of the experiences and interactions that led these educators to the field, each entered their first year of teaching—the 2019-20 school year—filled with excitement, eagerness and anxiety. Some held live video calls with students during remote learning in the spring. Prior experience with group video calls: No.

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Elementary Video Groups Meeting 45

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 121

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2022

A growing body of research suggests that Black students are among those most harmed academically by the pandemic and the chaotic shift to online learning; 91 percent of West Philadelphia’s students are Black, compared to a little over half of students in the district as a whole. Online learning was challenging for many students.

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Dropout Chromebook Report System 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. Megan Bledsoe, a counselor at Discovery Middle School in Vancouver, Washington, records a video for students about how to stay physically active from her home in Portland, Oregon. It’s also suicide. ”.

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Survey Report Elementary Exercises 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Getting everyone online seems pretty far off in Perry’s community, which also lacks universal access to running water and electricity. The lack of broadband access effectively ended the 2019-20 school year in March of 2020. Juan said her children were in online classes on time almost every day during the school year.

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Broadband Accessibility Report Company 136

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Montgomery, an elementary school in Mound Bayou, Mississippi: Respectful. Mississippi ranked first in the nation in improvement on the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress scores, but with just 32 percent of fourth graders scoring proficient or above in reading, it also was coming from behind many states. Responsible.

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Report Data Policies Elementary 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I Then it appointed Susie Luckey, a popular elementary school principal, as interim superintendent until June. I think we are in trouble based on what I saw.”

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Elementary Report Meeting Policies 137