eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2022

Following the 2020-2021 school year, educators can look back with pride–and exhaustion–on all we have learned. We have learned to teach in brand new modalities like remote and hybrid learning, foster more student independence, and adapt instruction to a huge variety of learning needs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

BOSTON (October 1, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, has released its “Educator Perceptions of Teaching and Learning in Fall 2021,” a research brief exploring educators’ expectations for the 2021-2022 academic year. About Cambium Learning Group.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Last March, Zoom, the ubiquitous online conferencing platform, became a staple of daily life for many students and educators as learning shifted online. Millions downloaded it—and first learned of it—back in early 2020, when lockdowns forced billions of students online, and at least 100,000 schools onto Zoom.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. OAKLAND, Calif. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As students return to the classroom this fall — many for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that upended their access to quality, in-person learning — we have an opportunity to enact standards to ensure that teachers’ instruction methods are effective and backed by science.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

26, parents from Brooklyn Arts & Science Elementary School (or P.S. 705) flocked to the school for an open house ahead of the fall 2021 semester. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. contracted Covid-19 between the start of the pandemic and early August 2021.).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Following the 2020-2021 school year, educators can look back with pride–and exhaustion–on all we have learned. We have learned to teach in brand new modalities like remote and hybrid learning, foster more student independence, and adapt instruction to a huge variety of learning needs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

As students return to school for the 2021-22 year, educators are thinking about how to teach children who have missed months of instruction because of the pandemic. Or should they start fourth graders off at the usual beginning, learning place values through millions and billions, as if third grade hadn’t been disrupted?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

“Doing it on a computer screen just is not the same thing,” said Neumann, who is eager to get back to using “old-school materials” — paper, pencils and rulers — when her district returns to in-person learning this fall. No matter what we put on the computer, no matter how much fun it looks, they’re not getting it.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

In May of 2020, the Las Vegas native accepted an offer to become superintendent of the Elko County School District, which serves roughly 10,000 students in northeastern Nevada. As hard as those first months were, the gradual return to in-person learning in fall 2020 was harder. 14, 2021, in Elko, Nevada.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

As school districts continue to make and revise plans to open the 2020–2021 school year, many are considering adopting blended or hybrid learning-based schedules. There is widespread hope that some form of face-to-face interaction can be safely combined with remote learning. Different modes, different strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The graduation rate in the Cleveland Metropolitan School District rose from 56 to 81 percent between 2011 and 2020. And so, no improvement efforts big or small in any city or district could be successful without both understanding historically how that has come to be and addressing it.” Related: How to make Cleveland ‘great again’?

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

SAN MATEO and OAKLAND, California — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, is excited to announce the acquisition of IXL Learning , the premier online English-language dictionary, as well as Thesaurus.com , home to the world’s largest collection of synonyms and antonyms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

On July 28, 2020, before the start of fall extracurriculars, Andrews Independent School District held a town hall in the high school auditorium. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. When the schools shut down in March 2020, Andrews County was prepared to provide computers for all students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. Alongside four other school communities, it was selected because the majority of the district’s students returned to in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year — and under 5 percent of the student population was identified as a Covid-19 case.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2020

Hybrid Hopes It’s no surprise that the virtual classrooms college faculty devised on short notice have not always provided the highest quality learning experience. So residential college leaders are scurrying to figure out how to improve their remote offerings. We are staring at the hybridization of higher ed happening overnight.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

In 2020, Nidhi Hebbar, a former education lead at Apple who later studied racial bias in ed tech at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, co-founded the Ed Tech Equity Project. Hebbar said she’s seen racial biases in some of the personalized learning software available for schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Your stories.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2022

It was spring 2022 and we were completing our first full year of in-person learning since the start of the pandemic. Throughout 2020 and 2021, my students, colleagues and I were in and out of the building between virtual, hybrid and in-person learning because of closures and frequent quarantine periods.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2021

My friend’s son was wrestling with a modern college dilemma: Would it be better to take a prerequisite course online or attend the lectures in-person? His school had resumed in-person learning during the pandemic and so he had the option to take either version. Related: The online paradox at community colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? Sustaining lessons learned. This story also appeared in The Christian Science Monitor. Robinson says.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 14, 2022

Stay tuned at the end of the show to find out how to play and win up to $2,000 in prizes Vicki Davis, This is episode 770. How do we accelerate learning in the classroom, and is part two of our rebound series? We have another popular guest from the last year 2020. Episode 770 Show Notes. I refuse to watch it burn.

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The Principal of Change

JANUARY 19, 2021

In the article, “ The 6 Questions I Ask Before I Say ‘Yes’ to Anything “, tips are provided on how to filter out what to say yes to, as there is only so much energy any one person can expend: I began to think of myself every morning as a full cup of water (or cup of coffee, usually). It is almost a punishment for being reliable.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

The district closed schools in March 2020 but started the 2020-21 school year allowing students to attend one day a week before gradually increasing in-person attendance. By the end of the school year, students who did not opt for full-time virtual learning were attending on a normal schedule. on June 30, 2021.

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MindShift

AUGUST 31, 2021

According to the CDC , between March and May, 2020, hospitals across the country saw a 24% increase in the proportion of mental health emergency visits by kids aged 5 to 11 years old, and a 31% increase for kids 12 to 17. They are worried about socializing with their peers again and adapting to full-time in-person learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. They discuss topics such as bullying, toxic friendships and how to say sorry.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Children in early elementary school have had their most formative first few years of education disrupted by the pandemic, years when they learn basic math and reading skills and important social-emotional skills, like how to get along with peers and follow routines in a classroom. Heather Miller, first grade teacher. “So

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MindShift

MARCH 30, 2021

had been teaching remotely since March 2020. “An aspect for social and emotional learning that they really need to gain is how to share and how to collaborate,” she says. With this form of in-person learning, I don’t know that they’re getting a good education.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Despite high numbers of cases , the parish school board planned for in-person instruction for the 2020-2021 school year: All pre-K through sixth graders in person; seventh through 12th graders on staggered days. For weeks , the school board has been debating how to make up lost days. Morgan was nervous.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Then came 2021. “No The following pictures capture the tragedy and resilience that marked 2021. Sol Forest School students play a game that looks like follow-the-leader in February 2021. Eighteen-year-old Nyché Andrew sits with other members of the class of 2021 at her socially distanced, outdoor graduation in Anchorage.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s “Opening” series , we profiled five school communities that successfully reopened during the 2020-2021 school year. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. Andrews County also held a town hall for parent questions prior to the start of the 2020 school year.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

There were small challenges, like getting 2-year-old children to wear masks, or finding electrical outlets to accommodate all the laptops that the school-aged children in her care needed for remote learning. From December 2020 through May 2021, EdSurge followed seven early childhood educators from across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The district built up community trust and used a cautious, step-by-step reopening strategy to make it through the 2020-2021 school year with zero cases identified in school buildings. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. Precautions continue into fall 2021.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Not reading yet or knowing how to use a computer or mouse or knowing how to use a keyboard — everything takes longer and requires my help. She thinks they are doing everything they can to keep in-person learning safe. She wants to see districts bring kids to school next summer, if it’s safe, to stem learning loss.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2021

When sports practices were abruptly canceled at his school on March 12, 2020, Michael Liao, then 17, started to worry how much the pandemic would affect his school – and particularly his upcoming theater performance. The next morning, he woke to an email announcing that in-person classes would be canceled for the foreseeable future.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. She searched online, using phrases like “how to help grieving students” and cobbled together handouts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Related: How to build an engineer: Start young. In 2020, the C.E. 50 million — The price tag for a Center for Advanced Studies that will open in the Charleston County School District in South Carolina in 2021. In 2018, Congress passed a revamped version of the Carl D. Photo: Stephanie Strom for The Hechinger Report.

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