Teacher Reboot Camp

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Part of the December 2020 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! These tools allow multiple ways for all students to participate, are amazing assessment tools, and require no registration for students. These tools allow multiple ways for all students to participate, are amazing assessment tools, and require no registration for students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2021

As 2021 kicks off and we set our resolutions for the new year, we pledge our organizations’ continued efforts to respond to educators’ professional learning needs. For example, Gwinnett County Public Schools designed an online learning system (eCLASS) to support emergency online learning needs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2022

Data on how COVID-19 has impacted learner readiness comes out of the National Readiness Report , published by SmarterServices. The attributes and skills are measured by the SmarterMeasure Learning Readiness Indicator , which has been taken by over 6 million learners from over one thousand institutions.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Exposed now are deficiencies of utilizing online learning management systems that school districts face. Moreover, sending teachers into the workforce without adequate training is equivalent to sending doctors out to practice without learning to treat specific ailments. There should be a concerted effort to focus on this area.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

A version of this post was originally published on December 3rd, 2020, in Education IT Reporter. Hybrid (or blended) learning takes any classroom a step further towards the virtual learning environment while still allowing face-to-face interaction and communication, albeit less than in the regular classroom. Conclusion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

These reported downturns were not observed in terms of student problem-solving or thought processes, but on standardized test scores. But teachers were heroic during the pandemic, and data shows that students continued to strive toward meaningful learning, even with many forms of chaos erupting all around them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

At Brewbaker, which in 2020 served more than 700 students in pre-K through second grade, nearly 20 percent of her students are English learners and 71 percent are economically disadvantaged. In 2019, a year before Brown Wright was hired, less than 20 percent of students were proficient on the school’s reading assessments, the principal said.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Some school leaders have been turning to an innovative solution: allowing children at home to learn remotely along with their in-person classmates. It’s a professional assessment of a flawed model. This is not whining about working hard at all. It’s completely absurd.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Even as doors reopened to brick-and-mortar schools, administrators here saw the continued need for a virtual option in response to lingering concerns about Covid and to feedback from some parents that their children had thrived in online learning. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

One study by the assessment organization NWEA noted that the achievement of Hispanic students, who were already trailing white students academically by two or so years before the pandemic, dropped twice as much as for white students by spring of 2021. Now we have a new batch of studies analyzing how students did on fall 2021 assessments.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A sweeping new review of national test data suggests the pandemic-driven jump to online learning has had little impact on children’s reading growth and has only somewhat slowed gains in math. But the report also includes a worrying caveat: Many of the nation’s most vulnerable students are missing from the data.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. As parents fearful of coronavirus’s spread and frustrated with their schools’ forays into remote learning seek other options, they are increasingly turning to virtual for-profit charter schools like the one Nemergut chose.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

2020 and 2021 saw $190 billion in federal relief funds go to schools through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). According to a report from AASA, superintendents must collaborate with numerous stakeholders as they develop spending plans. But why aren’t schools spending the money?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

More than two-thirds of colleges saw additional students apply for academic accommodations during the spring 2020 semester, according to a national survey of 212 colleges that shifted to remote instruction because of the pandemic. There seems to be an environmental factor involved.”

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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. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In fact, most US colleges have chosen the hybrid learning model for the fall semester of 2020. According to the survey, this approach even outruns the remote learning. Unfortunately, teaching both in-class and online isn’t as easy as it seems. Still, the traditional teaching model will hardly be the same again.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

For the rest of her junior year and most of her senior year, she learned from a laptop in her family’s living room, with her younger sibling taking Zoom classes down the hall in their shared bedroom. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Erika Rich for The Hechinger Report. “It Their failure is my failure.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020. It’s a long road of recovery.” Your stories.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2012, the government of India stated that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding 50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population and workforce continued to grow. That meant using online learning to serve people who would otherwise have no access to higher education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade. Ancora High School is an online high school that offers a Texas high school diploma and is accredited by Cognia.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

The evidence that students learn better this way has not been strong and, instead, we’re reading reports that technology use at school sometimes hurts student achievement. Schools and teachers are pitched a “myriad of competing solutions,” some of which “promise great things but deliver little,” the report explains.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The six public schools in Brunswick operated on a hybrid schedule for most of the 2020-21 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. Students at B.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

But faced with the substitution of online kindergarten or, where school is offered in person, the risk that bigger school settings pose of contracting the coronavirus, a widespread number of parents chose something else, even if it meant paying for it. Related: What kids stand to lose if 2020 steals kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

And one of those stressors is trying to teach their kids: Almost three-fourths of adults with children recounted that managing online learning was a “significant source of stress.” Parents have reported high levels of stress, clinical anxiety and depression — all of which are associated with a higher child abuse potential.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. For the 2020-21 school year, enrollment was up to about 250 children, in pre-K-3 through fourth grade. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report. One task flowed directly into another. Then, in mid-June, it was over.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The McKinsey report said the lack of access, left unaddressed, can translate into bigger achievement gaps for these students, who as a group already have lower math scores than their white and Asian peers. Like many districts across the country, Howard County switched to virtual instruction in the spring of 2020. Read the series.

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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. This story about racial bias in edtech was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

As educational systems are rebuilt after the disruption of the global pandemic, a new relief fund is providing aid to districts to address trauma, learning acceleration, the digital divide, and much more. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5 and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

As educational systems are rebuilt after the disruption of the global pandemic, a new relief fund is providing aid to districts to address trauma, learning acceleration, the digital divide, and much more. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5 and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

The Los Angeles Unified School District, where Lola was enrolled, reported a 14 percent drop, a loss of nearly 6,000 students. The Los Angeles Unified School District reported a 14 percent drop in kindergarten enrollment for the 2020–21 school year, a loss of nearly 6,000 students. The post Remote learning a bust?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on?inequality Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report. During the pandemic, they regularly texted and spoke online with students and their families. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. the same thing, yet it is the basis for algorithmic assessment and feedback.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

After implementing the combination of the tiered placement and co-requisites, the system reported a 43 percent decrease in students enrolled in developmental English and a 32 percent decrease in students enrolled in developmental Math. percent in 2019-2020 according to ACCS data. percent in 2019-2020, according to ACCS data.

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