A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 21, 2021

I love visiting classrooms around the country to not only support but to see educators in action. During the spring of 2020, I connected with the Juab School District in Utah and began what would be two years of longitudinal work to help them take personalized learning to the next level. This has completely changed my classroom.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. We had growth data in every elementary school like we’ve never seen before. A reading program that everyone loves.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 20, 2020

Dig into teaching practices with Google Classroom From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Google Classroom is a tool that can help build relationships between students and teachers. But not everything is perfect. Join in today! Subscribe to the Show Get Credit!

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Waterford

MAY 12, 2020

And existing issues, such as a lack of educational technology in schools with low budgets, have only become more limiting during this time. For more in-depth information, check out our full Waterford.org Foundations and Grants Guide 2020. 12 of the Best School Grants in 2020 and How to Apply . You can download our guide here.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Students left their in-person classrooms in March of 2020 without realizing they’d soon be logging into virtual classrooms for the long haul. But it’s not entirely smooth sailing. This all begs the question: How has COVID permanently altered the future of learning?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Tech = technology; CTE = career and technical education; ESL = English as a second language. Nearly every district struggled to find high school math teachers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

Voice technology — especially the use of an AI bot that talks back to the learner — has injected reading practice with the kind of feedback that was only possible with one-on-one tutoring before. Between May and June of 2020, our students had collectively read 77,000 minutes on the Amira platform.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

On a typical day when I visit classrooms with principals in my partner districts across the country, both the building and district leaders receive a 1000-to-5000-word document laden with practical feedback. It warmed my heart when Amy Rhodes, the principal of Bevins Elementary, shared what she had recently implemented in regard to feedback.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Technology is developing at a faster clip than its adoption, and while some K–12 classrooms are innovating — by using drones in curriculum or digital tools to personalize learning — they remain isolated examples dotting an unequal landscape where, often, digitization is seen as an end in itself rather than a means to improve learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

DALLAS (August 18, 2022) – ActivePure , the world’s leader in air and surface purification technologies, is now available for educational institutions through special funding from the U.S. It’s our duty to provide them with safe indoor air so they can get back into the classroom and realize their full potential.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

CoderZ , an online learning environment where students learn robotics and STEM by coding virtual robots, has been named a 2020 Tech Edvocate Award winner in the Best Coding App or Tool category. A complete list of winners of the 2020 Tech Edvocate Awards can be found here.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

When students returned to the classroom after COVID-19 lockdowns, teachers found themselves in a triple role: instructor, mental health proctor and public health enforcer. There have been plenty of adjustments to the classroom due to continued health precautions, and that has meant differences in what school supplies are needed.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

23, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today released new research titled “Using Lexia Core5 Reading to Address Learning Loss and Accelerate Learning: Insights from a 2020-21 Nationwide Study.” BOSTON ( Sept. Over 40% of students who used Core5 exceeded their MAP Growth targets. About Lexia Learning.

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User Generated Education

JULY 31, 2023

Establish a learning community where all learners are seen as having value in our classroom Getting to Know Learners One of our primary goals at the beginning of the school year should be to get to know our students. 2009). ( Community Building in the Classroom ). This is important for several reasons. It is a Choice Board.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

It goes without saying that there has also been a significant uptick in the purposeful use of technology. Leaders had been broken up into four different cohorts (elementary, middle, high school, and district supervisors). As I immersed myself in the experience, it was like I was in the classroom myself.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Aaron Vazquez, 5, in his “classroom” on his first day of virtual kindergarten in Ft. million — pre-pandemic prediction for 2020-21 kindergarten enrollment. I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 18, 2020

In February, I had the opportunity to work with an incredible group of elementary educators from Nauset Schools on Cape Cod. Google Classroom, Seesaw). How can we as social detectives write a book that explains the social skills that are important for a successful classroom community? For the original post, click here.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Editor’s Note: This Q&A is part of a series featuring educators and technology experts from our 2020 K–12 IT Influencers list , weighing in on the innovations happening in their school community and in education at large during remote learning.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Editor’s Note: This Q&A is part of a series featuring educators and technology experts from our 2020 K–12 IT Influencers list , weighing in on the innovations happening in their school community and in education at large during remote learning.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

While some look to technology regulations to combat the scourge of fake news, the strongest defense may well be in building a citizenry with strong media literacy skills.[2] 2] Read on to learn how we got here, why it matters, and how teachers can build media literacy in the classroom. Media Literacy Week.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2020

Michael Drezek shares about Our Global Classroom and other ways we can collaborate (for free!) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Connect your classroom! The CITGO Fueling Education Student Challenge is for students in the US in grades 5-8 now through February 13, 2020. Join in today!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2019

WeGrow, the division of WeWork that operated a private elementary school, will close its doors after the current school year. A spokesperson for WeWork (officially called The We Company) said it “will continue to operate WeGrow through the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

I have been with the district for 20 years, though I didn’t become the superintendent until April 2020. I gave our technology department marching orders to get every student and every teacher on a Chromebook and trained in the Google Suite within two weeks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 14, 2021

This year’s is a fun “Remember When” edition which will feature 32 scenarios that we educators miss and don’t miss about classroom life before 2020. Things like “taking students on field trips vs. hosting classroom parties” or “fire drills derailing your lesson vs. a broken air conditioner.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

At a Dolton-Riverdale school board meeting in the spring, district leaders and two technology vendors pitched a $3.3 They told the board in the high-poverty district in Chicago’s south suburbs that the project would “future-proof the classroom” and “catapult Dolton into the next generation of learning technology.”

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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. 30 minutes per week — recommended time students spend on classroom-based Khan Academy tool.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

May you have a wonderful and rewarding 2020! Booking Info – Also, think about having me come to your school or conference event in 2020. Project Based Learning Gold… Over 86 Amazing Videos To Generate That New Project For A School Or Classroom – Michael Gorman (21centuryedtech.wordpress.com). Mike Gorman ( [link] ).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and that means educators across the globe are still finding inventive and innovative ways to support and teach students in classrooms, during hybrid instruction, and in virtual settings. Here, eSchool News highlights Nick Baskwill–one of its K-12 Hero Awards finalists.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Last summer, we, along with other members of the sixth grade teaching staff at our school, adopted the Modern Classrooms model. Similar to the flipped classroom, the model is an approach based on blended learning, self-paced instruction, and mastery-based grading. Here’s how we do this in our own sixth grade classrooms.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Now, Brown is a senior at Clemson, and next year, he’ll graduate and begin teaching in his own classroom. In our Future Teachers series, we meet people in teacher preparation programs who are on the cusp of entering the classroom, aware of the decline of the teaching profession and still unswayed. But I did enjoy teaching. Definitely.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 11, 2020

In today’s session, we interview Chris Anderson, an instructional technology coach and the executive producer of Science Around Cincy, a web series that features the scientists and engineers in the Cincinnati area. Recorded Tuesday, March 10, 2020.) Isn’t science supposed to be totally hands-on?

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Research conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has found that number could be reached by 2020. To facilitate increased focus from educators, the International Society for Technology in Education updated its standards for computer science curricula in July of this year, the first time since 2012, EdScoop reports.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

government are all trying to encourage more young Americans to pursue careers in STEM, an acronym for science, technology, engineering and mathematics. Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. These eighth graders were in sixth grade when the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2020

Today, Ryan Sheehy, principal and author of Be the One for Kids: You Have the Power to Change the Life of a Child , challenges us with stories, anecdotes, and timeless truths to “Be the One” for some of the children in your classrooms and schools. Sponsor: Discovery Education Today’s podcast is sponsored by Discovery Education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and that means educators across the globe are still finding inventive and innovative ways to support and teach students in classrooms, during hybrid instruction, and in virtual settings. Here, eSchool News highlights the San Diego Unified School District–one of its K-12 Hero Awards winners.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Since 2020, three things have become clearer than ever: Our students of color, English learners and students with disabilities have faced a disparate impact on their educational experience from COVID-19. The use of education technology continues to increase in classrooms across the country, presenting new opportunities to engage all learners.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and that means educators across the globe are still finding inventive and innovative ways to support and teach students in classrooms, during hybrid instruction, and in virtual settings. The district has collaborated with Tierney, which merged with Trox in May 2021, on technology needs for six years.

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