Graphite Blog

MARCH 19, 2020

If you've found yourself searching for quality, content-focused tools students can turn to at home, then we think the list below will help. These are all hand-picked tools we recommend for this unprecedented situation. Elementary Math and Science Khan Academy Kids. Elementary ELA and Social Studies Epic! Picture Dots.

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Graphite Blog

APRIL 13, 2020

With so many great edtech tools available, deciding which to use with your students can be a big task. One important question school administrators and educators ask when choosing new classroom technology is: How does this tool protect student privacy? But answering this question is the tricky part. Adobe Spark EDU. Khan Academy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2023

It can be a useful tool going forward,” says Robin Lake, director of the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), a research organization at Arizona State University. “It Yet anecdotally, and with some data on hand, it’s clear that not all districts have abandoned the skills they picked up in 2020.

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Hapara

OCTOBER 5, 2022

“One of the tools that supported Wolf Creek staff and students during the 2020-21 school year while they participated in hybrid learning both online and face to face was H?para In addition, teachers at WCPS have also created or modified courses in Workspace for elementary through high school learners.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2022

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) was approved in three packages in 2020 and 2021. Schools should also invest in analytics tools. There are few official guidelines on how the ESSER funding can be used, which has led to questions about how the dollars are being spent and accounted for.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While the mental health of students remains a top concern of many in the education field, federal data reveals that it’s not all bad news. Just as the scramble to spin up remote learning shined a light on school inequities in 2020, Gilmore says mental health resources — or the lack thereof — continues that now.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district.

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Waterford

MAY 12, 2020

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 . ILA Regie Routman Teacher Recognition Grant : This grant provides elementary or middle school teachers who are actively working to enrich or improve their classroom with $2,500.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

As most school systems have learned by now, assessing learning in a pandemic comes with all sorts of challenges, including but not limited to how (and where) to assess students and whether the data being gathered is even accurate. Here’s how we made key decisions about assessments and what to do with the data we gathered.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

A health crisis running headlong into an education crisis: Welcome to the 2020-2021 school year. Predictive data indicated a detrimental learning loss for our students. Thirty additional school days have been added to the elementary school calendar to provide more effective time with our youngest learners.

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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. This story also appeared in COVID-19 Data Dispatch. P.S. 705 is the subject of the final profile in the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s “Opening” series. Extensive parent communication.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

The data we currently have omits vast numbers of low-income children, who have been the hardest hit by the disruption. None of the currently available data is nationally representative. NWEA documented that student achievement generally improved during the school year of 2020-21 but at a slower rate.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As a result, the district’s 1,900 elementary students will return later this summer to classrooms outfitted with multiple touch screens, motion-tracking cameras, and microphones — part of an uncommon plan to embrace hybrid learning. But, he added, “Technology is just a tool. The board approved the deal 4-2.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

In 2020, an estimated 19.5 Nearpod offers some of its content and tools for free and sells licenses to individual teachers, schools and districts. The size of this acquisition dwarfs that of a similar one last year: Discovery Education’s $140-million purchase of Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Students who have learning disabilities can be more comfortable using technology tools than their classmates as they often already rely on digital aides for their everyday learning, says Stephanie Del Tufo, an assistant professor specializing in literacy education at the University of Delaware. Don’t Pitch Them Right Now.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

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. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Thoughtless expansion of tech tools into the classroom can exacerbate the discrimination Black and Hispanic students already face, experts warn. In other fields, the risks of racially biased tech tools are becoming relatively well known. Take facial recognition technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. In early 2020, at an academic conference just before the pandemic hit, Powell commiserated with other experts in special education and students who struggle in math. Sometimes, it’s a simple question.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data.

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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. It’s not like you can just drop the tool in and the flowers will bloom and the birds will chirp.”

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

There is nothing black-and-white about how to best support our students and families,” said Dr. Barbara Adams, principal at Findley Elementary School in Des Moines, IA. On Thursday, Piia Pehap, one of MIND’s Education Success Managers, got the honor of joining a session with several first graders from South Clearfield Elementary in Utah.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. Among low-income students it’s worse. Only one in five students is reading at grade level.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2023

In 2016, district educators selected Mystery Science to support hands-on elementary science instruction and foster within each student a love of science. In reviewing the data for this digital service, we found that Mystery Science is popular with teachers,” said Geneva CUSD 304’s Learning & Teaching Facilitator Jill Marsh.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Kathy Neumann’s third graders at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, struggled to understand fractions during this pandemic-disrupted school year. I’ve seen a difference this year without using our hands-on tools. John SanGiovanni, coordinator of elementary mathematics, Howard County, Md.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Related: Special education’s hidden racial gap Nationwide, roughly 1 in 10 students who qualify for special education also identify as English learners, according to federal education data, and that share is growing. About 791,000 English learners participated in special education in 2020, a jump of nearly 30 percent since 2012.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

BOSTON (June 8, 2021) – Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that Florida’s Commissioner of Education has approved Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) as curriculum in elementary intervention courses. K-12 English language arts materials were the focus of the 2020-2021 year. About Cambium Learning Group, Inc.

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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. As the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Combine that with some of the dislocations triggered by COVID and students could be in for some radical changes in the tools that help them learn. That cash, combined with what observers have estimated was $800 million in revenue in 2020, has been fueling its growth spurt. elementary schools have signed up for accounts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Investors take note: Business intelligence that relies on a district’s budget and fiscal data will become a fast-growing K-12 market in the next five years. The data are now being gathered and they need to be ready for publication on the 2019-2020 state and district report cards. That’s soon to change.

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NeverEndingSearch

JANUARY 13, 2021

And I had data to prove my impact–local and well beyond. High School Crediting Sources Administrators Research Tools Librarians Book Awards & Lists Elementary Home Middle School Newsroom. Tabor Elementary School bmraff33@gmail.com Steve Tetreault, KnowledgeQuest blogger, William R. We welcome your suggestions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

In April 2020, her company, AllHere, launched several new features to battle problems exacerbated by Covid-19, including an Artificial Intelligence-powered two-way text messaging system, Chatbot, for kids who weren’t showing up to class regularly. AllHere isn’t the only AI-powered technology startup that expanded last year.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Cassie Creswell of the nonprofit Illinois Families for Public Schools says surveying students online could undermine the district’s most important tool for getting information that helps avert violence. In 2020, Chicago Public Schools won a $750,000 grant from the U.S. New social media program draws on pilot’s lessons.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. In addition, many of the district’s elementary schools used Title 1 funds to purchase 1:1 devices for students as young as kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Only 53 percent of teacher education programs “provide sufficient coverage of early reading components,” the National Council on Teacher Quality found in their 2020 review of elementary teacher training programs. Related: Retraining an entire states’ elementary teachers in the science of reading.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

” Maryland’s state education agency said only that it makes annual data available for school districts to analyze. Experience and training can provide teachers with tools to address student conduct without suspensions. Read about the internship fund created to honor his legacy as a data reporter.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

A year ago, I wrote “ The Next Pandemic: Mental Health ” for National Mental Health Month, published in May 2020 in EdSurge. Creativity, persuasion, collaboration, adaptability and emotional intelligence are the most-in-demand skills today, according to LinkedIn’s 2020 employer survey. It is now time to update this piece for 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2020

As the start of the 2020-21 school year approaches, states and school districts are wrestling with decisions about when, how and whether school will take place inside brick-and-mortar classrooms. No matter the Day One plans in your local area this fall, every school district must be ready for partially or fully remote school days.

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