The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

An example we are living with is the change in understanding of how the coronavirus is spread. A May 2020 report by the Southern Regional Education Board promotes three key solutions. Early in the pandemic, we did not know if it lived on surfaces, so we wiped down our groceries. This story about U.S.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

I ran for the Littleton Elementary School District governing board while I was 17, and was elected while finishing out my senior year of high school. Armando Montero, an advocate for mental health, began running for the Tempe Union High School District Governing Board in Arizona when he was still in high school and was elected in 2020.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Leaders had been broken up into four different cohorts (elementary, middle, high school, and district supervisors). In particular, those who oversee Pre-K teaching and learning shared as a team with concrete examples. I was blown away and feel that this is the best example of a remote learning environment that I have seen in the field.

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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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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 13, 2021

With 2020 safely in our rearview mirror, we wanted to take a minute to recap all of the exciting news and events from the final quarter of one of the most memorable years in our lifetimes. Our partnership with LAUSD began over 20 years ago when 95th Elementary School implemented ST Math. Welcome to the MIND Blog Rewind!

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Now, thanks to an app that McElwain Elementary, her Adams 12 school, started using this year, she’s found opportunities to engage in new ways with her youngest child’s education. Kayli Brooks, a teacher at Tollgate Elementary in Aurora, uses the app Talking Points, which also allows her to text parents. She’s tried to stay engaged.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The development of this skill is closely linked with other instructional strands for literacy.For example, phonological awareness skills and phonics skills support students’ ability to decode words and to eventually recognize a large bank of words with automaticity. 4 Free Downloadable Chapter Books for Elementary Students. Kendeou, P.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

In 2020, the DOE introduced the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, a signature part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) to help schools improve indoor air quality (IAQ) and return their students back to the classroom. Department of Education (DOE). Studies have shown ActivePure to be over 99.9%

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2019, a group of researchers, led by James Kim, a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, randomly selected 15 of the district’s 30 elementary schools to teach first graders special knowledge-building lessons for three years, through third grade. Students were also given related books to read during the summer.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

As creators of our shared future, today’s students must consider real-world examples of ethical dilemmas and imagine pathways to better outcomes. As creators of our shared future, today’s students must consider real-world examples of ethical dilemmas and imagine pathways to better outcomes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

These screening tools, often referred to as universal mental health screeners, are not in the purview of most school administrators; however, when they become aware of these types of tools, most express strong interest in their own school using one (Wood & McDaniel, 2020). Research in Higher Education , 48, 803-839. Juechter, J.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. Starting in 2020, the federal government sent schools more than $200 billion in pandemic recovery funds.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

If correct, this means that one out of every three public school children was chronically absent during the second full school year of the pandemic, when most children were learning in person and should have been catching up from the disrupted year of 2020 and the first half of 2021. Before the pandemic, only about 16 percent of U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 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. At the beginning of the 2020-2021 school year, Nick ran a pilot with Unruly Splats, a STEM learning tool that combines learning to code with active play.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year. After the Act’s passage, Mississippi aligned with the science of reading.

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Waterford

APRIL 23, 2021

15] Physical activity, for example, leads to stronger brain function and ultimately gets children in a better mindset to learn.[14]. Whether you’re a preschool or elementary school teacher, you’re sure to find the ideas you need to help your students learn through play. January 2020. September 2020. Child-Directed Play.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Those are just some examples of inclusive activities and party games for children. Guidance on Constitutionally Protected Prayer and Religious Expression in Public Elementary and Secondary Schools.” January, 2020. Incorporate holiday traditions into geography and history lessons. Department of Education. Anti Defamation League.

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Waterford

MAY 12, 2020

For more in-depth information, check out our full Waterford.org Foundations and Grants Guide 2020. Some, for example, only require an application, while others need a grant proposal or proof of financial need. 12 of the Best School Grants in 2020 and How to Apply . You can download our guide here.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For example: Micro-credentials were the catalyst for 18 elementary school educators who collaborated to create a school-based program that promoted families as partners in education. Many changes have occurred during 2020, but not all have been negative. Educators across Clark County have rediscovered the art of teaching.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

We know many districts wanted to use ESSER funds to hire more staff, but workforce shortages prevented them from doing so,” Vaillancourt Strobach says, referring to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. The deadline to spend pandemic relief funds has indeed started the countdown to the end of some school-based services.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For example: The school has on-campus showers, food pantries, licensed clinicians and social programs. A 2020 report for the U.S. Senate found that Monarch School’s students had poor reading and math skills when compared to public schools in the San Diego area, especially for elementary students.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

In Chicago, for example, the school district and teachers are in a standoff over how to reopen schools for the 70,000 elementary school students the district says it plans to bring back. The sticking points, according to WBEZ , include finding a public health metric that would trigger a return to all-remote learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

Below are some noteworthy examples of the partnerships that VHS Learning has forged over the years: National and International Partnerships. As part of VHS Learning’s ongoing commitment to the CSforALL movement, the nonprofit partnered with the National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) in 2020.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 24, 2020

I, like many of you, have been doing remote teaching since March, 2020. In normal times when students come to my classroom (I provide pull-out services for gifted elementary level kids), I get them doing hands-on activities within minutes of entering into my classroom. I am a student-centric, hands on/minds on teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Children in kindergarten when the pandemic broke out in the spring of 2020 are now roughly eight years old and in third grade this 2022-23 school year. Learning to read well in elementary school matters. The early elementary years are critical because that’s when most children learn how to read words, what educators call “decoding.”

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Waterford

OCTOBER 22, 2020

An example of intrinsic motivation is a student learning new vocabulary words because they love to read. An example of extrinsic motivation is a student who is studying so their parents will not ground them for poor grades. If you’re holding a reading contest, for example, you could make the prize a book of the child’s choice.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

CHICAGO — In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. They built large 10-sided shapes out of colorful blocks.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s important for teachers to find ways to teach social-emotional learning and character development to help their students build the skills necessary to process the events of 2020 and to persevere and succeed in (for many students) a distance learning or hybrid environment. Dual immersion in elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to students at more than 700 high schools across 15 states also failed to improve the number of students who applied or enrolled in college, according to a 2020 study. There are examples of successful text nudges that weren’t personalized and didn’t allow for replies. Check your email for info about additional steps. (2/2)

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

Edition” features 32 scenarios that educators both miss and don’t miss about classroom life before 2020. For example, things like “taking students on field trips vs. hosting classroom parties” or “fire drills derailing your lesson vs. a broken air conditioner.” Currently, this year’s “Remember When.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2023

Hawaii experienced a spike in retirements during the 2020-21 school year. And a recent Louisiana Educator Workforce Snapshot revealed that 26 percent of teachers who left their jobs in the 2020-2021 academic year had 21 or more years of experience. In the 2020-21 school year: 12.4 And what can schools change to get them to stay?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Spanish was the most-reported home language among English learners in 2020, followed by Arabic. For example, Boston Public Schools has been under a court order since 1994 to direct a more equitable share of federal funding to multilingual learners. These students made up 10.3

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. In high school, I participated in Teacher Cadets , a program that allows high school students to explore the education field as a possible career, in part by having them go into local elementary and middle schools and by serving and observing in the field.

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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. For example, research by McKinsey & Company found that Black and Hispanic students are less likely to have access to technology. Credit: Courtesy of JOHN SANGIOVANNI.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Even before the coronavirus pandemic hit, teens were spending an average of seven hours a day on their phones, as the journalist Paul Greenberg points out in his 2020 book, “ Goodbye Phone, Hello World.” For example, a 2019 study found that social media use doesn’t harm adolescent well-being. Some racked up considerably more hours.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 21, 2021

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. Little did I know that my visit to Red Cliffs Elementary was going to blow my socks off. The pandemic derailed our planned first face-to-face day.

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