The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Leaders in both the private and public sectors recognize the need for a diverse group of scientists, technologists and engineers to create solutions informed by different perspectives that resonate with all of society. A May 2020 report by the Southern Regional Education Board promotes three key solutions. This story about U.S.

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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. I have done small group instruction for years.

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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 recently implemented a re-rollout of small group guided reading instruction, but it was showing limited results.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). Writing-to-learn activities incorporated in math, science, and social science improved the quality of learning in those subjects (Graham, Kiuhara & MacKay, 2020). Kiuhara, S.

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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). During a previous session, I assigned each leader some meaningful homework, which consisted of bringing an artifact to share with the group that showed growth in the area.

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Waterford

JANUARY 19, 2021

In 1926, the group “Study of African American Life and History” sponsored a week in February (chosen because Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln’s birthdays were that week) for a celebration. This page has hunts broken down by grade level for elementary, middle, and high school students. January 2020. January 2020.

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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. Regular reading class was untouched in the experiment.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

Here’s a forecast from several education officials along with my colleagues at Entangled Group, an education venture studio and consulting firm. Secondary teacher positions are harder to fill than elementary ones; as are science and math openings. What exactly will happen is hard to divine.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

My heart raced because that is precisely what I have been trying to do with a group I started at my high school in Maryland. In 2020, I started a chapter of Kids Are Scientists Too ( KAST-WJ ). Our goal is to increase young kids’ interest in STEM by conducting monthly science experiments at local elementary schools.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2021

With 640 students in grades K-4, our Mississippi elementary school serves a diverse population. In 2020, we were at a point with the third-grade reading test where we weren’t as prepared as we should have been. We’ve had our online literacy platform in place since January 2020 and have seen significant benefits since then.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

public school students in grades 3-8 between fall 2020 and spring 2021 and found: On average, students across most grades and subject areas made learning gains in 2020-21, but at a lower rate compared to pre-pandemic trends. 2020-21 outcomes were lower relative to historic trends. million U.S.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. Related: New research shows Latinos closing the racial gap on college degrees, but still lagging far behind whites.

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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. Fast forward 10 years, and now thousands of scholars in our district are learning to code in elementary school using engaging, hands-on tools like Ozobots , Lego Spike , and VR Labs–and that’s just where their tech journeys begin.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And the group found that in the fall of 2020-21, 20 percent of undergraduate teacher-education programs had seen enrollment drops of 11 percent or more because of the pandemic. Such outreach might be especially important to draw teachers from groups that are underrepresented in teaching. “As

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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. Like many districts across the country, Howard County switched to virtual instruction in the spring of 2020. Credit: Courtesy of JOHN SANGIOVANNI.

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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. During the pandemic, these challenges have been exacerbated.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. In mid-March 2020, schools in Lindsay Unified shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Waterford

APRIL 23, 2021

1] Children may play independently or in a group, but the key is that they decide the rules and focus. 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. Why Is Play Important? Child-Directed Play.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020. For instance, we just know that students spend their days in groups of about 25: not 5, not 50. At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

An analysis by the consulting firm McKinsey found that at the end of the 2020-21 school year, elementary-aged students were months behind where students of like age had been before the pandemic — an average of four months further behind in reading and five months in math.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s the little things, like crayons, says Christine Slayton, a bilingual first grade teacher at Frank Del Olmo Elementary School in Los Angeles. But the biggest change was in food, clothing and hygiene requests, which DonorsChoose groups with social and emotional learning. No more sharing Crayolas—or markers or playdough.

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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.” Our study provides some indication of the groups.”. This 2020 review of the research confirms that.

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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. Sometimes, their lack of confidence is why they go into early ed in the first place.

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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. Out on Capitol Hill, she warned, the feds are “itching to take this money away from us.”

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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. Rebus Puzzles.

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Examples Groups Google Outcomes 435

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

Markus Ceniceros, a high school senior who was recently elected to the Littleton Elementary School District Governing Board, west of Phoenix, Arizona As a board member he worked to keep focus on the new climate plan, helping the district get funding to convert to electric school buses. The difference is you have a vote.”

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The annual rate of teacher attrition rose 20 percent from 2019-2020, at least in part impacted by the burden of the COVID-19 pandemic. After dipping a bit from 2020-2021, attrition rose 17 percent from 2021 to 2022 and is on track to outpace pre-pandemic monthly averages. Recent research shows that nearly one-third of U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. MORGAN CITY, La.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Student failures during the 2020-21 school year prompted three districts in the study to abandon the dual approach and split into separate in-person only and remote only classes. . When the pandemic first hit in March 2020, Bartlett wanted to document the lives of teachers. The teachers worked in elementary, middle and high schools.

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Personalized Learning Study Laptops Learning 137

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In math, all groups of students deteriorated. Based on a sample of more than 7,000 9-year-olds around the country, two decades of academic progress in reading and math were erased from 2020 to 2022. But it is troubling that the lowest achieving students in our schools lost the most ground between 2020 and 2022. 1, the U.S.

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Report Trends Assessment Elementary 91

The Thinking Stick

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They emphasize the importance of teacher voice and perspective, as well as the need for a blended research approach using surveys, interviews, and focus groups. A blended research approach, including surveys, interviews, and focus groups, provides a comprehensive understanding of the education landscape.

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Survey Policies Elementary Groups 48

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Our districts, Imagine Schools and Carbondale Elementary School District #95 (CES), might not seem to have much in common at first glance. For a definitive answer to this question, Bill Younkin of the Biscayne Research Group performed some research for us comparing our in-person and remote assessments from the 2019–2020 school year.

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Assessment Data Elementary Groups 156

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. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. After children learn to read, they read to learn. It also matters to society as a whole.

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