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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User Generated Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

This isolation is not only creating a deterioration in social skills, but also, when children are asked these days about how they feel, the most common answers received are ‘bored’ and ‘lonely’ ( How the pandemic is affecting children’s social skills ). Research indicates that there is power in using board games in the classroom.

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User Generated Education

JULY 31, 2023

Too many classes, all grade levels, begin the school year with getting down to academic business – starting to cover content, discussing expectations regarding academic requirements, giving tests, and other academic information provided by the teacher to the students in a mostly one-way communication.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

A recent report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) identified five key roadblocks for K–12 schools’ digital transformation in 2020. This continuous updating of skills will also address another key hurdle: how to align what students learn with new technologies that will shape the future of the workplace.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Then, in March 2020, Araujo was at a meeting with other local child care owners when she heard about a program that could give her access to federal Early Head Start funds. Araujo’s salary has nearly doubled since she joined the federally-funded Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program in 2020.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

million children who entered kindergarten in the fall of 2020, and as a result of the timing of the COVID-19 pandemic, started her public school career remotely. It’s Time for All Schools to Learn How to Support Neurodivergence At the start of this school year, there were about 7.3 Our daughter was one of 3.7

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2020

percent for fall 2020 over fall 2019, according to federal data — OTC says it had a 14 percent rise last summer and only a 2 percent drop this fall. Ayers and rootEd are demonstrating how barriers to higher education can be overcome with effective personalized guidance. The post How to raise rural enrollment in higher education?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Now, in 2020, as educators struggle to cope with the pandemic that forced K-12 schools to deliver instruction online, we should, like the leaders in New Orleans, take this tragic opportunity to think entrepreneurially about reopening public schools. Organizational change in education is often preceded by an action forcing event.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Our youngest learners will need some help and guidance, especially if their elementary schools have not been 1:1 or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Zywicki (@ZywickiR) March 16, 2020 Suggest lots of independent reading. Determine how feedback will be given once school reopens. You really can’t go wrong here.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

However, before the courts resolved that legal question, the litigants settled the case in 2020. The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Lewis recently presented a webinar on how to partner with a high-dosage tutoring provider to launch an effective summer school program. Demand for high-dosage tutoring is growing among students in all grades at Gadsden ISD, led by elementary-age students, who are reaping the benefits of one-on-one and small-group tutoring.

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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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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. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? In December 2020, she invited dozens of like-minded education researchers to the first science of math Zoom meeting.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

A 2019 study of texting and providing other information to almost 800,000 low- and middle-income students who scored in the top 50 percent on the PSAT and the SAT found no change in the types of colleges that students enrolled in. In a November 2020 study, he argued that they’re ultimately more cost effective. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

Some relief came in 2020 through the CARES Act with an initial $13 billion allotment to K-12 schools. A new funding package from the federal government in December 2020 dedicated an additional $54.3 The need for new K-12 classroom technology has never been greater. billion to public schools, with a wide range of permissible uses.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

28040, October 2020. Student achievement at 80 schools in low-income areas that provided parents with information on how to support their children’s education was no better than at schools that didn’t run a parent-engagement program, according to a November 2020 analysis by four U.S. based economists.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 15, 2020

Working Remotely with My Gifted Elementary Students. Writing Children’s Book Narrative – Prior to the school closing, my learners spent quite a bit of time learning how to write a children’s book using a Dr. Seuss type of writing style (yes, I know he is controversial but I like his writing style).

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

If possible, teachers and professors should use multiple modes of conveying information (video, audio, text slides, etc.) Institutional offices of disability services, academic accommodations, and equality and diversity should be contacting instructors with reminders and information, Del Tufo says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

On July 28, 2020, before the start of fall extracurriculars, Andrews Independent School District held a town hall in the high school auditorium. The school district prioritized personal responsibility, giving families information to make individual choices about their children’s safety. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You can’t see that in most places,” said Daniel Kreisman, an economics professor at Georgia State University who helped launch an effort to inform CTE policymakers by compiling data and producing research. Put to better use, data showing how CTE graduates fare in the labor market could provide valuable insights , advocates say.

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 24, 2020

On April 23, 2020, the U.S. Signed into law on March 27, 2020, the CARES Act includes four grants and funds that are allocated for different education-related purposes. Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund , or ESSERF, $13.2 Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. How Long Will it Take?

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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. While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We

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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. Related: How to boost math skills in the early grades. Like many districts across the country, Howard County switched to virtual instruction in the spring of 2020.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. Most teachers simply don’t know how to teach online.

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As the nation bid farewell to 2020, Congress passed CRRSA , the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act , which includes some $54 billion dollars in relief funds for K-12 education, with an additional $4 billion in a discretionary fund for governors’ use. For more information, here are the GEER II state allocations.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

Head to Lumio for more information and to sign up for FREE. She served on the leadership team for the EdTech Coaches Network of ISTE from 2015-2020, was a Future Ready Schools Instructional Coaches Thought Leader from 2017-2020, is a cohost of the Restart Recharge Podcast for coaches, and is a Google Certified Innovator, Coach, and Trainer.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

Charlotte, NC — New Mexico’s Aztec Municipal School District (AMSD) today announced the renewal of its multiyear partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in three district elementary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

There’s also no information on the achievement of high school students, who are at risk of dropping out of the education system. Students primarily learn math at school but once they learn how to read, they can read at home and improve their comprehension skills independently. A first grader might need more help with reading.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

A recent report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) identified five key roadblocks for K–12 schools’ digital transformation in 2020. This continuous updating of skills will also address another key hurdle: how to align what students learn with new technologies that will shape the future of the workplace.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

A recent report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) identified five key roadblocks for K–12 schools’ digital transformation in 2020. This continuous updating of skills will also address another key hurdle: how to align what students learn with new technologies that will shape the future of the workplace.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. Alongside four other school communities, it was selected because the majority of the district’s students returned to in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year — and under 5 percent of the student population was identified as a Covid-19 case.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

In the winter of 2019, a group of college faculty members, education consultants and government employees from the Department of Education and the National Security Agency were discussing how to address a talent gap in cybersecurity — there were more 300,000 job openings in the growing sector and no one qualified to fill them.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Blockchain technology records information in decentralized digital ledgers that enable swift, transparent transactions. That will inform the creation of a rubric that the steering committee will use to evaluate pilot projects during the funding competition, which should launch in summer 2020.

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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. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. BROOKLYN, NY—On the morning of Aug. According to the CDC, about 5 percent of school-aged children in the U.S.

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