A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

One of the key points I tried to make was how important it is to do the same with teachers. It warmed my heart when Amy Rhodes, the principal of Bevins Elementary, shared what she had recently implemented in regard to feedback. When our school closed in March of 2020, we were not prepared for virtual learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Not reading yet or knowing how to use a computer or mouse or knowing how to use a keyboard — everything takes longer and requires my help. million — pre-pandemic prediction for 2020-21 kindergarten enrollment. Teddy Brown, 5, lives a five-minute walk from his local elementary school in Columbia, South Carolina.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 3, 2021

She shares the WHO system for evaluating technology, tips for hybrid learning, and timeless principles for considering digital equity and relating to your students and colleagues in professional and respectful ways. 5 practical lessons for elementary classroom inclusion. Digital Equity: How to Understand The Problems Facing #Edtech.

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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. Interested in learning more about project-based learning (PBL) and how to implement PBL in blended and remote learning environments? For the original post, click here. Google Classroom, Seesaw).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

His job title may exist in many districts, but not many school officials with that title spend their days as he does: focused on how to help his district innovate and prepare for a multitude of unknowns, including disaster. That’s how it’s worked in Rowan-Salisbury. The district is continuing in-person instruction, for now.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Called an early warning system, tracking student data this way has become common at schools around the country. The district’s schools had re-opened in the fall of 2020 and were operating fully in person, but students could opt for remote learning upon request. The early warning system color coded each student for absences.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina literally washed away the New Orleans public school system. 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.

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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

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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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

As school districts continue to make and revise plans to open the 2020–2021 school year, many are considering adopting blended or hybrid learning-based schedules. They found three focus themes for school systems to consider in the upended COVID-19 environment: well-being, engagement, and feedback.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2024

In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. In summer 2020, EdSurge profiled nine first-year teachers to understand what it was like for them to launch their careers during the pandemic year (2019-20). Read the original story, from August 2020, here.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

That’s because Louisiana, like many states, lacks a system for tracking students once they enter the workforce. That’s about what we can do right now because we don’t have the tracking system,” she said. Without one, “How accurately can we see if these programs are truly leading to viable careers?”

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed the CARES and ARP Acts, which created and added to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Program ( ESSER ). Districts should start with evidence-based assessment on their most effective systems and programs.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil. school system. percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data. She knows how to spell her name,” Engram said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. It’s been up and down, too, for many others involved with Cleveland’s school system, who are on edge about what comes next. Related: How to make Cleveland ‘great again’?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

But in 2020, when a growing number of children stopped showing up for schooltime classes during the pandemic, ourBRIDGE decided to expand its focus. Before 2020, the school attendance rate for English language learners across the country was high. In many schools, these students were more likely to show up to class than other groups.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Yorkwood Elementary in Baltimore, before it finally got air conditioning last year, was subject to closure by the district on any day the forecast hit 90 degrees by 10 a.m. Six years ago, 75 out of its 140 school buildings, including Yorkwood Elementary, lacked air conditioning.

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. Between 2020 and 2021, Congress passed three stimulus bills that provided almost $190.5 Districts and schools may be wondering how to best use these funds.

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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. How could school work if teachers only taught 4 days out of a 5 day school week? At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation. And for good reason.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Although educators are trying to keep schools open during the pandemic, they still have to figure out how to educate children quarantining at home. 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. .

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 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. Nearly 5,800 students attend classes at one of the district’s eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and high school.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Chris Chappotin has been serving as Assistant Superintendent for Boyd ISD in Boyd, TX since January 2020. Norwood Elementary School. Chris is passionate about leading empowerment organizations, designing innovative instructional systems, and accomplishing both in the context of meaningful, team-oriented relationships.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Joanna Smith, founder of an ed-tech company that helps schools curb chronic absenteeism, was thinking about how to pivot her company to provide services in a remote learning setting as many brick and mortar schools transitioned online last year. The assembled group also discussed various new design concepts for how to apply AI in education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. In the meantime, districts are figuring out how to serve this new, and quite different, age group without a unifying roadmap. But do principals know how to support them?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 4, 2021

Benefits of outdoor learning: A new study released a few months ago from Finland shows that kids who go to forest daycares (or outdoor daycares) have improved immune systems, with increased T-cells and other important immune markers in their blood in just within 28 days. Recap/Big Ideas.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 26, 2020

This book is a MUST read for anyone who’s curious about how to create systemic change or how to improve our daily lives through pro-active problem-solving. If you loved EP192 on reimagining schools and want more inspiration for how to move forward, I think you’ll find this episode fascinating.

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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. Also, all AMSD educators enjoy access to the Discovery Educator Network.

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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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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. Repairing school facilities, especially HVAC systems.

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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. COVID-19 stats for Brooklyn Arts & Science Elementary School (P.S. BROOKLYN, NY—On the morning of Aug.

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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 10, 2023

Caitlin Mercado works with her second-grade students at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland. Caitlin Mercado teaches her second-grade students with the help of a document camera at Ritchie Park Elementary School in Rockville, Maryland.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

In the research literature, the tutors are specially trained and coached and adhere to a detailed curriculum with clear steps on how to work with one or two students at a time. This double-dosing strategy has spread rapidly at community colleges but hasn’t been studied as much in elementary, middle or high schools.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The endeavor will support research about blockchain systems and fund a competition to select experiments testing ways to apply the technology in education. 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 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. SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. When the schools shut down in March 2020, Andrews County was prepared to provide computers for all students.

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