The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Emily Herring became Fairfield City School’s mental health services coordinator in 2020. Someone who is focused on customizing and coordinating supports to better meet students’ evolving needs is an important function,” said Robert Balfanz, director of the Everyone Graduates Center for Johns Hopkins University’s School of Education.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

McGrath is a K-5 ELL teacher at West View Elementary School, a small inner-city school in Knoxville, Tennessee, and Valdez is a kindergarten teacher at Minnie Mars Jamieson Elementary at Chicago Public Schools. We have these meetings during each grading period throughout the year. Stephanie Holcombe, an ELL teacher at Henry C.

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Elementary Education Differentiated Instruction Outcomes 61

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2019

As part of the Reinvent the Classroom initiative, a collaboration between Digital Promise, HP, Microsoft, and Intel, Digital Promise is supporting innovative elementary and secondary school teachers through the HP Teaching Fellows. Apply to be a part of the 2020 HP Teaching Fellows here. Applications close December 15, 2019.

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Learning Strategy Guidelines Secondary 196

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Practical Steps: Attend workshops, read diverse authors , or consult with experts in the field to ensure that you understand the complexities of race and can present them in an age-appropriate manner. Example: Have regular classroom meetings to discuss current events related to race, diversity, and inclusion. link] Buchanan, L.

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Strategy Examples Elementary Classroom 98

edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

In-person, online, or a hybrid classroom for the 2020-21 school year, there’s no one right way to teach science. Especially in elementary classrooms, make sure you are complying with all recommended methods for safe storage. What do I do for elementary school kids? By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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STEM Outcomes Data Elementary 71

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

The study could be seen as evidence against remedial education, but it could equally be seen as evidence for letting college students meet their math requirements without taking algebra. The confusion stems from the study design.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

Over 40 STEAM Resources… Creative Thinking, STEM, and PBL at FETC 2020. I am excited to see what message Pink has in a Keynote on Motivation and Leadership at FETC 2020. NPR Where Science Meets Art – Some exceptional Podcasts integrating Science and Art. Now… let’s turn on that right brain and get creative!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

But between the start of the pandemic and December 2020, up to 12% of K-12 public school students gained internet connectivity who lacked it previously, and a similar share of students got access to digital devices, estimates Titilayo Tinubu Ali, senior director of research and policy at the Southern Education Foundation.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 141

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

We could neither travel nor meet in person. They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Yet, amid tragedy and loss, our students showed up to our weekly online classes to workshop story angles and share ideas. Still, we were taking a risk.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2020

We are excited for a week of workshops and virtual performances! — The Academy Acting Company (@AcademyActingCo) June 23, 2020. Students in the musical theater workshop will also get a chance to work with more guest faculty through Zoom than had they met in person.

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Training Guidelines Groups Meeting 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The council’s two student directors serve on the Oakland Board of Education in an advisory capacity and regularly meet with their adult counterparts. But it wasn’t until the virtual workshop that she learned how to talk to others about the benefits of voting. After the event, she decided to broach the topic with her mother. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

By 2020, two-thirds of all jobs will require postsecondary education , according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. Counselors routinely invite parents to Spanish-language workshops on college applications and financing. “You can’t just put together a program and expect parents to show up.

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Groups Advocacy Report Study 99

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

My mother connected me to Teresa Mendez, whom she met when their youngest daughters attended the local elementary school. Mendez eventually found work at a furniture workshop, where she works today. Despite having a full-time job at the workshop, Mendez agreed to care for her grandchildren. Mendez opened the workshop at 9 a.m.,

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Resources Industry Elementary System 159

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Whether it was participating in device-day pickup or hosting and coordinating meet-the-teacher drive-throughs, the entire district staff stepped up to provide for nearly 61,000 students. Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation. As a result, Alexander has seen significant growth in her students.

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Education Learning EdTech Data 121

edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary School District 97, IL, explained, this isn’t about deciding what technology a district uses. And so the one-and-done workshop can be great for sparking an idea, but to think we’re going to bring about real classroom change with a one-day workshop, it isn’t really going to happen.”.

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Libraries Elementary Accessibility BYOD 41

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. He proposed a Venn diagram: Giftedness is where creativity, above-average ability and commitment to completing a task meet. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report.

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Education Elementary Report Data 145

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

Here are some ideas that seem newly relevant given the constraints of 2020 and beyond. In pre-pandemic times, it offered a series of hourlong workshops to family members, mostly in low-income communities, coaching them to set goals and practice specific reading concepts with elementary school-age children.

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Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting 57

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips. And when kids should stop going to elementary school and start attending a middle school across town. There’s so much behind music to learn.”.

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Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

DIRECTIONS: Step 1: Join us at the online meeting room on Zoom ([link] Step 2: We are going to play a Kahoot game to learn some things about Amazon. The moderators of this session represent communities that have been meeting and collaborating online for well over a decade now. English language learners are welcome, too.

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Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

But before we do that, let’s… You last appeared on episode 279 of this podcast, which was posted on February 1st, 2020. Have you seen that one where they make fun of the meetings with the… They’re trying to have a team meeting. If that wasn’t the case, we do a million workshops.

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Professional Learning Video Learning Examples 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

The new meta-analysis reviewed a fresher batch of 424 studies conducted between 2008 and 2020 across more than 50 countries and involving more than 500,000 students in kindergarten through grade 12. Single workshops were excluded. All the SEL programs in the paper lasted for at least six sessions or four months.

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Analysis Learning Study Training 89

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Protesters calling for Boston schools to keep the admission exam for the city’s elite exam schools rally outside of Boston Latin School in Boston on October 18, 2020. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images. Credit: Jessica Rinaldi/The Boston Globe via Getty Images.

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Policies Report Groups System 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

Earlier that month, Machesky and a district team of curriculum specialists and math teachers had unveiled the plan during a series of meetings with parents of current and incoming middle schoolers. At a packed board meeting that May, more than 40 people spoke, nearly all opposed to the plan, and the comments got personal.

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Trends Outcomes Report Study 121

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 102

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all. The Need for Religious Literacy for Student Global Competence, Religion Matters The Things They Carried: A Refugee Project , Lisa C.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There is also progress in creating inclusive and engaging print and digital library collections to meet a growing demand for equitable access to school libraries. For example, as the New York Times reported in April 2020, the Library of Congress has created a new digital tool to help aspiring DJs. Every child deserves a library.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 96

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Twin Falls, named for the waterfalls formed by the Snake River Canyon dam, which in the early 1900s turned the area from desert into a rich agricultural region now called “The Magic Valley,” is politically conservative (70 percent voted for Donald Trump in 2020). At a meeting on Aug.

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Elementary Report Meeting Secondary 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

In November, 2020, Cossaboon and the Youth For Justice students started their advocacy in their home district before taking the issue to the legislature. The proposal was approved and plans were made to provide an evidence-based program to all Cody High School students for the first time during the 2020-21 school year.

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Education Policies Survey Training 122

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 2020, after events including the mass shooting two years earlier that killed 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, New Hampshire passed a law requiring instruction on the Holocaust and other genocides in grades 8 through 12. Instead, it made her a more politically aware, informed citizen.

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