The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

million — pre-pandemic prediction for 2020-21 kindergarten enrollment. I don’t want to pit one grade against another,” said Laura Bornfreund, the director of early and elementary education policy at New America, a progressive think tank. Kindergarten is designed for young children, who learn best by doing. They are doing just fine.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2023

After a two-year decline in 2019 and 2020, suicide rates among American youth increased in 2021, according to a recent report published by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Typically, we tend to associate SEL programs with elementary-aged students. A study released by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

But it was impossible to tell whether the Core Knowledge curriculum itself made the difference or if the boost to reading scores could be attributed to other things that these charter schools were doing, such as hiring great teachers and training them well. It cost about $400 per student in instructional materials and teacher training.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

It wasn’t part of their teacher training program so they rely on school PD to fill the many holes in blending tech with education. Moreover, sending teachers into the workforce without adequate training is equivalent to sending doctors out to practice without learning to treat specific ailments.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

I stepped in as principal in 2020, and began looking for ways to solve the issues and get things on the right track. From my perspective, being a full support school described us, but did not define Central Elementary School, so I got all faculty and staff on board with our new literacy professional learning solution.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. These eighth graders were in sixth grade when the pandemic erupted in the spring of 2020. In New York City, where I live, the subway is frequently plastered with advertisements carrying the message that STEM fields pay well.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2023

Research indicates that aspiring educators who get to practice teaching earlier in their training and more often are more likely to be effective, Sakimura says. By the end of their training, they will be ready to take on the responsibility of teaching an entire classroom of students for a semester, Sakimura notes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to. One moment would be 2020, at the start of COVID. The interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Blue dots represent the 75 schools that were eligible for the right-to-read settlement program of training and funds. However, before the courts resolved that legal question, the litigants settled the case in 2020. The newly trained teachers in the science of reading may soon quit too.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Also memorable was that it didn’t take long to recognize I was missing key training and resources that could help make me a more effective educator. 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.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

Research from School Library Journal indicates that maker activities at elementary and middle schools increased by 4 percent from 2014 to 2017. Thomas School has built two dedicated spaces to bolster STEM education, and plans to build a two-floor, state-of-the-art learning space called the Center for Leadership Innovation by 2020.

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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. One Alabama town is trying to change that We can help address this problem by creating a highly trained, skilled and culturally competent educator workforce. These students made up 10.3

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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

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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

And it’s not just a problem today — there’s worry that the pipeline of new teachers being trained might be shrinking as well. 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.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

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. Most recently, the consortium renewed its VHS Learning membership with 213 enrollments for the 2020-21 academic year. Statewide Partnerships. In 2021, VHS Learning received a $1.4

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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

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. She’s also a teacher-in-training. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And in 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high schoolers, college students, and adults, according to Advance CTE , a professional organization for state CTE leaders. For example, a 2020 analysis found that only 18 percent of the credentials CTE students earn are sought by employers in job postings.

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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

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

MARCH 7, 2024

I have been with the district for 20 years, though I didn’t become the superintendent until April 2020. I gave our technology department marching orders to get every student and every teacher on a Chromebook and trained in the Google Suite within two weeks. Approximately 20 percent of our scholars speak English as a second language.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Dr. Cecilia Maes, superintendent of Alhambra Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, agreed. Dr. Brawley explained that Compton USD began “training” parents when COVID shut down school buildings “so that they could be successful with working with their kids at home….We Other schools became enthusiastic….It

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

I must emphasize the need to be realistic as this rests on the mere fact that most teachers have never been adequately trained in this area. 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). You really can’t go wrong here.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

On the rare occasions when other teachers who spoke Barrera’s language, Spanish, were asked to help, the conversations still faltered because they weren’t trained interpreters. About 791,000 English learners participated in special education in 2020, a jump of nearly 30 percent since 2012. In 2020, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. . — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. The third graders at A.J.

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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. Three other barriers — scaling and sustaining innovation; instituting ongoing professional technology training; and digital equity — are related to these top hurdles.

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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. Three other barriers — scaling and sustaining innovation; instituting ongoing professional technology training; and digital equity — are related to these top hurdles.

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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. Sometimes tutors weren’t properly trained and there wasn’t a clear curriculum. Related: PROOF POINTS: Research evidence increases for intensive tutoring.

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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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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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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

According to the report, the EdTech industry will reach a global value of $252 billion by 2020. For instance, Osso VR is a virtual reality technology company founded on the principle of training surgeons with real world skills that can be directly applied when in the operating room. 5 New EdTech tools to watch.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As schools across the South grapple with vacancies, many turn to those without teaching certificates or formal training to serve students. In Oklahoma, lawmakers expanded an “adjunct” program that enables schools to hire applicants without teacher training if they meet a local board’s qualifications. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

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. Katie finished her Ed.D. We need to see that, too.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

In the research literature, the tutors are specially trained and coached, adhere to a detailed curriculum and work with one or two students at a time. Sometimes tutors weren’t properly trained nor was there a clear curriculum. The question, of course, is whether we can recruit and train enough tutors to meet the need right now.

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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. Many don’t get even some of that. “If

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