The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

When we say fall, we’re talking Fall 2021, which is a little bit different than previous falls, isn’t it, Dawn? Yeah, it definitely is. So a lot of times new teachers start and don’t necessarily have high-quality things in their classroom. . Some states never went back to being in an actual classroom. .

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

We thought about elementary, middle and high school. This definitely fits into that. EdReports Review: MidSchoolMath received a perfect score on EdReports in the latest 2021 criteria for math curriculum. I'm excited to use it in a face-to-face classroom. Students in Ms. See the full EdReports reviews.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

Attrition is definitely up, but it’s not a mass exodus of teachers,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a nonprofit research organization. . Many teachers go into special education but soon quit the classroom. Students sat in classrooms without teachers. And on Aug.

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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. They walked down squeaky-clean hallways, toured classrooms with desks carefully spaced three feet apart, and heard the whir of newly-installed fans and portable ventilation units.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

If I can remember each term and its definition, I will have set myself up for success in the class and on the final AP exam. If educators wish to effectively prevent AI from entering classrooms, they must reimagine the way students are taught. Sounds fascinating and enlightening, right?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Most educators in America probably would tell us that, as difficult as the 2020-2021 school year was, the 2021-2022 year was even tougher. If middle and elementary school students are forced to repeat grades because they fall short of a standard anchored to NAEP proficient, vast numbers will repeat grades. ” [emphasis added].

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

from Vanderbilt University in December 2021, where her research focused on instructional coaching in K-12 schools. Through her Innovator project, she developed Classroom Bridges, a site to connect educators to other educators around the world to develop global collaboration experiences for students. Katie finished her Ed.D.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Research note: As Wall (2021) indicates, there is a definite connection between trauma and student behavior as well as student learning. Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 30(1), 118-137.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 13, 2021

One of our most popular blog posts to date is, “How to Create a Custom Theme in Google Classroom,” and it’s no secret why, especially now with all of the virtual learning happening. And Google Classroom is the hub and jump-off point that students visit over and over, so this space should be engaging and unique.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2022

At one elementary school in rural Appalachia, most of the children are white and poor; 90 percent qualify for free or reduced priced lunch. The researchers asked 16 teachers to rate their students to indicate which ones were far above average in their classrooms, if not the nation, and could benefit from advanced instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

There’s no definitive count yet of how many students are enrolled this summer in a wide range of new options, from a push to close early learning gaps in Texas to a summer program in Oregon that helps kids learning English. Students participate in a hands-on activity during summer school at Bethel Elementary School in Simpsonville, S.C.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The 2021 survey prompted Alabama’s public colleges and universities to allow more students to meet their math requirements by taking a statistics course instead of a traditional math class, such as college algebra or calculus. Yet, in many K-12 classrooms, statistics is the proverbial end-of-the-year unit that you may or may not get to.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“I tell them not to read at the same pace that your neighbors are reading, not too loud that we’re distracting someone, but just enough that you can practice your reading voice,” the second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School said. “So There’s definitely a larger deficit in academics than there has been in the past,” Iturralde said.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A recent example: how I crosswalked edtech with competency-based design principles, as featured in Eliot Levine 's July 2021 CompetencyWorks blog entry.) These Principles were adapted from Aurora Institute 's updated 2019 definition of CBE, explained here.) How might this look in my classroom? So she posed a challenge.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7 When students fail a required high school course, they can retake a prepackaged version of it in a classroom or computer lab, clicking through screens and multiple choice questions to “recover” the credit. “I million to 3.3 Surprisingly, there was no difference.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The Social Institute today announced that it has expanded its pioneering social-emotional learning curriculum to meet the needs of fourth grade students, available beginning in January of 2021. There is definitely a need for that conversation in fourth grade as so many students are getting laptops for the first time.

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edWeb.net

MAY 24, 2022

Learning how to best incorporate social-emotional learning (SEL) into classroom instruction was the subject of the edLeader Panel, “ Powerful Strategies for Embedding SEL Across the Curriculum ,” which was led by Dr. Tammy Cruz, an instructional coach for elementary schools at Kenosha Unified School District in Wisconsin.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

That triggered a series of financial setbacks and, by October 2021, she owed more than $10,000 in back rent. Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

The Engage Every Student Initiative is a national campaign, started in 2022, that calls for communities to provide high-quality, out-of-school-time learning opportunities for all interested students by using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. In one room, elementary students are buzzing during a reading class.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Here are 24 different games and structures you can use that will infuse laughter and joy into your classroom. Some of the systems that could be changed in order to support teachers (many of which are described in this 2021 NEA article on teacher burnout ) are being doubled down vs. released. Best for elementary (grades K-5).

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Hill, Assistant Superintendent for Early Learning, Dallas Independent School District (TX), and Jennifer Kretschman, Director MTSS, LCSSP Grant Coordinator, Sacramento City Unified School District (CA), discussed the key topics relating to closing the unprecedented attendance gap in 2021. Am I hitting home with students?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Twice a week Ricky Carmona, 16, leaves his La Verne home to attend school in makeshift classrooms a few doors down from the Boot Barn at a nearby strip mall. But such a classification conflicts with its own discipline-related definition and state guidance. Is it really discipline? Is it attendance?

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

If you don’t focus on the educators, then what is that classroom environment like for a teacher who’s undergoing a traumatic experience ? For over a year, EdSurge has been exploring how school communities are adapting to meet the needs of all learners as they face the 2021-22 school year through our Voices of Change project.

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MindShift

MARCH 30, 2021

As students walked into Jahdai Jeffords’ classroom for the first time, he greeted them with an assignment: “Say something!” ’ ” When Arcola Elementary School reopened in person in mid-March, Barksdale’s students had to adjust to a very different classroom. you’re taller than I thought.’

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Aaron Vazquez, 5, in his “classroom” on his first day of virtual kindergarten in Ft. 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. It has been difficult to manage and — five weeks in — still feels unsustainable.”.

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Survey Elementary Personalized Learning Report 142

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

Martin is one of the many parents and teachers around the country who don’t want their kids to return to the classroom this fall, whether for academic or medical reasons. Universal masking and social distancing are required, and staff are being asked to keep a window in their classroom open to increase airflow.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By spring 2021, the school held a near-normal graduation ceremony. In late July, just before the 2021-22 school year kicked off, the Delta variant slammed into New Orleans, filling hospitals to 2020 levels. A July 2021 study by McKinsey & Company estimated that, on average, U.S. It was a definite setback.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Before the tax hike, just 10 percent of elementary school children had access to a mental health professional, now there’s at least one mental health care professional in every school building, and in some cases a team with multiple counselors, social workers and psychologists. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2020

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. Holley said the staff at Rupert Elementary School in Crawley, West Virginia, where she teaches, has pulled together and she’s never felt more supported. Worth, Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2024

million times from 2017-18 to 2021-22 across the 20 states that collect this data. These legislative proposals come despite warnings from experts and even classroom teachers who say more suspensions — particularly for minor, subjective offenses — are not the answer. Rodríguez, assistant U.S. Disorderly conduct was third.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Our reporters are spending the year listening to people from across the country as they manage school districts, lead classrooms, parent students and attend school. Individuals are stressed with doing more to cover and to supervise children when they are not in classrooms. PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. And that’s the positive.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The pandemic left students, on average, five months behind in math and four months behind in reading by the end of the 2021-22 school year, with even more significant losses for students in majority-Black or low-income schools. Moreover, it must give that precise definition multiple times throughout the survey to reduce confusion.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Nearly every classroom at Story Creek Elementary School offers sweeping views of the snow-capped Rocky Mountains that surround the Gallatin Valley here in southwest Montana. A bulldozer sits idle during a break on construction of new homes near Story Creek Elementary School in Belgrade, Mont. opened in fall 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

Tensions are high, and rancor is spilling into school board meetings, classrooms and hallways. Next year will be a better year, definitely. We have classroom tutors now. I’m definitely worried about mental health, and there’s a lot of kids that have depression and they joke about it a lot: “Oh, yeah.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2021

Based on these ratings, the 2021 edition includes a total of 77 SEL programs across three designations: SELect, 48 programs that met or exceeded all of our criteria; Promising , 23 programs that met or exceeded most criteria; and SEL-Supportive, 6 programs that meet the SELect or Promising evidence criteria but do not fully meet design criteria.

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Learning Elementary Meeting Policies 79

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

The 2021 Driving K-12 Innovation report released by CoSN selected the most critical Hurdles (challenges), Accelerators (mega-trends), and Tech Enablers (tools) that school districts are facing with personalized learning, innovation, and digital equity. By Eileen Belastock. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Dr. David R.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 21, 2021

Monica is also the author of a new book for K-12 teachers called Listen Wise: Teach Students to be Better Listeners (available in April 2021 through Jossey-Bass.) In an online classroom setting, the class can listen together as a whole then students can go in pairs into a breakout room to discuss. Recap and Big Ideas.

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