The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

The good news, according to the latest achievement data, is that learning resumed at a more typical pace during the 2021-22 school year that just ended. Based on the subsequent catch up that NWEA documented in the spring of 2022, upper elementary school students might now be six to seven weeks behind. One group estimated that the U.S.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Phonological Awareness: Activity Ideas for Elementary Students. Say a group of words and ask students to listen for the one that does not rhyme with the others (cat, hat, pat, ran).[4]. Say a group of words and ask students to listen for the one that does not rhyme with the others (cat, hat, pat, ran).[4]. June 29, 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

12, 2024 column about how chronic absenteeism remains stubbornly high in elementary, middle and high schools. Defined as missing at least 10 percent of the school year, or 18 out of 180 days, chronic absenteeism doubled from about 15 percent of students before the pandemic to about 30 percent in the 2021-22 school year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

Some awesome changes have happened with Google Apps over summer 2021. He is a co-leader of the Ohio Google Educator Group at [link]. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2021

Summer camps, many of which remain financially fragile after last year’s closures, could see an influx of cash: The American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund earmarked $1.2 The post Summer camp 2021: More anxiety, more learning, more hugs — same fun appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

It’s the little things, like crayons, says Christine Slayton, a bilingual first grade teacher at Frank Del Olmo Elementary School in Los Angeles. Perhaps unsurprisingly, health and wellness requests were up for both years of the pandemic, with 18,361 such requests from 2021-2022. No more sharing Crayolas—or markers or playdough.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

A version of this post was originally published in FutureScot , on October 5, 2021. Even Ancient Romans associated the concept of elementary school ( ludus ) with play ( ludere ). Group activities help develop communication, collaboration, and teamwork skills, which are much-needed for the 21st-century workplace and life in general.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Vacancies among both groups of teachers initially plummeted during 2020-21, even though only special ed teachers were offered the $10,000.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

Wednesday, June 23, 2021) – 3M and Discovery Education today announced 30 State Merit Winners in the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge. The 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge State Merit Winners are listed below in alphabetical order by state: [Alabama] Sophia Al-Halaseh, Fort Payne Middle School, Fort Payne City School District.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Leaders had been broken up into four different cohorts (elementary, middle, high school, and district supervisors). During a previous session, I assigned each leader some meaningful homework, which consisted of bringing an artifact to share with the group that showed growth in the area.

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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. Administrators are crafting plans for the 2021-22 school year to help children catch up on what they may have missed in math during the pandemic.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

Thursday, June 24, 2021) – 3M and Discovery Education today announced the top 10 finalists and four honorable mention recipients in the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge. The competition event will take place from October 18-19, 2021, at the 3M Innovation Center in Minneapolis. SILVER SPRING, Md. & PAUL, Minn.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Boston — June 8, 2021 —Nonprofit VHS Learning today announced the winners of its 14th annual college scholarship program. She made a video describing how VHS Learning helped her take initiative in her own education, including contributing to virtual group projects and doing extra research on topics she found interesting.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2019, a group of researchers, led by James Kim, a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, randomly selected 15 of the district’s 30 elementary schools to teach first graders special knowledge-building lessons for three years, through third grade. In 2021, students were still not attending school in person.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district. Teachers trickle in as I set out muffins and candy at each table.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Use this approach with high-frequency words as well as groups of words that follow the same spelling pattern.[4]. 5 Reading Fluency Activities for Elementary Students. Waterford.org, April 2021. You can use these free resources from Waterford.org to foster reading fluency and reading comprehension. Webinar from Waterford.org.

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Waterford

MARCH 10, 2022

Read alouds can be useful for teaching communication skills to elementary students. This can be done in pairs, small groups, or with the whole classroom. Name writing practice (Spanish: Escritura de nombre ): This worksheet helps early elementary students practice writing their name. Waterford.org, April 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Speaking quietly to her 4-year-old students, she picked one boy from the group to count his classmates: 22. billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. The plan is that the $2.7 That’s the hope. The bill Gov.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2023

A recent analysis by Chalkbeat found that, between the 2021 and 2022 school years, eight states — Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Washington — faced their highest teacher turnover rates in the past five years. And there was significant turnover in the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

So far, a 2021 study of Boston’s universal pre-K program found that students who attended the city’s preschools between 1997 and 2003 were more likely to go to college immediately after high school. About 40 percent of the families took advantage of it and chose to send their children to a pre-K program at a public elementary school.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Vernier Software & Technology recently announced science educator Tyson Vrbas of Manhattan Catholic Schools in Manhattan, Kansas as the 2021 Engineering Award winner. They really collaborated and problem solved as a group and, in the end, developed a really awesome solution.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. A longtime administrator in Rio Rancho, Aaker led the district-wide transition of elementary students to online learning when Covid struck.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

BOSTON (June 8, 2021) – Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that Florida’s Commissioner of Education has approved Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) as curriculum in elementary intervention courses. K-12 English language arts materials were the focus of the 2020-2021 year. About Lexia Learning.

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Tabernacle Township School District’s 665 elementary and middle school students are one-to-one with devices. Following a year of hybrid instruction where student cohorts were in school for a half day every other day, then virtual on alternate days and in the afternoon, students returned to regular full days in the classroom in September 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Learning to read well in elementary school matters. The results emerged from an analysis of fall 2022 test scores of seven million elementary and middle school children across the nation, in which the reading abilities of third graders remained far behind what children used to be able to do in third grade before the pandemic.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

We thought about elementary, middle and high school. EdReports Review: MidSchoolMath received a perfect score on EdReports in the latest 2021 criteria for math curriculum. Curriculum Catalog: See Core Curriculum by MidSchoolMath , and download a 2021 Product Catalog. “It See the full EdReports reviews. It's a GREAT program.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — NWEA — a not-for-profit, research and educational services provider serving K-12 students — today released new research that illustrates the scale and disproportionate nature of the disruption in student learning resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic. PORTLAND, Ore.,

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2021

Using your elementary tools, write down anything and everything that you need to do and break down each step that is required to complete those steps. I began building my PLN on Twitter almost 10 years ago and it has since grown to include several Facebook Groups, Voxer, and the occasional LinkedIn conversation.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 1, 2021

Using your elementary tools, write down anything and everything that you need to do and break down each step that is required to complete those steps. I began building my PLN on Twitter almost 10 years ago and it has since grown to include several Facebook Groups, Voxer, and the occasional LinkedIn conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

18, 2021, in Brunswick, Maine. The American Rescue Plan in March 2021 created the $7.2 billion Emergency Broadband Benefit is part of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, which provides broadband subsidies for individuals and families. Due to supply chain delays, the district finished distributing devices in January 2021.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2023

Later, they may do one-on-one or small group tutoring. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C. But with promising results and additional grant funding, it has expanded to other parts of the city and other age groups in the public school system.

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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. contracted Covid-19 between the start of the pandemic and early August 2021.). COVID-19 stats for Brooklyn Arts & Science Elementary School (P.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test. Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. But now a large study, published in March 2021, concludes that high school students can learn two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. A 2020 review of 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring is particularly helpful at improving students’ reading skills during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” By 2021, that had declined to 15. That was in 2017. “It

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

In the spring of 2021, the National Security Agency released a cybersecurity advisory that, while focused on the Defense Industrial Base, is applicable to many organizations. At the same time, we’ve also seen an increase in attacks on operational technology (OT) components of companies’ IT infrastructure.

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