EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 31, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. If you’re using ChatGPT to summarize an article, short book, or academic paper, keep in mind that ChatGPT doesn’t include events occurring after September 2021.

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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

APRIL 6, 2021

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation , a 501c3 nonprofit and VEX Robotics , is back to showcase the incredible talent and skill of a range of student competitors by hosting the first-ever Live Remote VEX Robotics World Championship May 17-29, 2021.

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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. Newsom signed in 2021 to expand transitional kindergarten to all districts calls specifically for high-quality programs. The plan is that the $2.7 The bill Gov. The state has not weighed in.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Source: “Nudging at scale: Experimental evidence from FAFSA completion campaigns,” March 2021 issue of Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. None of these guidelines are absolute. The texts and calls succeed in limiting children’s learning loss , according to a January 2021 study.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2022

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) was approved in three packages in 2020 and 2021. There are few official guidelines on how the ESSER funding can be used, which has led to questions about how the dollars are being spent and accounted for.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

The glaringly unfair aspect of “test-optional” guidelines is that wealthy students know it’s a meaningless distinction; lower-income students with less access to college counselors, however, do not. There’s precedent: As of 2021, none of the University of California schools accept or even consider score reports of any kind.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The accelerated track in middle and high school drew mostly from elementary schools in affluent neighborhoods, where students tended to perform better on a pre-algebra placement test that they had one chance to take as fifth graders. That sparked some uncomfortable conversations,” said Witcher, who retired from the district in 2021.

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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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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

According to the new law, Florida districts aren’t required to provide state-approved literacy resources until 2021. The feedback we gathered formed the following guidelines for our ideal platform: We needed a platform that keeps students actively engaged. However, our team had a great sense of urgency. No worksheets!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

September 1, 2021— Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD) in Detroit, MI recently adopted Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading program for students in Grades 3–5. Built using the Universal Design for Learning Guidelines, Magnetic Reading also notably helps all students engage with high-quality grade-level texts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From September 2020 to April 2021, AJ sat at home, getting on average less than two hours of daily live interaction with teachers. Hamblin, the student services director in a Utah district, said his district’s program, based on Cornell’s guidelines, emphasizes problem solving. Credit: Valerie Plesch for the Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

Through our Voices of Change project, EdSurge has been conversing with educators and school leaders to understand how schools are adapting to meet the needs of their learning communities as they face the 2021-22 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

Related: ‘Don’t rush to spend on ed tech’ Hebbar’s Ed Tech Equity Project, in collaboration with Digital Promise, launched a product certification program in 2021 to recognize ed tech companies that share plans to incorporate racial equity in their designs.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 3, 2021

A digital choice board allows teachers to provide extra guidelines within each choice without giving them a formula for how to put it all together. . Elementary Digital Playground: Tic-Tac-Toe (Sarah McKinney). 30, 2021 (or one-year access with the ALL-ACCESS PASS ). © Shake Up Learning 2021. Choice Board Examples.

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MindShift

AUGUST 23, 2021

Its findings were drawn from interviews with teachers and students across elementary, middle and high schools about their pandemic learning experience. — Neema Avashia (@AvashiaNeema) July 22, 2021. We made sure families’ basic needs were met. We emphasized deep learning instead of shallow coverage.

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MindShift

JUNE 29, 2020

While most professional theaters have discontinued public performances until 2021 , and most school districts remain closed due to the spread of the coronavirus, many educational theater programs are turning to online programs to keep students engaged over the summer.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

From December 2020 through May 2021, EdSurge followed seven early childhood educators from across the country. In addition, children who attend the elementary school across the street join for afterschool care. During the pandemic, Magdaleno supervised elementary-aged children during their remote learning as well.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. In April 2021, a full year into the pandemic, he announced measures to tackle this shortfall.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

They have returned to buildings without appropriate and safe bathrooms and locker rooms, in defiance of federal guidelines. They are doing so with a slew of anti-trans bills; so many, in fact, that the Human Rights Campaign and many others are calling 2021 the worst year for trans rights in recent history.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. By the end of one lower elementary year, I had fallen behind in reading speed and stamina.

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MindShift

JANUARY 14, 2021

Per federal vaccination guidelines, school personnel — including custodians, food service workers, and bus drivers — along with child care providers, are in category 1b, just after the elderly in long-term care facilities and health care workers. Regardless of federal guidelines, states are setting their own priority lists.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

In each school year we analyzed, more than 8,000 districts did not meet the one-in-20 guideline. In Michigan, state Department of Education guidelines call for an investigation if school districts identify fewer than 10 percent of low-income students as homeless. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2021

After a year of purely remote learning, elementary and middle school students were offered one day a week of in-person instruction in March; that was followed by two days a week the first half of April. Middle schoolers don’t follow guidelines. Brockton, like many communities, opted for a gradual return to schools.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

It outlines innovative and interdisciplinary projects using social interaction media; offers creative strategies for producing media with elementary students and developing global education projects integrating media and health skills. Guidelines on how to take part and the tasks to be solved and the digital products to create will be shared.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

But, on any given day, an untold number of children in elementary schools nationwide have all or part of their recess revoked for infractions such as failing to finish their work, talking out of turn or not following directions. Children play during recess at a Louisville, Kentucky elementary school. That’s not appropriate,” Lisa said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Next, we need clear guidelines and requirements for reopening that are based on our evolving scientific understanding of this disease. This starts with money — the new president and the likely still-divided new Congress must infuse schools with resources at the first available opportunity. That’s the hardest truth of all.

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MindShift

JANUARY 27, 2021

” The idea that opening Chicago’s school buildings in February 2021, 11 months after they shut down, constitutes “rushing back” would be news in most of the country. In Chicago, the district said it planned to bring about 70,000 elementary school students back , out of about 280,000 total students enrolled.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

An elementary schooler in the same district couldn’t access a picture of record-breaking sprinter Florence Griffith Joyner to add to a writing assignment. Rockwood School District gets its web-filtering platform, ContentKeeper, from a company called Impero, which, in 2021, was reportedly used by over 300 school districts in the U.S.

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MindShift

MARCH 12, 2021

1, Nelson was back in the classroom at Ortega Elementary School. Since reopening, the school does its best to follow CDC guidelines: Her students, all in masks, are spaced with an empty desk between them. Copyright 2021 NPR. “I’m working on it, I’m working on it.” To see more, visit [link].

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Maranda Seawood, student support specialist at Washington Elementary School. Maranda Seawood, a student support specialist at Washington Elementary School in Fayetteville, Arkansas, worries about her students’ academic losses. We changed our protocol to follow the new CDC guidelines with the five-day quarantines.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

On October 25, 2021, using his power as chair of the Texas House Committee on General Investigating, Krause sent a letter to the Texas Education Agency and to school districts listing some 850 books. Horand was charged and ultimately found guilty in connection with the dynamiting of two elementary schools. What does that really mean?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Conflicts over masking, mandatory vaccinations and confusing quarantine policies have made the 2021 back-to-school season one of the most fraught in the Covid era. Montgomery, an elementary school in Mound Bayou, Mississippi: Respectful. 5, 2021, they seemed painfully ironic. Credit: Kelsey Davis Betz for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

” Gotta love a quote like this, from a story in Edsurge profiling McComb, Mississippi ’s Summit Elementary School: “We are learning how to mitigate between policy and trying to be as innovative as possible without breaking state laws.” percent from 2017 to 2021.” No neoliberalism anywhere in ed-tech.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

.” ‘We must talk about this real history’: Reactions to ‘divisive concepts’ ban A battle over New Hampshire’s “divisive concepts law” has been brewing in the state since 2021. In November 2021, New Hampshire’s education department posted an online form for people wanting to lodge complaints against teachers.

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