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. Read the series.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 30, 2022

This isolation is not only creating a deterioration in social skills, but also, when children are asked these days about how they feel, the most common answers received are ‘bored’ and ‘lonely’ ( How the pandemic is affecting children’s social skills ). Research indicates that there is power in using board games in the classroom.

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Waterford

MAY 31, 2022

Scarborough’s Reading Rope is another literacy acquisition model that identifies the skills necessary for learning how to read. Then you can use Scarborough’s Reading Rope model to pinpoint specific strategies for teaching students to read and for tracking their progress more effectively. Waterford.org, April 2021.

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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. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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Waterford

MARCH 10, 2022

Download sessions here to explore how the brain learns to read and get tips for effective, researched-based classroom instruction. Find out how a student’s reading development is strongly related to their speaking, listening, and writing skills. Strategies for Teaching Communication Skills. Waterford.org, April 2021.

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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. We cannot wait for tragedy to disrupt our lives and communities.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

After dipping a bit from 2020-2021, attrition rose 17 percent from 2021 to 2022 and is on track to outpace pre-pandemic monthly averages. For teachers to feel empowered and to be successful means providing them a wide range of strategies, tools, resources, and opportunities to enhance their skills, knowledge, and teaching practices.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And, like her peers nationwide, her transition to first grade in the fall of 2021 was a challenging one. It’s Time for All Schools to Learn How to Support Neurodivergence At the start of this school year, there were about 7.3 She has become the young tree in the schoolyard. Unfortunately, we’re not alone in this reality.

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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. Schools are already spending big chunks of their approximately $190 billion in pandemic relief money on a range of strategies from after-school programs to cutting class size. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The elementary school my younger son attends was incredibly supportive. In 2021, youth mental health was declared a national emergency by the U.S. Also in 2021, an estimated 600,000 children were victims of child abuse and neglect. The adults who teach my fourth grader were privately told about our family trauma.

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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.

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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. How to use ChatGPT for Summarizing With ChatGPT 3.5 Those are 6 strategies to get you started. Here is the ninth part of our series:] #9 Summarizing Why ChatGPT for Summarizing?

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

As school districts continue to make and revise plans to open the 2020–2021 school year, many are considering adopting blended or hybrid learning-based schedules. Ruben Montoya, director of edtech systems at the Alhambra Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, agrees. Different modes, different strategies.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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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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Edthena

MAY 18, 2021

Stacy Musick is a third-grade teacher who exemplifies how to utilize a learning management system and include technology in a blended learning classroom. In addition to writing the elementary ELA curriculum, she assists teachers with implementing technology in intentional and effective ways. ” Stacy Musick.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2023

The idea is also based on research about how to turn novices into experts, says Valerie Sakimura, executive director of Deans for Impact, a national nonprofit with a mission of ensuring every child is taught by a well-prepared teacher. Across the spring, summer and fall semesters of 2022, 50 tutors worked with 116 elementary students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed the CARES and ARP Acts, which created and added to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Program ( ESSER ). To avoid financial catastrophes, districts must plan to identify and mitigate impending budget gaps and build strategies for long-term financial health.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

Praising students for good behavior is central to many strategies for helping teachers deal with unruly students. Herman’s middle school study was first posted online in 2020 by the Journal of Educational Psychology and is slated for publication later in 2021. Scolding students isn’t. They get what they want!”.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2022

Other preferred strategies included providing mental health and behavioral support for students, hiring more support staff and reducing paperwork requirements. The program is designed to support innovative elementary and secondary school teachers across the U.S. Learn how to apply for the next round of HP Teaching Fellows.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

This is intervention time at Vitovsky Elementary, where nearly 60 percent of students come from low-income backgrounds and a quarter are learning English. A “sound wall” at Vitovsky Elementary features different speech sounds, breaking up vowels and consonants. 19, 2021, in Midlothian, Texas.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2022

As the pandemic trudges on, here are three strategies experts recommend to address student (and teacher) needs, a prerequisite for closing academic gaps: 1. Students often learn how to behave in classrooms and get along with peers in early childhood classrooms. How can you learn if you don’t know how to pay attention?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2022

Last spring, we looked to summer with hopes that the 2021-2022 school year would be different, easier, better. Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back. In many ways it was.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Teacher-prep programs, she added, bear a large part of the responsibility here: Many teachers-in-training receive just one course in how to teach reading — a teaching task which experts agree is extremely complex — before heading into the classroom. Children do not come wired to learn how to read: It is an acquired skill.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

It is now time to update this piece for 2021. In January 2021, 40 percent of adults reported experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety—three times more than the rate in the first half of 2019. Source: A Year in the Life of a Pandemic , April 27, 2021, by Philip Fisher, Joan Lombardi and Nat Kendall-Taylor.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 20, 2021

Done is better than perfect” is a quote on my vision board for 2021, but accepting that truth has been years in the making for me. As a veteran teacher of twenty-three years, it feels like I should know how to “handle” every type of student, curriculum change and technology update, but that’s another version of this secret rule.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

When they got stumped on a strategy for turning a decimal into a percentage, the pair’s arms shot in the air. “I The pair discovered that, although Union High enrolled students from all 13 elementary campuses, Peterson’s calculus students primarily started at just three — the whitest and wealthiest of Union’s elementaries.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Matthews, a former tutoring aide who had just come to Rehobeth Elementary School, was used to working with students who needed some extra help with reading. Third-grade teacher Scotty Matthews works with a student at Rehobeth Elementary in Houston County, Alabama, on Monday, Oct. This story also appeared in AL.com.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2021

June 15, 2021 – Today MetaMetrics ® unveiled its new Lexile® & Quantile® Educator Academy. Teachers who complete the courses will gain a deeper understanding of how to make the Lexile and Quantile frameworks actionable for learning and discover award-winning tools and resources on the Lexile or Quantile Hub to support their efforts.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Another was a push to prepare future teachers specifically for those young learners, rather than for elementary schools more broadly. “We We know how important it is to cultivate a next generation of educators that is really reflective of educators and the communities they serve,” DeHaas says. Some are new to the pandemic.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Together, we are mobilizing a national effort to prepare 100,000 STEM teachers by 2021. Our work was guided by the question, “How might we equip elementary (Pre-K-grade 5) teachers to enable authentic and joyful math learning for all students?” Elementary math specialization. Coursework and field experiences.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Unless they develop foundational reading skills early, students will experience literacy deficits across all subjects, and phonics instruction embedded in comprehensive reading instruction is the most effective way to teach them how to read. However, our team had a great sense of urgency.

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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 It took a lot of training on the part of teachers to implement new strategies, Iturralde said.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2023

How to join the waitlist. Winner: ChatGPT Revisions On thing I particularly liked about Google Bard is how it will show you three drafts of answers for each question. Volume of Users ChatGPT took five days to reach a million users and reached 100 million users by January 2022 after being released in November 2021.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

SERIES: How to reopen schools safely. Here’s how they did it. Alongside four other school communities, it was selected because the majority of the district’s students returned to in-person learning during the 2020-2021 school year — and under 5 percent of the student population was identified as a Covid-19 case.

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