Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher has also set up a classroom that nurtures curiosity and questioning that leads to learning. As she struggles to answer the question, two other students begin to whisper questions in her ear.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2023

PRWEB) — Sourcewell , a trusted advisor to education leaders, announces that North Star Central Elementary School in Boswell, Pennsylvania—home to more than 350 pre-K–4 students—is seeing significant growth in students’ math scores, despite national trends. “At PAUL, MINN.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The first was that the timing of the March 2022 NAEP tests should give us pause when interpreting the results. 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. Those results are essentially equivalent to the 2022 national NAEP averages for math.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. The leading indicators of STEM troubles ahead are apparent within the 2022 scores from a national test called the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). After the pandemic in 2022, only 27 percent were well prepared.

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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. Third graders in 2022 are the furthest behind in reading, as depicted by the bar on the far left.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

We should care about this troubling shift because many researchers say that children learn best in integrated classrooms. The long-term assessment format changed in 2004, which is why you’ll notice some spikes or kinks for that year in the graphs below.) The gap between white and Black students hasn't improved much since 2008.

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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.” That was in 2017. “It It began to become emotionally draining.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 11, 2023

There has been a multitude of conversations regarding assessment and grading practices, focusing on shifting practice that makes more sense not only for the current time we live in but also moving forward. She had said, “How we assess drives our teaching, not the other way around.” ” I would agree.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Once I saw how they possessed both drive and tenacity, they participated in a virtual robotics competition–the Fall 2022 CoderZ League Robotics Competition. As such, integrating robotics and coding supplemented the standards-based instruction that was already occurring in my classroom and enabled students to apply the content.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA recently released results of a yearlong study examining the effectiveness of a reading fluency intervention targeting struggling middle school readers from historically marginalized populations or those living in poverty. school district in 2022-23.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

When you think of racism in our classrooms and schools, what immediately comes to your mind? Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 The data shows over and over that we are missing the mark completely in our effort to build equitable, anti-racist classrooms.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

BEAVERTON, Oregon, April 8, 2022 — Vernier Software & Technology and the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2022 Vernier/NSTA Technology Awards. The 2022 Vernier/NSTA Technology Award winners are listed below. Category: Middle School.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

21st, 2022). In 2007 I helped pioneer the flipped classroom model and that model laid the groundwork for what I am doing now in my classroom. Mastery Learning is defined as: An approach to classroom instruction that empowers every student at every level to progress with confidence. Bergmann, 2022).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The 2022 experiment took place in four second grade classrooms in the Netherlands. After the lesson, half the classrooms practiced by reciting equations displayed on a whiteboard: “One times three is three, two times three is six…” through to 10. (It was certainly a way to make jumping less monotonous.)

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in AL.com and The Associated Press Piedmont City schools landed in the top spot among all school districts nationwide in a comparison of math scores in 2019 and 2022. Related: The science of reading swept reforms into classrooms. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. What about math?

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

3M and Discovery Education announced 31 State Merit Winners in the 2022 3M Young Scientist Challenge. The 3M Young Scientist Challenge asks students in grades 5-8 to identify an everyday problem in their classroom, community, or the world and submit a one- to two-minute video communicating the science behind their solution.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Credit: Allison Shelley for EDU Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. Twenty years after the reading panel’s report, a second meta-analysis came out in 2022 with even fresher studies but arrived at the same conclusion.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

In 2007 I helped pioneer the flipped classroom model and that model laid the groundwork for what I am doing now in my classroom. Mastery Learning is defined as: An approach to classroom instruction that empowers every student at every level to progress with confidence. Bergmann, 2022). Challenges to Mastery Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. Access early black Friday deals from now through November 27, 2022. Jon Bergmann is one of the pioneers of the Flipped Classroom. Dell Black Friday and Year Long Education Deals.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

For example, the College Board reports that in 2022, Harvard received applications from 61,220 students – the highest-ever number of applicants, but only accepted 1,214, the elite university’s lowest acceptance rate. Unfortunately, far too often, states allow teachers into the classroom inadequately prepared to teach reading.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2022

In total, the district serves 29,500 students across 60 elementary, middle, and high schools. However, Calcasieu Parish School Board’s Chief Technology Officer, Kim Leblanc, has developed a system for providing the type of technology in classrooms that one would only expect in affluent schools.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district. Diagnosing dyslexia early, for instance.

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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. On days when SpaRRk Academy students are learning virtually, the classrooms are empty except for teachers and administrators, who come into the office just about every day.

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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

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. Several educators in the classroom identified with Wendi, and that was the point.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

When you think of racism in our classrooms and schools, what immediately comes to your mind? Take, for example, the recent California Science Test (CAST) scores released in October 2022 that showed 29.45 The data shows over and over that we are missing the mark completely in our effort to build equitable, anti-racist classrooms.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

My lifelong career dream became a reality as I proudly entered my classroom, ready to nurture and positively impact young minds. I didn’t know it at the time, but these early experiences in the classroom and exposure to professional development would profoundly help shape my career path. Empowerment is key to retention.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. Returning to the Classroom with Technology. Monica shares that many of her teachers, upon returning to the classroom from remote learning, wanted to simply feel like a teacher of students once again. Going Global in the Classroom. Lumio for Teachers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif., Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif.,

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Collaboration transcends classroom boundaries, involving a myriad of stakeholders – colleagues, students, parents, and the broader educational community. In my experience, these connections don’t just bring new ideas and perspectives to the classroom; they also offer support and inspiration from a global teaching community.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, Virginia’s Fairfax County used federal funds toward implementing an online, optional tutoring program, but saw limited student participation in 2022. And even getting new programs into schools and classrooms is proving difficult for districts with reduced overall teaching capacity. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Over the years, it has added both classroom and professional development resources to help educators successfully deliver literacy education based on the science of reading research. Our team is highly dedicated and has provided the most effective products for students and educators in today’s classrooms,” said Gaehde.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 4, 2022

InsightMath , our new neuroscience-based core elementary curriculum will transform student learning by teaching the way the brain learns. InsightMath expands this time-tested approach into a full-classroom curriculum experience that helps students—and teachers—become math-loving problem-solvers. Formative Assessment. Learn Math.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

16, 2021 – Carolina Biological announced that two of its elementary school science programs are among the rigorous list of new science materials just adopted by the South Carolina State Board of Education for the state’s K-12 science curriculum. Schools can begin implementing the new standards during the 2021-2022 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

Teachers described their challenges in combining in-person and remote teaching in a University of California, Santa Cruz, study published in January 2022. It’s a professional assessment of a flawed model. The teachers worked in elementary, middle and high schools. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Teacher Yasmin Kudrolli sat on a low chair and lit a candle to start the morning meeting in her prekindergarten classroom in Oakland. Across town, but in the same school district, teacher Alicia Simba leads 13 students, all 4-year-olds, in a breathing exercise in her classroom. OAKLAND, Calif. She wants to go home.

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