eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

This year’s 2nd most-read story focuses on creating an elementary esports program. Thus far, conversations around esports have centered on collegiate and secondary levels, however, a recent change in the winds has shifted the conversation to elementary esports. The benefits of esports are well documented.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

In many schools, these students were more likely to show up to class than other groups. By 2022, the rate had more than tripled to 34 percent. Since before the pandemic, the rate of chronically absent English language learners more than doubled, from 16 percent in 2019 to 36 percent in 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It It was brought to my attention yesterday that there was an incident at football,” Principal Bridget Belcastro said to the group. JOHNSBURG, Ill. —

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you oversaw your very own elementary school? For Benita Grant , her dream came true six years ago when she became the Principal of Fickett Elementary School , a K-5 elementary school in the Atlanta Public School District located in Southwest Atlanta. The Game Room.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A national group that seeks to curb student absenteeism is sounding an alarm after finding that the number of chronically absent students continued to surge even as pandemic closings abated. 27, 2022 blog post. She also recommends advisory groups for middle and high school students to build connections with faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Sample question on the math section of the 2022 PISA exam. For more PISA questions, there are PISA practice questions on Khan Academy and publicly released questions from the 2022 test. Source: OECD PISA 2022. The tests were administered in 2022.) Source: OECD PISA 2022. Source: OECD PISA 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Flash forward a few decades, and in 2022, I observed four teachers and 135 freshmen – all in one classroom. But Arizona State University resurrected the approach, in which teachers share large groups of students, as a way to rebrand the teaching profession and make it more appealing to prospective educators. It dates back to the 1960s.

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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. Attendance has failed to snap back and recovered only a bit during the 2022-23 year, according to data from 38 states and the District of Columbia collected by FutureED, a think tank based at Georgetown University.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

technology job vacancy postings in September 2022 exceeded 804,000, and the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported a need for 3,800 new aerospace engineers every year until 2031–an industry that is already grappling with employee retention and workforce shortages. And, those with filled positions are not representing diverse groups.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. We had recently implemented a re-rollout of small group guided reading instruction, but it was showing limited results.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2023

Based on its latest data, dated May 2022, these statistics offer an authoritative and up-to-date view of the education sector. Bureau of labour Statistics ( 2022 ), top paying states for preschool teachers are: These figures paint a clear picture of the diverse landscape of preschool teacher compensation across the country.

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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. Source: NWEA).

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

In Arkansas, a tornado swept through Washington and Benton counties in March 2022. It permanently damaged George Elementary School’s gymnasium and destroyed the outdoor playground equipment. In May 2022, they sold these pieces during MINDShare , allowing their fellow MIND colleagues to participate in the fundraising effort.

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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. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. We’ve always done small groups in reading,” third-grade teacher Windy Casey said.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Read on to learn more about the average attention span for elementary school students based on current research. What Is the Average Attention Span for Elementary Students? Students in older elementary grades will have longer attention spans than younger students. August 4, 2022. Strategies to Maintain Student Attention.

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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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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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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

This path seemed like the best way to blend his love of linguistics with his interest in teaching — that is, until he took a job as a paraprofessional at an elementary school in his hometown of Corona, California. CGU has a teacher residency program that let him stay in the elementary school he was already in. So that was my journey.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

It all began when my mother’s friend, who operated a group home, offered me a job. That experience led to the High Road School of Delaware, where I began teaching during the 2022-2023 school year. Every day since, I’ve learned something new about patience, team dynamics, and preempting behavioral triggers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The 2022 experiment took place in four second grade classrooms in the Netherlands. Both groups spent five minutes practicing three times during the week for a total of 15 minutes. When the teachers moved on to multiplication by fours, the groups switched. It was certainly a way to make jumping less monotonous.)

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

hours of auditory instruction in small group or tutoring sessions, but continued to make progress if visual displays of the letters were combined with the sounds. 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. school districts.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019). ” Yet, national surveys of writing indicate that teachers beyond third grade spend little time on explicit writing instruction. Harvard Educational Review , 81(4), 710-744. Shanahan, T.

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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. February 22, 2022. Sources: 1.

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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 CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

However, I'd like to note that if you create a group space as I did with my students, you're limited on the number of blocks you use to 1,000, which goes surprisingly fast.) Norwood Elementary School. Chris and his wife, Heidi, will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary on July 25, 2022. using Notion. Blog: [link].

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. A Science of Math Facebook group, which they started in December 2020, now has more than 21,000 members.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

This is one way of noting that there wasn’t much of an academic recovery between spring of 2022 and spring of 2023. That dropped to 55 percent in 2022 and barely improved to 56 percent in 2023. Even worse, these children learned less during the 2022-23 school year than during a typical pre-pandemic year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In math, all groups of students deteriorated. Based on a sample of more than 7,000 9-year-olds around the country, two decades of academic progress in reading and math were erased from 2020 to 2022. But it is troubling that the lowest achieving students in our schools lost the most ground between 2020 and 2022. 1, the U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

I would submit that in 2022, after two years of extraordinary learning loss, a transformation shouldn’t wait any longer. Within those averages, stubborn achievement gaps between racial and income groups have expanded, meaning the children who are least able to access traditional summer school are the ones who need it most.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has continued to cast uncertainty on education, and the beginning of the 2022-2023 school year is no different. The data should be the driving force whether we are presenting whole group, small group, or individualized instruction.”

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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. SpaRRk Academy’s future sat on shaky ground; the school board announced in late 2022 that it would hold a vote this spring on whether to shutter the academy altogether.

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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

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. On a day in early fall, a large group of students tossed their backpacks in a messy pile and made a beeline towards the school’s blacktop for pickup basketball and soccer games.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

But Texas’ second-largest district had to fill elementary classrooms and core subjects in middle and high schools. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala. The prohibition against using such certificates in elementary school was lifted, too.

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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. Key national findings: Of the 25 elementary teacher reading licensure tests in use by states, the majority (15) are weak.

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