Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

Then in college, when he started learning Mandarin, a deep love of languages took hold, and he began to make new plans. 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.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Mastery learning (also called competency-based learning) is being used in some classes and schools. 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.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Abbott Elementary is a television series about a fictional elementary school in Philadelphia. After watching the entire season twice , I’d love to share 8 great things about Abbott Elementary. Abbott Elementary was created by and stars Philly-native Quinta Brunson. She even made the 2022 Time 100 list!

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this first post, the authors outline how they centered equity as they developed an edtech selection, implementation, and evaluation guide for school systems leaders.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California. And he records the conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As the coronavirus pandemic ravaged communities and shuttered schools, many educators and parents worried about kindergarteners who were learning online. 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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Platforms like CoderZ offer virtual programming services where children can learn code through games. These games make learning code both fun and engaging for kids. Through the CoderZ Robotics curriculum, kids learn to create, manage, and communicate with cyber robots in a virtual setting by inputting code.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

The headlines from The 74’s September 16, 2022 newsletter are more than sobering: “Learning loss generally is worse in districts that kept classes remote longer, with the effects most pronounced in high-poverty districts, researchers say. Mastery Learning has been around for a long time, and I think its time has come.

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Waterford

MAY 31, 2022

Understanding the science of how children learn to read is a necessary component for creating well-rounded classroom instruction. Read on to learn more about the Simple View of Reading and how it can inform your classroom instruction—along with ten free activities to boost fundamental literacy skills for your students.

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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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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing deepens learning and positively impacts academic performance, improves our students’ ability to establish and maintain relationships, and helps students manage their complex emotions. Students in upper elementary and beyond “do little writing in or out of school for academic purposes” (Graham & Harris, 2019).

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

As districts budget for the 2022-2023 school year, they’ll have some additional funds to spend thanks to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund created by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Explore how the brain learns to read and get tips for effective, researched-based classroom instruction. Then, you’ll learn several practical and research-based strategies to help your students build reading comprehension skills. 1] With strong reading comprehension, reading becomes a lifelong tool for learning.

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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. Give your students a prompt and tie it to something you are learning in class.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

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. My military background taught me independence and how to work collaboratively.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2023

Department of Health and Human Services in 2022 found that between 2016 and 2020, the number of children ages 3 to 17 diagnosed with anxiety grew by 29 percent, and those diagnosed with depression grew by 27 percent. Typically, we tend to associate SEL programs with elementary-aged students. A study released by the U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The 2023 eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards honors educators for their exemplary use of innovative edtech to support student learning. Dr. Jara collaborated with Edmentum to introduce a program focused on accelerating learning in core subject areas, specifically to improve math and reading scores. NWEA MAP points on average.

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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

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. Although educators are trying to keep schools open during the pandemic, they still have to figure out how to educate children quarantining at home. teaching work force.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

A year ago, school would have been over around this time, and the students at Columbus East Elementary would be walking out the door. Thomas Kane, a Harvard education professor who has studied learning loss during the pandemic, said “it’s great to see” districts like Cicero adding instructional time. “It

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

24, 2022, I was facilitating a meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia for education and youth development leaders when I got word that my 15-year-old godson had been shot at his high school in St. The elementary school my younger son attends was incredibly supportive. more than doubled between 2018 and 2022. The morning of Oct.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Guest Post by Jon Bergmann (Keynote of the Mastery Learning Summit on Oct. 21st, 2022). Many suggestions have been made as to how to catch students up. I am not flipping my class per se anymore, but rather I am teaching using Mastery/Competency-Based Learning in my class. . Bergmann, 2022).

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 8, 2023

Still, it’s not always easy to determine how to best optimize your school’s use of the program. Many school leaders and champions have been where you are and have leveraged their creativity plus the collective knowledge of our ST Math Massachusetts community to bring their students’ learning with ST Math to the next level.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil. And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. It’s harder. school system.

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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. Related: How can schools dig out from a generation worth of lost math progress?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In fact, controversies are emerging about an important but less understood aspect of learning to read: phonemic awareness. That’s the technical name for showing children how to break down words into their component letter sounds and then fuse the sounds together. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history. school districts.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Most schools are again open, but parents found that their children learn better when education is a three-legged stool: Parents, teachers, and kids. Whether you work at the elementary level, with older kids or college students, managing the responsibilities you have to kids both at work and at home can be daunting.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

She shared that when he was in third grade, school officials had used a so-called discrepancy model that compared intelligence quotient (IQ) with reading performance to rule that he didn’t have a learning disability. “I continue to use an iteration of the discrepancy model to test children for learning disabilities.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 23, 2022

As you might know I am a big time fan of Project Based learning. Please let me share this special story and dream about educational transformation possibilities based on authenticity, relevance, and student centered learning. You see… we really must learn to put into practice some of the best lessons never taught!

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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. The Math Problem Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

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. So is there learning loss? Was that earlier report wrong?

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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. The survey data underscores a fundamental change in how students utilize AI tools for college applications.

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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. We underestimate how important that is as a partner to academic learning.”. Lane’s class is entirely built around playful learning. CHANTILLY, Va. – Lane the STEM Guy.”

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Turning Learning On Its Head

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Many suggestions have been made as to how to catch students up. I am not flipping my class per se anymore, but rather I am teaching using Mastery/Competency-Based Learning in my class. Mastery Learning is defined as: An approach to classroom instruction that empowers every student at every level to progress with confidence.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In 2017, public interest lawyers sued California because they claimed that too many low- income Black and Hispanic children weren’t learning to read at school. The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2023

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast When the Nation’s Report Card for 2022 was released by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the declines in student reading and math scores were alarming, but for many, the data was not surprising.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For the kids to feel like they’re playing, but they’re actually learning — that to me is the key thing.” Research on the physical, psychological and academic benefits of outdoor learning for kids is well-established, and is now informing the development of climate education. What they learn in the classroom is very important, yes.

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