The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 10, 2023

With April being financial literacy month, there's no better time to tune in and learn how to integrate financial literacy into your curriculum. Episode 801 Empower Your Students: Tips to Teach Financial Literacy Like a Pro In this episode, Financial Literacy Expert Brian Page shares how to teach financial literacy in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Building a sense of safety and belonging for young students early on is critical, said Berol Dewdney, a pre-K teacher and Maryland’s 2023 teacher of the year. One activity she likes is an “I love you ritual,” a termed coined by Conscious Discipline, a company that provides training on social and emotional learning.

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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. This practice — and mindset — must change.” She decided to talk with her principal at the time, Lisa Witcher.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

That’s the technical name for showing children how to break down words into their component letter sounds and then fuse the sounds together. In a phonemic awareness lesson, a teacher might ask how many sounds are in the word cat. “If Companies sold phonemic programs to schools and told teachers to teach it every day.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

As instructors and students press pause for winter break, journalists at EdSurge are likewise taking some time away from writing and editing during the last week of 2023. The novel tells the coming-of-age story of three friends who start a video-game design company.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

We need to prioritize discussions on how to effectively support multilingual students. The good news is, we are seeing more clean energy companies investing in education to help provide resources and training to make this a priority. Older children have access to these solutions, so why not offer the opportunity for young learners?

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. Other companies with products in the market are Bamboo Learning, Ello and Imagine Learning. “Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Education and industry collaboration is incredibly important because educators need to know what they’re preparing their students for, and how to do that. Here are three areas that transformed classroom practices and process and changed the 2023 cohort’s student learning for the better. Externships bridge that gap.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

They have applied what they learned in their coursework to their externships and have been solving relevant, real-world problems with international companies spread out over multiple time zones. I believe STEMpath will have an impact on how we develop future career and technical education programs and pathways. View the recording.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

This story also appeared in Fast Company Now, facing staffing shortages, the district of more than 16,000 students dumped extra work on those who remained. It is very important they are aware of his diagnosis and how to care for him.” In April 2023, Naperville District 203 had 53 open positions for support staff.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This tutoring evidence, however, was generated before the pandemic, and I was curious about what post-pandemic research says about how tutoring is going now that almost 40 percent of U.S. That’s not surprising in a red-hot job market, where many companies say it’s tough to find employees.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Read about the three 2023 winners here. Cleveland recognized the need and became a strong advocate for Hazel Health, a telehealth company that provides mental health services to students at no cost to families. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Not all forms of tutoring reap the same benefits, and districts may need help in determining how to select and implement the best programs. Emma Dorn and others, “COVID-19 and education: The lingering effects of unfinished learning,” McKinsey & Company, July 27, 2021, available at [link].

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2023, Diamond Harriel was looking to make a career switch. After learning more, Harriel enrolled into a trades readiness training program that taught the ins and outs of construction, from how to read a blueprint, to operating different tools and basic safety. This story was produced by The 19th and reprinted with permission.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Every year, space agencies, companies, museums, schools, and more hold space education and outreach events to commemorate World Space Week. Students will work through questions to help them think through how to best utilize and secure water on Mars. Here are 5 TimePod Lessons to try (elementary, middle, and high school).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The logistical issues are complex: tutor training, rescheduling the school day to make time for tutoring periods, finding physical space to hold tutoring sessions and figuring out how to allow a stream of adult tutors to flow in and out of school buildings all day. But tutors at several of these companies rarely see the same student twice.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we close the door on 2022 , we approach 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2023. They will continue to step up in 2023 to meet the challenge.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. We asked edtech executives, stakeholders, and experts to share some of their thoughts and predictions about where they think edtech is headed in 2023. They will continue to step up in 2023 to meet the challenge.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

This story was originally co-published on January 26, 2023 by THE CITY, Columbia Journalism Investigations, Type Investigations and City Limits as part of “MISSING THEM,” THE CITY’s COVID-19 memorial and journalism project. She searched online, using phrases like “how to help grieving students” and cobbled together handouts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

But if the government doesn’t lead research into the uses of AI, we could see a proliferation of companies claiming to use AI without any evidence, said Bart Epstein, founder and former president of the EdTech Evidence Exchange. Related: Edtech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research The U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Lisa Grant, superintendent for the Centralia school district, makes her monthly rounds in a fifth grade class at Fords Prairie Elementary School on Dec. The school district welcomed all elementary students back for in-person learning in early December. million in 2023-24, according to budget documents.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The competition is expanding to 27 states for the 2023-2024 school year, tripling its reach from nine states last year. ” How to Apply for the 2024 Competition Enrollment for the 2024 National Civics Bee is now open. You can watch this video for key highlights from the 2023 competitions.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

From the time she was in elementary school, Isabella Cross has dreamed of going to an Ivy League college to become an engineer. 4, 2023, at Stone Memorial High School in Crossville, Tenn. Related: How to raise rural enrollment in higher education? CROSSVILLE, Tenn.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

But the law doesn’t define key terms like “classroom instruction” or “age appropriate,” and it gives the state Department of Education until June 30, 2023 to issue guidance on complying with the law — a full year after the law takes effect. Carson helped me figure out how to tell you,’ then I’m possibly going to be sued,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” All of this reached a boiling point last April, when Pennridge hired a brand-new consultancy firm called Vermilion Education.

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