The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 25, 2023

— Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) July 25, 2023 Scott McLeod started by sharing some teachers who are doing the work! Steve Dembo and Donnie Piercey — Scott McLeod (@mcleod) July 25, 2023 Steve Dembo, AI and Writing So, I recently sat down with Steve Dembo to talk about what he's doing in his classroom. Enough of the junk.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

Being one of the best was the goal of each of the 80 teams while competing at the 2023 National KidWind Challenge in Boulder. Elementary School Division (Grades 4-5) Hutch STEM Blue from STEM Magnet School at Allen in Hutchinson, Kan. This year’s event was co-located with the Collegiate Wind Competition on May 14-17, 2023.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

It can give suggestions for how to write a college application essay for those who lack writing skills, too. The “ Public Libraries and Book Bans – Parent Perception Survey ” gathered insights from 1,527 parents and guardians with children under 18 in two surveys during October and November 2023.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Some ways administrators can do this is by providing professional development to ensure teachers know how reading develops, how to assess critical skills, and how to teach these skills to ensure all students become proficient readers. Phonics will play a primary role in helping students to become proficient readers.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

In Molly Long’s kindergarten class at Burrus Elementary in Hendersonville, Tenn., Research shows that many kindergarteners learn early on how to count and recognize basic shapes — two areas that make up the majority of kindergarten math content. Two kindergarten students at Hilltop Elementary in Aston, Pennsylvania.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Here are great ideas from the Ask a Tech Teacher crew on how to keep tech fresh this summer. Elementary School – Interactive Learning Apps Picture your elementary school classroom filled with excited young learners, their eyes glued to their screens as they explore new ideas and grasp essential skills through educational apps.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2024

Given the amount of planning time he has each day, along with the assistance of an AI-powered app, Robert can easily turn a hard copy reading passage and questions into an interactive quiz for the students in his elementary classroom. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Journey with JiJi This one comes straight to you from Lieder Elementary in Houston, Texas. STMathTX @STMath pic.twitter.com/VEvo9ZEE99 — Suzanne Flores (@MsFlores_Llamas) August 24, 2023 We all know how much JiJi loves to travel the world! Hickman Elementary students can’t wait to get their ST Math games on.

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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 In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended. JOHNSBURG, Ill. —

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 9, 2023

By ETT Instructor Shawn O’Neill When I tell people that my first graders could not only code, but explain to others how to code, people look at me with disbelief. What they didn’t know was that they were also learning how to collaborate, how to persevere, how to problem solve, how to be resilient, and how to harness their creativity.

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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. percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data. She knew only a handful of numbers and was not printing her letters clearly.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

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. The researchers characterized the reading improvements as larger than those seen in 90 percent of large-scale classroom interventions, according to a 2023 study.

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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. Photo courtesy of Farley.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

The school year ended at Washington Elementary at 2:35 p.m. Malaysia Robertson, 9, outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., on Friday evening, July 28, 2023. Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., on Sunday evening, July 23, 2023. on Sunday evening, July 23, 2023.

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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. Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program. “In In grades 3-5, students completing at least 16 skills had the biggest improvement overall, growing 8.7

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

This elementary curriculum engages, inspires, and connects students firsthand to the world around them through a total of 24 student-driven modules. Students talk to each other to design a solution together, brainstorm how to test it, and plan how to make it better.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. Related: How can schools dig out from a generation worth of lost math progress? Piedmont Elementary School Principal Brigett Stewart and Piedmont Middle School Principal Chris Hanson on Aug. 31, 2023, in Piedmont, Ala.

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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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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. My military background taught me independence and how to work collaboratively. Every day since, I’ve learned something new about patience, team dynamics, and preempting behavioral triggers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Once you see students engaged and learning through play, it clicks and the question goes from how to how do we add more?” Track your play: Get your student(s) involved to see how much progress you’re making with a Color-By-Number template and “Learning in Progress” poster. ©2023 The LEGO Group. for LEGO Education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Our students are spread across 31 elementary schools, two pre-K schools, and seven secondary schools. For example, a kindergarten lesson on algorithms is integrated into “how to” procedures for a fire drill. With 30 elementary buildings and six secondary buildings that I oversee, linking teachers across the district can be a struggle.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

where our school buildings are crumbling, where our students are not being adequately prepared to face the realities of the climate crisis, where there are vast inequities across race and class,” said Shiva Rajbhandari, a Sunrise Movement organizer and a 2023 graduate of Idaho’s Boise High School. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Puskar Experts say math research hasn’t gotten as much funding or attention, especially beyond the elementary level. In some ways, the best practices for math parallel the science of reading, which emphasizes detailed, explicit instruction in phonics , instead of letting kids guess how to read a word based on pictures or context clues.

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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. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? One of their leaders held a Science of Math event in Pennsylvania in 2022 and is planning another in 2023. Timed tests?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

On February 13, 2023, the Digital Citizenship and Media Literacy Act was introduced in the Senate. So it's really important for us to help them understand how to be safe online at an early age, how to interact appropriately online and how to apply the rules of technology etiquette. It has been a huge work in progress.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It’s Time for All Schools to Learn How to Support Neurodivergence At the start of this school year, there were about 7.3 are neurodivergent, or have neurodevelopmental differences in how they know, experience, and navigate their world, such as differences in how they learn, feel, perceive and socialize.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Related: Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color White teachers like me cannot build trusting relationships and meet the emotional needs of our students unless we learn how to talk honestly about race. She is a 2023-2024 Teach Plus Senior Writing Fellow and Teach Plus Senior Policy Fellow.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

Enrollment in the program, ourBRIDGE for Kids, has bloomed over the last few years, from 35 students when it opened in 2014 to about 230 children in 2023, with more on waitlists. The center rents its main campus from a Methodist retirement community for $1 and operates an additional program out of an elementary school.

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Discovery Education

APRIL 16, 2023

An educator from California writes about how she captures and sustains student’s attention in financial literacy with gamified resources , including Discover Venture Valley (a program from The Singleton Foundation and Discovery Education). Learn More Learn More --> ESSER Funding ESSER is still in action!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

The elementary school my younger son attends was incredibly supportive. Less than two months into 2023, there have already been 40 school shootings, including a mass school shooting in Michigan this week. Snow West Side Elementary School are trained on the ways trauma affects student learning and behavior. In 2013, Mary C.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

RootEd took the model to 13 rural Texas high schools this fall and plans to expand to 30 by 2023). She wanted to go to college — her ticket, she thought, “to creating a life for myself where I was not struggling all the time” — but had no idea how to begin. The post How to raise rural enrollment in higher education?

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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. Taking time to self-regulate and demonstrate calm behavior Staying calm when a student is misbehaving or when something stressful happens models how to respond to a conflict. “If

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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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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

.– The Social Institute announced that it has expanded its pioneering peer-to-peer learning technology to meet the needs of third-grade students, available starting Fall of 2023. The developmentally appropriate lessons come in response to demand from elementary schools nationwide and the U.S.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With experts predicting more extreme weather in 2023, that undoubtedly means schools will suffer more disruptions in a K-12 education era already defined by pandemic-related learning setbacks. And back in September, around 82 percent of Florida school districts closed for at least one day — keeping roughly 2.5 million students out of school.

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