Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

In terms of student proficiency, today's classrooms are more diverse than ever. In these classrooms, teachers face a seemingly impossible task -- providing effective instruction to all the unique students under their care. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works on reading with Tyler Howard, left, and Anthony Diaz, right.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 54

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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Blended Learning Secondary Differentiated Instruction Academic Standards 0

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In the past, student work has ranged from the cutting edge to the routine, from creating a measuring tool that uses lasers to estimate the length of great white sharks to teaching officials in Longmont, the district’s main city, how to better use smartphones in their jobs. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates. Over time, Fair figured out how to navigate these situations and talk students “down from the ledge.” No one taught her these strategies.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

But amid a rush of new and emerging classroom solutions promising gains in student mental health and well-being, it’s becoming increasingly clear that not all K-12 SEL solutions are created equal. Yet just 22 percent said they felt “very prepared” to teach SEL in classrooms. The good news? The research is clear.

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Learning Outcomes Exercises Survey 392

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

Esteves, age 10, is a fourth-grader at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark, N.J., This put the small school and its 494 students in the 8th percentile of elementary schools in the state of New Jersey. Claudia Pinheiro, a fourth-grade teacher at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark. and a native of Puerto Rico.

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Common Core Elementary Assessment Academic Standards 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

As is often the case, there was singing going on in Room 2 of Kenwood Elementary one Friday afternoon. “When I as a teacher – and other ESL teachers – reach these kids to a fair degree of proficiency, now their scores no longer count for us,” said Nancy Erwin, an ESL teacher at Lincoln Elementary.

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Common Core Data Elementary Groups 40

MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

There are many experiences in the classroom that are beneficial for building the foundation for learning to read that will come later.” She favors a play-based classroom that gives students hands-on experiences, helping them to develop the symbolic thinking necessary to later recognize letters and numbers. We regret any confusion.

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Common Core Academic Standards Assessment Meeting 28

Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

There is also instructional context support available to help teachers implement the content in the classroom. Even with the best resources, many teachers lack dedicated coaching and struggle to target effective teaching strategies that help students improve their proficiency in math, a linchpin academic subject.

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Software Elementary STEM Academic Standards 134

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

By “messy,” Kwan means two things: both the appearance of the classroom and the style of inquiry and learning that students must adopt in order to thrive during making lessons. “If When they’re engaged in making activities, students are learning, but “learning just looks different” than the typical classroom, according to Kwan.

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Groups Academic Standards Secondary Robotics 163

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

. — On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds spread out across the classroom learning about colors, shapes, engineering and design. As kindergarten has become more widely available in the last several decades, it’s also become more academic.

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Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

Marie Lewis in her classroom at New Providence Middle School in Clarksville, Tennessee. Yet research tells us that exposure to a Black teacher in elementary school can reduce the high school dropout rate for low-income Black male students by 39 percent. Better preparing candidates for licensure exams and rigorous academic standards.

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Dropout Training Academic Standards System 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. Many residents here work in the town’s industrial corridor, making boxes and Styrofoam cups, just a mile away from the elementary school. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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Elementary Data Training Report 62

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. A lesson on how to create a podcast. A lesson on how to create a podcast.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 95

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The elementary school might evolve. In 2013, most elementary schools are simply diminutive high schools, with a balance of reading, writing, mathematics, geography, and other “core” skills, while character training supplements academic work. Personalized learning will disrupt how we think of curriculum.

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