Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Read on to find answers to teachers' most commonly asked questions about the platform, in addition to information on how you can use Seesaw with your students. Seesaw Skills view allows users to keep track of student proficiency on any given skill or academic standard. How can teachers use Google Docs with Seesaw?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2015

In our recent book, Less is More in Elementary School: Strategies for Thriving in a High-Stakes Environment, we suggest a variety of ways to find the time required for the in-depth teaching and learning needed for the Common Core Standards. Combine Assessment Prep Into Daily Learning. ” The big idea? Renee Rubin, Michelle H.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

One way the district is applying this standard is via “number talks,” a math practice that encourages students to discuss and critique math solutions, helping kids develop into flexible and creative mathematical thinkers. Use the information from the survey to create a pictograph that shows the preferred ice cream flavors.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

By observing lessons and spending more time with students, administrators may be better informed about challenges in schools, and better equipped to support principals. Secondary school superintendents joined their counterparts from the elementary school level to compare notes across schools, hoping to identify common problems and patterns.

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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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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. “A huge goal of ours … is for students to have good control of their oral language structure so that information will strengthen their abilities to read and write,” Ogbe said.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Experience tells us there are three key features that, taken together, contribute to successful SEL and whole-child outcomes in elementary and middle school. When students aren’t engaged in what they’re doing, be it inside or outside of the classroom, they don’t retain the information required to learn. That’s the bad news.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Back in Anchorage in the early 2000s, Michelle McLaughlin started doing research on her own to determine why her son, Michael, was falling further behind in elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

She also learned how to keep students with disabilities on task and break down lessons into smaller, easier bits of information for students who were struggling. Every teacher who graduates from Syracuse’s Early Childhood or Elementary Education program is dual-certified in special education and spends time in inclusion classrooms.

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MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

If you present children with information that’s too disparate from what they know then they give up or feel confused, or cry, or get turned off,” Carlsson-Paige said. Richard Gentry , author of “Raising Confident Readers: How to Teach Your Child to Read and Write — From Baby to Age 7,” and a former professor and elementary school teacher.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Faced with the pressures of limited time, higher academic standards, diverse student needs, and the responsibility to teach many subjects and multiple grade levels, elementary school teachers have expressed a critical need for easy-to-use, well-designed math resources and ongoing support. Take a look and sign up for free.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

Eliminating school library programs and certified school librarian positions deprive students of rich learning opportunities, jeopardize academic and reading achievement, and perpetuate educational inequities. From Kim Borden’s Plainfield Elementary School Library Reopening Plan and COVID Response.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

By the 1960’s, subjects like reading, writing, math and science were informally included in the kindergarten day, which typically lasted about two-and-a-half hours. They had taken out all the fun to make it more academic,” Turtzo said. Related: Opinion: Kindergarten is more than preparation for first grade, and we need to take it back.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

For us, they’re informative for other reasons: To see language and patterns is to see priority and thought. For additional information regarding their application to technology, please refer to www.ed.gov/ocr/letters/colleague-201105-ese.pdf and www.ed.gov/ocr/docs/dcl-ebook-faq-201105.pdf. Educators . Low-performing schools .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There’s a difference between the promises of “personalized learning” and the policies that school leaders enact—whether through changing academic standards, testing tools, teacher accountability and technology implementation—to make them a reality. Sure, there is much talk in D.C.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

And at the helm of these spaces, school librarians must negotiate how best to support students with library resources, adapt to new technological advancements in education and pass on the fundamental tenets of digital and information literacy to students. What are the emerging technologies in a library? Holzweiss asked. As the U.S.

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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.

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