Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

Students can now meet with private tutors, who are maybe from another country, through Skype, Google Hangouts, and other mobile communication applications. However, if they are from a different country try to find out if that country’s educational system and academic standard is the same or at par with your own country.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Do teachers use Seesaw to teach live, like with Zoom or Google Meet? Seesaw is used by primary grade-level teachers, middle school subject area teachers, elective teachers, and after-school program teachers, but it's most often used in elementary schools. Do teachers use Seesaw to teach live, like with Zoom or Google Meet?

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. BERWYN, Ill. —

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. She expected much more than ‘You’re going to meet state standards,’” he said.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2015

Educators often wonder how they are going to meet all the demands of Common Core. One important point is that the standards require more depth and less breadth. Meeting these standards can be done by doing less, not more. Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum. by Renee Rubin , Ed.D., Integrate subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2016

JACKSON — For the first time in several years, Jackson Public Schools has joined the Mississippi Department of Education’s list of failing districts in the state, with 17 JPS elementary and middle schools drawing an F in numbers the State made public today.

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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. As you think about where and how to invest your SEL dollars this school year, every solution you consider should meet, at minimum, these three criteria. #1

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

So a fundamental question is how can principals do everything they were doing before and at the same time just merely have time to observe and meet … with teachers?”. 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

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. His mother fought the decision, and he graduated from his Washington, D.C.,

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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. Students who meet English proficiency standards – and are therefore more likely to do well on the state’s exams – cease to be tracked as English learners. “We don’t measure all this other stuff.

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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. One of the biggest roadblocks, experts say, is the disconnect between preschool and elementary school math curriculums.

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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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MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

While Common Core aligned assessments don’t kick in until third grade, many teachers feel pressure to make sure kids are meeting the specified standards before they move on to first grade. That pressure can mean more focus on academics, at the sacrifice of play time. We regret any confusion.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Elementary school educators were more likely than secondary school educators to allow students relatively unstructured time to experiment with physical materials, often in the form of manipulatives. This requires meeting teachers where they are. Want to learn more about this research project?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

To make ends meet, she also worked over the summers and during school breaks at a child care center, earning $10.25 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. Just seven percent of our country’s teachers are Black.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Still, Brendan Kelly, an Apple Distinguished Educator who teaches at Wilson Elementary School in West Allis, Wisc. Unfortunately these ideals are not always aligned with the realities of an education system that still emphasizes standardized testing and compliance to rigorous academic standards. That didn’t happen.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

More recently, widespread changes in academic standards, like the adoption of the Common Core standards and concern over low reading scores , further increased the rigor of kindergarten to the point that it has been referred to as “ the new first grade.” They had taken out all the fun to make it more academic,” Turtzo said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. We did what was best for our students while meeting the requirements of the desegregation order,” Wilcox said from his office earlier this year. The new reality.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The new policy stands to degrade academic standards and exclude students based on race, she argued, calling it “a backdoor attempt to dismantle the exam school system altogether.” ” “Covid is a fake cover story for those who want to kill the exam.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

I think we took for granted before what 4-year-olds were capable of doing,” said Quitman Lower Elementary Principal Amanda Allen, listing some skills the youngest learners are impressing her with: advanced vocabularies, number recognition, self-motivation. The Manuel Goff Head Start center is a mile away from Quitman Lower Elementary.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There is also progress in creating inclusive and engaging print and digital library collections to meet a growing demand for equitable access to school libraries. As the National Center for Education Statistics stated, as recently as 2016, “ 95% of elementary schools and 82% of secondary schools had a library or media center.”

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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. Personalized learning will disrupt how we think of curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

The new language supports the rights of parents to opt their children out of standardized tests, demand more oversight of charters and oppose evaluating teachers using their students’ standardized test scores. Related: Poll: Voters agree, candidates should talk preschool.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2021

Many reformers viewed poverty as an inadequate excuse for students’ academic failings, citing flimsy research that claimed 90 percent of low-income students of color can and do meet the highest academic standards — the so called 90/90/90 schools.

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