Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. This summer, in fact, we finished the two-year opt-in period for blended learning at the elementary level. Ninety-two percent of teachers have opted in.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. But training programs are doing little to prepare teachers; Fair’s experience is typical. No one taught her these strategies. Inclusion done right.

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Training Elementary Report Course 40

ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

However, teachers do not always have the time, resources, and proper training needed to really help students develop sustainable coping skills. In some cases, administrators are afraid they might be criticized for bringing in new solutions or fear they cannot supplement enough training for the staff. That’s the bad news. The good news?

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Learning Outcomes Exercises Survey 392

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. For example, St.

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STEM Report Robotics Company 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

They spoke of teachers inadequately trained to support special education students. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. A lack of understanding often results in an assumption that students can’t handle academic material.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

software that uses Watson artificial intelligence technology and has been trained by some of the nation’s leading math experts, with feedback from more than 1,000 teachers across dozens of US states. With more training and teacher use, Watson’s expertise and ability to provide targeted recommendations will continually increase.

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Software Elementary STEM Academic Standards 134

MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

Education standards have always been implemented in a variety of ways. “What we’re talking about is teachers who have maybe not been trained and some attention on that would be important,” she said. Other advocates of the Common Core standards see them as an important step towards education equity.

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Common Core Academic Standards Assessment Meeting 28

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

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. In five years of training residents at NTR, we’ve found many people with the potential to become amazing teachers if given the training, support and opportunity to do so.

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Dropout Training Academic Standards System 98

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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Libraries Elementary Future Ready Advocacy 118

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. Early education sets the train in motion for where children are going to end up.”.

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Elementary Data Training Report 62

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In other words, school librarians should be trained educators charged with providing information literacy opportunities to learners across an array of contexts. 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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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 97

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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Maker Movement Academic Standards Education Elementary 40