eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

School and district leaders will be actively seeking innovative approaches, leveraging data, and collaborating with advocacy organizations and policymakers to bring about meaningful changes in how we educate English Language Learners. Older children have access to these solutions, so why not offer the opportunity for young learners?

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Robotics Industry Elementary Training 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

he told his mother that the National Institutes of Health had awarded him a postdoctoral fellowship to study dyslexia, a condition he’d long suspected he had. The study described a 14-year-old referred to as Percy F. “He The studies came just as the U.S. In 2004, as a new Ph.D., Up to around 20 percent of the U.S.

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Learning Study Report Elementary 145

eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The research examined MAP Growth assessment scores from six million U.S. Achievement was lower for all student groups in fall 2021; however, as our data have illuminated before , historically marginalized students and students in high-poverty schools were disproportionately impacted, particularly in the elementary grades studied.

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Outcomes Education Advocacy Policies 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. Often, their intelligence masks their disability, so they are never assessed for special education or don’t receive the services best suited for them.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Elementary Training Report 111

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

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Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 188

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. And another study found that intensive tutoring had major positive impacts on math gains among high school students. Read the stories.

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Study Data Report Elementary 138

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 191

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2020

A 2007 study found that executive functions are more critical for school readiness than is IQ or entry-level reading or math. As students enter upper elementary and middle school, the focus on executive function strategies declines, so students show up to high school, and don’t know how to take notes or study.

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Schoology Advocacy LMS Strategy 53

MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. Often, their intelligence masks their disability, so they are never assessed for special education or don’t receive the services best suited for them.

Advocacy 53

Advocacy Elementary Training Assessment 53

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

Personalized Learning 71

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 71

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. A recent study from EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit that works with school districts to help close the digital divide, found that affordability was the largest contributing factor.

Digital Divide 112

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 6, 2020

This week, REINVENTING SCHOOL focuses on the spectacular rise in interest in pod schools--small groups of students studying with one or more teachers in an environment that is both similar to, and different from, traditional school. Mara is the international two-time best selling author of HELP!

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Trends Handbook Kaplan Company 36

MindShift

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Now the advocacy group Everytown For Gun Safety is joining with the American Federation of Teachers and the National Education Association — the nation’s largest education unions, with several million members — in calling for schools to reassess the use of lockdown drills. .” She is an AFT member and an activist with Everytown.

Industry 44

Industry Advocacy Training Groups 44

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But a 2015 study by a Stanford University research team compared academic outcomes of students at 158 online charter schools in 17 states with those of students in brick-and-mortar schools in their states who were matched on numerous characteristics, including prior test scores. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.).

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 127

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

But high schools often neglect to teach these students the soft skills that will help them in higher education — like how to study, manage their time and self-advocate. Skills like knowing how to ask for help or organize a study group “are as important as anything else you’re going to learn,” said Tudisco. It’s a crisis.

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Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 89

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Instead of isolated lessons, students learn how to connect their studies with real-world problems. Imperative 5: Create Balanced Assessments. Assessments look far different than 10-15 years ago, but it’s not just the switch to computerized testing. They have widened the availability of virtual and blended learning options.

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Technology PowerMyLearning Learning EdTech 40

MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. And another study found that intensive tutoring had major positive impacts on math gains among high school students.

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Study Advocacy Training Groups 42

MindShift

MAY 14, 2018

Several studies have found a direct correspondence between the strength of unions and narrow gaps between the rich and the poor in the United States; when union membership was highest, the share of wealth was most equal. . Teachers need to be careful not to engage in any explicit political advocacy in the classroom.

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Advocacy Resources Industry Study 39

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 126

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. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 69

Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

This post is a newsletter I am sending home to our elementary school families. No doubt we teach social studies. For example, are the “3 R’s” – reading, writing, ‘rithmetic – mutually exclusive from social studies? Let me know what you think in the comments! It is hard to believe that November is already here!

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Examples Trends Study Elementary 32

MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When children are identified with dyslexia, public schools often lack staff with the appropriate training to help, according to several studies and reports. When Billy Gibson, 18, was in elementary school, he couldn’t spell his own name. Students at or above proficient reading level. Disagreements Over Reality .

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Training Report Groups System 78

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

In May, as one school year ended and another began to loom large on the horizon, Danks and the leaders of a handful of other outdoor education advocacy groups— Ten Strands , the Lawrence Hall of Science museum in Berkeley, Calif., And she hopes educators and families all across the country will try it and see that for themselves.

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Learning Analysis Assessment Groups 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2019

Success in school was like that when grades were the barometer and studying harder was the tool. ” You notice in neither of these definitions is there anything about academics, playing sports, or studying hard. And with home advocacy, SEL will work better, faster, and more effectively. Why teach SEL in schools?

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Education Exercises Digital Citizenship Advocacy 201

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Members of the NAACP and an advocacy organization called Oakland REACH , started by Oakland parents whose kids attend the district’s lowest performing schools, have coalesced around a campaign for better reading instruction they’re calling Literacy for All. She was still struggling to read and other kids teased her for it.

Advocacy 62

Advocacy Elementary Meeting Report 62

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

student at the University of Chicago and one of the authors of a study released earlier this year on the privacy and security challenges facing K-12 education. School districts that have been hit say they are taking new safety precautions. We’ve been saying this is a five-alarm fire for the last two years,” he said.

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E-rate Advocacy Data Libraries 115

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Teachers decide how many times a student can retake an assessment before intervention is needed.

Learning 124

Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 124

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

“I am overwhelmed with joy for my students because I know now they each stand a better chance of being a successful student,” said Regina Trout, who teaches the second-year kindergarteners at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown. ” Regina Trout, kindergarten teacher at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown, N.Y.

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Trends Study Knewton Personalized Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cardona probably first caught the collective eye of the state’s education and political leaders in 2010 when he was appointed co-chairman of a legislative task force studying the state’s intractable academic achievement gap between racial and socioeconomic groups. The other co-chair was then-Sen. They have a voice — right?

Education 123

Education Elementary Common Core System 123

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders represent more than 30 different ethnic groups in New York City. A student at the N.Y.C.

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Groups Study System Advocacy 96

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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Tools PresenceLearning Edmodo Blackboard 71

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. You are studying what you need to study at your level.”. And when kids should stop going to elementary school and start attending a middle school across town.

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Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. Use online systems to assess, remediate and individualize learning. But then over a few hours you can actually form, in some ways, a more granular view than you would in a traditional assessment.”

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Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting 57

edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2020

At the heart of anti-racist early childhood education, she emphasized, is institutional critique combined with advocacy and transformation. Anti-racist early childhood educators must closely study play-based learning to utilize cultural knowledge, particularly that of parents, to construct an equitable play environment. Stephanie M.

Kaplan 98

Kaplan Education Policies System 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Associate Professor of Biology A Case Study in Science and Engineering Job Shadowing in High School - Ann Gaudino, Ed.D. Gary Bass Meaningful STEM-Based Learning in a University/Elementary School Partnership - Maria D. Derek Barkalow, Ph.D. Shaheen, Ph.D.

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STEM Maker Movement MOOC Common Core 47