eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While the online curriculum has recently been successfully received and implemented by 200 elementary school teachers in a pilot study in the southeastern region of the United States, the researchers hope that, with additional federal funding, the online curriculum can be soon accessed by teachers nationwide.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2023

” The two schools in the study are an elementary school and middle school in Schiller Park, Illinois, which reflect similar demographics to many schools across the country. Visit NWEA.org to learn more about how we’re partnering with educators to help all kids learn.

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Study Strategy Advocacy Assessment 74

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

that would keep them in the classroom. At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation. One relatively easy option would be for elementary classes to have their normal classes 4 days a week. Like their workforce peers, teachers want flexibility, too. So let’s imagine.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif., Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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Professional Learning Elementary Advocacy Outcomes 93

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks.

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Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 142

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

Kids in about two dozen elementary schools across Dane County and Waukesha County in Wisconsin empty out of classrooms at the end of the day and make their way to gyms, cafeterias or media centers. According to the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group for after-school programming , 7.8 But this is a systemic issue.”.

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Company Elementary Advocacy Report 118

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. But a handful of school systems across the country are searching for better ways to accommodate bright students with disabilities.

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Advocacy Elementary Training Report 111

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Now, Tom is a 10-year classroom veteran who is working to make his classroom (and help others) connect with kids in new ways. The Urkund system is highly accurate, cost-effective , and even better, doesn’t sell licenses to students or others. And I’ve been in the classroom now for ten years. And in fact, it was.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Being raised in a bilingual Finnish/English home and having attended elementary school in Finland for several months at a time, I chose to apply to teaching positions in my mother’s native country of Finland. In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

classrooms continue to address the immediate needs of students while prioritizing academic progress for all. It showed that ELs had lower test scores than their non-EL peers through their elementary years, but they also made academic growth similar to or at greater levels as their non-EL peers. Portland, Ore. public schools.”. “We

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

This is the story of a student who got lost in the system. My investigation led me to one simple conclusion: The lack of a coherent system failed him. Our system, that we governed as administrators, failed him. Special education services often included classes separate from the regular classroom. We had to do better.

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Assessment Education Handbook Data 158

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Moreover, children who are expelled in preschool or early elementary are 10 times more likely to be incarcerated. Preschool classrooms with behavioral consultation services, such as Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC), have recorded significantly lower expulsion rates.

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Education Survey Advocacy Outcomes 192

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

This historical tension of not feeling wanted or valued by the educational system is understandable. A positive snowball effect of representation in classrooms will also increase the number of black boys who aspire to become teachers, aiding generations to come. Over 50 percent of students in U.S. The first step?

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Dropout Advocacy Report Elementary 145

eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

While we’ve seen tremendous support from kindergarten and elementary teachers in the past five years who individually purchased Osmo to use inside classrooms across the country, we’d love to build sales and begin support for the education community at the district level.”. million homes and 50,000 classrooms, respectively.

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EdTech Advocacy Education Company 55

eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

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 91

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. I’ve been engaged in thinking deeply about the promise and opportunity afforded the U.S. Even within the U.S. K-12 education.

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OER Instructional Materials Advocacy Meeting 170

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Green New Deal for Schools is meant to focus this climate activism on the education system. This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. Have you seen climate-related effects on classrooms near you?

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How To Advocacy Learning Policies 77

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2022

As a student from rural Kentucky attending a predominantly white school, I’ve been in numerous classroom conversations in which “edgy” humor has been used to propagate radical politics and conspiracies, including the one about the alleged microchip inside Covid-19 vaccines. It is easy to enter an extremist pipeline.

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Social Media Advocacy Report Course 98

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. But a handful of school systems across the country are searching for better ways to accommodate bright students with disabilities.

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Advocacy Elementary Training Assessment 53

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Students can co-create curriculum and their classrooms with teachers for powerful learning experiences. Drones in the Classroom. Sometimes I’ll walk in, and I discover a teacher that I wasn’t even aware of in the system — because we’ve got, you know, over 1200 teachers in Albemarle. He actually ran for school board.

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Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 188

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. There’s still work to be done. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report.

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Groups Advocacy Report Study 101

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Some institutions are even cutting teacher degree programs, such as Oklahoma City University, which has suspended its elementary education and early childhood education tracks. “We We are running multiple ads all the time.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

They didn’t have a high-tech classroom with fancy equipment — in fact most students didn’t even have laptops or access to the internet. For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. classrooms as school closures continue because of Covid-19.

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Learning Advocacy Report Google 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In the run-up to a new school year, I was proud to contribute $100 to the parent teacher association at my son’s school for classroom supplies. These systems prohibit states from distributing tax dollars where there is greater need. AP Photo/Ted S. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S.

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Secondary Report System Advocacy 71

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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Elementary Learning Data Report 108

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. It’s because we’re mostly women,” she explained. Women’s work in general is undervalued.”.

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Secondary Report Advocacy Elementary 96

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2019

in elementary education from the University of Virginia. Tim’s passion is helping educators and administrators integrate modern practices and digital-age, instructional strategies into their classrooms and schools in meaningful ways. In 2010, he was hired by Albemarle County Public Schools as an instructional technology specialist.

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Broadband Accessibility Advocacy Elementary 54

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Amesse Elementary at Denver Public Schools. Palmer High School calibrates the VR system. Sean Wybrant, Digital Media Studies Teacher, in his classroom with students at William J. Amesse Elementary. Digital inequity is the thoughtful and intentional result of many interlocking systems of oppression.

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Accessibility STEM Robotics Elementary 87

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. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The homework gap isn’t new. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 115

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

Instead, schools must support and address these issues in the classroom. More states should have such systems in place, said Selene Almazan, legal director of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates. Still, Pearson laments that he didn’t get that level of instruction throughout elementary school. “I

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Pearson Education Learning Report 145

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the country struggle to move their brick-and-mortar classrooms to remote online learning environments. 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 54

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Related: Millions of kids are missing school as attendance tanks across the US Thousands of students went missing from American classrooms during the pandemic. She had yet to register the youngest girl, who was entering kindergarten.

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Policies Online Learning Dropout Elementary 85

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.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 73

edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

To meet these goals, they start with the perspective of advocacy for all, especially BIPOC, high-poverty, LGBTQ, religious, and other populations within their schools. This involves eliminating and dismantling systemic and systematic discriminatory practices and services that prevent students from receiving a premier educational experience.

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Differentiated Instruction Professional Learning Meeting Advocacy 82

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Having long focused on readying students for college, school systems are beefing up their career-and-technical programs amid a growing push to more closely align the skills students accumulate in school with workforce needs. If they wish to be a dental assistant, they need an associate’s degree and a literacy level of 1420.

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Robotics Elementary STEM Training 112

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

With high poverty rates, overcrowded classrooms and fears over Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials, she says many parents are just trying to survive. For these parents, understanding how local school systems are serving the needs of English Language Learners (ELL) is critical.

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Libraries Data Learning iPhone 100

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

You can change one simple thing to help transform your classroom. And I think sometimes that when we see the final product of a school, or a teacher, or a school system that looks really good and has been done really well, it feels insurmountable… Vicki: It does. Vicki: (laughs). Pam: No one does that. Do Something.

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