Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Nine other elementary schools in our district also read the book. My students connected with Angie Pendley’s students at Gaines Elementary. We had about 21 families reading the book, so I hoped to have a large group discussion. However, due to many schedule conflicts, we had a very small group.

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Reading By Example

AUGUST 26, 2017

When I first became a principal at an elementary school, I thought I had the requisite knowledge to be a literacy leader. This article serves as a closing post for our online study group Becoming a Literacy Leader by Jen Allen. My previous experiences in the classroom as a teacher of readers and writers led this misconception.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

she asked the group. She’s been working with this group and 20 other preschool teachers and directors in the area since the beginning of the school year. Everybody will share the play dough,” she said to a group of students. I’m definitely more calm. The Kidango-Ryan Center is located in an elementary school in San Jose.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. But for this generation, a surprising new problem is thwarting their success: too many choices. All of this takes a toll on graduation rates.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide. Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

This year, the Green Lake Parent Teacher Association paid about half that much to cover the cost of the elementary school’s vocal teacher and a portion of a full-time counselor’s salary, among other supports for students. About 3 in 4 students at Rising Star Elementary qualify for subsidized meals. Double click image to enlarge.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. But some parents fear that acknowledging their housing struggles could prompt the government to take their kids away.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Let us be clear about our definition of rigor. In elementary school, the classroom teacher often serves that function. In many middle and high schools, an advisory or advocacy program is often included. We worked with an elementary school that had multi-grade wings for long-term personalization.

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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. Continuing Advocacy. In Search of a Better Way.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2019

” 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. Stanislaus Elementary School with “Four at the Door.” Why teach SEL in schools? SEL exercises. She looks students in the eye.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

According to the CoSN report, the standard definition of hurdles is a roadblock that forces schools to slow down, prepare themselves, and then make the leap. Ann serves on the edWeb.net Advisory Board , ClassLink’s Senior Advisors Group, and is a founding member of ERDI’s Alliance for Education Impact Advisory Council. Dr. David R.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Most states have some sort of truancy laws on the books, but only about half still have policies punishing truancy with potential penal measures, according to the national policy group Education Commission of the States. Barentine, a single mother, hasn’t been around as much as she would like to help to coach Hayden through his difficulties.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There’s really no agreed-upon definition of “personalized learning” after all , and as such no real way to measure how many or how well schools are actually implementing it. Whatever “it” is.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Pre-K 4 SA definitely is focused on the success of its students, but also extending that arm to the families that need it,” she said. That’s why the program was designed to offer professional development to kindergarten and elementary school teachers in San Antonio’s 19 public school districts. “We Denise Ojeda, parent.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

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. I’ve definitely heard from at least 10 parents who are like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on,’ ” O’Connor said. “ ‘Is this good for my child?’ ”.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

Deep Dive: Educating for Democracy (by the Teaching Channel): Developed in partnership with UC Riverside's Civic Engagement Research Group, this series of videos (featuring real students and teachers) and associated lesson materials is backed by research and sure to inspire.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Last month, NCSS updated its definition of social studies as the “study of individuals, communities, systems, and their interactions across time and place that prepares students for local, national, and global civic life.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

Besides being away from counselors, kids are also out of sight of their teachers and peers, two groups that often help counselors identify who might need their help. The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. My job was mostly reactive.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. That’s definitely been one of the challenges for the families using the education scholarship account, is finding a school that will admit their child,” she told the Jackson Free Press.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Teachers throughout Arizona, including this group in Phoenix, staged a walkout strike in 2018 in support of better wages and state funding for schools. Patrick Miller is the superintendent of Greene County Schools, a district in North Carolina that he describes as “poor and rural by every definition.” Credit: Facebook/Patrick Miller.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

He and many other experts also note that because of legitimate fears of overlooking kids at risk and vague definitions of abuse and neglect , school workers may sometimes be overzealous, calling in allegations over relatively minor issues such as broken eyeglasses, inappropriate clothing or small scratches.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Katherine Gallagher Robbins with the Center for Law and Social Policy, an advocacy group for low-income families, said that while schools aren’t viewed as child care providers in the traditional sense, elementary and middle school campuses do function as a “work support” for parents. It’s just difficult to make a choice.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. Donors to the National Parents Union include the Walton Family Foundation and the City Fund, another pro-charter group.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

.” Via Politico : “Partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to the displacement of more than 300,000 Hispanic students between 2000 and 2011, with most of those students disappearing from elementary schools.” ” Education in the Courts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I But even as some celebrated “flipping” their school boards back, far-right groups like Moms for Liberty remain. I think we are in trouble based on what I saw.”

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Elementary Report Meeting Policies 136

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Arguably, there is no better example of this than the ongoing push that “everyone should learn to code,” led at the K–12 level by the industry-backed advocacy organization Code.org. “Tracking” – an educational practice that re-inscribed social inequalities.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The New York Times tried to keep track of all the 45th President’s falsehoods this year, but it seems to have abandoned its “ definitive list ” some time in July. Facebook said it would work with the ed-tech advocacy group Digital Promise to teach digital skills. It is now a key feature of his presidency.

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