The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

For example, in Virginia, where the use of threat assessment protocols is mandatory, team members are required to get up to a full day of instruction. The state education department referred questions about those complaints and whether changes are needed in the state’s approach to the Colorado School Safety Resource Center.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Can you give me an example of where you tried to be that teacher that you never had, and it did make a difference? Tom Loud is first grade teacher at Middlesettlements Elementary in Tennessee. Loud’s passions are technology integration in the elementary grades, along with teacher motivation. Bio as submitted.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Drones in the Classroom. He actually ran for school board.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Secondly, four examples of virtual reality programming in the classroom. 4 Virtual Reality Examples in Virginia. Example #1: An autistic student using VR. Example #2: VR and Beowulf. Example #3: A student designing fashion in VR. Example #4: Pam’s experience in VR with Field Trips.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

based education advocacy group. “It For example, Tressa Norris, a library media specialist at Joppa View Elementary School, recently worked with second-graders on multimedia presentations about American symbols to bolster a unit about patriotism being taught by their classroom teacher. And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

So you wouldn’t find, for example, with technology — Albemarle has been in a one-to-one environment for a number of years now, as has Charlottesville City. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Many of these critical thinking concepts are not difficult but need to become habits adopted early in life, which is why Oxman first tried them out in his children’s elementary school classrooms. The study was financed by an environmental advocacy group, not an unbiased source. “The START EARLY. BREAKING DOWN THE FACTS.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 15, 2017

In a Seesaw Blog Ideas post , Alison Murphy shares several examples for using these games right out of the box or follow instructions to personaliz[ing] your own plan: Seesaw Go! These are all things I do for free anyway, but it should be a great education/advocacy opportunity. plan for teachers. game board to print.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. The class sizes at Enterprise Attendance Center are an example of these struggles.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Can you give me an example of where you tried to be that teacher that you never had, and it did make a difference? Tom Loud is first-grade teacher at Middlesettlements Elementary in Tennessee. Loud’s passions are technology integration in the elementary grades, along with teacher motivation. Biography as Submitted.

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Reading By Example

APRIL 12, 2017

For example, my son was recently assigned a family heritage project. These examples are, by definition, homework. This seems to fly in the face of research, such as John Hattie’s meta-analysis that homework has a negligible effect in elementary school and a significant one at the secondary. I’m torn.

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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. Take your yellow paper and fold it horizontally,” Fair said, referring to a yellow sheet of paper that sat on each student’s desk.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

The cause, as activists saw it, was partly “the absence of systematic, cumulative, phonics-based reading instruction in the early elementary classroom,” they later wrote in an open letter. For example, she might have read a book like “What Is at the Zoo,” in which each page follows a predictable pattern: Are there elephants at the zoo?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

It’s help teachers need: In 2016 , about 50,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once, and at least 17,000 were expelled, according to the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based liberal research and advocacy institute, which arrived at the estimate based on data from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health. What shifted?”

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

When Billy Gibson, 18, was in elementary school, he couldn’t spell his own name. This is commonly referred to as the “phonics” approach. Whole language was big in the 1920s, for example, as progressive education became influential. Students at or above proficient reading level. Disagreements Over Reality .

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Still, districts nationwide are now placing students in online learning in response to misbehavior, in a process referred to in certain circles as “virtualization.” When the kids are academically on target, for example, you don’t want them to lose that momentum, and we allow [virtual] as an option.” It just depends.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

All links and references are available in the online show notes: www.coolcatteacher.com/e141. You know, the advocacy is not lost on them. This is a great example about how we can motivate our students and motivate ourselves to build that relationship just a little bit stronger. Book Giveaway Contest. Enhanced Transcript.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For years, it was a battle getting Guadalupe to his Phoenix elementary school in the Washington Elementary School District. The law defines excessive absences as missing 10 percent of school days or more, a level more widely referred to as chronic absenteeism. Credit: Isaac Stone Simonelli/AZCIR.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They must refer families to health care and housing services. For example: “Calling child protective services would not be a severe threat to Black students if racial disparities within the institution itself were less pronounced.”. Advocacy groups and researchers , too, have surfaced examples.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Kids who communicate in a language other than English at home are 48 percent less likely than English speakers to be referred to early intervention. It’s a stark example of how children who haven’t even learned to brush their own teeth may already suffer due to the color of their skin or the language that they speak. * * *.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Race, and racial bias, can also play a role in whether families are referred to and investigated by child protective services, research suggests. The flowers that were a Valentine’s Day gift from her husband, for example? School officials also note that they have a unique responsibility in policing child neglect in many states.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Following Meryl’s death, Ketron decided to continue her daughter’s advocacy. Credit: Lily Estella Thompson for The Hechinger Report Across the country, the number of GSAs is at a 20-year low, according to GLSEN, an LGBTQ+ education advocacy nonprofit. Some families have sued.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

And over the past few decades, educators have relied more and more on police to handle routine student discipline, with schools referring hundreds of thousands of students to law enforcement each year. Tiffanie Harrison, a teacher in the district, refers to the incident as “Animal Cracker Gate.” There’s no teeth to it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2019

But after attending an advocacy event in Washington two years later, and hearing that the U.S. Here, he visits third graders at Baywood Elementary School in Los Osos, California, in the San Luis Coastal Unified School District, where he serves as a board member. He says he got nowhere. Photo courtesy of Lisa Stephens.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2020

The family had just moved and now has to wake up earlier to make the half hour drive across town to Jaslynn’s elementary school, which is in their old neighborhood. one early-March morning for the half hour drive to Jaslynn’s elementary school in Grand Rapids, Michigan. It was 8:38 a.m. the night before.

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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 Dana Douglas, a Republican Christian Conservative who is “100 percent pro-public education, and I am pro every child” readies to make voter reminder calls on Election Day.

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Elementary Report Meeting Policies 134

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Her privacy was completely disregarded,” Vigil said, referring to the way Adelyn was treated by the district in the past. The same battle she had fought and won in elementary school came up again when Adelyn started middle school in 2019-20. The most often-cited example comes from Connecticut. She suddenly hated school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

We’ve run into challenges where legislators are reluctant to pass an unfunded mandate,” said Nicole Gibson, the senior director for state policy and grassroots advocacy at the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. National hotlines can have long wait times and can’t refer callers directly to local resources.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

It hit us like a ton of bricks,” said Laura Foster, a local mother who helped create the progressive advocacy group the Ridge Network to fight the right-wing dominance of Pennridge’s schools. The district’s website was scrubbed of references to DEI, and a new, board-directed committee was created to review DEI initiatives.

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Policies Education Elementary Advocacy 139

Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I’ve already made references to for-profit higher education in the second and third articles in this year-end series – on the “ innovation gospel ” and on the business of student loans. There are other markets to pursue, after all – markets in Mexico , Gaza , Uganda, Kenya, and Nigeria , for example.

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