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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

The Hechinger Report

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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In New York state, students can be suspended for up to an entire school year

The Hechinger Report

A third of school leaders reported an increase in fights among students, and 56 percent said there had been an uptick in classroom disruptions that they attributed to Covid disruptions, according to a federal survey released in May 2022. This defies a one-size-fits-all solution, in my mind.” That’s not what happens.”

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SEL: A Leadership Roundtable

techlearning

Here are some highlights from this discussion: NEVA MOGA INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY SUPERVISOR AT MILWAUKEE (WI) PUBLIC SCHOOLS We build our SEL around culture and climate that we monitor through surveys. She always begins her meetings with a mindfulness exercise. It was run by our elementary school guidance counselor.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

And our teachers, in terms of being able to exercise that creative juice, that it lets them really explore learning in a way that gets at passions of teachers. If our kids don’t leave us with that, then we’ve done an incredible disservice. I think that we’ve had really almost two decades in Virginia where our kids have been held in thrall.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library. For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

The RAND study was based on surveys completed in early 2021—nearly one year into the pandemic—by more than 1,000 teachers across the country. She arrived as an elementary teacher in 2008, drawn by the school’s racial diversity and stellar record in academics and the arts. Finding a better way forward.

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