The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Many students do not have access to the resources needed to address their mental and emotional concerns, and they do not have the proper tools to deal with everything they go through in their lives. Reflecting on my journey from fear to advocacy, I am reminded of the transformative power of restorative justice.

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Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

When I got connected on social media, my lens was expanded and I became aware additional organizations, as well as their supporting tools and resources. CCSSO provides leadership, advocacy, and technical assistance on major educational issues. CCSSO also creates and shares a variety of tools and resources for school leaders.

Future Ready 100

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

Instructional Materials 115

Instructional Materials Training Advocacy Elementary 115

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The Yale survey of more than 300 undergrad and graduate students ages 18 to 35 found that students who participate in “collective action” — like involvement in advocacy groups or educating others about climate change — report lower levels of climate anxiety than those who only take part in individual actions like recycling or saving energy.

Survey 176

Survey Advocacy Study Social Media 176

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. Loud’s passions are technology integration in the elementary grades, along with teacher motivation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? Sometimes, it’s a simple question. Timed tests?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

She spent many of her weekends this past fall at an elementary school in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district, alongside 83 other peers, including fellow classroom teachers and other educators. They “did not have the tools to take care of themselves,” she said, “let alone the tools to support their kids.”

Exercises 167

Exercises Education Learning Advocacy 167

eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

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. public schools.”. English Learners (ELs) — A third research study looked at achievement and growth for K – 4 for ELs.

Advocacy 57

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techlearning

MAY 20, 2018

Code.org Advocacy Coalition ?, of more than 60 industry, non-profit, and advocacy organizations working together to make computer science a fundamental part of K-12 education. [ 5 Tools to Teach Coding to Late Elementary Students ] These 20 states passed new laws or initiatives to support K-12 computer science (CS) since January of.

Accessibility 40

Accessibility Advocacy STEM Industry 40

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.”. Learn more at PlayOsmo.com and Osmo Education.

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EdTech Advocacy Education Company 57

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

One professor reached out to tell me how impressed he was by the self-advocacy that students from our district demonstrated. Since my time in Maine, personalized, competency-based learning has gained momentum as a transformative solution for equipping students with the skills and tools needed for navigating an ever-evolving future.

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Competency Based Learning Policies Advocacy Report 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. Then everything is exacerbated when you bring language into the mix.” There’s also an issue of context.

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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. Learn more at coolcatteacher.com/guide. Drones in the Classroom. He’s actually been back, He’s taking a gap year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. One of Edgecombe’s elementary schools created three teacher-leader positions to focus on improving literacy among students in third grade and younger.

Elementary 110

Elementary Advocacy Trends STEM 110

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

There are five essential pieces to implementing and improving an RTI assessment system: Identification of a universal screening tool that compares students to a normed-population of students in both language arts, math, social-emotional learning and behavior. Name changed to protect student privacy.

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Assessment Education Handbook Data 161

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

K-12 system, the context for OER will vary across states and districts, across institutional types (regular public schools, charter schools, and private schools), across school levels (elementary, middle and high school), and across technological reliance and sophistication of schools (online/blended programs versus more traditional classrooms).

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Many educators are looking beneath the surface inequities of devices and connectivity to consider how digital tools can revolutionize learning and address even deeper inequities. Amesse Elementary at Denver Public Schools. Amesse Elementary. Palmer High School in Colorado Springs. A student at William J.

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Accessibility STEM Robotics Elementary 90

NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 7, 2015

activism advocacy twitter' Using the hashtag #getESEAright, ALA joins forces with NEA’s planned Twitter storm on Thursday, April 9 th from 7:00 till 8:00 PM Eastern. We need to tell legislators how important school libraries and librarians are to our students and we need your voice to take up the rallying cry.

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Libraries Advocacy Secondary Social Media 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

The program teaches students how to use the internet as a tool for more than just communication. Generation Z students may be digital natives, easily connecting with friends and family on social media apps, but that doesn’t mean they understand how to use the internet as a tool. This need for digital literacy is actually universal.

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Learning Advocacy Report Google 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

She has learned to use technology-enabled woodcutting tools and is at work creating a virtual tour of her school, Laing Middle School in Charleston County, using another drone she built in the school’s Fab Lab. I really have fun doing these things,” says the rising seventh grader, “but I also like that it’s preparing me to be an engineer.”.

Robotics 112

Robotics Elementary STEM Training 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Peter Mosby is principal at Rock Ridge Elementary School in a suburb of Denver. But like any tool, it can also be abused,” he said. L]ike any tool, [threat assessment] can also be abused. Peter Mosby, elementary school principal, and parent of a student with a disability.

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Assessment Report Training Guidelines 102

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“We talk a lot about the fact that kids are coming into our schools and they know how to use technology, but they don’t know how to use it in a productive and effective way,” said Smith, “And it’s our job to be able to give them those tools so they use them effectively, efficiently, and productively.”. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Broadband Accessibility Advocacy Elementary 54

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Lexia Core5 Reading was named the winner in the category for Best Literacy App or Tool. Lexia PowerUp Literacy was recognized as a finalist in the category of Best Personalized/Adaptive Learning App or Tool. Core5 provides explicit, systematic instruction through personalized learning paths in six areas of reading.

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Differentiated Instruction Adaptive Learning Advocacy Learning 41

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 106

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

based education advocacy group. “It Teaming up with Skyview’s instructional technology facilitator and early-adopting teachers, Chun frequently demonstrates new tech tools at the school’s teacher-led professional development meetings. Teacher-librarians such as Chun have since expanded that tech-integration role.

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Future Ready Libraries Software Advocacy 110

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. I use this tool when students are making Scratch video games for them to record their games and explain their scripts.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 190

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

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2019

Many district leaders are wary of soliciting such sensitive information, fearing they won’t have the tools to help students in crisis or that they’ll be liable if tragedy strikes and they weren’t able to intervene. Next year, district leaders plan to use the tool with seventh- and eighth-graders as well.

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Survey Advocacy Secondary Conference 53

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Not all districts have complied, said Dustin Rynders, a supervising attorney with the advocacy group Disability Rights Texas. “In A lot of assessment tools do lend themselves to virtual use. A lot of assessment tools do lend themselves to virtual use,” said Desai of the National Association of School Psychologists. But not all.”

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Education Assessment Advocacy Report 133

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

There is no one-size-fits-all remedy and no must-have suite of digital learning tools. Blaney Elementary School in Elgin, S.C., To boost parent participation, many districts offer webinars and other online instruction to help adults gain fluency in the schools’ digital tools and guide them through available resources.

Learning 67

Learning Laptops Smartphone Accessibility 67

techlearning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Operation Prevention equips teachers, parents, students and communities with digital tools to initiate life-saving conversations about the opioid epidemic. Since launching during the fall of 2016, Operation Prevention’s immersive English and Spanish-language tools have reached more than three million students ages 8 to 18.

Advocacy 41

Advocacy Education Elementary Learning 41

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

Suspensions have long been considered an important tool for dealing with misbehavior, and most teachers support their use; a 2019 survey found that 43 percent of teachers thought out-of-school suspensions were used too little, with just 9 percent saying they were used too much. That’s not what happens.”

Report 93

Report Survey Data Policies 93

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. LPS set out to develop a home-grown ed-tech tool to make this personalized learning system more efficient. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

Technology 40

Technology Blended Learning iPad Advocacy 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

I was a science educator, so I’m pretty comfortable and confident using technologies of all kinds, although the kids have really surpassed me when we start to get some of the newer tools that their using, particularly as part of their Maker Work. But I’m not uncomfortable around it. It doesn’t scare me.

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Education Examples Maker Movement Company 247

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

Education 131

Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 131

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

They used to provide the tool for us to give the survey, but this year and moving forward, districts can create their own tool to give the survey. We now work with the Panorama survey tool as it is much better than Google Survey. It was run by our elementary school guidance counselor.

Survey 45

Survey Advocacy Training Exercises 45

MindShift

JULY 7, 2019

She has learned to use technology-enabled woodcutting tools and is at work creating a virtual tour of her school, Laing Middle School in Charleston County, using another drone she built in the school’s Fab Lab. I really have fun doing these things,” says the rising seventh grader, “but I also like that it’s preparing me to be an engineer.”.

Robotics 44

Robotics Elementary Training STEM 44