The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Across town, but in the same school district, teacher Alicia Simba leads 13 students, all 4-year-olds, in a breathing exercise in her classroom. billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. She wants to go home. The plan is that the $2.7

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Report Elementary Policies Groups 112

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 109

techlearning

AUGUST 20, 2018

Built-in, easy-to-use graphing and analysis tools help students draw their own conclusions about what they have measured. Vernier creates easy-to-use and affordable science interfaces, sensors, and graphing/analysis software. This collection of brief high-quality videos show many variations of the same phenomenon.

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Software Libraries Technology Analysis 40

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Whether from formative and summative assessments or online instructional programs, data is both a powerful indicator of teaching and a driver for personalizing professional development. With this simple exercise, you have identified an area of need—as well as a valuable SME who is already overcoming the challenge.

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Data Blended Learning LMS Knowledge Base 78

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 36(4), 476–500. A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 239

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

They had limited impact on professional learning, says Epps, principal of the Mancos Early Learning Center and Elementary School. Consensus with Consistency Last fall, Mancos worked with the Colorado Education Initiative (CEI) to conduct a “readiness assessment” of its ability to support and train educators to adopt the new tool.

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Data Common Core Assessment Training 60

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

EdClusters leveraged an updated development rubric to assess their maturity and strategize next steps for moving ahead in four key areas: Stakeholder Engagement; Supportive Infrastructure; Compelling Communications; and. Sustainable Operations. Indicators of Education Innovation in a City. How EdClusters Work and What They Do.

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Assessment Tools Blended Learning Exercises 120

Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Common Sense Media's analysis of the privacy practices of the most popular streaming apps showed that nearly all (with the exception of AppleTV+) have privacy practices that put consumers' privacy at considerable risk. Teachers can see students' quiz results, run a class-wide analysis, and give students feedback on their progress.

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Video Classroom Digital Citizenship Libraries 90

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. At the time, the projection seemed realistic. “I I saw projections like that in other applications,” said Shahan.

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Elementary Report Meeting Academic Standards 71

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

A recent Hechinger Report article highlighted how data analysis has not significantly improved student outcomes since the No Child Left Behind Act ramped up national data collection. Does this mean we should eliminate testing or move away from data analysis, as some critics have suggested? In between, you have meaningful analysis.

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Data Analysis Professional Learning Outcomes 113

MindShift

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Ball spent years as an elementary school teacher and was always praised for being a “natural,” but she says teaching never came easily. Tim Boerst, chair of the Elementary Teacher Education program, says the question they asked themselves was this: “When a teacher goes out into the field, what are they routinely going to be needing to do?

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Training Elementary Secondary Analysis 28

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. Sign up here to get the latest stories from THE CITY delivered to you each morning.

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Training Report Analysis Elementary 95

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

It’s well-aligned with the goals of elementary classrooms: The learning activities activate students’ creativity while the multi-modal assessment appeals to innovate teachers and offers great home-to-school connections. You know the type: computerized-instruction grounded in cartoony interactives that re-interpret worksheet exercises.

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EdTech Tools Examples Common Core 104

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

In this file photo, a student at Quitman County Elementary works on an assignment. Denmark, Germany and Norway had fewer than five positive cases per 100,000 residents before students were allowed to return to campus, according to analysis from the Center for American Progress. Credit: Kayleigh Skinner/The Hechinger Report.

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Trends Elementary Report Groups 115

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

An analysis of Mississippi public school textbooks by the Hechinger Report and Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting shows that, for at least some grades, all of the state’s 148 school districts rely on textbooks published before the model standards appeared as part of their social studies material. In contrast, James K.

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Study Report Analysis Course 85