eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed the CARES and ARP Acts, which created and added to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Program ( ESSER ). As a first step, assess your top 10 most expensive ESSER programs and answer these questions: What is our plan to close out or continue to fund this particular expenditure?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Defense Department, in a separate study, calls for an initiative akin to the 1958 Eisenhower National Defense Act to support education in science, technology, education and math, or STEM. Professors blame the pandemic In the most recent Program for International Student Assessment tests in math, or PISA, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Instructors say it’s tough to teach and assess motor skills, like catching and kicking, online. Meanwhile, public health experts say kids need exercise more than ever. “PE Compounding these issues, many students around the country live in crowded apartments or in neighborhoods where it’s not safe to exercise outside.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

ESL / ELL Tutors (elementary through high school, all three counties). STEM.Org: They are hiring 24 certified teachers for a 6-week paid, summer STEM fellowship program in Detroit & Westland, Michigan USA. National Board assessors consistently report that the assessment process is a great professional development experience.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

ESL / ELL Tutors (elementary through high school, all three counties). STEM.Org: They are hiring 24 certified teachers for a 6-week paid, summer STEM fellowship program in Detroit & Westland, Michigan USA. National Board assessors consistently report that the assessment process is a great professional development experience.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

Recipients shared how they will utilize grant services: Norwalk Public Schools , Connecticut — Advance student-centered STEM education. Provo City School District , Utah — Improve literacy outcomes for students in K-3 through 1:1 coaching for teachers and leaders at four elementary schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The teachers were first assessed on how they how they approached teaching potentially hot-button topics like climate change and evolution (for example, in some cases teachers might avoid conflict, try to take a middle ground and let kids come to their own conclusions, or avoid a controversial topic altogether).

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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techlearning

AUGUST 20, 2018

Pivot Interactives is a versatile supplemental tool that can be used for a variety of learning opportunities, including pre- and post-lab exercises, lab skills assessment, flipped learning, and many more,” said John Wheeler, CEO of Vernier Software & Technology.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The exercise is part of a new program that encourages learning middle school math through real world problem-solving, now in use in 190 school districts across 36 states. NEW YORK — I strap on a virtual reality headset. A screen appears and dramatic music pounds into my ears.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

This year, it was 47 percent — a 68 percent increase that disproportionately impacted Black and Hispanic students, according to a report by Amplify , a national K-8 curriculum and assessment company that analyzed data from 400,000 students across 1,400 schools over the last two years.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

She showed the students a video to review the math, then sent them scattering to different tables to practice the exercises they’d found challenging. “We But she said the district would find ways to measure student performance and assess kids’ views on the changes along the way. Related: Middle school is often difficult.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. They need the power to exercise their skill sets.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2017

Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

But a large survey of 2,000 elementary schools in three states found that not much advanced content is actually being taught to gifted students. Related: The problem with high-stakes testing and women in STEM. So perhaps these critical thinking and creativity exercises are doing something.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

That’s how school district users last year found out about the end of TenMarks, which has provided curriculum, lesson plans, exercises and assessments in math and writing to students in an estimated 11,500 U.S. Across the district’s elementary and middle schools, Yakima had about 8,400 students on the program for the last three years.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

One way that we can exercise that is through our one-to-one initiative. And at the end of that year, we did some assessment, and we realized that we needed some more time to build this vision. What can it look like in an elementary classroom? All of our learners have a device.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 15, 2017

When Emerie Lukas was hired to develop and teach a STEM Foundations course to middle school students at the Dayton Regional STEM School , she was starting from scratch. She knew without these qualities students wouldn’t be prepared for a rigorous STEM environment. Instead, she’d often ask students to assess their own work.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Preschool students at Kruse Elementary School in the Poudre School District in Colorado play at the water table during choice time. It’s important to note here that American kids do even worse on the reading section of the National Assessment of Education Progress; just 27 percent scored proficient and 9 percent advanced in 2015.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. They need the power to exercise their skill sets.

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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. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate. But that wasn’t a thing then.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Indeed, many students in the public education system aren’t “catching” what they need to know about writing — the most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress writing test found almost 75 percent of eighth- and 12th-graders in the U.S. wrote below grade level and only 3 percent of U.S.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 24, 2021

Created by the founder of the Discovery Channel, there are thousands of documentaries and nonfiction video programs covering STEM, history, innovation, world cultures, arts, and SEL. There are film curations available for elementary, middle, and high schools. Grades: 4-8. Read our review of BrainPOP. Curiosity Stream. Grades: K-12.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When Michael Stone was considering a job at the STEM School Chattanooga he was a little skeptical at first. The other big emphasis: assessing process skills alongside content knowledge. Grading to promote from PEF STEM Innovation Hub on Vimeo. STEM School FabLab (@STEMFabLab) May 12, 2016. COACHING STUDENTS TO SUCCESS.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

When she talks with teenage girls, she uses the metaphor of exercise: To develop physical strength, you have to slowly push your levels of physical endurance, building up strength through resistance training. That gawkiness stems from the extraordinary brain development that happens in adolescence. Responding Instead of Reacting.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It was a public exercise, with the whole class watching. At the start of each school year, for example, the class devotes a few days to trust-building exercises, not math. An eighth grader in Ruby Voss’ and Amber Benson’s math class works on a slope exercise. After only a few weeks, his grades started rising.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

This remarkable functionality makes an array of assessment types possible – including spelling tests, short answers, fill-in-the-blank, and more. Varying exercises are designed to support learning every step of the way, and the FingerPaths keyboard helps students intuitively visualize key locations and finger movements. Illuminate 11.0

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wwwatanabe

OCTOBER 27, 2010

You see, all week long I indulged in PBL lessons such as STEM with GPS and students doing amazing projects, projects that I aspired to do when I was still in the classroom but hadn''t quite gotten there. The kids on the laptops got to choose what their learning exercise. Flexible learning groups were in the first grade classroom also.

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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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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

Nearpod also offers VR lessons that leverage virtual travel along with related activities, like a visit to La Sagrada Familia in Spain to learn about symbolism in architecture, followed by a drawing exercise. Visit the developer's website to find chemistry lesson plans for elementary, middle, and high school classrooms, all for free.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Khan Academy is a giant online library, viewed by tens of millions of people worldwide, of multiple-choice practice exercises and short instructional videos, with the strongest offerings in STEM disciplines. Her daughter started this fall at Murray’s school, Waukesha STEM Academy. So there you have it.

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Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 1, 2018

This exercise will help students understand both the educational and training aspects of the career. For more on types of infographics and how-to ideas, please see Kathy Schrock’s Guide to Everything: Infographics as a Creative Assessment.) Here are a few resources for this age group. Self-Knowledge 1. Skills to interact with others 3.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

The various services and products acquired by consolidators over the last year or two will be integrated into increasingly comprehensive platforms offering instructional content, assessments, and classroom tools all in one place. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

But, on any given day, an untold number of children in elementary schools nationwide have all or part of their recess revoked for infractions such as failing to finish their work, talking out of turn or not following directions. Children play during recess at a Louisville, Kentucky elementary school. That’s not appropriate,” Lisa said.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Schools will make changes to provide systematic instruction and stem the bleed of learning loss. Now that the most urgent phase of the crisis is past, learning technology leaders can assess how to implement technology that both prepares them for the next emergency and better supports students’ everyday learning needs.

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