The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Credit: Kelly Field for the Hechinger Report. Instructors say it’s tough to teach and assess motor skills, like catching and kicking, online. At least two Massachusetts districts have eliminated elementary PE altogether this year, according to the president of the state’s SHAPE chapter. Others are trickier.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

News reports—and rumors—about the pandemic are inescapable. Called the COVID-19 School Response Dashboard , it asks elementary and secondary schools and districts throughout the U.S. to report confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 among their students and staff who are learning and teaching in person this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Credit: Austin Anthony for The Hechinger Report Speaking comes naturally to most children, being a gift of human evolution, but reading and writing are inventions that must be consciously and painstakingly learned. Guidelines put out by the U.S. The study described a 14-year-old referred to as Percy F. The studies came just as the U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

“As part of our continued partnership with the district, we look forward to supporting DPSCD teachers as they work to accelerate learning and drive reading outcomes for their elementary students.”. The program works seamlessly with i-Ready® Assessment, a program used by DPSCD to provide data-driven insights about each student’s skill level.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

In a survey from the International Journal of Education, 97% of teachers reported never or seldom using a flexible curriculum for their students.[2] Our programs assign these lessons based on a student’s placement assessment and their demonstrated mastery. Differentiation of Instruction in the Elementary Grades. Tomlinson, C.A.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

“A lot of the schools are still doing virtual summer school,” says Sean Gill, a research analyst for CRPE who co-authored the report. “I Among the districts that EdSurge examined, only 10 districts, or 5 percent, reported that they are considering some in-person component along with online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

This week, Education Commission of the States released a 50-State Comparison and Companion Report summarizing state statutes, rules and regulations related to K-3 quality. We discovered that most states implement a system of assessment to identify struggling readers coupled with a system of interventions in K-3.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

He encouraged school leaders to look to groups like the Institute for Ethical AI in Education, AI4K12 and EdSAFE AI Alliance, which have developed frameworks and ethical guidelines for schools to use when choosing emerging technologies for classrooms.

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ). and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ). and 31%, respectively” ( CDC, 2020 ).

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

During the first month of school, send an introduction letter to parents with class guidelines and information about the upcoming year.[12] 14] Also set a few student goals for the upcoming semester during the meeting to involve parents in the assessment process.[8]. National Association of Elementary School Principals.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. Typically, high schools have lower poverty levels than elementary schools because parents are older and able to earn more.). Photo: Ariane Kunze for The Hechinger Report. PORTLAND, Ore. Luke Said, 18, spent the summer of 2018 picking raspberries.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. Once you’ve defined your first program, the next step should be to assess technology infrastructure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are guidelines, culled from top education sites like Edutopia, Google Education, Educational Technology, and EdWeek that are valuable when evaluating any website: free or small fee. positive parent reports. positive parent reports. Because of this, the game play can be used for both formative and summative assessments.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

“Sometimes things get very isolating just because you're in the confines of your own classroom…teachers don't necessarily share things with one another, especially when it involves a traumatic situation such as this,” said Oakland, California elementary school teacher Nikita Gibbs, referring to the upheaval due to the pandemic. “It

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

A new national effort asks K-12 schools to voluntarily — and anonymously — report their confirmed and suspected coronavirus cases, along with the safety strategies they’re using. The COVID-19 School Response Dashboard , which NPR is reporting on exclusively, was created with the help of several national education organizations.

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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. I can see a world where we overcorrect, however, and start to view it in a very narrow way.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report. While no guidelines on classroom technology govern the network, according to Berger, there is a shared wariness of anything that might undermine EL’s collaborative ethos.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Report 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

At Dunn Elementary, kids who are struggling get extra time with second-grade teacher Sarah Bowling. The second-graders in Sarah Bowling’s class at Dunn Elementary were on a scavenger hunt to find “arrays.”. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The bookshelf had a picture of three rows of five fish. A lot is at stake.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

Esteves, age 10, is a fourth-grader at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark, N.J., This put the small school and its 494 students in the 8th percentile of elementary schools in the state of New Jersey. Claudia Pinheiro, a fourth-grade teacher at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark. and a native of Puerto Rico.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. Field Elementary, where nearly one out of every five students is classified as having some sort of a disability, has actually managed to do this. One of the tablets in use in Jessica Howard’s classroom at Field Elementary.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 55

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Photo courtesy Michelle McLaughlin.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

Finding Free eBook Platforms for My English Language Learners When surveyed, teachers report that their top three considerations for choosing tools are 1) price, 2) whether the tool was time-saving and simple to integrate into instruction, and 3) whether the tool tailored student tasks and instructions based on individual students’ needs.*.

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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. I can see a world where we overcorrect, however, and start to view it in a very narrow way.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

Reading comprehension strategies (RCS) are simply a “bag of tricks” that although are useful to teach because they are quick and easy to learn, do not provide specific guidelines on how to connect sentences. Younger students also have limited metacognition and often incorrectly assess their understanding. the challenges of reading.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

By combining all of this data, teaching SEL skills and doing the SOS assessment, not only are we having serious and meaningful conversations with families, but we are saving lives,” explains Dain. And we share that data with parents so they can see how their child scores during that assessment window. They also can see the trend data.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. Teacher Meghan Lewis works on math problems with a small group of fourth graders at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts.

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Competency Based Learning Learning Elementary Report 116

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. Recent reports reinforce our findings. New York City schools have yet to do that.

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Training Report Analysis Elementary 94

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

In normal times, Jolley spends a lot of time traveling, visiting classrooms and teachers and conducting assessments and observations. In addition, children who attend the elementary school across the street join for afterschool care. And providers were still navigating new guidelines and funding options. We pay attention.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2022

I have seen the many ways community schools can assess the needs of students and try to match them with supports. But now we have models and standards that schools can use to systematically assess all students’ individual needs, provide customized services and support and track their impact over time.

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

UDL – originally developed by researchers at the Center for Applied Special Technology ( CAST ) in collaboration with Harvard University – supports special education students, but its flexibility, technology guidelines and aim to individualize learning are best practices that can serve every student.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2021

Since the beginning of the pandemic, the city of 95,000 has reported about 14,000 cases; the positivity rate from late April to the first week of May was around 5 percent. Isabella is blunt in her assessment of remote learning: “I hated it,” she said. Middle schoolers don’t follow guidelines. She leaves at 3 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. It’s very important for arts to be seen as a subject that can be and should be tested,” said Frank Philip, an arts education assessment consultant. It’s a parity thing.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Private providers are one of the program’s fundamental building blocks, but many of them say that surviving within the framework of city-mandated expectations, guidelines and funding is tough, even though the city has put in place numerous incentives and supports. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The district chose itslearning because it enables the meta-tagging of learning objectives within the district’s libraries and the creation of assessment data that tells teachers whether a student has gained proficiency (or not). The playlist functionality allows students to progress through a series of lessons (e.g.,

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 2, 2021

Amy’s experience is unique in that she has now taught both elementary AND middle school in a pandemic, so she’s experienced the challenges of working with both younger and older students in face-to-face and hybrid learning. It’s almost like a formative assessment with like a conference day or something.

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