The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

CHICAGO — In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. Several educators in the classroom identified with Wendi, and that was the point.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

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

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Teacher Yasmin Kudrolli sat on a low chair and lit a candle to start the morning meeting in her prekindergarten classroom in Oakland. 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. OAKLAND, Calif. She wants to go home.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Supporters say homework is necessary to reinforce what happens in the classroom. They say students need time to exercise, socialize and recharge. Maxey has spent over two decades in public education, both in the classroom and at the administrative level. It also gives parents a chance to be involved in their child’s education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

A team of Canadian and Australian researchers decided to take a scientific approach and comb through classroom studies across the world on sparking student motivation. They found 144 studies involving nearly 80,000 students, from elementary school through university. Others lavish praise or dole it out judiciously.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Researchers analyzed the records of about 1,300 students, drawn from a nationally representative sample of children across the country, who started kindergarten in 2010 and participated in a gifted program for at least one year during their elementary school years through fifth grade.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Many educators, especially early childhood and elementary teachers, do not have a STEM background so the task of integrating those subjects into daily classroom lessons can feel overwhelming. The typical elementary teacher does not have a STEM background, which can create a level of anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test. Among Hispanic students, it’s 5 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Yon used to hold silent reading time in her classroom; students could read whatever they wanted for 20 minutes. In a normal year, the exercise would have been scaled back by this point, Woll said. A student reading a book in a first grade classroom. They’re now reading at a third and fourth grade level,” Yon said.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

There is nothing black-and-white about how to best support our students and families,” said Dr. Barbara Adams, principal at Findley Elementary School in Des Moines, IA. Being a co-teacher in Google Classroom has allowed me to keep that connection with students, as their math specialist. And she’s the norm, not the exception.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

On a sunny day in early November, teacher Trish Curran wasn’t corralling elementary phys ed students as she normally would be. Prior to the pandemic, a national survey from the Learning Policy Institute found that roughly one-sixth of teachers left their jobs each year. TAOS, N.M. — Credit: Kelli Johansen for The Hechinger Report. “As

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

ESL / ELL Tutors (elementary through high school, all three counties). Assessors score candidate responses to portfolio or assessment center exercises and are trained to look for evidence of a candidate’s practice through the lens of the National Board standards. Certified Special Ed. Read More and Apply. Read More and Apply.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Math performance among elementary and middle-school students has fallen by 6 to 15 percent below pre-pandemic growth rates, depending on the students’ age, since before the pandemic, according to the Northwest Evaluation Association, which administers standardized tests nationwide. They have so many options with math,” says Veetel.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

The pandemic’s disruptions have also forced schools to get more proactive about communicating with families, especially in places where remote learning has turned homes into classrooms. Tulsa Public Schools is one example of a district thinking about education solutions outside the classroom box. Credit: Nicholas Serpa.

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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. It’s important to point out that the researchers only surveyed schools and district administrators; they didn’t actually analyze the content or quality of gifted curriculum.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

This story about mindfulness in the classroom was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Doug Worthen guided his small class of ninth graders at Middlesex School through an exercise designed to focus their attention.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

ESL / ELL Tutors (elementary through high school, all three counties). Assessors score candidate responses to portfolio or assessment center exercises and are trained to look for evidence of a candidate’s practice through the lens of the National Board standards. Certified Special Ed. Read More and Apply. Read More and Apply.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Over 8 in 10 believe that supplemental learning programs providing enrichment exercises can mitigate the Covid-19 learning gap (84%), as well as prevent learning gaps in general (84%). Over 4 in 5 believe one-on-one supplemental learning provides a richer learning experience than classroom instruction alone (83%). “We

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

Inside the spacious facility, students learn more than just how to throw a jab or perform pushups and plank exercises. Eighty-seven percent of parents surveyed also support public funding for these programs. The organization also began surveying both youth and instructors about what their needs were.

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 25, 2017

Rather than focusing solely on students’ academic achievement, the whole child approach to education focuses on students’ well-being beyond the classroom. Coleman Elementary School in Baltimore, MD. What is the whole child approach to eduction? One of my favorite stories comes from the Robert W.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The middle school exercise was almost not included in the study because researchers thought it was too easy, said Sam Wineburg, Stanford professor and lead author of the report. “We What’s needed, according to experts, is a focus on media literacy education in classrooms—starting as early as third or fourth grade. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

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.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

The following year, it created GitHub Classroom, which allows teachers to distribute and review assignments. According to the company’s tally, more than 18,000 teachers are using GitHub in the classrooms, with GitHub Classroom used in over 10,000 courses. Just this week it bought Flipgrid , a video-discussion platform.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed. After instruction went online when schools closed last spring, just 39 percent of over 20,000 students surveyed said they “learned a lot every day.”.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

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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Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

But if we look at the survey results of the Pew Research Center, students in the U.S. According to the surveyed candidates who are now not working in STEM fields, they did not pursue a STEM career due to a lack of access to resources and opportunities. don’t pursue STEM courses because they find the subjects too difficult.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Secondly, four examples of virtual reality programming in the classroom. Third, why creativity is important and a little bit of an upsetting story from one of her middle school teachers about what testing was actually doing to harm students in his classroom. Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom ”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. It’s rare for school district big wigs to spend time in a classroom.

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User Generated Education

MAY 13, 2018

But elementary school-age kids do have the natural curiosity, imagination, drive, and ability to come up with innovative ways to change the world for the better. Learning tasks are authentic, relevant, and promote life skills outside of the formal classroom. Market Survey – Google Form. Market Survey . Online Games.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

But amid a rush of new and emerging classroom solutions promising gains in student mental health and well-being, it’s becoming increasingly clear that not all K-12 SEL solutions are created equal. Yet just 22 percent said they felt “very prepared” to teach SEL in classrooms. That’s the bad news. The good news? The research is clear.

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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. Whether or not preschool teachers offer science lessons and activities in their classrooms depends largely on how comfortable they are in the topic, according to new research from Michigan State University.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2019

Antroine Anderson at Linwood Elementary in Vaughan, MS. The city doesn’t offer state-funded pre-K, although there is a free Head Start program at Linwood Elementary School, where Antroine attended kindergarten. Inside the large classroom with neon green and teal walls, a review lesson got underway. Sarah Warnock/Clarion Ledger.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And they leave at higher rates largely because of poor working conditions—including a lack of input in key decisions affecting their classrooms—not because of dissatisfaction with teaching more broadly. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The superintendent in Lincoln, Nebraska, says a district survey this past fall found that 10% of parents liked remote learning – pandemic or not. Louis, a seventh-grade language arts teacher adapted her own classroom check-ins. Sometimes the exercise prompted her to follow up with individual concerns.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. At the end of the year, when they surveyed the students about their favorite class, they voted the janitorial closet. There's a new application called Classroom, which allows a teacher to monitor the classroom. Now the school had a dilemma.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. But first, the kids in teacher Meghan Groves’ first-grade classroom were taking a moment to share their favorite part of the day. BRISTOL, Va. — Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

A school survey from May found that about 40 percent of responding families had had someone laid off or furloughed. She couldn’t go to their classroom and bring them to her office, so her imagination went to dark places. A handful of students lost grandparents, and several recent graduates lost parents. It’s so scary.”.

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