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From digital citizenship to digital leadership in a South Carolina elementary school

Hapara

I am currently a fifth grade teacher and Digital Learning Coach at Oak Grove Elementary School in Lexington, South Carolina. Being in an elementary classroom, it is hard to help students understand how their digital habits affect themselves and others. and “How do I have a friendship with someone I’ve never met?”

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The challenges of mobile learning in the classroom

Neo LMS

78% of elementary school students, 69% of middle school students, and 49% of high schoolers now use a tablet in their school life. Tablets are the number one choice for classroom learning, as they are somewhere in the middle ground between the reliability of laptops and the mobility of smartphones. Avoiding the risk of distraction.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

The Hechinger Report

The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading. The researchers characterized the reading improvements as larger than those seen in 90 percent of large-scale classroom interventions, according to a 2023 study.

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OPINION: It’s time. Let’s use different ways of teaching children to read

The Hechinger Report

Only 53 percent of teacher education programs “provide sufficient coverage of early reading components,” the National Council on Teacher Quality found in their 2020 review of elementary teacher training programs. Related: Retraining an entire states’ elementary teachers in the science of reading.

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OPINION: Struggling readers need standards and structure based on the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

As students return to the classroom this fall — many for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that upended their access to quality, in-person learning — we have an opportunity to enact standards to ensure that teachers’ instruction methods are effective and backed by science.

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In 2024, education will build systems that champion the science of reading

eSchool News

Schools and districts The move toward aligning literacy instruction with the science of reading has largely been a grassroots movement without federal support. Publishers Publishers will continue to work toward aligning their instructional materials to the science of reading in 2024.

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Carnegie Learning Adds Multilingual Math and Literacy Tutors in Gadsden ISD

eSchool News

Lewis recently presented a webinar on how to partner with a high-dosage tutoring provider to launch an effective summer school program. Demand for high-dosage tutoring is growing among students in all grades at Gadsden ISD, led by elementary-age students, who are reaping the benefits of one-on-one and small-group tutoring.

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