The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2022

” Maybe instead of “I want that cookie,” maybe during lunchtime, instead of meeting a student, I'll take that time for myself and walk with a colleague around the gym because we know as teachers that physical activity is essential. My trigger was always right before an IEP meeting. It keeps our minds engaged.

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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. On Thursday, Piia Pehap, one of MIND’s Education Success Managers, got the honor of joining a session with several first graders from South Clearfield Elementary in Utah.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

And some barriers are not just about meeting learning goals. Croft and Nardolilli also launched their own STEM game design company, Catilli, in 2015. “It Miller, the teacher from Georgia, has to get organized before her elementary class comes into play. “I I set up bins and solo cups with Lego pieces.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Meet a truly remarkable woman and a personal mentor, Mrs. Grace Adkins. I get up at 3:00, ride my exercise bike 10 miles, drive 18 miles to school. So I’m inspired to meet whatever comes each day. We have children in the elementary side through fifth grade. Grace: Well… I try not to let that happen if I meet them.

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Exercises Learning Course Meeting 174

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. A first grader works on a math exercise during a summer program aimed at improving math and reading outcomes.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 21, 2021

One week as Joe shared how entrepreneurship was an integrated part of the elementary experience Harshal, a parent at Design39 raised her hand to speak. As Joe invited her to the stage, she shared a story of how her sister was launching a company and was discussing potential brand color and logo designs at a family get together.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

She emailed the company to learn that it was not. “It Horton, who teaches math and writing to fourth- and fifth-graders at Fremont Elementary School in Springfield, Missouri, says this is the first program that she and a coworker have found that meets their needs for math and writing instruction. It had raised about $4.8

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 15, 2019

Back when I was in elementary school, I could only access the internet during Computer class. Otherwise, use email or meetings as an opportunity to talk to parents about the impact of excessive screen time. By this time you might be wondering: what does a healthy relationship with technology look like? What is digital wellness?

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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. Poorer districts often paid the highest prices.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. First grade in particular — “the reading year,” as Miller calls it — is pivotal for elementary students, when their literacy skills “really take off.” Students play outside Doss Elementary in Austin, Texas. This story also appeared in USA Today. “Do

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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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Learning Training Report Exercises 123

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

In Boston, an all-day training in a high school gym attracted about 100 educators for instruction in yoga, meditation and mindfulness, part of a 200-hour training offered on weekends by a company called Breathe For Change. Her immediate reaction: “What a bunch of baloney!”. “I Chris Berdik.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

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. Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

In the summer of 2020, Talbott and her colleagues asked for a meeting with the charter school’s leaders to discuss racial justice at Lusher, one of the city’s most coveted for families and teachers alike; they also created an antiracism group for teachers. “It’s crucial that school and district leaders address it.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

The emphasis in my book Unique Learner Solutions , is that these students learn differently — not incorrectly, necessarily, but it’s a difficult thing sometimes to capture in our general education classroom, where we’re focus on the curriculum and the standards and meeting certain timeframes. That’s why we like exercise.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

For this week’s podcast, EdSurge connected with Couch to talk about some of those frustrations, his time at Apple, and where he sees the company going next in education. But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. The second part of it was that we knew that the technology was continuing to grow.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

This past year presented numerous challenges for educators, leaving many of us scrambling to do our best to meet the rising needs with limited time and resources – which isn’t sustainable. They need the power to exercise their skill sets. We need self-care not just for students, but for teachers, too.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The school is located on Carlisle Avenue, named after William Carlisle, the co-founder of the long-shuttered timber company that established this town. There are still a handful of timber companies in Onalaska, but the timber industry in Washington has been declining since World War II. I like a small town.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

As FEMA aid trickles in slowly , and insurance companies delay payments — many people in southwest Louisiana say aid came faster after Hurricane Rita 15 years ago — teachers face a mountain of logistical hurdles. Many are scheduling meetings with contractors or insurance adjusters for their damaged homes around school hours.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

LearnLaunch has graduated 31 #edtech companies and has 120 mentors. Participants leveraged two Digital Promise tools to assess which governance structures best meet their needs and support their goals. EileenRudden #edclusters16. Michele Molnar (@EdWeekMMolnar) September 22, 2016. Mapping your EdCluster Ecosystem.

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Assessment Tools Blended Learning Exercises 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year. Shhhhhhhh.”.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 98

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

This past year presented numerous challenges for educators, leaving many of us scrambling to do our best to meet the rising needs with limited time and resources – which isn’t sustainable. They need the power to exercise their skill sets. We need self-care not just for students, but for teachers, too.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

MindShift

OCTOBER 15, 2017

De Bono used his strategy to coach employees at Fortune 500 companies, but Lukas thought she could adapt the strategies to her middle schoolers and in the process help them learn to give and take effective peer feedback. Black hat” feedback helps point out specific parts of the work that aren’t meeting the stated goal. They love it.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. has joined the ENA family of companies.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

I didn’t have time to exercise. Along with anxiety, Charlene Boles, an elementary teacher in Westminster, Colorado, had headaches, stomach problems and a racing heartbeat she could never quite explain. I didn’t have time to exercise. Most nights after work, she would sit alone for hours to try and get into a better headspace.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Since January, officials made many big decisions about when schools and education companies would open or close, and what resources were available to support learning. One platform, Empower Learning , was built by the government, in collaboration with China’s seven largest edtech companies, offering digital K-12 curriculum. China does.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

We had two people meet in our rooms a few years ago — Will Piper , who is at the University School of Milwaukee , and Pedro Aparicio , who is a teacher in Mexico City. She also has worked at the University of Chicago’s Urban Education Institute and the Center for Elementary Mathematics and Science Education. Lucy: Yes, we are.

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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. Others had social workers but struggled to meet the needs of non-English speaking families.

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Training Report Analysis Elementary 91

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. And that happens through those regular one-on-one meetings, and through kids having the chance to share their passions.

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EdTechTeam

JUNE 25, 2018

At American School of Bombay elementary campus in Mumbai, you won’t hear a bell to signal lunch time. Rather than being composed of a bunch of small classrooms, the elementary space is large and open. Comfortable learning spaces might have exercise balls or standing desks or bean bags or pillows or couches.

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Libraries Laptops System Elementary 41

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Lisa Grant, superintendent for the Centralia school district, makes her monthly rounds in a fifth grade class at Fords Prairie Elementary School on Dec. The school district welcomed all elementary students back for in-person learning in early December. Credit: Katie Cotterill for The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Educators will seek out content that better supports them to successfully bring clean energy content to their students in meaningful ways and, as the job market in clean energy continues to grow, it is important for schools to help meet this demand for an educated workforce by helping students see themselves in clean energy careers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Educators will seek out content that better supports them to successfully bring clean energy content to their students in meaningful ways and, as the job market in clean energy continues to grow, it is important for schools to help meet this demand for an educated workforce by helping students see themselves in clean energy careers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Emily Futransky, chief academic officer of Fugees Family, the nonprofit that runs the academy, tries to identify instructional methods to help the school meet the educational needs of young refugees. For example, the school uses phonics, an approach often geared toward elementary schoolers, to teach sixth graders to read.

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Education Report Policies Elementary 92

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. Both parents figured Caleb would return to his neighborhood elementary school before too long. “We Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos at a White House meeting, March 18, 2019 in Washington, DC. I believe we each have a moral obligation to exercise good judgment and model the behavior we hope they would emulate,” DeVos wrote. Credit: Alex Wong/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

OIG’s charge was to assess the risk to three offices in the Department of Education: the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education , the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services , and the Office of Innovation and Improvement. Boards can exercise varying levels of oversight of internal operations.

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