A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Both of my parents were public educators; my father an elementary principal in Hackettstown and my mother an elementary teacher in Flemington. They both touched lives and impacted kids like countless other NJ educators. Educators are, and have been, the cultivators of virtually every other profession.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. We had growth data in every elementary school like we’ve never seen before. A reading program that everyone loves.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 11, 2023

In the diverse educational landscape of the United States, the question of “how much do teachers make in the USA?” With a wide array of schools, curricula, and teaching methods, teachers’ salary figures can vary significantly across states and levels of education. is the topic of our blog post today!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Educators will have to do something different for the 2021-22 school year to make up for those losses. Schools are already spending big chunks of their approximately $190 billion in pandemic relief money on a range of strategies from after-school programs to cutting class size. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

My Own Chapter: M oving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. Moving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0:

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. In Maggie Waldner’s elementary school classroom in downtown Denver, math lessons rarely focus on rote memorization.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2023

As you compare Google Bard with ChatGPT, here is an overview of a few things I've found so far as of today: Comparison of Google Bard and ChatGPT Chat Memory Length Currently, ChatGPT will remember chats along the side of the screen. Another thing that intrigues us about soccer is the strategy of the game. Google Bard Response 2 Sure.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

The most profound shifts driven by changes in education policy often go unnoticed and tend to lag behind the hype cycles and headlines about federal policy and politics. While the proposed cuts to the federal education budget have taken the. A brief comparison of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) and ESSA illustrates the point.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This was the tail end of my first school year as the principal at Madison County Elementary School, a pre-K to 8th grade Title I school, located just outside of Huntsville in Gurley, Ala. My first step toward supporting the staff was to provide extensive professional development in trauma-informed approaches to prepare our educators.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

According to Stanford professor of mathematics education Jo Boaler , making mistakes is actually “the most useful thing they can be doing.” Traditional instructional strategies like class openers and exit tickets are great places to begin using games. But making mistakes is crucial when students are learning math.

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 13, 2020

Bloom’s taxonomy is designed to address three domains of education and learning. education like what we see in classrooms focuses on the cognitive. Their objective was to place educational goals into. the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives. elementary modules to draw connections between ideas and utilize.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Nation’s Report Card, with its bad news about National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP, math and reading scores, drove home a message long hinted at : The pandemic created disastrous academic deficits for U.S. Education during the pandemic was itself an educational experience, although not one that can be assessed by the NAEP.

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N2Y

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Early elementary school teachers commonly use lines, circles, or other basic shapes to represent quantities to be combined when teaching addition. Middle elementary school teachers typically introduce the concept of multiplication with arrays and equal groups. To many, the use of visuals is an elementary school practice.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation. This strategy was successful, but the road was bumpy and we learned a lot throughout the process. Several of our students were named U.S.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 23, 2020

educational and explore a topic in science, technology, engineering, and/or mathematics. To me, fun means that players are making choices in the game, can choose their own strategy and explore an immersive world. Families can discuss ideas such as: same, different, comparison, and checking each other’s solutions, as they play.

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eSpark

APRIL 13, 2022

And though I was surrounded by innovative educators eager to share their knowledge, I rarely used technology to differentiate learning for my students. By sharing my experiences now, I hope to encourage other tech-averse educators to reexamine their mindset. Ready to see what eSpark can do for your classrooms? Get Started.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 10, 2019

Bloom’s taxonomy is designed to address three domains of education and learning. The more traditional forms of education like what we see in classrooms focuses on the cognitive skills. Their objective was to place educational goals into specific categories. It was published as the Taxonomy of Educational Objectives.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2024

Those numbers, plus in-depth research on the ban, show that educators in LAUSD didn’t simply find different justifications for suspending kids once willful defiance was off limits. Educators were also encouraged to implement an approach called positive behavioral interventions and supports. Suspended for…what?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

The New York State Education Department does not collect data on suspension lengths, but public records requests to 17 of the state’s largest school districts uncovered more than 6,200 suspensions of more than 20 days from 2017-18 to 2021-22. At least 15 states already have similar laws in place. You could have learned your lesson.”

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edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Addressing this high level of absenteeism is possible using research-centered strategies, advised a panel of research, attendance, and behavioral science specialists in the recent edLeader Panel, “ Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Reducing Absenteeism ,” sponsored by EveryDay Labs. Implementation Strategies.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

Unique Features: Julia Cope, third-grade teacher at Bonita Elementary in Newman-Crows Landing USD, values the variety of reports for both teachers and parents. Outcomes: “Stride has made me rethink my teaching strategies to focus entirely on student understanding and learning,” says Cope. It allows for an apples to apples comparison.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Miller is one of many vocal critics of the wide disparities in education technology pricing, which he and others contend is becoming an increasingly pressing problem as more devices and software enter U.S. Some educators and advocates have begun to argue that more shared information and pricing transparency would help schools save money.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 1, 2017

The conversation around how technology can enhance education can be a controversial topic, and that carries over into the tutoring industry as well. This week is National Tutoring Week : a decade old celebration of how important Tutors are to students’ education. Business Management. Virtual Whiteboards. Session Consistency.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

I’ll say up front: I am not here to offer any hard-and-fast rules or directives,” said Secretary of Education John King in prepared remarks for the National Charter Schools Conference. If we are to properly educate black students and end the pipeline to prison particularly for black boys, out of school discipline has to stop.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Some experts may disagree with Piaget’s four stages, but today, Piaget’s theories are still used in psychology, genetics, sociology, and education. During the preoperational stage, preschoolers can’t understand complex concepts like comparison, time, or cause-and-effect. Age: 2 to 7 years. Goal: Symbolic thought.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I had a great time encouraging educators to give students as much ownership over their devices and learning as possible. Sketchnoting is helping make your thinking visible and shareable as you are reading a professional book, watching a movie clip, reading an educational blog post or article or listening to a lecture of conference keynote.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Second-graders at Dunn Elementary in Kentucky. More than ever, education leaders must design policies and instructional practices to best support these students. We shouldn’t be surprised — or punish educators — when the students we’ve identified as such perform that way. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. Proceed with caution.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

New York City’s public schools, like those in the state’s other big cities, educate large numbers of (traditionally struggling) poor black and Latino students, and sometimes those students outperform even their white and more affluent peers in Rochester, Syracuse, Buffalo and Yonkers on state tests. Photo: Emmanuel Felton.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 18, 2015

The power of these books is both in the illustrations themselves and in how parents and educators talk about the pictures with children, says Julie Dillemuth , a spatial cognition geographer. Every turn of the page continues to zoom out to show that what was large is now small in comparison to a newly introduced object. –Horning.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

students are justifiably exhausted and nervous from too much homework — even though some international comparisons suggest they’re sitting comfortably at the average. Education systems and perceptions of what is and isn’t homework can vary remarkably overseas. Well, here goes. How much homework do U.S. students get?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The binders resemble, to a degree, the individualized education programs, or IEPs, that are at the heart of education for students with disabilities. But Arianna and Alanni aren’t special education students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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MindShift

MARCH 5, 2018

Social media has changed the game, requiring educators and parents to also change strategies to help girls navigate complicated waters. She sees the same patterns from early elementary school girls through high school. With her eighth-graders, comparison is a big problem. It works like a GPS. Courtesy Girls Leadership).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. Hurley has been teaching nursery classes for 20 years at this state-funded school that we would call a public elementary school. We think of it as common sense.”. Like the U.S.,

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Waterford

DECEMBER 3, 2019

8] Your Gen Xers are most likely the parents of older elementary or middle and high school students. 6] Millennials are no longer elementary or secondary students themselves, though they may still be students in college or graduate school. If you teach elementary school, many of your students’ parents will belong to Generation Y.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2017

I’ve included a comparison matrix with features to help you figure out what system is best for you. What strategies can you use? As a teacher, Connie taught various elementary grades and 8th grade ELA. Sponsored by Bloomz I’ve been using Bloomz for three years now and I love it. Click to see Bloomz. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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