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Data really is the secret sauce in the K-12 classroom

eSchool News

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 recently implemented a re-rollout of small group guided reading instruction, but it was showing limited results.

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15 Real-World Lessons You Can Teach Kids NOW

The CoolCatTeacher

Students create budgets, shopping plans, and comparison shopping while learning about the effective use of credit. If you’re ready to help elementary-aged children understand financial literacy, Vault is the perfect course for you. Grade level: elementary grades. Grade Level: Elementary School. Grade Level: 9-12.

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PROOF POINTS: Learning science might help kids read better

The Hechinger Report

In 2019, a group of researchers, led by James Kim, a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, randomly selected 15 of the district’s 30 elementary schools to teach first graders special knowledge-building lessons for three years, through third grade. Regular reading class was untouched in the experiment.

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Why Bloomz is the Best Parent-Teacher Communication System for Me (and Probably You)

The CoolCatTeacher

In this blog post, I’m going to share three things: Comparison with Other Apps – How does Bloomz compare to other tools? See a full comparison of every feature. The best resource with a side-by-side comparison of Remind, Bloomz, Class Messenger and other tools is the comparison chart from Jessica Meacham.

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‘Data days’ and longer math classes: How one district is improving math scores

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in AL.com and The Associated Press Piedmont City schools landed in the top spot among all school districts nationwide in a comparison of math scores in 2019 and 2022. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. We’ve always done small groups in reading,” third-grade teacher Windy Casey said.

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PROOF POINTS: Long-term college benefits from high-quality universal pre-K for all

The Hechinger Report

About 40 percent of the families took advantage of it and chose to send their children to a pre-K program at a public elementary school. Overall, 44 percent of the preschool alumni and 37 percent of Head Start alumni enrolled in a college or university, as opposed to 33 percent of students in the comparison group.

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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

TeachThought - Learn better.

Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. Kieffer looks at both groups to see how SES impacts late-emerignig reading difficulties.

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