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K–12 Leaders Get Creative to Make the Case for Network Upgrades

EdTech Magazine

Two years ago, IT Services Director AJ Phillips needed to persuade her school board to purchase new network infrastructure, so she tapped her prior experience as an elementary school teacher and presented a show-and-tell. Educate Stakeholders About Cost Comparisons and Success Stories. Thu, 06/20/2019 - 12:02.

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8 Ways to Teach Financial Literacy

The CoolCatTeacher

Consumer Skills – Learning to comparison shop for cars, houses and being an informed consumer. Keys to Investing – First, students meet with a financial advisor to understand risk and reward.

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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 growth data in every elementary school like we’ve never seen before. A reading program that everyone loves.

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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

If high school students are required to meet NAEP proficient to graduate from high school, large numbers will fail. If middle and elementary school students are forced to repeat grades because they fall short of a standard anchored to NAEP proficient, vast numbers will repeat grades.

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Who Does School Reform Serve?

Edsurge

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era. Royal welcomes the comparisons. “We

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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. The comparison between the two groups highlight the impact SES has on reading.

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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

Meet other teachers in person. Friendly and inclusive learning communities include: CSTA Chapter meetings. See Code.org’s comparisons of CS curricula by grade level: elementary curricula. Connect with other teachers. Don’t worry if you don’t have experience! Scratch educator meetups. Test out curriculum yourself.