The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context. What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context.

Elementary 109

Elementary Course Study Trends 109

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Policies Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That changed when his school district in Fairfield County, South Carolina, switched to online learning during the pandemic. Online, he has no problem asking the teacher a question,” said Woodward. Henry McMaster pushed hard to return all schools to in-person learning this fall, saying remote learning was “not as good.”

Survey 130

Survey Course Online Learning Accessibility 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

“If we are really serious about equity, we have to address the fact that many of our African American students are struggling in this environment,’’ Johnson said during an appearance on CNN, echoing a refrain that should be familiar to anyone following the debate to reopen K-12 schools for in-person learning.

Report 136

Report Online Learning Personalized Learning Survey 136

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

A push to close early learning gaps in Texas. Bethel Elementary School students get a break from reading and math lessons with an engineering activity during summer school in Simpsonville, S.C. Students participate in a hands-on activity during summer school at Bethel Elementary School in Simpsonville, S.C. SIMPSONVILLE, S.C.

Elementary 112

Elementary Report Groups Personalized Learning 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

All have gone back to school — some fully remote, some via hybrid models that combine remote instruction with in-person learning. In doing so, they are demonstrating resilience and advancing equity in ways that truly improve teaching and learning for all students. Make learning more targeted and available anytime, anywhere.

Personalized Learning 133

Personalized Learning Strategy Assessment Groups 133

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2020

In some cases, those students struggled with distractions in the classroom during in-person learning. The challenge of in-classroom [learning] can be the social interaction. Educators say schools can use lessons from remote learning to better serve students when schools reopen in person.

Learning 145

Learning Personalized Learning Online Learning Classroom 145

Hapara

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Teachers may also customize digital textbooks to create a personalized learning experience. There are several online sources for digital textbooks free of charge. Some websites are dedicated to K-12 learning, while others feature textbooks for all learning levels or high school and college. LibreTexts.

OER 130

OER E-rate Hapara Libraries 130

The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

For now, he said he doesn’t think generative AI tools will have an immediate impact in early elementary classrooms, either as an instructional tool or a cheating risk (“You can’t fake knowing your ABCs,” he said). At the end of the day, “AI can’t replace a teacher,” Kusum said.

Policies 81

Policies Analysis Elementary Report 81

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Every week we publish a new episode of our EdSurge Podcast about the future of learning, a way to hear the voices of students, educators and leaders as they puzzle out some of the thorniest issues facing education. Sometime early in elementary school, kids are put on one of two paths: regular or gifted.

Robotics 100

Robotics STEM EdTech Elementary 100

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. In addition to causing learning gaps, absenteeism also has budget implications. Her organization recommends that attendance is taken for every in-person and virtual instructional experience.

Strategy 192

Strategy Learning Data Dropout 192

The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

For that to work, though, he said the state needs to create more infrastructure, such as a centralized guide to online courses, to help schools get there. Nagler said maybe the governor should have been clearer, but that even those who may resist remote learning and technology now could change their minds. A RAND Corp.

iPad 140

iPad Tablets Report iPhone 140

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

In 2018, ISTE and General Motors launched a professional development course to train educators on how to use AI for teaching and learning. “In five years, we will have something that has been built without any input from teachers and without any shaping around the needs of education,” Culatta said.

Classroom 119

Classroom Robotics Education Company 119

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Total enrollment: 3,600 students 1 In-person enrollment: 86 percent after reopening for a four-day week in March 2 Total cases, 2020-2021 school year: 5 cases in the fall (identified by the state in two elementary school outbreaks) 3 17 cases in the spring (15 rapid test positives, 2 PCR test positives); none identified by the state as outbreaks 4.

Elementary 74

Elementary Data Accessibility Tablets 74

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

He’d made honor roll before the pandemic hit, but ended the 2020-21 school year failing all four courses, Murphy said. She wants to see online learning taken out of the hands of for-profits altogether. logged into CASC classes every day but seemed increasingly disengaged and didn’t complete most of his work, his parents said.

E-rate 123

E-rate Pearson Company Report 123

techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

.) – for implementing full-time, statewide virtual school opportunities to provide students with rigorous online courses in a learning model that meets their individual needs. For details about this year’s winners, their programs, and how they are using FuelEd solutions, visit [link].

Education 40

Education Dropout Differentiated Instruction Adaptive Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”.

Study 138

Study Data Report Elementary 138

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

This increase has been felt by leaders on the ground, including those who run home-school groups or online home-school communities for Hispanic and Latino families. Over the course of the pandemic, “the group pretty much exploded nationally,” said Quiñones, mother of a 10- and a 12-year-old. They’re average.”.

Facebook 138

Facebook Groups Data Survey 138

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

But what seems to be missing from the conversation is how technologies — especially those powered by AI and machine learning — can worsen racial inequality, if we’re not careful. Hebbar said she’s seen racial biases in some of the personalized learning software available for schools.

EdTech 116

EdTech Company Data Software 116

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Many charter networks here, including Crescent City Schools, Firstline, ReNEW, and KIPP, have embraced an educational philosophy known as “personalized learning.”. Though personalized learning doesn’t have to include technology, many New Orleans charters have put computers at the center of their personalized learning efforts.

Personalized Learning 99

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 99

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

Elementary 106

Elementary Learning Data Report 106

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

In my visits to elementary, middle, and high schools around the country this past academic year, here are five tips I took away for how educators can get beyond the buzz to implementation. At some schools, educators don’t take what they learn in alternative settings to improve mainstream classes.

Blended Learning 103

Blended Learning Competency Based Learning Elementary Course 103

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Prompted by district administrators’ desire to find ways to build student agency, engage student passion and personalize learning, we hoped blended learning would shake up the status quo and spark large scale change. We knew that meant more than simply integrating technology into the school day.

Blended Learning 118

Blended Learning Learning Training Assessment 118

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

For years, in many schools across the country, English learners have regularly been pulled out of mainstream academic courses in order to receive segregated, English-only language instruction away from their English-dominant peers. Not only do U.S.

Education 130

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

Personalized Learning 145

Personalized Learning Education Learning Elementary 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Two student at Greenville’s Em Boyd Elementary, work on a science project on an iPad. He used that money to buy enough laptops and iPads for every high school student to have their own device, and for every elementary and middle school student to have access to a device in their classroom. Photo: Jackie Mader.

Laptops 40

Laptops iPad Elementary Report 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Before the tax hike, just 10 percent of elementary school children had access to a mental health professional, now there’s at least one mental health care professional in every school building, and in some cases a team with multiple counselors, social workers and psychologists. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report.

Report 138

Report Training Elementary Survey 138

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Abrupt shifts to virtual and hybrid learning laid bare the vast inequities that exist in the U.S. The move to online learning also made people wonder: Are there practices we can continue when the pandemic abates? Elementary students are not immune to serious student safety issues. education system. temperature, lighting).

EdTech 145

EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It aims to provide a more integrated learning experience, leveraging both face-to-face teacher guidance and the flexibility of online resources. It’s ideal for subjects where hands-on or face-to-face interaction is crucial, allowing for online resources to enhance understanding or provide additional practice.

Blended Learning 120

Blended Learning Flipped Classroom Learning Online Learning 120

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

A 2015 Stanford study that looked at the performance of students in online charter schools found that the majority lost learning equivalent to a standard 180-day school year. But iUniversity Prep students routinely outperform the rest of Texas on state exams; recorded perfect attendance; and excelled in advanced academic courses.

Training 58

Training Meeting Study Examples 58

MindShift

AUGUST 6, 2020

“I want to go back, and I don’t want to go back,” says Felicia Tinsley, who teaches elementary school students with special needs in Chester County, S.C. She expects to navigate a steep learning curve with her students. Eighty-four percent say online learning creates gaps in opportunities for students.

Digital Citizenship 46

Digital Citizenship Classroom Course Survey 46

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2021

Afterwards, he began counting the days until June 21, when he began a summer course in school. It is only for three weeks, but the idea of returning to in-person school made him sing and dance with emotion. “It has been quite a challenge for us, for it’s not only one child with special needs. These are two totally different syndromes!

Laptops 122

Laptops Blackboard Study Report 122

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning. It just depends.

Handbook 98

Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

The profiles are part of the school’s embrace of personalized learning, which centers on the belief that a teacher lecturing at the front of a classroom is a bad fit for today’s students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

Personalized Learning 45

Personalized Learning Education Learning Training 45

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

From Obstacle to Opportunity: Using Government-mandated Curriculum Change as a Springboard for Changes in Learning and Teaching: Jon Andrews. Applying Heutagogy in Online Learning: The SIDE Model: Eric Belt. Use their learning preferences and technologies to decide how they will learn. Through Education 2.0

Education 268

Education Learning Resources Tools 268

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? It found that schools using some form of personalized learning were, on average, performing better ( there were some wrinkles we’ll talk about later on).

Personalized Learning 34

Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34