The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Monica Williams.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 143

eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Now they ask teachers to check the tool’s data privacy policy and age requirements when making a request, so they have a better understanding of why a tool is—or isn’t—a good fit. San Antonio’s district has received $100 million over the past three years, which it used to boost staffing and help combat pandemic-related learning loss.

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EdTech Assessment Policies Data 121

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Personalized Learning 94

eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Washington Depot, Connecticut – Slooh, the pioneer in offering live online telescope feeds of the universe and an NGSS-aligned curriculum for school communities worldwide, recently launched the next generation of its online learning platform to make space exploration even easier and more engaging for students and educators alike.

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Schoology Secondary Robotics Data 89

Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Others paid attention to the data and rising number of coronavirus cases and used their summers more wisely to design for better remote/hybrid learning and teaching than the mostly-low-level direct instruction, digital worksheets, and paper homework packets that we saw last spring. All of this work was virtual.

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Student Engagement Elementary Strategy Secondary 355

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s important to note that those impressive numbers don’t include remote students at the elementary or high school level. Without modern technology and near-constant connectivity, online learning wouldn’t be possible. How students can help secure their personal data. The human element of data security.

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Learning Student Data Privacy Data Software 254

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For example: Micro-credentials were the catalyst for 18 elementary school educators who collaborated to create a school-based program that promoted families as partners in education. In light of the racial unrest in the U.S., micro-credentials sparked this teacher’s motivation to ensure equitable representation in her classroom.

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Learning Professional Learning System Elementary 247

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. You’ll explore emotional intelligence models and various methods for collecting data, so you’ll be equipped to decide which instruments are right for your school or district to measure SEL growth. Learn More.

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Course Assessment Online Assessments Strategy 487

eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

The developmentally appropriate lessons come in response to demand from elementary schools nationwide and the U.S. Elementary school students have more information at their fingertips than ever before,” said Laura Tierney, Founder and CEO of The Social Institute. “The world is changing, and so are our students.

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Social Media Smartphone Education Elementary 64

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

And there is every reason to expect disruptions in student learning post pandemic. But teachers were heroic during the pandemic, and data shows that students continued to strive toward meaningful learning, even with many forms of chaos erupting all around them. They even asked questions about ethics and funding.

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Learning Data Social Media Study 141

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To help her along, the teacher at her Bay Area elementary school has been showing her the right way to hold a pencil. And for many, kindergarten simply is no longer the assumed first step in a child’s formal education, another sign of the way the pandemic and online learning upended the U.S. It’s harder. school system.

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Analysis Elementary Report Data 99

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2021

As Hechinger’s reporting has shown, in many cases the shift to remote learning worsened existing inequalities — none more pronounced than the digital divide. Nearly 17 million children nationwide were locked out of online learning because they didn’t have access to the high-speed home internet needed to participate.

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Accessibility Broadband Digital Divide Policies 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

State and federal agencies have advised schools to create online learning plans to minimize the disruption to student learning. Their students have internet connections at home, laptops they can work from, teachers who know how to design online lessons and a strong foundation of in-school blended learning experience.

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Broadband Flipped Classroom Online Learning Smartphone 145

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.

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Elementary Report Groups Personalized Learning 113

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Data suggests not having qualified teachers can worsen student achievement and increase costs for districts. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Elementary Report Training Classroom 84

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Here are five online math resources that will turn boring math into a favorite subject: Mathletics. Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. They vary in complexity, cost, and collection of data.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Report 253

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2021

On April 20, Kentwood Elementary in Los Angeles opened its doors to students. Lola sat in a room with her classmates while her teacher, who was home for medical reasons, taught them online. “I’m At Creekside Elementary in Durham, North Carolina, kindergarten enrollment is down by 35 students.

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Learning Elementary Data Report 129

Neo LMS

JULY 24, 2018

Gamification and online learning environments. Assessment choices : students can choose to conduct an e-mail interview with a scientist, conduct an inquiry project using data on the Web, or interact with an online learning object that simulates the scientific process under study.

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Gamification Online Learning Study Digital Learning 210

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As technology is further embraced in the classroom, we need to ensure that local and national policies support and enable these innovations while enhancing privacy and protecting student data. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provides a great model of what a similar partnership could look like in education.

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Competency Based Learning Data Policies Accessibility 107

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Back in April, as schools across the country shifted to online instruction to slow the spread of the coronavirus, Scott Muri saw firsthand just how damaging lack of internet access can be for students and families. Related: Hundreds of thousands of students still can’t access online learning. When school started on Aug.

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Broadband Learning Accessibility Company 144

EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I had the chance to chat with Dr. Jared Scherz, the founder of TeacherCoach , and a former elementary school guidance counselor who became a clinical psychologist in New Jersey. TC is a virtual training medium, providing personal growth and professional development through online learning, coaching, and webinars.

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Training Libraries System Elementary 269

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. Generally, universities are doing very well financially, so they don’t feel from the data that their world is going to collapse. In this case however technology, and the need to adapt to it, is a part of the problem. Read more: Will AI replace teachers?

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Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2023

The first-place prize went to Jonathan Marceau, a teacher at Monfort Elementary in the Utica Community School district, who will receive $10,000 in business startup grant funding, plus branding and logo design support, and legal consultation for Spelling Safari.

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EdTech Education Adaptive Learning Elementary 56

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The data provide the most comprehensive look yet at how much schoolchildren have fallen behind academically. The analysis found the average student lost more than half a school year of learning in math and nearly a quarter of a school year in reading – with some district averages slipping by more than double those amounts, or worse.

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Analysis Learning Data Report 93

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Kathy Neumann’s third graders at Longfellow Elementary School in Columbia, Maryland, struggled to understand fractions during this pandemic-disrupted school year. With remote learning, they couldn’t do their usual classroom activity of cutting strips of construction paper into halves, quarters and thirds.

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Strategy Elementary Groups Personalized Learning 145

Graphite Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Within educational technology, tech companies can acquire data via multiple routes. BetterLesson is an example of a site like this - a teacher creates an account, and only teacher data gets collected. Online IEP programs also fit this description. The site is primarily teacher focused. The site is primarily teacher focused.

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Data Edmodo Policies Knewton 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Jen Bender, the data tech lead at Castlemont High School, gives a new student her #OaklandUndivided Chromebook and hot spot in May 2021. In August 2020, they launched a “Tech Check” survey to collect that data.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

“Students will easily be able to access this resource through our online learning management tool. This resource will be a game changer for OKCPS students, especially when students are working independently or in an asynchronous learning environment. square miles in the center of Oklahoma.

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Outcomes Accessibility Study Elementary 112

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. Research shows that attendance is key to academic success, so preventing absenteeism is critical.

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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 198

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

And the county’s southern edge meets the National Radio Quiet Zone , where cell and internet service is restricted in order to preserve data collection for West Virginia’s Green Bank Telescope. This story also appeared in COVID-19 Data Dispatch. 4 Source: Data from School Health Services Manager Rebecca Aiken.

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Elementary Data Accessibility Tablets 76

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students. McGhee, assistant clinical professor of elementary education at Auburn University. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19.

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Education Handbook Course Elementary 214

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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Report Elementary Examples Data 101

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

If elementary and middle school students don’t learn these subjects well, the steady ramp up from arithmetic to algebra becomes a ninety-degree wall, according to Hung-Hsi Wu, emeritus professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley. Middle school math is uniquely difficult.

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Common Core Report Analysis Trends 113

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Koedinger and his team’s data analysis was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) , a peer-reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences, in March 2023. The study offers the hope that “anyone can learn anything they want” if they get well-designed practice exercises and put some effort into it.

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Exercises Software Study Data 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

In addition, he said, the tool is being designed to provide a safe and protected way to use AI, to address parents’ and educators’ concerns about student data and privacy on ChatGPT, which stores students’ data. Stanford’s Levine also sees value in using ChatGPT to coach students on writing. “A

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Trends Study Data Robotics 133

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In the past several years, we have implemented a number of district-wide initiatives to support personalization and differentiation for students including the launch of our Virtual Instruction to Accentuate Learning (VITAL) program in 2008. At the core of our personalized learning program is our use of data to inform instruction.

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Personalized Learning Tools EdTech Future Ready 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

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. Fifty-six percent of families said their internet was too slow to properly participate in online learning.

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Broadband Survey Digital Divide Accessibility 117