MindSpark

JUNE 7, 2022

But how will it keep our students involved in the canonical discussions in colleges and universities? And what happens to our ELL students, differently-abled students, when they are disarmed by an SAT question or an important document that has phrasing that values the dominant culture? Herein lies the answer.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The change already delivers extraordinary results and 96% of teachers claim that EdTech increases student engagement in learning. They can customize the teaching so as to match the specific requirements of each student individually. If you want to see the original Watergate Affair documents, you can find them on NewseumED.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

According to one of our Grade 6 teachers, Shannon Diven, her students could read but could not pull out details from the text to expand answers, explain answers, or to develop a piece of writing around the text (basically, reading comprehension). The kids think the stories are fun and enjoyable, not “required” or “boring.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Even the inability to write a sentence can be a sign of confusion, often prompting a student to dig deeper. Putting pencil to paper also creates and reinforces memory, helping a student to recall information later during a test. schools have long emphasized reading at the expense of writing, Graham has documented.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 3, 2019

In most classrooms today, students are seen working together in small groups, perhaps in learning stations in the classroom, and taking a more active role in learning. After researching student engagement and motivation, mostly because I was having some challenges in my classroom two years ago, I decided to try new ideas.

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techlearning

APRIL 5, 2018

- Discovery Education´s Digital Resources and Comprehensive Professional Development System to Create Authentic STEM Teaching and Learning Environments for Elementary Students- Silver Spring, Md. Those resources include: Discovery Education’s award-winning Science Techbook.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

The 3M Young Scientist Challenge asks students in grades 5-8 to identify an everyday problem in their classroom, community, or the world and submit a one- to two-minute video communicating the science behind their solution. AVer Information Inc., Codelicious introduced attendees to its full-year computer science curriculum for K-12.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Our Canopy Project , which documented student-centered learning plans in schools, found that three-quarters of them are designed to foster learner agency. The impacts of COVID-19 are highlighting at least three ways in which schools can benefit from nurturing students’ agency: 1.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Decades of research documents the benefits of coaching for teachers, students, and school culture. Beyond that, a recent evaluation of instructional coaching programs shows that coaching is more effective than traditional professional development (PD) models in creating meaningful change in teacher practice and student achievement.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Children’s learning experiences in pre-kindergarten through early elementary are shaped by many factors, including race and income ; consequently, they often face school readiness gaps that could be addressed with technology solutions.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

For instance, a study by Louis and Marks reveals that schools with strong professional communities not only enhance student achievement and classroom organization but also lead to greater student engagement and reduced learning disparities. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Leijten, P.,

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

I attempted a schoolwide action research project this past year around literacy and engagement. We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. I have the documentation to verify these results.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

I attempted a schoolwide action research project this past year around literacy and engagement. We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. I have the documentation to verify these results.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Maintaining social skills is vital for students with special needs.[13] There are many useful online resources to help students engage with each other.[14] SLPs and educators are encouraged to be adaptable and open-minded while working with students, and to think long-term while seeking to minimize disruption.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Using whichever format you prefer (paper notebook, Word document, Evernote), keep track of the lesson plans you teach and how they go. Which activities sparked student engagement, and which proved more of a struggle? What questions did students have? Keep a teaching log. References and Further Reading. Kriegel, Otis.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Researchers analyzed the records of about 1,300 students, drawn from a nationally representative sample of children across the country, who started kindergarten in 2010 and participated in a gifted program for at least one year during their elementary school years through fifth grade.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Some of these advantages include: Diverse Educational Impact : Research shows portfolios positively affect students from kindergarten to college, enhancing learning across various age groups. Holistic Learning Documentation : They serve as comprehensive collections of student work, showcasing a range of reading and writing activities.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The interactive whiteboard stands out for its ability to amplify web-based resources and transform the way an entire roomful of students interacts with educational content. The advent of interactive large format displays further expands the options for achieving the documented benefits delivered by this transformative classroom technology.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Here, two educators discuss how they use the engaging powers of the emerging 3D technology, augmented reality (AR), to do just that. Gomez: Using AR to Engage Kindergarteners. Currently half of my students at De Escandon Elementary in Edinburg, Texas, are ELLs.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

However, from the time I was in elementary school, it was difficult to complete assessments on time, and it always took me unreasonably long to finish homework in the evening. The thing is, I really wanted to contribute to class discussions. I just didn’t always know how to. And on top of my perfectionism, I was slow.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Student engagement was the main driver to teaching the learning outcomes, and Heather helped educators do this with technology. Read on to learn how to use technology in the classroom to truly engage students. In Highlights , a Chrome monitoring tool, teachers can help document the learning process by taking Snaps.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Thirty-four elementary schools are contributing data to the district’s Project Daffodil, examining relationships between weather and plants.

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Linways Technologies

APRIL 10, 2019

Students discontinuing courses is also one of the major concerns of higher educational institutions. Only by boosting engagement can we retain students. Technology is a major concern in boosting student engagement. Most students apply for more than one institution at a time. So that’s not it. Definitely not.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Consider this post (light on analysis, heavy on the archiving of primary source material) one for the wonks, students, and historians. Please feel free to comment if you believe I’ve missed a key document or piece of crucial information, or if you have a question regarding the context of a specific statement or document.

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Edutopia

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Have your students engage in a question and an investigation before you supplement then with some of that video content. That way, you can get class time back to get students involved in dialog and reading original documents. Take your direct instruction, put that on a video. All that time you get back, labs, labs, labs.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Yet “even as they teach their students to back up their claims with evidence, they don’t have much evidence to back up those claims.”. It’s not that we don’t know what our students are learning as much as it is that we’re having to talk about it, document it, represent it in a broader way for a larger audience.”.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Developing a Responsible Use Policy: Based on trends at the time and research such as June Ahn's work , LA Unified updated its Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to a Responsible Use Policy (RUP) , which is a document that requires a parent/guardian signature at the start of each school year, making it a highly visible policy districtwide.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2015

New research offers evidence that online charter schools post weaker academic performance and struggle more to maintain student engagement than their conventional brick-and-mortar peers. 27, analyzed online charter school operations, policy environments, and their impacts on student achievements.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 4, 2016

He is currently teaching at Sir Edgar Bauer Catholic Elementary School (Waterloo Catholic District School Board). It feels like it was just yesterday that I introduced Google Apps for Education (GAFE, the full suite of free productivity tools) to my students. What started with engagement has moved to empowerment.

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MindShift

MAY 5, 2017

One district employee was smiling about how there were elementary and secondary teachers connecting and sharing: “Where else do you see this?” Candice Grossi, an elementary school principal in Lompoc, California, says that she organizes an unconference at a school site with just about 10 teachers once a month.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

In this post, I wish to extend DI and writing in the area of student engagement. Before taking note of some of the tools and resources, lets take a moment to define what leads to student engagement in writing. It is our students’ thoughts and ideas that must somehow make its way to the written word.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

According to the document, local leaders “should be a part of any planning for an outbreak and should request a bargaining session with your employer to discuss readiness. . — Rebecca Koenig (March 16, 2020) Administration and Leadership How is all this being negotiated with teachers unions?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. Education Elements created a personalized learning implementation framework , which is a central document used throughout school redesign. Three years prior, the district had received $28.6M

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Her students have accomplished far more than she ever imagined, as she feels iPads are a great resource to level instruction so that all students needs are being met. She attended Grand Valley State University from 2002 to 2006 with undergrad in Elementary Education, emphasis in Integrated Science.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

These sixth-grade students had experience working with a 3D printer from their STEM lab, so she built on that background knowledge. Using her document camera and an iPad, the teacher demonstrated how to take a 2D image that one student had previously drawn and alter it to become a 3D image ready to be printed.

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Neo LMS

MAY 20, 2021

Student engagement in online classes seems to be a never-ending quest for teachers. Spider web discussions were created by English teacher and school leader Alexis Wiggins as a tried and tested method to help students become learning leaders. In contrast, elementary student discussions can take around twenty minutes.

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