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Seven most effective ways for building relationships with students through social learning

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Gallup found that while 74% of surveyed fifth-graders are engaged in school, only one-third of 10th through 12th graders are. This included “higher student academic engagement, attendance, grades, fewer disruptive behaviors and suspensions, and lower school dropout rates.” Why is it important to build relationships with learners?

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

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: Redland Elementary.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The district relied on individual schools to call families, while its department of research, assessment and data conducted surveys at individual school sites to find out whether families had an internet connection and computer access.

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OPINION: What health care can teach educators about the difference between ‘equal’ and ‘equitable’

The Hechinger Report

We are now working with a group of communities in our By All Means initiative where leaders have committed to piloting Success Plans. Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. Outcomes are encouraging.

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Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to ?microcredentials?

The Hechinger Report

Surveys bear this out. And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. But is it better than being a dropout? Two-thirds of Americans in a Pew Research Center survey said that students aren’t getting the skills they need for the workplace. Now they understand how education works.

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Research Seeks Scale For Measuring Student Engagement

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. – Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. The survey is relatively short and inexpensive to administer, Wang said. Wang found that engagement varied among different groups of students.

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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

This nearly majority-Latino city began its experiment with personalized learning three years ago, after a districtwide survey revealed that thousands of high schoolers felt their education wasn’t relevant. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate.