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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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Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth? Experts say it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

According to the 2021 Washington state Healthy Youth Survey, about 13 percent of the state’s eighth graders said they don’t have an adult to turn to when they feel sad or hopeless. Educators and others are experimenting with new ways to address students’ mental health needs — or reinvent old strategies. Read the series.

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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. Also, girls had greater affective and behavioral engagement than boys.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

Meghan Groves, a teacher at Washington-Lee Elementary School, in Bristol, Virginia, leads her first graders in “closing circle,” where they talk about how their day went. Then the newly hired principal, Faith Mabe, heard about a new strategy for helping students. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. BRISTOL, Va. —

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As Harlem Children’s Zone moves to export its model nationwide, Obama’s Promise Neighborhoods offer cautionary tales

The Hechinger Report

In the most recent, pre-pandemic school data available, only 31 percent of elementary school students within the Promise Neighborhood zone were scoring at proficiency in English, and only 16 percent in math. Before the survey was conducted, Lepore said, her partners did not have a strong workforce development system in place.

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5 Radical Schooling Ideas For An Uncertain Fall And Beyond

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A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. This summer, 3,000 fresh TFA recruits will offer a remote version of Springboard’s reading strategies workshop for up to 9,000 pre-K through fourth-graders nationwide. One April survey found 4 in 10 U.S.