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

Hapara

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

Longitudinal data show that students enrolled in City Connects schools performed better academically and had lower grade retention, chronic absenteeism and dropout rates. The program also benefits teachers. Students with more intensive needs receive case management services. Outcomes are encouraging.

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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. One of the positives of peer-based support is that students who don’t have a trusted adult in their life may be more comfortable asking for help from a peer.

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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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Change One Simple Thing to Start Your Journey to Remarkable Teaching

The CoolCatTeacher

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county.

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