The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

Students had to take full responsibility for their education, making choices about attendance, motivation, engagement and how to limit distractions. They also gained invaluable experience being resourceful when they didn’t know how to proceed. “We Related: Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores.

Handbook 115

Handbook Groups Meeting Study 115

The Electric Educator

APRIL 20, 2011

This blog is primarily dedicated to sharing tips, tricks, and ideas on how to successfully use technology to increase student engagement, critical thinking, and mastery of learning objectives. I''m a big supporter of educational technology. The third error they make is to indulge in magical thinking.

Technology 60

Technology Education Dropout Twitter 60

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. The effort has two chief goals: keeping students engaged in school and keeping them in the state after they graduate. percent of nondisadvantaged students.). Sign up for our newsletter.

Report 105

Report Personalized Learning Dropout Course 105

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Gutierrez and Williams spent 90 minutes standing on the sidewalk outside the house in the Texas sun, at arm’s length from the students, showing them how to sign into Google Classroom on their school-provided Chromebooks and helping their father figure out passwords. We don’t have eyes on our students. Credit: Monica Williams.

Elementary 145

Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Meanwhile, on state tests, the school tends to track with the district average, despite having higher percentages of ELLs and low-income students, who might be expected to fall short. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 percent, compared with a district average of 10 percent.

Learning 112

Learning Dropout Report Elementary 112

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 25, 2021

You’ll hear NYT bestselling author Dan Heath share a short case study from Chicago Public Schools that illustrates how this name-by-name approach worked for reducing dropout rates. And, I’ll share an intuitive 8 step approach you can use to tackle big problems like student engagement or work completion.

System 59

System Case Study Course Examples 59

MindShift

JULY 8, 2015

In the ninth grade, an advisory curriculum helps teachers talk to students about common freshman issues, like time management, how to build relationships with other students and social aspects, like finding the right extracurricular activity. But we guide them through what went wrong and how to do it better next time.

Dropout 28

Dropout Training Groups Course 28

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Brown’s virtual students aren’t required to turn on their cameras, so he can’t tell whether they’re paying attention. In person, his classes are fun, and the students engaged: “I relate whatever it is that we’re doing to something closer to real life,” he said. Few speak up. The effects are showing up in test scores.

STEM 131

STEM Report Course Study 131

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As the new school year began this fall, battles around vaccine and mask mandates raged, school boards took up the thorny issue of how to teach students about race and Congress argued about how much to spend on children (and everything else). We are not at all taught how to do that.

Elementary 144

Elementary Broadband Assessment Dropout 144