Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2019

As the Director of Digital Learning at the Massachusetts Elementary and Secondary Education office, Ken Klau is focused on the strategy for rethinking the structure and delivery of learning, building a more student-centered system of public education, and creating the next generation of K–12 learning environments.

Technology 74

Technology E-rate Broadband Outcomes 74

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

OHDELA gets an F rating from the Ohio Department of Education, receiving failing marks on measures including students’ performance on state tests, academic growth and graduation rates. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

E-rate 120

E-rate Pearson Company Report 120

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Even with Bennett on board, it can be hard to meet the needs of all the kids and teachers in this low-income, rural district — especially since the pandemic. There’s a lot of trauma, and there are only so many hours in a day to meet with kids,” Bennett said. Since December, the U.S. The phone rings, interrupting the sharing.

Training 93

Training Meeting E-rate Groups 93

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. That’s ambitious but at least there’s evidence for this approach.

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Study Elementary Training Strategy 144

Hapara

MARCH 13, 2023

Schools that receive E-rate program discounts for broadband access are required to have internet safety policies with “technology protection measures.” For instance, your elementary learners may have different web filtering needs than your high school learners. Then you can copy the default rule and start adding conditions.

Digital Learning 130

Digital Learning Chromebook Learning Policies 130

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 1, 2017

Having high-speed Internet is not just about meeting standards, however: it’s about offering students equal access to a robust, modern education, regardless of their socioeconomic background or geographic location. Tune in to the FCC’s Open Commission Meeting on August 3, 2017. You can find the proposed meeting agenda here.

Broadband 58

Broadband Accessibility Digital Learning E-rate 58

Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Walking into a Merritt Elementary School classroom today, you’ll find students using iPads to figure out math problems and submit their answers, while teachers grade those answers and provide feedback and follow-up support in real-time.

Digital Learning 92

Digital Learning Guidelines E-rate Edcamps 92

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

K., & Bruegmann, E. A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. It works really good for reminding parents about meetings that we have. Melissa is dual certified in Elementary Education and Special Education.

Google 290

Google Twitter Data Tools 290

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 1, 2017

Having high-speed Internet is not just about meeting standards, however: it’s about offering students equal access to a robust, modern education, regardless of their socioeconomic background or geographic location. Tune in to the FCC’s Open Commission Meeting on August 3, 2017. You can find the proposed meeting agenda here.

Broadband 40

Broadband Accessibility Digital Learning E-rate 40

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

The CoSN Meeting the Needs of Students Without Home Internet Access webinar on September 19, 2018 reflects the growing concern and call to action for school districts, business communities and state and federal government to address what has been termed as the homework gap. 1 at the elementary level.

Accessibility 56

Accessibility Digital Citizenship E-rate Broadband 56

Neo LMS

APRIL 28, 2016

If parents are like superheroes when they strive to meet all the needs of their one, two, seven or ten mini humans at home, then how should we call teachers, who do the same all day — but with 15 to 30 children? Videos are known to be the most successful learning materials in terms of engagement and retention rates. Super-superheroes?

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Video Classroom Course Elementary 158

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The proposed bond projects include $500,000 in improvements to elementary STEM facilities and $17 million for improvements to school technology. How fast must they be to meet students’ and educators’ needs? ? More than $28 million of the total improvement costs will likely be covered by state funding. How do they use those devices? ?

Chromebook 40

Chromebook E-rate BYOD Online Assessments 40

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

According to our preliminary analysis of FCC E-rate data, up to 160 Montana schools could benefit by upgrading to fiber optic Internet connections, opening up the opportunity to implement digital learning tools in classrooms across the state. We are excited to receive the support of ESH to help us meet new bandwidth targets.”.

Broadband 40

Broadband E-rate Classroom Analysis 40

Education Superhighway

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

billion in E-rate funds set to expire in 2019. “We must continue to meet school broadband demands as our teachers and students adopt more and more classroom technology. The cost of K-12 Internet access has declined 85 percent in the last five years. Since 2015, the amount invested in Wi-Fi nearly doubled to $2.9

Broadband 40

Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Report 40

MindShift

AUGUST 4, 2020

For example, circle time and morning meeting will be challenging. Megan McClelland , director of the Hallie E. Melissa Ali-Bell, an administrator at Baldwin Hills Elementary School in Los Angeles says, “I think it’s going to be extremely difficult for the little ones to not touch. That will take some creative thinking.

Guidelines 69

Guidelines How To E-rate Elementary 69

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. And then, of course, we take a picture, and we Tweet it out, and they’re recognized in their Morning Meeting, and things like that. Listen Now.

Google 175

Google Digital Badges Tools E-rate 175

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

He first carried out this vision as an elementary and middle school teacher before later becoming the principal of a high school on the east side of Indianapolis. We have to go back in and continually edit, check for accuracy, check for bias, make sure it's meeting and serving the needs of our students.

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

1:40 Let’s start today by meeting our speakers. And we want to know what are the response rates that you’re getting on your parent surveys. 4:02 So, 80% of our audience today said they have less than 50% response rates on their surveys. So you don’t want to forget them. 1:47 Sure Thanks everybody for joining.

Survey 52

Survey Data Report E-rate 52

Educator Innovator

MARCH 7, 2014

A teacher at an elementary school in a Boston suburb leads students through a story creation session using Pixie. Today Northborough and Southborough public schools have a much faster connection via fiber optic lines—35 Mbps up/down speeds at the elementary and middle schools and 150 Mbps at the high schools.

Broadband 41

Broadband E-rate Digital Divide Survey 41

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. This past year presented numerous challenges for educators, leaving many of us scrambling to do our best to meet the rising needs with limited time and resources – which isn’t sustainable. Today, over 2.9

Trends 143

Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2015

“We simply cannot continue operating with 500 elementary students sharing 100 Mbps of bandwidth. We are excited to receive the support of EducationSuperHighway to help us meet new bandwidth targets,” said Hatton Littman, Director of Technology and Communications for Missoula County Public Schools.

Broadband 40

Broadband E-rate Accessibility Elementary 40

Lightspeed Systems

AUGUST 7, 2023

1:40 Let’s start today by meeting our speakers. And we want to know what are the response rates that you’re getting on your parent surveys. 4:02 So, 80% of our audience today said they have less than 50% response rates on their surveys. So you don’t want to forget them. 1:47 Sure Thanks everybody for joining.

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EdTech Survey Learning Data 52

ExcelinEd

AUGUST 3, 2020

A llow s elementary schools the flexibility to add additional instructional days (up to 210 days); . P rovide s additional funding for schools serving communities with higher poverty rates ; and . P rovide s funding for full-day p re-K for all eligible four – year – olds ; . platform. .

Digital Divide 28

Digital Divide E-rate Laptops Assessment 28

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

1:40 Let’s start today by meeting our speakers. And we want to know what are the response rates that you’re getting on your parent surveys. 4:02 So, 80% of our audience today said they have less than 50% response rates on their surveys. So you don’t want to forget them. 1:47 Sure Thanks everybody for joining.

Survey 52

Survey Data Report E-rate 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. But the opportunity comes at a cost: larger class sizes for third-graders. Not anymore.

Elementary 53

Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 53

Educator Innovator

JANUARY 30, 2014

While a majority of children have access to a tablet or e-reader, only about half of those children have read e-books. Teachers are helping to meet that need. At West Ridge Elementary in Chicago, 3 rd -grade teacher Sarah Tschaen sees parents struggling to keep up with their children’s tech-savvy.

E-rate 29

E-rate Survey Education Mobility 29

The PL2C Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Using teacher learning walks to build capacity in a rural elementary school: repurposing a supervisory tool. This collaborative practice is based on the medical model or rounds. Engaging teachers in classroom walkthroughs. Alexandria, VA: ASCD. Design Principles for Learning to Guide Teacher Walk Throughs. Clearing House, 87(1), 21-29.

Learning 45

Learning E-rate Digital Learning Professional Learning 45

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

To win the 2013 contract from the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, Apple had to meet a long list of needs relating to software as well as hardware. Mao argued that an additional app was necessary to meet the requirements of his request and pushed Apple to include it without increasing its per-device price.

iPad 77

iPad Broadband Software Company 77

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

On the line, Kelly Rodriguez explained that she wanted to move her 6-year-old from a private school to a public one for first grade, but only if a seat opened up at Sunset Elementary School, near their house on San Francisco’s predominantly white and Asian west side. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it.

E-rate 113

E-rate Elementary Education Report 113

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. Related: Most students go to a school that meets federal standards for internet speed. We can extend the learning day. We can flip the classroom.

Broadband 87

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 87

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. This past year presented numerous challenges for educators, leaving many of us scrambling to do our best to meet the rising needs with limited time and resources – which isn’t sustainable. Today, over 2.9

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2016

The poems these students at Samuel Powel Elementary School are writing mark the latest phase in their year-long project on gun violence. On her seventh birthday, her mom got a huge vanilla cake and threw her a party at Chuck E. They’ve studied Pennsylvania gun laws, the Second Amendment, and homicide rates versus those of gun suicide.

Elementary 40

Elementary Exercises E-rate Blackboard 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And Anna Egalite, an education professor at North Carolina State University, found similar effects for black elementary school students in Florida matched with black teachers. Her mother, who works in the kitchen at a Chuck E. Hispanics account for 21.5 percent of students, but less than 2 percent of teachers in Nashville.

Secondary 40

Secondary E-rate Report Comparison 40

Education Superhighway

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In years past, particularly in the district’s elementary schools, Wireless Access Points (WAPs) couldn’t support the rapidly growing number of devices in every classroom; only 12 students could get online at one time. For Brevard, E-rate was an absolutely essential enabler of progress.

Digital Learning 74

Digital Learning E-rate Broadband Learning 74

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

He remembers thinking it looked like a book you’d find in an elementary school, with a picture of the numbers 1 through 9 written in the sand of a beach on the cover. Special education teachers joined meetings with general education teachers. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem.

Dropout 92

Dropout E-rate Education Secondary 92

edWeb.net

AUGUST 3, 2021

Leveraging new funding opportunities such as E-Rate or ESSER, the superintendents faced with unique challenges used the funding sources thoughtfully. He received his bachelor’s degree from The University of Southern Mississippi in elementary education. Wherever the location, funding is always a challenge for educational leaders.

Broadband 97

Broadband E-rate BYOD Accessibility 97