eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

In “ Art-Infused Student Leadership Projects ,” Cheri Sterman, Crayola Education director; Nancy Horvat, Multi-Tier Support Systems specialist, Arts Academy, PA; and Jessica Lura, director of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, Bullis Charter School, CA discussed how to develop leadership qualities in students through art activities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Tell us about some of those learning beliefs, about what you want your classrooms to look like. Tell us about your learning beliefs. So we actually learned through Education Reimagined. We read their white paper for transforming teaching and Learning. We invited teachers to uncover the uncommon dots in education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

When Tammy ThompsonKapp was Principal of Lapham Elementary School in Wisconsin, she and her staff struggled to help students who came to school hungry, tired or coping with mental health issues. Learn how she implemented the program there, the impact she's seeing and why she feels other schools should follow suit.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. In classrooms across the country, the first months of school this fall have laid bare what many in education feared: Students are way behind in skills they should have mastered already. One report by Amplify Education Inc., chorused a few voices.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2015

This January, the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) produced an insightful report based on the results of its Turnaround Arts initiative, a program that seeks to reform schools by implementing art-infused education. The results are astounding. You can view the PCAH’s summary of findings here.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A three-act task is a group exercise consisting of three videos or pictures. Throughout the three acts of the exercise, students use skills such as thinking, wondering, noticing, estimating, arriving at compelling objectives, using mathematical strategies, and reflecting on solutions and estimates. Join the Community.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the country struggle to move their brick-and-mortar classrooms to remote online learning environments. As students enter upper elementary and middle school, the focus on executive function strategies declines, so students show up to high school, and don’t know how to take notes or study.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

In a recent edWebinar , “Building STEAM Confidence and Creativity in Middle School,” educational technology experts described how enriching STEAM-based learning experiences can enhance the socio-emotional skills students need to succeed now into the future. Creativity is What the Future Demands.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 7, 2017

Students can apply leadership qualities, like listening with intention, speaking with clarity and sharing responsibility, to portrait exercises. In this particular exercise, the first student describes a portrait to the second student, and the second student, who cannot see the portrait, must attempt to recreate it. Join the Community.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

That’s one reason the Integrated Arts Academy of Burlington, Vermont got together with Crayola’s art-focused professional learning programs , channeling resources to identify reasons why infusing arts into other subjects can make personalized learning programs more effective. Related: Can testing save arts education?

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Elementary students can participate with activities that track and map noise levels across schools, or predict and study migration patterns of animals. Middle and high school students can engage using exercises to explore Darwin’s observations on the Galapagos islands, or learn more about the battles fought during the Civil War.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Day 3: Problem- and Inquiry-Based Learning – Review of last session’s evaluations and our rules of play – Crowdsourcing – Understanding how Wikipedia really works – Crowdsourcing ideas for students and teachers – Essential elements of project-based learning – PBL v. How could we make them better?

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] While edtech tools are in most classrooms, not every educator understands how to use technology in meaningful ways. Her role was to support educators in innovative practices. Read on to learn how to use technology in the classroom to truly engage students.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

They had limited impact on professional learning, says Epps, principal of the Mancos Early Learning Center and Elementary School. Using a collaborative process, facilitators met with school leaders and teachers to tease out the most critical professional development needs. People wanted more,” Epps says.

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MindShift

JANUARY 29, 2017

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) recommends that spatial reasoning should be a large focus of preK – 8th grade math education. “At Early elementary teachers like Thomson in select Rainy River District schools began using Math For Young Children lessons designed by the researchers. Thomson said.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As we wave farewell to 2023 , we’re looking ahead to edtech trends in 2024 with optimism for education as a whole. Moving away from the pandemic, educators still grapple with learning loss and academic disparities and inequities. This begs the question: What’s next for education? What are the projections for edtech?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2022

Simply gathering evidence of learning, whether through tests or teacher-prompted feedback, is wasted effort if it does not inform the practice of teaching. Data has always been a starting point for education conversations. Data should prompt educators to ask deeper questions — Why isn’t this student understanding this concept?

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

ADVANCED & MEASURED PROGRESS ( www.advanc-ed.org ) & ( www.measuredprogress.org ) Measured Progress and AdvancED will join forces to form a unique and far-reaching nonprofit educational company focused on data-driven tools for school improvement. The merger will create a $120-million nonprofit organization with 500 employees.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Finding patterns and honing in on struggling readers’ skill deficits will quickly point educators to the appropriate intervention. For troubles with oral language, educators can make sure the language used in the classroom is robust and plentiful so students can hear and use informal and academic language as much as possible.

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wwwatanabe

OCTOBER 27, 2010

Flexible learning groups were in the first grade classroom also. The kids on the laptops got to choose what their learning exercise. She sat close to the teacher, and was obviously still engaged in that learning activity enough to continue it on her own. Hence, small groups working together or one-to-one as a center.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

And, they have done a phenomenal job of upgrading it over time, of adding more educational-friendly features, of adding things like commenting, adding new layouts and columns and so on. A lot of times people don’t really think the developers want to hear from educators, or that it’s going to have much of an impact. Steve: (laughs).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. The story offers a good example of how education is shifting as we wrap up two decades of the 21st century. The third and current phase of the 21st century learning movement is all about “empowerment,” says Kay.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning for struggling readers can be timesaving and easy to execute. Finding patterns and honing in on students’ reading skill deficits will quickly point educators to the appropriate intervention. To boost students’ vocabulary, educators can teach roots, prefixes, and suffixes. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

But, on any given day, an untold number of children in elementary schools nationwide have all or part of their recess revoked for infractions such as failing to finish their work, talking out of turn or not following directions. Children play during recess at a Louisville, Kentucky elementary school. in banning the practice.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we close the door on 2022 , we approach 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

As we closed the door on 2022 , we approached 2023 with clear-cut priorities for edtech and education as a whole. Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage.

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