The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

. — At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Credit: Javeria Salman/The Hechinger Report Across town, students in Ruben Jacquez’s class at Rio Mesa High School use coding software to compile and clean data they’ve collected on student stress levels. He said he plans to use the skills he learned in the class when in college. But not all educators in Oxnard were on board.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Georgia’s Columbia County School District , for example, students in teacher Erica Cox’s class use Google Drawings and other G Suite apps to illustrate and create presentations. . School District , educators across multiple disciplines are using this program to build student engagement. . “It Try out new digital tools.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Common sense suggests that educational programs and practices that are designed based on how the brain works should be more effective at supporting teacher practice and student engagement and learning. A Dynamic Learning Project elementary school teacher. Finding 2: Emotion is central in cognition.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Under the leadership of a great principal, teachers thrive, students engage with core content and school administrative functions run smoothly. Research published in the Hechinger Report showed that school principals account for 25 percent of students’ academic gains, and only teacher effectiveness had a greater impact.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Researchers analyzed the records of about 1,300 students, drawn from a nationally representative sample of children across the country, who started kindergarten in 2010 and participated in a gifted program for at least one year during their elementary school years through fifth grade. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“I tell them not to read at the same pace that your neighbors are reading, not too loud that we’re distracting someone, but just enough that you can practice your reading voice,” the second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School said. “So Related: Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Netflix machine-learning algorithms, for example, leverage rich user data not just to recommend movies, but to decide which new films to make. Importantly, students have reported actually enjoying data science courses. Students stop asking “Why do I have to learn this?” They run on the same fuel: data , and lots of it.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions. This type of knowledge is dynamic and context-dependent, often demonstrated through action.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

Appropriate Level of Stimulation : The learning space can offer the “silent curriculum” that affects student engagement levels. When designing the space, it’s important for educators not to overstimulate and thus detract students’ ability to focus but to provide enough stimuli to enhance the learning experience. Scott-Webber, L.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Related: Teachers conquering their math anxiety But do topics like high interest rates translate to higher interest among students?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2023

We use the Massachusetts’ individualized learning plan, known as My Career and Academic Plan (MyCAP), which is both a process and a tool that helps students engage in career and academic planning over several years based on their interests, skills and talents. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Many students are unable to participate virtually due to resource constraints. Take, for example, the distance learning plan created by Chaffey Joint Union High School District in California, which says that schoolwork completed by students through the end of the year can only preserve and improve grades, but not lower them.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The anxiety it created for parents and students—and even teachers, because it was something new—was awful. Students can see examples.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

But how was I going to implement AR technology in my elementary school classroom? I needed something more kid-friendly that would tie into what students were learning. Ultimately, I settled on a simple way to incorporate AR into students' research and creative writing projects. I was hooked.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report And the man does. After the boys call out as he passes, the man doubles back to take the student-made survey. Done well, proponents say, a theme can help students connect what they’re learning in the classroom to some larger purpose or vision of their future. Their first success.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. We knew we needed to do something to support all students, especially English learners and students with disabilities.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2019

Then, we build technology that goes deep into that area to help students engage deeply with the most challenging concepts. Take, for example, the distributive property in third grade, helping kids to understand that you can think about 6 x 7 as 5 groups of 7 and one more 7. Dr. Jeanette Westfall. At particular schools?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2022

We all know that games and fun learning activities are more conducive to meaningful learning experiences and a higher level of students engagement and participation. In this post, I share with you a wide variety of resources where you can search for and find fun math games to use with your students in and out of class.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2021

We thrive on building social ties with students and families, but keeping those social ties in place and student engagement up isn’t easy during distance learning. I think it is important during this challenging time to keep my students moving, to stay connected by phone and online and to communicate with families.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

They generally agree that high-quality online resources can support individualized instruction, and most school administrators and teachers think such offerings are more effective for personalizing education than non-digital materials, according to a Gallup and NewSchools Venture Fund report from last year.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Education and industry collaboration is incredibly important because educators need to know what they’re preparing their students for, and how to do that. User experience included the student experience itself, not just that educators would simply teach students about UX (which is also important). Externships bridge that gap.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

How teachers are addressing pandemic learning gaps Most of Bhatia’s students missed key skills in fourth and fifth grades — the years that school was remote, then interrupted by waves of COVID — but they mastered more advanced concepts in sixth grade last year. They’re in class wanting to engage with each other.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

By addressing the different interests and specific needs of students, educators can enhance and improve student engagement. With higher engagement students will spend more time learning. We must involve students in the process and help them set realistic goals and follow through.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Screenshot from Zoom interview with Jill Barshay of The Hechinger Report.). Then, in the spring of 2020 when the pandemic erupted, Soka sent students home. An elementary school teacher, she was suddenly teaching five-year-olds online. And from there, I would say, well, let’s look at some examples,” he said.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

Added screen real estate lets students work smarter and more efficiently. For example, reference articles can be kept open and visible as students write a paper. Forty-one percent (41%) of high school students lack access to a non-shared in-school device. This has a host of advantages. This, in fact, is an ongoing trend.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Issues of access and curriculums that fail to engage students of diverse experiences burdened our students long before the pandemic, and these recent reversals of changes that lightened those burdens reflect a missed opportunity to build a better path forward. Those efforts appear to have paid off.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2021

Engage those closest to the data in the conversations. For example, they renamed the Office of Opportunity and Achievement to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion because no one understood the name or the intent of the original title. Reexamine practices—assess what is and isn’t working. Dr. LaQuiche Parrott.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report. and another called “Instigator,” in which two students tried to identify a “leader” surreptitiously chosen by the rest of the crewbies who milled around the classroom aping the leader’s gestures and gait. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Destiny, 18, is like most students in the United States. Surveys reveal a steady decline in student engagement throughout middle and high school, a trend that Gallup deemed the “school engagement cliff.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Schools that served primarily families of color — Fairfield is around 90 percent Black — reported particularly high demand from parents for a virtual option. Yet it’s unclear how many students will remain in virtual learning when the pandemic subsides — or whether they should. A Rand Corp. The area I live in, the internet is horrible.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Ryan had this chance to shine because of Fresno’s Personalized Learning Initiative (PLI), which has been fostering student voice, choice and collaboration over the last two years. With 71,000 students, Fresno is the fourth largest district in California. The New Kids on the Block Program.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A June report by New America Foundation and Rutgers University found substantial progress in home broadband access since 2015. There’s a role, he says, for a hot spot for a student who becomes homeless, for example. Having students be able to create and not just consume is huge,” says LaCroix.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

LEGO Education designs standards-aligned sets for K-8 students and offers plenty of free support for teachers, including more than 400 online lesson plans —ranging in focus from computer science and English Language Arts (ELA) to robotics and coding— self-guided professional development and an online community where teachers share tips and ideas.

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ExcelinEd

JULY 23, 2020

For example, charter school parents—who are more likely to be Black, Hispanic, from urban areas and from low-income families—reported higher levels of satisfaction with distance learning than their district school counterparts. The more access students had to teachers, the higher the level of satisfaction.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Working in tech and media for the past 20 years, I’ve seen some of these changes firsthand, and one thing has proven consistently true: Engagement is critical when learning new information and mastering new skills. With Pokémon Go, for example, players got excited to go out and work toward common goals.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

For example, this year our district launched the Exploration AI program to boost educators’ use and understanding of this emerging technology through self-directed, gamified learning. In 2024, districts will be working to find research-based interventions to help older students with reading fluency.

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