The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Then that too changed when rote drills and worksheets were replaced with cerebral challenges and dynamic exercises. Here are five online math resources that will turn boring math into a favorite subject: Mathletics. Thousands of students found out, to their surprise — and often, their parents — that they loved math.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Our action gives us temporary relief but sustains the problem long-term. i.e. I feel lonely so do some exercise. TeacherCoach: Individual educators can sign up and begin taking online learning engagements in a matter of minutes. High Stress: Extreme difference within the origin of the tension.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This story also appeared in The Associated Press After more than a year of some form of pandemic online learning, students were all required to come back to school in person. After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. She runs through pre-kindergarten counting exercises on a phone.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. Sometimes, students are guided through a negotiation exercise, where they must navigate through competing individual goals and come up with the best outcome. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2020

Putting lectures online is doable, but that’s not necessarily true of coursework in fields like welding. In fields like history, literature and French, transitioning to online learning — as many colleges have done to fight the spread of the coronavirus — might sound challenging but doable.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Diep, the fully remote Brooklyn student, said he likes the freedom of online learning, but misses connecting and engaging with other students. “In We have to learn some of the content by ourselves,” he said. Last spring, remote learning went so badly for Evelyn Livingston, 12, that she ended up switching schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Adolescents need the opportunity to exercise choice and experiment with independence in ways that ease them into the demands of early adulthood.”. Dawn Ray, a speech-language pathologist at Arbor Hill Elementary School in Albany, New York, said she and her colleagues have discovered distance learning has improved communications with families.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 14, 2024

Chair bands: These are like exercise bands that get wrapped around the front two legs of a chair. We used to have an area at my school that a counselor set up that had a little walking exercise for students to do. Academic Games: Consider using classroom games to make learning more active. Students can push on the band.

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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. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. Director at Hayutin & Associates, during Studyo’s recent edLeader Panel.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Further, there are many SEL practices and wellness activities that we can encourage our students to complete independently or together; these include quick mindfulness and relaxation exercises, like a five-minute conversation during a break or a one-on-one virtual chat with a teacher during weekly office hours.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Nagler has also pushed the idea that the spread of technology means students should learn skills rather than facts; the curriculum in Mineola reflects that. The badges have also become a key part of Mineola’s distance learning, with students from pre-K to grade 12 taking various challenges and earning badges when they meet one.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The middle school exercise was almost not included in the study because researchers thought it was too easy, said Sam Wineburg, Stanford professor and lead author of the report. “We College students were easily duped by biased websites with “high production values,” including links to news organizations and “polished ‘About’ pages.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

When Louisiana schools shut down due to Covid-19 in mid-March, Calcasieu Parish teachers scrambled to transition to online learning. Everybody sort of struggled through trying to develop a combination of paper packets and online instruction,” said Bruchhaus, the superintendent. Students faced barriers to virtual learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Sometimes the exercise prompted her to follow up with individual concerns. With the shift to digital learning, she collects that data through private weekly Microsoft Forms – using memes to illustrate moods – and has expanded her questions to include what they’re grateful for.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Garate emerged from her fog of depression after her sisters became concerned and started prodding her to exercise with them, to bake with them, to do anything. Their panic grew and grew, until eventually, when they were all cried out, it passed. “I I never want to feel that again,” Garate said. It’s so scary.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Amanda Amtmanis, an elementary physical education instructor in Middletown, Connecticut, handed out cards with QR codes to a class of third graders, and told them to start running. Amanda Amtmanis, the PE instructor at Macdonough Elementary, hands a fifth grader a card with a QR code for tracking her mileage. Whoa, look at Dominic!”

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MindShift

DECEMBER 13, 2016

Martial arts, yoga and exercise, among others, help improve students’ ability to focus and control themselves. Wexler helped design his own intervention, called Activate , which uses a mixture of online games and physical activities to target focus , self-control and working memory , the skills most closely linked with academic achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Elementary school enrollment has climbed the fastest, from 327 students in May 2014 to 391 in May 2018, according to the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction in Washington. “It Related: Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids? “I like a small town. That’s what you want for your kids.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It was a public exercise, with the whole class watching. At the start of each school year, for example, the class devotes a few days to trust-building exercises, not math. An eighth grader in Ruby Voss’ and Amber Benson’s math class works on a slope exercise. After only a few weeks, his grades started rising.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Although both platforms existed before the COVID crisis to provide free online learning resources to students, they added scheduling tools to help educators select and share materials with students and widely circulated them to the public once the schools closed. His school took extra steps to support collaboration.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Two teachers, seated at U-shaped tables on opposite ends of the classroom, were going through a reading exercise with four kids each, helping them sound out letters. But that doesn’t mean it’s actually creating the learning experience that we’re going for.”. Aaaaaaaa ,” the kids chanted. Shhhhhhhh.”.

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User Generated Education

MAY 16, 2020

I do so in my college classes as well as in my elementary gifted classes. Then each student is given an opportunity to share what came up for them during the exercise. I always start my classes with some form of emotional check-in regardless of age or grade level. The 10 to 15 minutes it takes is so worth the class time.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

Hayden, typically an A or B student, has had difficulty making the transition from elementary school to middle school online. He was never a frequent user of computers, instead playing video games on a handheld device, and has found adjusting to the school’s online learning platform challenging.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

Her 15-year-old son, Winter, has been largely unmotivated by online learning. Some days, Cavanaugh sketches out a rough schedule of activities to make sure he eats between online classes and gets outside, which he often ignores. And in Sandwich, Massachusetts, Alyssa Kjendal has been home with her nine children for a year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Both of these rural districts faced challenges with online learning, as many families did not have Wi-Fi at home. Meanwhile, in Garrett County, Maryland , the school district worked with churches, community centers, and other centrally-located institutions to provide both Wi-Fi and food to district families.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

But while many districts around the country have moved to remote learning platforms like Google Classroom, Coe was using the school’s copy machine to put together printed packets for his students to take home. In this rural Tennessee county of just 12,000 residents, online learning simply isn’t an option for most families.

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Kathy Schrock

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

There was a small research study from 2015 by Iaosanurak, Chanchalor and Murphy that piqued my interest entitled “ Social and emotional learning around technology in a cross-cultural, elementary classroom. ” 1 The overview of the process of this study would not be hard to replicate in a classroom using online tools and/or apps.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 19, 2021

And there’s no question that witnessing their loneliness, difficulties with online learning and seemingly endless hours on social media has been enormously stressful for the adults who care about them the most." However, she goes on to write: "Despite all of this, Ms. We look forward to attending again this year.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

Then, when virtual learning begins, teachers would model those circles for their students, encouraging them to share their experiences since schools closed in March.

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Evelyn Learning

MAY 14, 2023

I saw students who are performing great and getting good grades in online learning as well as those students who used to get straight A’s, but now, are not getting technology”. There has been a rise in AI programs with books and courses exclusively focusing on elementary and high-school students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Researchers are finding mindset exercises benefit certain kinds of students and not others. He has incorporated mindset messages into a couple widely-used elementary school curricula for remedial reading and math. This 2017 photo of a New York City middle school shows growth mindset messages on student-made posters.

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MindShift

APRIL 21, 2015

Germain-Rutherford says there’s really no substitute for engaging in real conversations with other people, which is one of the reasons she is fond of the districts that are using the Middlebury curriculum in blended learning classrooms. The elementary school curriculum consists of animated fairy tales from target language countries.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Khan Academy is a giant online library, viewed by tens of millions of people worldwide, of multiple-choice practice exercises and short instructional videos, with the strongest offerings in STEM disciplines. Kaylee Bodge, a fourth-grader at Marcia Buker Elementary School, says the appeal is simple. So there you have it.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. Janine Menard works as a counselor at Sheely Farms Elementary, which enrolls about 750 students from pre-K through eighth grade in the Phoenix suburb of Tolleson. Credit: Source: YouTube.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

And these things don’t perfectly translate to a classroom with social distance, or masks, or an online learning space. I taught elementary, so I had one group of kids all day long. And every teacher in the world knows things for connecting with students, for humanizing a classroom, every teacher in the world.

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