The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 25, 2021

As parents of middle and elementary school students, we were able to relate to the information shared, and apply the seminar’s concepts directly into our own family interactions and dynamics. Chris is also the creator of BecomingBetter.org , where he writes about self-improvement and works one-on-one with adults on habit formation.

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

As such, I have been thrilled about the press it’s getting and I have facilitated several workshops for educators on the growth mindset – see The Education with a Growth Mindset: A Professional Development Workshop. With all of that said, I am also concerned about the fad of the growth mindset.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. A first grader works on a math exercise during a summer program aimed at improving math and reading outcomes.

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Digital Promise

JULY 19, 2018

Some of our professional development workshops are geared toward a particular group of educators: those who teach K-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics, also known as STEM. The app provides a year of monthly classroom-ready exercises and activities, adaptable for elementary through high school students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

Provo City School District , Utah — Improve literacy outcomes for students in K-3 through 1:1 coaching for teachers and leaders at four elementary schools. Districtwide support for social-emotional learning (SEL) through workshops and coaching for teachers and social workers to expand the capacity for support at each site.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It can assist in practicing vocabulary, sentence construction, grammar rules, or even engage in conversational exercises. Seek book recommendations for advanced readers in elementary school. Professional development guidance: Real-world examples: Ask Chat GPT for recommendations on educational conferences or workshops.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. Whether it’s a group of retirees who cluster in the back of your corner coffee shop or the so-called Ponzi schemes of MFA programs like the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, assessment comes in the form of peer feedback—marginalia and discussion.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2019

WASHINGTON — When Stephanie Gunter accepted a second-grade teaching position at Langley Elementary, she was no novice. New teachers hired at the elementary school this year would have a hard time believing that, just three years ago, the suspension rate was 66 percent and physical altercations were not uncommon among 7-, 8- and 9-year-olds.

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Training Elementary Company Exercises 154

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

So the entire school, including the students, held a weeklong design thinking exercise on what they thought school should look like. Roots Elementary School in Denver, Colo. Students at Roots Elementary are not constrained by grade levels and instead learn in an open area called “ the Grove ” (pictured below).

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

Inside the spacious facility, students learn more than just how to throw a jab or perform pushups and plank exercises. In one room, elementary students are buzzing during a reading class. Another room houses microphones and recording equipment for podcasting. Tonight’s dinner includes mostaccioli, Hawaiian rolls and fruit cups.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School. The mounting stress levels have sparked a trend of “resilience” trainings and workshops, which typically include yoga, mindfulness and meditation. Her immediate reaction: “What a bunch of baloney!”. “I

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Sometimes the exercise prompted her to follow up with individual concerns. The frequent workshops also offer translation services for families whose first language isn’t English. It is vitally important that parents have access to being able to continue to do virtual workshops.”.

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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. High school students might be a great option as mentors for elementary students. Students can push on the band.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MAY 29, 2016

It is possible that your school may o ffer a workshop. There are two FlipCon conferences this summer, and I am leading an all-day workshop in Illinois. ASCD One-Day Workshop : July 15 in Naperville, Illinois. Flipped Learning for Elementary Instruction (Bergmann, Sams). I will be leading this event. Flipping 2.0:

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MindShift

MAY 21, 2019

About a year and a half into that regular exercise routine, I was sitting at my desk writing a grant and this thought went through my mind, ‘Writing is going well!’ That observation prompted her to explore what exercise was doing to her brain. “My She also teaches a class at NYU called “ Can Exercise Change your Brain?

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MindShift

MARCH 5, 2018

She sees the same patterns from early elementary school girls through high school. Two girls participate in a Girls Leadership workshop. They play icebreakers and run around together, do writing exercises and slowly build an environment where students feel comfortable talking about sensitive issues. It works like a GPS.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

But children growing up in a “world of information overload” must acquire strong media and critical literacy skills, argue Guernsey of New America and Levine of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop. A “balanced media diet,” according to Levine and Guernsey, always includes daily exercise, social engagement and good sleep.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 28, 2015

To correct that imbalance, FuelEd offers workshops on active listening, emotional intelligence and communication skills, and provides one-on-one counseling sessions to teachers. Rosner said that paying close attention to student — and parent — relationships made a difference in her class.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Just think back to the last time you went to a professional development workshop. Well, it turns out that strategically constructing the groups like we see in a lot of elementary schools turned out to be a disaster. If we already know how to do it, it's not a thinking task, it's an exercise. Think about that.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Raquel Sheridan, a senior at Pittsfield Middle High School, holds a flower she and classmates made as part of a workshop exercise. While he described the school environment as generally a friendly place to be, he’s occasionally been subjected to teasing because of his acne. They call me ‘Pizza Face,’ ” he said. Photo: Jim Vaiknoras.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

Varying exercises are designed to support learning every step of the way, and the FingerPaths keyboard helps students intuitively visualize key locations and finger movements. The bundles pair Wonder Workshop’s Cue, Dash and Dot robots with Acer Chromebooks, Chrome tablets, Window notebook PCs and Android tablets.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

It might seem far-fetched that a simple, imaginative exercise inside the mind of the person who isn’t misbehaving – the teacher – would make any difference to the classroom atmosphere. About 50 teachers, in kindergarten through ninth grade, were randomly selected to receive a single, 90-minute workshop.

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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. Sari Levy, an elementary school teacher at Bricolage Academy, is one of 22 teachers from 18 New Orleans schools who are taking part in the Personalized Learning Fellowship.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Teacher Meghan Lewis works on math problems with a small group of fourth graders at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Lewis asked her students to draft a goal and then workshop it with a peer before revising.

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User Generated Education

JULY 2, 2017

Both of the elementary schools where I work have general consumables for educators (and I believe it’s true for most schools): xerox paper, butcher block paper, crayons, scissors, tape, markers, rubber bands, papers clips. We must exercise the discipline to refrain from attaching too quickly to an idea just because it’s new.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

Adams Elementary School resource room teacher Zoe Leverson, and STR graduate student Maria-Elena Velásquez, check in with a fifth-grader following the lesson. Toward the end of Studio Day, visibly exhausted, Velásquez and her classmates gathered around a library table at Adams Elementary School, snacking on popcorn and tangerines.

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MindShift

JULY 31, 2017

They’ve created a slick online production featuring interactive exercises and special guest stars. Code.org trained 500 teachers last year, and plans to train another 900 this year, with a blend of in-person intensive workshops and online support. The group concentrates its programs in low-income areas.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 2, 2021

Amy’s experience is unique in that she has now taught both elementary AND middle school in a pandemic, so she’s experienced the challenges of working with both younger and older students in face-to-face and hybrid learning. You’ve applied them at an elementary setting in middle school. I feel like you know these systems so well.

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EdTechTeam

JUNE 25, 2018

At American School of Bombay elementary campus in Mumbai, you won’t hear a bell to signal lunch time. Rather than being composed of a bunch of small classrooms, the elementary space is large and open. Rebecca Hare, a teacher, design consultant, and coauthor of The Space , asks this question every time she does a workshop for teachers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 21, 2014

It features 60 workshops and 6 keynotes! It has an online bookstore, does consultations, and has an online course for school starters. It hosts an annual conference in various locations. This year''s conference is from June 26-29 at LIU/Post on Long Island, near New York City. More information at [link]. For more information, click here.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library. For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Here are the areas that have seen the most ed-tech investment activity so far this year: Learning to code : Investments include Galvanize ($45,000,000), Codecademy ($30,000,000), Andela ($24,000,000), Wonder Workshop ($20,000,000), Revature ($20,000,000). “That’s just false to me,” he said.

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