The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma. So, we have to learn how to reach and teach students who have experienced trauma. How to Connect to Students and Understand Their Emotions (SEL).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Through a large-scale, multi-year, federal project focusing on early literacy, we were able to gather feedback from educators on how instruction has been going this school year. I don’t [typically] lean on my parents, but we’ve been leaning on each other a little bit because I have such a young group online. …

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

As the program started, I couldn’t help but think how different her experience as a preservice teacher was from my own. Eighteen years ago, when I was a student-teacher, I started out by silently sitting in the back of an elementary-grade classroom, watching, observing and taking notes. I didn’t get much time to interact with students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. “But READ THE SERIES. Even before the pandemic, reading achievement was in a slump.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

That’s because low-income students were less likely to attend in-person school, where diagnostic assessments were given, or take an online assessment at home. Those learning loss estimates are based on how students performed on i-Ready assessments administered in school in spring 2021.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

We spent a lot of money on devices that we didn’t know how to use. My 16, 17 and 18-year old students were entering my class reading at an elementary level. After shifting to mastery-based assessment, the next logical step was 1:1 instruction. Image Credit: Farhat Ahmad The Evolution of Technology.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cleveland relentlessly advocated for equitable access to Hazel’s mental health services in all district schools rather than limiting services to a small group. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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