The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It It was brought to my attention yesterday that there was an incident at football,” Principal Bridget Belcastro said to the group. JOHNSBURG, Ill. —

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

This story also appeared in The 19th Yuli Paez-Naranjo, a Working on Womanhood counselor, sported a purple WOW T-shirt as she led the group in a discussion about how values can inform decisions. “Do How about fighting?” The only positive outcome is you may find out how strong you are,” said Deanna Palacio, one of the girls.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Holmes had been “tracked,” or grouped, into the lower-performing math class. “I Reflecting on his more recent experience as a policy analyst for RAND Corporation, a public policy research organization, Holmes doesn’t think it makes much sense that he had to hunt down the chance to try more difficult math. I was just a kid.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Whether you teach elementary, core subjects or electives, making digital citizenship part of your instruction is essential for all of your learners. So how can you help kids practice digital citizenship in school? What is digital citizenship in the classroom?

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2024

Given the amount of planning time he has each day, along with the assistance of an AI-powered app, Robert can easily turn a hard copy reading passage and questions into an interactive quiz for the students in his elementary classroom. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Samantha’s parents are at a loss about how to help her. According to an international group of researchers , specific symptoms of this phenomenon among children and young adults include intense feelings of sadness, anger, powerlessness, helplessness and guilt — all of which can fuel more general and severe anxiety or depression.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

but students with disabilities, low-income families and other underserved groups are enrolling in the program at lower rates compared to children from more affluent backgrounds. In some communities, English learner enrollments are depressed because of the lingering effects of hypocritical policies in the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Ken Dirkin, senior director of the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, said the group wanted to create a document that was digestible, but “there’s probably 40,000 important things that could have been included.” By the time we get a handle on the one-, three-, five-year plan, it's changing right underneath our noses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2023

But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. Study participants were split into groups that received different educational materials. Groups that were given analog games and parental messaging saw improvements, too. The result?

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

Find some way, some moment to connect—especially with elementary students, but all your students really—because they’re challenged,” he says. Essentially, these are tools and options that are designed for one specific group, like a ramp to a door, but it helps everybody out. They see all this craziness going on around them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 9, 2020

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter As we struggle with the coronavirus COVID-19 health crisis, many of us educators are figuring out how to prepare to teach online. Note: This doesn’t discuss the policy issues involving meals, access, and equity but is meant to get you started and prepared.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. On a day in early fall, a large group of students tossed their backpacks in a messy pile and made a beeline towards the school’s blacktop for pickup basketball and soccer games.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While more than half of high schools nationwide—53 percent, to be precise—offer computer science, disparities in access and participation reveal themselves among traditionally underrepresented groups. Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. It’s her job to guide teachers on how to help struggling readers at the 600-student school. The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

When bullying or hate speech happens in person, on school grounds, taking disciplinary actions for the aggressors and knowing how to aid the victims can be obvious. There’s not a concrete definition, but it can be any form of expression (online or off) intended to “vilify, humiliate, or incite hatred against a group or class of people.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

7, attack on Israeli communities by Hamas and Israel’s resulting declaration of war, teachers began reaching out to the San Diego County Office of Education seeking guidance on how to address the war on Monday morning with their students. Her staff reaches out to community groups and others for their input. The guide , released Oct.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2015

More simply, it’s: …an extended group of knowledgeable people you reach out to for answers, and trust to guide your learning. How to build a PLN. Now that you’re convinced you need a PLN, how do you build one? Join a professional group like ISTE or CSTA. Keep your professional social media pure.

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Hapara

MAY 23, 2022

As learners research online, they need to understand how to evaluate information and take personal responsibility for their online habits. Responsible Use Policies. Responsible Use Policies (RUPs) outline how learners and staff across the school or district should use technology and the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading. The structure of the right-to-read settlement offers a possible blueprint for how to bring evidence-based teaching practices into more classrooms, says Stanford’s Dee.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

This year, the Green Lake Parent Teacher Association paid about half that much to cover the cost of the elementary school’s vocal teacher and a portion of a full-time counselor’s salary, among other supports for students. About 3 in 4 students at Rising Star Elementary qualify for subsidized meals. Double click image to enlarge.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The group also chose to set out guidance for elementary and secondary school social studies instruction, to emphasize that education in the topic must begin in the early grades, Hedgepeth said. Sessions at the conference also focused on how to strengthen and improve social studies materials and instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Speaking quietly to her 4-year-old students, she picked one boy from the group to count his classmates: 22. billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. But do principals know how to support them? The plan is that the $2.7

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Donna Araujo reads a story to a small group of children under her care. Experts and educators say the Early Head Start partnership program could serve as a model, showing states how to design systems to better support child care programs and raise quality — assuming states get more funding under Biden’s plan.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year. Alabama passed a comprehensive early literacy policy in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Sophia Perry, a senior at Red Bank High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, says her school has been lax in enforcing its mandatory mask-wearing policy. Students who had chosen in-person instruction, like Sophia, were split into two groups that alternated the days they learned on site. “I It felt like a ghost town a little bit.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Research About Keeping Teachers First, let’s dive into some research about how to help teachers thrive (and not quit teaching.) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 36(4), 476–500. 33) Learning Policy Institute. (32) We have to help and encourage each other.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2021

In this session, we’ll share where we are now, emotional trauma and learning, how effective distance learning compares to face-to-face learning, how to take your class online, accessibility and equity, assessment, and project-based learning. Dawn Stansbury. Instructional Designer @ Advancement Courses. She received her M.Ed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Then, they made way for the next group of students, who were eager to drop their own bag from the staircase in hope of a different result. The third graders at A.J. Justin Middaugh, an engineer from Michelin, watches as students at A.J.

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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. Credit: Central Local Schools. “I

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2022

Third, researchers have yet to examine how the children’s subsequent school experiences may have affected the results, a significant limitation given earlier work finding that the program’s short-term impacts varied considerably depending on the quality of the children’s elementary school teachers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s a look at each winner: Winner: John Arthur, 6th Grade Teacher, Meadowlark Elementary School Nominated by: Follett John Arthur was the 2021 Utah Teacher of the Year and one of four finalists for 2021 National Teacher of the Year. Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program.

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Hapara

AUGUST 18, 2023

Individuals from diverse or historically marginalized populations are more likely to feel part of the group and safe to contribute. Learners in general, including those from majority groups, are more likely to empathize with, respect and relate to individuals unlike themselves if they are exposed early to diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I But even as some celebrated “flipping” their school boards back, far-right groups like Moms for Liberty remain. The policy ended up passing 4-0.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

APRIL 16, 2019

When a child begins to use technology, especially technology connected to the Internet, they must also learn how to protect themselves and learn wellness. Currently, I am the Computer and Technology Teacher for over 450 elementary students at a STEM Charter School. Upper elementary and older enjoy Code.org and Made With Code.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As a result, the district’s 1,900 elementary students will return later this summer to classrooms outfitted with multiple touch screens, motion-tracking cameras, and microphones — part of an uncommon plan to embrace hybrid learning. Randle said it is board policy to refer all media inquiries to Nohelty. The board approved the deal 4-2.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Monica Williams remembers the late May day she and first grade teacher Lizette Gutierrez reconnected with the four young siblings from Cable Elementary. No teachers from the San Antonio elementary had heard from the children since schools closed abruptly in March due to the pandemic. Credit: Monica Williams.

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