eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

This was reinforced to me recently when I met with a group of high school students in New York. They certainly do, especially at the lower elementary level. Virtually any student today can access knowledge and information. It’s what they can do with it in a meaningful way that they crave.

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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 Some 38 percent of girls in this group showed signs of PTSD, double the rate of service members returning from Iraq and Afghanistan.

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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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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 31, 2023

As you'll see, he brings several perspectives that I haven't yet discussed here or over at KyEdRPG: he's a Kentuckiana elementary teacher integrating role-playing games with his students, he's using a game other than D&D, and he's doing so in a short time frame during the instructional day. system of D&D, using the old 3.5

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 30, 2017

Bloomz is my parent-teacher communication system. Jessica Meacham has a comparison of all of the parent-teacher communication systems. At my school, we have a school-wide Bloomz system. Plus, you can private message to groups of several parents in the app and on the web (something Remind doesn’t do.).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Leaders in both the private and public sectors recognize the need for a diverse group of scientists, technologists and engineers to create solutions informed by different perspectives that resonate with all of society. Current and future challenges will require all of us to use scientific ideas and practices to develop solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2021

So when Adam-Taylor heard about executive coaching from the nonprofit group The Learning Accelerator, she jumped at it. With funding from The Walton Family Foundation and Carnegie Corporation of New York, the nonprofit created a free system that paired coaches with school leaders who needed personalized, immediate solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Chandra Scott, director of strategic outcomes for the independent nonprofit Mobile Area Education Foundation, sat in on meetings to attract new business to the area, where boosters extolled the education system. “We Airbus employees have volunteered as reading buddies for children in elementary, middle and high schools.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 18, 2020

In February, I had the opportunity to work with an incredible group of elementary educators from Nauset Schools on Cape Cod. The post Ideas for Project-Based Learning at the Elementary Level appeared first on EdTechTeacher. This post includes updated content from a previous blog post on Tom Driscoll EDU. Subject: Social Skills.

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Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2023

In this second post, the author outlines three questions school and systems leaders should answer before procurement when considering new edtech. Based on these factors, you may design stakeholder engagements in different ways, which could include surveys , focus groups , empathy interviews , or a combination of the three.

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User Generated Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Here is a run down of the learning activities I did with my gifted elementary students to teach them about their brains: Introduction to the Brain. It also shows them that striving for emotional awareness and physical health is part of keeping an optimally functioning brain. The following website was shown to the learners: [link].

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 17, 2024

So I’m sitting there in this professional development session, mostly women, mostly elementary school educators. They work in small groups, large groups, and then individually, imagining how they’d do better not for sillier things like test scores, but for authentic student learning experiences.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Teaching Writing in Small Groups A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences. 2023), TEACHING WRITING IN SMALL GROUPS (March 2021), A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO READING CONFERENCES (2019), and UNDERSTANDING TEXTS AND READERS (2018). So these text-level systems were very popular. So these text-level systems were very popular.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Given my experiential education background, I’ve always been fond of and have used group team building and problem-solving activities with all of the age groups I teach – for example, see Team-Building with Elementary Students. First, separate the room into two groups: puppies and kitties. Puppies and Kittens.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Srinivas Khedam, Assistant Principal and Asian Indian Coordinator in the district; and Cathi Davis, Principal of the district’s Ruby Bridges Elementary School. Systems, Strategies, and an Equity Framework. Three key elements then used for proceeding with equity work are systems leadership, strategic planning, and an equity framework.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2021

How The English Language Learning System Is Failing in America. During my seven years of teaching at Raven Elementary in the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I saw a significant increase in the number of Hispanic students and ELL students, so I know the shortcomings of our system firsthand. Here’s what I learned.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

I believe that the low supply of STEM professionals can be attributed to significant barriers to entry originating in educational settings–this is to no fault of teachers and administrators, but how the educational system is structured. And, those with filled positions are not representing diverse groups.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics. Some school systems have been experimenting with targeted financial incentives. Some school systems have been experimenting with targeted financial incentives.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

In his 2006 TED Talk —still the most-watched of all time—he claimed that “we are educating people out of their creative capacities” and charged the current education system with being too rigid in adhering to traditional academic subjects. Make no mistake, though, he’s still shaking up the system (and redefining what that actually means).

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Holmes had been “tracked,” or grouped, into the lower-performing math class. “I Based on her research, the factors that are used to determine how to group students differ depending both on the state and the type of school. “Oh, do you want to try?,” Holmes recalls the adviser replying. I was just a kid.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Even Ancient Romans associated the concept of elementary school ( ludus ) with play ( ludere ). There are plenty of possibilities to include educational games in classroom activities, whether with the help of apps, websites, or your school learning management system. Read more: 5 Benefits of including VR in classroom activities.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We came to you as the principal of our elementary school in Minnesota and said, “She’s ready for something more.” One year in elementary school the best we could do was a self-paced, ‘teach yourself’ model with occasional check-ins with the Gifted and Talented teacher. You didn’t force our kid to fit the system.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2018

Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., One group of students conducted interviews on the National Mall asking people to share their hopes for local youth and filmed a documentary on their findings with guidance from a team of teachers, school leaders and creative professionals.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It is particularly popular in elementary schools, often filled with fun and educational activities centered around the number 100. Divide the class into groups so the project can be completed in one class period. The 100th day of school is a special milestone celebrated in many educational institutions around the world.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

In 2019, a group of researchers, led by James Kim, a professor at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education, randomly selected 15 of the district’s 30 elementary schools to teach first graders special knowledge-building lessons for three years, through third grade. Regular reading class was untouched in the experiment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district. Teachers trickle in as I set out muffins and candy at each table.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Far too many policy makers, elected officials and “educrats,” my term for educators who are hellbent on maintaining the status quo, protect this antiquated, broken and egregiously dysfunctional system with life and limb. After weeks of conversation, the group presented me with their suggestions to change our broken system.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Across their school systems, these districts are providing students with opportunities for meaningful experiences of powerful learning. South Bay Union School District (California). Community Schools (California). Traverse City Area Public Schools (Michigan). Washoe County Schools (Nevada). Whitehall City Schools (Ohio).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2024

After participating in an EdSurge Research healing circle and being in community with other Black women educators, I realized that others in the group had similar experiences. While reflecting on her decision to take a long-term leave of absence, an elementary teacher from Minnesota rhetorically queried: “If I cannot teach, who am I?”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. Related: New research shows Latinos closing the racial gap on college degrees, but still lagging far behind whites.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

It’s an exposé of how educators came to believe in something that isn’t true and are now reckoning with the consequences – children harmed, money wasted, an education system upended. Most teach elementary school, though the podcast team heard from many teachers in upper grades, too. After teachers, the largest group was parents.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

Over the last 12 years, the school system has undergone major upheavals. Now serving Grades Pre-K through six, the administration and faculty of Duquesne Elementary, the district’s sole remaining school, are determined to provide each student with the best educational experience possible. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2024

Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. Kieffer looks at both groups to see how SES impacts late-emerignig reading difficulties.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 11, 2019

The gifted group. The slow group. The behavioral issues group. Grouping in schools fell out of favor partially because educators—and parents—felt like kids were getting labeled and that groupings didn’t help students improve. both education consultants, advocated for using groups to assist student learning.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In an alphabetic system such as English, developing readers must be able to isolate the sounds within speech in order to associate those sounds with the letters that represent them. Phonological Awareness: Activity Ideas for Elementary Students. Massachusett Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Johnson, K.

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