The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2021

The unit concludes with a lesson about insurance and how it helps students manage risk. If you’re ready to help elementary-aged children understand financial literacy, Vault is the perfect course for you. Grade level: elementary grades. STEM Subjects. Social-Emotional Learning. Grade Level: 9-12. Idea #3: Vault.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! Coding is such an important skill that enables students to learn writing and math along with any other subject matter. Students also learn how to write and follow instructions. Code.org has different activities for elementary students to adults.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 15, 2021

Last year, when the world shut down for learning, these presenters and I worked together for a presentation: 10 Essential Best Practices for Online Learning. These four successful distance course designers for both K12 and teachers will share ten essential online learning best practices.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Part of the December 2019 STEM Resources Digital Calendar ! One way for students to demonstrate what they are learning is through screencasts. While students are completing the task they are also explaining the learning with an audio recording. Find more ideas here. You can also add a webcam with you in the video.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2021

Elementary school education is accumulative, building on whatever instruction came during the prior grade. One year you’re learning polynomials, the next how to graph them, while social studies gradually becomes more nuanced and comprehensive. So, what happens when a break occurs in the educational track?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

While West-MEC provides career training programs to high school students, it also supports elementary school district members through innovative career literacy initiatives. Each year, West-MEC allocates a significant amount of money to our two elementary school districts. Our summer camps have sprung back to life following a pause.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

On an ordinary June morning, kids descend on the campus of Auburn University to try science experiments at the college of education’s annual STEM camp. It’s an opportunity for the future teachers who are enrolled at the college to apply what they learn in class in a practical setting, testing out lesson plans with real elementary students.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

In this post, I’d like to suggest some ideas for how teachers who are new(ish) to CS can go beyond the Hour of Code. Take an online course. There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. See Code.org’s comparisons of CS curricula by grade level: elementary curricula.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Changes are coming to higher education, and those changes will be bigger and more disruptive than many college leaders and experts realize as online learning grows. We Know How to Diversify STEM Fields. How to Continuously Improve Teaching. And that means it's time to think differently about equity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Positive parental help could make the difference between students being excited about math or falling behind during the pandemic, said Jennifer Bay-Williams, co-author of “Elementary and Middle School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally” and professor of education at the University of Louisville. Credit: Michelle Majdoch.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2020

Check out their free 3-hour micro course, Launching Online Learning. I recommend Advancement Courses for online teacher professional development with over 280 courses. She is also a former teacher and principal, leading one of the first elementary STEM schools in the state of Iowa.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 27, 2018

Eric: You could definitely use these with your elementary students without a doubt. The idea is that since the words that I chose are the Dolch words, the first about hundred or so are those words — those are definitely words that students are learning in K-1-2. You could definitely use this with your lower elementary students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

Personalizing learning, Navajo style Although establishing positive, culturally responsive values is our highest priority at STAR, we have also found there is a need for personalized, online learning. Through the iReady assessments, our teachers become aware of which skills students need to learn next.

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The Innovative Educator

AUGUST 23, 2017

Don't know how to get started? As students become more adept there are opportunities to move to more complex projects starting in elementary school with Lego FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) competitions. Well, Lego has that covered too. It doesn't end in the classroom either.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

But even the best guides on how to help students complete unfinished learning don’t have advice on how to help math students who are three years behind. The rhetoric and policy of “accelerate, don’t remediate” makes sense when students are a year to a year and a half below grade level.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

This story is a part of Learning from Lockdown , a series about education solutions in the pandemic, produced in partnership with the Education Labs at AL.com , the Dallas Morning News , Fresno Bee and Seattle Times partnered with The Christian Science Monitor , Hechinger Report and Solutions Journalism Network.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. A blended learning experience should be far beyond basic online or e-learning.

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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 19, 2021

Schools’ struggles to engage English learners’ families during the pandemic partly stem from another pre-pandemic inequity — gaps in access to digital learning devices and the internet. For English learners, the pandemic is both a crisis and a revelation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

The student-to-teacher ratio at her twins’ East Austin elementary school was higher than what state law mandated, she said. Teachers are really going to have to support this learning.” Parents, meanwhile, need to be able to trust that their schools know how to support and engage students in a way that is welcoming for all, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2020 review of nearly 100 tutoring programs found that intensive tutoring was particularly helpful in reading during the early elementary years, and most effective in math for slightly older children. So it’s easy for me to show them how to do it, show them my way,” said Obimma. Kids were falling behind in math before the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

In the winter of 2019, a group of college faculty members, education consultants and government employees from the Department of Education and the National Security Agency were discussing how to address a talent gap in cybersecurity — there were more 300,000 job openings in the growing sector and no one qualified to fill them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It can even show new computer programmers sample code, allowing them to skip over the boring chore of learning how to write basic code. It’s just pulling together pieces of the sentences where other people have described how to solve similar problems. Dan Grossman, is not a requirement but it has more students than ever.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

Even before the pandemic shunted them into online learning, many high school students failed to see a connection between their work in the classroom and their real-world futures. Young people whose education included a work-based learning experience — and with it a sampling of career opportunities they might never have imagined.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Kaye Rogers’ phone began to ring and her inbox filled with questions about virtual learning before Texas schools shut down because of the coronavirus. School leaders from across the state sought advice on teacher training, how to transition curriculum and what pitfalls to avoid as students began learning from home.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. (The Schools get creative.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

The reason for this as not as many new learning tools came out this year compared to years past, while more current tools focused on regular updates. Code Kingdoms - One of my favorite sites for learning how to program (Javascript) by drag-n-dropping blocks of code (i.e Xtranormal) by typing a script.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

Educators are invited to attend an affordable 60-minute webinar to learn methods on how to have a successful school year with some planning to improve students’ learning experiences and understanding of math concepts. Learn how to prepare and plan for math for the school year. Teacher Trainers.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 21, 2014

Get ideas on how to participate! Thursday, October 23rd at 3pm Webinar: Online Learning for Inclement Weather , Join the discussion! In this session, three districts will share how they implemented online learning options to make up snow days. For more information, click here. Register at [link].

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2016

Educators are invited to attend an affordable 60-minute webinar to learn methods on how to have a successful school year with some planning to improve students’ learning experiences and understanding of math concepts. Learn how to prepare and plan for math for the school year. Teacher Trainers.

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Education Elementary Strategy Training 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Many of the nine first-time teachers featured in this story said that the fall semester was all about getting the hang of teaching—learning how to juggle after-hours responsibilities like grading and emailing, establishing their teaching styles and building relationships with students. before the pandemic.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The school recently built a new center for science and arts outfitted with new, cutting-edge Samsung solutions that provide an ideal space for students to foster STEM skills, such as critical thinking, communication, and creativity. When the pandemic started, Upchurch knew this would permanently change how students learn.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

The field of Science, Technology, Engineering, ART and Math (STEM/STEAM) is at the heart of innovation, discovery and curiosity. The resources below will help you support your students by walking them through the steps of the Engineering Design Process and also helping them understand the importance of STEM and being a problem solver!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2020

“I’m heartbroken for the impossible situation families have been put in, especially families with no resources, going to schools that don’t have the luxury of fancy online learning or giant schoolyards or under-crowded classrooms,” Latané says. She was also given another title: interim outdoor learning coordinator.

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MindShift

AUGUST 12, 2020

Many of the nine first-time teachers featured in this story said that the fall semester was all about getting the hang of teaching—learning how to juggle after-hours responsibilities like grading and emailing, establishing their teaching styles and building relationships with students. And then the shift to remote learning happened. .

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The Innovative Educator

MAY 3, 2015

This year’s report, Digital Learning 24/7: Understanding Technology – Enhanced Learning in the Lives of Today’s Students , provides landmark findings on the efficacy and value associated with popular digital learning initiatives: blended learning, online learning, school-assigned mobile devices and STEM learning.

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