The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

At the camp in Benton, Illinois, students will learn about the plan and how to advocate for it, along with participating in typical camp activities like swimming and using the ropes course. The groundwork has been laid by students across the country working in individual schools. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 7, 2020

During the pandemic, the upheaval in families' and students' lives affects all of these basic needs, and school leaders and teachers must do their best to focus on well-being and positive relationships -- even more than usual. "Just having students turn in assignments on Google Classroom isn't going to cut it."

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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. We don’t have eyes on our students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world. We cannot continue to accept the reading outcomes that we’ve been seeing,” she said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2019

A 2000 report by the National Reading Panel downplayed the effectiveness of SSR despite evidence to the contrary. This report was foundational in crafting the Reading First program and has since skewed the importance of oral reading in the US. Learn how to find the right reading intervention for your school at our Oct 23rd webinar.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The project team developed the Water Runoff Challenge (WRC), an NGSS -aligned, multi-week curriculum unit for upper elementary students that integrates Earth science, engineering, and CT. This experience teaches students how to use CT concepts and skills to solve an engineering design problem.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

In examining student use of ReadWorks in a rural southern school district, we observed that 92 percent of the elementary school students in the study used at least one of the features that were developed to support learner variability. Students have support when I can’t help them.”

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

School District , educators across multiple disciplines are using this program to build student engagement. . “It MORE FROM EDTECH: Read about how K–12 educators are using technology to boost engagement. If you’re going to choose a platform, chose it, stick with it, and train your people how to use it.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Salas, who attends Roosevelt Elementary School in San Leandro, California, is not alone in feeling the effects of heat on her schoolyard. Across the country, climbing temperatures have led schools to cancel classes and outdoor activities to protect students from the harmful effects of the heat. “We We can learn from a textbook.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

“I tell them not to read at the same pace that your neighbors are reading, not too loud that we’re distracting someone, but just enough that you can practice your reading voice,” the second grade teacher at Lincoln Elementary School said. “So Related: Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

But in addition to being an important outcome, learner agency may also be an undervalued resource for schools, especially when they have less control over how to structure students’ time and attention. The impacts of COVID-19 are highlighting at least three ways in which schools can benefit from nurturing students’ agency: 1.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2020

While some students thrived during the coronavirus-inspired spring of remote learning, educators, parents and students themselves have reported frighteningly low engagement. Others, though, simply didn’t know how to stay on task without a teacher looking over their shoulder. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Related: Teachers conquering their math anxiety But do topics like high interest rates translate to higher interest among students?

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The anxiety it created for parents and students—and even teachers, because it was something new—was awful. It was phenomenal to see!”

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. We knew we needed to do something to support all students, especially English learners and students with disabilities.

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MIND Research Institute

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Our work was guided by the question, “How might we equip elementary (Pre-K-grade 5) teachers to enable authentic and joyful math learning for all students?” As a group, we worked to uncover strategies that will help create a more coherent and connected math experience in our nation’s elementary schools.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 30, 2023

It covers a wide range of languages and uses a game-like format that keeps students engaged. Notability For older students, especially those in high school or college, Notability is a game-changer. Seesaw This is a student-driven digital portfolio app that makes it easy to share and reflect on learning.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 15, 2020

For underserved students and rural communities, the impact is even greater. There is nothing black-and-white about how to best support our students and families,” said Dr. Barbara Adams, principal at Findley Elementary School in Des Moines, IA. But our Passmore Panthers know how to stay strong! JOlsyn1109 ? ????

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

In her qualitative study, she found that when schools meet this challenge head-on, student achievement increased and behavioral challenges decreased. Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

“They sit on the grass, and I sit on the earth with them, and try to see things from their eyes … I ask them to name their five senses, which they all know, and then I say, ‘Who taught you how to use them?’ The post COLUMN: A creation story for Indigenous and nature-based learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

She invested $19 — the cost of hosting a website — and created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, in tables clearly organized by grade level and subject matter, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

For instance, a study by Louis and Marks reveals that schools with strong professional communities not only enhance student achievement and classroom organization but also lead to greater student engagement and reduced learning disparities. Madda et al., 2011, Nurmi et al., 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Leijten, P.,

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Gradelink

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Independent schools that have received funding for Gradelink student information system through the public school district reported the following. For more information, go to the Office of Elementary and Secondary Education website. ← How to Redesign Your Report Card Template. The Local School District.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 29, 2021

This real-world experience helps students apply a variety of age-appropriate math skills in real-world stories and scenarios crafted to help students realize that math can relate to their everyday life. In this summer camp adventure, students will: Create and analyze code. Learn how money operates in the real world.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

But inside Nikhil Bhatia’s classroom, the evidence was on the whiteboard, where the math teacher was shading in slices of a pie to illustrate how to find a common denominator. That day, his seventh graders were working to add and subtract fractions — a skill students usually learn in fourth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Some students play basketball or volleyball as the clock ticks closer to first period, but for those who don’t like sports, there has been little else to do than sit on the bleachers and wait — until this year. Now the middle school, along with two of the district’s other elementary schools and its high school, have makerspaces.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Education and industry collaboration is incredibly important because educators need to know what they’re preparing their students for, and how to do that. User Experience (UX) – User Experience is how an individual (user) interacts with and experiences a product, system or service. Externships bridge that gap.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 23, 2023

This term refers to the pre-existing cognitive framework that each student brings into the learning environment, encompassing everything from factual information to deeply ingrained skills and misconceptions.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

It was very challenging to help educators understand how to deliver their instruction in a blended format without having observed it in action or experiencing it themselves. the changes in student achievement occurs more slowly over time. Teachers, students and administrators report increased engagement.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2018

In “ Dyslexia: Hidden Costs and Money-Saving Techniques for Districts ,” Noland makes a case for front-loading the funding to shrink the learning gap at an earlier age and offers cost-effective solutions to help students engage in their education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2021

Students had to take full responsibility for their education, making choices about attendance, motivation, engagement and how to limit distractions. They also gained invaluable experience being resourceful when they didn’t know how to proceed. “We Related: Study: Boosting soft skills is better than raising test scores.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 5, 2022

We all know that games and fun learning activities are more conducive to meaningful learning experiences and a higher level of students engagement and participation. In this post, I share with you a wide variety of resources where you can search for and find fun math games to use with your students in and out of class.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

But I know how to make the joke turn stale — if only those in power would listen to me. As the principal of a multicultural, socioeconomically diverse public school in San Francisco, I’ve seen seventh and eighth grade classes where only one or two students had their cameras on. It was gallows humor. That’s the easy bit.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

schools for just a few years, a 2017 study of Kinems by Pace University’s School of Education found that the data “heavily supports the effective use of kinesthetic movement for the purpose of increasing student engagement and performance outcomes” for students with disabilities. Although the Kinems program has been used in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Schools that served primarily families of color — Fairfield is around 90 percent Black — reported particularly high demand from parents for a virtual option. Yet it’s unclear how many students will remain in virtual learning when the pandemic subsides — or whether they should. A Rand Corp.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Children are learning how to be even more resilient, and technology is helping that happen.”. billion Emergency Connectivity Fund, which allows schools to apply for funds to pay for home broadband and devices for their students. “We Having students be able to create and not just consume is huge,” says LaCroix.

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