eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

In the past several years, we have implemented a number of district-wide initiatives to support personalization and differentiation for students including the launch of our Virtual Instruction to Accentuate Learning (VITAL) program in 2008. In our first year, we implemented personalized learning in our six middle schools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2020

This week’s podcast sponsor is Emporia State University’s online Elementary Education program: designed for career changers interested in becoming elementary teachers. I mean he's learning math right now. He's getting it through Khan Academy, through some online work and through meeting with a tutor once a week.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. They also helped translate district communications into other languages.

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 2, 2015

Here at EdTechTeacher, we take pride in the fact that all of our Instructors have been classroom teachers, and many of our instructors have come to us because of long relationships that began either at one of our events, online, or during a workshop. Q: First off, Avra, how did the first week of Summer Workshops go?!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

Before the shutdown, in English class, if he and classmates were writing a story he’d normally workshop his writing with others. When kids transition from elementary to middle school, sometimes their grades drop because of all the changes they experience, researchers say. And the way he works academically has changed too.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Related: When it comes to liberal arts education, online learning changes only the tools. Yet, amid tragedy and loss, our students showed up to our weekly online classes to workshop story angles and share ideas. Related: With many schools choosing online learning how can we keep the music alive?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 7, 2017

I had surveyed one of our elementary sites to find out their tech needs. I attended AVID trainings, English Language Learner workshops, UDL conferences, ….you Check out our other Online Learning Opportunities! I scoured the hyperdocs.co I pretty much stalked the authors on Twitter, even direct messaging Lisa!

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EdTechSandyK

AUGUST 30, 2013

Federal funds had brought small sets of iPads to each of our Title I campuses, and we had put together six hours of in-person training on using iPads in teaching and learning for math and reading intervention teachers at 10 campuses. iPad mobile learning mobile technology online learning professional development'

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techlearning

JULY 2, 2018

.) – for improving graduation rates and meeting student needs by providing online options for credit recovery and supplemental learning. Newman Crows Landing Unified School District (Calif.) – for individualizing instruction using real-time data from an engaging adaptive learning tool to boost elementary classroom performance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The frequent workshops also offer translation services for families whose first language isn’t English. The online option is “a lot better for most of us parents who are working,” says Ms. It is vitally important that parents have access to being able to continue to do virtual workshops.”.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 8, 2014

High school library prediction - Librarians will become resources to help students find online courses. Part of function of library will be to become an online learning center. You can also add a Mystery Skype since kids like learning about kids from other places. All teachers watch the workshop leader run the class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Up to 300 educators attended the workshops, which ran every day and sometimes on weekends. Ramm, who was part of the first cohort of Fuse fellows in 2014, was already providing support sessions for teachers and administrators in her district. I can’t imagine not having that support system,” Ramm said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Other paths to tech know-how include a district’s office of information technology and workshops such as those hosted by Future Ready. And it’s not just districts looking to “save” their librarians that are adopting the new model. And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”. Traci Chun, teacher-librarian at Skyview High School, Vancouver, Washington.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. Kim had previously been an Executive Vice President at Edison Learning, a for-profit education management organization. When the staff came back to school that fall, the workshops began.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 14, 2024

If you’re looking for a set of mindfulness and yoga activities that can be used in a classroom, these are a great option that I’ve used with lower and upper elementary. One student told me later that she used it a lot during online learning throughout COVID and it really helped her focus and feel better.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

This is one of many multisensory activities Welch uses in her reading intervention class, a 30-minute pull-out session that meets daily at the elementary school. Children dance to learn the letter D, for example, while chanting the sound that goes with the letter. teachers were trained this year in a new writer’s workshop model.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2011

Since 1988, iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) has pioneered the educational use of innovative communications technology and teacher professional development to facilitate on-line collaborative project-based learning in elementary and secondary schools in 130 other countries worldwide.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

On one of these towers, the Albemarle County schools have hung base stations that link to broadband internet beamed up from the roof of a nearby elementary school. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

My mother connected me to Teresa Mendez, whom she met when their youngest daughters attended the local elementary school. Mendez eventually found work at a furniture workshop, where she works today. Despite having a full-time job at the workshop, Mendez agreed to care for her grandchildren. Mendez opened the workshop at 9 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

When New Schools for New Orleans announced the competitive grant contest, 23 schools — about a quarter of all public schools in New Orleans — expressed interest by attending workshops on personalized learning. But that doesn’t mean it’s actually creating the learning experience that we’re going for.”.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ultimately, from Upchurch and the technology team to leadership districtwide, AISD knows how important technology is in today’s learning environment and wants every student to have the same opportunity to be successful. Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Concurrently, a portion of the funding went to LEAP to help train principals and teachers at more than 100 Chicago-area schools on personalized learning. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Prepackaged lessons from an online curriculum provider comprised about 80 percent of students’ work in the first year. Steiner wants to cut that online learning quotient way back, to 20 percent, partly by expanding the number of seminars in which teachers lead a deeper exploration or a lab on select topics.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

Concurrently, a portion of the funding went to LEAP to help train principals and teachers at more than 100 Chicago-area schools on personalized learning. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I I didn’t have the mindset to make this shift. I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and now you’re gonna make me do what?”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Shedding light on Multimodality - Lucia Bodeman 6:00pm KEYNOTE: Rafael Parente 7:00pm iAuthor a Global iBook on the iPad by Meg Wilson Around the World in Nearly 80 Days - Sonya Van Schaijik Direct Your Own Learning - Edna Sackson Mentoring is not just for novices - Tamas Lorincz Picture Perfect Apps - Tia Simmons 8:00pm Attending to Student Narratives: (..)

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