EdNews Daily

JUNE 23, 2016

With efforts like Rhode Island School of Design’s championing of STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math, the arts remain at the forefront of dialogue about best practices in elementary education). Arts-based Teaching Models in Elementary Schools. in Elementary Education from Florida State University.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

At a city-sponsored early childhood education fair where we met, mental health resources, classes, and after-school programs were on display for enrollment. Organizations like First 5 have a strong presence, and there are multiple subsidized preschool and early childhood extracurricular resources represented.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

SALT LAKE CITY — June 28, 2021 — Today at ISTE Live 2021, Instructure launched the Canvas for Elementary user experience, a combination of features that make Canvas more user-friendly for elementary students. The report found that hybrid teaching and learning will continue. Subject Cards.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Resources include The Raven, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and The Road Not Taken. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2023

EVERFI has some fantastic (free) resources to help you be a difference-maker in a student's life. In this post, I’ll share with you these resources, how I recommend that you use them, and some interesting pointers I’ve learned as I teach students financial literacy. EVERFI sponsored this post. All opinions are my own.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Puskar Experts say math research hasn’t gotten as much funding or attention, especially beyond the elementary level. I think it’s an idea,” said Matthew Burns, a professor of special education at the University of Missouri who was among researchers who helped create a Science of Math website as a resource for teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

I ran for the Littleton Elementary School District governing board while I was 17, and was elected while finishing out my senior year of high school. He is an advocate for making sure that students, teachers and support staff have the resources they need, and is pushing for transparency in the school district’s budget process.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2022

New data released this week from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, known as the “nation’s report card,” should raise the alarm for America’s high schools. Absenteeism skyrocketed during the pandemic, with more than 70 percent of schools reporting increases in chronic student absenteeism. The post OPINION: U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Students can practice persuasive writing, comprehension, and typing skills by completing reviews, reports, and reading logs online. Resources include The Raven, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and The Road Not Taken. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. Listen and Read.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 4, 2022

For years, as educators, we've had to cobble together our own resources. But, now, we have museum-created resources around topics and objects. First, you sign up, then learn how to make collections, and then go to the awesome resource kits! Resource Kits – here's the goldmine. Step 4: Explore the Resources.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

If you’ve ever seen a third grader struggle to type a web address into the computer or type a book report when they don’t know where the keys are, you know they should have started keyboarding earlier. Is elementary school too early—or too late? You can find her resources at Structured Learning. –Type to Learn, 1986.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 7, 2021

However, since first participating in the Hour of Code in December of 2018, I’ve tried to include more activities and bring in more resources for my students throughout the year. It has been reported that there will be 3.5 CodeforLife offers free resources for teaching coding to students of all ages. CodeforLife. Kubo coding.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Students at Bessemer Elementary School don’t have to go far to see a doctor. At Guilford County Public Schools, the district plans to expand its existing mental health services to eventually include teletherapy, according to Bessemer Elementary Principal Johnathan Brooks. It puts the resources where they already are.”

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The good news is that information is easier to come by than ever before—many students, even at an elementary age, have access to smartphones, the Internet, and a pervasive, never-ending flow of social media. This becomes especially important when we realize that elementary and teen-aged students are already swimming in the digital ecosystem.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Seventy percent of high school juniors and seniors believe AI-powered tools, including ChatGPT, can be a resource in brainstorming ideas for their college essays or short answer responses. The results are detailed in a new report from EveryLibrary Institute and Book Riot. One state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

Strategic Planning for Equity-Driven Edtech Selection, Implementation, and Evaluation A recent report from LearnPlatform showed that during the 2021-2022 school year, school districts accessed an average of 1,417 edtech tools each month.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. While about 95 percent of students in Silver State have access to computer science, the report states that only 3.5

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report But, two years in, enrollment had dropped to 87 kids, a 65 percent decrease. It wasn’t just a mother’s intuition.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities. A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While they are completing digital worksheets, their peers in better-resourced schools are coding, collaborating, and designing and building tech tools. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. The report also emphasizes that students need to be given chances to actively, creatively use ed tech.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 15, 2020

To wrap up this unusual National Charter Schools Week , we have been thinking about some of our youngest and most vulnerable learners: students attending elementary grades. Here are three examples of how elementary charters are continuing to provide instructional services to some of their youngest students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A student in an elementary school drops an egg wrapped tightly in paper straws and tape to test whether it can survive a high fall. Introducing these fields in elementary school helps capture students’ imaginations and kindle their interest in STEM. Adopt a curriculum that exposes students to STEM early on.

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User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

Engagement is strong at the end of elementary school, with nearly three-quarters of fifth-graders (74%) reporting high levels of engagement. Just 54 percent of middle schoolers and 46 percent of high schoolers think their studies are relevant, according to new data from the nonprofit YouthTruth. For this post, I revisited it.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

While new data suggest students are making a “ ‘surprising’ rebound,” findings also show math and reading levels for elementary and middle school students are nowhere near pre-pandemic levels. The post OPINION: Federal pandemic funds should not disappear just when we need them most appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 9, 2016

Teachers of math and English/language arts in states following the common-core standards are playing a strong role in developing or selecting the classroom resources they use, a report has found. More than 90 percent of math educators surveyed on the report, for instance, said they either selected or developed their own materials.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2023

The school year ended at Washington Elementary at 2:35 p.m. Malaysia Robertson, 9, outside of the closed Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., The lobby of Washington Elementary School in Kenner, La., JEFFERSON PARISH, La. — on Friday evening, July 28, 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2024

Students also need adequate training, even in elementary and middle school. Fewer eighth grade students hit advanced and proficient levels Source: NAEP Report Card Mathematics 2022 This bar chart shows that before the pandemic 10 percent of the nation’s eighth graders were performing at an advanced level in math.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. A wave of new laws across the country is attempting to transform how elementary school children learn to read.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At Learn more about these free webinars.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

Conversations about the science of reading are happening primarily with elementary and early childhood educators. Maryland’s Prince George’s County Public Schools is supporting all K-3 teachers with science of reading resources and practices. Here are 4 simple steps to help educators begin implementing the science of reading.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift In the past decade, the population of elementary, middle and high school students in Massachusetts dropped by 42,000 while the number of school employees grew by 18,000. The post PROOF POINTS: Schools staff up as student enrollment drops appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

2023 calculations by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report reveal that fewer than 1 in 5 countries have legislation in place to prevent and act on cyberbullying in school. Cyberbullying in particular is fueled by a lack of proper policies and wide access to smartphones and other devices.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report There are teachers who should have aides, but don’t. The plan is that the $2.7

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are now offering educators new digital resources to address the dangers of counterfeit drugs. The resources join other powerful anti-drug resources available through Operation Prevention , a collaboration between DEA and Discovery Education.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Our goal is to increase young kids’ interest in STEM by conducting monthly science experiments at local elementary schools. These activities connect high schoolers who are passionate about STEM with elementary students so that the older kids can serve as role models. New report offers clues.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 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. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. Every four weeks, teachers get together to examine student data.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Their families have the resources for tutors, after-school activities, or nannies who enforce homework time. It’s hard to tell how much the activities were responsible for boosting students’ skills or whether these highly resourced children would have done just as well on the tests and non-cognitive measures without the activities.

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