User Generated Education

OCTOBER 7, 2017

And low-quality professional development, frankly, feels like detention.” ( New Report Reveals That Teacher Professional Development Is Costly And Ineffective ). What follows are the general guidelines I use to plan and structure my professional development workshops. I use these workshops as a reference in this discussion.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe. MORGAN CITY, La.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

SEATTLE — On a bright October morning, two dozen 4- and 5-year-olds were scattered around a classroom at Impact Salish Sea Elementary in south Seattle, enthralled by plastic food, dolls, blocks and clay. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

After the Denver Zoo’s James Garcia, who had been seeking a way to help Peruvian scientists save the frogs, saw students present a robot they had built at a local workshop, he asked if they could construct an underwater model. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Lecture-based PD workshops may be incompatible with how the brain operates. This could explain why these types of workshops have not shown desirable impact on teacher quality, as teachers need focused opportunities that assist them in deeper engagement with the broader meaning of their teaching practices and strategies.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

This case study was featured in Chapter 4 of EdSurge's "State of Edtech" report. During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020. At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation. One relatively easy option would be for elementary classes to have their normal classes 4 days a week.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

She was selected as the STEM Scout of the Year in 2016-2017 and was selected as one of the 12 delegates to Report to the Nation in the year 2017-2018. She was a “TIME for Kids” Kid reporter for the 2017-2018 school year and wrote articles bringing awareness to Flint crisis.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report. “I LOVELAND, Colo.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report. Rural students tend to do well in elementary school, but something changes as they get older. school district has just one school building, a playground, a dusty baseball field, a workshop for wood- and metalworking and a nonfunctional pool. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

Disclosure: The Hechinger Report, which produced this story, is an independent unit of Teachers College.) Credit: Ishwarya Daggubati for The Hechinger Report National polls by Education Week and the North American Association for Environmental Education bear these views out. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2017

. “Just as the industrial revolution made it necessary for all children to learn to read, the technology revolution has made it critical for all children to understand STEM,” according to the report.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. But how are elementary, middle and high school teachers supposed to teach it better? Many popular writing programs used in schools around the country, such as Writer’s Workshop or the Hochman Method , haven’t been put to the test like this. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 12, 2023

[INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. ( Check out our first tip here!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. For Katie Cryan Leary, the principal of the newly opened Magnolia Elementary in Seattle Public Schools, creating an antiracist, anti-bias school can be a messy, uncomfortable journey. Katie Cryan Leary, principal, Magnolia Elementary, Seattle.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 4, 2023

Post by Tom Daccord [INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

In this file photo from 2014, veteran teachers attend a Blended Learning Institute workshop in Manhattan. Photo: Alexandria Neason for The Hechinger Report. While the consortium offers week-long workshops, teachers need about three months of courses to really become effective online, said Mathes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2019

Special Features include: ability to report position, velocity, and acceleration. You can also visit PASCO website’s Digital Library for hundreds of free labs and experiments that can be sorted by age group (elementary, MS, HS, AP, or University) or subject. Training and Workshops. Some are free while others are for a fee.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

currently offer computing education as part of their teacher training, per one report. Here’s what makes up computational thinking: Teachers use subway maps to solve problems at a PD workshop. Teacher training programs aren’t yet making a dent: Very few, if any, training programs in the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

AAAJ Chicago created a two-hour workshop for educators that overviews the lack of Asian American history taught in schools across the country; where Asian Americans are concentrated in Illinois; tropes to avoid reinforcing in classrooms; and pedagogical practices to respectfully teach Asian American history.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

The professional development workshops are aimed at helping teachers help their students become critical thinkers and problem solvers, said Jeff Stanford, vice president of marketing. The post As science denial grows, science museums fight back by teaching scientific literacy appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Now the middle school, along with two of the district’s other elementary schools and its high school, have makerspaces. In addition to the concrete skills teachers picked up during the August workshops, the experience lent Havre Public Schools a sense of excitement around “making” and project-based learning in particular.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2023

Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Tūtū and Me is one of several family-child interaction learning programsin Hawaii that offers support to the state’s large number of non-parental caregivers who provide child care each day. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report Talia, 4, draws in a journal during activity time at Tūtū and Me.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 18, 2023

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 4, 2023

Post by Tom Daccord [INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 31, 2016

The merger of these two worlds – as well as significant research into cognitive science, adult learning, and professional development – has resulted in a complete redesign of my iPads in the Elementary Classroom workshop for this summer. None of us experienced elementary school with iPads. Workshop Plan. Workshop Plan.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2023

The elementary music teacher was burned out and so very tired, following years of feeling increasingly overburdened and bulldozed by students and administrators alike. She says the job requires organization and people skills, both of which she also needed to be a successful elementary school teacher. “I Am I Even Qualified?’

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

?. School was a happy place for Adriana Del Valle — at the elementary level. To learn more about restorative justice, I attended a workshop during the summer with several students from James Baldwin and City-As-School High School. She was i n the foster care system and constantly changing schools. The school became like her home.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

This 2½ day hands-on workshop introduces the arts as activities that enhance various stages of project-based learning. conduct mini-workshops and are available for “office hour” consultation. Design thinking practitioners from LUMA Institute and experienced PBL teachers help educators workshop and develop their ideas.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 9, 2023

[INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. Group registration discounts available.)

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

In Afterschool Alliance’s “America After 3PM” report released last year, the organization found that between 2014 and 2020, participation in after-school programming decreased and barriers to participation and unmet demand grew. Low-income, Black and Latino households were also more likely to note these barriers, the report found.

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EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2023

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

In one experiment, 80 schools were randomly selected to give parents a five-session workshop in supporting their children’s education during the 2009-10 school year. Elementary school students scored similarly on a national exam, regardless of whether their parents had been offered the information sessions or not.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

NEW YORK — When planning an election-year trip to the Southwest border for our undergraduate political reporting class last spring, we imagined reprising an award-winning reporting journey we took to a rural swing district in Maine during the 2018 midterms. We could neither travel nor meet in person. Still, we were taking a risk.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

More than two-thirds of all community college students and 40 percent of undergraduates in four-year colleges had to start with at least one remedial class, according to a statistical report from the U.S. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

I had the chance to chat with Dr. Jared Scherz, the founder of TeacherCoach , and a former elementary school guidance counselor who became a clinical psychologist in New Jersey. I began my career as an elementary school guidance counselor, working in some of the poorest inner city and rural areas in Chicago and PA.

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