The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. They compared them with 8,000 students at 21 other schools that had to wait and didn’t get the extra arts for at least a couple years.

Survey 145

Survey Study Elementary Analysis 145

User Generated Education

JANUARY 20, 2019

” For more about this, see Flow – A Measure of Student Engagement [link]. My students are finishing a unit on social entrepreneurship where they started a business to raise monies for a local nonprofit. For more information about this unit, see Elementary Social Entrepreneurship: A Perfect STEAM Lesson [link].

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Learning Survey Analysis Elementary 314

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

For a teacher, this translates into knowing what students use and understanding these platforms themselves. According to the survey results, conducted in March, 74% of teacher respondents were in a fully remote or hybrid teaching model at the time, and 58% had no prior online teaching experience.

Technology 301

Technology Digital Citizenship EdTech Study 301

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2022

They analyzed 53 elementary school teachers who had been randomly assigned to classrooms in their schools located in four different districts along the East Coast. Focusing on math instruction, the researchers compared students’ math scores with surveys that the fourth and fifth-grade students had filled out as part of an experiment.

Survey 138

Survey Elementary Study Report 138

Teacher Reboot Camp

MAY 28, 2020

Seesaw is the student engagement platform and digital portfolio tool I use with my elementary students. Students express their creativity, collaborate and complete tasks with a variety of tools, including the ability to draw, add audio, create videos, add text, take photos, and upload work. Grade and send feedback.

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Moodle Digital Badges Classroom Edmodo 195

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling.

Classroom 259

Classroom Blended Learning Handbook Analysis 259

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

In early fall, the faculty gathered to review the results of a survey that would allow them to assess how prepared alumni and preservice teachers felt about literacy. Six months in, the Purdue faculty have already made strides in their initial planning for revamping the curriculum.

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Survey Elementary Training Resources 60

eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Once you see students engaged and learning through play, it clicks and the question goes from how to how do we add more?” For nearly three decades, I used purposeful play in my classroom and have seen firsthand the impact it has on both students and teachers,” said Alicia Miller, a retired elementary school teacher from Evans, GA.

How To 124

How To Trends Learning Survey 124

Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The ACT Network brings together shared school leadership teams—teachers, principals, central office staff who serve the schools, and community advocates—to analyze a school’s data sources, including demographic data, perception and survey data, learning data, and program data.

Digital Badges 203

Digital Badges Professional Learning Data Elementary 203

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 24, 2015

Research Seeks Scale For Measuring Student Engagement. Educators believe that student engagement in the classroom is crucial to learning and that it can increase achievement and enrollment in challenging courses while decreasing dropout rates. The survey is relatively short and inexpensive to administer, Wang said.

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Student Engagement Dropout Elementary Data 40

Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

Teachers and Students Respond to Research-based Supports. 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.

EdTech 208

EdTech Survey Report Libraries 208

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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Elementary Online Learning Report Laptops 144

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

NEW YORK — On a sunny Friday in early November, four 10- and 11-year-old boys stand on the corner of 26th street and Fourth avenue in Brooklyn, holding homemade clipboards and signs that read “Take our food equity survey.” Sophia (left) and other BUGS sixth graders talk with a construction worker for their food equity survey.

Survey 128

Survey STEM Study Report 128

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

They cite homework’s impact on the achievement gap between students of differing socioeconomic backgrounds. Some school districts in California are doing away with failing grades, choosing instead to give students an opportunity to retake tests or resubmit assignments. School districts and educators have responded in a variety of ways.

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Education Study Report Exercises 205

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. Student Engagement and Academic Rigor.

Education 124

Education Broadband Learning Elementary 124

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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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 121

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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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 121

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Researchers analyzed the records of about 1,300 students, drawn from a nationally representative sample of children across the country, who started kindergarten in 2010 and participated in a gifted program for at least one year during their elementary school years through fifth grade.

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Study Report Survey Outcomes 145

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. And the drop in motivation by age mirrors the way student engagement plummets over time.

Learning 144

Learning Survey Report Trends 144

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In an email survey conducted by Lego Education in September, 98 percent of 1,000 K-8 teachers indicated that play-based learning “reduces their feelings of burnout.” The same study also captured responses from 1,000 K-8 students, of whom 89 percent said play made them “more excited” to go to school.

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Classroom Outcomes STEM Groups 206

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For the past several decades, I have had my feet in both elementary education and teacher training and development. It is learning by doing with a reflective element which, in turn, creates conditions for deeply engaged learning. Engages the senses. More likely to engage emotions. Persistence. Asking for help.

Learning 120

Learning Elementary Training Outcomes 120

ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2019

The Consortium for School Networking reveals the extent of these gaps in its 2018-2019 annual infrastructure survey. Forty-one percent (41%) of high school students lack access to a non-shared in-school device. In middle schools, 37% of the students lack individual 1:1 device access. This, in fact, is an ongoing trend.

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Laptops Libraries STEM Chromebook 179

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Biochemistry can be elementary. Students generally learn about moles, atoms, compounds and the intricacies of the periodic table in college, but Daniel Fried is convinced kids can learn complex biochemistry topics as early as elementary school. Photo: Gabriela Fuentes.

Survey 106

Survey STEM Company Report 106

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. Engagement surveys: Reading, specifically self-concept as a reader, the importance of reading, and sharing our reading lives. Some older students regressed.

Elementary 40

Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. Engagement surveys: Reading, specifically self-concept as a reader, the importance of reading, and sharing our reading lives. Some older students regressed.

Elementary 40

Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on instructional strategies for better student engagement. Student engagement has long been an indicator of growth and progress, and in the wake of the pandemic, it will prove essential for academic and social-emotional recovery. 1: Teacher-student relationships.

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Student Engagement Strategy Survey Blended Learning 119

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

survey conducted in June found 26 percent of districts said they would run a virtual school this year, compared with just 3 percent pre-pandemic. Yet it’s unclear how many students will remain in virtual learning when the pandemic subsides — or whether they should. Heather Schwartz, co-author of Rand surveys on virtual learning.

Survey 131

Survey Course Online Learning Accessibility 131

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Most educators and students agree: Learning took a nosedive last spring when schools closed during the coronavirus pandemic. A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed.

How To 144

How To Elementary Report Online Learning 144

ExcelinEd

JULY 23, 2020

Now, new surveys and polls are offering insight into what worked and what didn’t. As schools across the country grapple with how to safely re-open, we are still learning about the educational experiences of students and parents throughout the spring. Perhaps we can learn from some of the parent satisfaction trends of Spring 2020.

Assessment 58

Assessment Survey Learning Report 58

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Children’s learning experiences in pre-kindergarten through early elementary are shaped by many factors, including race and income ; consequently, they often face school readiness gaps that could be addressed with technology solutions.

EdTech 126

EdTech Learning Elementary Technology 126

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Based on a survey of families with children ages 3 to 13 and with incomes below the national median of $75,000, the report determined that, in 2021, 1 in 7 children do not have broadband internet at home, leaving them either unconnected or with poor quality connections. Shawn Lambert, Brunswick School Department.

Digital Divide 143

Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Destiny, 18, is like most students in the United States. Surveys reveal a steady decline in student engagement throughout middle and high school, a trend that Gallup deemed the “school engagement cliff.” PROVIDENCE, R.I.

How To 112

How To Learning Report Survey 112

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. Journal of Aggression, Maltreatment & Trauma, 30(1), 118-137.

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Course Assessment Online Assessments Strategy 487

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Yet “even as they teach their students to back up their claims with evidence, they don’t have much evidence to back up those claims.”. Only 42 percent of alumni in a nationwide survey strongly agreed that they were challenged academically in college. The Spellings Commission found evidence that “the quality of student learning at U.S.

Learning 104

Learning Outcomes Survey Assessment 104

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. Thirty-four elementary schools are contributing data to the district’s Project Daffodil, examining relationships between weather and plants.

Adobe 120

Adobe Education Tablets iPad 120

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

We have developed a learning analytics platform that integrates data from across Fresno’s systems—from student information system data to school climate surveys to state assessments—with app usage data into a common data model. The New Kids on the Block Program.

Learning Analytics 129

Learning Analytics Personalized Learning Learning Microsoft 129

eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

The beta release districts included: Sunnyside Unified School District (AZ), Buncombe County Schools (NC), Vancouver Public Schools (WA), Evergreen Public Schools (WA), Tumwater School District (WA), and Galt Joint Union Elementary School District (CA). We are excited to move to a district-wide adoption in all three grades this year.”.

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OER Resources Kaplan Instructional Materials 82