eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

While teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on them in the classroom, according to a new survey from ReadTheory , an edtech company that helps students build reading comprehension skills. In the wake of the disruption of the pandemic, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

But it was impossible to tell whether the Core Knowledge curriculum itself made the difference or if the boost to reading scores could be attributed to other things that these charter schools were doing, such as hiring great teachers and training them well. It cost about $400 per student in instructional materials and teacher training.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Blue dots represent the 75 schools that were eligible for the right-to-read settlement program of training and funds. Teachers were trained in evidence-based ways of teaching reading, including an emphasis on phonics and vocabulary, and encouraged to use them. (A The newly trained teachers in the science of reading may soon quit too.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

And while the materials he uses match his students’ level of English proficiency, Brock said he sometimes feels like he’s insulting their intelligence. A nationwide survey of ELL educators by McKinsey & Company during the 2012-13 school year revealed 70 percent created their own materials. He isn’t alone.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

Just because a mandate has been passed, it doesn’t mean there’s necessarily a plan for implementation, access to training or a repository of resources, all of which are necessary to put it into practice with fidelity. It’s not even guaranteed that district- and school-based staff are aware of the mandate at all.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The state trained K-3 teachers and elementary school administrators how to teach foundational reading skills and provided support by placing highly trained reading coaches in its lowest-performing schools. After the Act’s passage, Mississippi aligned with the science of reading. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2022

WILMINGTON, DE – August 4, 2022 – A new survey reveals that while teachers know their students need help developing social emotional skills, they rarely have time or adequate training to focus on them in the classroom. According to Simba Information, spending for SEL instructional materials was $1.725 billion for the 2021-2022 school year.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2020

Administrators should take the time to invest in their staff, ensuring that everyone is on the same page and creating a fluid, on-the-fly plan for transitioning from face-to-face instruction to distance learning in the event of a COVID-19 outbreak during the school year, the report suggests.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

percent of the school-aged population, according to a report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Because mastery of the English language does not necessarily determine one’s ability to grasp STEM concepts, English learners may in fact be well-suited to more advanced materials in science, math and coding.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Pitchbook reported a similar trend, noting that the pandemic’s “impact on aggregate VC activity was hardly apocalyptic,” with healthcare, digital enterprise and consumer-service startups attracting plenty of capital. Those that help bridge the communication gap and provide high-quality instructional materials will fare better, says Sharpley.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2018

Ninety-nine percent of surveyed educators also said they need more professional development and different types of learning materials to properly support ELL students and meet their needs, according to the 2017 EL Education Report from McGraw-Hill Education.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the “nation’s report card,” last month revealed the extent of the learning decline during the pandemic. Idaho started a $50 million program so that eligible families can buy education-related items, from online instructional materials to tutoring services.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

Teachers spend seven or more hours per week, or 250 hours per year , creating or finding instructional materials for the general classroom, said Clark. What we want to do is transform the instructional core.”. This amount of time grows exponentially for teachers in underserved schools with students who may need more support. “If

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In recent years, Louisiana and Mississippi have led the country in progress on the nation’s report card for our K-12 students. Historically, states have treated K-12 education as one “thing,” an essential public good provided by professionals worthy of support and training, and whose results must be transparent to parents and the public.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Screenshot from Zoom interview with Jill Barshay of The Hechinger Report.). He said he passed a test for job applicants, clicked his way through a short e-learning training module and was directly tutoring students within a month. I think the training had been somewhat effective. I remember I was panicking,” he said. “I

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Full-service VTTC members, like FEV Tutor, will provide end-to-end services, including instructional materials, tutoring platforms and trained tutors. “We Those findings are regularly shared with teachers to help them evaluate student growth and course success as well as deliver data-driven instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2019

High-quality instructional materials simply aren’t optional. We are, however, incentivizing schools and districts to choose high-quality materials through the textbook procurement process allowed under state law. They received training on how to evaluate texts and other materials.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

This figure makes after-school programs the fourth most popular way to spend federal funds to address learning loss, behind summer school, software and instructional materials. billion in recovery funds go to afterschool appeared first on The Hechinger Report. schools are on track to spend more than $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7 Journalists discovered cheating scandals and evidence of low-quality instructional materials. Rickles said that teachers need training in how to teach students who are at different places in a self-guided course. million to 3.3 But there was a downside.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Some states, such as Nevada, also restrict the use of state supplemental academic intervention funds to programs that meet federal research standards and are elevating the importance of evidence-based and high-quality instructional materials. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

For example, the principal of a school in a Washington juvenile detention center reported that youth do work they come with or the teacher creates something for them. Detention centers are also inadequately resourced , and faculty are often inadequately trained and underprepared to serve these young people effectively.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Blended classes greatly benefit from BYOD scenarios because most of the class instructional materials are on the cloud and all students need to do is to sync them on their devices. Teacher-student interaction is enhanced because there is content and information sharing. Sounds easy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2018

The support ranges from help creating and aligning instructional materials or assessment resources to providing social and emotional learning opportunities. The Tennessee Rural Education Association reports that 49 percent of school districts in Tennessee are located in rural communities. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

This story is a part of Learning from Lockdown , a series about education solutions in the pandemic, produced in partnership with the Education Labs at AL.com , the Dallas Morning News , Fresno Bee and Seattle Times partnered with The Christian Science Monitor , Hechinger Report and Solutions Journalism Network.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 6, 2020

Data Collection and Analysis : States collect, analyze and publicly report student outcome data on college acceleration opportunities and use the data to strengthen access, quality and student success. Educators and Advisors.

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In honor of Labor Day earlier this week, we are diving into our blog archives to revisit a post on XQ Institute’s report High School & the Future of Work. Their report calls out a number of startling statistics, some we have called attention to in the past and others that are new. The Need for Change Is Urgent and Overdue.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide.

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techlearning

APRIL 19, 2018

Of these four products, Core5 received the highest overall technical score by the evaluation committee and is the only program approved for site-wide use with implementation support services and trainings included. “We The most compelling findings in this year’s ETI report point to the connection between strong usage and final results.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. Yet, when I graduated from college in 2008, I didn’t know this field existed. Surely a lot has changed!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

Photo: Alison Yin/Hechinger Report. Many are also joining to support passage of the Accessible Instructional Materials in Higher Education (AIM HE) Act. Employers need to train developers in accessibility. Cal students in the Doe Library at UC Berkeley. Department of Justice ruling, such a move should not go unnoticed.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Jason Innes, Director of Curriculum, Training, and Product Management, KinderLab Robotics. “We Reporting dashboards should become more student-focused. Reports in edtech products are often created for teachers or school leaders. These reports may provide recommendations for grouping students or next steps for instruction.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

The template resources help them develop high-quality tutorials, flipped learning content, and training material without starting from scratch. The talk and draw features make it easy to create how-to and instructional videos from screenshots. Premade template layouts save teachers time. Storage and Video Hosting. SurveyMonkey.

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EdTechTeam

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Cross-posted from Observer-Reporter. Teresa Engler goes over instructional material. But some may not have as much experience training teachers in the classroom. By Rick Shrum. Dee Lanier, left, is a mentor for McGuffey Middle School teacher Teresa Engler as she participates in the Dynamic Learning Project. Or has it?

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

However, teachers do not always have the time, resources, and proper training needed to really help students develop sustainable coping skills. In some cases, administrators are afraid they might be criticized for bringing in new solutions or fear they cannot supplement enough training for the staff. How is that represented?

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2016

The national report, From Print to Pixel: The role of videos, games, animations and simulations within K-12 education , reveals that in 2010, only 23 percent of surveyed teachers said they used games, compared to 48 percent of those surveyed in 2015.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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