NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 16, 2016

After eight years without a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), ESSA becomes law with references to school libraries and librarians. While the Act did not mandate school library staffing, and while it fell short of defining what an effective program might look like, a definition was part of S.312

Libraries 40

Libraries Advocacy Broadband Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It What is definitely tied to brain health, Hillman said, is physical fitness.

Exercises 106

Exercises Elementary Report Study 106

edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Achieve3000. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenter.

Differentiated Instruction 44

Differentiated Instruction Secondary Advocacy Dropout 44

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Peter Mosby is principal at Rock Ridge Elementary School in a suburb of Denver. And the report classifies Chas as a high-level threat, though the circumstances don’t meet the definition, Mosby said. Peter Mosby, elementary school principal, and parent of a student with a disability.

Assessment 110

Assessment Report Training Guidelines 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

Elementary 72

Elementary Report Meeting Advocacy 72

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

Personalized Learning 74

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 74

Reading By Example

AUGUST 26, 2017

When I first became a principal at an elementary school, I thought I had the requisite knowledge to be a literacy leader. My previous experiences in the classroom as a teacher of readers and writers led this misconception. So when I arrived in my new building, and one of the teachers encouraged me to attend a literacy institute, I declined.

Professional Learning 62

Professional Learning Elementary Study Conference 62

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It may be not full of earthly riches, but definitely full of meaning and full of legacy. Tom Loud is first-grade teacher at Middlesettlements Elementary in Tennessee. Loud’s passions are technology integration in the elementary grades, along with teacher motivation. We have got an incredible profession, full of meaning.

Twitter 89

Twitter Flipped Classroom Elementary Advocacy 89

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Nine other elementary schools in our district also read the book. My students connected with Angie Pendley’s students at Gaines Elementary. I definitely want to build upon what we experienced because it was a wonderful first experience that I would love to see more people be a part of.

Elementary 47

Elementary Groups Google Meeting 47

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

All students with disabilities need to develop strong self-advocacy and communication skills to make sure they’re getting the supports they’re due, especially in the sink-or-swim real world. The transition going from high school to college was definitely difficult,” he said. I utterly failed it. I got three words right.”.

Study 89

Study Advocacy Report Outcomes 89

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

It’s help teachers need: In 2016 , about 50,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once, and at least 17,000 were expelled, according to the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based liberal research and advocacy institute, which arrived at the estimate based on data from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health.

Training 111

Training Report Survey Strategy 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

These students are increasingly the children of parents who helicoptered them through elementary, middle and high school or who didn’t go to college themselves and can’t provide much help with it. But for this generation, a surprising new problem is thwarting their success: too many choices. All of this takes a toll on graduation rates.

Course 129

Course Report Policies Study 129

Reading By Example

APRIL 12, 2017

These examples are, by definition, homework. This seems to fly in the face of research, such as John Hattie’s meta-analysis that homework has a negligible effect in elementary school and a significant one at the secondary. One was assigned, one wasn’t. Both facilitated a unique learning experience in our home.

Policies 37

Policies Secondary Analysis Examples 37

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

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. Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

This year, the Green Lake Parent Teacher Association paid about half that much to cover the cost of the elementary school’s vocal teacher and a portion of a full-time counselor’s salary, among other supports for students. About 3 in 4 students at Rising Star Elementary qualify for subsidized meals. Double click image to enlarge.

Elementary 145

Elementary Education Report Groups 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

They’re experiencing trauma, and trauma has a pretty significant impact,” said Darla Bardine, executive director of the National Network for Youth, a policy and advocacy group focused on youth homelessness. And then there’s the gulf between what people commonly think of as homeless and the more expansive definition Congress uses for students.

Analysis 74

Analysis Policies Report Advocacy 74

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2019

” You notice in neither of these definitions is there anything about academics, playing sports, or studying hard. And with home advocacy, SEL will work better, faster, and more effectively. Stanislaus Elementary School with “Four at the Door.” Why teach SEL in schools? SEL exercises. She looks students in the eye.

Education 201

Education Exercises Digital Citizenship Advocacy 201

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

According to the CoSN report, the standard definition of hurdles is a roadblock that forces schools to slow down, prepare themselves, and then make the leap. CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

Learning 85

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 85

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Let us be clear about our definition of rigor. In elementary school, the classroom teacher often serves that function. In many middle and high schools, an advisory or advocacy program is often included. We worked with an elementary school that had multi-grade wings for long-term personalization.

Strategy 168

Strategy Differentiated Instruction Advocacy Elementary 168

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Members of the NAACP and an advocacy organization called Oakland REACH , started by Oakland parents whose kids attend the district’s lowest performing schools, have coalesced around a campaign for better reading instruction they’re calling Literacy for All. Continuing Advocacy. In Search of a Better Way.

Advocacy 62

Advocacy Elementary Meeting Report 62

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility.

Policies 143

Policies Schoology Elementary Report 143

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There’s really no agreed-upon definition of “personalized learning” after all , and as such no real way to measure how many or how well schools are actually implementing it. Whatever “it” is.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Pre-K 4 SA definitely is focused on the success of its students, but also extending that arm to the families that need it,” she said. That’s why the program was designed to offer professional development to kindergarten and elementary school teachers in San Antonio’s 19 public school districts. “We Denise Ojeda, parent.

iPad 69

iPad Data Report Outcomes 69

edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2020

Those things are intentional and are things we can definitely correct within the system.”. At the heart of anti-racist early childhood education, she emphasized, is institutional critique combined with advocacy and transformation. We very well can help it because those things are explicit,” Dr. Durden urged. Tonia Durden, Ph.D.,

Kaplan 98

Kaplan Education Policies System 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. I’ve definitely heard from at least 10 parents who are like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on,’ ” O’Connor said. “ ‘Is this good for my child?’ ”.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Last month, NCSS updated its definition of social studies as the “study of individuals, communities, systems, and their interactions across time and place that prepares students for local, national, and global civic life.”

Study 133

Study Common Core Advocacy Conference 133

Graphite Blog

JANUARY 10, 2020

S ocial Justice Books (by Teaching for Change): A highly recommended resource for preschool and elementary school educators, this list of books intersects with all kinds of important cultural and social issues and will help students build perspective.

Resources 98

Resources Classroom Video Strategy 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2020

The extreme scarcity of counselors in Arizona, especially in elementary schools, puts students there at particular risk. Just before this crisis began, Arizona was poised to spend millions more on boosting its thin roster of counselors, thanks in part to the advocacy of students like Kumar. My job was mostly reactive.”. It’s tough.

Survey 145

Survey Report Elementary Exercises 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. That’s definitely been one of the challenges for the families using the education scholarship account, is finding a school that will admit their child,” she told the Jackson Free Press.

Advocacy 85

Advocacy Elementary Report Training 85

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

“The communities that need the most will face the biggest hits,” said Zahava Stadler, special assistant for state funding and policy at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. “If Credit: Facebook/Patrick Miller. The district started transitioning to remote learning in March of last year.

Laptops 131

Laptops System Policies Meeting 131

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

At the meeting, a special education teacher had recommended taking the boy out of Martin Elementary School, in a town 10 miles southwest, and placing him in Georgia’s Network for Educational and Therapeutic Support, or GNETS, a statewide system for children with “emotional and behavioral disorders.”.

Education 82

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 82

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

He and many other experts also note that because of legitimate fears of overlooking kids at risk and vague definitions of abuse and neglect , school workers may sometimes be overzealous, calling in allegations over relatively minor issues such as broken eyeglasses, inappropriate clothing or small scratches. .

Report 111

Report Training System Data 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Katherine Gallagher Robbins with the Center for Law and Social Policy, an advocacy group for low-income families, said that while schools aren’t viewed as child care providers in the traditional sense, elementary and middle school campuses do function as a “work support” for parents. I was definitely scared: Will they hire me back?

Industry 142

Industry Policies Advocacy Report 142

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2022

Rodrigues had been traveling the country for weeks, meeting with parent advocacy groups in city after city, and working with them to get their grievances heard and addressed by local school boards. But beyond this day-to-day advocacy, critics see an organization with larger aims of discrediting teachers unions and public education.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Groups Meeting System 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I There definitely seems to be an openness to that, and in my experience, it is different.” I find the process more accessible.

Policies 142

Policies Education Report Advocacy 142

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

.” Via Politico : “Partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to the displacement of more than 300,000 Hispanic students between 2000 and 2011, with most of those students disappearing from elementary schools.” ” Education in the Courts.

Education 55

Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I Then it appointed Susie Luckey, a popular elementary school principal, as interim superintendent until June. I think we are in trouble based on what I saw.”

Elementary 139

Elementary Report Meeting Policies 139