The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Over 40 years, she’s developed strong views on what’s wrong with American math education, but one problem has rankled her since she first walked into a classroom: unequal access to higher-level courses. And I have been looking for four decades.

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Survey Common Core STEM Education 137

Graphite Blog

MARCH 16, 2020

Best Classroom Tools for Presentations and Slideshows : Slideshow apps and websites that let students' work shine. Classroom Management Apps and Websites : Our editors' top tools to help you motivate, manage, and maintain a great classroom in person or virtually.

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Resources Common Core How To Learning 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Mathletics is a captivating online learning space that provides students with all the tools needed to be successful math learners both in the classroom and beyond. IXL is great not just for school-based classrooms but homeschools and summer programs designed to keep students math-ready for their next grade level. The MathFacts.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Report 254

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. DimensionU is a collection of engaging interactive multiplayer fantasy games for grades 2-10 (some can be played solo) that focus on core skills in mathematics and literacy. How to Gamify Your Classroom (a lesson plan).

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Common Core Khan Academy Gamification Digital Citizenship 150

User Generated Education

JUNE 8, 2017

In deciding what resources you need based on the learners you have, you may first need to determine how your learners learn best, what projects you plan to do, how you can set up a makerspace in your classroom, and much more. Many of those same qualities are goals of the Common Core State Standards. The Design Thinking Process.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 13, 2017

Owl Eyes does several things for reading literature: You can create a classroom and invite students. Create a classroom with your students. If you’re in a 1-to-1 classroom with iPads, Chromebooks, or any other device, this free tool is a MUST-USE. This product is worth a look because it works on any device — and it’s free!

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Analysis Chromebook iPad Company 285

Graphite Blog

APRIL 13, 2020

One important question school administrators and educators ask when choosing new classroom technology is: How does this tool protect student privacy? Be sure to browse all of our privacy ratings to see how your other classroom tools measure up. But answering this question is the tricky part. Adobe Spark EDU. BrainPop and BrainPop Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A decade ago, Common Core math was introduced to emphasize understanding over rote learning, but the delivery of standards varies across schools, classrooms and teachers, depending both on who is being assessed and who is doing the assessing. This is especially apparent in gifted classrooms.

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Common Core System Assessment STEM 135

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2015

Coding has become the poster child for a tech-infused classroom. sequencing–knowing what happens when; mentioned in Common Core standards for grades 1 through 5. No surprise the United Kingdom took the bold step of adding coding to the core school curriculum. Kodable now offers a curriculum for elementary school.

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iPad Common Core Digital Citizenship eBook 150

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. The goal was to connect with busy families in a more meaningful way: showing parents what’s happening in the classroom and, critically, how they can support learning at home.

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Elementary Meeting Report Survey 145

EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

In this multi-part series, you’ll learn some of the best Google Drive Add-Ons and Chrome Extensions for use in middle school and high school English & Language Arts, History & Social Studies, World Languages, and Science classrooms. Literary Analysis. In this first post, we’ll be focusing on WriteWell for Google docs.

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Google Common Core Elementary eBook 60

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

In the last five years, there have been some remarkable shifts in the tools educators use in the classroom and to perform their many responsibilities. We’ve seen the market fluctuate dramatically, as early iPad-dominated classrooms gave way to the rise of Google. At the beginning, these conversations can pinpoint needs.

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EdTech Tools Examples Common Core 122

EdTechTeacher

MARCH 23, 2015

As educators in the digital age, it is important that we embrace the power of play in our classrooms. Educational games help students to learn about certain subjects, expand their thinking on specific concepts, and reinforce skill development while they play while increasing engagement, empathy and excellence in the classroom.

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Robotics Gamification STEM iPad 60

wwwatanabe

JUNE 26, 2012

As we wrap up our second year of Collaboration Coaching , we celebrate the success we''ve had with collaboration, learning with colleagues, and creating 21st century, student-centered classrooms. Collaboration Coach Training 6/12 Our collaboration coaches are full time teachers in the classroom. What is a Collaboration Coach?

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Common Core Training Microsoft Differentiated Instruction 52

MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

The “reality of human-caused climate change” is mentioned in at least 36 state standards, according to an analysis done for NPR Ed by Glenn Branch, the deputy director at the National Center for Science Education. Pamela Tarango teaches third grade at the Downtown Elementary School in Bakersfield, Calif.

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Classroom Resources Common Core Study 50

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

I knew she was a good teacher, but in all that time, I never had the opportunity to watch her in her own classroom. By looking at your data points in a new way, you can create professional development opportunities within a classroom, school, or across an entire district by leveraging your internal subject matter experts (SMEs).

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Data Blended Learning LMS Knowledge Base 89

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

They had limited impact on professional learning, says Epps, principal of the Mancos Early Learning Center and Elementary School. There’s so much to do as a classroom teacher, and if your comfort level with technology isn’t there, you’re going to say ‘forget it,’” Epps says. Staff needed time to get comfortable with it.

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Data Common Core Assessment Training 60

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

As rain poured outside on the chilly evening of February 24, a group of Arlington elementary school parents was imagining a sunnier place — Dorothy’s trip down the yellow brick road. But the shift to the Common Core State Standards meant it would have to go. Related: Common Core testing showdown in Massachusetts.

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Common Core Assessment Report Groups 40

Saving Socrates

MAY 28, 2014

Let''s begin to utilize more data analysis. More research based strategies experimented with in the classroom. Why not consider introducing real labs and inquiry based lessons in elementary school? So, that 60% of learning, the skills based education, we yeshivas are rocking without really doing anything differently.

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Study Course Common Core Analysis 74

MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2015

Read more about technology in the classroom. It was a warm day in late April, and his chatty sixth-grade class had been corralled from a narrow hallway into a classroom at the end of a short hall. But this type of classroom, while unusual, makes perfect sense to Etai and his classmates.

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Learning Laptops Report Analysis 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. funding) and outputs (e.g., funding) and outputs (e.g., Students as Cheats.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix. It’s better to have a teacher guiding you.”.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 124

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. In Tulsa, she needs all the bodies in her classrooms she can get. “I

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Common Core Data Report Blended Learning 95