The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

CHICAGO — In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. The Math Problem Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S.

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Elementary Report Conference Exercises 128

eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed the CARES and ARP Acts, which created and added to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Program ( ESSER ). As a first step, assess your top 10 most expensive ESSER programs and answer these questions: What is our plan to close out or continue to fund this particular expenditure?

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Assessment Outcomes Secondary Exercises 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

Many ICDL books are classified as “activities” meaning they are perfect for digital story times, scavenger hunts, and creative writing exercises. Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

Libraries 363

Libraries Mobility eBook Tablets 363

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

Through this interactive video game, students learn to identify advertising and understand its messages with the goal of becoming informed, discerning consumers. Once they’ve completed these exercises, they pretend that they have just graduated from high school, have a job, and must save $2,000 to start college. Financial Football.

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Common Core Groups Mobility Elementary 278

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. CORE is a subsidiary of Pivot Learning. Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif.,

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Professional Learning Elementary Advocacy Outcomes 102

eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

Recipients receive services from BetterLesson to ensure continuity of learning and resilient pedagogy implementation. are motivated to improve teaching and learning in new environments and adopt strategies that promote social justice,” said Matt Kennard, CEO of BetterLesson. Learn more about the 2020 matching grant program here.

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Learning Blended Learning Exercises Professional Learning 77

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

The heightened stress of COVID-19 has led many teachers to think more critically about their impact on students’ mental wellbeing, and districts around the country are turning toward social-emotional learning as a way to nurture and better support students during this time of isolation and increased anxiety. We are where we are.

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Education Study Report Exercises 200

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Whether it’s a group of retirees who cluster in the back of your corner coffee shop or the so-called Ponzi schemes of MFA programs like the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, assessment comes in the form of peer feedback—marginalia and discussion. As the educators I spoke with lamented, “the product is so hard to assess.”

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Assessment EdTech Exercises Microsoft 89

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 30, 2023

These iPad apps for students are not only educational but also engaging and user-friendly, catering to various learning styles and academic needs. From interactive learning tools to organizational aids, these apps promise to transform the educational experience, making learning a more interactive, enjoyable, and effective process.

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iPad Khan Academy Video Accessibility 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The tool was supposed to enable teachers to tailor their instruction to individual students’ learning needs, but even the kids who had strong math skills weren’t doing well. The state has also made progress in assessing which math software products correlate with improved student achievement. School districts will have to make choices.”

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Software Company Training STEM 118

Waterford

JANUARY 30, 2020

Read on to learn more about emotional intelligence and how it can increase your student’s academic and social-emotional abilities. On an individual level, strong emotional intelligence is linked to better learning and academic performance.[4] Emotional intelligence is different from cognitive ability, but it can be just as important.[13]

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Classroom Training Examples Elementary 317

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2022

Once they’ve completed these exercises, they pretend that they have just graduated from high school, have a job, and must save $2,000 to start college. They are constantly tempted to mis-spend their limited income and then must face the consequences of those actions, basing decisions on what they learned in the 32 scenarios.

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Common Core Mobility Digital Citizenship Groups 247

EdTechTeacher

MAY 12, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. For a personal narrative writing assignment, ChatGPT could help generate a rubric that assesses students on criteria like story organization, use of descriptive language, and proper punctuation.

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Secondary Course Examples Robotics 159

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

After lunch, she went to her computer, looked up the term, and quickly came across a description of the learning disability, which impacts a child’s ability to process numbers, retain math knowledge and complete math problems. “I I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is my kid,’” Jackson said. There are often obstacles to getting help.

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Report Training Elementary Strategy 130

Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

Digital textbooks are cost-effective and create equitable, engaging and flexible learning experiences. You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. It also includes feedback for learners when they answer formative assessment questions.

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How To Classroom Common Core Hapara 130

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Yet even though almost all K-12 classrooms have computers or tablets, most teachers aren’t trained to leverage computing education for rigorous learning. So what would it take to ensure all kids, regardless of gender or race, have the opportunity to learn computing ideas?

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Exercises Training Tablets System 166

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Many educators, especially early childhood and elementary teachers, do not have a STEM background so the task of integrating those subjects into daily classroom lessons can feel overwhelming. The typical elementary teacher does not have a STEM background, which can create a level of anxiety. They call it their Monday Morning Circle.

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STEM Accessibility Elementary Training 87

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Pandemic school closures and remote instruction made learning to read much harder, especially for young, low-income students who didn’t have adequate technology at home or an adult who could assist them during the day. In a normal year, the exercise would have been scaled back by this point, Woll said. READ THE SERIES.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. In fact, controversies are emerging about an important but less understood aspect of learning to read: phonemic awareness. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history. But science evolved.

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Analysis Training Study Company 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Barlow immediately resisted, because she knew the curriculum would likely focus on life skills, and her son might never be taught much reading beyond learning the shape of common, functional words like stop and exit. “I I think about it 10 years later and it still makes me want to cry,” said Barlow.

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Assessment Policies Accessibility Report 115

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Related: Will new standards improve elementary science education? Subscribe today!

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Exercises Elementary Training Report 129

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which administers the PISA tests, is assessing group collaboration because it believes that’s what employers will want more of from workers.

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Assessment Exercises Groups Video 223

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, he points to the product’s assessment strategies focused on student outcomes, employing a combination of automated evaluations and teacher-led assessments to ensure comprehensive learning assessment. This approach ensures effective learning outcomes and supports diverse educational settings and needs.

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STEM Industry Assessment Outcomes 108

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2021

We know that remote instruction and disrupted hybrid learning during the pandemic have led to enormous learning loss , particularly for low-income students and students with learning disabilities and differences. Why not use summer camp or summer school to address both Covid learning loss and ineffective instruction?

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Learning Training Report Exercises 124

EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

10 Summer Jobs For Teachers in 2017: Back to Basics Learning Dynamics is hiring experienced, accomplished tutors, teachers, translators, interpreters, and education specialists in Delaware. Back to Basics Learning Dynamics, Inc. ESL / ELL Tutors (elementary through high school, all three counties). Certified Special Ed.

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Pearson Company Assessment Exercises 260

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Math performance among elementary and middle-school students has fallen by 6 to 15 percent below pre-pandemic growth rates, depending on the students’ age, since before the pandemic, according to the Northwest Evaluation Association, which administers standardized tests nationwide. There’s already ample and dramatic evidence of this.

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STEM Report Study Industry 135

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Then that too changed when rote drills and worksheets were replaced with cerebral challenges and dynamic exercises. 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. Interactivate. BarGraph Sorter. Caesar Cipher.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Report 250

User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

Bulletin boards, classroom exercises, and catch phrases about the growth mindset are being promoted in lots of school settings. Despite being debunked as pseudo-science, the scars of brain gym and learning styles are still felt in classrooms around the country. It is understandable that some may be skeptical of this years buzz phrase.

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Assessment Exercises Study Elementary 120

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In order to address these equity concerns, the district is increasingly turning to technology--in particular, blended learning--to allow all students to succeed. Embracing Blended Learning. The districtwide shift towards blended learning began in 2015 when Erica Hartman was hired as Supervisor of Technology Integration.

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 113

eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

—Ryan Johnson, former instructional technology coordinator, Enterprise (CA) Elementary School District. We now use data from the program to have conversations around how students are doing throughout the year, not just at the end of the year after the summative assessments.”—Amy Suzannah Evans, 1st-grade blended building leader, St.

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Tools Exercises Assessment Elementary 87

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Across town, but in the same school district, teacher Alicia Simba leads 13 students, all 4-year-olds, in a breathing exercise in her classroom. billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. She wants to go home. The plan is that the $2.7

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Report Elementary Policies Groups 115

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. First grade in particular — “the reading year,” as Miller calls it — is pivotal for elementary students, when their literacy skills “really take off.” Related : What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. chorused a few voices.

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Elementary Report Groups Assessment 145

EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

These 10 companies are hiring teachers over the summer 2017: Back to Basics Learning Dynamics is hiring experienced, accomplished tutors, teachers, translators, interpreters, and education specialists in Delaware. Back to Basics Learning Dynamics, Inc. ESL / ELL Tutors (elementary through high school, all three counties).

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Company Pearson Assessment Exercises 214

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a breezy July morning in South Seattle, a dozen elementary-aged students ran math relays behind Dearborn Park International School. There are 25 students in the program hosted at the elementary school, and all of them are one to three grades behind. James, 11, couldn’t do two-digit subtraction last week.

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Report Elementary Examples Data 97

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The exercise is part of a new program that encourages learning middle school math through real world problem-solving, now in use in 190 school districts across 36 states. A screen appears and dramatic music pounds into my ears. I’m told there has been a nasty avalanche and that it’s my job to restore power to the grid.

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Training Report Online Learning Conference 119

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

It helps us by learning, solving problems, and making decisions, just like we do! It can make learning more personalized for each student. It can help us with grading papers, learning new languages, and even do some of the boring administrative tasks like taking attendance. In education, AI can be helpful.

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Education Strategy Examples Differentiated Instruction 84

Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

Read on to learn what toxic stress is and how it can impact a student’s physical and mental well-being. Anxiety about grades and assessments is one of the major causes (outside of ACEs) of student stress.[12] 12] For that reason, it can be helpful to focus your classroom goals on learning and growth rather than on grades alone.

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Classroom E-rate Advocacy Report 239