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Seven most effective ways for building relationships with students through social learning

Hapara

Every educator wants a classroom, whether in person or online, that is brimming with engaged learners and progress. To develop a productive classroom full of learning opportunities, you need to focus on building relationships with students. This is the type of classroom where students want to learn with you and with each other.

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OPINION: Let’s stop focusing on rankings and rethink what makes a good school

The Hechinger Report

Maybe you see a place where children are excited and classrooms buzz with activity. Fortunately, other data sources are available, from school site visits , student and teacher perception surveys and other tools that many school districts already utilize (think: graduation rates and statistics on student discipline).

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Will the students who didn’t show up for online class this spring go missing forever?

The Hechinger Report

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. Credit: Redland Elementary.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The district relied on individual schools to call families, while its department of research, assessment and data conducted surveys at individual school sites to find out whether families had an internet connection and computer access.

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Students have their own demands for school reopening

The Hechinger Report

Meanwhile, Ben Kim, a senior at the recently re-named Unity Reed High School nearby, conducted a quantitative survey of around 2,500 Prince William County students. Elementary students told Pressley they wanted more opportunities to interact with their classmates; one fourth grader suggested Zoom recess.

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Urgency of getting people back to work gives new momentum to ?microcredentials?

The Hechinger Report

Surveys bear this out. And if we lose someone, instead of being a dropout, they’ll have a certificate. But is it better than being a dropout? Two-thirds of Americans in a Pew Research Center survey said that students aren’t getting the skills they need for the workplace. Now they understand how education works.

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Pods live on: School districts are using the pandemic-era invention to help kids recover from ‘learning loss’

The Hechinger Report

Rubio, a junior at the University of Rhode Island who attended elementary school in Central Falls, had already intervened once this quarter. Related: Communities hit hardest by the pandemic, already struggling, could face a dropout cliff. Proponents of pods are encouraged by student survey results and other data to date.