User Generated Education

JULY 31, 2023

Establish a learning community where all learners are seen as having value in our classroom Getting to Know Learners One of our primary goals at the beginning of the school year should be to get to know our students. 2009). ( Community Building in the Classroom ). This is important for several reasons.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Dear I’m New Here, Congratulations and welcome to the classroom. You are about to learn the magic of classroom leadership. Today, during parent-teacher conferences, a parent approached me and asked, “Did you used to teach at Meramec Elementary School?” Her classroom has great energy. I’m New Here.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

Classroom management skills is the topic of our blog post today! Classroom management is an art and a science that lies at the heart of effective teaching. It’s the invisible thread that weaves together student engagement, academic success, and the overall harmony of the classroom environment. Gage, Ph.D., and Ashley S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Karen Bosch explains why Merge Cubes are so hot, how they are being used in classrooms, and how she’s using them to build critical thinking and creativity in her school. Other Resources: Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality in the Classroom. Aurasma and Augmented Reality in the Classroom. Join Merge Cube Mania!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education. And the people who need schooling the most to make social mobility possible still get shafted, essentially.” Royal welcomes the comparisons. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

That can reduce teacher turnover at schools in Black communities, where many classrooms are staffed by young, inexperienced teachers who are constantly coming and going, which leads to low student achievement. Related: Bright black students taught by black teachers are more likely to get into gifted-and-talented classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

Tutoring programs for elementary school children rise to the top within this body of research, which was conducted well before the pandemic and targeted to students who were considerably behind grade level. About 10 tutors typically sat at separate tables in an ordinary classroom, each working with two students.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

When I taught fifth grade, a new Shapegram greeted students in our Google Classroom for their morning message every Wednesday. Learning in Hand started in 2002 as part of my classroom website. I live in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and after 12 years of self-employment, I returned to classroom teaching for the 2018-2019 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

A study released in 2020 by researchers with the University of Alabama said students who were enrolled in a First Class preschool program were significantly more likely to perform better than their peers on reading and math tests beyond elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

For example, student achievement in their classrooms might increase by the same 50 points every year. Papay cited his own 2015 study with Matt Kraft , along with a 2017 study of middle school teachers in North Carolina and a 2011 study of elementary and middle school teacher s. The science has evolved.”.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Notably, classroom teachers were found to be quite effective in delivering this instruction. I’ve been on both sides of the educational landscape—as a classroom teacher for over 15 years and now as an educational researcher—and the power of phonemic awareness has been an enduring theme in my own experience. Schuster, B.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2001: $450,000,000. FY 1998: $425,000,000.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

. — On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds spread out across the classroom learning about colors, shapes, engineering and design. During the same time, the percentage of classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 percent.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Steadman, who teaches at Mendell Elementary School in this highly-diverse Boston neighborhood, passed along her concerns to a colleague, Madeline Gillespie, a family support coordinator. ROXBURY, Mass. Last year, a student in Yvonne Steadman’s Kindergarten class began missing a lot of days.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Teachers and administrators get acquainted at a Border Crossers workshop for educators about discussing race and racism in the classroom. Research shows that teachers coming from elementary ed programs feel the least competent in teaching social studies, compared to math, English language arts and even the sciences.” BROOKLYN, N.Y. —

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Related: In one giant classroom, four teachers manage 135 kids — and love it The first schools to take a teacher-led approach emerged in the 1970s at a time of growing interest in the worker cooperative model, in which employees share ownership of an organization, according to Junge. Some students notice that their school is unusual. “It

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Philly Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2013

Here is a run-down: 2001. I am called in November and am placed at an elementary school in Southwest Philadelphia. My role is to support classroom teachers whose classrooms have gone over the legal limit. We survive a poor school climate with fights breaking out regularly and many unruly classrooms. February 2009.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

In terms of student proficiency, today's classrooms are more diverse than ever. In these classrooms, teachers face a seemingly impossible task -- providing effective instruction to all the unique students under their care. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) expanded the federal role in school oversight, calling for testing nearly all children in grades 3 through 8 annually in English Language Arts and mathematics to assess their proficiency. For the past two decades, the tests mandated by NCLB and ESSA have driven classroom instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2017

Arizona ranks 50 th in the United States in elementary teacher salaries adjusted for cost of living with an average salary of about $42,560 only three quarters of what teachers earn in other parts of the country. In wages adjusted for inflation, Arizona elementary teachers are making 11 percent less now than they were in 2001.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

On a recent Tuesday, she stood at the back of her cluttered third-grade math classroom, presiding over a set of scales weighed down on one side with two textbooks — 1 kilogram total. New Frontiers Charter School elementary principal Ruben Pesina tries his luck at balancing the scales in Karen Demore’s third grade math class.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 18, 2011

Since 1988, iEARN (International Education and Resource Network) has pioneered the educational use of innovative communications technology and teacher professional development to facilitate on-line collaborative project-based learning in elementary and secondary schools in 130 other countries worldwide.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

As the district prepares to reopen for full in-person learning on August 30, teachers are attending training sessions and figuring out just what role technology will play in their classrooms. My goal for this year is to see how I’ll make [digital tools] effective in the classroom.”. Ashley LaCroix, a school technology integrator.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Philadelphia: The Philadelphia School District in Pennsylvania was turned over to a five-member panel known as the School Reform Commission , which took control in 2001. It was funded by federal money. Currently, the panel includes the President and CEO of a local education nonprofit as well as a former local superintendent.

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edWeb.net

MAY 5, 2019

Microsoft has developed free mainstreamed non-stigmatized learning tools such as Immersive Reader, Inclusion Math, Translator and Closed Caption that empower classroom and special education teachers to create inclusive, accessible learning environments for all students. This edWeb broadcast was hosted by SETDA and sponsored by Microsoft.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

In the run-up to a new school year, I was proud to contribute $100 to the parent teacher association at my son’s school for classroom supplies. AP Photo/Ted S. It seemed an uncontroversial ask — of course I wanted his class to have the supplies they needed for the year. And there would likely be far fewer PTA fundraisers.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

NCLB, enacted in 2001, was built upon deficit beliefs about culturally and linguistically diverse students. Provide evidence that all students deserve and can thrive in classrooms that give students agency. Our educational context today is drastically different than it was at the turn of the century.

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 13, 2020

education like what we see in classrooms focuses on the cognitive. In 2001 the Bloom’s taxonomy was revised by putting together a series of more dynamic concepts for the classification system by a team of. elementary modules to draw connections between ideas and utilize. Projects, practical lab sessions, classroom activities.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 12, 2017

In 2001, not long after Oklahoma had adopted one of the nation’s first universal pre-K programs, researchers from Georgetown University began tracking kids who came out of the program in Tulsa, documenting their academic progress over time. Classroom instruction then becomes more stimulating and beneficial to students.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

Conner also identified three levels of innovation that need to occur, starting with the application of efficiency logic to smaller systems like classroom design. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. Dr. Conner obtained his Bachelor of Arts in elementary education/humanities from Lasell University.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Key components of the strategic planning process include listening to the students, staff, and community members, and then making time to reflect on what has been heard, as well as what has been observed during classroom visits. Cathi has served as an elementary principal for nine years. Cathi Davis.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. The previous federal law, the 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, required states to develop and give standardized tests in third to eighth grade.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 10, 2019

The more traditional forms of education like what we see in classrooms focuses on the cognitive skills. Here, students should be able to break down knowledge into it’s elementary modules to draw connections between ideas and utilize critical thinking. Projects, practical lab sessions, classroom activities etc.

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MIND Research Institute

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

Kalim Rayburn, Principal, Rea Elementary, Calif. According to Principal Lisa Molinaro at Woodbrook Elementary, a Title I school in ACPS with a high ELL population, ST Math is the reason she has seen an increase in her students’ probability, statistics and geometry skills. Madison Elementary, Calif. Pinellas County Schools, Fla.

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MindShift

JULY 11, 2018

Time spent teaching social studies has declined in the last two decades, particularly since the 2001 passage of No Child Left Behind, which favored a focus on math, reading and accountability as a way of addressing the country’s growing achievement gap between rich and poor children. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Liam Frometa, 5, left, and Christopher Ramos, 5, right, play with their classroom’s smart board at Fun Time Early Learning Academy in Naples, Fla. Eliane Lebrun, a kindergarten teacher at Highlands Elementary, a Guadalupe Center feeder school, said the distinction becomes apparent within the first week of school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Some have passed along that data to principals and instructional leaders to guide school improvement work, but few have sent it all the way to teachers, who make the day-to-day decisions in classrooms. It has been used punitively, as a way to point out their shortcomings, threaten their jobs and take away their classroom autonomy.

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