The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

I was inspired to write this post because of the soon to be released episode 536 (to be released on August 5, 2019 ), where a third-year teacher, Edwin Thomas Minguela, and I talk about the lessons he’s learned in his first two years of teaching. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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User Generated Education

JULY 31, 2023

I want students to learn about one another in a personal way. I want to learn about my individual students so my instructional strategies can be more personalized and tailored to their needs and interests. You will be expected to engage in the learning activities during class time. You will be an active learner.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

Legends of Learning has awesome free science games and activities to celebrate earth day on April 22. They also have interactive — more learning type games — called Mr. Body, where you see a human body, and as you tap on different parts of the body, the organs will open up, and there will be some information about it.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. This week marks a full year since many school buildings around the country closed and the pandemic changed the way our children learn. Credit: Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Why learn art in school? Nineteenth century education reformer Horace Mann, the father of American public schools, believed that the arts enhanced learning. Arts classes were further squeezed out after a 2001 federal law required schools to test children annually. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

Students might be learning new words and information and thinking critically about texts, boosting their comprehension skills in the same way that old-fashioned book reading does. “If It’s all focused on learning to read. If a kid just wants to sit and watch videos all the time, I wouldn’t want my kids doing that either,” Forzani said.

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Shake Up Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

The post Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Students learn about fills, borders, zooming, duplicating, rotating, aligning, ordering, grouping, and flipping in those four initial lessons. They also learn helpful keyboard shortcuts. The first four are freely available.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The potential impact is not confined to just academic success but extends to lifelong learning and the joys of reading. So, if there’s one takeaway from this post, it’s that fostering phonemic awareness is a worthy investment for anyone involved in a child’s learning journey—be it teachers, parents, or caregivers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Significant setbacks are especially likely for the most vulnerable students — kids with disabilities and those living in poverty, who didn’t have a computer, a reliable internet connection or a workspace to learn at home. When the No Child Left Behind law was first passed in 2001, schools got extra money to tutor students who were behind.

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Study Elementary Training Strategy 145

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. Gillespie spoke with the girl’s mother and learned they were living in a shelter and had no way to get to school.

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Meeting Elementary Groups Report 157

Tom Murray

FEBRUARY 4, 2017

This is the third post in a short series meant to highlight the great work of many nonprofit organizations that are working diligently to support students’ learning on a daily basis. The Alliance also has run Digital Learning Day for the past five years. ASCD. Connect: www.ascd.org , @ASCD. extra-state jurisdictions.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

.” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. FY 2001: $450,000,000. the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

I learned that my attention isn’t very stable,” a student said. In one study in Chicago of almost 200 elementary public school students, listening to 10 minutes of audio-recorded mindfulness daily for eight weeks improved students’ grades in reading and science. The kids were learning to self-regulate.”

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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. There will be opportunities in the near future to assess the pandemic’s consequences on student learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

But now, a new nonprofit organization that seeks to improve teaching, the Research Partnership for Professional Learning, says the conventional wisdom that veteran teachers stop getting better is one of several myths about teaching. Old dogs do appear to learn new tricks. The science has evolved.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Students have at least 40 minutes a day to play during what’s called “Play to Learn” time. 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. EVERETT, Wash. —

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Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. 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?”

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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. I complete my student teaching in an unruly 1st grade classroom with a first-year teacher because my principal placed me there and learn quickly the steel and flexibility it takes to be a teacher Philadelphia.

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Education Meeting Elementary Classroom 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

The pandemic and travails of remote learning walloped the education profession, worsening teacher morale and contributing to more people exiting the field. But learning how to teach two subjects, along with participating in so many high-level decisions at the school, is very taxing. “I Last year, teachers earned just 76.5

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

That focus, combined with other strategies like longer math periods and tutoring, has helped Northside Middle’s students bounce back from learning losses during the pandemic more quickly than middle schoolers in many other districts, teachers and administrators here say. I need a textbook, I need some notes, right? Some examples.

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Exercises Report Assessment Groups 136

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”. Read the stories.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 24, 2023

By setting clear expectations and routines, teachers can create a stable learning environment where students know what to expect (Simonsen et al., Clarity in instruction allows students to follow along without confusion, while effective methodologies engage them in learning. MacSuga-Gage, Ph.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

But this year, New Frontiers Charter School in San Antonio needed its best teachers to help younger students get ready for a new set of math standards Texas adopted in 2012, so Demore switched to elementary school. It’s the second year the standards are being tested , but the first the scores will count for schools. Photo: Sarah Garland.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

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?” She told me her name and I was transported back to 2001 when this 10-year-old wore two long braids and smiled all the time. I’m New Here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 26, 2011

Join me Tuesday, August 30th, at an earlier-than-normal time for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Richard and Rebecca DuFour on using Professional Learning Communities to improve schools. Work Together. DuFour , M.Ed., served as a teacher, school administrator and central office coordinator. Richard DuFour , Ed.D,

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. An increasing amount of data around personalized educational models like "blended learning" and content-specific software suggests that edtech makes instruction in diverse classrooms more efficient. We're mainstreaming those with special needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2021

By contrast, data about how much kids learn at school each year — how fast test scores grow — nudged survey respondents to prefer school districts that are poorer and less white. grade levels each year, learning less than the majority of U.S. Or might they pick the school where kids are learning more?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2022

A study in The Journal for Community Health found that the rate of death by suicide among Black girls ages 13 to 19 rose 182 percent between 2001 and 2017. This not only holds students accountable for their behavior, but also helps students build connections, develop conflict-management skills and learn to address the roots of conflicts.

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Linways Technologies

MARCH 13, 2020

revolves around 6 levels to measure achievement of learning outcomes. begins from the most basic level; remembering what has been taught, onto the higher levels as learning progresses. begins from the most basic level; remembering what has been taught, onto the higher levels as learning progresses. The student. The student.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Since its launch in 2001, Wikipedia’s crowd-sourced authorship–its wikiness–has provoked debate relating to authority, despite the fact that many Wikipedia authors are topic experts and that a growing number of librarians and academics contribute by adding and editing references. Elementary think alouds.

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

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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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

Conner’s district, is schools will become hubs, teachers will become learning accelerators, and students will become co-authors of their own education. This edWeb broadcast was hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network, providing premier professional learning for educational leaders.

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Educator Innovator

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

NCLB, enacted in 2001, was built upon deficit beliefs about culturally and linguistically diverse students. We are witnessing how these programs are growing disengaged, dependent learners and increasing inequities in access to high quality teaching and learning. Demonstrate to readers what great teaching and learning looks like.

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Study Video Elementary Policies 67

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 85

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In “ How Online Mapping Activities Shape Learning Experiences for K-12 Students ,” Charlie Fitzpatrick, K12 Manager at Esri; and Mike Wagner, Teacher at Loudoun County Public Schools in Virginia, shared how online mapping can shape learning experiences for K-12 learners. Join the Community.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 10, 2019

In simple words, Bloom’s taxonomy is a teaching methodology that revolves around 6 levels to measure achievement of learning outcomes. The student begins from the most basic level; remembering what has been taught, onto the higher levels as learning progresses. These six levels are: Remember. Understand. The third level: Apply.

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