A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2014

My father was an elementary principal for 30 years and I always admired how he was able to inspire his staff to focus on student learning. Due to the influence of my father and a passion to help as many students as possible succeed, I ventured into the world of educational administration in 2004. Obviously my journey continues.

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Personal Learning Network Social Media Personalized Learning STEM 291

Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2019

When I first started teaching in Philadelphia in 2004, teachers were lucky if they had one desktop computer in their room for students to use, and students attended weekly computer lab classes. Early in my career, I taught elementary students in a computer lab and served as the Technology Teacher Leader (TTL) for the school.

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

4] Even though the technology is likely to change from their early school years to the time they start their first career, teaching digital literacy in elementary school is a great way to get students started. Lessons that involve digital citizenship can help a student use technology responsibly well beyond their elementary school years.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Yet, there is hope: over 96% of elementary school teachers view culturally responsive teaching as important when working with diverse students.[7] Picture books for early elementary students: Drawn Together by Minh Lê, illustrated by Dan Santat. Urban Education, 2004, 39(3), pp. Hosea Plays On by Kathleen M. Brown, D.F.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

The long-term assessment format changed in 2004, which is why you’ll notice some spikes or kinks for that year in the graphs below.) Students are expected to have learned to read by age 9, which corresponds to third or fourth grade in elementary school. The gap between white and Black students hasn't improved much since 2008.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Waterford

DECEMBER 16, 2019

For elementary school teachers, here are a few early signs of ADHD to look for:[14]. Patterns of Teacher Stress in an Elementary School Sample. Effects of Child Gender and Symptom Type on Referrals for ADHD by Elementary School Teachers. Journal of Emotional and Behavioral Disorders, October 2004, 12(4), 247-253.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

In a 2004 paper, economist Jonah Rockoff, now at Columbia Business School, tracked how teachers improved over their careers and noticed that teachers were getting better at their jobs by leaps and bounds at first, as measured by their ability to raise their students’ achievement test scores. “It’s The science has evolved.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Rob Brown, Elementary School Principal Southside Christian School, South Carolina In brief, I realized this important fact: A teacher’s smile is a teacher’s game face.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A small group of teachers in Milwaukee are trying to return to math strategies the district used from 2004-2014. Do you get the sense the training intentionally targets the district’s early elementary educators to re-teach them how to think about math? Our conversation below has been lightly edited for length and clarity.

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Strategy Elementary Training Report 105

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

link] [PDF] High Performance Learning Spaces – a paper shared by Stanford University in 2004 about their research into creating spaces where high performance learning happens. Classroom Caboodle’s elementary Classroom Layout. Clever Classrooms: Summary report of the HEAD project. University of Salford, Manchester.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Even though heutagogy is usually defined and described for adult learners, given these times where we are living with open education resources and information abundance , learners as young as the elementary level have the potential to engage in educational experiences based on heutagogy. Retrieved from [link]. Schachter, R. 2013, December).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The elementary teachers in the room solved the problem quickly. But early-childhood and elementary teachers have the daunting task of introducing abstraction to their students: What is a number? Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. I went to the store to buy some fruit.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Of the 22,101 public schools that have closed since 2004, 3,927 (17 percent) of them were in Black-majority census tracts, and 3,395 of those schools (86 percent) were in urban areas. Like the coronavirus, the impact of permanent school closures disproportionately hit Black and urban neighborhoods.

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Meeting Training Elementary Report 144

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

Yet it wasn’t until RTI was funded through the reauthorization of the Individuals with Disabilities Education Improvement Act in 2004 that more districts seriously began to consider adopting the framework. It is important to note that secondary and elementary assessment systems will be different.

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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., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2016, our Anna Reynolds Elementary School was the recipient of the National Blue Ribbon Award for high performance , and every school in the district routinely outperforms the competing magnet school on standardized assessments. He began his teaching career at Newington High School in 1985, before being appointed principal in 2004.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2018

How is this relevant to my elementary school-level classroom? Founded in 2004 by a few Stanford professors including faculty director David Kelley, the d.School offers courses to all students at Stanford, no matter their major. The epicenter of design thinking is the d.School at Stanford.

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Industry Elementary EdTech Course 84

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2022

Entsminger, an elementary school principal outside of Chicago, says his district was not able to serve nearly as many children as usual with its summer program this year, and the reason boils down to staffing. Hathaway founded the program in 2004 to help a few of his students who wanted extra support in math and science.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Amani Ghusein Ghusein, who teaches science to grades 3 through 8 at Dawes Elementary School, caught the surprise announcement made on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that cryptocurrency and finance company Ripple had made a huge donation to fund every project on education crowdfunding site DonorsChoose. “I She was glad she did.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009. The MLTI (Maine Learning Technology Initiative) program coevolved with the technology available.

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Learning in Hand

MAY 16, 2018

The last time I taught fifth grade was in 2004 , and I am so incredibly excited about spending an entire school year with my own group of young learners again. My adorable twins, Connor and Ellie, are starting kindergarten at College View Elementary School in the Council Bluffs Community School District.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

On paper, Weld North Education is made up of three companies: Edgenuity, a provider of online K-12 courses; Generation Ready, which offers K-12 professional development services; and Imagine Learning, which offers math and literacy software for elementary-grade students. Yet that’s not all.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Glenn Gustafson, CFO of the Colorado Springs School District, talks to Christina Butcher, the interim principal of Queen Palmer Elementary School. In 2004, school districts around the country were paying an average of $530 per pupil to teacher retirement benefits. The school was built in the 1940s and is in need of repairs.

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System Elementary Report Meeting 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. They worried that their younger children might be corrupted, bullied or worse. They said, ‘don’t do this to us again.

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Elementary Report Secondary Study 121

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In 2004, as a new Ph.D., During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said. In 2004, the federal government reversed course on its 1970s guidance, strongly recommending that states consider alternatives. “I

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Learning Study Report Elementary 145

eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Established in 2004, all 11 schools across the state are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Little Scholars of Arkansas (LISA) Academy is a tuition-free public charter school with a comprehensive STEM-focused college preparatory program.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

One part of that collaboration — ensuring smooth transitions for students from home to preschool and preschool to kindergarten — is what brought Daniel’s teachers from Alderson Elementary, lead teacher Audrey Persinger and assistant teacher Terri Webb, to his home in early May. Audrey Persinger, lead pre-K teacher, Alderson Elementary.

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Pearson Elementary Data Report 96

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The film is based on the real-life story of teacher Sergio Juárez Correa and his students at one of the worst-performing elementary schools in Mexico, located on the border with Texas and just a stone’s throw across the Rio Grande from SpaceX in Brownsville. So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004.

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Social Media Company Video Analysis 147

edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2021

This includes the use of case studies, starting at the elementary level, which are standards-based, transdisciplinary, and give young people “voice and choice” in what and how they are learning. Lily, an Ithaca native, served as Principal of Northeast Elementary School from 2015 to 2018. Deborah Ptak.

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Policies Professional Learning Elementary Outcomes 98

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. Complicated Conversations: Exploring Race and Ideology in an Elementary Classroom. Classroom Conversations in the Study of Race and the Disruption of Social and Educational Inequalities: A Review of Research. Review of Research in Education, 41(1), 453–476.

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Strategy Examples Elementary Classroom 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

That’s kind of our vision: preschool to PhD,” said Alex Fire Thunder, deputy director of the Lakota Language Consortium , an educational nonprofit that since 2004 has worked toward a goal of Lakota being spoken in every Lakota household.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

But a large survey of 2,000 elementary schools in three states found that not much advanced content is actually being taught to gifted students. McCoach argues that research supports acceleration, citing a 2004 summary of the research evidence conducted by scholars at the Belin-Blank Center at the University of Iowa.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The second illustrated book in this series introduces elementary students to 26 energy careers and shows how heroes around the world are powering our planet from the national labs to large renewable energy farms. “I Since 2004, KidWind has held more than 800 training events for more than 50,000 teachers all over the world.

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