User Generated Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

I have since become a teacher educator (with some teaching of elementary gifted students at a few Title 1 schools thrown in). I believe that educators do more counseling of children and young people than any other profession. The goal, though, is for you to develop your own sense of hope.” Engage in Positive Self Talk.

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Education Guidelines Strategy Elementary 225

Waterford

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Although women’s equality in education and the workplace has come a long way, stereotyping and biases (both subconscious and overt) continues to hinder women from choosing STEM careers, even if that’s what they are passionate about. The good news: educating and empowering girls in STEM from a young age can overcome some of these barriers.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 24, 2020

In normal times when students come to my classroom (I provide pull-out services for gifted elementary level kids), I get them doing hands-on activities within minutes of entering into my classroom. really don’t have any educational value but the are fun and get the students excited which wakes them up in preparation for learning.

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Examples Groups Google Outcomes 435

Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Most people don’t consider education technology to be such an important industry, but it’s actually gigantic. Traditional education has always been based on the power of storytelling. This is why gamification plays such a major role in contemporary education.”. Let’s take a look! 3D learning. Game-based learning. Conclusion.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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Elementary Education Survey Report 96

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. How many kids, families, and educators were ill, recovering from being ill, or still traumatized from loved ones’ deaths, illnesses, or long recoveries? Secretary of Education, Miguel Cardona, said about these results. emphasis added].

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Assessment Report Comparison Outcomes 363

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2014

I knew early on in my education career that I wanted to be an administrator. 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. It was then in 2009 that I possibly took the greatest risk of my young administrative career.

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Personal Learning Network Social Media Personalized Learning STEM 281

Waterford

APRIL 6, 2021

Read on to learn more about the emotional and academic benefits of musical education. Then, discover kid-friendly books and activities about music that are perfect for elementary classrooms. In addition, music education is linked to social-emotional development. Music education also has the potential to raise self-esteem.

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Classroom E-rate Elementary Study 263

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ).

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The Web20Classroom

APRIL 27, 2017

I’ve had this blog since 2009. For nearly 9 years I’ve written about technology, improving school leadership and have shared my personal insights on being a connected educator. I believe many educators want to start blogging but they just don’t know where to start or what to do. FAQs for Educational Bloggers I want start a blog.

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Education Social Media Elementary Twitter 135

Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Did you know that when parents play an active role of their child’s education, academic achievement improves, students are more likely to feel confident and self-motivated, and chronic absenteeism drops? By empowering parents and giving them a voice, you can partner with them to help every student in your class reach their potential.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently. At Trousdale County Elementary in Tennessee, one of the exemplar schools, 80 percent of teachers said they did.

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Elementary Analysis Data Report 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

The world’s developed nations are placing a big bet on education investments, wagering that highly educated populaces will be needed to fill tomorrow’s jobs, drive healthy economies and generate enough tax receipts to support government services. To boost education budgets, other areas were slashed. Meanwhile, U.S.

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Education Elementary Data Report 109

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Elementary EdTech Case Study iPad 92

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

And I believe education has a major role to play in addressing this imbalance, starting in the early years. This means that the adults around our children—parents, educators and caregivers—have been feeling less well. Yet this trend persists throughout the education sector. A Three-Headed Crisis 1. Our mental health crisis.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2021

No wonder, then, that “Montessori education is often seen as niche and elitist,” says Joel Mendes, executive director of Prepared Montessorian, a program that provides training to teachers and parents in Montessori methods. It’s a grand vision—and one that has recently secured big funding from leading education investors.

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Philly Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2013

I am called in November and am placed at an elementary school in Southwest Philadelphia. February 2009. September 2009 – June 2009. We are here because the people entrusted with the financial and educational well-being of Philadelphia’s children dropped the ball in a big way. So why the trip down memory lane?

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Education Meeting Elementary Classroom 106

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

That’s the contradiction at the heart of what education researchers call “subitizing,” from the Latin “subito” or suddenly, and it means to instantly see how many, much like the way we glance at a die and see four dots without counting, “one, two, three, four.” Department of Education. More and larger studies are needed.

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Learning Elementary Study Exercises 136

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

It actually is quite obvious that the Arts should be included in STEM education. The very first time I heard the idea of integrating the Arts into STEM education was while watching a 2009 keynote made by Daniel Pink at the NECC Conference in Washington DC… yes prior to ISTE Conferences! Number one, explore the new metrics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

More than 90 percent of Code Next’s latest cohort of high school graduates advanced to higher education, the vast majority in STEM fields, according to a Code Next survey. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology. “We Who Isn’t Being Served?

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Industry STEM Education Survey 166

User Generated Education

JULY 31, 2023

I believe that all classes, regardless of grade level including through graduate school, should begin with focusing on having the students make connections between themselves and the educator; and between one another. 2009). ( Community Building in the Classroom ). I want students to learn about one another in a personal way.

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Elementary STEM Collaborative Learning Strategy 156

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In 2009, when I began my first of teaching, I taught in a school without walls. I was at Malcolm X Elementary School (MXES), an imposing cement box centrally located in Washington DC’s most violent and poorest neighborhood. But, just as bell-bottoms went out of fashion, so too did the open classrooms movement.

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Classroom Elementary Industry Strategy 159

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2018

New research from Stanford Graduate School of Education Professor Sean Reardon provides a different measure: students’ academic progress over a period of years. For years, parents and policymakers have looked to test scores to gauge the effectiveness of school districts and teachers. The findings were released in a working paper on Dec.

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Elementary Data System Accessibility 111

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. K-12 education. I’ve been engaged in thinking deeply about the promise and opportunity afforded the U.S.

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 20, 2019

Considering an education projector for your classrooms or lecture hall? This useful tech has a long history of helping educators present content. There’s an abundance of education projector options to choose from. There’s an abundance of education projector options to choose from. That’s a smart move.

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Education Video Laptops Classroom 173

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

That’s the pitch behind GitHub ’s announcement that, starting today, educational institutions will now be able to access—for free—its enterprise and business-level offerings as part of a new GitHub Education package. Our mission is to help developers learn to code with the real-world tools of industry.”

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Industry Tools Microsoft Software 115

Neo LMS

APRIL 4, 2017

E-educators everywhere need to pay particular attention to posture, because not only do students spend many hours with tablets and in front of computers — sometimes during a BYOD program — but these devices have not necessarily been developed with good posture in mind. Four simple solutions to bad student posture for learning.

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Outcomes E-rate Learning BYOD 177

Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

I want to talk to you today about the history of educational crises and education technology. That means, for one thing, you end up with a Secretary of Education or with a prominent investor/philanthropist or governor or pundit claiming that schools haven't changed in hundreds of years. We have seen this repeatedly in education.

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Education Report Khan Academy Examples 142

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 36(4), 476–500. A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. Review of Educational Research, 81(2), 201–233; Headden, S. Postsecondary education descriptive analysis report.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 277

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. Today, Education Evolving identifies roughly 300 schools that follow the teacher-powered model. “In The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School was founded in 2009.

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Report Elementary Meeting Classroom 139

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Black elementary students in North Carolina tended to score higher on annual math tests when they were taught by an HBCU-trained teacher, but not necessarily a Black teacher, according to an unpublished study from a Stanford University graduate student. Credit: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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Study Training Elementary Report 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

School Psychologist Dani Roquett greets Anne and James Hutt with their daughters, Ellison, 5, and Quinn, 10 months, at the “Zone Check-In” at the GET Together family educational event in January. Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening.

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Elementary Meeting Report Survey 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Wells went on to college, became a teacher specializing in gifted education and eventually took on the gifted coordinator role for her hometown school district, aiming to give more students the opportunities she almost missed. “It Defined that way, “education malpractice” describes almost every gifted classroom across the United States.

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Elementary Policies Data Report 132

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

As veteran educators, for years we have encountered students who struggled with decoding and reading comprehension, yet were continually pushed on to the next grade. What reading program did they use in elementary school? We know all too well the disparities that exist in education and how they impact students.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For the past several decades, I have had my feet in both elementary education and teacher training and development. The problem is that the school systems working toward these changes are using a factory model of education prevalent in the 19th and 20th centuries to do so. What is EE ). . Engages the senses.

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Learning Elementary Training Outcomes 120

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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