The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Related: Pathways to jobs of the future opening via summer STEM programs. North Star is part of the Uncommon Schools network, which has elementary, middle and high schools in Newark. Yet for years, students like McGee had limited exposure to the world of STEM, or science, technology, engineering and math.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

Students start with block-based code in early elementary, before transitioning to text-based code in middle school, where they can start to develop their own apps. It started when Aileen Owens, South Fayette’s Director of Technology and Innovation, joined the district in 2010.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Bellow was honored by ISTE in 2010 as an emerging leader and then again in 2011 when he was named Outstanding Young Educator of the year. Listen to the interview with Karen Lirenman and Kristen Wideen about their favorite iPad apps for elementary classrooms. ” Want to learn about another technology? Adam Bellow [link] [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 2, 2018

The National School Board Association named him one of 2010’s “Twenty to Watch,” a list honoring individuals finding innovative ways to use technology to increase classroom learning. Steve Dembo served for ten years as Discovery Education’s Director of Learning Communities and led their Innovation and Strategy team.

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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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The early teen years are also a stage when students are especially vulnerable to “identity foreclosure,” or the walling off of certain options, such as a STEM career, as not for them, Deutsch said. Career exploration capitalizes on this innate drive, encouraging students to try on possible future selves, she said.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam: One of the things that’s pretty interesting since the last time we talked, Vicki, is that I was part of a group originally in 2010 that started lobbying of superintendents. Pam, what is an update on what has happened with education reform in Virginia since we last talked? Update on Testing Reform in Virginia. There were several of us.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2017

Studying the successes of black women mathematicians opens a window into how we can produce more black STEM grads. In 1940, just 2 percent of all black women earned college degrees, and 60 percent of those women became teachers, mostly in public elementary and high schools,” Shetterly writes. And the country suffers for it. “In

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Museum educators deliver twenty-three STEM topics—including Sound, Weather & Climate, Physical Changes of Matter, and Force & Motion—to give elementary and middle school students direct experience with how things work in the physical world. It is the only classroom-based program of its kind in Massachusetts.

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techlearning

JULY 12, 2018

Workbench enables schools to implement Project Based Learning (PBL), STEM/STEAM, and Making into their curriculum. In August 2017, Workbench began its initial pilot phase with a multi-day Professional Development (PD) workshop for teachers from Wildwood Elementary/Middle School (formerly Lyndhurst Elementary/Middle School).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

In addition to learning concepts they’d see in algebra that fall, they were exposed to the stories of famous Black and Latino figures who excelled in STEM, such as Black NASA mathematician Katherine Johnson and Mexican-American astronaut Jose M. When the school year arrived, they participated in after-school tutoring at Brookline High.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Ken Campbell, director of charter schools for the Louisiana Department of Education between 2007 and early 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

To solve its current problems, the organization is drawing on its original strengths: leadership and STEM. The Girl Scouts treats STEM its way: with an emphasis on changing the world. million in 2010 to 1.7 Before Girl Scouts sold cookies, they sold Liberty bonds. Related: OPINION — How to get girls into science. Absolutely!”

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Worldvuze – Take some time to explore this map-based question and answer education platform where elementary and secondary students around the world can learn directly from each other! The Global Read Aloud – The project was created in 2010 and had a simple goal in mind; one book to connect the world.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. Related: Eight ways to introduce kids to STEM at an early age. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. BERWYN, Ill. — It’s not just about teachers teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

“Folks here have always been willing to step up for education,” said Morgigno who has served as superintendent since 2010. Part of that buy-in stems from parents’ approval of the way kids are assigned to schools in this largely working-class central Mississippi town. Folks here have always been willing to step up for education.”.

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

Elementary think alouds. At the elementary stage, these quotes represent talking points from our 4th and 5th graders. On the other had, a smaller number of elementary students see Wikipedia as a starting point to discover additional content. Note the binary approach. So and she told me it’s not really a good site.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In 2010, Illinois passed the tougher law, and the results were dramatic. The video follows aspiring principal Sheryl Chavarria at Jamieson Elementary School, where she is immersed in a residency that emphasizes learning by doing. UIC leader Steve Tozer describes the program’s philosophy and results.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

population and more than 13 percent of New York City’s population, per the 2010 census. Each year since, they have won numerous awards, including the trophy for Outstanding Production for the best overall elementary school performance three years in a row, from 2013 to 2015, and again in 2017. percent of the U.S.

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MindShift

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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

When Ithaca moved to reduce advanced math classes, parents voiced concern that students wouldn’t be challenged academically and would miss out on a chance to take algebra in eighth grade, which is often viewed as a steppingstone to high-school calculus and a college STEM degree. Related: Middle school is often difficult.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. Problems (that we all know about) Educators across the globe are increasingly familiar with the staggering statistics: Between 2010 and 2020, STEM jobs growth will outpace all other jobs at 1 8.7% , leading to an estimated 1.1 “I can barely fix a printer. million computing jobs by 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

So, in 2010, Gardner applied for and got a National Science Foundation grant to create two new applied algebra courses. Pipe fitters, for example, are among the higher-paid welders, said welding department chair Todd Giesbrecht, but they need a solid understanding of the math involved.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

The Bear Cave has been around for 12 years, first opening its doors in a smaller unused classroom in 2010 before relocating to a bigger, unused shop room on campus in 2014. Yosemite’s principal, Nichole Horn, said the school’s staff knew their students were walking onto campus with “a lot of trauma.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 8, 2011

Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a new series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year. The series is sponsored by Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears, an NSF-funded project that provides professional development and instructional resources to elementary teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. “It Department of Education says.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

Laster’s presentation, based on 2010 data, reported that 28 percent of Louisiana students did not make it to fourth grade on time. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM. Students who failed LEAP suddenly have more options than pass or fail.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

The report cites prior research noting that children’s kindergarten math and reading achievement is strongly predictive of their achievement in elementary school, and the achievement gaps begin very early. “If Funding for this study was provided by the National Center for Special Education Research, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

Related: Will new standards improve elementary science education? She returned to her first passion and became certified to teach science in 2010. “A Melissa Lau, who sometimes wears this button to class, says many teachers want to educate their students about climate change but find the topic complicated and “overwhelming.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The Senate Education Committee began work this week sifting through the 800-some-odd-page reauthorization for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. A newly released report from Georgetown University''s Center on Education and the Workforce looks at the future of STEM-related jobs. decreases from the fourth quarter of 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2017

Since 2010, the school has used public and private grants to support a student-centered learning approach in which small-group work and individual projects dominate. They reported that, since the 2010 survey was given, the percentage of girls who said they felt respected by each other declined 13 points, to 31 percent.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Diagrams of simple machines — a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever — appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (STEM subjects plus Art) in South Fayette, a fast-growing suburb of Pittsburgh. Children in fifth grade at South Fayette elementary school collaborate to make their Rube Goldberg machines do what they wish.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all. Dr. Beate W. Nguyen, Principal + Global Scholar-Practitioner, Archdiocese of Los Angeles/St. Kristin Hundt, Teacher. Global Citizen. School + N.D.

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MindShift

MAY 21, 2017

In his college courses he regularly quizzes students using word stems so that they repeatedly have to recall the information in their notes from memory. A study conducted by Andrew Butler in 2010 compared how well students performed on a variety of tests when they either restudied material or took practices tests and restudied.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so it begins… I am on sabbatical in Spring 2023, unpacking deeper learning in elementary and middle schools. Driving Question What do students, teachers, and leaders do in ‘deeper learning’ elementary and middle schools that is different from their traditional peers? Related Posts Leadership Day 2010 – The final list!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

Cain for The Hechinger Report Evanston Township High School, in Illinois, started detracking in 2010, collapsing several levels in two freshman-year subjects — humanities and biology — into one. Her children didn’t have classes with a Black student until middle school because of the way elementary school lines were drawn, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Hyperactivity and poor memory are also thought to sometimes stem from childhood hunger. Created in 2010 and launched widely in 2014, the program was America’s first big step toward making school meals free for all. None of those conditions is conducive to learning, either in school or at home.

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