Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

AUGUST 23, 2023

Strategies to talk about race in class is the topic of our post today! Inspired by my recent reading of the insightful book “So You Want to Talk About Race” by Ijeoma Oluo, I’ve compiled a set of strategies that align with the principles laid out in the text. Encourage students to analyze and question what they see.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Department of Education reported that for the 2015-2016 school year, more than 7 million students —or 16 percent of all students—and 20 percent of high school students are chronically absent. In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 9, 2019

Related Resources Simple K12 Webinar available on demand by Melissa = Strategies and Tools to Help Develop Social Skills in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder h ttps://community.simplek12.com/scripts/student/ Melissa is dual certified in Elementary Education and Special Education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Today, it celebrates a new milestone with its purchase by Teaching Strategies , a Bethesda, Md.-based ReadyRosie founder and CEO Emily Roden says helping children by engaging their parents has helped her company grow to serve 6,500 Head Start programs, childcare centers and elementary schools.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 25, 2023

Classroom risks and resources: Teacher burnout, classroom quality and children's adjustment in high needs elementary schools. If you are already experiencing teacher burnout, it is important to seek help and make positive changes in your life. More sources: Hoglund, W. Klingle, K. & Hosan, N. Journal of School Psychology, 53, 337-357.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. She was State Teacher of The Year for 2015. 08:47 Vicki: So remarkable teachers, we all have an important strategy to understand and that is thinking routines. She is the 2015 Tennessee Teacher of the Year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

students miss more than three weeks of school every year, Smith created AllHere in 2015. Surveys help schools understand the root causes of chronic absenteeism, and then the platform suggests and tracks proven intervention strategies designed to help administrators and educators fight chronic absenteeism and its effects on students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 22, 2021

In January 2015, Mitch co-founded the nonprofit Games4Ed with Larry Cocco. Games4Ed facilitates collaborations between educators, researchers, game developers, publishers, and policymakers to further the use of games and other immersive strategies in schools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

When you enter Parker-Varney Elementary School, you are immediately struck by the relaxed atmosphere. In the 2014-2015 school year, our third-graders wanted to improve school lunch. Across Parker-Varney Elementary, teachers focus on what can work rather than on what is not working. students in second to fifth grades.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Houston lawmaker championed the 2015 law that created the mandatory takeover process, something he saw as a way to hold the district accountable for continually low-performing schools. Her two children, however, were students at one of the targeted schools, Pugh Elementary in the city’s northeastern Denver Harbor neighborhood.

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Doug Levin

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

K-8 Market (2015-16 School Year). The top line finding is eye-opening: The 2015-16 school year will mark the first time that the majority of state mandated summative testing in U.S. elementary and middle schools will be administered via technology and not in a paper and pencil format.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Three recent reports from our organization, Education Reform Now , highlight transformative strategies that high-poverty schools across three states — Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado — are using to drive stronger student outcomes. Here are our top four takeaways from these three states: Demography Does Not Equal Destiny.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

In San Antonio, Texas, elementary school principals get hands-on coaching and advice from early childhood experts during visits to pre-K classrooms. A 2015 survey found only 20 percent of early-career principals in schools with pre-K classrooms felt “well-versed” in early ed.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

In this article you’ll discover strategies for fostering reading fluency in the classroom, along with five free activities you can use with your students! Strategies for Teaching Students Reading Fluency. 5 Reading Fluency Activities for Elementary Students. September 2015. We’d love to see you there! Text memorization.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

Supporting this notion, a research study out of the University of Salford Manchester (UK), followed 3,766 students in 153 elementary classrooms from 27 different schools over a three-year period, analyzing classroom design elements along the way. In fact, changes can be made that have little to no cost yet make a significant difference.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 27, 2019

When I wrote Uncommon Learning back in 2015, the premise was to set the stage as to how we could create schools that work for kids. A good deal of the strategies presented came from what we successfully implemented at New Milford High School where I was the former principal.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2021

The Power of Questioning: Opening up the World of Student Inquiry , Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School , Hacking Homework: 10 Strategies that Inspire Learning Outside the Classroom and most recently Peer Feedback in the Classroom: Empowering Students to be the Experts.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

When teachers engage in this collaborative culture, they share best practices, develop interdisciplinary projects, and contribute to professional learning communities, leading to more innovative teaching strategies and cohesive learning environments. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). Leijten, P.,

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 28, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 4: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Simple interactive tutorials for elementary Math/Science concepts. Resources: Projects, Lessons, Strategies, Library.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

She is a 2015 Milken Unsung Hero Fellow and a 2015 NEA Foundation Global Fellow. She taught eighth grade language arts and reading to military-connected children at Faith Middle School in Fort Benning, Georgia, has been an elementary school assistant principal, and is now a professional development specialist.

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Waterford

MAY 11, 2020

Using strategies that promote an inclusive classroom during the school year can be a great way to prevent the achievement gap. Parent engagement can also be a crucial strategy for preventing the summer slide.[8] Limiting the Academic Summer Slide for Urban Elementary School Students. SET Journal, 2015, 1, pp. Green, A.M.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. This webinar is designed for families seeking strategies to help kids engage and excel in math. 17 at 8 p.m.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Then, discover a few strategies for improving parent empowerment in your school. Strategies for Strong Parent and Family Engagement. Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. Johns Hopkins University, 2015, School of Education. State of Michigan.

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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. With the purchase of so many iPads, Apple also included four days of training each month during 2015-2016.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 30, 2016

Last year at this time, I had some words about the treatment of technology in the 2015 EdNext Poll on School Reform. And, to be clear, the poll findings should not be taken to generalize to any student population beyond high school (like to elementary or middle school students).

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2024

Our county funded our literacy program purchase, and because our elementary schools were already using another program from our literacy partner, they were able to transition to the former as soon as they entered sixth grade. Plus, they had the resource hub with everything in it, including all of the lessons.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Technology ‘Training Wheels’ When the Apple Watch was released in 2015, it was seen—and priced—as a luxury good, notes Girard Kelly, the head of privacy at Common Sense Media. The psychology of fear—it’s extremely powerful,” says Huber, the elementary school principal. “We That has possible risks as well.” We face that constantly.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Melvin Love, principal at Oxmoor Valley Elementary School in Birmingham City Schools in Alabama. But as an instructional leader, I must identify resource-based strategies and bring them into the classroom, making sure the rigor of a lesson is where it needs to be.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

When four ambulances arrived at school in 2015 to transport middle school students who had taken prescription drugs in the classroom, it was a career first for me. Why Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports Weren’t Enough When I came to Madison Elementary in 2015, I was the third principal in a four-year time-frame.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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Waterford

APRIL 23, 2021

Strategies to Bring Play in the Classroom. Whether you’re a preschool or elementary school teacher, you’re sure to find the ideas you need to help your students learn through play. Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, January 2013, 131(1), pp. Harvard Health Publishing. The Importance of Recess.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Rose picked up a couple of breathing strategies as a student in Breathe for Change, a 200-hour wellness and yoga teacher certification program for educators. Together, they learned yoga and meditation techniques, along with philosophy, anatomy and social-emotional learning strategies. In 2015, she started Breathe for Change.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Monica Alicea, a Technology Training and Integration Specialist, about strategies and tools to engage students. Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. Monica was Teacher of the Year in 2015-16 school year at Cheatham Hill Elementary and the 3rd place Voya Unsung Hero award winner of.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

I took “methods” classes that gave me strategies for discussions and activities. In answering one question, only 31 percent endorsed a scientifically backed strategy over less effective ones. The thing that surprised me most about my teacher preparation program was that we never talked about how kids learn.

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Neo LMS

JUNE 13, 2017

It is a motivational experience and makes you believe that we are better as an industry when we share and work together.” — Russ Schwartz, Principal, Park Trails Elementary School, Broward County, Florida. We’ve been to Philadelphia in 2015, and to Denver last year. We’re really proud that NEO LMS is one of these ISTE exhibitors!

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The New Media Consortium , which publishes its annual “Horizon Report for K-12” previewing the technologies likely to impact education in the coming five years, forecast back in 2015 that by 2019, we would see drones playing a role in education. . by Alexander Slagg. Alex writes for CDW’s Tech magazines and websites. He lives in Chicago.

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