The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, Dr. Moran was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year. She subsequently was one of four statewide superintendents of the year to be selected as a finalist for 2016 National Superintendent of the Year.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 209

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S. In 2016, the federal Department of Education, under Secretary Arne Duncan, released guidance that addressed the issue of shortened school days. Still, Pearson laments that he didn’t get that level of instruction throughout elementary school. “I

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Pearson Education Learning Report 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The model stems from an idea laid out in a paper almost a decade ago by Emily Ayscue Hassel and Bryan Hassel, co-presidents of Public Impact, an education advocacy organization. One of Edgecombe’s elementary schools created three teacher-leader positions to focus on improving literacy among students in third grade and younger.

Elementary 110

Elementary Advocacy Trends STEM 110

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In elementary school, the classroom teacher often serves that function. In many middle and high schools, an advisory or advocacy program is often included. We worked with an elementary school that had multi-grade wings for long-term personalization. About the Authors. .

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Strategy Differentiated Instruction Elementary Advocacy 168

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The update of the policy document by the DOE’s Office of Education Technology is the first since 2016 (parts of it were revised in 2017). The report discusses how the Pendergast Elementary School District, in Glendale, Arizona, adopted FUSE , a science, technology, engineering, arts and mathematics platform created by Northwestern University.

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Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 100

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Kathryn Meyer, left, attorney at the Center for Children’s Advocacy, and Christiana Mills, are part of the Yale Child Student Center in New Haven, Connecticut. Dr. Barry Zuckerman, who created the first medical-legal partnership in Boston more than 30 years ago, saw the need for family advocacy first hand during his childhood, in the 1950s.

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Advocacy Report Study Training 108

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.” And that in turn affects people’s career choices.

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Industry STEM Education Survey 147

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Over the past few months, Nathan Roberts has witnessed dozens of substitute teachers stumble through their first days at Penny Creek Elementary School. Nathan Roberts, a full-time substitute at Penny Creek Elementary School, teaches a class of kindergarteners how to count. EVERETT, Wash. This story also appeared in The Seattle Times.

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Training Elementary Survey Report 138

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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Exercises Elementary Report Study 109

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

In 2016, Polites, the state advocacy leader for nonprofit Media Literacy Now, began to contact her state legislators, advocating for an “information literacy” bill being proposed at the time. Related: How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students.

Digital Divide 136

Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 136

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. Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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Report Training Elementary Strategy 135

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. Yet, according to a 2016 press release from the U.S. Women’s work in general is undervalued.”.

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Secondary Report Advocacy Elementary 97

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Since 2006, the share of California Hispanic 19-year-olds with a high school diploma has increased from 74 percent to 86 percent, according to the Campaign for College Opportunity, a California advocacy group. There’s still work to be done. Photo: Iris Schneider for The Hechinger Report.

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Groups Advocacy Report Study 99

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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Elementary Learning Data Report 107

edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

Dr. Carol Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary District 97 (IL), stated, “We were not as prepared as we could have been to have made that shift in terms of our practices and pedagogy.” CoSN provides thought leadership resources, community, best practices and advocacy tools to help leaders succeed in the digital transformation.

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Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 98

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Above the fireplace hangs a portrait of her daughter Emily, who overdosed in 2016 after a years-long struggle with a heroin addiction. But for grandparents raising grandchildren, that’s not possible, said Jaia Peterson Lent, deputy executive director of Generations United, a nonprofit advocacy group. Critical Condition.

Advocacy 131

Advocacy Report Groups Policies 131

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Thousands of Mississippi’s third graders will sit in front of computers later this month to take the statewide reading test, but the eyes of teachers and administrators at Finch Elementary School will be intensely focused on a dozen students at this Wilkinson County school. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary.

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Elementary Training Advocacy Strategy 85

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

In this role, she works to fill current gaps in research, policy, and advocacy to ensure that schools holistically support the well-being and development of students, and especially for low-income students and students of color. Nancy is a P-12 Research Associate and leads the Social, Emotional, and Academic Development work at EdTrust.

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Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 94

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”.

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Study Data Report Elementary 141

edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2020

Department of Education Secretary in October 2016. Marczak was the assistant superintendent in Oak Ridge Schools in Tennessee, a district lead principal with Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools, an elementary principal, and an elementary teacher with Wilson County Schools and Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools.

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BYOD Broadband EdTech Elementary 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In recent years, the group’s advocacy has led to changes in the district’s graduation requirements, to align them with admissions requirements for California’s university systems, and an expansion of funding for an after-school meal program that had been cut by the school board. Every year the group chooses an issue to focus on.

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Kaplan Policies Report System 143

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. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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Elementary Report Meeting Academic Standards 70

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2019

It’s help teachers need: In 2016 , about 50,000 preschoolers were suspended at least once, and at least 17,000 were expelled, according to the Center for American Progress, a Washington-based liberal research and advocacy institute, which arrived at the estimate based on data from the 2016 National Survey of Children’s Health.

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Training Report Survey Strategy 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

She became an educator in 2007 and has spent most of her career teaching special needs students at a majority-Hispanic public elementary school in the Bronx. The nonprofit offers workshops, one-to-one advocacy, and a monthly Spanish-speaking support group for families. There’s such stigma around the label. Where you live also matters.

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Advocacy Study Report Groups 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out Rosalind Crawford moved her five young boys, all in elementary and middle school, to Jennings, just north of St. In the 2015-2016 school year, Black students lost 103 days of learning per 100 students, 82 more days than their white peers.

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Handbook Learning Online Learning Data 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Most states have something on the books to encourage competency-based options, but only about a half-dozen have loosened seat-time dictates enough to dispense with grade levels, according to Matt Williams, chief operating officer and vice president of policy and advocacy for the personalized-learning nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Matt is grateful for his supportive family—son Mason, an aerospace engineer in Florida, and daughter Jessica, an elementary teacher in northern Cincinnati. She was named Superintendent of the Northshore School District in June 2016 and is former Superintendent of the South Kitsap School District.

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Strategy System Data BYOD 98

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP). Nov 20, 2023).

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Differentiated Instruction Training Analysis Assessment 102

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

The researchers created 56 tasks for students in 12 states, and collected 7,804 student responses from January 2015 until June 2016. And that work must begin early, the authors say – in elementary school, ideally. They measured the ability of students to accurately gauge the validity of information they encounter online.

Social Media 40

Social Media Blended Learning Advocacy Study 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

. — This fall, students at Enterprise Attendance Center in the small city of Brookhaven may get to draw, paint and make crafts in an elementary art class — the first the school has had in 12 years. billion on elementary and secondary education. But the opportunity comes at a cost: larger class sizes for third-graders.

Elementary 53

Elementary Advocacy E-rate Accessibility 53

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools, a charter advocacy group, issued a document in 2016 along with two other organizations asking states to establish performance-based funding systems that pay virtual charters based on metrics like course completion and calling on charter authorizers to close chronically underperforming schools.

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 128

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Since then, the numbers have slipped to the single digits, with just 5 percent of the class of 2016 finishing within six years, according to a data analysis from the charter school network. The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years.

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Education Report Data Course 123

edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Kelley, Superintendent of Oak Park Elementary School District 97, IL, explained, this isn’t about deciding what technology a district uses. Kelley is superintendent of Oak Park Elementary School District 97, a PreK–8 public school system in Oak Park, IL, with 6,150 students. Create a Common Vision : As Dr. Carol L. Dr. Carol L.

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Libraries Elementary Accessibility BYOD 56

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Decades of chronic underfunding is often at the root of the struggles in districts like Cleveland to serve high proportions of Black and Latino students from low-income backgrounds, said Allison Rose Socol, a vice president at The Education Trust, an education advocacy group. Covid put the district’s gains in jeopardy.

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Education Report System Meeting 104

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Since 2016, when the couple launched an LLC to coordinate much of their charitable giving, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed $142.1 Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix. It was a rough shift for many of her teachers and it came with tears and frustration.

Learning 134

Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 134

MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Dayne Guest graduated from high school in 2016. When Billy Gibson, 18, was in elementary school, he couldn’t spell his own name. Before this effort began in 2016, the county schools did not have anyone trained to provide this instruction. Today Guest’s options are limited because he struggles to read.

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Training Report Groups System 78

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111