The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

From 1998 to 2010, the time spent on nonacademic subjects in kindergarten, including free play, decreased in favor of more time on academic subjects, such as conventional spelling and writing simple equations, a 2016 study found. Related: Opinion: Kindergarten is more than preparation for first grade, and we need to take it back.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. Brandi Todd has been an elementary teacher for sixteen years. Last year at. Benefits for students—and teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. Second grade teachers Amy Hart (center) and Alina Turner (right), with her dog, Mello, meet with Karen Shutt (left), instructional coach for a planning meeting at Edmondson Elementary.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

curriculum market shifted towards purchasing materials aligned materials to Common Core and state academic standards, the organization began building new offerings based on these U.S. According to the nonprofit’s most recently available 990 form , the organization took a net loss of $4 million in fiscal year 2016 (ending on Aug.

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The Electric Educator

MARCH 2, 2016

My first project of 2016 was to help Kingsley elementary school , a small school in northern Michigan, build an elementary book report machine. Writing reflectively is a key component of the common core standards ( example ). Occasionally, I have the opportunity to help a school build something really cool.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Part of the appeal of project-based learning is the perception that there’s more freedom, a welcome antidote to the pressures of test prep and meeting Common Core standards. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

In fact, for superintendent Dr. Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The reform efforts included a state-funded commitment to a pre-kindergarten pilot program, a comprehensive reading policy featuring a promotion/retention component at third grade, and a required assessment of the knowledge and skills needed to teach the science of reading for aspiring elementary teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

The Academy is a magnet elementary school is located in a U.S. Related: Do the arts go hand-in-hand with common core? Bobby Riley is the principal of Integrated Arts Academy, Burlington, Vermont and the 2016 National Distinguished Principal for Vermont, honored by the National Association of Elementary School Principals.

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The very first Standard for Mathematical Practice in the common core speaks of helping students be able to "make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.". Additional Resources: Core Competencies of Social Emotional Learning. SEL in Elementary Mathematics. Productive Struggle in Mathematics.

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Common Core Analysis Study STEM 74

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In 2016 the Common Sense Education editorial staff evaluated close to 170 apps, games, and websites for learning potential and classroom implementation. You can filter through collections by grade level, Lexile level, theme, genre, literary device, and even Common Core State Standards addressed.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 14, 2017

Your class will be covering all types of common core standards. It doesn’t matter if you teach elementary, middle, or high school. The Genius hour and 20% time projects cover multiple common cores standards. We’ve had teachers propose this type of learning to their administration backed by awesome research.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Averaged across 15 schools during the 2016-17 school year, the nonprofit reports an approximately 11 percent boost in the number of students reading at grade level — from 33 percent reading at grade level in the fall, to 44 percent by the beginning of summer. Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Related: Theater helps English language learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap? percent of the U.S.

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Dropout Elementary Report Common Core 81

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

He partly blamed the 2010 Common Core requirements, which had toughened middle school math at all levels and raised the cost of moving too quickly. He once loved teaching ninth grade geometry, a class for kids who’d completed accelerated eighth grade math. Meanwhile, students in the lower tracks weren’t performing well, either. “A

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Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

This list includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. common-sense introduction to rubrics Quality rubrics wiki.an common-sense introduction to rubrics Quality rubrics wiki.an

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Marketplace K-12

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

This will be the first school year in which most elementary and middle-school students take state-required tests online.

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Kathy Schrock

JANUARY 7, 2025

This list includes support materials for assessments that work with the Common Core State Standards and rubrics for many different assessment products. common-sense introduction to rubrics Quality rubrics wiki.an common-sense introduction to rubrics Quality rubrics wiki.an

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

SRA FLEX Literacy Projects Jumpstart promotes critical skills for at-risk elementary, middle and high school students, extends benefits of project-based learning to more U.S. FLEX Literacy Projects resources for either Elementary (3-5) or Secondary (6 and above) classrooms. classrooms.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 7, 2016

HHMI BioInteractive – It really is through innovative science education programs that HHMI seeks to strengthen education in biology,and related sciences from elementary school to graduate studies and beyond. Lessons are aligned to Common Core Standards and explore real life questions. These are definite lessons worth sharing!

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STEM Resources Video Conference 113

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. Even A-rated Kirkpatrick Elementary, next door to Clarksdale Collegiate, is hurting for funds.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

I am now just about booked through the end of March and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Also, check out Newsela for Elementary and note there is a also a comparison of a free and paid version. How to Change the World: Service PBL in the Common Core Literacy Classroom … Amy Conley (Edutopia).

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Resources Tools Differentiated Instruction Learning 60

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.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 129

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. TARTU, Estonia—Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. But there’s an overlooked member of the list: Estonia.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 14, 2016

Autodesk Digital Steam Workshop – Digital STEAM projects are designed by Autodesk’s network of expert educators, designers and student alumni as exciting complements to core Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Art (STEAM) curriculum. I am now almost booked through October and the rest of the 2016 calendar is filling fast.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 24, 2015

For the past five years, our K-5 elementary school has focused on the relationship between reading and writing. The Common Core State Standards were a primary focus. I think it had more to do with our (see: my) approach to benchmarking our students’ writing against the Common Core State Standards.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

Elementary teachers have been especially challenged for the first time to fit science instruction into their day,” said Kristen Mayfield-Evanishyn, Marketing Manager at Carolina. 2016 to address NGSS, but implementation at the school level has taken time. The full list of potential new programs is posted on its website.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

NAEP gave arts tests again in 2008 and 2016, but some experts expressed concern that they standardized the tests too much by, for example, over relying on the multiple-choice questions and requiring students to respond to music rather than perform it. Related: Do the arts go hand in hand with Common Core?

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MindShift

JANUARY 8, 2016

McGee teaches kindergarten at Walker Jones Elementary in Washington, D.C. Welcome to kindergarten in 2016. It doesn’t capture changes that may have taken place in schools since the adoption of the Common Core, for example. Copyright 2016 NPR. “They like to eat cake,” says one girl.

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Common Core Trends Study Elementary 28

The Principal of Change

AUGUST 4, 2016

Your class will be covering all types of common core standards. It doesn’t matter if you teach elementary, middle, or high school. The Genius hour and 20% time projects cover multiple common cores standards. We’ve had teachers propose this type of learning to their administration backed by awesome research.

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Common Core Wiki Course Elementary 28

MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

showed her students the 2016 documentary Before the Flood , featuring Leonardo diCaprio journeying to five continents and the Arctic to see the effects of climate change. Pamela Tarango teaches third grade at the Downtown Elementary School in Bakersfield, Calif. They range from simple to elaborate. Show a movie.

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MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

Collaboration and Equity in the Elementary Math Classroom. — SFComplexInstruction (@SFComplex_Instr) February 3, 2016. These books delve more deeply into student experiences of Complex Instruction, details on how to create equitable groups and how to mitigate status issues. Designing Groupwork. Smarter Together!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The district also embraced the new Common Core standards, despite controversy elsewhere. She said that the Kansas City district received nearly $30 million more in state funding in 2016 than it did in 2009. Harmon, Hajek has begun to see the district’s higher expectations pay off, especially in the case of the Common Core.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The Gates Foundation has backed a variety of education reform initiatives : charter schools, the Common Core State Standards, “small schools,” inBloom, teacher evaluations, and yes, “personalized learning.” Perhaps that name, Betsy DeVos, is familiar. I have mentioned her once or twice in this series.).

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 57

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? “We never looked at brain research. We had never, ever looked at it.

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Training Elementary Report Study 112

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

There’s less than a month left of the 2016 Presidential campaign and The End can’t come soon enough. According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Presidential Campaign Politics.

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