The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience. I signed the paper.”.

Elementary 145

Elementary Handbook Report Policies 145

eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

public school students in grades 3-8 from fall 2021 compared to students in the same grade in fall of 2019, the last quarter unaffected by COVID-19. Student gains across the pandemic (from fall 2019 to fall 2021) lagged norms for pre-pandemic growth, especially in math.

Outcomes 103

Outcomes Education Advocacy Data 103

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. 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.

Digital Divide 136

Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

Related: When your disability gets you sent home from school Oregon is embroiled in a lawsuit over schools’ use of shortened school days, filed by the nonprofit advocacy group Disability Rights Oregon in 2019. Scarlett is nonverbal and uses an electronic device and online videos to communicate, but reads at her grade level.

Advocacy 117

Advocacy Elementary Report Training 117

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

Dropout 127

Dropout Policies Data Report 127

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

Education 130

Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

A 2019 Department of Education report found evidence that English learners suffered from these divides before the pandemic; the crisis has only made them more consequential. American schools are overwhelmingly English-only environments — and too often, this can make them hostile spaces for English learners and their families.

Education 145

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 145

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Hameed said the format lets teachers engage students in a more meaningful way, even when they have to connect over Zoom. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

Learning 145

Learning Advocacy Report Google 145

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.

Elementary 111

Elementary Learning Data Report 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Seventy-seven percent of teachers are women, but only 31 percent of district chiefs are, according to an April 2019 report by Chiefs for Change, a bipartisan nonprofit. Samantha Tran, senior managing director of education policy at Children Now, a nonpartisan research, policy and advocacy organization, noticed. “I

Policies 143

Policies Education Report Advocacy 143

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2019

While 20 percent of elementary and secondary students have a learning disability, 94 percent of those students received some sort of help or accommodation while in high school. In early May 2019, Savannah graduated from Arizona State University’s Barrett Honors College with a bachelor’s degree in psychology.

Learning 111

Learning Advocacy Report Secondary 111

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.

Report 140

Report Training Elementary Strategy 140

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. Across the country, some state lawmakers have begun to respond to the demands of student activists and Native advocacy organizations. And it’s about acculturation,” she said. “It

Policies 145

Policies Advocacy Report System 145

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

In fall 2019, Michelle became the Content Lead for CRCSD’s 32 school libraries. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 Her commitment and advocacy drove the expansion of Hazel services to include both in-home and at-school mental health support, plus the addition of elementary schools to the program.

Edmentum 118

Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 118

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.

Kaplan 143

Kaplan Policies Report Groups 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All told, according to National Education Policy Center data, more than 330,000 students attended virtual schools in 2019-20, roughly 60 percent of them at for-profits. No ratings were issued in 2019-20 because of the pandemic.). Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc., Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states.

E-rate 141

E-rate Pearson Company Report 141

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 2017, the district opened MOSAIC, a personalized learning elementary school, and created the MyPath program, which allows high school students to create their own class. In 2019, Mehlville opened academies at each middle school to expand personalized learning experiences at the middle-school level. Louis University.

BYOD 98

BYOD System Data Advocacy 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

This past winter, she attended a precursor event to the camp in Philadelphia, at which students got an introduction to the Sunrise Movement and climate advocacy. Rajbhandari said he’s witnessed a big shift in the level of advocacy for schools and climate since he attended his first Sunrise event in 2019, a protest at the Idaho state capitol.

How To 97

How To Advocacy Learning Policies 97

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2021

During my seven years of teaching at Raven Elementary in the Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS), I saw a significant increase in the number of Hispanic students and ELL students, so I know the shortcomings of our system firsthand. By the academic year ending in 2019, Raven’s ELL population represented 16.6 Here’s what I learned.

System 112

System Learning Elementary Advocacy 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

While some districts have prioritized the mental health of their students, Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, the director of policy and advocacy for the National Association of School Psychologists, said such districts are the exception. Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are about 43,190 school social workers nationwide.

Technology 135

Technology Broadband Meeting Advocacy 135

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

He was a sophomore at Long Island’s Brentwood High School, a few days before Thanksgiving in 2019, when he made a post on Snapchat late one night about hiding an AK-47 at Area 51 in Nevada. These numbers don’t include New York City, which prohibited most long-term suspensions in 2019.) BRENTWOOD, N.Y. looking for him.

Report 117

Report Survey Data Comparison 117

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 10, 2019

Her blog post shares: In 2019, SLSA approved re-imagining the ESIFC to adapt to the changing information, education, and technology environments, as well as the increasing diversity in our student populations. Sharon confirmed: I’ve received amazing feedback from the 2019 Leadership Institute participants!

Digital Citizenship 76

Digital Citizenship Libraries Secondary Social Media 76

eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

While we’ve seen tremendous support from kindergarten and elementary teachers in the past five years who individually purchased Osmo to use inside classrooms across the country, we’d love to build sales and begin support for the education community at the district level.”.

EdTech 56

EdTech Advocacy Education Company 56

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.” Personalization and digital collaborative environments identified in the fall of 2019 have accelerated due to the pandemic. Dr. Carol Kelley.

Learning 93

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 93

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

King, consultant for research, policy and advocacy at the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. Some institutions are even cutting teacher degree programs, such as Oklahoma City University, which has suspended its elementary education and early childhood education tracks. “We

Training 148

Training Trends Social Media Policies 148

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said. So in 2019, Bates began to push for an individualized education program, or IEP, that would delineate specific reading supports for her older son.

Learning 145

Learning Study Report Elementary 145

ExcelinEd

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Learn how your state can expand access to high-quality computer science education to unlock lifelong opportunities for students at ExcelinEd.org/ITCS and Advocacy/Code.org. — Code.org (@codeorg) December 12, 2019. — Digi from NCC Edu (@DigiEduMatters) December 13, 2019. — OCTO (@OCTODC) December 13, 2019.

Advocacy 36

Advocacy Education STEM Elementary 36

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

In 2019, 53,291 Bangladeshis made up just 6.3 Lab High School for Collaborative Studies, Li sees a noticeable difference between the predominantly Asian elementary school he attended in Manhattan’s Chinatown, and middle school and high school, where the student population is predominantly white. live in New York City.”.

Groups 113

Groups Study System Advocacy 113

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

That changed in the 2019-20 school year when the federal government for the first time made public the race and ethnicity breakdowns for individual school districts. Nationally, Black students were 15 percent of public school enrollment but 27 percent of homeless students in 2019-20. Data disclosed in U.S.

Analysis 98

Analysis Policies Report Advocacy 98

edWeb.net

APRIL 14, 2021

To meet these goals, they start with the perspective of advocacy for all, especially BIPOC, high-poverty, LGBTQ, religious, and other populations within their schools. Currently, she is the principal of Jackson Creek Elementary School in Columbia, South Carolina. About the Host.

Differentiated Instruction 92

Differentiated Instruction Professional Learning Meeting Advocacy 92

edWeb.net

MARCH 5, 2021

Levett is a published author, nationally known speaker, and consultant, named the 2020 University of Georgia College of Education Lifetime Achievement awardee, 2019 Georgia Outstanding Woman, and 2019 Georgia Department of Education’s STEM and STEAM Advocate of the Year, and received awards from numerous community and education organizations.

EdTech 67

EdTech BYOD Training Outcomes 67

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

According to a 2019 national survey , close to half of American Indian and Alaska Native students reported knowing “nothing” or only “a little” about their cultural heritage. Since its opening in 2006, the charter school has inspired the launch of similar schools in other tribal communities. Credit: Sharon Chischilly for The Hechinger Report.

Education 139

Education Report Data Course 139

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

Busby worked recently with one financially struggling mother in the Springfield area who realized in the fall of 2019 she wanted a fresh perspective on her son’s disabilities and classroom needs. Sometimes districts put up hurdles to that effort — whether by accident or intent.

Report 26

Report Advocacy Policies Accessibility 26

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.

Education 76

Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 76

edWeb.net

JUNE 17, 2020

She is also a 2013 Leadership Loudon graduate and a 2019 representative for Loudon County in the Tennessee Regional Leadership Class. In 2017 the district opened MOSAIC, a personalized learning elementary school, and created the MyPath program, which allows high school students to create their own class. Louis University.

EdTech 54

EdTech Outcomes BYOD Advocacy 54

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2021

Today, Historical Jamestowne Island and Cox Business will present a virtual trip for King’s Grant Elementary School from Virginia Beach, VA. The Jamestown project began in summer 2019, as Cox installed over 13,000 linear feet of directional boring, pedestals, ground vaults and fiber runs.

Broadband 60

Broadband Advocacy Video Elementary 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix. Shelby Villegas, a sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix, is in her third year with Summit. Hillman was the principal of Prairie Heights Elementary School during its first two years using Summit.

Learning 134

Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 134