The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Her two youngest, both attending Vancouver’s Washington Elementary School, had struggled with remote learning and still lagged their peers in basic math and reading. At Washington Elementary School, in the Vancouver school district in Washington state, 16 students were identified as homeless in 2021-22.

Elementary 126

Elementary Report Advocacy Secondary 126

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Third graders work through a reading assignment at Harpeth Valley Elementary School in Nashville. NASHVILLE, Tenn.

Elementary 107

Elementary Policies Advocacy Report 107

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The special education system can be “incredibly difficult for everybody,” said Ramona Hattendorf, director of advocacy for the Arc of King County , which promotes disability rights. In the 2019-20 year, the district spent about $175,000 on interpretation and translation services, she said; last school year, that figure was more than $450,000.

Meeting 145

Meeting Training Advocacy Accessibility 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. Credit: Brian Hill/Daily Herald.

Data 145

Data Elementary Trends Analysis 145

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 57

EdTech Advocacy Education Company 57

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.

Training 133

Training Elementary Survey Report 133

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 130

Digital Divide Advocacy Policies Report 130

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

DECEMBER 27, 2022

It waged battles that mattered for some, “but rarely made us feel like we were having a profound impact on the system,” said Sujatha Hampton, who became chair of the committee in 2019. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. That changed in the summer of 2020. In the wake of George Floyd’s death, committee membership exploded.

Elementary 145

Elementary Training Groups Report 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In March 2019, McBride finally succeeded in getting her daughter identified as having an emotional impairment and given an individualized education program, or IEP. One Oregon advocacy organization reported receiving calls from nearly 280 parents about shortened school days from September 2016 to December 2018.

Pearson 145

Pearson Education Learning Report 145

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 132

Report Training Elementary Strategy 132

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

“Between cooking meals to feed my children throughout the entire day, keeping up on household duties, ‘mommying,’ doing my own college courses, and teaching … there was never enough time,” says Memoree Skinner, an elementary special education teacher, graduate student, and mother of three. Student Mother Struggles Nearly 10 percent of U.S.

Policies 176

Policies Strategy STEM Advocacy 176

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 104

Dropout Policies Data Report 104

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 95

Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 95

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 73

How To Advocacy Learning Policies 73

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 130

Education Digital Divide Advocacy Report 130

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 88

EdTech BYOD Training Advocacy 88

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 144

Learning Advocacy Report Google 144

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

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

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 94

Report Survey Data Comparison 94

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

The fourth annual Global Leadership Summit will be held on Friday, March 15th, 2019 from 8:30 am - 3:30 pm at the Marriott Marquis Chicago at McCormick Place, Chicago, IL. Gray previously taught elementary grade levels in Chicago Public Schools and middle school computer science at the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools.

Conference 31

Conference Secondary Study Digital Badges 31

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

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 69

EdTech Outcomes BYOD Advocacy 69

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 106

Elementary Learning Data Report 106

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 98

Learning Broadband Elementary Professional Learning 98

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

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 92

System Learning Elementary Advocacy 92

edWeb.net

APRIL 19, 2021

He was recognized as CoSN’s and AASA’s 2019 Empowered Superintendent, a 2015 Education Week Leaders to Learn From, and as one of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce’s Ten Outstanding Young Americans. Doersch serves as a Technology Director for the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Program at Digital Promise.

Learning 75

Learning Blended Learning BYOD Professional Learning 75

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.

Education 97

Education Report System Meeting 97

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 144

Learning Study Report Elementary 144

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 52

Broadband Advocacy Video Elementary 52

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 125

E-rate Pearson Company Report 125

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 94

Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 94

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 142

Kaplan Policies Report System 142

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 98

Differentiated Instruction Professional Learning Meeting Advocacy 98

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 128

Technology Broadband Meeting Advocacy 128