Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Even before the pandemic, broadband and mobile technology was expanding connectivity across the globe, hybrid and virtual classrooms were gaining steam in providing personalized learning to students, and project-based learning was proving to be an effective, engaging and increasingly popular pedagogy.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

8 most popular story of 2020. What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and how teachers can implement them in the classroom—especially now that schools are forced to provide virtual instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Check back each day for the next story in our countdown.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

classrooms. This is landmark legislation,” Corinne Roller, director of advocacy and public policy at Girls Who Code, tells EdSurge. They will begin tracking and recording the information in the 2019-2020 school year, with their first submission due in June 2020.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2021

They were empathetic toward schools in Spring 2020 as educators scrambled to make remote learning happen, she adds. But McKittrick’s analysis of school reopening plans for Fall 2020 revealed little mention of special education programs. McKittrick’s disappointment didn’t just come from her role as a researcher.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Pear Deck is used in more than 17,000 schools and by 8 million educators and students around the world to improve equity, academic achievement, and classroom culture. Read about their study on the factors that influence student engagement in the State of Engagement 2020 Report. www.goguardian.com. About Pear Deck.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments. percent to 22.5

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

When we got into the classroom, the students were shy. Cole-Ochoa is among the educators nationwide who are trying new approaches to social-emotional learning in hopes of helping students deal with the continuing mental health struggles that took shape or worsened during the isolation of remote learning that started in 2020.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. China’s Education Modernization 2030 Policy and Ten Year Development Plan for ICT and Education 2010-2020 are among government initiatives named that intend to improve the country’s education in the long run. Whereas the U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

In early 2020, 7.3 In October 2020, a little more than two- thirds of K-12 principals estimated that their students with disabilities would perform somewhat or much lower than they had before the pandemic.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Appalling and unacceptable’ School closures took students and teachers out of the classroom, and the switch to remote learning exposed various inequalities in education— including issues like broadband access. 2019 and 2020 were unconventional years that literally threw the world into disarray,” she says. This was already well known.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teachers report being more stressed as the pandemic goes on, and much more likely to leave the profession than they were before March 2020. that would keep them in the classroom. But if you’re reading this article—if you’re engaged enough in education to be reading EdSurge—you probably don’t believe that data. And for good reason.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Preschool classrooms with behavioral consultation services, such as Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health Consultation (IECMHC), have recorded significantly lower expulsion rates. The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

classrooms, the nonprofit is preparing to shut down. can access digital learning in their classrooms (with 2 million to go). Those agencies and organizations will all continue to play their part come August 2020, when EducationSuperHighway fades out, Marwell hopes.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The GoGuardian Research and Insights team today announced its comprehensive findings on the factors that create an engaging learning experience in K-12 schools, both online and in-person, in its 2020 State of Engagement Report. Being consistent in classroom management. Because the COVID-19 Pandemic has restructured U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Through my experiences as a classroom teacher and a youth organizer, I know students who lost family members during the pandemic, students who struggled with food insecurity and students whose anxiety and depression spiraled during the fear and isolation of the pandemic’s onset.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report After ruling out stressors in Antonio’s family environment, the Yale team learned more about the challenges he was facing at school, including severe learning difficulties in the classroom and bullies outside of school. Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it. Some children thrived while others did very badly in regular classrooms. For some, it could be a classroom separate from their peers, but that is rarely the case.”

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EdTechSandyK

MARCH 29, 2011

Jennifer Bergland has written about the companion bill in the House, HB 6, at the TCEA Advocacy blog here and here if you would like more detailed information. According to the TEA Progress Report on the 2006-2020 Long Range Plan for Technology, released in December 2010, 59.3% My name is Sandy Kendell and I am a career educator.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Early childhood educators are tired and burned out from the onslaught of changes since early 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

In early 2020, at an academic conference just before the pandemic hit, Powell commiserated with other experts in special education and students who struggle in math. In December 2020, she invited dozens of like-minded education researchers to the first science of math Zoom meeting. I see it as a huge equity issue.

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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. We are here, ready to add an additional layer of instruction in our classrooms.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

A bout with Covid in late 2020 had forced Suka, a single mother of seven, to take time off from her job as a home hospice caregiver. million kids as homeless in 2020-21, the most recent school year for which data was available. VANCOUVER, Wash. Public schools identified 1.1

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2022

Kids in about two dozen elementary schools across Dane County and Waukesha County in Wisconsin empty out of classrooms at the end of the day and make their way to gyms, cafeterias or media centers. According to the Afterschool Alliance, an advocacy group for after-school programming , 7.8

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Educator Innovator

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Only top three issues included; not to scale and will not add up to 100%; Source: CIRCLE/Tisch College 2020 Pre-Election Youth Poll. And, according to the CIRCLE/Tisch College.Tufts 2020 Pre-Election Youth Poll , for many young people, a top concern is climate change and the environment, along with racism and healthcare.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The research found evidence of significant levels of unfinished learning, particularly in math, however, gaps between current achievement and pre-pandemic achievement have not increased since the end of 2020-21, which may indicate the impacts of the pandemic are stabilizing. .

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2023

She declined to leave the classroom after her teacher asked her to hand over her cell phone (and it turns out she didn’t have her cell phone). In fact, in the period from 2015 to 2020, Black students were charged under the South Carolina disorderly conduct law at a rate roughly seven times of their white peers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

“It actually paved the way for me to go to school,” Richard said on a spring morning after walking her three children to their classrooms. Derrika Richard walks her three youngest children to their child care classrooms at Clara’s Little Lambs on a March morning in New Orleans. It’s “changed my life.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

For low-income kids it’s really hard for programs to run in person,” said Jodi Grant, executive director of Afterschool Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group. “It She launched Girlstart At Home in April 2020, beginning with weekly Zoom meetings aimed at maintaining relationships with girls already in their program.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

But EducationSuperHighway did it this week, announcing that the classroom internet connectivity gap is effectively closed – one year ahead of schedule, no less. EducationSuperHighway wanted 99 percent of students to have that level of bandwidth by 2020. Mississippi Learning. I said ‘OK, this actually could happen.’”.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. A morning spent in Jill Tiner’s kindergarten classroom at Parker-Varney just before the school year ended offered a glimpse into the skills required. Pre-pandemic, we saw a lot more interest in one-off pilot programs,” said Pace.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

And — since the 2020 national reckonings about racial injustice, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and ongoing debates about critical race theory — how can we reimagine the U.S. Today, it has never been easier for students to see themselves represented outside of the classroom.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cleveland’s advocacy and perseverance extended beyond mental health services as she oversaw the district-wide launch of Hazel’s at-home physical health services, where students can meet with a medical provider virtually from the comfort of their own homes at no cost, regardless of insurance status.

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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. You can’t just put together a program and expect parents to show up. Don’t just translate a website and think you’ve done something.”.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s similar to retention rates in previous years — a report from the Tennessee Education Research Alliance shows that around 1 percent of third graders were held back each school year between 2010 to 2020. Literacy coach Melissa Knapp works in a first grade classroom at Harpeth Valley Elementary in Nashville.

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EdTechSandyK

APRIL 5, 2011

The following is a legislative action alert I received today from Jennifer Bergland and TCEA Advocacy. advocacy educational technology instructional materials legislation Texas Texas legislature textbook txedbudget' It is reposted here with permission. Even if you are reading this late in the day Tuesday, call your rep!

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