eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2023

NWEA Science content and measurement experts are providing the vision, direction, assessment, and research expertise for the project, which is set to begin this spring with the potential of a prototype available to Roblox participants in late 2023. SOURCE NWEA

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. For her students at Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School, many lack personal connections who chose the college pathway themselves. they attended and completed college, so she had that example set for her.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. Representation matters, and when students have educators who look like them, it does wonders for their learning experience. The Black male educator—that is SO important.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

and with a second location in Vermont, Mysa stresses mastery-based learning, where students have to show comprehension before advancing. Ultimately, Fiske says, the goal is personalized learning. From homeschooling to charters to microschools, they are becoming more common ways for American students to learn.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning.? Those laws will go into effect between 2023 and 2026. Subscribe today! But even these efforts could use an assist from federal investment.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2024

While 2023 shows the rate starting to decline, down to 46 percent, these findings highlight an urgent need for schools to build comprehensive strategies that remove barriers to attendance and create inclusive, supportive learning environments for students with disabilities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2023

This advocacy is especially critical for Black teachers and Black male teachers in particular, he added. Key points: Black male teachers are desperately needed in U.S. Immediately after we wrapped Season 1, we had an overwhelming respect for what educators do and felt a need to advocate for educators,” Williams said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2023

where our school buildings are crumbling, where our students are not being adequately prepared to face the realities of the climate crisis, where there are vast inequities across race and class,” said Shiva Rajbhandari, a Sunrise Movement organizer and a 2023 graduate of Idaho’s Boise High School. There are reasons to be optimistic.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

. – The Association of Latino Administrators and Superintendents (ALAS) announces the winners of its 2022-2023 Leadership Awards. The awards program honored 17 individuals for their extraordinary education advocacy and leadership. The 2022-2023 honorees are: ALAS Awards. ALAS 2022 Trailblazer Award – U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card. Just 22 percent of low-income students took advanced math.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2023

Khloe, who has been diagnosed with autism, ADHD and an anxiety disorder, had no individualized education plan for her disability when she returned to in-person learning after the pandemic. Khloe Warne, 12, stands for a photo with her mother, Alyssa, at the family bakery Beef Cakes, Thursday, May 18, 2023, in Grants Pass, Ore.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. One of their leaders held a Science of Math event in Pennsylvania in 2022 and is planning another in 2023. She’s an advocate of active hands-on learning with tactile objects, what educators call “manipulatives.” Timed tests?

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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. She attributes her love for learning and reading, and her natural curiosity, to her time at Westmore. “It

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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. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6

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Education Superhighway

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In September 2023, EducationSuperHighway convened twelve FCC ACP outreach grantees from across the country to participate in an ACP Learning Cohort. One cohort member, the United Way of Greater Cincinnati (UWGC), has been advancing ACP advocacy work in southwest Ohio and the tri-state area.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

During the 2023-24 school year, we supported a pilot cohort of 12 mathematically advanced students from across the country. Other organizations like the Davidson Institute provide similar advocacy support to families of profoundly gifted students.) We help these students access paths to becoming inventors, researchers, and leaders.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2024

From the point of view of education organizations like the National Center for Families Learning and the Southern Regional Education Board, early reading is only one piece of the much larger literacy puzzle—a puzzle we must solve as a nation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

Then she learned about one group’s effort to expand access to high-quality child care here, specifically for families who speak little English, through free training and help navigating state licensing laws. “The Stuck in a central Nebraska town after emigrating from Mexico roughly 15 years earlier with her husband.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The Teaching Equitable Asian American Community History (TEAACH) Act was signed into law in July 2021 with wide bipartisan support, amending the state’s school code to ensure that all Illinois public school students learn about the contributions Asian Americans have made to the United States. Passing Legislation Is One Thing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. And Minnesota is a state with strong advocacy and potentially the political willpower to do it, said Ferrette, of CLASP.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Read about the three 2023 winners here. After months of research and a successful pilot, the district chose enVision to be that core mathematics curriculum because of its rigor, digital learning components, and engaging lessons. (Read about 10 more finalists here !)

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Read about the three 2023 winners here. Under Mr. Hatcher’s guidance, Akron Public Schools partnered with Edmentum to integrate cutting-edge learning technologies, harnessing their full potential to enhance learning outcomes. Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 Jump to: Tamiko Hatcher , Michelle Kruse , Dr. Dana T.

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edWeb.net

MAY 9, 2023

Sponsored by ClassLink Through the Driving K-12 Innovation series, CoSN continues to share high-quality trend reports supporting emerging technology in K-12 education to transform learning. So, with a robust learning environment, students can transform from order takers to innovators.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

until May 2023. Are students able to make decisions and learn about consequences of these decisions in a safe way? Problem-solve together Observation is at the heart of Social Learning Theory. Building from work by Bandura , Social Learning Theory proposes that adopting new behaviors and knowledge comes from observing others.

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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. 15 The largest category is learning disabilities, mainly dyslexia. 20k+ per year).

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Related: What American can learn from Canada’s new $10 a day childcare Sadly, this is just the latest failure in a child care system that has been broken for decades. averaged $10,600 a year in 2021, according to an analysis by the advocacy organization Child Care Aware. Child care costs in the U.S.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 18, 2022

Remote learning. But there are also some innovations and opportunities, like virtual professional learning, that they don’t want to forget. Assessments need to evolve: Students don’t need a formal test to assess whether they learned a concept or not. Mask mandates. Weekly testing and contact tracing. Join the Community.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world. Other advocacy groups have laid out different priorities for reading instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

“The average amount of tuition is going to be more than the actual voucher, not to mention transportation and uniform costs,” said Nik Nartowicz, state policy counsel for Americans United for Separation of Church and State, a legal advocacy group. This doesn’t help low-income families.” This doesn’t help low-income families.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

After lunch, she went to her computer, looked up the term, and quickly came across a description of the learning disability, which impacts a child’s ability to process numbers, retain math knowledge and complete math problems. “I Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2023

Beyond making learning fun and increasing rigor and standards, the district had to ensure that all students had tech access at all times—in school and at home—across its 57 campuses and surrounding neighborhoods. Parents can also access the LMS to see what their children are learning. To date, it has been successful.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 29, 2024

According to CoSN’s 2023 State of EdTech Leadership Survey , since 2018, cybersecurity has remained the number-one concern for EdTech leaders and is one of the most sought-after topics for professional learning. Visit classlink.com to learn more. How do you protect your district? What exactly are you protecting against?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA. Nearly 60,000 students statewide were enrolled full time in cyber charters in 2023-24, according data from the Pennsylvania Department of Education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

This masterclass is free for those on individual or group all-access passes for the Dr. Steve Albrecht Service, Safety, and Security webinars, even though not officially part of that series, and will be available in the all-access recordings until the end of 2023. President of the American Library Association 2018-2019.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

From this perspective, perhaps the most important innovation of the last twenty years was the idea of formatting open textbooks as course cartridges so they’re easier to upload into a learning management system. For example, both the Open Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University and Lumen Learning use OER this way.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

School and district leaders will be actively seeking innovative approaches, leveraging data, and collaborating with advocacy organizations and policymakers to bring about meaningful changes in how we educate English Language Learners. We must bolster our collective faith that this is a problem we can solve.

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