The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. LINDSAY, Calif. —

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NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 19, 2020

Eliminating school library programs and certified school librarian positions deprive students of rich learning opportunities, jeopardize academic and reading achievement, and perpetuate educational inequities. From Kim Borden’s Plainfield Elementary School Library Reopening Plan and COVID Response. Kim Borden has a plan.

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Libraries Elementary Future Ready Academic Standards 118

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, May 20, 2021) —Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District (VWSD) today launched a new multiyear partnership with Discovery Education that helps educators connect current classroom instruction to students’ possible future career paths. said Superintendent Chad Shealy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

. — On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds spread out across the classroom learning about colors, shapes, engineering and design. As kindergarten has become more widely available in the last several decades, it’s also become more academic.

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Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

But once a staple—and stable—presence in the classroom, Apple’s dominance in the education market has taken a backseat. Still, Brendan Kelly, an Apple Distinguished Educator who teaches at Wilson Elementary School in West Allis, Wisc. But it could make a compelling case for bringing iPads back to the classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2017

Since earning my undergraduate, Master’s, and Education Specialist degrees in elementary education, and working toward board certification, at Delta State University, I have observed students who have come from a variety of backgrounds. Kindergarten is not just about students mastering a set of academic standards.”.

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Academic Standards iPad Report Elementary 82

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

In terms of student proficiency, today's classrooms are more diverse than ever. In these classrooms, teachers face a seemingly impossible task -- providing effective instruction to all the unique students under their care. We're "detracking" students previously sorted by ability.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

Marie Lewis in her classroom at New Providence Middle School in Clarksville, Tennessee. Yet research tells us that exposure to a Black teacher in elementary school can reduce the high school dropout rate for low-income Black male students by 39 percent. Better preparing candidates for licensure exams and rigorous academic standards.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. But to expect that the Common Core – or any standards – alone will move the needle is overreaching, he said. Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works on reading with Tyler Howard, left, and Anthony Diaz, right.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 66

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A fourth-grader makes a puppet while his teammate works on writing a script at Mountain View Elementary School in Longmont, Colo. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. How do I set up my class in Seesaw?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. It’s rare for school district big wigs to spend time in a classroom.

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. Many residents here work in the town’s industrial corridor, making boxes and Styrofoam cups, just a mile away from the elementary school. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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Elementary Data Training Report 78

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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techlearning

AUGUST 28, 2018

For teachers implementing an activity centers-based classroom, library, or makerspace, this new guide provides 10 lessons that embed the KIBO philosophy of “Build – Art – Code – Play” in student-directed, discovery-based learning experiences. KIBO is a great fit for an activity centers-based classroom or makerspace.

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Robotics Academic Standards Education Libraries 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

In 1970, an East Texas-based federal court mandated Longview ISD tackle a long list of tasks designed to make sure its black students were learning and playing in the same classrooms and playgrounds as their white peers — including closing four all-black schools and busing black students to formerly all-white schools throughout the district.

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Policies Data Elementary Academic Standards 68

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. What does a modern library look like?

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

Esteves, age 10, is a fourth-grader at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark, N.J., This put the small school and its 494 students in the 8th percentile of elementary schools in the state of New Jersey. Claudia Pinheiro, a fourth-grade teacher at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark. and a native of Puerto Rico.

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Common Core Elementary Assessment Academic Standards 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

As is often the case, there was singing going on in Room 2 of Kenwood Elementary one Friday afternoon. “When I as a teacher – and other ESL teachers – reach these kids to a fair degree of proficiency, now their scores no longer count for us,” said Nancy Erwin, an ESL teacher at Lincoln Elementary.

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Common Core Data Elementary Groups 41

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Placing children with and without disabilities in the same classroom, instead of segregating them, was a growing national trend, spurred on by lawsuits by special education advocates. Related : What should new teachers know before they set foot in a classroom? No one taught her these strategies.

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Training Elementary Course Report 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

Schools that are in the bottom 10 percent of performance in the State, or who have significant achievement gaps, based on student academic performance in reading/language arts and mathematics on the assessments required under the ESEA or graduation rates (as defined in this document). Low-performing schools . On-track indicator .

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MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

There are many experiences in the classroom that are beneficial for building the foundation for learning to read that will come later.” She favors a play-based classroom that gives students hands-on experiences, helping them to develop the symbolic thinking necessary to later recognize letters and numbers. We regret any confusion.

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Common Core Academic Standards Assessment Meeting 28

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students.

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Learning Elementary Academic Standards Policies 180

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. BERWYN, Ill. —

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How To Common Core Elementary Report 87

MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. Was classroom management stronger?

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How To Common Core Elementary Survey 39

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

When it comes to digital tools in classrooms, it was the same o’, same o.’ Lesson 1: When it comes to student use of classroom technologies, talk and action are both important. These distinctions are crucial in making sense of what teachers do once the classroom door closes. Differentiating between the two is crucial.

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Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 110

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The elementary school might evolve. In 2013, most elementary schools are simply diminutive high schools, with a balance of reading, writing, mathematics, geography, and other “core” skills, while character training supplements academic work. Personalized learning will disrupt how we think of curriculum.

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Maker Movement Academic Standards Education Elementary 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

We tell the government officials that this is whats happening, and this is what students need, and they dont listen to us, and these are people that have never stepped foot in a classroom, elementary school teacher Billie Arthur said. And those in classrooms are asked to do too much. Its not an attractive look at the profession.

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Elementary Policies Academic Standards Social Media 101