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 169

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. . VWSD consists of three high schools (grades 9 – 12), three middle schools (grades 7-8), ten elementary schools, and an alternative program.

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Academic Standards Schoology Social Media Education 62

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Elementary school educators were more likely than secondary school educators to allow students relatively unstructured time to experiment with physical materials, often in the form of manipulatives. This requires meeting teachers where they are. Want to learn more about this research project?

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Groups Academic Standards Secondary Robotics 161

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

To make ends meet, she also worked over the summers and during school breaks at a child care center, earning $10.25 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. Just seven percent of our country’s teachers are Black.

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Dropout Training Academic Standards System 98

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Teachers and students can learn by doing place-based projects together, all the while meeting and exceeding required academic standards in authentic and meaningful ways. Distinguishing weather from climate is a good foundational step. Children can also collect and publish oral histories about a place.

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Education Academic Standards Social Media Report 109

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

Students can now meet with private tutors, who are maybe from another country, through Skype, Google Hangouts, and other mobile communication applications. However, if they are from a different country try to find out if that country’s educational system and academic standard is the same or at par with your own country.

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How To Company Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 150

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Do teachers use Seesaw to teach live, like with Zoom or Google Meet? Seesaw is used by primary grade-level teachers, middle school subject area teachers, elective teachers, and after-school program teachers, but it's most often used in elementary schools. Do teachers use Seesaw to teach live, like with Zoom or Google Meet?

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Google Android Video Accessibility 98

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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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 81

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 53

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

More recently, widespread changes in academic standards, like the adoption of the Common Core standards and concern over low reading scores , further increased the rigor of kindergarten to the point that it has been referred to as “ the new first grade.” They had taken out all the fun to make it more academic,” Turtzo said.

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Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

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. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. BERWYN, Ill. —

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How To Common Core Elementary Report 84

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Still, Brendan Kelly, an Apple Distinguished Educator who teaches at Wilson Elementary School in West Allis, Wisc. Unfortunately these ideals are not always aligned with the realities of an education system that still emphasizes standardized testing and compliance to rigorous academic standards. That didn’t happen.

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iPad Chromebook Education Company 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. She expected much more than ‘You’re going to meet state standards,’” he said.

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Elementary Report Meeting Academic Standards 67

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2015

Educators often wonder how they are going to meet all the demands of Common Core. One important point is that the standards require more depth and less breadth. Meeting these standards can be done by doing less, not more. Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum. by Renee Rubin , Ed.D., Integrate subjects.

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Common Core Strategy Elementary Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2016

JACKSON — For the first time in several years, Jackson Public Schools has joined the Mississippi Department of Education’s list of failing districts in the state, with 17 JPS elementary and middle schools drawing an F in numbers the State made public today.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Report Assessment System 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. We did what was best for our students while meeting the requirements of the desegregation order,” Wilcox said from his office earlier this year. The new reality.

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Policies Data Elementary Academic Standards 59

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

So a fundamental question is how can principals do everything they were doing before and at the same time just merely have time to observe and meet … with teachers?”. Secondary school superintendents joined their counterparts from the elementary school level to compare notes across schools, hoping to identify common problems and patterns.

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

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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STEM Report Robotics Company 101

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

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. His mother fought the decision, and he graduated from his Washington, D.C.,

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

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. Students who meet English proficiency standards – and are therefore more likely to do well on the state’s exams – cease to be tracked as English learners. “We don’t measure all this other stuff.

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Common Core Data Elementary Groups 40

MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

One way the district is applying this standard is via “number talks,” a math practice that encourages students to discuss and critique math solutions, helping kids develop into flexible and creative mathematical thinkers. One of the biggest roadblocks, experts say, is the disconnect between preschool and elementary school math curriculums.

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How To Common Core Elementary Survey 39

MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

While Common Core aligned assessments don’t kick in until third grade, many teachers feel pressure to make sure kids are meeting the specified standards before they move on to first grade. That pressure can mean more focus on academics, at the sacrifice of play time. We regret any confusion.

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Common Core Academic Standards Assessment Meeting 28

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.

Education 40

Education Secondary Assessment Data 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The new policy stands to degrade academic standards and exclude students based on race, she argued, calling it “a backdoor attempt to dismantle the exam school system altogether.” ” “Covid is a fake cover story for those who want to kill the exam.”

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Policies Groups Report System 126

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

I think we took for granted before what 4-year-olds were capable of doing,” said Quitman Lower Elementary Principal Amanda Allen, listing some skills the youngest learners are impressing her with: advanced vocabularies, number recognition, self-motivation. The Manuel Goff Head Start center is a mile away from Quitman Lower Elementary.

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Elementary Data Training Report 62

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

There is also progress in creating inclusive and engaging print and digital library collections to meet a growing demand for equitable access to school libraries. As the National Center for Education Statistics stated, as recently as 2016, “ 95% of elementary schools and 82% of secondary schools had a library or media center.”

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 92

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

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

The new language supports the rights of parents to opt their children out of standardized tests, demand more oversight of charters and oppose evaluating teachers using their students’ standardized test scores. Related: Poll: Voters agree, candidates should talk preschool.

Education 40

Education Policies Common Core Academic Standards 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2021

Many reformers viewed poverty as an inadequate excuse for students’ academic failings, citing flimsy research that claimed 90 percent of low-income students of color can and do meet the highest academic standards — the so called 90/90/90 schools.

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Policies Academic Standards Report Outcomes 144