The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Over the course of three years, starting in 2009, Kentucky’s state education commissioner, Terry Holliday, added 50,000 miles to his odometer, crisscrossing the state to bring each of the 173 school districts the message: Kentucky was adopting the Common Core. Related: Academic expectations around the country, updated for Common Core.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2016

This web-based scalable program is available for elementary through high school students and can last anywhere from four weeks to a year. ” In fact, the C-STEM Studio algebra curriculum is fully aligned with Common Core state standards in mathematics. why bother. Why Bother.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

Now in use in middle schools and coding academies throughout the country, Blackbird was built from the ground up to address the middle school gap in coding education – in a fun and engaging platform that can be administered by non-technical and technically trained teachers, instructors and parents.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Jon’s core PL skills are focused on 1:1 deployment, Common Core, Project Based Learning, social media skills and Lesson Design. Under Jon’s Leadership, and with his CUE Professional Learning Team, CUE PL has trained over 32,000 teachers in 2015-2017. VICKI: Happy edtech tool Tuesday.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

The new curriculum includes 60 hours of standards-aligned lessons and activities specifically designed for upper elementary grades, with 20 hours of instruction per grade level. We created Exploring with KIBO to support those teachers and students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. If the Common Core is to improve the math education of U.S. In this Thursday, Oct.

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Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

The Common Core Connection…. Resources from the DE Science Techbook that Build Common Core Skills at 6 PM ET Register at: [link] Meet these members of the DEN Leadership Council at a DEN Open House via Google Hangout at 7 PM ET ( Register here. Reynolds, author of The Dot at 1 PM ET [link] Techbook 2.0

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SpeechTechie

OCTOBER 6, 2012

Toca Train ($1.99) is one of the more recent releases and doesn''t disappoint in its overall experience and language-enhancing potential. Toca Train could also be used for social-pragmatic and play-skill-building purposes in conjunction with a simple train set such as those available at IKEA.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. This goes well beyond Khan Academy’s online video training, into fantasy worlds of trolls and wizards, the type of activities most parents have tried to keep their kids away from. Click the link for more detail. ProdigyGame.com.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2015

Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. There are a lot of training webinars available for teachers and students addressing the basics and sophistications of the tool. – See more at: [link]. Conclusion. – See more at: [link].

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Digital Promise

JUNE 17, 2016

Ravenswood City School District is developing new curriculum to integrate making into Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards. From small hands-on elementary school activities to robust high school fabrication labs, maker education is making a difference. In East Palo Alto, Calif., And these aren’t isolated examples.

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wwwatanabe

MARCH 15, 2014

What type of thinking does the Common Core ask of students when it comes to Craft and Structure? What does that look like at the elementary level? Click here to view on Google Drive Every spring, our school district uses Title IIa funds to pay teachers to attend training. Training Document: Click here to view document.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2016

With Common Core’s emphasis on understanding and explaining tasks, screencasts are a great way for both students and teachers to share the required steps in completing a math problem, collaborate on close reading, or pursue any other literacy activity. Provide training videos for both faculty and students. Show M e .

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2021

The pathway starts students early in elementary school with basic concepts and games, then to text-based programming using Blackbird in middle school, and ends with two years of advanced programming utilizing a hybrid of Blackbird and other platforms in high school.”. – Addresses the “Curriculum Gap” in Computer Science education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

A recent story featured in The Hechinger Report said the residency model may be the best way to train new teachers – and that it may be too expensive. We would argue that we can’t afford not to train teachers this way. Related: This may be the best way to train teachers, but can we afford it? Sara Morris.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

“The content side of Sokikom was built based on research from the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (NMAP) that shows a need for more focus on teaching elementary math topics in greater depth and that social and intellectual support from peers results in higher mathematics performance. ” The science! ” The science!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

“Social studies is like the lima beans on the curricular plate of the elementary student’s day,” said Paul Fitchett, associate professor and director of curriculum and instruction for the doctoral program in education at University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Often, educators say, that training is lacking.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In the past few years, the Common Core has significantly altered the landscape in terms of mathematics education. The Common Core has also required more coherence in our curriculum. It also allows us to take a blended learning approach to our Common Core math instruction.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 31, 2017

I am a 6th-grade teacher at Crestmore Elementary school in the Colton Joint Unified School District, in Southern California. So I think starting to really think about the common core state standards and how we want the students to actually master and show mastery through oral language. Full Bio As Submitted. Greetzel Mojica.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Dixie Ross has taught every level of math offered in Texas public high schools and trained hundreds of AP calculus teachers in summer institutes. Fears that teachers are insufficiently trained in math and that poor math skills harm America’s competitiveness and weaken our ability to fill critical jobs came up often in our survey.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 30, 2015

sequencing–knowing what happens when; mentioned in Common Core standards for grades 1 through 5. No surprise the United Kingdom took the bold step of adding coding to the core school curriculum. Kodable now offers a curriculum for elementary school. You look at what happened step by step and fix where it went wrong.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Games, on the other hand, provide scaffolds as well as training areas where players can practice skills when they get stuck on a certain level. Math instructional practices that value speed and memorization do not honor the time and interaction with topics that students need in order to construct meaning. GBL works in the same way.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The results from those new Common Core tests – designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills – have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep-seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

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wwwatanabe

MARCH 15, 2012

This was our first year with iPads in the elementary classrooms, purchased with Title funding. Training with Tony Vincent We''ve had several trainings with Tony Vincent , starting with a three hour introduction and a two hour follow up with fabulous center ideas for literacy, fluency, and spelling.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Schools and districts pay for extra services like teacher training or printed versions of their digital lessons. For example: The foundation pushed Common Core, a politically controversial set of standards passed around the country, which altered the country’s education system without much democratic input.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Authored by nonprofit Illustrative Mathematics, the curriculum covers Common Core standards for grades 6-8 math. Our middle and elementary teachers had been using Illustrative Math resources over the years and it was a positive experience,” says Williams. Corrine Williams. Curriculum is only part of it,” says Singer. “A

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

A decade ago, Common Core math was introduced to emphasize understanding over rote learning, but the delivery of standards varies across schools, classrooms and teachers, depending both on who is being assessed and who is doing the assessing.

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wwwatanabe

JULY 30, 2013

Common Core demands students to do their own thinking and support their claims and opinions with evidence. This post is written as a summary of the main points made in AJHS''s One-to-One training last June. 21st Century Learning Common Core One-to-One Professional Development'

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

The project-based lessons, or curricula, used in all four of the evaluations were developed by academic experts at universities over many years and teachers were extensively trained and coached to implement them properly. The structured curriculum in the four trials helped avoid common project-based learning pitfalls.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. Second grade teachers Amy Hart (center) and Alina Turner (right), with her dog, Mello, meet with Karen Shutt (left), instructional coach for a planning meeting at Edmondson Elementary.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

The games can also be customized to meet several state and Common Core standards. But the tougher, more important aspect is training teachers how to match games to IEP goals, which requires more in-depth coaching. “We Retalis said it normally takes a couple hours of instruction for teachers to get used to the platform.

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MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

For states adopting Common Core, the standards apply to kindergarten, laying out what students should be able to do by the end of the grade.* 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2016

Because their elementary school teachers do too, says Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE), a policy institute that studies what America can learn from the world’s best-performing education systems. Related: Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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ProfHacker

JULY 1, 2016

I wanted to share this video by Amy Herman on “Visual Intelligence,” based on her book Visual Intelligence: Sharpen Your Perception, Change Your Life , which in turn was based on a project she used to do at the Frick Collection while she was training medical students how to look at art.

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