A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

Principal Sheninger obviously sees that social media and students bringing in their own technology are great educational tools. Lastly, I used Poll Everywhere in my senior seminar the next day and it was a big hit. Then, I gave my students several examples of how they could use this website in their elementary school classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Alabama administrators increasingly hire educators with emergency certifications, often in low-income and majority Black neighborhoods. By 2030, as many as 16 million K-12 students in the region may be taught by an unprepared or inexperienced teacher, the Southern Regional Education Board projects. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2016

Then I ran into Dr. William Morgan on one of the education forums I frequent and was thrilled that he knows a lot about them and was willing to share his expertise to kick-off a mini-seminar in classroom keyboarding. Besides, we want our children to communicate with digital effectiveness in elementary school! Dr. William L.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Subjecting children to frustration-level questions repeatedly is counter-intuitive to what educators know about teaching within a student’s zone of proximal development and scaffolding her learning. . Here I will share effective assessment strategies I have used in my elementary classrooms. Socratic Seminar.

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 111

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2021

Research-based professional development program strengthens educator soft skills and resilience to create a positive, supportive, and more equitable school climate for every child. Second Step SEL for Adults is a web-based professional learning program designed by educators for educators. SEATTLE – June 2, 2021, at 5:00 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Subjecting children to frustration-level questions repeatedly is counter-intuitive to what educators know about teaching within a student’s zone of proximal development and scaffolding her learning. . Here I will share effective assessment strategies I have used in my elementary classrooms. Socratic Seminar.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

Higher education has finally come around to the idea that college should better help prepare students for careers. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter. Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Fourth grade teacher Milton Bryant works with students in a small group during a blended learning session at Ketcham Elementary School. Elsewhere in the classroom students worked with other educators and on computers, and they rotated at intervals to each station. Ninety-minute weekly seminars are a cornerstone of the model.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

On windswept fields outside Fargo, North Dakota, a bold experiment in education has begun. Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. — We’ll do whatever we have to do for testing.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

I was a Washington State Teacher Leader and I had just become a TED-Ed Innovative Educator , which gave me an opportunity to join a cohort of international educators who were determined to find creative ways to enrich their school communities. We held Socratic seminars rooted in essays by Amy Tan and Daniel José Older.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The elementary teachers in the room solved the problem quickly. But early-childhood and elementary teachers have the daunting task of introducing abstraction to their students: What is a number? Hedges oversees all things math for the Milwaukee district’s elementary and middle schools. I went to the store to buy some fruit.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation. The committee members had a broad array of backgrounds with varying degrees of passion and commitment to technology and education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 11, 2022

This parent seminar is like no other. In this seminar, they provide a baseline of information that will help any parent become more empathetic and knowledgeable as they help guide these wonderful young persons in developing their own independence and confidence. Caitlin Moulding “Chris and Greg’s parent seminars are not to be missed!

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

“She goes to school, feels uncertain about who she is, tryin’ to hide behind the curtain so she lashes out, out of fear of bein’ known, inside and out.” These raw lines open the music video “ Jagged ,” written, directed and starred in by elementary school students. LaToya Fernandez is a charter school educator at Rocketship Education.

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District Administration

JULY 9, 2015

District Administration, August 2015 At the Challenge to Excellence Charter School (C2E) in Parker, Colorado, educators are using tablets and Google tools in surprising ways to foster creativity, collaboration and content creation in grades K-3, while also establishing a foundation of knowledge-seeking skills that students will use in later grades.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 7, 2023

This parent seminar is like no other. In this seminar, they provide a baseline of information that will help any parent become more empathetic and knowledgeable as they help guide these wonderful young persons in developing their own independence and confidence. Caitlin Moulding “Chris and Greg’s parent seminars are not to be missed!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. Karen Schauer, superintendent, Galt Joint Union Elementary School District. GALT, Calif.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 3, 2022

This parent seminar is like no other. In this seminar, they provide a baseline of information that will help any parent become more empathetic and knowledgeable as they help guide these wonderful young persons in developing their own independence and confidence. Caitlin Moulding “Chris and Greg’s parent seminars are not to be missed!

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 27, 2020

AIR presented early results from its “ National Survey of Public Education’s Response to COVID-19 ” at a virtual session of the Education Writers Association’s national seminar on July 22, 2020. A recent McKinsey & Company report predicted that the pandemic’s harm to student learning “could last a lifetime.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2017

Thousands of Mississippi’s third graders will sit in front of computers later this month to take the statewide reading test, but the eyes of teachers and administrators at Finch Elementary School will be intensely focused on a dozen students at this Wilkinson County school. Sharon Robinson, principal of Finch Elementary.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

This was Susan’s first year presenting at FETC, the Future of Education Technology Conference. The presentation includes several other common standbys, but one tool art teachers in her seminar were excited to learn about was VoiceThread. Susan Vincentz is a technology integration specialist from Kentucky.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

At the elementary school she worked at before Sussex Tech, kids of all races played together, she said. “I But for now, it’s focused on training existing educators to become more “culturally responsive,” representing diverse cultures and frames of reference in their teaching. I don’t see racism at that age,” said Banning, who is white.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies. Personalized Learning, Personal Meanings.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Fogel, 18, can recite a list of typical college experiences she has missed out on: study groups, small seminars, office hours with professors, parties, football games, a chance to meet new people from around the world. Weise, vice president for workforce strategies, Strada Education Network. They had no way of knowing that U.S.

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SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Should be very educational." The session will be covering books and apps (not these ones, these were a preview) for kids from early-late elementary and into middle school, but is meant to be generalized to whatever books and apps you''d like to choose. Take Mo Willem''s Don''t Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late. Big Willems fan here.

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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. A non-partisan voter poll released on Friday found that 68 percent of California voters plan to vote yes on that state’s Proposition 58, known as the Multilingual Education Act.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 22, 2017

We’ve had countless conversations about an issue we’re all very passionate about, which is education equity. So, I invited them both on the show so that more educators can learn from their experiences. Teach students how to advocate for themselves, their rights, and their education. See blog posts/transcripts for all episodes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? Yet instead of the teacher dictating who needs to be at the seminar, each student decides if he or she needs additional help. The shift to competency-based education was not without resistance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Neriman now plans to become an educator working with grade-school children. often placing kids onto university tracks or vocational education starting at age 10. amid growing disenchantment with university education. The next school year, she spent three weeks supervising older children as they did their homework.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 1, 2011

This Wednesday, March 2nd, at 12 noon US Pacific Time / 3 pm US Eastern the EPA WaterSense and WasteWater Education will present a free hour seminar to introduce home school, elementary and high school teachers to the curriculum materials available from USEPA to promote March 14-20, 2011 "Fix A Leak Week!"

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 9, 2021

“This parent seminar is like no other. In this seminar, they provide a baseline of information that will help any parent become more empathetic and knowledgeable as they help guide these wonderful young persons in developing their own independence and confidence. Caitlin Moulding “Chris and Greg’s parent seminars are not to be missed!

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2015

It’s after lunch in a combined fourth- and fifth-grade class at Walker Elementary School, and students are working on equivalent fractions. Students cluster around teachers in one of three small-group “seminars,” then scatter to work independently in the large room, which was once the library.

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EdTechTeam

JANUARY 19, 2018

As everything else in education, this is a work in progress, so please try it out and send me some feedback to improve it for all who might happen upon it and try it out. Step 4 Socratic Seminar with Sentence Starters: Move to an on-the-spot, think-fast, response system that requires accountable talk or sentence starters.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Subjecting children to frustration-level questions repeatedly is counter-intuitive to what educators know about teaching within a student’s zone of proximal development and scaffolding her learning. Here I will share effective assessment strategies I have used in my elementary classrooms. Socratic Seminar.

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 52

techlearning

MAY 9, 2018

-- Indiana, New York and Mississippi Elementary Schools Awarded $10,000 Each to Improve Physical Activity and Healthy Living in their Communities -- -- PS 104Q The Bays Water School Awarded Grand Prize and National Novo Nordisk Recognition Ceremony -- Silver Spring, Md. Title 1 Winner Eastside Elementary School | Clinton, Miss. :

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

With math scores falling nationwide, some educators have argued that the standard algebra-intensive math pathway is outdated and needs a revamp, both to engage more students and to help them develop relevant skills in a world increasingly reliant on data. Two states — Oregon and Ohio — offer it as an alternative to Algebra II.

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