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Why You Shouldn’t Use Physical Education As Punishment

TeachThought

See also Dos and Don’ts Of Elementary School Classroom Management The Problem with Physical Punishment While some feel that running a few laps as punishment sounds reasonable, this can have an adverse effect on a child’s psyche that lasts for decades. If you’re a teacher yourself, you know how impressionable students can be.

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The habits of 7 highly effective schools

The Hechinger Report

“There are many schools that are effective at helping students learn, even in high-poverty communities,” said Sean Reardon, a Stanford sociologist who was part of the team that developed the Stanford Education Data Archive. Teachers in each school used the same shared curriculum.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching.

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Schools on a screen: One tech-savvy school district has lessons for others going online

The Hechinger Report

He’s 89 years old, so this is the way to archive a community member,” Appelbaum said. Though teachers at the high school did not have to use technology, it was everywhere. One such challenge asked elementary school kids to design an exercise for their physical education teacher to perform on video.

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As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Now she wants others to learn that history

The Hechinger Report

NEW ORLEANS — Clutching a small purse, six-year-old Leona Tate walked into McDonogh 19 Elementary School here and helped to desegregate the South. Related: Nearly 750 charters are whiter than the nearby district schools. She attended kindergarten several blocks from McDonogh 19 at an all-black elementary school, Joseph A.

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California voters poised to gut English-only instruction law

The Hechinger Report

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. The evolution in thinking on the value of bilingual education and the specifics of the voter proposition was covered in depth by The Hechinger Report in this story from our archives.

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The First Amendment and You! The Bill of Rights for Elementary Educators

Civics for All of US

The Bill of Rights for Elementary Educators Katie Munn Wed, 01/25/2023 - 13:32 Body Explore how to engage elementary students with primary sources from the holdings of the National Archives that demonstrate the power of student voices.