The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

A large-scale study of more than 50 elementary school classrooms found that decorations, such as these in a 2014 kindergarten room, are a frequent source of distraction and off-task student behavior. In other words, the average elementary school student is distracted more than a quarter of the time.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Over the past few months, Nathan Roberts has witnessed dozens of substitute teachers stumble through their first days at Penny Creek Elementary School. Nathan Roberts, a full-time substitute at Penny Creek Elementary School, teaches a class of kindergarteners how to count. Credit: Image provided by Everett Public Schools.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

For this project, students invite teachers, school leaders and families to engage in the conversation. Recently, I worked on a more complex project in which my students hosted two family learning nights for a local elementary school. Earlier this year, I was facilitating a series of three lessons about classroom management.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

A few years ago, Amy Lopes, a veteran fifth-grade teacher in Providence, Rhode Island, learned that teachers at her school could try a mindfulness and yoga training along with their students. I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Researchers sifted through more than two dozen studies of programs that aimed to improve science teaching from pre-K through elementary school, and found several key strategies that enhanced teacher content knowledge, boosted the quality of science lessons and led to better student outcomes in science.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Every single student at the table had witnessed a stabbing in elementary school that was critical enough to lead to an arrest. My first classroom in a North Philadelphia high school overlooked the parking lot. Last year, I sat down to help a student group. Every single one.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

One Connecticut elementary school in which suspensions have dropped into the single-digits is the Robert J. O’Brien is classified as a high-poverty elementary school, with just over 60 percent of its students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Schram and a first-grade student. Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

This controlled chaos felt at odds with expectations of strict classroom management, and I had to shift gears quickly. The news notification displayed across my screen reads: BREAKING: SCHOOL SHOOTING AT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN UVALDE, TEXAS. There was a school shooting in Texas. An elementary school.” “No…

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School. We do classroom management really differently than how it’s carried out in the schools,” Pensavalle said. Because if you can engage your students, you’re going to have less classroom management problems,” Pensavalle said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Many people might think the main benefit of a high-quality preschool program is the academic boost it gives young children when they enter elementary school. But the strongest positive effects may show up years, and even decades, later and have little to do with test scores and grades.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The prohibition against using such certificates in elementary school was lifted, too. Texas allowed about 1 in 5 new teachers to sidestep certification last school year. Since then, the number of teachers holding emergency certificates increased dramatically in rural, urban, and low-income schools across the state.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Done well, this powerful and effective professional learning model fosters teacher leadership and supports collaborative school cultures focused on improving teaching and learning. Classroom Management: This is one of the biggest struggles for incoming teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. Leave this field empty if you're human: At this Prairie Oak session, educators looked for improvements on math-related issues identified last fall during the school’s first instructional round.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Black students who have a black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate high school and go to college. o Albert, the Wilson school, located in the Broadmoor section of town, felt both loving and orderly, a lot like his own elementary school growing up.

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Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 108

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. “When teachers make two recordings, we can already see them asking more open-ended questions in the second one. We’ve been able to create an inexpensive observer effect,” Poskin claims.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

Related: What happens when teachers spend more time in a classroom — before teaching? One finding suggested a need for additional training in classroom management as well as child development courses to better understand the needs of the whole child.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

It could also mean guiding teachers in developing classroom management or culture-building skills, especially if technology will be used to support personalized learning methods that give students more autonomy. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The parish is home to four parochial schools, which enroll mostly white students. Mary’s Assumption School is a short walk from the majority-black, low-income Cottonport Elementary School. On any given school day, white parents sit in a line of quietly humming cars and SUVs waiting to pick up their children from St.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Professional Development Workshops and Training Attend workshops or training sessions now to gain new ideas and strategies for classroom management and design. Other teachers can share what works for them and tips and tricks they have learned when putting together their classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Related: How one Mississippi elementary school improved to an A rating. 184 teaching positions in Jackson Public Schools are being filled by long-term subs. Related: A ‘civil rights camp’ teaches kids a history they’re not learning in school. Mayers said the veterans and beginners learn from each other.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

Amid long, structured school days filled with academic demands, recess serves as a critical outlet and break for kids, according to pediatricians and child development experts. Children play during recess at a Louisville, Kentucky elementary school. Credit: Central Local Schools. That’s not appropriate,” Lisa said.

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