The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

While West-MEC provides career training programs to high school students, it also supports elementary school district members through innovative career literacy initiatives. Each year, West-MEC allocates a significant amount of money to our two elementary school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Today, elementary school teachers share similar struggles with their students. Unfortunately, most elementary schools teach math and English language arts separately. To help, I introduced keywords like “all together” for addition and “difference” for subtraction.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

As the visual arts teacher at an elementary school in Brooklyn, N.Y., Asking questions is also key to building critical thinking skills. The 9 Traits of Critical Thinking and trauma-informed instruction go hand in hand. I teach about 500 students, many of whom have experienced trauma.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Explore how social studies boosts academic success and how science instruction enhances critical thinking and vocabulary. According to the Council of Chief State School Officers , of the total instructional time in elementary schools, only about 10.6 percent for English language arts and 25.3

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2022

As students answer questions, they collect points and receive formative feedback to develop critical-thinking skills. where elementary school students can select adventures and collect gifts as a result of learning core skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

In the schools without art, 14.5 percent of students in the schools with art. The surveys also found that elementary school students, who made up the majority of the students in the study, were more engaged in school and had stronger college aspirations. percent of students were disciplined compared to only 10.9

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

It takes critical thinking and a sense for the numbers to even understand how or why a student’s approach might be wrong, Barclay says. It’s common for her to hear, “Oh, you know, I decided to be an elementary school teacher because I don't want to teach math.” Barclay says. But that wasn’t immediately clear.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

One of the big justifications for gifted-and-talented education is that high achieving kids need more advanced material so that they’re not bored and actually learn something during the school day. So perhaps these critical thinking and creativity exercises are doing something.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

Building self-awareness positively impacts emotional intelligence, empathy, listening skills, critical-thinking skills, decision making, communication and leadership. Facing a teacher shortage, Littleton Elementary School District had to hire many new teachers from outside of Arizona.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Researchers analyzed the records of about 1,300 students, drawn from a nationally representative sample of children across the country, who started kindergarten in 2010 and participated in a gifted program for at least one year during their elementary school years through fifth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Scholars applaud New York City’s plan to stop testing 4-year olds and wait until later in elementary school to identify students. “As In New York City, the system relied on parent initiative and many Black and Hispanic parents didn’t register their 4-year-olds to take the test.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In high school, I participated in Teacher Cadets , a program that allows high school students to explore the education field as a possible career, in part by having them go into local elementary and middle schools and by serving and observing in the field. But I did enjoy teaching. I was always interested in history.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. They’re creative spaces where students can gather to explore, tinker, discover and create, and they’re making students more enthusiastic about school. This article was originally published on The Conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Their premise is simple: By partnering with families and community-based organizations, community schools tackle challenges like hunger and homelessness and seek to support students’ mental and physical health. 1425 Walton Avenue, once home to P.S. 64, now houses the Walton Avenue School and Lucero Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

Vista Unified School District’s (VUSD) mission is “to inspire each and every student to persevere as critical-thinking individuals who collaborate to solve real-world problems.” Kindergartners place their backpacks outside in the “hallway” next to a community garden in a Vista elementary school hallway.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Isabel Majdoch, 17, is enrolled in pre-calculus as a high school senior and is headed to Florida Polytechnic University next year. Her mother said the grounding in math reasoning that Isabel got in elementary school has helped. Related: You probably don’t have your preschooler thinking about math enough.

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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

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. It provides real life applications for reading and math and develops critical thinking skills that help students solve problems in other subjects. But science has long been given short shrift in the first few years of school. Plus, it’s interesting.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Some research suggests students thrive when curriculum is focused on content knowledge, while other studies have found a focus on skills, such as critical thinking, isn’t effective if students don’t have background knowledge. But other educators have argued de-emphasizing facts is heretical and even dangerous.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2018

That’s why advanced reading correlates so highly with critical thinking skills. The need for better early childhood and elementary school interventions is well documented, but that does not imply giving up on adolescents. Mastering advanced syntax allows our brains to work on a higher level. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

In Wilder Elementary School, students not only pick which subjects they want to learn, but they can also spurn their desks and work on the floor if they want. My kids begged me to come to summer school,” said Chantelle Mullins, a mother of two elementary school students. I keep thinking, ‘Is this real?’”

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 13, 2021

“I think [Verizon Innovative Learning Schools teachers] became early adopters and trailblazers for the rest of the district,” she said. Other schools became enthusiastic….It Dr. Cecilia Maes, superintendent of Alhambra Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, agreed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. Edward de Bono’s six “thinking hats,” specifically the one that called on thinkers to assess their ideas and look for potential flaws. BUFFALO, N.Y. —

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

A Dynamic Learning Project elementary school teacher. Coaches can be important thought partners for teachers as they facilitate cooperation and dialogue for productive reflection, critical thinking, meaning-making, innovation, and well-being. My coach was like a breath of fresh air that I so desperately needed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Related: What the country can learn from Boston about bringing the arts back to public schools. Research has shown that arts education can improve student achievement in reading and math, as well as increase critical-thinking skills and engage students in school. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

Next, and perhaps most importantly, the 162 students who made the cut attended a five-day boot camp in which they learned crucial workplace skills such as goal setting, effective communication, teamwork, public speaking, conflict resolution and critical thinking. “It

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 17-20, Pizmony-Levy led a first-of-its-kind professional development institute for NYC public elementary school teachers who want to teach climate change in any subject. She said, “Let’s give them the data points to critically think and draw conclusions.”

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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. “The

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

– Going deeper with the components of high-quality PBL – A PBL case study – Making sense of PBL in our own context – Getting set up with Feedly and some awesome school leadership blogs. individualization – Interrogating our instruction: An elementary school scenario.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2018

I wish I had been able to start exploring that earlier in elementary school. There is good research to back up this idea, as it allows students to fully participate in rigorous, critical thinking in a language they are comfortable in. What we need to recognize is the importance of affirming our students’ identities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

“Competency-based schools still need structures — they just need new structures,” said Sydney Schaef, a mastery learning designer for reDesign, a Boston company that guides school overhauls. “We And when kids should stop going to elementary school and start attending a middle school across town.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

In education, there are many buzzwords about effective pedagogy including real-world connection, critical thinking, and employing student voice. Mindfulness transforms culture at high-needs elementary school (NPR) A struggling elementary school in East Nashville, Tenn.,

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. TARTU, Estonia—Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. But there’s an overlooked member of the list: Estonia.

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ACRE

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We have planted flowers in our community and at our school buildings, read books to the elementary school about economics and agriculture, shared seeds to plant with workers in our community and with the younger grades, planted our own seeds to take home and grow as part of classroom activities, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

On Kentucky’s previous state tests, tied to its old standards, over 70 percent of elementary school students scored at a level of “proficiency” or better in both reading and math. By spring 2015, 54 percent of Kentucky elementary school students were proficient in the English language arts and 49 percent were proficient in math.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw Strategy Oct. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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