ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. Elementary teachers can help students hone these skills through science, social studies, and health.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Don’t Use Physical Education As Punishment contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for their errors that day?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

During last year’s widespread remote schooling, teachers found greater flexibility—no commute, no hallway duty—and liked it, even if they didn’t like teaching virtually. After that experience, the relentlessness of the in-person school week is a big reason teachers are finding this year even more stressful. So let’s imagine.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

This training has served me well in many aspects of my professional and personal lives but, frankly, these techniques weren’t enough when I got to my semester of student teaching. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. I was scared to teach them, and they knew it.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Although I could envision some benefits of a 1:1 program in my school, I had no plans to pursue implementing one. Little did I know that I would be leaving with a wealth of information that could have the potential to radically transform the learning culture at New Milford High School.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

As workplaces, schools can intentionally structure systems and provide resources that decrease some of these barriers, such as addressing the scarcity of dedicated services and supporting educators through convoluted insurance hurdles that make it even harder to seek professional help.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Here, we explore the practices of four HP Teaching Fellows in the U.S. Tara Bova is a second grade teacher at Barbara Blanchard Elementary School in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. She provides a clear example of how educators can easily incorporate SEL into their daily teaching practices. and Canada.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

The solution, one that has strong bipartisan support, is as prominent as John Hancocks signature: a generational investment in teaching students how the government works. A mere five states require a one-semester middle school civics course, and our research shows that only New Hampshire dedicates instructional time for civics in grades K-5.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

SES has an impact on learning and teachers need to be aware of these impacts if they are going to teach all students. They prefer either someone they previously deemed accurate or someone who shares their cultural background (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016). Conclusion Part of teaching high school is preparing students for college.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

My colleagues, friends and family often praise my relentless pursuit of excellence, especially in my teaching career. My journey into teaching was born from a deep-seated curiosity about the transformative power of education and a drive for social justice. Teaching them is an immense privilege, one that I do not take lightly.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

My father was an elementary school principal at Alpha Public School and Hatchery Hill School for a total of 30 years. My mom was an elementary teacher for 27 years, the last 18 spent teaching at Francis A. Desmares School in Flemington, NJ. This is an opportunity not to be squandered.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. I’ve wanted to go into the teaching profession ever since then. What motivates them?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female. Thus, math anxiety greets our students as soon as they enter school. It is true of parents and it is true of teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

One hundred thirty-five students, four teachers, one giant classroom: This is what ninth grade looks like at Westwood High School , in Mesa, Arizona’s largest school system. There, an innovative teaching model has taken hold, and is spreading to other schools in the district and beyond. 18, 2022, in Mesa, Arizona.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. Nate teaches Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. When I teach unit rates, I transform my room into a grocery store. This teaches them that they can learn anything. This isn’t really about math.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In Maggie Waldner’s elementary school classroom in downtown Denver, math lessons rarely focus on rote memorization. This is what culturally responsive instruction looks like in STEM education. But experts say finding better ways to teach STEM to students of color and girls is urgent. Especially the girls.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. Edgecombe is still a rural district with a high-poverty student body, but a new staffing model has made its schools newly desirable for teachers who want to be school leaders without leaving the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Their bodies are policed supposedly because they pose too much of a distraction for boys, “instead of teaching boys to respect girls, correct their behavior and be more responsible,” according to the NWLC report. This double standard encourages sexual harassment and does nothing to ameliorate rape culture.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

Many schools around the country offer after-school programs or electives for students interested in computational thinking. In South Fayette, a suburban and rural district of 2,700 students near Pittsburgh, it’s woven into the district culture, as well as the core curriculum at every grade level.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

At the same time, and not unrelated, the teaching profession is experiencing a period of upheaval. First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

But a large study of a million elementary school students and nearly 35,000 teachers in North Carolina found that Black teachers aren’t always better for Black students. The race of the teacher didn’t affect the academic achievement of Black students in third through fifth grade across eight school years, from 2009-10 to 2017-18.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States. While my school’s geographic location might be unique, its student demographics are not.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2024

It was 2022 and I had recently been hired as the principal of an all-girls elementary school in New York, and it was my first visit to the school to meet students, staff and families. Each time, I assure families that we value an inclusive curriculum and anything we’re teaching is in service of supporting our students.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Accustoming White Families to Black School Teachers When this second years trial also worked, plans were finalized for the third year, when all of the black communitys school-age children would enroll in the formerly white elementary and secondary schools. 4 [October 1988], 387 444.)) The post Implementing Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

While districts scramble to fill vacancies, schools must do a better job not only hiring diverse teachers, but also keeping them on board. When children have exposure to school leaders from a variety of cultures, they do better both in K-12 classrooms and in our communities. These adults connected with me culturally.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

More than 75 percent of elementary school math teachers said they used their school’s recommended materials, but fewer than 50 percent of high school math teachers said they did. Many said that their existing materials weren’t connected to their students’ languages and cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2022

For this reason, in many countries , school, and formal reading instruction, doesn’t begin until age six or seven. We must continue teaching reading throughout all grades. In school, we spiral math instruction; elementary school kids learn how to multiply single-digit numbers one year, double- and triple-digit numbers the next.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school. In 10th grade, for some extra cash, Campbell signed up to tutor elementary school students through a literacy program in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

In Secretary Cardona’s vision to elevate the teaching profession, he highlights three priorities: improving teacher pipeline, supporting teacher growth and investing in teacher retention. Improved methods of new teacher support Providing adequate support for new teachers has long been a top priority for schools.

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ED Surge

JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. To promote reorganization, create a more learner-centered classroom and shift students’ mathematical thinking, instruction should include both a Second Order Model and consideration of social and cultural contexts.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math. Actually, an understanding of how to teach math effectively has become more refined in recent years. Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

At the start of my teaching career, I was the only full-time, Black, male classroom teacher for a predominately Black student population in a southwest Philadelphia middle school. My district’s seniority-based layoff policy resulted in my being given a termination notice two years into my teaching career.

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Social Justice Leadership Elementary School Professional Development 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Nurturing bilingual students is the mission of the 400-student public school where Menéndez teaches, Dos Puentes Elementary in Washington Heights, a predominantly Latino neighborhood of New York City. In other schools, bilingualism was not accepted or important,” said Menéndez, who has been teaching for 27 years.

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Elementary School Middle School Library Research 126

The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2021

Drawing on my experience as an online law student and teaching assistant for first-year law students this past year, I recently spoke with several other educators — teachers of second graders through college students — about what they have learned in this past year of distance learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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