Four Tips for a Successful Device Rollout
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Leaders from Verizon Innovative Learning Schools’ newest cohort share best practices from their recent rollout events.
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‘Data days’ and longer math classes: How one district is improving math scores
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
While the rest of the country’s schools were losing ground in math during the COVID pandemic, students in a small rural Alabama school district soared. This story also appeared in AL.com and The Associated Press Piedmont City schools landed in the top spot among all school districts nationwide in a comparison of math scores in 2019 and 2022. Other Alabama school districts fared well, too, but Piedmont, a small, 1,100-student district where 7 out of 10 students qualify for free or reduced-price l
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How to Support Students in Creating Learning Materials with Low-Cost Tech
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
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COLUMN: Can we find the solution to middle school math woes in a virtual world?
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
NEW YORK — I strap on a virtual reality headset. A screen appears and dramatic music pounds into my ears. I’m told there has been a nasty avalanche and that it’s my job to restore power to the grid. The exercise is part of a new program that encourages learning middle school math through real world problem-solving, now in use in 190 school districts across 36 states.
Transforming How One School District Approaches Strategic Planning: A Collaborative Journey between the School District of Newberry County and Education Elements
Education Elements
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
As students and districts around the country begin the new school year, we are excited to share an inspiring story of how the School District of Newberry County, South Carolina, in partnership with Education Elements, is launching this school year with a powerful new Strategic Plan. There are two key lessons worth sharing which helped drive purposeful change and set a course for a clear and coherent journey ahead.
How can you help your kids get better at math?
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
In this short video, reporter Sharon Lurye discusses how parents can help their young children gather basic math skills. This story also appeared in The Associated Press Math is all around us. You don’t have to buy anything expensive or plan an activity in advance. It’s all about taking advantage of those spontaneous opportunities to ask your kids questions and help them learn.
Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
For students at a new Florida-based charter school, entering the classroom means strapping on a VR headset. While plenty of schools have experimented with short lessons conducted in virtual reality, this new school, called Optima Academy Online, has embraced the technology as a primary mode of course delivery. That means participants log a lot of time in VR most every school day: Students in third through eighth grade are given a Meta Quest 2 VR headset and wear the devices for about 30 to 40 mi
In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 19, 2023
Jenna Saykhamphone, a senior at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, helped start an equity team at her high school to fight stereotypes both inside and outside her school in suburban Washington, D.C. Saykhamphone, who has Laotian and Nigerian ancestry, said there are not many other Black or Hispanic students in her accelerated International Baccalaureate (IB) classes, even though 85 percent of the student body is Black, Hispanic or Asian.
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