The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While they are completing digital worksheets, their peers in better-resourced schools are coding, collaborating, and designing and building tech tools. The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. During one of the sessions, a seasoned teacher's candid remarks struck a chord. However, these efforts have not effectively addressed the underlying issues.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

During the drive, Jenkins used her experience in education, public safety and health care to help me tell my own children, who are 9 and 12 years old, and who both have a sibling-like relationship with my godson. The elementary school my younger son attends was incredibly supportive. This is more urgent than ever.

Professional Development 101

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

Educators and students are still replaying the session in class as of today! Principals from several elementary schools have reached out to me to ensure Minecraft Education is in their programming. Teachers have informed me that they are forming after-school and lunchtime coding clubs.

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K-12 EdTech Public School Elementary School 137

ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2024

Public schools provided teachers with an average of 266 minutes of dedicated planning time per week, according to results from the School Pulse Panel administered in December 2023. The panel surveys about 2,400 school principals representing all grade levels.

Middle School 136

Middle School Elementary School Professional Development Public School 136

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

As part of this program at Morris County Vocational School, in New Jersey, where I teach, students engage in research about key issues at our school and learn how to plan effective professional development to support the staff.

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High School Museum Education History 140

ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Early in my teaching career, when I was 26 years old, I was offered and accepted a position as a dean at an elementary school in East Oakland, California. The following school year, I was promoted to assistant principal, and a year into that role, I had to cover our principal while she was on maternity leave.

Leadership 127

Leadership Elementary School Professional Development Teaching 127

ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

One survey of educators found a jump from about two-thirds of middle and high school students having access to a school-issued device prior to the pandemic, to 90 percent a year later. The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent.

Professional Development 113

Professional Development Project-Based Learning Library Elementary School 113

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

Education 109

Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 109

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

We’re not preparing teachers well in math, especially at the elementary level, says Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California, whose research focuses on teacher education. She’s found that teachers have high levels of math anxiety.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Google and Apple both made big education technology announcements this week, unveiling new products designed for schools.

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K-12 Professional Development Lesson Plan Elementary School 72

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district.

Teaching 122

Teaching EdTech Professional Development Tutoring 122

ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

This is the advice we’ve been giving district and school leaders across the country about their daily schedule. No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. “Don’t go back!”

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Elementary School Professional Development Learning Science Research 110

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

American University Pays Tutors American University’s School of Education established the Future Teacher Tutors Program in fall 2020. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Just think back to the last time you went to a professional development workshop. Well, it turns out that strategically constructing the groups like we see in a lot of elementary schools turned out to be a disaster. And when students feel anonymous, they disengage. And that's both a conscious and a subconscious act.

Research 144

Research Teaching Pedagogy Elementary School 144

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 126

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The network was purposefully capped at about 150 schools, because the partnerships rely on intensive, in-person training and coaching. Every year, about 10 new schools join EL and a similar number leave. For a school to be eligible to join, at least 40 percent of its students must be from low-income families.

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

“Sometimes things get very isolating just because you're in the confines of your own classroom…teachers don't necessarily share things with one another, especially when it involves a traumatic situation such as this,” said Oakland, California elementary school teacher Nikita Gibbs, referring to the upheaval due to the pandemic. “It

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