ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Huinker, who was once Robinsons instructor, argues that math-specific instructional coaches like Robinson are crucial, especially for elementary school students. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker. That experience helps Robinson to empathize with those shes coaching.

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MARCH 28, 2021

In a previous post , I shared how members of the 4th-grade team at Red Cliffs Elementary School in the Juab School district collaborated to create a personalized experience that combined choice and data to differentiate. There is nothing more gratifying, in my opinion than watching people work together to achieve a common goal.

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AUGUST 23, 2020

One of my favorite examples I saw during a coaching visit to Wells Elementary School was a Tic-Tac-Toe board that included formative assessment, purposeful use of technology, and differentiation, which you can read about in detail HERE. Choice might be one of the most uncomplicated components to integrate daily.

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MAY 6, 2018

The other day I was conducting some learning walks with the administrative team at Wells Elementary School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD). Throughout the school year, I have been assisting them with digital pedagogy as it relates to blended learning and the use of flex spaces.

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OCTOBER 17, 2021

While I saw many amazing examples of innovative practices at scale, I was very impressed with East Jackson Elementary School. Over the course of the year, I am on-site in the role of coach to provide ongoing and job-embedded feedback to show efficacy.

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MARCH 18, 2020

Our youngest learners will need some help and guidance, especially if their elementary schools have not been 1:1 or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). As this is new to everyone, piling on too much work will be counterproductive. Don’t put the responsibility on parents for students grades five and above.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Recently, I was asked by some Kindergarten teachers at Howell Elementary School in Tennessee during one-on-one coaching sessions about ELA-specific stations that would be great for young learners. At the same time, the teacher can pull small groups for targeted instruction or support.

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MARCH 15, 2020

My experience in this area began over three years ago, thanks to having the opportunity to coach teachers and administrators at Wells Elementary School. As of late, I have been working with quite a few districts on personalization through a variety of blended learning strategies.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

To make matters worse many states, districts, and schools made knee-jerk reactions when the budget ax came down a few years and cut traditional hands-on courses such as wood shop, agriculture, metal shop, and cooking. In many cases elementary schools have even taken fun out of school for kids by cutting recess.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Some researchers have suggested paying strong math teachers more to work at high-poverty schools, but that would also require the renegotiation of union contracts in many cities. For students, AIR’s Goldhaber argues the time to intervene in math is in elementary school to make sure more low-income students have strong basic math skills. “Do

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 6, 2019

A recent coaching visit with Corinth Elementary School placed me in a position to model all of the above. However, one of the most important considerations is to ensure that a two-way conversation takes place where there is a dialogue , not a monologue. Virtually no educator wants to have suggestions dictated to him or her.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Downing Elementary School with principal Marcos Lopez as part of some broader work in Ector County ISD. It also provides me with an opportunity to reflect on what I see and my take on how the field of education can continue to evolve in ways that better support the needs of all learners. Case in point.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While conducting some coaching visits at Wells Elementary School recently, I saw Ms. However, if this the only way tools like this are utilized then we are missing a golden opportunity to challenge our learners to think deeply about concepts. Mican using Quizizz.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Wells Elementary School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD) is one of the best examples I have seen when it comes to effective blended learning at school. This is not to say that a teacher using a variety of tools as part of daily instruction isn’t effective, but this is not blended learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These differences in thinking play out in how flexible students are with numbers in early elementary school. But elementary school teachers often arent trained well on the evidence base for best practices in teaching number sense.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

His colleagues across all content areas at the high school have begun to implement an array of innovative strategies such as station rotation, choice boards, self-pacing, digital check-ins with students, and the purposeful use of technology aligned to effective pedagogy.

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MARCH 26, 2015

Participants will also have the opportunity to attend a variety of makerspace-focused sessions, and learn from colleagues at schools that have successfully implemented makerspaces on their campuses, including Clark Burnett, a 4th grade teacher from Lang Ranch Elementary School in Thousand Oaks, CA.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Charter schools in Nevada have steadily been closing in on the Battle Born States second place ranking for enrollment, according to an analysis by the Nevada Current, and recently caused the Washoe County superintendent to worry that charter expansion could lead to nearby elementary school closures.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

See also Dos and Don’ts Of Elementary School Classroom Management The Problem with Physical Punishment While some feel that running a few laps as punishment sounds reasonable, this can have an adverse effect on a child’s psyche that lasts for decades. If you’re a teacher yourself, you know how impressionable students can be.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2019

Recently during a coaching visit at Sandshore Elementary School, a part of the Mt. Olive Township School District in NJ, I saw one of the best examples of innovation in practice.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Less than 10 percent of Native American students attend BIE schools. Related: College tuition breaks for Native students spread, but some tribes are left out At Algodones Elementary School, which serves a handful of Native American pueblos along New Mexico's Upper Rio Grande, about two-thirds of students are chronically absent.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

I once attended an elementary school lesson in which the teacher read a book about a family beach house after Hurricane Sandy.) But Waite noted that educators can incorporate the topic into activities they already do, like art lessons or reading picture books. (I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

Today there is a growing body of research about the best ways to teach children, especially young elementary school children, who are having difficulties with reading and math. Decades ago, there werent many ways to help children with disabilities.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

For example, there are many elementary schools that still use timed tests as a way to increase math fluency for math facts. Change 2: Revisit Your Assessment Practices Kircher-Morris: We need to really make sure that when we are assessing something, we’re assessing what we are actually wanting to assess.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These days, almost every math curriculum in early childhood and elementary school includes games, usually a board or dice game, says Yvonne Liu-Constant, a practitioner specialist for Project Zero. Some also wonder if emphasizing play in math too strenuously can transmit an unintended message. Another Word for Fun?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

More elementary school students may be better at decoding words, but they have to make sense of those words to do well on the NAEP. Another possibility, according to assessment expert Marion, is that being able to read words is important, but its not enough to do well on the NAEP, which is a test of comprehension.

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HistoryRewriter

JANUARY 17, 2024

Take a look at these elementary school lessons. Students will need to dive into the text and back up their claims with evidence. Not sure if your students are advanced enough to use archetypes in your class? Here is a free book preview that guides teachers on how to integrate interdisciplinary instruction with ELA and Social Studies.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

The problem begins in elementary school, with mathematical content that does not enable children to see mathematical connections and coherence. Another factor is the dearth of opportunities for elementary school math teachers to deepen their understanding of the content they teach. Take fractions as an example.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

Stay in the other community school where she had made friends for two years or go to a brand-new school for her last year of elementary school. Image credit Bella, who was in 4th grade at the time, had a big decision to make. To be honest, she was leaning on staying put.

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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

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. Crystal O’Brien, center, plays with her third grade students during free play time in her classroom at Shidler Elementary School in Oklahoma City.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Elsewhere in North Carolina, or in any other state in the nation, if you step into an elementary school, you might find three different classrooms teaching students three different ways to read.

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Students at Whittier Elementary School, in Mesa, Arizona, attend classes led by a team of teachers who have different skills and expertise. School districts that have adopted the model are meanwhile beginning to collect data on its impact on students. The school began experimenting with team teaching five years ago.

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