The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this file photo, a student reads in a Mississippi elementary school. In 2010, a year after Andrea Pastchal-Smith became principal of West Elementary School, formerly named West Oktibbeha County Elementary, the struggling school earned an “Academic Watch” rating from the state. Weekly Update.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 18, 2021

As I transitioned from the principalship to supporting districts and schools, I learned that blended learning was a powerful pedagogical strategy that could unleash students' potential while meeting their diverse needs. Over the course of many years, my work with Wells Elementary School provided a foundation that I pull from to this very day.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

I have really been impressed with the choice boards at the high school and how Canvas is being used to set them up. The elementary school has also upped their game as of late. Students in the elementary school get to work at their own pace in various centers.

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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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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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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

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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Shepard Elementary School. Moulton plays a key role in this phase.

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

Heidi Rose, an elementary school teacher in Denver, Colorado, knows that all too well. I was having a hard time functioning and just continually thinking about how far past the point of no return we are,” she says, sitting on a too-small stool at a shared table in her first grade classroom at Lincoln Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

We are seeing it close gaps for students, and they are more able to access elementary school math.” Two kindergarten students at Hilltop Elementary in Aston, Pennsylvania., Engel said results suggest that in many classrooms, kindergarten math might be poorly aligned with both pre-K and elementary school.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

In an interview with the Smithsonian Science Education Center, Dr. Melissa Collins, a veteran elementary school teacher shares her wisdom and expertise in supporting students with access to STEM opportunities and helping them imagine new possibilities for themselves

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ED Surge

MAY 25, 2023

When he was a first grader at Rivermont Elementary School, Mason was overwhelmed by his emotions. But that was before Mason was introduced to a program at school that focuses on student well-being. Evans started the mindfulness program in 2019 at the elementary school in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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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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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. Having worked primarily with middle and high schoolers, I wasn’t yet used to the blunt inquisitiveness of our younger students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Elementary school teachers often face a significant challenge when it comes to teaching math: their own discomfort with numbers. As our early childhood reporter Ariel Gilreath recently reported, elementary school teachers often struggle with teaching this subject. Sign up for our early childhood newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A student in an elementary school drops an egg wrapped tightly in paper straws and tape to test whether it can survive a high fall. These and similar scenes from public schools around the country are more than just young learners having fun with recycled materials. Adopt a curriculum that exposes students to STEM early on.

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The Hechinger Report

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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. AJ the robot is the school mascot at A.J.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Adding outdoor classrooms to elementary schools. According to the 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education , which compiled the information on minutes spent learning science, only 17 percent of early elementary classes had science lessons most days of the week. Such efforts can only improve current practices.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We know that children who attend high quality child care programs and elementary schools get off on a much stronger footing in both learning and life. But what about the impact of various other opportunities, like after school clubs, music lessons and sports?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Almost every day at the public elementary school she attended in Montgomery County, Maryland, Stephanie heard comments about her weight. In elementary school, she received the President’s Award for Educational Achievement, designed to reward students who work hard, often in the face of obstacles to learning.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When I was in elementary school, my father, a master carpenter and math enthusiast, played a significant role in shaping my love and curiosity for math. I was fortunate to discover applied statistics in graduate school. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Our goal is to increase young kids’ interest in STEM by conducting monthly science experiments at local elementary schools. These activities connect high schoolers who are passionate about STEM with elementary students so that the older kids can serve as role models.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California. And he records the conversations.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

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. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

I have a closer view of the effects of school board decisions than most school board members. Related: Do fraught school board meetings offer a view of the future? I ran for the Littleton Elementary School District governing board while I was 17, and was elected while finishing out my senior year of high school.

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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

JULY 5, 2022

In a simulation exercise across nearly 100 large school districts, the academics were able to redraw elementary school boundaries to reduce racial segregation by 12 percent while cutting almost one minute off of students’ average commuting time. Gillani’s tool directly redraws school boundaries based on children’s races.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Source: Figure 1 of “The effect of retrieval practice on fluently retrieving multiplication facts in an authentic elementary school setting,” (2023) Journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology.

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Education Elements

APRIL 23, 2024

As soon as you enter Vogel Elementary School, you are greeted with large smiles. It is no secret that students are excited to show up to school every day and teachers are ready to embrace their kiddos as soon as the bell rings. The reason?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

The study took place in an unnamed, large urban school district in North Carolina where most of the students are Black and Hispanic and 40 percent are from low-income families. Kim, a reading specialist, and other researchers had developed two sets of multi-year lesson plans, one for science and one for social studies.

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Education Elements

JULY 11, 2023

I have not yet fulfilled that dream, but I had the opportunity to work alongside James Hopkins, a school principal in Durham, North Carolina, who has done just that. James opened Lyons Farms Elementary School during the 2022- 2023 academic school year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Studies document that weak readers in elementary school are less likely to make it to high school graduation, and they’re also more likely to struggle academically in upper grades. Many districts have started giving elementary school teachers “ science of reading” training they never had in teacher-prep programs.

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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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