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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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Device rollout—when students in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools receive their initiative-provided iPads or Chromebooks—is an exciting time in the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools community, especially for schools new to the program. Haynes added the importance of still celebrating the event in its new format. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. Colleges are holding professional development online events for educators on how to reimagine education with racial justice in mind. And school districts are working to expand their curricula on race.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2015

My notes from yesterday’s Code.org elementary coding workshop… Ben Schafer , University of Northern Iowa, Facilitator. Code.org’s elementary school courses overview [VIDEO]. Code.org elementary curriculum was created in conjunction with Cal-Berkeley. Short 20-hour courses for elementary school.

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

Extreme weather events are on the rise around the globe, from historic floods to unseasonable heat waves and raging wildfires. Heidi Rose, an elementary school teacher in Denver, Colorado, knows that all too well. Every day, she admits, her elementary school uses 260 plastic utensils. “We

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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. The Hechinger Report recently hosted a live event for people to learn more about efforts to solve this problem. Sign up for our early childhood newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Kathleen Gates, a retired teacher who had taught for many years at Brooksville Elementary School in the Hernando County School District, described preparing for that school board meeting as if she were going into battle. Robinson noted that these events took place even before Florida’s recent laws went into effect.

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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. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Recently, I worked on a more complex project in which my students hosted two family learning nights for a local elementary school. Parents and school administrators were amazed at how well teenagers put together a community event.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

While Vega-Tatum nurtured seedlings on that Wednesday in January, UC Davis junior Markeia Warren, 19, arrived for her College Corps job as a teacher’s aide for a sixth-grade classroom at Patwin Elementary School in Davis. When she was in elementary school, “it seemed like no one cared,” Warren said. Let me pull up.’”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

School Psychologist Dani Roquett greets Anne and James Hutt with their daughters, Ellison, 5, and Quinn, 10 months, at the “Zone Check-In” at the GET Together family educational event in January. Dani Roquett, a school psychologist, held four colors of Post-It notes as she greeted kindergartener Ellison Hutt: “Hey, love.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

With other current events, I’m quick to brush up on the latest news, curating articles for my students to discuss in class. Why would one of the world’s biggest athletic events be any different? While my school’s geographic location might be unique, its student demographics are not. Latinx students will soon make up 30% of U.S.

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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. But a series of unexpected events led her to reconsider her plans. Ballou High School and a bunch of other high schools in D.C. I just liked the money.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

In December 2023, we hosted our inaugural city-wide coding event, collaborating with Logics Academy , engaging students from over 400 NYC Public Schools in the Hour of Code: Generation AI event. Principals from several elementary schools have reached out to me to ensure Minecraft Education is in their programming.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Trauma is often linked to adverse childhood experiences, including abuse, neglect and other events that happen to people under the age of 18. As the visual arts teacher at an elementary school in Brooklyn, N.Y., All have been proven to have a negative impact on academic performance and overall student health.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

What’s less clear is how prepared elementary school teachers are to put these seismic events into context. More aspiring elementary teachers failtheir professional entry exams on the first attempt than pass them, a rate unheard of in other professions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

As teachers we are often nervous about discussing current events with elementary school students. I have learned, though, that to not talk about race and current events is negligent to our students, their families and our society. Current events happen. Racism is real. Don’t be that teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

Earlier this fall, the Covid-19 Data Dispatch and The Hechinger Report examined reopening strategies in five school communities — four districts and one New York City elementary school — where the majority of children returned to school in person in 2020-21 but the cumulative rate of Covid infection stayed below 5 percent of the student population.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

elementary schools and whites make up almost 80 percent of the teaching force. Approximately 37 percent of teachers rated both the Connor and Dashawn versions as recounting an event with some or more detail. But male teachers didn’t mark them differently. Both races not only were graded equally, their grades were better!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Evelyn Livingston, a seventh grade student at Cameron Academy of Virtual Education in Cameron, Wisconsin, wishes her teachers gave students opportunities to discuss current events, such as the racial protests of the summer. Last spring, remote learning went so badly for Evelyn Livingston, 12, that she ended up switching schools.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

An important part of the school to home connection includes communicating the role of testing. For students, the onset of spring means warmer days on the playground and school concerts and events. As a former elementary school teacher, I remember the pressure the test can sometimes put on students, parents, and even teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Isabel Majdoch, 17, is enrolled in pre-calculus as a high school senior and is headed to Florida Polytechnic University next year. Her mother said the grounding in math reasoning that Isabel got in elementary school has helped. Elementary school teachers from Wayne County District in Monticello, Ky.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

Every few days, I get a calendar notification reminding me of a musical event no longer happening for students in Metro Nashville Public Schools in Tennessee. As I dismiss each notification, feelings of frustration and disappointment hit me like a one-two punch.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

He spearheads the Alabama Conference on Grading and Assessment in Learning , an annual event where educators discuss best practices for testing and grading students. Some school districts in California are doing away with failing grades, choosing instead to give students an opportunity to retake tests or resubmit assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2024

Department of Education shows — and the Women Leading Ed survey results verify — that women are predominantly funneled toward elementary school leadership and instructional leadership pathways that keep their trajectories below the top jobs in the district or state. Data from the U.S.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

For instance, Indian Prairie School District held a four-hour Maker Day to garner community support for computational thinking and maker learning in elementary schools. After the events, parents had a better understanding of why the district was implementing maker learning and coding as early as kindergarten.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Kicking off the Tough as Nails project, educational leaders from Floyd County and Pikeville Independent Schools convened just outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to think about how schools can adopt computational thinking. . Computational thinking in the classroom. How do you integrate computational thinking in the classroom?

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

To make clear that black schoolteachers would serve in equivalent roles to those of white teachers, the Human Relations Committee proposed to school officials that teachers for the entire fourth grade class during the 19661967 school year be drawn from Reid School.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

For the 52 Cohort 6 schools that are just beginning their VILS journey, rollout is the beginning of new learning opportunities that are not possible without technology. The event marks a major milestone and is the culmination of months of hard work that began in the spring when teachers received their devices and began planning.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Because so many families in Navapanich’s district are working class, few parents could attend in-person events, even those scheduled in the evenings, she says. But with asynchronous lessons and virtual events, the amount of parental participation skyrocketed, she says. But I would say we gained so much in those moments.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In elementary school, students may have trouble with math functions like addition and subtraction, word problems, counting money, or remembering directions. The event registration shortlink is: [link] As with other learning disabilities, a diagnosis is only the first step to getting children the help they need in school.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

After doing presentations at various events in Longmont, Boulder and Denver, the 17-year-old senior said, “It makes me feel ready for anything that might come my way. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

Many teachers at the event weren’t actively worried about being replaced by bots. It’s not even on my radar, because what I bring to the classroom is something that AI cannot replicate,” said Lauren Reynolds, a third grade teacher at Riverwood Elementary School in Oklahoma City. “I I have that human connection.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

While there’s no comprehensive data on how many schools lack air conditioning, some 41 percent of school districts responding to a 2020 Government Accountability Office survey reported that the majority of their school buildings needed heating and cooling upgrades.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The two events prevented many children from accessing high-quality, in-person early care and education opportunities before kindergarten. Few had early learning experiences prior to starting school, she adds, and even concepts like which direction to turn the pages in a book are foreign to many of them.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

From the outside, the building that was once Cold Springs Elementary School in Missoula, Montana, looks abandoned. MISSOULA, Mont. Beige paint peels from its cinder-block facade. A blue banner proclaiming “graduation matters” hangs tattered and bleached by the sun.

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