ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

This path seemed like the best way to blend his love of linguistics with his interest in teaching — that is, until he took a job as a paraprofessional at an elementary school in his hometown of Corona, California. CGU has a teacher residency program that let him stay in the elementary school he was already in.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Related: Retraining an entire state’s elementary school teachers in the science of reading In recent years, school systems have begun to make changes. “We also have a lot of our kids that can decode these words at decent levels and with fluency but they still struggle to comprehend the text that they’re reading.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy. So they’re looking for inspiration from other sectors — including video game design and elementary school classrooms — to keep lectures interesting.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Teachers use that to their advantage by beginning the next class with some retrieval practice and interleaving , learning science strategies that can boost knowledge retention. Too often when we think of daily schedules, we tend to think about their impact on secondary school. has a different feel than Wednesday’s at 1:40 p.m.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Through a large-scale, multi-year, federal project focusing on early literacy, we were able to gather feedback from educators on how instruction has been going this school year. We are grateful for the educators’ generosity in sharing their experiences and offering a firsthand glimpse into their strategies to meet these demanding times.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Floyd County and Pikeville educators participated in a series of South Fayette School District classroom visits to observe students work and learn more about computing pathways. At the elementary school, the teams tinkered with the interactive digital stories children created using Scratch, a block-based programming language.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Learning games that have compelling, obvious goals are significantly more popular among elementary school children than those that don’t. Motivating children to learn effectively: Exploring the value of intrinsic integration in educational games.The Journal of the Learning Sciences, 20(2), 169-206.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Amid STEM Enthusiasm, Stepping Back to Consider the Broader Purpose of Teaching and Learning Science. This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. But how does this connect to science education? Collaborative Search for Truth .

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Malachi Ballinger, 6, laughs at how far he has made his “pinball” travel during a science lesson in his kindergarten classroom in Redmond, Oregon. Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. But science has long been given short shrift in the first few years of school.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 28, 2021

And understanding those maps can be a key to better understanding how the mind—and how learning—works, according to Rebecca Schwarzlose, a postdoctoral neuroscientist at Washington University in St. Learning science is always advancing, yielding new insights about how people gain and retain knowledge and skills.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 17-20, Pizmony-Levy led a first-of-its-kind professional development institute for NYC public elementary school teachers who want to teach climate change in any subject. Teachers who signed up were responding in part to Mayor Eric Adams’ Earth Day commitment to soup up green learning.

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