The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. Related: Education research, condensed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

The curriculum was recently the subject of an experiment involving 684 students to see if this approach actually teaches kids the reading and writing skills and the content they need to succeed in school. The researchers controlled for academic differences among the kids at the start of the school year.)

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The project was simple for me because it came with the guidance like a rubric, a model and examples to help with lesson planning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Salas, who attends Roosevelt Elementary School in San Leandro, California, is not alone in feeling the effects of heat on her schoolyard. Across the country, climbing temperatures have led schools to cancel classes and outdoor activities to protect students from the harmful effects of the heat. We can memorize concepts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“It’s not the fault of schools. I think it has to do with the amount of resources schools have to provide intervention to children, and reading takes priority over math.” Lynn Fuchs, research professor at Vanderbilt University Covid exacerbated the nation’s problem with math achievement.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

In the meantime, many new features and products released in recent weeks focus on helping educators with administrative tasks or responsibilities like creating lesson plans and other classroom materials. And those are the kinds of behind-the-scenes uses of AI that students may never even know are happening.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

While every school is unique, research has identified several elements that can almost universally increase the chances for successful teacher development and create a powerful and positive school community. Research shows that the following features of effective leadership can improve student achievement (Leithwood et al.,

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. They’re creative spaces where students can gather to explore, tinker, discover and create, and they’re making students more enthusiastic about school. This article was originally published on The Conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

“Just think about identifying the explicit skills that students need to work on and the plan that we have to help them achieve a mastery of that explicit skill.”. A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. But there are plenty of reasons to be cautious.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

. – Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. The school’s “energy use index,” a measure of power use per square foot, is about a third of the average for district elementary schools. RELATED: Psst!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Two Forest Grove Elementary School students show off their block structures for Nesra Yannier to photograph during an experiment. PITTSBURGH — At Forest Grove Elementary School, along the Ohio River just northwest of Pittsburgh, the Rust Belt is giving way to educational innovation. Photo: Jill Barshay.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the summer of 2020 after schools had been shuttered for about three months, another nonprofit maker of math software for elementary schools called Zearn was thinking about a way to keep kids on grade level. They’ll need hours more planning time to do it well. The company borrowed a page from corporate America.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

An elementary school teacher, she was suddenly teaching five-year-olds online. But Salvatore is finding that so many students lack basic background knowledge that he sometimes teaches a mini lesson from instructional materials that he discovers online. Salvatore moved in with his mom in Brooklyn, New York.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Because Summit requires new schools to spend almost an entire year preparing to adopt its model, the coronavirus is not expected to cause a surge in the number of Summit schools next fall. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix. That’s the argument Summit makes.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2022

As the start of the school year kicks off across the country, elementary school teachers work hour upon hour to create welcoming, joyous spaces for learning. They set up their classrooms, consult the curriculum, make lesson plans and determine their routines. I know what they mean. So, why do we do it?

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

of the population, according to research from New American Economy, and are the fastest-growing ethnic minority group in the United States, according to Pew Research. Why Asian/Pacific Heritage Month Is Important Asian Pacific Islanders make up 6.8%

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

In the weeks ahead, the girls would weave the interview and their own research into four individual narratives about Millones, one of several immigrants telling their stories at King, where nearly a quarter of the students were born overseas. He had been disenchanted with his school’s previous personalized learning initiative. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

In Wilder Elementary School, students not only pick which subjects they want to learn, but they can also spurn their desks and work on the floor if they want. My kids begged me to come to summer school,” said Chantelle Mullins, a mother of two elementary school students. Photo: Wayne D’Orio. What’s the reaction? “My

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

They’re backed by research showing that teachers of color who instruct students of the same race are more likely to set high expectations, discipline appropriately, and identify students for gifted programs. Black students who have a black teacher in elementary school are more likely to graduate high school and go to college.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

When school districts buy laptops for students to use in the classroom, the cost doesn’t stop at the price per device. public schools. The market research firm Futuresource Consulting calculated that in 2016, Chromebooks made up 60 percent of all computing devices shipped to K-12 schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Infusing lessons with music. At Nora Davis Magnet Elementary School in Laurel, the arts are already a regular part of the day. The school is an arts magnet school and days are infused with dance, music, drama, and the visual arts. Dolan says they hope to offer AP Physics 2 and AP Calculus AB soon.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. The data dashboards make clear which students need extra help and which need more challenging work, giving teachers an opportunity to tailor their lesson plans accordingly. Also, there’s a psychological factor.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The hope is that by providing students access to resources they did not previously have, including after school programs and individualized lesson plans for students in need of remediation, the district can help every student reach his or her full potential. But there are kids in the county who have never been on campus.”.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw, along with building content knowledge encourages students to discover more about their peers while contributing to a common educational task such as reading or researching. February 26, 2024 Lesson 5: Who Can Run For Office February 26, 2024 Lesson 6: How Do We Choose Leaders?

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 11, 2024

Studies Weekly incorporated numerous scientific principles into the development of Explore Science, ensuring it is thoroughly researched, rigorously tested, validated, and highly effective. Researching and Creating the Curriculum Studies Weekly’s curricula undergo an intensive blueprinting and specification process.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 2, 2024

“The research projects, presentations, games, etc. that we get to play extend our learning, make the lessons more engaging, and allow my students to dig deeper.” Studies Weekly made it easy for me to learn along with my students by providing everything I needed.”

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

In addition, when children know about their own family history, they are more resilient and emotionally stable, according to research as reported by Bruce Feiler in 2013 in the New York Times.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

Esteves, age 10, is a fourth-grader at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark, N.J., Esteves’ teacher gives her books to take home, part of the school’s push to keep students reading outside of school. Claudia Pinheiro, a fourth-grade teacher at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark.

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Achieve the Core

JULY 7, 2023

More time to plan, more time to research, more time to teach, more time to connect, more time to assess, and more time to engage. Structures also help facilitate effective lesson planning and instruction. As educators, it is easy to spend most of our day putting out little fires. We are constantly in need of more time.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

According to the 2022 report on this national assessment by a team of researchers at Stanford and Harvard, the data showed that while students with mostly remote classes had lower scores on average, remote learning had little impact on a student’s performance. Hogan in the New York Times article. Get a Studies Weekly free trial today!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2017

There’s an introductory curriculum guide , lesson plans , and sample Scratch projects for teachers to replicate or use as inspiration. On ScratchEd’s website, teachers can find a wide span of resources to build their knowledge of computer science and the interactive programming projects they can launch in their classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Meanwhile, the museum’s school programs must support the science standards taught by busy elementary school teachers. The Fab Lab’s shadow-puppet challenge, for example, uses laser-cut acrylics to reinforce classroom lessons about transparent, translucent and opaque. They’ll also share their lesson plans online.

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