ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

Schools have begun to recognize the value of esports, with more than 8,600 US high schools having started video-gaming teams since 2018. The game does the heavy lifting, while the included lesson plans and student-facing lesson slides make in-classroom implementation turnkey and enjoyable.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

Over the past few months, Nathan Roberts has witnessed dozens of substitute teachers stumble through their first days at Penny Creek Elementary School. Nathan Roberts, a full-time substitute at Penny Creek Elementary School, teaches a class of kindergarteners how to count. Credit: Image provided by Everett Public Schools.

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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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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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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

Traditional Foods Fascinate your students with not only what people eat in Asian and Pacific Island countries, but how they prepare their meals. Read our blog, Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month , to learn more about other Asian/Pacific historical figures you can spotlight.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Teachers at one elementary school in Washington state described it as promoting kids to grade-level material with extra support, such as a preprinted multiplication table to help them follow along in class, while also asking teachers to somehow find time to do catch-up review when breaking the class into small groups. LOOKING AHEAD.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The EL motto, “We are crew, not passengers,” is a quote from Kurt Hahn, the German Jewish educator who fled the Nazis in the 1930s and went on to start Outward Bound, which co-founded the Expeditionary Learning network (later renamed EL Education) in partnership with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education in 1991.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School. They listed among their younger colleagues’ strengths: lesson planning, the ability to adjust their teaching to the needs of students, and preparedness to address the academic needs of struggling students. That’s not everything,” she added.

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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

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. Broadly speaking, she said, in indigenous traditions, it’s the latter. Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We Nor are seniors.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

I’m getting directly into interventions, targeted materials, resources, lesson plans, pedagogical skills that are tailored toward the kids I have sitting right in front of me.”. Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Before the tax hike, just 10 percent of elementary school children had access to a mental health professional, now there’s at least one mental health care professional in every school building, and in some cases a team with multiple counselors, social workers and psychologists. Credit: Sara Hertwig for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School. Throughout Mississippi, where there are still 43 open desegregation orders, the process of integrating schools traditionally pitted the courts and the DOJ against school districts. Photo: Nicole Lewis.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities. Submit your info by Aug.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs. Easier Transition to Kindergarten Pre-K programs also vastly improve school readiness and make the transition to Kindergarten easier. 2021, May 10).

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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

JUNE 15, 2016

Leadership is second only to teaching among school-related factors that can improve student achievement, and it tends to show greatest impact in traditionally underserved schools ( Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom, 2004 ). educators, and Catherine Lewis, who conducts academic research on lesson study.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

Bethel Elementary School students get a break from reading and math lessons with an engineering activity during summer school in Simpsonville, S.C. Fourth and fifth grade students work on an engineering activity using toothpicks and tape to build bridges during summer camp at Bethel Elementary School in Simpsonville, S.C.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2018

Students at Barwell Road Elementary School Photo: Alex Granados/EducationNC. Her school, Haw River Elementary in Alamance County, was offering students after-school clubs once a week. They also added a school support coach to help teachers improve their lesson plans and use more data to track students’ progress.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

—Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. In lieu of a traditional exam for one of my U.S. I would definitely recommend this article and lesson to other educators who are looking for a way to teach their students about climate change. It was absolutely awesome!

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History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

. — Lindsey Johnson and Yesenia De La Rosa were taking different approaches to teaching the same English lesson on silent letters as they sat at opposite ends of this first grade classroom in West Elementary School. The shares are even higher in some classes at the district’s West Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

High school graduation rates in Mexico have improved over the last decade, but 52 percent of 25- to 34-year-olds lack a high school education. Her parents, who emigrated from Guatemala in 2000, were among those who never made it through elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Enrollment in traditional teacher-preparation programs dropped 35 percent in the decade between 2008-09 and 2018-19, and fell further during the pandemic. Even before the bans, LGBTQ characters were underrepresented in curricula and lesson plans, according to a 2019 survey by GLSEN, an LGBTQ advocacy organization.

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Cultures Library Elementary School Advocacy 24

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

“There was a breakdown in communication in the school and the students,” said Honani, who works as a program manager for The Hopi Foundation. Initially, Honani put some blame on herself as a mother, chiding herself for failing to stay on top of her son’s teachers and deprioritizing traditional schooling during a hectic time.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. But once she left the K-8 school at the top of her grade, Siyuja stopped feeling so smart. A new principal pledged to stay longer than a school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Jennifer Merritt’s first-graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. Hundreds of oil-and-gas-centric lesson plans are now available at the click of a mouse. It was reprinted with permission. Tom Gann and state Sen. The idea caught on. Go out there and make a difference.”.

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