Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

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Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching Education 215

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The next time I met with the teachers, I facilitated a workshop on digital pedagogy. The middle school has begun to make impressive progress with blended learning , especially at the 6th-grade level. In his words, he asked the principal if he should look for another job.

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Pedagogy Economics Leadership Elementary School 422

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2021

In a previous post , I shared how members of the 4th-grade team at Red Cliffs Elementary School in the Juab School district collaborated to create a personalized experience that combined choice and data to differentiate. There is nothing more gratifying, in my opinion than watching people work together to achieve a common goal.

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Pedagogy Elementary School Critical Thinking Cultures 546

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2020

One of my favorite examples I saw during a coaching visit to Wells Elementary School was a Tic-Tac-Toe board that included formative assessment, purposeful use of technology, and differentiation, which you can read about in detail HERE. Adaptive Technologies Nothing replaces sound instructional design and pedagogy.

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Pedagogy Elementary School Tradition Teaching 545

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

The benefits speak for themselves, which compels all of us to ensure that this becomes a mainstay in pedagogy as well as learning environments. Recently I observed a great example of this during a coaching visit with Kay’s Creek Elementary School in Farmington, UT. Their theme focused on global goals for sustainable development.

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Cultures Elementary School Middle School High School 419

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Before getting into the specifics of this post, it is important to flesh out each concept to ensure the efficacy of these shifts in pedagogy. It considers the tailoring of pedagogy, curriculum, and environments by or for learners to meet their different learning needs and passions.

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Pedagogy Elementary School Education 311

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Then there is the practicality of being able to work with both administrators and teachers at the ground level to improve pedagogy and, in turn, student outcomes. Downing Elementary School with principal Marcos Lopez as part of some broader work in Ector County ISD. Case in point. As we entered, the lesson was about to conclude.

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K-12 Pedagogy Elementary School Middle School 420

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 10, 2018

The quest to improve pedagogy, and in turn learner outcomes, is a focus of many schools. As I work with schools and districts as a job-embedded coach, one of my main focus areas is to help improve pedagogy both with and without the use of technology. Maybe success lies in taking a more detailed look at daily practice.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Huinker, who was once Robinsons instructor, argues that math-specific instructional coaches like Robinson are crucial, especially for elementary school students. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker. That experience helps Robinson to empathize with those shes coaching.

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Elementary School Middle School Pedagogy Humanities 123

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

These differences in thinking play out in how flexible students are with numbers in early elementary school. But elementary school teachers often arent trained well on the evidence base for best practices in teaching number sense.

Charter School 134

Charter School Elementary School Pedagogy Research 134

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These days, almost every math curriculum in early childhood and elementary school includes games, usually a board or dice game, says Yvonne Liu-Constant, a practitioner specialist for Project Zero. Some also wonder if emphasizing play in math too strenuously can transmit an unintended message. Another Word for Fun?

K-12 116

K-12 Pedagogy Teaching Elementary School 116

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. In this Thursday, Oct. Photo: AP Photo/Elaine Thompson. Read more about the Common Core.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

For the past year and a half, my team and I at ICLE have been assisting the district with doing Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) K-12, incorporating blended learning, and aligning sound pedagogy to the use of flex spaces. Image credit Bella, who was in 4th grade at the time, had a big decision to make.

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K-12 Pedagogy Leadership Elementary School 285

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 8, 2018

More and more schools are either installing or improving WiFi networks in schools. With a pedagogy first, technology second if appropriate, approach to instructional design, educators can begin to support and enhance lessons with an array of tools.

Elementary School 189

Elementary School Pedagogy Education 189

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 100

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

Eckert (foreground) visits teacher candidate Gwen Thomas (back left), her principal Juanita Dotson (back right), and her students at Earle Elementary School in Earle, AR. The post Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University.

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K-12 Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 139

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. Crystal O’Brien, center, plays with her third grade students during free play time in her classroom at Shidler Elementary School in Oklahoma City.

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2020

Many parents at my elementary school have shared that their child uses technology better than they do. I, myself, have even struggled with some of the modern methods of basic math taught in the elementary school. In the fall, leverage this time management to create more opportunities for student-directed learning.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Well, it turns out that strategically constructing the groups like we see in a lot of elementary schools turned out to be a disaster. It's a pedagogy, it's a framework for helping teachers enact whatever curriculum that they have to work with. Curriculum is mandated, pedagogy is professional. This is human nature.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Extra work with symbols: Students with dyslexia or other language-based learning differences may struggle with the vocabulary of math, calling an inequality sign by its elementary school name, “the alligator mouth thingy.” Math is a symbol system just like the English language. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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K-12 Teaching Pedagogy Library 262

Digital Promise

MAY 15, 2018

Teacher specialization, a model in which teachers specialize in certain subjects and teach them to a rotating group of students, has a negative effect on student scores, attendance, and behavior in an elementary school setting, according to a working paper by Fryer, a faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Teaching Elementary School Pedagogy Social Studies 84

Education Elements

JULY 19, 2017

Yuma Elementary School District ONE began the journey of Personalized Learning over two years ago and we went all in --17 schools and 9000 students all at once. At the start of school, iPads were distributed to all students and 490 teachers -- many staff and students had never even held an iPad prior to the distribution.

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Leadership Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 76

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In high school, I participated in Teacher Cadets , a program that allows high school students to explore the education field as a possible career, in part by having them go into local elementary and middle schools and by serving and observing in the field. But I did enjoy teaching. I was always interested in history.

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History Museum Social Studies Geography 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

After leading a handful of conferences and workshops for public school teachers over the last couple years, Acera is in the first year of a three-year, whole-school partnership with the Joseph G. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell.

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Public School Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Leadership 119

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

We’re not preparing teachers well in math, especially at the elementary level, says Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California, whose research focuses on teacher education. She’s found that teachers have high levels of math anxiety. And the curriculum isn’t always good.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 135

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Instead of taking the opportunity to adapt their message, materials and pedagogy in response to a strong body of evidence, synthesized by Hanford for a public audience, they offered an empty and disingenuous call to “reject the newest reading wars.”. Co-state director, Decoding Dyslexia CA, former elementary teacher and literacy coach.

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Tutoring Pedagogy Elementary School Public School 113

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, teacher accounts were abuzz with reading lists and calls to adopt culturally responsive and culturally sustaining pedagogies. By welcoming their passion into our curriculum, I hope to affirm students for what they value and pursue outside the classroom.

Cultures 130

Cultures Pedagogy Elementary School Teaching 130

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

American University Pays Tutors American University’s School of Education established the Future Teacher Tutors Program in fall 2020. It started off as a way to bring high-impact tutoring to elementary school students in northeast Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Decades of research shows that math anxiety is a common problem for adults, and surveys show it particularly affects women , who make up nearly 90 percent of elementary teachers in the United States. Put simply, a lot of elementary school educators hate the prospect of teaching math, even when the math concepts are beginner level.

Professional Development 139

Professional Development Tutoring Pedagogy Teaching 139

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The government’s view isn’t that child care is a place to put children so parents can work, or even to prepare children for the rigors of elementary school. I want [children] to like being in kindergarten,” she said, as we sat in her office, surrounded by rows of early childhood pedagogy books and a pile of donated, toddler-sized skis.

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Pedagogy Government Ancestry Cultures 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

When Kayla Jeckell first arrived at Browning Elementary School from Pennsylvania five years ago, she’d been told the process of transferring her teacher certification would be fairly easy. A high percentage, over 60 percent, of our students don’t pass the Praxis on the first attempt.”. That problem is also common nationally.

Elementary School 139

Elementary School Heritage High School Teaching 139

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

A school cannot provide students an outstanding education over several years unless virtually every teacher is on board. As a consultant to the Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education, he helped draft and pass the 1993 Massachusetts Education Reform Law.

Charter School 90

Charter School Pedagogy Elementary School Middle School 90

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

But this year, New Frontiers Charter School in San Antonio needed its best teachers to help younger students get ready for a new set of math standards Texas adopted in 2012, so Demore switched to elementary school. It’s the second year the standards are being tested , but the first the scores will count for schools.

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Charter School Pedagogy Elementary School Research 109

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. That includes librarians as well.

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K-12 Pedagogy American History History 113

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

At the elementary school she worked at before Sussex Tech, kids of all races played together, she said. “I More than a third of the students at Sussex Tech are students of color , but close to 90 percent of its teachers are white, a mismatch evident in many high schools today. Related: Teachers go to school on racial bias.

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Cultures Social Justice High School Pedagogy 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School. We talk about first looking at your environment, your curriculum and your pedagogy, and make the best choices for your students. “[Teacher candidates] need to know about mental illness, poverty training and assistance.

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Classroom Management Lesson Plan Pedagogy Elementary School 110