A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Students in schools with 1:1 programs don’t ask what they have to do to get the right answer as do those in other schools structured to teach to the test. The significance of this is that students are then empowered to not only collaborate with each other, but to also teach the teacher.

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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. It’s a change in thinking.

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Edthena

MARCH 25, 2025

“Classroom observational videos are a very helpful tool for improving teaching skills and yet assessing them is an incredibly time-consuming task,” said Peter Youngs , principal investigator of the grant and professor at the UVA School of Education and Human Development. Do you want to get involved?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. But very few schools currently integrate effective literacy practices into content classes, according to experts on reading.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. Liljedahl has developed a strategy for teaching that he says greatly improves how many students in a class are actually thinking about course material.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. York was hooked, in part because she says her school administration simply doesn’t have the time to observe teachers while tending to several other pressing concerns. “I Teaching is hard.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

The problem begins in elementary school, with mathematical content that does not enable children to see mathematical connections and coherence. Another factor is the dearth of opportunities for elementary school math teachers to deepen their understanding of the content they teach. Take fractions as an example.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Why Science Education Matters in Your Elementary School Classroom Feb. 26, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Science is a critical part of elementary education. The most recent National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education published in 2018 found that elementary teachers taught science for just 18 minutes a day on average.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Aliah Corona and Dakkota Ryf, both 8 in this photo, check the force it takes to move a bag of potatoes six inches using wheels during their third-grade STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington. Nia Keith, director of professional development for the Museum of Science. QUINCY, Wash. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Today, elementary school teachers share similar struggles with their students. The issue isn’t just about teaching math; it also involves addressing gaps in literacy. percent of their day on numeracy skills — a gap that underscores the need for teaching approaches that bridge math and literacy. Subscribe for free.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

But in the first multi-state effort to measure textbook efficacy since the implementation of the Common Core, researchers at the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University saw no difference in the average fourth- and fifth-grade math achievement gains of schools using different elementary math textbooks.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

If pre-K and elementary teachers are going to be better equipped to teach science, they need better training during teacher preparation programs — and that training should be followed by long-term support. For example, early ed teachers, nervous about teaching inaccurately , are less likely to offer science lessons to their students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Studies document that weak readers in elementary school are less likely to make it to high school graduation, and they’re also more likely to struggle academically in upper grades. Educator prep programs and even administrators and teachers themselves have long believed there’s no need to teach older students to read.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 30, 2024

This readiness includes the ability to follow teacher directions and get along with peers, a solid understanding of the correspondence between letters and sounds, a strong vocabulary and a conceptual knowledge of the number line — all skills on which elementary school curricula can build and all eagerly learned by preschoolers.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2021

While our book, Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning , introduces the protocol, has some lesson redesign examples, and includes some tips and strategies, some schools and educators are looking for more interactive professional development. Or we could do: 1 introductory session for elementary school(s).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

I feel so defeated,” the mom wrote as she posted a screenshot of an e-mail she had just received from her young child’s elementary school principal into a parent’s group on Facebook. In Oakland , students only have one hour of live instruction each day for several weeks while teachers take part in professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Students have told Greenhaus about upsetting experiences they had in elementary school math classes, how embarrassed and anxious they felt when they were confronted with math problems, and how those feelings led some to choose a major in college that did not require extensive math instruction.

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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.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

In Secretary Cardona’s vision to elevate the teaching profession, he highlights three priorities: improving teacher pipeline, supporting teacher growth and investing in teacher retention. Improved methods of new teacher support Providing adequate support for new teachers has long been a top priority for schools.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

Valerie Brock Computer Science Education Manager, NYC Public Schools Computer Science for All Brock: In 2017, after 10 years of teaching in NYC Public Schools, the largest school district in the country, I transitioned to an “out-of-classroom” position.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The dual crisis we are currently facing — Covid-19 and systemic racism — is teaching us valuable lessons about education in America. Social and emotional learning — or SEL, as it is known — might previously have been viewed by some as a nice add-on to academics during the school day.

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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. To close the skills gap, there are a number of practices, strategies and ideas that any high school can draw from the CTE model.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

Over the last 10 years policymakers have focused much of their K-12 school reform attention on making the evaluation of teachers more rigorous and tying performance results to their compensation (see recent Calder report here ). Doing so will require a different way of doing business for state education agencies and school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. Edgecombe is still a rural district with a high-poverty student body, but a new staffing model has made its schools newly desirable for teachers who want to be school leaders without leaving the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

At the start of my teaching career, I was the only full-time, Black, male classroom teacher for a predominately Black student population in a southwest Philadelphia middle school. My district’s seniority-based layoff policy resulted in my being given a termination notice two years into my teaching career.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Others were drawn to teaching after becoming fathers. Several said they like teaching young children because it allows them to make a difference in their communities. Nationwide, male teachers are rare in early education programs. Photo: The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In my work at The Teaching Well, where I support teachers and administrators in wellness and sustainability, I hear about this issue regularly, and in the decade I spent working in schools, I saw it happen to colleagues frequently. I also understand the problem deeply on a personal level because it happened to me.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

A few years ago, Amy Lopes, a veteran fifth-grade teacher in Providence, Rhode Island, learned that teachers at her school could try a mindfulness and yoga training along with their students. I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. LEAP is a nonprofit organization that trains schools and teachers to use personalized learning in their classrooms. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and now you’re gonna make me do what?”.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

In this file photo, kindergarteners listen as teacher Amy Holland reads on the first day of school at Nancy Ryles Elementary School in Beaverton, Oregon. Why couldn’t we teach our students to read proficiently by the end of third grade? Why couldn’t we teach our students to read proficiently by the end of third grade?”

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math. Actually, an understanding of how to teach math effectively has become more refined in recent years. I definitely think we need to invest a lot more money in high-quality professional development,” Brown says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

“The biggest problem is there is not enough time to really do the training that a teacher needs to understand how to teach online,” said Jennifer Mathes, interim chief executive officer of the Boston-based Online Learning Consortium , a nonprofit that offers webinars and resources on online teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. This cozy suburb just outside of Boston is home to an idyllic New England downtown and schools that are good enough to draw young families in droves. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. MELROSE, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2018

We must support teachers with strong preparation, appropriate compensation, quality professional development and leadership opportunities so they may fulfill their calling: to ensure that every child receives an excellent education. It is necessary to lift up and thank teachers. It is also crucial to recognize that thanks isn’t enough.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

The pandemic-era jump for elementary school students was even larger: from under half to 84 percent. Nearly 60 percent of survey respondents stated that the number of school-issued devices had increased “a lot” since the pandemic began. But the devices also offer new opportunities for how schools can support learning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2022

Third, researchers have yet to examine how the children’s subsequent school experiences may have affected the results, a significant limitation given earlier work finding that the program’s short-term impacts varied considerably depending on the quality of the children’s elementary school teachers.

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