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5 Ways to Create Relevant Cultures of Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Recently I observed a great example of this during a coaching visit with Kay’s Creek Elementary School in Farmington, UT. A unifying focus bridges curriculum, instruction, and assessment to a school’s vision and mission. Wells Elementary School in Texas is a great example of how a unifying focus becomes a reality.

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Why You Shouldn’t Use Physical Education As Punishment

TeachThought

See also Dos and Don’ts Of Elementary School Classroom Management The Problem with Physical Punishment While some feel that running a few laps as punishment sounds reasonable, this can have an adverse effect on a child’s psyche that lasts for decades. If you’re a teacher yourself, you know how impressionable students can be.

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The Seeds of Innovation

A Principal's Reflections

Then, I gave my students several examples of how they could use this website in their elementary school classrooms. is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at Queens College, CUNY. In addition, I explained to my students why using such a website would be useful to them and their students.

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Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning

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Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. Journal of Instructional Psychology, 37(3), 193–199. References Baker, M., & Johnston, P.

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PROOF POINTS: Flashcards prevail over repetition in memorizing multiplication tables

The Hechinger Report

A study published in 2023 in the journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology documented that second graders memorized more multiplication facts when they practiced using flashcards rather than by repeating their times tables aloud.

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Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’

The Hechinger Report

They found that math and reading scores, along with psychological, emotional and behavioral measures, were no higher for children with disabilities who learned in general education classrooms, on average, compared to children who learned in separate special education classrooms. Only 15 studies survived. He did not study those.

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PROOF POINTS: What almost 150 studies say about how to motivate students

The Hechinger Report

They found 144 studies involving nearly 80,000 students, from elementary school through university. If you want your students to be motivated at school, parents are important but they’re not enough,” said Julien Bureau, associate professor at Université Laval in Quebec and lead author of the study. Two conclusions jumped out.