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. Choice might be one of the most uncomplicated components to integrate daily.

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Edthena

MARCH 25, 2025

Edthena is proud to announce our collaboration with researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Albany on an AI-based multi-modal neural network project funded by the Gates Foundation. Reliable and research-validated AI-powered feedback for math instruction is coming soon! This project builds on proven research.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2025

Middle schools now have waiting lists for the sport. And at Longfellow Elementary School, students stretched yarn across makeshift looms made out of toilet paper rolls, stitching the arms of an octopus or crafting a snake during knitting club. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Downing Elementary School with principal Marcos Lopez as part of some broader work in Ector County ISD. Not only did Elisabeth Trambley (2017) do a fantastic literature review of these, but she also conducted her own research study to determine the impact of brain breaks on behavior. Case in point. Browning C., Aslan-Tutak F.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 17, 2021

A solid professional learning plan is: Research-aligned Ongoing Job-embedded A plan is only as good as its implementation. While I saw many amazing examples of innovative practices at scale, I was very impressed with East Jackson Elementary School.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

Below are three questions that kids should be able to answer if learning is relevant : What they learned Why they learned it How they will use what they learned outside of school Image credit: Erik Francis To dig a little deeper Robin Roberson discusses two fundamental ways to provide relevance to students aligned to research.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

Proposals are circulating for summer school, afterschool, remedial instruction, giving students an extra year of school and a somewhat fuzzy concept of “acceleration.”. Yet some of the strongest research evidence points to an intensive type of tutoring as a way to help children catch up. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletters.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

I was curious what lessons we could take from previous research on summer school to guide us during this unprecedented summer. I could find only one large, well-designed study , published in 2016, that tested how much kids actually learn in voluntary summer school programs. Many were low achieving and behind grade level.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2020

My experience in this area began over three years ago, thanks to having the opportunity to coach teachers and administrators at Wells Elementary School. Throughout this school year, I have had the honor of working with all the K-12 schools in the Corinth School District in Mississippi.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Research shows that a flexible understanding of numbers is strongly correlated to later math achievement and the ability to solve problems presented in different ways. Unlike the recent surge of evidence on science-based reading instruction, research and emphasis on number sense isnt making its way into schools and classrooms in the same way.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 22, 2013

Warren developed this program for middle and high school students, but Judy convinced him that elementary school students could do it. With the help of teachers who stepped out of the box to work with the kids – Justine Kostenbader (Technology) and Mr. James Laieta (Language Arts) – the after school program was born.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test. Among Hispanic students, it’s 5 percent.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Its an approach some researchers think is too often missing from the classroom. Even among researchers, this can cause bulimic partisan commitments to one or the other, he adds. Its unfortunate, because research has shown that they are deeply connected, Clements says. But whats meant by play? I mean, its fun!

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

And while many of the studies showed gains for learners in some cases, the researchers concluded that flipped learning isn’t living up to its promise. The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2019

I, for one, don’t shy away from the fact that both research and evidence should be part of the conversation. When it comes to innovation, I see digital leadership and blended learning as two of many ideas, concepts, or strategies where there is research and evidence to support these innovative practices.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

In 2005, Yale researchers released a study that changed perceptions of school discipline in early grades. What research has shown is that nobody is immune to these things. But simply acknowledging bias isn’t enough to fix the problem, said Iruka, founding director of the Equity Research Action Coalition at UNC-Chapel Hill.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

For one, researchers have documented that Black principals are often better at attracting and retaining Black teachers. That can reduce teacher turnover at schools in Black communities, where many classrooms are staffed by young, inexperienced teachers who are constantly coming and going, which leads to low student achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

But education researchers who study the teaching profession say the threat is exaggerated. Attrition is definitely up, but it’s not a mass exodus of teachers,” said Dan Goldhaber, a labor economist at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), a nonprofit research organization. . And on Aug.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

In the latest failure of texting, researchers nudged more than 800,000 high school students to apply for federal financial aid. High school seniors were targeted, as were college dropouts who wanted to resume their studies. Denning and his researchers reviewed all the studies on nudging to try to answer these questions.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. More elementary school students may be better at decoding words, but they have to make sense of those words to do well on the NAEP. More than 450,000 fourth and eighth graders, selected to be representative of the U.S.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Elementary school teachers often face a significant challenge when it comes to teaching math: their own discomfort with numbers. As our early childhood reporter Ariel Gilreath recently reported, elementary school teachers often struggle with teaching this subject. Sign up for our early childhood newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2022

Early in elementary school, many children already believe that boys are more interested than girls in computer science and engineering. Interestingly, the research revealed that stereotypes about who is interested in STEM are stronger than stereotypes about STEM ability. Subscribe today! Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

I once attended an elementary school lesson in which the teacher read a book about a family beach house after Hurricane Sandy.) But Waite noted that educators can incorporate the topic into activities they already do, like art lessons or reading picture books. (I

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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. But the researcher says he has heard from hundreds of teachers who have reported improvements in test scores. How did that go? Can we get more students thinking?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

There’s research that shows that when you ask an adult a really difficult question, 85% of the time they’ll look off and try and think about it. For example, there are many elementary schools that still use timed tests as a way to increase math fluency for math facts. Their brain is literally distracted.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

Last month, my colleague Jill Barshay detailed potentially devastating cuts made to education research when the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) terminated 89 contracts at the Institute of Education Sciences, a research arm of the Department of Education. The interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

Our CivxNow research shows that students performed demonstrably better on NAEP civics when they had stand-alone eighth grade civics courses, when they studied the Constitution quite a bit or a lot and when civics was a primary responsibility for their teachers. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

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HistoryRewriter

JANUARY 17, 2024

Recent Environmental Studies scholarship has utilized archetypes in sustainability research to better understand corporate motives and evidence-based policymaking. Take a look at these elementary school lessons. Students will need to dive into the text and back up their claims with evidence.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

Many education researchers have warned that summer school doesn’t have a strong track record of helping students catch up academically. In the wake of the pandemic, school leaders spent billions more on it anyway. But reading achievement generally didn’t improve after attending summer school in 2022. “It’s

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

That replicates what most of the studies have found, said Scott Peters, senior research scientist at educational assessment nonprofit NWEA. This whole idea is a very naive belief that if we just kind of make it for everybody, everyone will learn, Brookings education researcher Tom Loveless told the Twin Cities Pioneer Press in 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report Kindergarten may be math’s most important year — it lays the groundwork for understanding the relationship between number and quantity and helps develop “number sense,” or how numbers relate to each other, experts and researchers say. play a guess-the-number game with different colored counters.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

These schools, which are publicly financed but privately run, still have shortcomings and a large subset of them fail students, particularly those with disabilities. We see that existing schools are getting better over time and that’s a hugely positive story.”

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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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