A Principal's Reflections

MAY 6, 2018

The other day I was conducting some learning walks with the administrative team at Wells Elementary School in the Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (CFISD). Throughout the school year, I have been assisting them with digital pedagogy as it relates to blended learning and the use of flex spaces.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Math teachers at high-poverty schools tended to have weaker professional preparation. They were far more likely to have entered the profession without first earning a traditional education degree at a college or university, instead completing an alternative certification program on the job, often without student teaching under supervision.

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Digital Promise

MAY 26, 2017

Unlike traditional elementary schools where students have one teacher that teaches them all five topics, students at Hook Elementary belong to pods where they rotate between three teachers who teach Reading and Social Studies, Writing, and Math and Science. Championing Technology.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While conducting some coaching visits at Wells Elementary School recently, I saw Ms. This framework, based on traditional elements of education yet encouraging movement from the acquisition of knowledge to the application of knowledge, charts learning along the two dimensions of higher standards and student performance.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 1, 2014

A recent story from an elementary school in Long Island, NY should make the dire predicament we are in very clear. The reason for eliminating the Kindergarten show is simple," reads a letter sent by the principal at Harley Avenue Primary School in Elwood, Suffolk County, to parents last week.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2019

Recently during a coaching visit at Sandshore Elementary School, a part of the Mt. Olive Township School District in NJ, I saw one of the best examples of innovation in practice. VGo gets the student back to the traditional schooling environment by providing a physical device that replicates the student while away from school.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 26, 2015

This year’s Model Schools Conference is going to be worlds apart from the traditional education conference. It can be easy to leave a conference with a tote bag full of materials and new jargon, but very little else.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Don’t Use Physical Education As Punishment contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for their errors that day?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

AP's analysis does not include data on schools managed by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education, which are not run by traditional districts. Less than 10 percent of Native American students attend BIE schools. 1, 2024, at Algodones Elementary School in Algodones, N.M. (AP AP Photo/Roberto E.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

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. Learning does not end when they graduate high school and neither does the impact of SES.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

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. That’s a big deal. It’s something that we hadn’t paid a lot of attention to traditionally. Carr cited the example of Louisiana as proof that it is possible to turn things around.

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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

JANUARY 1, 2025

Algebra teacher Rick Riccio demonstrates scientific notation during a class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. At Braham Area Schools and in other Minnesota districts, an algebra-to-calculus pipeline hasnt materialized. She got As in elementary school math but her grades fell once she hit algebra in eighth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Darryl Williford is assistant principal of the K-8 Michael Anderson School in the Avondale Elementary School District, where district leaders have encouraged a particularly data-driven approach to tracking student absenteeism, identifying who needs support and then focusing on relationships to address families’ needs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

Department of Education noted that students who participated in CTE programs graduated high school at a higher rate than their peers who did not participate and earned higher wages eight years after graduation. Each year, West-MEC allocates a significant amount of money to our two elementary school districts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Two studies on elementary schools published in June 2018 point to the importance giving teachers and students plenty of time to form relationships. Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. AJ the robot is the school mascot at A.J. Whittenberg.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Welcome to Community Lab School, a tiny public charter that is trying to transform the way middle schoolers are taught in the Albemarle School District — and eventually the nation. Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” Chad Ratliff, principal of Community Lab School.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. classrooms, from city college campuses to suburban elementary schools. There’s less rigorous research in high schools and lower grades.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education.

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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. With the continuous rush of a traditional school day, many times those opportunities fall by the wayside.

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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. At no point in recent memory has Melrose Public Schools been failing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While more than half of high schools nationwide—53 percent, to be precise—offer computer science, disparities in access and participation reveal themselves among traditionally underrepresented groups. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2023

Children from the Northwestern study who received more complaints from their teachers about their behavior were more likely to struggle academically in elementary school. We’re finding that kids make meaning of themselves way earlier than the traditional child development textbooks suggested,” Sabol said.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2021

Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? We then followed up those interviews with site visits, observations, on-site photographs and videos, and additional conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When I was in elementary school, my father, a master carpenter and math enthusiast, played a significant role in shaping my love and curiosity for math. I was fortunate to discover applied statistics in graduate school. Related: Become a lifelong learner. Related: Racial gaps in math have grown. Could detracking help?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

Elsewhere in elementary school, students used Arduino boards to create their own working keyboard out of cardboard and electrical tape. In middle school, students move on to text-based programming and can actually create their own apps – like a quiz game about the NBA, for example – in MIT App Inventor.

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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. Thomas spent over 20 years as a preschool paraeducator before enrolling in the Reach program. She now teaches a self-contained special ed class.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Of 1,000 evaluated traditional elementary teacher preparation programs across the country in 2020, 51 percent earned an A or B grade for their coverage of the key components of the science of reading — up from 35 percent just seven years earlier. After the Act’s passage, Mississippi aligned with the science of reading.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

We need to emphasize that Native American groups were (and are still) unique with distinct language, beliefs, traditions, and dress. When teaching about pre-Columbian or pre-contact cultures, be sure that students understand many of the tribes they are learning about have ancestors today who are still practicing their traditions.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2022

About one third of students of color said they did not have an adult at school with whom they could safely share their feelings. Many of our members have, given the workforce challenges, really tried to expand and increase… partnerships with schools.” Korematsu Discovery Academy and Esperanza Elementary School, within Oakland Unified.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. My classes included all varieties of instruments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first schools to implement what Public Impact calls an “Opportunity Culture,” did so during the 2013-14 school year, and Edgecombe County Public Schools is set to become the first district to bring the model systemwide. Next year, the remaining five schools will do the same.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. During one of the sessions, a seasoned teacher's candid remarks struck a chord. We tried that, and it hasn’t worked.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Teachers Ivonne Kendrick and Milagro Nuñez lead preschool students at Houston Elementary School in a song during a time of “música y movimiento.” In Ivonne Kendrick’s classroom at Houston Elementary School, 3-year-olds sit cross-legged in a circle, listening to their teacher sing about the fall season. WASHINGTON, D.C. —

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