A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

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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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

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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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Our youngest learners will need some help and guidance, especially if their elementary schools have not been 1:1 or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD). Think about what tools your community regularly uses, including students, and blend with traditional means. Don’t put the responsibility on parents for students grades five and above.

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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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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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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

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

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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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

To make matters worse many states, districts, and schools made knee-jerk reactions when the budget ax came down a few years and cut traditional hands-on courses such as wood shop, agriculture, metal shop, and cooking. In many cases elementary schools have even taken fun out of school for kids by cutting recess.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2017

ExCEED Network Schools Charter Management Organization, a new group led by principals and Orleans Parish school district staff, has withdrawn its applications to convert New Orleans’ last five traditional schools to charters. where the elected school board doesn’t directly run any public schools.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2024

tied to operations including addition and subtraction are a staple in elementary school classrooms across the country. We’ve all tried these traditional approaches that weren’t working,” she said. Too many teachers, particularly in the early grades, rely on key words to introduce math problems.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Jacobs said he decided in elementary school, after seeing the passion that his mother — another teacher — had for her students. Each story — each person — is unique.

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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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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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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

MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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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 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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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

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

AUGUST 19, 2024

Elementary school students in grades two to six were making slow progress, and remained behind. It’s also harder to keep up with the traditional pace of instruction when so many students are behind. Curriculum Associates pointed to two unexpected bright spots in its assessment results. One is phonics.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. It was the pits,” she said and charter school advocates were “pissed.”

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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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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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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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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In fact, the authors made the surprising conclusion that many instances of flipped learning involve more time spent on passive learning than the traditional lecture model, because some professors both assign short video lectures and spend some time in class lecturing to prepare for class activities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Its tutors are in India, but many of its clients are American families with elementary school children. Demszky is working on developing a talk meter app that can be used in traditional classrooms to encourage more student participation. Source: Table 4 of Demszky et. Does Feedback on Talk Time Increase Student Engagement?

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

Schools have begun to recognize the value of esports, with more than 8,600 US high schools having started video-gaming teams since 2018. Students can start as early as upper elementary school with programs like Ozaria , a narrative adventure game that sets a foundation of core computer science (CS) concepts.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Yet, despite the gains I made with my students, despite research that shows the substantial positive impact of teachers of color on all students, despite the fact that having just one Black teacher in elementary school makes a Black child 13 percent more likely to go to college , my career nearly ended shortly after it began.

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