Edthena

AUGUST 31, 2022

Positive psychology. Check out the conversation above, or continue reading for highlights including what positive psychology has to do with supporting teacher well-being. Check out the conversation above, or continue reading for highlights including what positive psychology has to do with supporting teacher well-being.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

Keep up with our free weekly newsletter on K-12 education. Still, developmental psychology research shows it is vital for teens to have private spaces online to explore their thoughts and seek support. Related: A lot goes on in classrooms from kindergarten to high school. It was, in essence, that students way of asking for help.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2024

Elliott said the center’s work will fall into four main categories: training K-12 teachers and education support staffers, training community college educators, working on policy issues that affect neurodivergent students and offering programs to set up neurodivergent students for success in college and the workplace.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

And he says K-12 teachers frequently use materials from a range of sources including curriculum and textbooks from their schools and districts, resources they’ve gotten from colleagues or found on websites, and materials they’ve purchased from marketplaces such as Teachers Pay Teachers.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. How does this play out in a K-12 setting? That can especially be the case for students who are racial minorities. That's a massive effect.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

How about resuming with fairness as well, realigning pre-K to ease racial disparities in early learning? New York City’s expansive pre-K network ­— universal and free ­— is not immune to organized inequality. Average pre-K quality overall, after climbing initially, has remained at a plateau in the past two years.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. We are trying to reach every high schooler in some way,” McElroy says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

That makes it even more important to fight for justice within the American K-12 educational system and ensure that our students learn the truth. This is not what some politicians would call “indoctrination”; instead, these efforts embrace the potential for educators to be true change agents and justice warriors. This is dire.

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Edthena

MARCH 14, 2023

Listening to teachers not only helps them feel appreciated and results in better classroom practices; it also ensures that K-12 leaders are taking care of faculty needs. Fostering a culture of psychological safety means teachers feel respected and empowered to teach and take risks in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. Frustrated. Overwhelmed. However, 7 in 10 of these same educators did not feel prepared to implement trauma-informed practices.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Dr. Callahan promotes autonomy by structuring his high school psychology course around the interests of his students. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Sheldon, K. Journal of personality and social psychology, 87(2), 246. Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being across life’s domains.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2022

In 2012, the panel issued a joint statement asserting that calculus should not be the “ultimate goal of the K-12 mathematics curriculum.” A handful of states — Ohio , Oregon and New Jersey among them — are piloting high school data science courses or adding them to their K-12 math standards.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea estimated she has worked at least 10 to 12 jobs since graduating from college six years ago. According to a 2006 report by the American Psychological Association, “mentored individuals often earn higher performance evaluations, higher salaries, and faster career progress than non-mentored individuals.”

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

Learning in the 21st Century: How the American Public, Parents, and Teachers View K-12 Teaching and Learning in the Pandemic. Contemporary Educational Psychology , 54, 125-138. Washington, DC: National Commission on Social, Emotional, and Academic Development, The Aspen Institute. Digital Promise. Giovanelli, A., Lozada, F.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2024

In recent years, our schools have become increasingly aware of the unique needs of military children, whose parents deploy and sometimes spend months and years away from home, moving six to nine times on average in their K-12 education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

As a professor of psychology at Cornell University, Sternberg has long studied standardized tests, and concluded they don’t provide much useful information on whether students are learning to think critically and creatively, enabling them to be successful in college, careers and life in general. . Subscribe today! Really frustrated.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2019

The Missing Piece , a 2013 nationally representative survey of pre-K to grade 12 teachers, revealed that 95 percent believed SEL skills were teachable. So how do teachers view the benefits of social-emotional learning, as well as the role and value of SEL in school?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2023

Yet, nationwide, there was just one school psychologist for every 1,127 K-12 students in 2020-21, a ratio well below the 500 students to one psychologist recommended by the National Association of School Psychologists. The shortages of school social workers and counselors are just as bad.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2019

Yet, for too long, we have unfairly blamed K-12 counselors for persistent gaps in enrollment across income and race, questioning their expectations and support for students’ plans. The post OPINION: Shocked by the college admissions scandal? School counselors aren’t appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But these days, about 5 to 6 percent of all K-12 students are homeschooled, which means that model has received very little attention compared to charter schools, considering that about 7 percent of students attend those, she adds. Microschooling was an experiment whose insights she meant to transpose into public schools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

If you’re a special education teacher with a caseload of 12 students and the students are going into general education classrooms, the teacher has to be Superman or Superwoman to be in 12 different places at once. According to the NEA, 57 percent of support staff workers in K-12 schools have an associate’s degree or higher.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Research in psychology suggests that, though some programs demonstrate promise in changing individuals’ unconscious cognition, the impacts of these programs are small, do not necessarily persist over time and seldomly lead to shifts in behaviors.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

The district, with 126 schools (including two virtual academies) and nearly 70,000 K-12 students, created an ambitious districtwide tutoring program using a combination of graduate, undergraduate and high school students to serve as math tutors. Guilford sent its first batch of tutors to middle schools in November 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

So college has become more like the K-12 experience, where we are teaching them how to be adults in the world.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. Those are not necessarily skills that they’re learning in K-12 education.”. That should not shock anyone.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Another 12 students came within a few points of passing. Over the past five years, the foundation has begun to address K-12 classrooms, bringing together university researchers, education consultants and hundreds of teachers like Gallin. The small tweaks paid off. In 2016, a mere 37 percent of the school’s test-takers passed.

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Teaching K-12 Civics Psychology 110

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

During my K-12 schooling experience, the story I learned about what it meant to be a Black person taught me two things: that I was less than human, a victim of America’s anti-Black violence, and in order to be seen as human, I had to be successful.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The effects of such practices can reverberate throughout a student’s life, according to the American Psychological Association, leading to worse mental health and lower grades. “We Black students made up only 7 percent of students in the district and 12 percent of students in top-referring teachers’ classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. But what is it, exactly?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2020

That would be easier in Idaho than in many other states, since it has a single board of education overseeing K-12 schools as well as colleges and universities, meaning it could track its students through the entire system. Idaho also requires all of its students to take the SAT or ACT to graduate from high school.

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High School K-12 Psychology Research 133

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Ava had always felt comfortable at the small, private K-8 school she attended just north of Boston. But eventually she agreed to transition back to school while spending one period a day in the program’s dedicated classroom, where she received emotional and psychological support and assistance catching up on the schoolwork she’d missed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

The study, “ Scientific sensemaking supports science content learning across disciplines and instructional contexts ,” was published in October 2019 in the journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology. Schunn, published October 2019 in the journal of Contemporary Educational Psychology.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2020

Play facilitates cognitive development, said James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies the neuroscience of human connection. James Coan, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia. For younger kids, in particular, missing out on play with peers could take a toll.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

I felt the psychological toll of impostor syndrome. Our K-12 and higher-education systems are disconnected from and unaccountable to each other. In my mind, if I couldn’t afford the ride, I would not be able to afford the tuition and the books and food. When I enrolled in college, I questioned if I deserved to be there.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Families who were not able to, either because their parents were essential workers or children whose parents are significantly low-income or not educated, they’re going to be really far behind.”. What Miller has observed in the first few weeks of the school year is likely taking place in classrooms nationwide, experts say.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

I ask kindergarten teachers in impoverished neighborhoods how many of their children have had real, developmental pre-K for a couple of years beforehand (the kind that wealthy or middle class kids get). Could we take the billions of dollars that are going to testing companies and put it into rich, developmental pre-K? Fred Rogers (Mr.

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Education K-12 Anthropology Advocacy 91

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

It’s unlikely that a student would suddenly know a lot more the next day and that’s a sign that the first day’s guessing was more psychological than academic. The field of psychology has developed several theories. Why boys are more prone to rapid guessing than girls is a matter of conjecture.

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