EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education. When making the switch to a modern learning environment, it can be easy for K–12 schools to get distracted by the impressive array of new education technology and lose sight of the reason to adopt these tools in the first place: to improve student outcomes.

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JULY 21, 2021

In the state’s 600 elementary schools, there were fewer than 200 Black men teaching. “So So a vast majority of the elementary schools in South Carolina did not have a single Black male teacher,” Jones says. An additional 12 percent were school administrators.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

While most educators in our focus groups expressed similar ideas to Flamm, they did not offer one singular definition of making. Elementary school educators were more likely than secondary school educators to allow students relatively unstructured time to experiment with physical materials, often in the form of manipulatives.

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Coaching Participation Failure Beliefs 182

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

This is particularly true for students of poverty, who arrive at and often leave elementary school years below grade level. to 2 years of academic progress for each school year. While a year of growth per school year is good, it is not going to work for children who enter school two or three years behind grade level.

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Cognitive Development Learning Attention Students 156

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

It was clear there were many elements of our model that were working and should remain unchanged—specifically our core values of grit, relationships, ownership and wonder, and our belief that all kids are capable of extraordinary things. Jon Hanover is the founder and executive director of Roots Elementary School.

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Elementary School Elementary School Participation Beliefs 159

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APRIL 19, 2018

That's a tempting enough prompt for teachers but it was actually the question that 3rd grade students at Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, NY, recently got to answer. If you could buy anything to make your classroom a better place, what would it be? And small wonder why.

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Students Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School 129

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JULY 7, 2023

Though there are a number of strong language programs across the country, a 2016 report published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences showed evidence of declines in foreign language course offerings in elementary schools and middle schools over the years. Here’s some good news.

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APRIL 30, 2019

Marcus told me that he’d been viciously bullied during elementary school, peaking in middle school. It also taps into the belief structure and understanding of why someone wants to do something and how it aligns with their values and their unique talents, strengths and things they care about.

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Motivation Schools Students Middle School 167

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JULY 27, 2019

My first year of teaching began in the stifling basement classroom of a public elementary school in a part of Newark, N.J., That fall, I found myself watching a young woman, we’ll call Omayra, through the glass doors of the school. I promised myself that my teaching would make a difference in the lives of my 38 children.

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Culture Achievement Beliefs Testing 167

eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2016

Through this collaboration, all K-12 classrooms districtwide will have access to engaging digital content through Discovery Education Streaming Plus, an award-winning, comprehensive digital service supplementing instruction across all K-12 curricular areas.

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JANUARY 18, 2023

In it, he discussed why he advocated for sad scenes to be included in his picture book " Love ", which I’d brought with me to school that day. So we gathered together to read the book the same way they did in elementary school, sitting next to each other on the floor, craning their necks to see the pictures.

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History Beliefs Students Elementary School 148

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

It’s a well-worn idiom, which shapes the belief systems of too many schools and districts across the country. But as a guiding philosophy it can be paralyzing, particularly for a school district that’s doing well. We’ve all heard the old cliche, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” Several of our students were named U.S.

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JUNE 24, 2016

Couros provides readers with a passionate and strong call for change, and at the same time he includes practical tips, strategies, and discussion questions we can leverage in our educational settings. 3 Blogs I’m Reading. A handful of years ago this conference entered my radar, and I’ve been wanting to experience it ever since.

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MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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Education Middle School Middle School Culture 161

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JULY 11, 2016

They had limited impact on professional learning, says Epps, principal of the Mancos Early Learning Center and Elementary School. In others, it’s helped leaders understand what technology is actually being used, and where teachers need the most support in using it well. Every year, this will be a bigger and bigger challenge.”

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Beliefs Coaching Elementary School Elementary School 108

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APRIL 24, 2023

I do remember being very young and helping one of my aunts, like every year, set up her classroom before school started. My mom didn't finish her education degree until I was in elementary school, but then she became a [high school English teacher]. I spent a lot of time with her in her classroom growing up.

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Teachers English History High School 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Many years before formally learning about how gears work, playing with gears “did more mathematical development than anything I was taught in elementary school,” he wrote, noting that he later created mental gear-driven multiplication tables and equations with variables. While a visionary, he is also very much a realist.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Ultimately, from Upchurch and the technology team to leadership districtwide, AISD knows how important technology is in today’s learning environment and wants every student to have the same opportunity to be successful. Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation.

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JUNE 18, 2018

Teach the Brain's Biology We rightly think of the brain as the center of knowledge, and yet we often don’t spend enough time teaching students about how the brain works—especially in the elementary and middle grades. This belief makes it difficult to instill the idea that SEL concepts can be taught.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We’ve Come A Long Way To be sure, history education has undergone a transformation over the last few decades. Whereas once they had to wait until honors high school courses, students of all levels are now introduced to primary sources in elementary school.

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MARCH 24, 2021

When prioritizing testing, we recommend that schools prioritize teachers and staff first, then high school and middle school students and then elementary school [students.]” That could be a random sample of teachers and students. Make your decisions based on those facts.

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Schools Testing Beliefs Disabilities 135

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2025

As the principal of a mid-sized urban elementary school, I work hand-in-hand with my teachers to surface and implement the strategies and tactics we believe will benefit the diverse learners in our school. Among the most effective strategies my team and I have implemented is blended learning.

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MAY 27, 2017

For the past six and half years, she has led DreamBox Learning , growing the company from a startup into one of the leading providers of online math tools for elementary school children. Her steady but firm discipline of the company is a case study in how to grow an organization, especially in a complex industry such as education.

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Beliefs Intelligence Math Questions 88

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MAY 13, 2025

Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning.

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Coaching Math Achievement Grades 113

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Background and Experience Prior to being appointed as Connecticut’s education commissioner in August 2019, Cardona spent two decades at Meriden Public Schools—the same school system he attended himself—first as an elementary school teacher, then for 10 years as principal and more recently in district leadership.

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