Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. Now, a new report suggests that teacher preparation programs underemphasize math instruction at the elementary school level. That has consequences.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2019

Demographics: Fairfield County Schools is a small, rural, high-poverty school district in South Carolina. The district is composed of five elementary schools and four secondary schools, serving more than 2,600 students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

Voge has also watched students who began her class too shy to ask questions blossom into confident, capable, autonomous learners who can ask for help or advocate for themselves. This 26-year veteran educator has created a culture of student-centered, independent learning in her classroom. What’s her “secret sauce?”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

González and Framingham State University, where she is interim director of Whittemore Library, are part of a consortium in Massachusetts looking to answer different questions. culturally relevant textbooks? Beyond Affordability To explain the emphasis on cultural relevance, González calls on her memories of growing up in New York City.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

On Thursday, the organization announced the launch of #ISeeMe, a campaign aimed at boosting the amount of culturally responsive materials in U.S. Wondwossen is a former elementary school ESL teacher, and when she was in the classroom, she used to tell her students they were “language superheroes.” “The classrooms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

Considering the ongoing traumatic upheaval on school communities in recent years, and the unrelenting pressure on educators to work under difficult, uncertain and constantly vacillating circumstances, it is not a matter of if educators will experience the corrosive effects of prolonged and extreme stress, but rather when.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

But the book’s great value, and the pleasure in reading it, is in its careful, loving description of the daily life of an urban charter school. And it’s the small stuff of classrooms that raise the biggest questions: what we want schools to accomplish, and for which kids. But of course, it isn’t a private school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Our goal is to shift pedagogy toward a “culture of thinking” that supports more student agency and more effective use of the learning space itself. Our furniture partner basically didn’t even question it; they told us it was completely possible.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The consequence, in many schools, is that teachers have begun to use technology but have forced it into all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons. At Grand Oak Elementary School in Huntersville, NC we have worked hard to create an environment where we are supporting our staff through this transition.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

My students talk more than they used to in class because they know I will ask the same driving question about every topic throughout the unit. A culture of continuous learning Wendy W. And as you ask yourself all these questions, remember to breathe. They know what to expect, and start thinking, “How does this all connect?”

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Department of Education looked at video-based coaching in about 100 elementary schools. These groups are part of our culture of coaching, which means that everyone, everywhere in our district, from top to bottom, receives coaching. Recent research highlights the value of video: A study conducted through the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. Tick tick tick.my I thought so. Probably not.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

Melissa Schlinger, the Vice President of Practice and Programs at CASEL , tells EdSurge that teachers holding themselves accountable, as Alston does in her classroom, is vital for building a positive, SEL-friendly school culture. She points to a school in Chicago she loves visiting.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Incorporate pop culture, social media, sports and extracurriculars into lessons. Previous literature showcases the importance of this practice—a cross-cultural qualitative study found that the more time teachers spent introducing new content, the more academically engaged students were in the classroom. 3: Clear expectations.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

They also answer the question, “How can something act like a mirror and a window at the same time?”. With worldwide distribution to over 150 countries, Vernier data loggers are used by educators and students from elementary school to university. OpenSciEd Unit 6.1 features a total of eight lessons.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Food Chemistry Experiments , which is available in both electronic and print versions,includes 14 ready-to-use experiments utilizing Vernier technology such as the Go Direct ® SpectroVis ® Plus Spectrophotometer, Go Direct Temperature Probe, and Go Direct CO 2 Gas Sensor to help students investigate complex questions involving food.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. There was a shift in culture and in school. What motivates them? What worries them?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. As she struggles to answer the question, two other students begin to whisper questions in her ear. As she struggles to answer the question, two other students begin to whisper questions in her ear.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

Personalized Learning Preparatory at Sam Houston Elementary School in Dallas reopened its school building to PreK-5 students with simultaneous learning in the fall after months of remote learning. “I You have to build the culture first. Don’t put them in a room to talk about a multiple choice question.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2024

It was 2022 and I had recently been hired as the principal of an all-girls elementary school in New York, and it was my first visit to the school to meet students, staff and families. To be clear, I’m not suggesting that every student should question their gender. I was caught off guard.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Here are some back-to-school tips, advice, and valuable insights from educators, stakeholders, and industry experts. Our country is home to a wide range of diverse and vibrant cultures, and it’s important that we acknowledge and value the languages these students already bring with them when they enter U.S. –Dr.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States. While my school’s geographic location might be unique, its student demographics are not.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2016

For two Chicago-area schools, however, the solution came down to asking students: How do you want to learn? A few years ago, Haney, the principal of Joseph Lovett Elementary School, noticed a school culture of stagnation. “We knew we had to do something to change the culture. .

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

I need to create programs for students that will help educate them in their own culture and their own way. Ethnicity, diversity–all students need to learn how each culture is different. Context matters, and we have to ask the questions to understand the context for each and every student. Without question.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2020

The essential ingredients for a data-driven culture have little to do with data itself, experts say. The conversations are completely different,” says Mary Mann, principal of SUSD’s Cedarcreek Elementary School. SUSD’s goal is to answer four questions: What do we want students to learn? How do we know if they’re learning?

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Culture Syllabus Schools Elementary School 86

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

I need to create programs for students that will help educate them in their own culture and their own way. Ethnicity, diversity–all students need to learn how each culture is different. Context matters, and we have to ask the questions to understand the context for each and every student. Without question.

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Internet Accessibility Local Government Activities 300

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

In a new series called Future Teachers, we try to answer that question. First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

School leaders asked: Which apps should we download? Less frequently asked were some more fundamental questions: How might we preserve a sense of belonging and connectedness between students? As an elementary school teacher, my highest priorities were always the following: Cultivating agency, autonomy and independence in my students.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. This isn’t unusual: Students often get weird concepts of math, developing logical-seeming routes for answering questions, Barclay says.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

In a four-week unit on Albert Camus’ “The Stranger,” his senior year English students helped design guiding questions and themes, decided on daily and weekly assignments, determined how assessment and evaluation would be conducted, led each day’s discussion, and held each other accountable to mutually agreed-upon expectations.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2020

The essential ingredients for a data-driven culture have little to do with data itself, experts say. The conversations are completely different,” says Mary Mann, principal of SUSD’s Cedarcreek Elementary School. SUSD’s goal is to answer four questions: What do we want students to learn? How do we know if they’re learning?

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Culture Syllabus Schools Elementary School 78

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 30, 2020

The essential ingredients for a data-driven culture have little to do with data itself, experts say. The conversations are completely different,” says Mary Mann, principal of SUSD’s Cedarcreek Elementary School. SUSD’s goal is to answer four questions: What do we want students to learn? How do we know if they’re learning?

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Culture Syllabus Schools Elementary School 78

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

Because I did well in school, nobody was ever concerned. However, from the time I was in elementary school, it was difficult to complete assessments on time, and it always took me unreasonably long to finish homework in the evening. When I was in grad school, I had a teacher who carried a stack of name cards around the room.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

For the past two and a half years, we’ve been exploring this question at Michigan State University. It is the key to reaching all students—not just the few that seem “good” at computing or ones at schools that have a CS-trained teacher. Using the subway map, teachers came up with a sequence of instructions (a.k.a.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson. Mark Hess has served in a variety of roles since he was hired in 1993 by Walled Lake Consolidated School District in Walled Lake, Michigan. Students can receive care in school or at home in minutes to days versus the national average of months.

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Education Exams Motivation Elementary School 262

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

Yet I can easily tell you the name of every one of my teachers dating back to elementary school. For our nearly 200 kindergarten to fourth-graders, we believe developing a positive school culture is equally—if not more—important to the impact we have on our students’ academic, social, and emotional growth.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2016

When students are beginning a Genius Hour project, they must first choose a researchable question; one where the answer will not result in a quick online search. Students then conduct research on their topic and question. Next, students must create something using their research that helps answer their original question.

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