Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

He is former principal of Marjorie Veeh Elementary School and Pioneer Middle School in California. In 2004, Marjorie Veeh, an elementary school with a large population of youth at risk, won the California Distinguished School and National Title I Achieving School awards.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2022

Studies show that mathematical reasoning ability is crucial in early education, and when children understand math before entering elementary school, they have higher achievement on both reading and math tests later in their school years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2024

They already visit web-based edutainment sites as early as preschool, use ‘Instagram’ and multi-player XBox games in elementary school, and have made text messaging and Facebook their communication of choice by Middle School. Understand ‘Digital Citizenship’ Current best practices say don’t hide students from the digital world.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The most high-achieving students would be funneled there, too, where they could do worksheets at their own pace and free up teachers to focus on everyone else. Her two children, however, were students at one of the targeted schools, Pugh Elementary in the city’s northeastern Denver Harbor neighborhood. Her tenure wouldn’t last long.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. In a particularly jarring study by Sian Beilock, girls in first and second grade classrooms with female teachers high in math anxiety had lower achievement in math and held more stereotyped beliefs about girls' abilities.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. Here, the former elementary classroom teacher and math teacher advisor shares her thoughts on personalizing learning for individuals’ needs—and her school’s preferred platform for doing just that.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Education Galaxy supports math, reading, language arts, and science at the elementary level (K-6). This bilingual (English and Spanish) program motivates and rewards students to achieve full standards mastery and prepare for their state tests without distracting from the learning process. What makes Education Galaxy so Special?

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User Generated Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

I use the following activities to introduce elementary students to the design thinking process. Introducing the general design process to elementary student occurs through showing the following video about the engineering process: The Task: Build the Highest Tower. What Does ‘Design Thinking’ Look Like in School? ). from the d-school).

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2025

This school year is unique as we just opened a new building with over 450 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, consolidating three different elementary and middle campuses from different neighborhoods across New York. While there are always challenges in leadership, opening a new facility brings its own set of twists and turns.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

Minecraft Education was a critical tool for achieving our goals of building essential skills and integrating STEM across all disciplines at Broward Schools. Schools offer Computer Science 1 and 2 at the elementary level with the goal of integrating computer science into core content using tools like Scratch, Code.org and Minecraft.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2023

Typically, we tend to associate SEL programs with elementary-aged students. According to a nationally representative RAND report published in 2020, elementary teachers reported higher levels of school support for SEL than secondary teachers did. The pressures put on young people to achieve, perform and produce, are greater than ever.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

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. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there. Because that's a calling.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

We’re not preparing teachers well in math, especially at the elementary level, says Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California, whose research focuses on teacher education. She’s found that teachers have high levels of math anxiety. And the curriculum isn’t always good.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Institutions cannot achieve the goal without incorporating technology-based learning into the programs themselves.”. Adopting successful models of technology integration such as those utilized at George Mason University’s Elementary Education Program is a start. And here lies the problem.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 19, 2022

They cite homework’s impact on the achievement gap between students of differing socioeconomic backgrounds. This worries Pope, because engagement with learning is closely tied to academic achievement and mental wellbeing. It also gives parents a chance to be involved in their child’s education. It’s disheartening,” she says.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

Kaufman and Holmes published a report in February that suggests large and low-poverty middle schools tend to use achievement-based tracking more for math placements than their high-poverty counterparts. Students are often put on pathways and they don't realize that they have any choice in the matter, Kaufman says. That can work out.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Like, if someone's talking to me and I'm reading a book, I wouldn't hear them,” says Aylynn, an eighth grader in Pendergast Elementary District in Phoenix, Arizona. It has] really helped us in closing that achievement gap.” “You go into your own world for a moment. It makes me empathize with other people.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. When I was deemed a “winner” for good behavior or academic achievement, I’d hear my nana’s cheer. Our antics produced mixed results.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

However, these achievements, while significant, never seem to quiet the internal voice that insists on pushing for the next big thing. Today, I teach at an elementary school where more than 65 percent of the students identify as Hispanic / Latino. Teaching them is an immense privilege, one that I do not take lightly.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past. But many kids — and an increasing number over the last four years — lack access to the resources and experiences that introduce those skills to them before they start elementary school.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This is an extraordinary achievement considering the program only accepts children who need behavioral, cognitive, social-emotional and mental health support. Moreover, children who are expelled in preschool or early elementary are 10 times more likely to be incarcerated. children ages 3-5 were not fully “healthy and ready to learn.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Math Books for Elementary Grades. Lesson plans about math and tech: How to Achieve Common Core with Tech: the Math Strand. How to Interest the Next Generation of Great Minds to Work in STEM Fields. 32 Websites to Support Math Automaticity in K-5. 3 Websites to Gamify Your Math Class. Website Review: ProdigyGame.com.

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STEM Everyday Podcast

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Omar Cortez is a Robotics and Technology Teacher for elementary and middle school students in Dallas, TX. Using his expertise in robotics, coding, and drone technology, Omar has been successful in mentoring competitive robotics teams to state and global achievements, while driving engagement through district-wide STEM programs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Now, we know that academic achievement is much more complicated. Q Wunder provides a complete elementary school SEL curriculum with 15 social-emotional learning topics rolled out in 48 CASEL-aligned lesson plans, all powered with engaging music, videos, games, and activities.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

It is particularly popular in elementary schools, often filled with fun and educational activities centered around the number 100. Literacy Read Rosemary Well’s acclaimed book, Emily’s First 100 Days of School about the daily achievements of grade schoolers for their first 100 days.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

The Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) finds that “technology – when implemented properly – can produce significant gains in student achievement and bo. Instead…achievement occurs by pairing technology with [trained] classroom teachers who provide real-time support and encouragement to students.”.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 6, 2024

Today, I interviewed Barb Flowers, an elementary school principal and host of the Teacher Burnout Podcast and the Less Stressed Principal Podcast. Subscribe to the Show This week's guest Barb Flowers, an elementary school principal and seasoned educator life coach, brings 14 years of invaluable experience in education. Oh my goodness.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

To achieve this, Carrozza's district is streamlining platforms, tools and curriculum choices to develop a unified digital learning ecosystem. By cultivating a shared vision, coordinating efforts and diligently monitoring outcomes, educational leaders can effectively address obstacles and achieve desired results.

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Newton STEM

MAY 21, 2023

Garden City, a team of elementary school students from Newton placed third in the Winchester Math Competition (WinMaC) on May 14. This year about 80 elementary students participated, competing for individual and team awards. WinMaC is an annual math competition organized by high-school students for students in Grades 4-5.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

Each level challenges the player to type the code necessary to advance their hero and achieve specific gaming goals.” 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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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2022

The panelists were: Aisha Douglas, an academic dean at Achievement First Brooklyn High School, where she focuses on teacher development and curriculum adaptation in the humanities. Deitra Colquitt, co-principal at Pershing Elementary School in St.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

Reviewing classroom video, or what John Hattie calls “micro-teaching,” is one of the strongest factors related to student achievement in his list of 250+ items. Facing a teacher shortage, Littleton Elementary School District had to hire many new teachers from outside of Arizona.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 16, 2022

For example, Setting goals and working towards achieving them and approaching challenges positively, in an optimistic way are two of them. Setting goals and working towards achieving them and approaching challenges positively, in an optimistic way are two of them. In this case, as is often the case, words matter.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

Vivi Customer Stories : See how school districts are using Vivi to achieve their goals. Since we launched Vivi this fall, our elementary principal has started making morning announcements using its video streaming feature across the whole school, sometimes reading books.

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JUNE 23, 2016

Nowhere does this summation mention activities or process because any activity or process is fine as long as it achieves the goals. These include (rephrased from Common Core Writing Standards): dig deeply into subjects of interest to achieve better understanding and to build knowledge. Elementary-High School. Twitter Novel.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Student-centered learning leads to quantitative and qualitative benefits , such as increased student engagement in learning and other school activities, higher academic achievement gains and stronger relationships between students and teachers. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Regina Meeks , an elementary math and ELA teacher in North Carolina.

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