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A Literacy-Based Strategy to Help Teachers Integrate Science Skills
Many elementary school teachers love to teach reading and writing, but are less comfortable with science and math. It’s not a hard and fast truth, of course, but learning to read is a big focus of the...
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Why Even Young Students Benefit From Connecting Globally
The excerpt below is from the book “Connected From the Start: Global Learning In the Primary Grades,” by Kathy Cassidy, published by Powerful Learning Press. By Kathy Cassidy Some teachers I talk to...
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Will New Standards Improve Elementary Science Education?
This story about science instruction was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for the Hechinger...
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Building Teamwork and Perseverance in Early Elementary Students with Breakouts
The first Breakout Angie Sutherland designed was in response to a teacher’s request for an activity to help her students improve their teamwork skills. The teacher was concerned that her students...
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Teaching 6-Year-Olds About Privilege and Power
Listen and subscribe to our podcast from your mobile device: via Apple Podcasts | via Stitcher | via NPROne | via Spotify | Transcript On a sunny day in April, I drove to Head-Royce School in the...
View ArticleWhy Deeply Diving Into Content Could Be the Key to Reading Comprehension
A lot of people are concerned that American kids aren’t learning to read. And rightly so. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) shows only about a third of fourth-graders are...
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How Elementary Teachers are Marking the End of School Amid Grief for Lost...
For LaNesha Tabb, the arc of the school year is a bit like a joke being played on kindergarten teachers: “You work all year long to get these kids awesome. By April and May, you’re like, ‘Yes!’ And...
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If this were a normal summer, Katy Phinney and her colleagues would be organizing their Pre-K classrooms for the new school year, choosing classroom themes and wall décor. Instead, Phinney is worried...
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In elementary classrooms, demand grows for play-based learning
OKLAHOMA CITY — Two third-graders sat on the floor of their classroom and lined up a row of dominoes along the edge of a low-lying table. They positioned themselves at each end of the row of...
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View the full episode transcript. Enunciated syllables, slow speech and spelling — these are the adjustments some students find themselves making as they introduce themselves to their teachers each...
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