Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

I grew up in a historically underserved neighborhood in Houston, Texas, zoned to one of the lowest-performing elementary schools in the city. But due to a granted academic transfer, I ended up attending a top-performing public school just three miles away. These weren’t just different schools—they were different worlds.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

I grew up in a historically underserved neighborhood in Houston, Texas, zoned to one of the lowest-performing elementary schools in the city. But due to a granted academic transfer, I ended up attending a top-performing public school just three miles away. These weren’t just different schools—they were different worlds.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Moreover, issues like digital dividewhere not all students have equal access to technologyraise concerns about equity in education. Another concern is the varying levels of access to technology. This can result in some students falling behind due to circumstances beyond their control.

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GovTech

MAY 22, 2025

Hanna Kemble-Mick, an elementary school counselor in Topeka, Kan., creates chatbots that can give students in grades three through six immediate access to help, as well as expand their learning.

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

JULY 21, 2025

When I stepped into middle school for the first time, I had no curriculum and no guidance. I’d taught elementary school prior, but middle school felt like a whole new world. In The Hungry Teacher’s Hub , you get access to five full curriculum tracks, all aligned to grade-level standards. Thanks, I guess?

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. The transitional kindergarten program is typically offered within existing elementary schools, and all districts will be required to offer it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

They often attend under-funded schools and have less access to high-tech industries than their peers in urban schools. But now researchers won’t be able to follow up with kids to see if Take Flight altered their trajectory in high school. That matters because rural students are less likely to go into STEM fields.

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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 21, 2025

Today, most children go to elementary schools where corporal punishment is off the table. This has lead us to greatly limit, in the name of safety, our children's access to independent play, which in turn contributes greatly to increased mental health challenges, and specifically anxiety and depression. The rumors are enough.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from students extolling the influence children’s television shows had on their journeys to donning the cap and gown — one fresh grad writes that she plans to become an elementary school teacher thanks to PBS.

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Cal Matters

JULY 18, 2025

Alexis Lopez got involved with AmeriCorps in part because she knows what life is like for kids with no place to go after school. When she was younger, she and her brother would wait for hours outside their Napa elementary school for their mother’s shift at a local senior facility to end.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Today, all of the K–12 teachers in our district have access to iPads and a host of technology tools for learning. Two of the four elementary schools in our district have a higher percentage of economically disadvantaged students. Students in grades 6–9 are now 1:1 with iPads as part of our district-wide Project Connect program.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2025

But in Okanogan County, where 28 percent of children are living at or below the federal poverty level and 11 percent of elementary school children are unhoused, the need for affordable child care is dire. Access to pediatric care can also be limited for families lin rural areas. There are families that ask, Are you closing?

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2025

For example, they have both proved thorny tangles for families, who have difficulty assessing quality of programs or making meaningful choices because there’s little accurate, accessible data about student academic outcomes at different institutions. They also lack adequate regulations, according to some researchers.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It is the time of year where we analyze the data from the first two months of school, tweak instruction to meet student needs, and accelerate our efforts to help our students achieve as much growth as possible. Epic is currently a free resource for teachers and allows students access to around 20,000 books from 7-3.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2018

Every student should have access to technology, whether it be computers, smartphones, or tablets because almost everything we do requires some form of programming. There are several advantages of learning to code in elementary school. Why coding instruction should begin as early as possible.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2019

The opportunity had come up to serve as principal at Lake Park Elementary, a Title 1 school where just one quarter of students were proficient in literacy and the school was on the state’s list of the 300 lowest-performing schools—the need for an elementary school turnaround was clear.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Eleven states now require students to earn credit in computer science to graduate from high school. And while the increase in states requiring computer science education is encouraging, millions of students still lack the access necessary to learn, and most states have yet to make it a graduation requirement.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Discovery Museum is celebrating TSW’s 30 th anniversary and thanking schools that have hosted the program for 10+ years with special discounts and STEM prizes, as well as offering referral discounts for all schools. About Discovery Museum. acre campus abutting 180 acres of conservation land in Acton, MA, about 20 miles west of Boston.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2020

Macking one of the world’s largest providers of print books, ebooks, audiobooks, and video is offering access to its ebook library and distance learning content for free. If your school or district has closed due to COVID-19 or is shifting to temporary online or distance learning, MackinVIA has an effective solution.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

We were using Core5 in just six of our elementary schools prior to the pandemic,” said Dr. Mary Ann Reilly, assistant superintendent for Teaching and Learning. When COVID-19 hit and our schools transitioned to remote learning, we were able to quickly expand Core5 to all our elementary schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Riverside Insights ®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today announced that it won Best Accessibility Solution in the inaugural Excellence in Equity Awards program presented by the American Consortium for Equity in Education. ITASCA, Ill. About the Excellence in Equity Awards. About Riverside Insights.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2022

One of our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has organized the basics on how to teach Venn Diagrams to elementary-age students: What is a Venn Diagram. How to make it clear to elementary students (get crafty). How to Teach Venn Diagrams to Elementary School Students. How to make it digitally. How to use it to design games .

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2024

EPS Learning , the leading provider of PreK-12 literacy solutions, has been selected by the Iowa Department of Education through a competitive bid process to offer fully funded access to its AI-powered EPS Reading Assistant for all elementary school teachers and students through the summer of 2025.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2023

Need help finding an old elementary school teacher? Our Ask a Tech Teacher team has several ways to track down your favorite educators from years past: How to Find Old Elementary School Teachers Do you remember the teachers who shaped your educational journey?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Taylor School District, in the Michigan town of the same name, prides itself on its vision of being the innovative destination district where ALL succeed. Nearly 5,800 students attend classes at one of the district’s eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and high school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally. I like the challenge.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The grant will award one elementary school a site-wide license for unlimited use of QoreInsights’ award-winning platform, the Classroom Education Plan© (CEP), for use in the 2024-’25 school year. Most importantly, it adapts in real-time to address ever-changing teacher and student needs.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

Cabin John MD – Early learning leader, Learning Without Tears, today affirmed that equity and access are at the core of Phonics, Reading, and Me —its K–3 supplemental literacy program designed to help students learn the skills they need to become proficient readers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As a New York City public school founder and principal, I immediately began work to transition to virtual learning for 3- to 11-year-olds. At my elementary school in the Bronx, 86 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-priced school lunch. Use surveys to check on basic needs like access to food.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

In 2014, I got my first teaching job at a brand new high school in Detroit. The building had once been an elementary school with a fully functioning library. Having access to the skills needed to decode text and other media impacts our students now and forever. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Tuesday, June 7, 2022) —Iowa’s Southwest Valley Community School District (SVCSD) today announced it is broadening its partnership with Discovery Education to support science education in elementary school classrooms districtwide.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

Charlotte, NC — When elementary school teachers and students across Kentucky’s Johnson County School District (JCSD) return to their classrooms this Fall, they will find new resources in their high-tech toolkits thanks to an expanded partnership with Discovery Education. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

It also examines survey results and statewide policies to understand the extent to which principals have access to high-quality learning opportunities and the role of policies in increasing access. The report updates a prior 2007 study, Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World, led by Darling-Hammond.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Leslie Patterson said she knew nothing about dyslexia when she first became an elementary school teacher. Using Bookshare , which, with 480,000 books is the world’s largest digital library, Patterson is helping her students access books they can read, using their eyes and ears, by listening to and seeing highlighted text.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

With help from Rosetta Stone’s language learning solutions, Boone County Schools is providing students with access to programs that it hopes will enhance college and career readiness and global competence. The use of Rosetta Stone in the classroom is a new initiative being funded by a county-approved tax levy.

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