Accessibility, Elementary School and Grades

Digital learning is different

eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

They must learn how to interpret and use the incredible variety of resources that accompany these tools–resources that provide perspectives that students would never have access to when using physical resources. Students need to have access to some high-quality digital resources starting in elementary school.

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28+ Exciting Experiments for Kids in Elementary School

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Fun Experiments for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Stir up some wiggles and wide-eyed wonder through inquiry-based learning where elementary students will marvel their way to big ideas and critical thinking. Simple 2nd and 3rd Grade Science Experiments Grab your goggles; it’s time to explore.

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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

Evaluate Vendors With 17 percent of its 12,700 students classified as English language learners as well as a significant refugee population, Jenks Public Schools in Oklahoma used the CITES framework to develop a robust vendor-evaluation process. “We It has to be AA rated or we don’t buy it.”

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. 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.

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How One School Counselor Uses AI to Support More Students

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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What to do when Admin Says, “Just Use the Standards”

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. And your grade-level standards don’t show you the before steps either. Here’s an example from sixth grade ( PS. Thanks, I guess?

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Can the Most Populous State Pull Off Universal Pre-K?

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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This is how we used technology to improve our school’s reading scores

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

According to one of our Grade 6 teachers, Shannon Diven, her students could read but could not pull out details from the text to expand answers, explain answers, or to develop a piece of writing around the text (basically, reading comprehension). But achieving that goal isn’t easy. The instructor can leave comments for students (i.e.,

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5 edtech resources that support literacy in elementary school

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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Clark County School District Gives Educators in 241 Elementary Schools Access to Lexia’s LETRS Professional Learning

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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Computer science education sees more investment, but access gaps linger

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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Discovery Museum Celebrates 30 Years of Delivering Hands-On Science in Elementary School Classrooms

eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992. About Discovery Museum.

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Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Our students are spread across 31 elementary schools, two pre-K schools, and seven secondary schools. Fortunately, the district earned a grant that allowed us to offer computer science at every grade level, starting as early as pre-K. We chose the curriculum from Ellipsis Education for a few key reasons.

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Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School Selects Discovery Education’s Mystery Science to Support Deeper Student Engagement in the 2022-2023 School Year

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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Can you take algebra in eighth grade? In many cases, the answer is no

eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Meanwhile, just 20% of principals said their school offered the class in eighth grade and that any student could take it. According to a new nationally representative survey released Tuesday, 65% of U.S.

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Virginia’s Portsmouth Public Schools Expands Partnership with Discovery Education to Bring Students in Grades 7-12 State-of-the-Art Digital Resources

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

  CHARLOTTE, NC — Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) today announced it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education supporting the district’s five-year strategic plan, Expedition to 2025: Purpose. The school system has 13,000 students enrolled throughout the city and approximately 2,100 staff members working each day.

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In this district, 1:1 device access became a pandemic reality

eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Nearly 5,800 students attend classes at one of the district’s eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and high school. When the district’s schools were forced to transition to online learning in March 2020, access to devices was paramount.

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3 reasons elementary schools should adopt an LMS—and where to begin

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2018

Through my work with educators across the country, I know the number of elementary school districts and administrators turning to LMS adoption is increasing for all grades—preparing students at a young age to use the technology they will need to master for high school, college, and beyond.

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Computer Science is Growing in K-12 Schools, But Access Doesn’t Equal Participation

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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Equity and Access at the Core of Learning Without Tears’ Breakthrough Literacy Program, Phonics, Reading, and Me™

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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Digital e-Learning program allows innovative district to open the world to students

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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Mathletics Announces US Winners of 2023 ‘World Math Day’

eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2023

According to the latest report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), fourth- and eighth-grade students’ math scores declined in both grades in most states—marking the largest score decline since the initial assessments in 1990. This year’s World Math Day winners in the United States by grade are: Austin H.,

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Data really is the secret sauce in the K-12 classroom

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We had added additional phonemic awareness instruction into kindergarten and first grade classrooms, but we knew we still needed to make improvements to our district literacy program to better support our students. Needless to say, our access to reliable data improved significantly once we had a unified literacy program in place.

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Students Step up to Lead Tech Implementation at Their Elementary School

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC. This allowed us to offer a week of access to the tech lab to two classes at a time.

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5 strategies for independent learning

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

Fifth-grade teacher Kim Voge has had students literally beg her to give them more writing assignments. Voge, who teaches at Van Buren Elementary School in California’s Placentia-Yorba Linda Unified School District, returned to the classroom last fall after serving as a digital learning instructional coach for seven-plus years.

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3 reasons why the reading gap is still alarmingly wide

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

students are not reading at grade level, according to new research. Students who do not read at grade level by 4th grade are four times more likely to drop out of high school. Many children lack access to books, especially high-quality books. Other research shows that more than 8,000 elementary schools in the U.S.

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Why we love our reading software

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

When using Foundations in Learning’s reading program Access Code , my language arts resource students made remarkable growth in their ability to tackle longer, multi-syllabic words, and this translated to better fluency and greater confidence. “I Michael Kimberlin, third- grade teacher, Pease Elementary School, Austin, Texas.

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How we use robots and art to make meeting computer science standards fun

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Our group came from all over the state, representing different grades and subjects, and our mission was to create an online guide to help teachers break apart each standard, then provide a video tutorial or example of a lesson to address the standard, which we wrote as a team.

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WeVideo Releases WeVideo Classroom for Educational Multimedia Creation

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

With this in mind, we developed WeVideo Classroom to make multimedia creation accessible to all students, while also better serving the everyday needs of schools. Built directly into the Chrome browser for easy use and accessibility, the Quick Recorder makes creating instructional videos a two-click task.

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Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Impact: How Educational AI is Making the Grade

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Impact: How Educational AI is Making the Grade. Schools are following suit: Technavio’s “ Artificial Intelligence Market in the US Education Sector 2018-2022 ” report predicts a nearly 48 percent growth rate for AI tools over the next three years. . How K–12 Schools Are Using AI Tools Now.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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Carousel Cloud Scales with Indianapolis School District for K-12 Communications

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2023

The district reports 70 screens are live today with Carousel digital signage content coming from multiple contributors per school, with approximately 150 screens expected upon completion. With Carousel, each grade has a unique channel with its own voice.”

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How I build relationships with students using instructional audio

eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2022

Access to intelligible, clear audio has never been more important. Here’s how I’m using instructional audio as a second-grade teacher at Dora L. Small Elementary School in South Portland, Maine. Come on down!”

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3 ways we address COVID learning gaps

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2021

At Sonora Elementary School , we’ve been fortunate to be able to offer in-person classes to most of our students this year. At the beginning of the school year, about 500 of our 600 students came back full-time, and by November we only had approximately 20 students who were still blended. Staying flexible.

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Code-a-Thon challenges K-8 students to improve coding skills

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The winning school will receive a one-year subscription to EasyTech and EasyCode Premium, Learning.com ’s digital literacy and coding curriculum for grades K-8. To participate in the Code-a-Thon, schools simply register to receive free access to EasyTech and EasyCode Basic.

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Klassroom, the first parent-teacher communication app designed specifically for elementary schools

eSchool News

JULY 29, 2020

Klassroom, the Paris-based company that reinvents parent-teacher communication in pre-kindergarten and all elementary school grades, just raised a $3 million seed round led by Bpifrance and several angel investors including Jerome Lecat, CEO at Scality, and Andy Myers, President at Waterford.org and former executive at Renaissance Learning.

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Iowa’s Southwest Valley Community School District Broadens Partnership with Discovery Education Supporting Science Instruction in Elementary School Classrooms

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. Discovery Education Science Techbooks.

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AI is the key to scaling personalized, one-on-one instruction

eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

K-12 school systems are facing a “perfect storm” of challenges today. . The pandemic has put students well behind in their education, with millions of children achieving below grade level in reading and math. students in grades 3-8 revealed that reading and math test scores dropped significantly from fall 2019 to fall 2021.

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Elementary Schools Across Kentucky’s Johnson County School District Adding to Their High-Tech Toolbox

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.

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5 educators share insights into teaching and learning

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspiring district leaders, classroom teachers, and school staff have found unique and innovative ways to engage students in learning, motivating students to see beyond classroom walls and truly immerse themselves in learning. Elementary-level STEM education fosters our future innovators.

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4 tips for creating an elementary esports program

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2023

Key points: Esports programs are inclusive and can lead to positive student outcomes A simple approach with accessible, easy-to-use tools, is critical Scholastic esports is rapidly growing, and many schools are starting to incorporate esports programs into their curriculum.

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Edtech tools to beat our state of emergency in reading and math achievement

eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

From its powerful PK-2 early literacy curriculum to its math literacy tools to their many professional learning opportunities, Waterford.org offers helps teachers and parents’ partner on supporting the developing literacy and math skills of elementary school students. Alongside Eureka Math, we use i-Ready.

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Leading Social-Emotional Learning Provider Expands with New Digital Offering

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

Fully Web-Based Curriculum for Grades K–5 is Intuitively Designed for Modern Classrooms. With student well-being declining after a year of school closures, the need for connection and social-emotional recovery is critical, especially for our nation’s youngest learners. elementary schools.

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What are your edtech resolutions?

eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Frankie Jackson, chief technology officer, Cypress Fairbanks (TX) Independent School District. For 2019, our IT emphasis will be on cybersecurity and on high-availability, high-resiliency, high-speed wireless access to support 24 x 7 x 365 learning. Kristina Stratton, principal, Westside Elementary School, Florida. “In

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Digital learning is different

28+ Exciting Experiments for Kids in Elementary School

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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

How One School Counselor Uses AI to Support More Students

What to do when Admin Says, “Just Use the Standards”

Can the Most Populous State Pull Off Universal Pre-K?

This is how we used technology to improve our school’s reading scores

5 edtech resources that support literacy in elementary school

Clark County School District Gives Educators in 241 Elementary Schools Access to Lexia’s LETRS Professional Learning

Computer science education sees more investment, but access gaps linger

Discovery Museum Celebrates 30 Years of Delivering Hands-On Science in Elementary School Classrooms

Launching a districtwide computer science program for all grades

Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School Selects Discovery Education’s Mystery Science to Support Deeper Student Engagement in the 2022-2023 School Year

Can you take algebra in eighth grade? In many cases, the answer is no

Virginia’s Portsmouth Public Schools Expands Partnership with Discovery Education to Bring Students in Grades 7-12 State-of-the-Art Digital Resources

In this district, 1:1 device access became a pandemic reality

3 reasons elementary schools should adopt an LMS—and where to begin

Computer Science is Growing in K-12 Schools, But Access Doesn’t Equal Participation

Equity and Access at the Core of Learning Without Tears’ Breakthrough Literacy Program, Phonics, Reading, and Me™

Digital e-Learning program allows innovative district to open the world to students

Mathletics Announces US Winners of 2023 ‘World Math Day’

Data really is the secret sauce in the K-12 classroom

Students Step up to Lead Tech Implementation at Their Elementary School

5 strategies for independent learning

3 reasons why the reading gap is still alarmingly wide

Why we love our reading software

How we use robots and art to make meeting computer science standards fun

WeVideo Releases WeVideo Classroom for Educational Multimedia Creation

Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Impact: How Educational AI is Making the Grade

eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

Carousel Cloud Scales with Indianapolis School District for K-12 Communications

How I build relationships with students using instructional audio

3 ways we address COVID learning gaps

Code-a-Thon challenges K-8 students to improve coding skills

Klassroom, the first parent-teacher communication app designed specifically for elementary schools

Iowa’s Southwest Valley Community School District Broadens Partnership with Discovery Education Supporting Science Instruction in Elementary School Classrooms

AI is the key to scaling personalized, one-on-one instruction

Elementary Schools Across Kentucky’s Johnson County School District Adding to Their High-Tech Toolbox

5 educators share insights into teaching and learning

4 tips for creating an elementary esports program

Edtech tools to beat our state of emergency in reading and math achievement

Leading Social-Emotional Learning Provider Expands with New Digital Offering

What are your edtech resolutions?

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