eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

BOSTON (March 31, 2025) In recent months, almost 2,000 schools and districts have purchased or renewed licenses for Lexia English Language Development (Lexia English) from Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand. Prince William County Schools serves more than 20,000 English learners who speak 140 languages.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

We deliberately fine-tuned Buddys responses to keep it focused on helping kids with English without veering off into irrelevant conversations. Affordable and accessible tech stands to open up opportunities for them. For example, English fluency can be a lifechanging skill in terms of job opportunities, quality of life , and finances.

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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. This category is particularly meaningful to us. About Riverside Insights.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

As a part of this initiative, MAP Growth data will transfer seamlessly into DMAC , enhancing this valuable tool used by Texas educators by providing quicker access to student data that supports instruction and student achievement. Portland, Ore., We’re excited to have MAP Growth available for ESC 7 districts.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2022

Access to diverse books positively impacts children as readers and as people. Students need access to texts that reflect experiences diverse in race, ethnicity, gender, and language. Such access increases motivation, which is likely to have a positive impact on reading comprehension. percent of total books), Latinx (5.3

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

rated, ensuring Capstone Interactive is accessible to children with vision, cognitive, physical, and hearing disabilities. Educators can also easily share a direct link to an eBook, allowing students access with a single click. With multi-user, simultaneous access, Capstone Interactive can be used by every student in a school.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

CLEVELAND – June 7, 2022 – Digital book access for reading and listening for K-12 students has reached a milestone. Students using the free Sora student reading app have now accessed more than 100 million books from their school’s digital collections since Sora launched in 2018.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2023

That seismic shift made devices more accessible to students than ever before — and has now pushed some teachers to fold technology more often into their lesson plans. After COVID shuttered campuses in March 2020, forcing schools to pivot to remote learning, the city spent more than $360 million to buy 725,000 iPads and Chromebooks.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

These language demands can be particularly challenging for students whose primary language is not English. There are many ways teachers can bridge language barriers for multilingual learners (MLs) while also making math more accessible and engaging for all learners. More than 75 percent of English learners speak Spanish at home.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2021

The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) announced an agreement with OverDrive Education to provide access to online books to every K-12 student in the state. As such, the DDOE committed to ensuring all Delaware public schools’ students and staff can access resources to support learning acceleration. www.overdrive.com/schools.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

About Ignite Reading Ignite Reading is on a mission to ensure every student can access the tools they need to be a confident, fluent reader by the end of 1st grade. School districts nationwide depend on Ignite Readings virtual tutoring program to deliver literacy support at scale for students who need help learning to read.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

One of my earliest projects as the Director of Environmental Education for a public school district in New York was in a middle school English Language Arts classroom. My goal is to support others in finding and building these bonds by making environmental education accessible, fulfilling, and rooted in a connection to nature.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2023

.— The Arkansas Department of Education’s Division of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ Magnetic Reading Foundations to its list of high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for foundational skills in English language arts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

STEM can help with English language development by allowing students to engage with language in a variety of ways. Native English speakers can struggle, too. Be sure to explicitly teach words that have multiple meanings in English, e.g., base , bond , code , engineer , mass , model , range , volume , and odd and even.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

For more news on scaffolds for ELLs, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub As schools continue to serve an increasingly diverse student body, many educators face the challenge of meeting the needs of English Language Learners (ELLs) in content-rich classrooms.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

Open Up Resources, a nonprofit, works to increase equity in education by making the highest quality curriculum accessible to educators, and Kiddom is the first all-in-one education platform for high quality digital curriculum. Access to peer-to-peer communications within Open Up’s K-5 EL Education digital community.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Gemini also explains concepts and lesson material to students in simple and different ways if students don’t have access to a teacher–for instance, during homework or over a holiday break. Students also use Gemini for real-time academic help, such as asking follow-up questions and details about a particular topic.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

How do we ensure students achieve proficiency with the English language while receiving a rich and comprehensive education? Thanks to computer-driven translation, AI, and advanced classroom tools, we stand to put every student on a path to success with the English language and beyond. Today’s technology presents us with answers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

residents who speak a language other than English at home. Ensuring access to language services benefits not only LEP parents and their children but also their teachers, classmates, and the district overall. “We This will require training (and retraining) staff on your language access policies.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

purpose, application, launch) in both English and Spanish. Since these slide decks are designed for the whole class, you will need to share the deck via Google Classroom, or your learning management system, so that anyone with access can edit the slide deck. These routines encourage students to be intentional thinkers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Creating “universal” access to high-quality pre-K will require a massive, long-term public investment (as much as $33 billion, according to NIEER). In the near term, states can increase access by leveraging the existing infrastructure for providing pre-K in the home-based programs that already serve many rural families.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2021

Note : This station rotation series pictured above is designed for a 6th grade English Language Arts class. Post separate assignments for each online station, so students can access all of the resources and digital documents they need to complete the assignments. The groups cycle through the six stations twice in two weeks.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

More than 10 percent of students in the United States are English language learners (ELLs) – that’s more than 4.8 While these children don’t learn any differently than their native-English-speaking classmates, they do have educational needs that should not be overlooked or go unmet. million children nationwide. Adapt what exists.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

So, I wanted to share the framework that my teaching team (English, history, and science) used when planning large scale interdisciplinary projects. Instead of sharing individual documents, our shared drive provided us with a virtual storage bucket for our resources that we all had access to at any time. interdisciplinaryproject.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

But in this project, English Learners were front and center, using their voices–literally and figuratively–to take ownership of language in a way that felt authentic and empowering. In multilingual classrooms, these skills are often overlooked in favor of silent writing tasks.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Teens’ widespread access to smartphones for the last decade has fed this fascination with social media and texting. According to Pew Research, 95 percent of teenagers have access to a smartphone, and 45 percent admit to being online ‘almost constantly.’ ’ Related content: Teaching writing one word at a time. .’

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

The teacher may use academic or subject-specific vocabulary unfamiliar to a student with limited background knowledge or who is not a native English speaker. All of these adjustments can make the information more accessible. Other students may struggle to stay focused because they are distracted or having an off day.

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2021

Tragically, this has led to many students falling behind—especially low-income students and English language learners. Easy access to high-quality, open materials is essential. It has been a year since we started shutting our schools and transitioning to remote learning. Edtech had the opportunity to help address these inequities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Unfortunately, studies show that English Language Learners (ELLs) have been disproportionately impacted by learning loss, as compared to their peers. Furthermore, ELLs need access to supplemental learning opportunities (such as online ESL tutoring).

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2022

“There may be systematic differences in students’ comfort level with (computer-based tests) depending on their access to computers in the home and at school,” the researchers wrote. The differences were quite pronounced, equating to about five months of learning in math and 11 months—more than a full school year—in English language arts.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

I sought to bring that same joy of reading to my high school history and English students. Having access to the skills needed to decode text and other media impacts our students now and forever. Having access to the skills needed to decode text and other media impacts our students now and forever.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2025

From Sprawl to Strategy When Executive Director, IT Services Eric Hileman joined Oklahoma City Public Schools in 2012, the IT department followed a lock and block mentality, limiting access to tech as a form of control. In 2022, the district created an Equity and Accessibility Committee with representation from departments across the system.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 27, 2021

This approach to designing a choice board for peer feedback gives students agency and choice while providing the necessary scaffolding to make this activity accessible. For example, English teachers may have expectations around font size and type, spacing, indentation, quotes, and citations. Assignment Checklist.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

They offer structured phonics practice using texts that students relate to and enjoy anytime and anywhere, as well as several at-home support resources and practice materials that families can access online.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

Consider reorganizing your documents by topic, unit, skill set, or time period and color-code them for easy access. This can be a tedious task, so I recommend doing it in small bursts with frequent breaks. . Start with organizing your folders by broader topics, then sort the individual documents accordingly.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2022

But while all students felt the impact, certain historically underserved student groups–including English language learners (ELLs)–were disproportionately affected. During virtual learning, ELLs didn’t have access to many of the in-school resources they typically use and need to learn best.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Research shows that it can also be difficult to access these courses, though, especially for students of color and those from lower income areas. This data has broadened education researchers understanding of dual enrollment programs, including how access varies from state to state and which subjects are the most crucial for dual enrollment.

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