eSchool News

JULY 2, 2020

One of the key lessons learned in the shift to remote learning this spring was the need to make online instruction easily accessible to everyone. It’s a very agricultural community, with many migrant families who don’t speak English at home.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for comprehensive, proven literacy solutions, launched 95 Phonics Core Program® Word Study, Grades 4 and 5. Grounded in the Science of Reading, 95 Phonics Core Program® Word Study, Grades 4 and 5. Lincolnshire, Ill. – Research on reading instruction has been very clear for more than 20 years.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

FORT WORTH, Texas The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) recently named Just Right Readers decodable books for grades K-2 as approved instructional materials for both English and Spanish phonics. Just Right Reader is now eligible for state funding. Instructional materials are also open to public review and feedback.

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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

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. This allows for more time with students and less time planning, testing, grading, and disaggregating data.

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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

Three years later, Malekpour, who teaches in Queens, doesn’t think twice about assigning and grading in-class work that requires a device. 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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

offerings, these instructional materials are optional and aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)—the state standards for what grade-level knowledge and skills students should possess. program and ensure access to dynamic learning opportunities for students across the state.” Like other THL 3.0 Additional THL 3.0

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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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

23, 2022 – The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) selected Riverside Insight’s Cognitive Abilities Test ( CogAT ® ), the most respected and widely used test of student ability, to screen Grade 2 students state-wide for gifted programs.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Many English Learners (ELs) across the United States have gone months without exposure to the academic English they require for success in school and that they would normally receive in formal education settings. The study focused on 122 sixth-grade students enrolled in six supplemental reading classes at two district middle schools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Odette guided Esther as she wrote her answers in English. “I She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I told my supervisor the design and language used in the activity were not accessible to my students. Most of my students immigrated to the United States within the last year, and all of them were English learners, thus making it difficult for them to complete the activity.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

purpose, application, launch) in both English and Spanish. To edit or modify the slide decks for your grade level and subject area, click “View” at the top of the slide deck. Teachers can view the entire collection on the Project Zero website , where each routine is described in detail (e.g., What do they know or notice?

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2023

CHARLOTTE, NC — Wisconsin’s Stevens Point Area Public School District today announced it has renewed its multiyear partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in grades K-5. Editable ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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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

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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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

JANUARY 26, 2021

To highlight the importance of daily reading during the COVID-19 pandemic, Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is offering unlimited free access to myON digital books and news articles from February 1–7, 2021. The importance of reading materials at home cannot be overstated.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

This year I transitioned from teaching English classes in isolation to co-teaching English, science, and technology with another teacher in a pilot program called N.E.W. She is only in her second year of teaching and she is credentialed in English and science. 2 Sharing the Load. Teaching is an exhausting profession.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

This early childhood solution continues Riverside’s strong tradition of developing leading assessments to support deeper understanding of English learners (EL), who are often over- or under-identified for special learning accommodations. “We Alternate-verbal administration for grades K through 2 with no specific language requirement.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

To highlight the importance of daily reading during the COVID-19 pandemic, Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is offering unlimited free access to myON digital books and news articles from February 1–7, 2021. The importance of reading materials at home cannot be overstated.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Ninth-grade English was a paradox for me—both the best and worst year for helping me learn to write. Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

Based on the assessment system I use, many of my students were reading at a level between kindergarten and second grade, which is not ideal, given that I teach high schoolers. In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. John was now willing to take academic risks that he hadn’t taken before ninth grade.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 6, 2020

These activities, like daily oral language in English or number of the day in math, require more time than most teachers intend to spend on them. This makes it possible for teachers to provide students with access to an overview of the lesson as well as detailed directions, media, and links to resources.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. Simultaneously, educators needed to identify what content students needed, how to organize it and how to help students access it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 6, 2021

Are you looking for grading apps, tools, and resources that you can use to collect, calculate, and analyze your student’s grades? Or maybe you are looking for apps that allow students to calculate their own grades, which will save you time and effort. Gradebook and Grading Apps (for teachers).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

NORTH WILKESBORO and ASHEVILLE, North Carolina In support of North Carolina schools in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, Just Right Reader recently donated 315,000 books to support students in grades K-2 throughout northwest and western North Carolina.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2022

Access to intelligible, clear audio has never been more important. Instructional audio benefits all students—students with learning loss, students in the back of classrooms, non-native English speakers, and others. Here’s how I’m using instructional audio as a second-grade teacher at Dora L. Come on down!”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Here’s how educators across the country are using tools–from Minecraft: Education Edition to Roblox and easy-to-access online resources–to gamify their lessons and help students engage with learning. ” Many students want more than just good grades from school–they want something physical or immediate.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Now, one Maryland school district is seeing substantial improvements in grades 6-8 math scores. A new impact study at Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) found that students in grades 6 to 8 who used Speak Agent Math+Language outperformed their peers who did not use the program.

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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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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

English teachers using StudySync have a wealth of online resources they can use to keep students learning remotely. 1 Use the StudySync Access Prior Knowledge Activities to Facilitate Online Discussions. 1 Use the StudySync Access Prior Knowledge Activities to Facilitate Online Discussions. StudySyncVocab.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

Today, I am the director of Literacy First , a program that the University of Texas launched almost 30 years ago with the mission of teaching students to read in the early grades. and all of them now live here in this English-oriented country. Many of them were born in the U.S.,

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Grading student work can be the most labor intensive part of the job for most of us. We often feel pulled in multiple directions – with service commitments and research projects on top of teaching responsibilities – so finding time to grade student papers, exams, projects, and in-class work can feel challenging.

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