eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2018

A model for any school, department, or level. Here’s how it works at our middle school: Four administrators oversee eight departments: language arts, math, social studies, science, world languages, arts, technology, and physical ed/health. Google Forms are nifty, free, and accessible.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The strategies span middle school to higher education contexts, across a variety of subjects including math, science, social studies, and literacy. Many schools have purchased, or have free access, to Adobe Acrobat Reader, Adobe Spark, and Creative Cloud.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, district leaders and teachers sought a digital resource aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards, supportive of hands-on learning, and accessible to the district’s English Language Learners. Currently, the company’s Social Studies Techbooks are used in middle school classrooms districtwide.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

In many cases, struggling students simply have not had equitable access to math due to language barriers, underperforming schools, socio-economic issues, or other challenges. Teachers can help students see how math animates science, history, music, social studies, art, and sports.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

In just a few months, I transitioned from being a student at the University of Montana’s College of Education to leading the instruction of a room of rambunctious middle school students interested in STEM. These experiences provide students access to diverse environments and professionals, regardless of their location.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

The online tutoring sessions are available to students in grades 3-12 and focus on the core subjects of math, English, science, and social studies. The service can also be accessed on weekends. Adell, principal of Newburg Middle School. Tutors are available from 7 a.m. About FEV Tutor.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

These skill-building, multi-player games help students build critical skills in math, language arts, and social studies in a fun and entertaining way.   All educators using Discovery Education services enjoy access to the Discovery Educator Network. 10 new learning games from Arcademics. Discovery, Inc.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This experience is suitable for upper elementary and middle school students. These resources are available at no-cost to all educators until June 2022 and educators who have access to Discovery Education’s award-winning K-12 platform will find these resources pre-populated in the service’s Activity Center.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

As part of this new relationship, Discovery Education is supporting the district’s continued transition to modern learning environments by empowering the district’s middle school educators to more deeply engage students in science instruction with its Science Techbook.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to middle schools and high schools, the average classroom looks more like a typical startup office than the traditional classroom of the past. Today, schools across the country look to educators to customize lesson plans to the learning requirements of their unique classrooms and students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

As a part of an ongoing initiative to enhance the health and wellness resources available to its students and families, the Baldwin Union Free School District (UFSD) is proud to launch the Baldwin Schools Wellness Center and to be among the first school districts in the nation to establish such a resource directly on campus at no cost to families.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

And even though 15 states have adopted a policy to give all high school students access to computer science courses, universities prepare way fewer computer science teachers than we need. It’s more abysmal in the younger grades, with only six states giving all K-12 students access.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

Erin Haley, middle school teacher at The Bayshore School in Daly City, Calif.: “YES But I’m betting many do have a newfound appreciation for teachers and schools and what we do for kids.” Noppinger, eighth grade math teacher at Dumbarton Middle School in Towson, Md.: “I YES THEY HAVE!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Digital Promise recently spoke with educators from Lone Star Middle School in Nampa, Idaho, an HP Spotlight School. HP Spotlight Schools are part of the Reinvent the Classroom initiative , a collaboration between Digital Promise, HP, Microsoft and Intel, recognizing Powerful Learning with technology.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

In the wake of COVID-19, TCS moved the IMFIS program to a 100 percent virtual format, helping improve equity and access to high-quality digital content for educators and students, specifically those from under resourced communities. TCS will continue growing its investment to bring IMFIS to every student and educator in the U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the second-largest school division in Virginia, with 55 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, 12 high schools, and a number of secondary/post-secondary specialty centers. Smarty Ants is not the only Achieve3000 solution currently implemented at Virginia Beach.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Brainly’s users also seek help in science (18.84%), social studies (17.2%), and English (16.3%). However, while homework help – especially in math – is a top reason students access Brainly, it’s not the only one. and English teacher Mary Ann Rafferty from Williams Middle Magnet School in Tampa, Fla.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Learning Upgrade , an ed-tech company providing digital, differentiated literacy curriculum designed for English language learners (ELLs), launched a mobile app to increase accessibility and expand offerings to a wide range of English learners. Read more.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

In the latest phase of this multiyear collaboration, all district middle school students will receive access to a dynamic digital social studies textbook. To empower educators to provide middle school students these essential skills, the district selected Discovery Education’s? Social Studies?Techbook.?Featuring

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. Middle school students are navigating the most vulnerable and self-conscious developmental phase. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The most successful districts will be those that make family engagement a strategic priority, backed by both personnel and technology resources that make classroom learning visible and accessible to all families, regardless of language or technological barriers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Jill Weber, Cheney Middle School. We all strive to develop students with the skills necessary to be successful after high school graduation. The National Council for the Social Studies urges us to find ways for our kids to “take informed action” based on what they have learned.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

Incorporating technology within classrooms In today’s digital world, where technology is readily accessible, it is crucial for classroom learning to align with current technological trends and innovations. Rethinking content teaching at the middle level: An interdisciplinary approach. Middle School Journal , 50 (2), 1727.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Teq Online PD offers educators unlimited access to over 200 live and archived professional development sessions focused on the effective integration of technology into instruction. There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Interactive learning apps are perfect for captivating the minds of these little ones while making education enjoyable and accessible. These apps come in all shapes and sizes, catering to various subjects including math, language arts, science, and social studies.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Users receive access to study groups and a question bank of tens of thousands of questions. The app covers subjects that range from science to social studies to economics. That’s the hope, anyway, for the founders of this startup, currently in beta testing and targeted toward high school and middle school students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

What it looks like : Imagine a middle school math teacher who works with her specialist to create an interdisciplinary, maker-and-technology-infused lesson covering concepts like scaling, common denominators and equivalent fractions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2018

Students are required to have PLPs beginning in 7th grade, but many schools start the process sooner. Mount Anthony Union Middle School (MAUMS) begins the process in sixth grade, giving students a head start on understanding the concept, process and language they will use moving forward.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Stanley, a former ninth-grade English teacher, often thinks about how different her pedagogy might have been—or, as a student, how much deeper her learning might have gone—with access to Actively Learn’s sequenced sets of texts and other materials designed to provide historical context and achieve depth in a particular topic.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

After Hurricane Florence devastated the community and destroyed one of the district’s schools, Jones County Public Schools set out to rebuild its school infrastructure, which now includes a brand-new, high-tech, solar-powered K-12 campus.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

In the wake of COVID-19, TCS moved the IMFIS program to a 100 percent virtual format, helping improve equity and access to high-quality digital content for educators and students, specifically those from under resourced communities. TCS will continue growing its investment to bring IMFIS to every student and educator in the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, you could find a selection of study material at Studocu that you can utilize. These resources can complement your study plan and provide additional support. Cloud storage solutions enable you to access your study materials from anywhere, making it easier to study on the go.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Then the library makes that source material available and easily accessible to all. I taught there for 19 years, and taught pretty much anything that would keep me employed within social studies. The Teacher-in-Residence program is about 20 years old, and it invites one U.S. I also taught geography and then English as well.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Photo Credit: Marisa Kaplan This week I talked with other educators who shared their powerful stories: Elaine Mendez (an instructional coach from Belleville Public Schools) and AJ Bianco (a 7th and 8th grade Social Studies teacher from Harrington Park School)—who learned to make mistakes and show off their nerdy sides.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Instead of students learning 55 minutes five days a week, it’s going to open up to 24 hours, seven-days-a-week access to information and hopefully in a faster pace. Social Studies teacher at Elizabeth Middle School in Castle Rock, Colorado. Personalized learning is more like a menu at a fast food place.

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