eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s a look at each winner: Winner: John Arthur, 6th Grade Teacher, Meadowlark Elementary School Nominated by: Follett John Arthur was the 2021 Utah Teacher of the Year and one of four finalists for 2021 National Teacher of the Year.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

“It’s incredibly heartening to see that despite an ongoing pandemic and social and political unrest, schools and districts across the U.S. “Our team enjoyed reading through each and every grant application – the awarded services are well deserved, and we look forward to supporting recipients in achieving their goals.”.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA– Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today that elementary students from Buchanan County, Virginia School District achieved unprecedented reading gains using Carnegie Learning’s Fast ForWord ® reading and language program. That’s major.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Literacy coach Mika Frame has a memorable mantra for accomplishing big goals. “My A K-2 literacy coach at Rose Hamilton Elementary School in Centerville, Frame is part of the first cohort of educators that trained in reading science practices as part of the Indiana Literacy Cadre. What drew you to a career in education?

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

But it’s not all bad–educators found success as they dedicated their efforts to improving student engagement and achievement, creating community-based approaches to learning, and inspiring students to become lifelong learners. Looking ahead, I anticipate these positive trends to continue into the next school year.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

Unfortunately, teachers and students are often unable to be sure there will be dependable, robust access outside of school depending on family and community circumstances. States, districts and schools are also uniquely positioned to share reduce cost or no cost out-of-school access options for families. About the Presenters.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The 2018 Niche.com rankings listed our district as one of the top 15 “Best School Districts in America” for the fourth year in a row. Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2022

The contest enables communities to vote for their elementary school to win $10,000 that can be used for critical educator resources that teach kids how to earn, save, spend, and donate. The contest is open through June 17, 2022, and communities can find more resources for elementary students at cha-chingusa.org. .

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

I believed technology would be powerful for our scholars and I wanted everyone to have access to it, but only one student in the entire school signed up for the program. I’ll hold your hand and go in with you and I’ll make sure you have support there in the form of technology coaches, technicians, and others who can provide one-on-one help.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2017

Creating a successful blended learning program isn’t a race, and ours has taken nearly a decade to achieve. We also used students as on-site coaches to help teachers and peers with any tech issues. Some programs start too fast. Providing that on-site support allowed us to offer tiered interventions for our staff.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. Kindergarten teacher Kelsea Heesacker comes in to chat with the school counselor and to grab a winter coat for a little girl who came to school without one. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2022

This approach helps teachers reflect deeply and hold evidence-based discussions with coaches and colleagues. Reviewing classroom video, or what John Hattie calls “micro-teaching,” is one of the strongest factors related to student achievement in his list of 250+ items. School-wide PD often feels disconnected from a new teacher’s work.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

About PBLWorks The Buck Institute for Education/ PBLWorks believes that all students, especially Black and Brown students, should have access to high quality Project Based Learning to deepen their learning and achieve success in college, career, and life.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

At Illinois' Glenbrook High School District 225 , Ryan Bretag , the district’s director of instructional innovation wanted every decision to help improve "student wellness and meaningful work," Education Dive reports. . Don’t be afraid to define an ideal vision for what a learning space could look like in your school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Provide ongoing feedback from those who understand blended learning AND instructional coaching. When provided with an instructional coach who provided ongoing observations with feedback and targeted coaching, the implementation was quicker and more effective. Invest in training coaches. Evaluate the impact.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. I have been in California ever since. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

From that focus group they narrowed the list of potential applications to professional development tools and, eventually, settled on a searchable database exclusively for elementary school math. When we went back to the advisory committee, we asked, ‘Where would you start if you were looking to make the largest impact?’" Litow says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Devon Flamm, a K-2 instructional coach at a public school in Hardin, Mont., Elementary school educators were more likely than secondary school educators to allow students relatively unstructured time to experiment with physical materials, often in the form of manipulatives. How does this look in practice?

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

The panelists were: Aisha Douglas, an academic dean at Achievement First Brooklyn High School, where she focuses on teacher development and curriculum adaptation in the humanities. Deitra Colquitt, co-principal at Pershing Elementary School in St. So I really had to sort of coach myself that my story matters.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Bedden’s dedication to promoting literacy in the Centennial School District has been truly inspiring. One of his standout achievements was creating a committee consisting of teachers, parents, and students to handpick summer take-home books from Lerner Publishing Group.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

To help teachers implement the learning model, schools and districts are increasingly paying top-dollar for specialized consultants. At Fulton and other districts looking to consultants, academic achievement dipped in some schools after the changes made with input from the consultants. But those investments don’t always pay off.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. Stepping Stones is closing our achievement gaps. That wasn’t always the case.”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Our antics produced mixed results.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Written by Sarah, a professional learning coach from Colorado. Sarah’s school has a high population of ELL students and encourages a project-based environment. EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented Edthena? Describe how you used the product.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

Personalized Learning Preparatory at Sam Houston Elementary School in Dallas reopened its school building to PreK-5 students with simultaneous learning in the fall after months of remote learning. “I How might we design learning experiences so that students in any environment get equitable learning opportunities?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Aylon Samouha brings five years of school redesign experience as an independent consultant. He worked with Achievement First to build two Greenfield school models, as a consultant led research for the Charter School Growth Fund and the Clayton Christensen Institute, and consulted on the Chicago Breakthrough Schools Fellowship.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

My vision was to increase access and equity in a science, technology, engineering, the arts and mathematics (STEAM) curriculum for elementary students. After establishing your vision, write a goal of how you plan to achieve that vision. Build a Team of Teachers Enthusiastic About Tech.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

For some educators, digital forms have been a productive way to achieve this. One elementary school involved in the study used digital forms to regularly quiz all third-grade students. This data gathered and used formatively informs the decisions learners and teachers make regarding next steps.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

At first we thought this was just going to be a hoop we have to jump through in order to get these devices,” admits Daniel Hodge, a personalized learning coach at Barnwell Elementary School in Fulton County, echoing the concerns and confusion shared by other Fulton County educators in an interview with EdSurge.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

She was excited to launch new professional development opportunities, hoped to strengthen the coaching model for teachers and was eager to come up with a more sophisticated set of data points for examining educational quality. One teacher described how a child with behavioral challenges came to her to be soothed when no one else would do.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Flashlight reading at Golden Grove Elementary School. Remember Golden Grove’s 2018 ELA achievement rate for the lowest 25% of students?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In other cases it was a teacher, mentor, coach, sibling or family friend that motivated them to persist. Schools of course are no stranger to the power of relationships that studies like these highlight. Not all schools, however, are designed to ensure that a single relationship—much less a web—reaches each and every student.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Our entire staff participated in “Trauma 101” trainings led by MHCD and our leadership team spent hours brainstorming school structures that would support our kids who have experienced the most trauma. We engaged a consultant, Lisa Stone, who has done similar work with the Achievement First Greenfield schools.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2022

As the start of the school year kicks off across the country, elementary school teachers work hour upon hour to create welcoming, joyous spaces for learning. And how do we support them in reading extensively enough to achieve the volume of hours necessary to become proficient?

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