eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Where lessons, activities, and even assessments are developed to help students and families understand the profound impact of consistent attendance on academic success and future opportunities. students speak a language other than English at home, and approximately 16 percent of children live in poverty.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

was first spoken during the height of gang wars in Los Angeles, when I was a new speech language pathologist in the Los Angeles Unified School District. More than 30 years later, I now work at a 700-student elementary school in Washington state and I have a caseload of 50 students consisting of varying disabilities.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

About 73 percent of our nearly 9,000 students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, and 36 percent are bilingual or speak English as a second language. We have a fiber network connecting our 13 schools. 1) High-speed internet access at home as well as school.

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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

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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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

It is ideal for helping young learners trying to stay current and get ahead in these basic skills because it: Has activities that are self-directed by the student – educators and parents do not need to be present as the student works in the program. Auditory/Listening Memory and Comprehension. Phonological/Sound Awareness.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2017

I am the principal of Chattahoochee Elementary School in Cumming, GA. When our district began the push towards SEL, each school chose a program to support it based on their needs and budget. At Chattahoochee, we chose 7 Mindsets , because it best aligns with our school’s goal to raise respectful, responsible problem-solvers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

Code.org ’s free online courses teach programming languages or how to create games, apps, and websites. Katie Blagden, K-4 STEAM educator and coach, Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School, Beverly, Mass. Milo has also provided us a common language to use with students that we are starting to use throughout the school.”.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2019

Shadow Puppet Edu has so many excellent features it’s a creative must-have for elementary school classrooms. Students can record what they’re doing on a single browser tab, record all activity on their screen, or add a video insert to include video of themselves using a webcam. Screencastify . Platforms: Website.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Key points: Light-touch, low-cost interventions focused on attendance can pay dividends Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism For more news on student success, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub One surefire way to support student success?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our country is home to a wide range of diverse and vibrant cultures, and it’s important that we acknowledge and value the languages these students already bring with them when they enter U.S. We are excited to expose our students to all that coding and robotics can offer, and encourage project-based, active learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Free Holiday Activities to Promote SEL. An emerging leader in SEL is Sunburst SafeSchools and their suite of products and curricula that focus on building safe and positive school environments. In this activity, kids practice problem solving around the holiday house and learn self-efficacy in a fun, enticing environment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. At this age, preschoolers are curious, adventurous, and active, always seeking ways to engage their bodies and minds. These are just some basic ideas on how to use the interactive whiteboard.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With the belief that STEM skills are best acquired starting at a young age, we start building foundational skills early in elementary school. Best practices for a running a successful STEM school Running a STEM-focused school can have its challenges. Here are some ways to set your STEM-focused school up for success.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Serving diverse demographics, ensuring maximum investment impact Our district—Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky—encompasses 70 schools and programs that serve more than 41,000 students from backgrounds representing 95 home languages. Providing impactful data on student reading habits.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Developed to address the decades-long gap in reading proficiency across the nation, PowerUp is designed to enhance core English language arts instruction for struggling readers in grades six and above. K-12 English language arts materials were the focus of the 2020-2021 year. Michael Conley Elementary School, Tallahassee.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

A new initiative from Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro (NASDAQ: HAS), hopes to provide a platform using the roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons for social activities and educational learning. My students’ test score growth doubled each time they tested.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2023

.” The two schools in the study are an elementary school and middle school in Schiller Park, Illinois, which reflect similar demographics to many schools across the country. Mix whole group, small group, and individual activities 3. Provide supplemental learning time for targeted retrieval practice 2.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

On that last point, my school, Shiloh Elementary School in Monroe, N.C., Wouldn’t teaching fluency a foreign language be the ultimate means to prepare students for a diverse and multicultural world? wondered if we were doing enough. that has provided us the means for our immersion program.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. This ignores the language processing differences between typical and exceptional brains.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

The data from child-specific, accurate speech technology from SoapBox coupled with Learning Without Tears’ activities and proprietary pathing formulas drive efficacy and empowers young learners with the essential literacy skills they need to access grade level text.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

One of my elementary school teachers saw beyond that label. Whether it was one-on-one conversations, class projects, or show-and-tell activities, I found ways to connect with my students on a personal level. I listened actively not just to their words, but to their emotions, body language, and non-verbal cues.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

Earlier this year, for example, a dean at Boston University sparked concern among graduate workers who were on strike seeking higher wages when he listed AI as one possible strategy for handling course discussions and other classroom activities that were impacted by the strike. I have that human connection.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

Districts in the League have committed to developing thoughtful, long-term solutions to overcome the obstacles that many populations of students face one of the world’s most important languages. Highline Public Schools is committed to pioneering a pre-K-12 coding pathway that provides access to coding for all students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

Approximately 20 percent of our scholars speak English as a second language. 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.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Johnston Elementary school (P.S. Throughout her school this week there are balloons and colorful signs on the walls. Hour of Code in Brooklyn elementary school, Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu “Ms. We do a lot of unplugged activities; then we transfer that knowledge into the computer-based activities.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Nemko and her staff were aware of the “30 million word gap”: the research-backed idea that children who grow up in poverty come to school having heard 30 million fewer spoken words than their peers from middle-class or upper-class homes putting them at a sharp disadvantage in terms of their language skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Stephen Wolfram’s blog post about the need to teach computational thinking in schools. While I don’t agree that the Wolfram Language is superior to every other modern programming language, from C and Java to Python and Scratch, I think he makes some very compelling points. (We published an excerpt of Wolfram’s post here.).

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

“She goes to school, feels uncertain about who she is, tryin’ to hide behind the curtain so she lashes out, out of fear of bein’ known, inside and out.” These raw lines open the music video “ Jagged ,” written, directed and starred in by elementary school students. She founded QueenHype in 2013, and now serves as the CEO.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Buckle up and join us on this delightful journey through tech-savvy classrooms – from elementary school to high school – we’ll unlock a treasury of innovative ideas guaranteed to amuse the young minds while also preparing them for their future. Let’s dive in!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

elementary schools are using Epic!, We would love to see more schools and classrooms use our vast library of content to build early literacy, inspire kids to read, help students gain more knowledge, enhance existing lessons and aid in classroom projects and research. As we become more ubiquitous in schools in the U.S.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

16, 2021 – Carolina Biological announced that two of its elementary school science programs are among the rigorous list of new science materials just adopted by the South Carolina State Board of Education for the state’s K-12 science curriculum. COLUMBIA, SC, Dec. Smithsonian Science for the Classroom. Leaders in the Field.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Schools, media, and investors are all keeping an eye on the growth. In fact, research shows that 80 percent of esports teams are comprised of students who have never before participated in extracurricular activities. Schools are realizing that many of their teachers were not taught this approach to instruction.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. If teachers know how students are going to respond to a learning activity, they can tailor their instruction,” says Copur-Gencturk. Large language models can analyze classroom discussions at scale.

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