eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

For 2025, schools and districts are focused on making learning more engaging for students, creating a more positive environment for educators, and transforming school culture to meet the diverse needs of the school community. Teachers want solutions for student behavioral issues, more attentive leadership teams, and more manageable workloads.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

Sometimes it’s about empathy —or in the case of some of the latest research coming out of Johns Hopkins, it’s about understanding how art plays a role in learning. EdSurge sat down with Hardiman recently to learn about the Initiative’ recent findings around how injecting art into lessons across disciplines can boost memory and retention.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

The schools campus near Pittsburgh is equipped with state-of-the-art facilities that enhance both academic and extracurricular pursuits. Students explore science in modern labs, develop potent creative tools in the schools inspiring arts students, and build real skills in Kiskis workshops. Weekends are a thrill.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Provide personal questionnaires, pay attention to the extracurriculars students participate in and their behavior with other students. Incorporate pop culture, social media, sports and extracurriculars into lessons. Take a genuine interest in students’ lives and passions. 2: Relevant course content. 3: Clear expectations.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2024

Culturally responsive teaching is a crucial student-centered approach that is critical in today’s multicultural and diverse educational environment. These differences in learning are related to a student’s cultural background, family structure, social and economic status, communication and language, and social identity (Gay, 2002).

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

We are always looking for ways to strengthen the exceptional education at Gulliver and the role we play as a core institution supporting Miamis remarkable ascent as a cosmopolitan center of innovation in business, technology, the arts, and entertainment, Hess adds. Exposure to the arts is a cornerstone of the Gulliver experience.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 5, 2024

Culturally responsive teaching is a crucial student-centered approach that is critical in today’s multicultural and diverse educational environment. These differences in learning are related to a student’s cultural background, family structure, social and economic status, communication and language, and social identity (Gay, 2002).

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Small class sizes ensure that every student receives the individual attention they need. Creating an empowering learning environment starts with a school culture built on structure, consistency, and emotional support. AEF fosters a culture of mentorship, pairing new teachers with experienced educators who provide guidance and support.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

Thursday, August 26, 2021) — To welcome K-12 students and teachers back to school, Discovery Education—the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art K-12 digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—and leading corporate and community partners proudly introduce four new engaging, no-cost virtual field trips (VFTs).

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Teach Hub

MAY 24, 2024

In today’s technology-driven classrooms , art remains an important component of student development. Despite often being the first to be cut from the curriculum in some schools, dismissed as a luxury, or merely a source of fridge-worthy projects, art education holds profound benefits. Art can also promote empathy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

According to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 60% of students report feeling bored during class, a clear indication that the traditional model often fails to capture attention. Countries increasingly adopt international benchmarks, pushing for standardized curricula that often prioritize STEM over the arts.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

In the end, unless there is a mandate that comes with funding, personnel, education, and culturally-competent training, the policy is only on paper.” She paid close attention to cell phone policies as she toured middle schools. Related: 3 pillars for building a positive classroom culture 5 ways to manage students’ screen time

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Using these seven suggestions, you can make sure the learning continues even as Thanksgiving pulls their attention away.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

However, the struggle will be to expand innovation in core subjects and beyond, including integrating technology into ancillary K-12 areas such as CTE, music, physical education, health, and the arts. It is the path to sustained cultural transformation, and it starts with the adult relationships in your building.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2023

In addition, there are billions of social media users, meaning that many posts seek the attention of followers. Creating a Pop Art Piece from a Class Photo Pop art is one of the oldest photo effects still in use today. It was originally used to portray pop culture imagery as simple and attractive pieces of art.

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Skills Art Attention Achievement 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2024

Thankfully, technological advancements have led to the development of digital tools designed specifically to captivate high school student’s attention and enhance their learning experiences. Digital Art Platforms Digital art platforms are unlocking creative potential in students like never before.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2023

The transition from using toys, games, animal assisted therapy, art, music, movement, and parent-child attunement enhancing interventions to connecting through a digital screen seemed at times to be an impossible mission. We wondered if seeing our clients virtually would allow them to feel welcomed and represented in the same ways.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans. Here are seven I use during the pre-holiday season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. I’ve been there often.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2016

Black Panther and Wakanda and other comic book subjects can be used to get these students' attention, then encourage them to dig deeper into academic subjects such as computer science and engineering. is director of the STEAM Lab at Boston Arts Academy. Nettrice Gaskins, Ph.D.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. While popular in some conservative circles, classical learning isn’t traditionally a byword for culture war politics.

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Schools Culture Attention Testing 204

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. She learned to pay attention to others and practiced kindness, empathy and gratitude.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

We think that we need to understand our own culture, our own forces, and try to come up with some theories about how we will change and how we must change. It is always evolving to the current cultural, social and political environment that it happens to exist in, and what it needs to do to educate the citizenry.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2019

More recently, it’s taken on greater awareness (and confusion) with the increased attention around social-emotional learning. We’ve gone from media saturation about academics and rankings to an understanding that student success is more than math and language arts scores. To us at ASCD, it is all of these things…and more.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

What if instead of having to compete with peers for the sun’s attention, it had room to grow in its own way, at its own pace? With art supplies and worksheets strewn about, and her headphones off most of the time because she found them “tight,” we thought nothing of it — this was remote learning as we knew it.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

The program is designed by educators for educators to provide targeted, assessment-driven instruction, reinforcement, and support in math, reading, and language arts. Study.com has launched a series of articles and teaching resources designed to address the learning challenges associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

or “How am I attentive?" For me the position of not knowing is vital in listening because there’s always something else to pay attention to. I think culturally we tend to downplay the listener. For example, active listening is wonderful when it helps people ask, "How do I tend to a moment?” To my being in the world?”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Also, only some teachers have the time or money to invest in building courses with the functionality, attention to the user experience, and variety of hints and examples that a third-party software vendor can afford. Finally, if a teacher isnt an engaging presenter, the lecture is likely even worse on video than in person.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

math, literacy, science, social studies, foreign language, art). Identity development involves sense of purpose (what excites and drives us), values and how elements like cultural and the specific communities to which we belong shape us. Cognitive development includes skills like those involved in memory and processing information.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2020

So theater seemed like a fitting medium for marking the 100th anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment in 2020, agreed Molly Hood, assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Cinema at Radford University, and Amanda Nelson, associate professor in the School of Performing Arts at Virginia Tech.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Back in 2019 , I took to an EdSurge column to share my opinion — a sounding call for more attention to be paid to the role social capital plays in education and workforce training. Those with social capital may wield it to maintain power and reinforce authority, often at the expense of those with less.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Literacy is the foundation of overall educational success. Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. Beyond the classroom, literacy is an essential daily life skill.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

In Charleston County, we have been highly strategic in what we tried to accomplish and where we directed our time and attention. We chose EL Education for English language arts, Bridges for preK-5 math, and Illustrative Mathematics for math in grades 6-8. Weve seen dramatic student improvement.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Lego Education hosted a breakfast panel on ISTE Day #1 devoted to one of the most perplexing post-pandemic problems for schools—how to keep kids’ attention. Numerous initiatives and ideas have enhanced the plan, including the launch of the STEAM Lab Makerspaces, Education Transformation Office, Cultural Arts Passport, and Family Academy.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Some were brilliant and deliberate in their attention to learning and game mechanics, while others focused on strong narrative arcs, consequential decision-making and world-creation. Triple-A titles and companies like Activision, Blizzard and Electronic Arts came to dominate the talent and capital markets.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

On the first day of class, students read an article in the Guardian about the ways that apps, social media and other technology are designed to grab and hold on to our attention. David Peña-Guzman provides cultural and historical framing before students begin reading. Students had plenty of concerns going into the course, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

From the landmark 1983 “A Nation at Risk” report—which sounded an alarm about student achievement and national competitiveness in the Cold War era—to today’s renewed attention to civic education, new trends in American education are often rooted in deep concerns about the present and the future of the country.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

When black students at the University of Michigan took to Twitter several years ago to critique campus policies and culture , one tweet in particular caught the attention of college administrators. The post ( perhaps one like this ) described how alienating and awkward it can feel for a student to show up to class without a laptop.

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