Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2019

WeGrow, the division of WeWork that operated a private elementary school, will close its doors after the current school year. A spokesperson for WeWork (officially called The We Company) said it “will continue to operate WeGrow through the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year.”

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2024

About School Specialty, LLC With a 60-year legacy, School Specialty is a leading provider of comprehensive learning environment solutions for the pre-K–12 education marketplace in the U.S. School Specialty believes every student can flourish in an environment where they are engaged and inspired to learn and grow.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

When the visual and performing arts, the musical and recording arts, and the theatrical and graphical arts are seen as mere luxuries or add-ons within the walls of a school, powerful forces are thereby prevented from transforming routine schooling into a renaissance of learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2018

Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., These students are all participants in The Creative School (formerly The Boys Institute) at Stanton Elementary School, an initiative designed to promote wellness and creativity—and to flip the narrative around young boys of color.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Administrators can see a full picture of academic progress across a district, school, grade and class, down to the individual student. 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.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Coding is one of those areas where it's a skill, but it’s also an art,” Ebert says. Ebert expects that percentage to increase as students take their required computer science classes in high school. Sometimes people think about computer science just as technology, and there’s something magical behind a curtain,” Ebert says.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Lauren Kimlinger is a first grade teacher and technology and math instructional leader at Boise-Eliot Elementary School in Portland, OR, with a fierce passion for edtech. She has a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from Oberlin College and a Masters of Arts in teaching from Concordia University. Join the Community.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Without a significant change in the economics of education, changing the grammar of schooling is actually the most realistic approach. How could school work if teachers only taught 4 days out of a 5 day school week? At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

I’m very excited to see education technology playing a larger role in the tech community,” says Markosian, CEO of Epic! “As elementary schools are using Epic!, elementary schools and in schools around the world where kids use it to learn English and improve their reading skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2015

“Blended learning definitely has been an important factor in the changes we’ve seen in our students, our teachers, and in our schools,” says David Rose, deputy chief in the district’s Dept. of Educational Technology and Library Programs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2022

In elementary schools, her organization supplies intervention specialists, who typically don’t hold advanced degrees, to deliver lower-level services to students referred by school leaders. One such arts initiative launched this fall to meet persistent, but not yet crisis-level, mental health needs among students at Fred T.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

. — Dylin Coburn is a junior in high school, but he’s spent a surprising amount of time at a school that’s not his, observing an art class he’s not even taking. It’s not about making more art though—it’s practice. Art is something that I'm really passionate about,” he explains. “It

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2019

Just as educators should be mindful of distractions in a physical space, they should also pay attention to the quality of digital classroom environments and assignments. . Educators must consider additions to assignments to ensure they are accessible for all students. by Jennifer Brown.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Not all students have reliable internet connections or devices, creating a digital divide that exacerbates existing inequalitiesespecially for younger learners in an online elementary school setting where consistent access is critical for foundational development. You can’t ignore the impact of globalization either.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

For this project, students invite teachers, school leaders and families to engage in the conversation. Recently, I worked on a more complex project in which my students hosted two family learning nights for a local elementary school.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

For educators and parents navigating the world of education technology, international players such as Byju’s may not yet be household names. which it acquired in August 2020) and eventually including music, fine arts and English to students in the U.S., It’s free to schools. But they will. Brazil, the U.K.,

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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. Linda EdgecombGolden Grove Elementary School students using Reading Plus.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The top benefits of the Wolfram Language are that it has a low floor for getting started, its syntax is easy to learn, and it has a wide range of use cases applicable to mathematics, language arts, history, science, art and many other subjects. through legislation such as.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In educational technology, it can be difficult to discern a fad from a future classroom staple. The more I learned about it, the more I realized the untapped potential of this technology. The more I learned about it, the more I realized the untapped potential of this technology. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These days, almost every math curriculum in early childhood and elementary school includes games, usually a board or dice game, says Yvonne Liu-Constant, a practitioner specialist for Project Zero. Wed never say that about art, she adds. The assumption is that art is inherently interesting. Another Word for Fun?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

When I first heard about carving out this time, I was excited to try it with my students because I thought it would be a fresh way to integrate research and questioning into my Language Arts curriculum. In a nearby elementary school, a student collected 2,500 books after learning about illiteracy statistics in the world.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2020

As we head into this next school year, teachers, administrators, and districts have brought their best game plan—solid online curriculum, resources to support that learning, training for teachers in online platforms and plenty of out-of-the-box thinking about meeting families’ needs as we power on through a pandemic. Science (Even physics!

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Students also experience the same frustrations, whether they’re conducting research in a science classroom or looking for the perfect picture for the book trailer they are making in English language arts. A good place to start is by modeling good search behavior.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

While videoconferencing tools are readily available, many schools overlook — or are not aware of — the benefits this technology can bring. . In a recent study conducted by InFocus , AVTechnology and Tech & Learning, only 19 percent of the 201 education technology users surveyed use videoconferencing in their schools. . “K–12

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In 2009, when I began my first of teaching, I taught in a school without walls. I was at Malcolm X Elementary School (MXES), an imposing cement box centrally located in Washington DC’s most violent and poorest neighborhood. By the early 1980s, everyone was re-building walls within their schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The lab is a blended-learning shared space where students can choose pre-made projects and design challenges from our four pillars—Computer Science, Engineering, Digital Arts, and, now, Entrepreneurship. They can build something in Minecraft: Education Edition, for example, or combine a Makey Makey kit with Scratch.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2022

But with learning gaps continuing to widen, the response from many schools has been to pack the day with more academic time and homework,, reduce time dedicated to building relationships and play, and cutting back on arts programs. As we have worked with teachers and schools this year we have often shared this chart.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For 14 years, Laura Johnson has taught a variety of subjects, including social studies, psychology, and music and art appreciation–all virtually within ALVS. She started as a part-time teacher while she was still at a brick-and-mortar school, where she drove 38 miles each way to teach.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

This week’s podcast is brought to you by UNC Chapel Hill’s Master of Arts in Educational Innovation, Technology, and Entrepreneurship Program, known as the MEITE Program : MEITE is for students pursuing careers in the educational technology industry. And demoralization could be a serious contributing factor.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

This path seemed like the best way to blend his love of linguistics with his interest in teaching — that is, until he took a job as a paraprofessional at an elementary school in his hometown of Corona, California. CGU has a teacher residency program that let him stay in the elementary school he was already in.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Partnership offers automated assessment of students’ oral reading fluency — for testing at school or at home . Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions provider for K-12 education, announced it is partnering with Analytic Measures Inc.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

Ellen Goodman has been a teaching technology for over 20 years in the Brooklyn. With more than 177 projects funded through the website, she is known as the DonorsChoose guru among New York City’s education technology community. This is a process. For the longest time teachers all wanted iPads just because they could.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

My partner-teacher Renee Wilson and I designed the “Mayan Adventure” project, combining Mayan math, art and culture with lessons focusing on numeracy and literacy. Teachers were asked to focus on a topic or subject that they would like to include during the regular school year but maybe couldn’t because of time constraints.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In high school, I participated in Teacher Cadets , a program that allows high school students to explore the education field as a possible career, in part by having them go into local elementary and middle schools and by serving and observing in the field. But I did enjoy teaching.

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