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MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. As an instrumental music teacher, I am used to advocating that the arts are essential to all students even though they may not be classified as a core subject.

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JUNE 11, 2024

Last year, when Jayla Arensberg was a sophomore at Burnsville High School near St. Paul, Minnesota, a teacher showed her a flier saying that a program at the school could save her $25,000 on college. “I She was interested in college, but worried that the cost could keep her from pursuing higher education.

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JUNE 5, 2020

It’s an art competition unlike most others. Try high school students. These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. It’s wildly outside what most students get exposed to in school,” says von Oy. She’s used it to create her own art challenges, such as tasking students to graph a snowman.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

The company has launched Gale In Context: Literature, a new resource for literature instruction and learning that helps high schoolers engage and thrive in English language arts (ELA). Educators need a solution to contextualize literary works in both the past and present day.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2021

For millions of students from low-income backgrounds, the transition to college or the workforce from high school is a steep, sometimes insurmountable, climb. That transition can look more like a cliff: The supports and structure of high school fall away, revealing a chasm students must somehow cross alone.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. To close the skills gap, there are a number of practices, strategies and ideas that any high school can draw from the CTE model. Here are a few.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

During that time, I have enjoyed working with the staff, students, parents, and community members to thoughtfully integrate technology into the classrooms. In 1995, I became the Educational Technology Coach for the Verona Area High School. Coloring can be a really fun, creative, and relaxing activity.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Teachable Machine is free to use and super accessible, making it a great resource for helping students discover what a learning machine is and how they work. Brent Grahn, a high school math teacher at Shakopee High School in Shakopee, MN, uses Geogebra.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2025

Yet, in the art room, where images are the universal language, his talent shines, allowing his classmates to see his strengths, not just his struggles. I believe in the power of the artsits ability to transcend language barriers and how it helps all students, especially multilingual learners, thrive in school.

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JUNE 3, 2021

It’s one of the first, putting the institution in the company of Drexel University and the Savannah College of Art and Design. One is an introductory course that is now available online and is being used by high school students. Courtesy of Husson University.

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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 OVERLAND PARK , Kan.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Jennifer Wolochow majored in philosophy and religion at Stanford, hoping to become a high school teacher. “I But instead of a classroom, Wolochow now works on the Silicon Valley campus of a company that’s using technology to make learning more accessible to people throughout the world. That was the case with Robert Dawson.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At my district’s high schools, personalized learning is fairly easy to see. Sometimes elementary and middle school teachers come across as apologetic about how “little” they are doing in relation to personalized learning. This document helped standardize what good teaching looks like at elementary, middle and high school levels.

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APRIL 11, 2023

The pandemic has led to big questions about the value of higher education, and that has been especially true of liberal arts colleges. add caption here Perhaps the best example is a book written by two longtime professors called “The Post-Pandemic Liberal Arts College: A Manifesto for Reinvention.” Is that not what’s happening?

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JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. Not yet convinced? 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2024

Savvas recently acquired Outlier, an edtech startup that has created a portfolio of online, asynchronous dual enrollment courses — with real transferable college credit opportunities from a top 50 university — that enable high school students to earn dual credit while never having to leave their school building.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2016

There is also a section on Creative Coding that shows students how coding is integrated into music, animation, art & design, along with a variety of resources for both students and teachers, including free coding workshops, challenges, STEM contest invitations and student internships. Trisha Callella, Coordinator of Education Technology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Gales 2025 MLA platinum award winners include: Gale Presents: Petersons Test and Career Prep (platinum award) : offers a comprehensive set of tools to support individuals on their educational and professional journeys. MLA judge Gale Presents: Excel Adult High School (platinum award) : A 21.5-credit,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Our Customer Advisory Board enables us to directly collaborate with the people who best understand the needs of schools and districts across the U.S. Not stopping there, Dr. Pollard served as the Director of H.E.L.P.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2023

Part of a Blog Series from the Emerging Technologies Committee Leveraging Technology for Improving School Wellness and Safety The renewed focus on the whole student, specifically on social and emotional needs and growth (social emotional learning – SEL), is certainly a positive direction in K-12 education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

(September 29, 2021) – Reading Plus, an evidence-based online program that uses personalized instruction to improve students’ reading proficiency, today announced the expanded use of its platform within the Beaufort County School District in South Carolina. For more information, visit www.readingplus.com. *

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OCTOBER 26, 2022

BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 12 million students, announced that the IXL platform won two SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Advanced Mathematics and Best Foundational English Language Arts (ELA) categories. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. These are exactly the goals that Adam has tried to achieve through edtech during his 24-year teaching career.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Many college and high school bands have resumed practicing during the pandemic. Goble: The ramifications of not being able to have performing arts and visual arts education are huge because the music and the art, the theater, the dance—it has to come from somewhere. It doesn’t come out of a vacuum.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Those are some of the emotions Mario Herrera’s high school students experienced as they learned about the African diaspora, as part of a two-year pilot for the College Board’s new curriculum on the subject. He covers art and culture, along with Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Performing arts? The Caribbean? Literature?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

And while colleges can sometimes spin up new courses and degrees to meet these evolving needs, school districts can’t always make those types of quick pivots. Anaheim Union High School District wants to buck that trend. Today, Anaheim’s pathways start at grade seven and continue through high school.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

If they have a question, the facilitator—they aren’t called teachers here—will say, ‘Did you Google it?’” “We’re really trying to make the students leaders, to make them feel like they have experiences that they can legitimately list on a résumé before they even graduate high school.” DreamYard Maker Jam, 2016. Source: DreamYard. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2022

When high school senior Cameron Samuels started attending school board meetings in the Houston suburb of Katy last year, they were typically one of only a few voices—and at times the only voice—speaking in support of student access to LGBTQ materials. We packed the room full,” Samuels says of the board meeting.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Ben Wildavsky, author of the new book, “ The Career Arts: Making the Most of College, Credentials, and Connections.” He is currently a visiting scholar at the University of Virginia’s School of Education and Human Development. And Roy Spence, chairman and co-founder of the global advertising agency GSD&M.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I was a certified high school math teacher, but like so many of my peers, I also taught advisory—working with students to develop their social skills and help them explore college and career options. I rarely felt underprepared teaching math, but in advisory I perfected the art of improvising. “Mister, why do we have to do this?

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Elisa Pupko had a problem when it came to parents scheduling their kids to participate in her Brooklyn-based theater arts program. Sawyer’s marketplace currently features activities aimed at children as young as 3 months up to high school students and subjects that range from science experiments to arts and crafts.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

She’s been gently encouraged by her art teacher to make her mark, but the blank page continues to intimidate her, until, in a fit of frustration, she makes one angry dot. After all, it’s her art. Vashti returns to school the next day to see her dot framed and on display.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

This spring, while educators were pivoting to new teaching frameworks from home, I witnessed students shifting into new roles too. I saw a brilliant high school student named Curtis help his father build a shed in the backyard and initiate a Black Lives Matter activism project.

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