eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

Although I love teaching all subjects, I always choose English/language arts and social studies, in part because I love the challenge of engaging young leaners in these important subjects. However, the digital resources are not enough—they need to be applied within the context of effective, classroom-tested strategies.

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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

This is achieved through strong academics tailored to different learning styles, leadership opportunities, service projects, and a vibrant community of clubs, sports, and the arts. One of the standout features is its STREAM program: Science, Technology, Religion, Arts, and Mathematics. At the end of the day, success at St.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

After politics and religion, few issues are as contentious as standardized tests. To some, standardized testing overwhelms our schools and helps eradicate differences between students. Whatever your thoughts, there’s no denying that students are taking lots of tests. students were taking about eight tests a year.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The past 18 months tested everyone, and few were more tested than teachers. With that knowledge and those resources now available to supplement learning taking place in the classroom, teachers can consider integrating new activities, like making digital art or creating podcasts into their lesson plans.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

An integrated STEAM education also puts students on the path to success with higher test scores, stronger attendance records, better disciplinary records, and increased engagement and graduation rates. Makerspaces are a great example of STEAM learning, letting students combine creativity and art elements into more traditional STEM topics.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2022

The COVID pandemic has tested everyone, and few were more tested than teachers. With that knowledge and those resources now available to supplement learning taking place in the classroom, teachers can consider integrating new activities, like making digital art or creating podcasts into their lesson plans.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Adding IXL Language Arts to the list ensures that eligible local education agencies across the state can request reimbursement for purchasing the platform to enhance early literacy instruction. IXL is currently used by 20 percent of students in Missouri, accounting for more than 210,000 students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

And perhaps most novel, instead of traditional tests, they’re using “Sparkle Sleuths,” one in an emerging set of assessment tools to measure their mastery. The middle school has been in operation for 10 years, with innovation and the arts woven into its original charter. The seven Maker Elements determined by MIT.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. IXL is used by nearly 40 percent of all K-12 students in Kentucky, accounting for more than 283,000 learners.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

English language arts (ELA) standards identify a set of foundational skills students must master in their progression to becoming skilled readers. K-5 student test scores plummeted in math and reading nationwide this year, erasing two decades of progress. Letter knowledge should also include letter-sound correspondence.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2020

are struggling with reading and the gap is widening, according to recent NAEP testing. As a language arts teacher and learning specialist, I have been alarmed by the decline in vocabulary knowledge I’ve witnessed over the years. Two-thirds of students in the U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

Over the course of the three-day event, these highly skilled students were tested on their knowledge of renewable energy, their design and problem-solving skills, and their wind turbines’ energy output by a team of renewable energy educators and industry professionals. Team scores were based on their performance on three tasks.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Test-optional and test-blind admissions in recent years could mean a radical expansion of access to selective colleges. The patchwork of admission test policies in college admissions underscores a larger challenge—and opportunity—for both K-12 and higher education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Key points: Crafts can help students develop skills needed to succeed in the 21st century 4 key findings on student engagement More gifted students need accelerated paths For more on deeper learning, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Who doesn’t love arts and crafts? Instead of just making a model, push students to optimize their designs.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Educators throughout the state can now administer the diagnostic as a beginning-of-year and mid-year assessment to measure students’ overall grade-level proficiency in math and English language arts based on Virginia’s Standards of Learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Now, with the evolution of art in STEAM, educators have the opportunity to structure their coursework in non-traditional ways that create excitement and fun around learning. There is an art form to teaching STEAM principles in creative ways outside of writing out math equations that make kids excited to go to school and learn.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

Teacher prep programs are failing to pay attention to the content knowledge teacher candidates need, and an astonishingly high number of elementary teacher candidates fail professional licensing tests teach year, according to a new report. Lightning and Thunderstorms”) to benefit a teacher who lacks a broad knowledge of science.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science? We actually wrote a post for our Teaching Center’s blog with that title, “Is teaching an art or a science?” They have a hypothesis of what they think will help students learn, and they’re going to test it out and then learn from it and revise. I think there’s a real art to that.

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Teach Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If you’ve been a teacher for a while, you already know how much standardized tests shape everything from what you teach to how you’re evaluated. These tests seem to influence how you prepare lesson plans, so you may feel pressured to “teach to the test” rather than foster a love of learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2024

Local industry professionals are a powerful resource pool of work-based knowledge and skills, but require varying levels of preparation before teaching a class. Additionally, these teachers can bring specialized skills in critical subjects such as STEM, foreign languages, and the arts–areas where shortages are often most pronounced.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

As more and more students were educated with their peers, we started to realize that having all students read the same book and take the same test doesn’t work. Although this allowed students to access knowledge, they weren’t empowered to become learners and make choices for themselves. Our job is to teach them as they come.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

Artful annotation inspires them to record their responses in their own unique ways. Andrea Castellano Irene Yannascoli High School Process: Collaborative Annotation Whether at the secondary or elementary level ( click here to jump up to elementary), the art of annotation is in making it meaningful. Responsive annotation does just this.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2021

Surveying the obsessions that dominate instruction time in many classrooms, including standardized tests, Newstok finds them at odds with the practices that he believes are essential to developing a “fully deployed mind” like Shakespeare’s own. That's a complex art.”

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

When I first became principal, I was compelled to explore all aspects of what it meant to be a 21 st -century learner in an international baccalaureate context: as a global citizen, as a collaborative co-creator of knowledge, as a caring human being. She ended up doing an art installation and website on the theme “Rightfully Ours.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

MCSD narrowed the gap between its test scores and the state averages on 12 tests this year: third-grade English language arts, science, and social studies. fifth-grade English language arts, math, science, and social studies. fifth-grade English language arts, math, science, and social studies. high school biology.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We agree with the bedrock premises of the NVACSS,” said Catherine Cahn, CEO of Twig Education, “such as the idea that children are born investigators and that science and engineering require both knowledge and practice. Twig Science is my pixie dust,” said Julie, a 4th grade teacher. “It They can’t wait for the next lesson.”. “We

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

In my course students will be asked to explore the connection between computation and graffiti, through the engagement of people who use code to reimagine this cultural art form. However, test-takers were overwhelmingly white and male, according to data from the College Board, which administers the AP test. This isn’t new.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

So scientists around the country have been teaming up with band educators to try to test what is and isn’t safe when it comes to music education, and what kind of protective gear or PPE works. And then that trickles down into [training K-12 teachers in] music, education, art education, dance and theater. How does the experiment work?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

In a time when we are expecting students to graduate with authentic learning experiences and real-world skills in addition to academic knowledge, vibrant learning projects like this will become much more popular and widespread. Students are engaged and invested in a project that has local benefits!

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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. Gale has 500 employees globally with its main operations in Farmington Hills, Michigan.

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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.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The acquisition of Emmersion deepens IXL Learning’s line of language and literacy products, which include the world-renowned Rosetta Stone , IXL English Language Arts , Vocabulary.com , SpanishDict , inglés.com and Fluencia. Emmersion’s cofounders, Brigham Tomco and Dr. Jacob Burdis, will remain with the company.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 11, 2016

Fifty years ago, Albert Einstein warned ‘Imagination is more important than knowledge.’ Art and music have long been considered the doorway to creative thinking. I didn’t test this out. This is not so much a negative as a warning: The museum collection includes early modern and contemporary art.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Terms such as “professional learning communities” and “data-based instruction” take the focus off of children as developing human beings, and force conversations to be about standardized data points from benchmark tests and high-stakes standardized assessments, which can dehumanize the way we address student needs. What do teachers want?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Tests were administered via digital devices (though there are options for paper-and-pencil). Besides measuring student achievement, they also were an indicator of school facility to administer green digital tests instead of the traditional paper-and-pencil versions. It boils down to five tech areas. Will students get used to that?

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2017

To give our students every opportunity to improve their literacy rates, we first acknowledged that teaching language arts in one class alone wasn’t enough. At the time, 32 percent of our students were testing below grade level in literacy. Next page: Teaching teachers how to provide literacy instruction; seeing results).

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