eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

“When using Foundations in Learning’s reading program Access Code , my language arts resource students made remarkable growth in their ability to tackle longer, multi-syllabic words, and this translated to better fluency and greater confidence. Christina Sorenson, language arts resource teacher, Henry Middle School, Cedar Park, Texas.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

  – 3M (@3M) and Discovery Education (@DiscoveryEd) named Sirish Subash, a 9 th grader at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology in Snellville, Georgia, the winner of the 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the nation’s premier middle school science competition.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This is the second part of a two-part story looking at how one school is piloting MIT research on playful assessments to measure student growth. 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. Read part one for background.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. Keep reading to discover how this school keeps learning going in the middle of a global pandemic. Nominee : Ron Clark Academy. Nominated by : Promethean World.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Seven months into its partnership with Achieve3000 , a Calcasieu Parish School in Lake Charles, La., saw greater than expected literacy gains on the Spring 2016 Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) for English language arts among middle school students regularly using one of Achieve3000’s differentiated literacy solutions.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Computer science is a liberal art, it’s something that everyone should be exposed to, everybody should have a mastery of to some extent.”—Steve Finally, you get to play, test, tweak, and share, (or not). Make School , formerly Make Games with Us is always a favorite; the beginner tutorial is free. ”—Steve Jobs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“D&D saved my life, I’ve seen it save and change the lives of others, and I watch as it shapes the lives of the children who learn to play in my class,” said Kade Wells, Harrisburg North Middle School ELA Instructor in South Dakota and founder of Building Heroez. My students’ test score growth doubled each time they tested.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

. –James Hood, Principal, Rodburn Elementary School , Rowan County Schools The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are transforming the educational landscape, ushering in a more integrated and dynamic approach to teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

The implicit bias of men matching with career and science while women match with arts and family, respectively, has changed over the decade for the better–that is, toward neutrality. Find out by taking a test designed to measure bias. Do you hold implicit gender bias?

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 29, 2018

Ray Allen Foundation Gifts Computer Lab to Miami-Dade Middle School to Help Bridge the Digital Divide. But the palpable excitement and energy in the auditorium at Lake Stevens Middle School in Miami Gardens, Fla., ricky.ribeiro. Tue, 05/29/2018 - 23:37. There’s nothing new about kids going wild for a basketball superstar.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Just as in classrooms nationwide, Montana’s teachers place an intense focus on supporting literacy in elementary school instruction. As a veteran teacher of 17 years who has taught in both elementary and middle school classrooms, I have found that there are a number of powerful edtech tools available to support student literacy.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2021

Through the partnership, new Virginia TSA school chapters can purchase Flinn Scientific’s WhiteBox Learning program at an exclusive rate to be used by students as they compete in regional, state, and national competitions that test their engineering skills. states and includes high school and middle school students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2018

When I taught middle-school English language arts and science, I remember taking over a classroom that had an old cabinet filled with science class materials, including bags of mini-marshmallows and boxes of toothpicks.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Some teachers create their own rules, from zero-tolerance approaches like confiscation to more relaxed policies like allowing phones unless a class devolves into chaos, according to Stephan Menasche, a senior at the 3,400-student school in Queens. She was glad that her school rolled out Yondr pouches in fall 2021.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2016

schools are working this year to give students more personalized lessons, ones that allow them to move ahead faster, if they are ready, or to get more tailored help, if they are struggling. “The testing industrial complex is not giving up easily, working eagerly to establish what could mean testing every day. .”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Many educators recognize that standardized tests don’t measure everything—and that some of the most critical types of growth can’t be measured by a numerical score. Seven years ago, during my first year of teaching, all of my eleventh graders failed the Georgia State End of Course Test in American Literature. Something didn’t add up.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

A university developed a course that meshes physics lessons with martial arts. An elementary school teacher discussed how math can be integrated into PE class–for instance, students can measure and make calculations related to how far they jump or how fast they run, or myriad other activities.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Suddenly, lessons on the physics of energy were tied to teaching kids how to be theme park engineers, and language arts and math lessons were anchored in running and marketing a profitable startup. It also helps that kids are most excited about school when they’re young. But it rarely starts any younger.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Fifty middle and high students participated in the pilot in courses including English Language Arts, Teen Leadership, and Business Essentials. The 10 lessons, along with a pre and post test, are aligned to CCSS ELA Anchor Standards & ISTE Standards.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I attended low-performing elementary and middle schools in San Francisco, and no one in my family had ever gone to college. A passing score on a statewide high school assessment, for example, could automatically trigger a student’s admission to public community colleges without remediation.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2019

And when he’s not spending time with some of his favorites—StarCraft and Hearthstone—he’s teaching middle school students how to build their own. It’s almost like a Language Arts activity in a lot of ways,” Isaacs says. Their classmates then test their game and give feedback. Steve Isaacs has long identified as a gamer.

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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. In our elementary school, FH Gizmos is a third-grade-run pop-up store. In school, subjects are traditionally taught in silos.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

AI tools have rapidly entered Language Arts classrooms. To explore this relationship, we interviewed 27 middle school writing teachers nationwide and looked at their teaching materials and student work. We wanted to understand better the relationship between teachers and the AI employed by the automated writing evaluation tool.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey. For Chrissy Romano-Arribito, the issues leading to demoralization were simple enough to name: testing and curriculum.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Since the days of “Oregon Trail,” educational games have teased at the possibility that learning in school can be freed from the doldrum of textbooks and tests. Yet building learning games—and selling them—is an expensive endeavor that tests patience and wallets, as several startups have learned. middle-school market.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

We have a class we call Tournament of Technology in our middle school geared toward design, coding, robotics, and video production. Were still testing kids just like we did in the late 90s. So, we test whether or not we covered content. AR: In the late 90s, theyd talk about how education will experience a paradigm shift.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

We have a class we call Tournament of Technology in our middle school geared toward design, coding, robotics, and video production. We’re still testing kids just like we did in the late 90s. So, we test whether or not we covered content. For 20-some years, I’ve been looking around waiting for a paradigm shift.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

Embracing the Art of Reading One of the most effective and time-honored methods for honing one’s writing skills is to immerse oneself in the works of accomplished authors and essayists. Cultivating a Writing Routine Akin to any skill, the development of effective essay writing abilities requires consistent practice and dedication.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

A former middle school teacher whose need for a better gradebook solution ultimately led him to found his own company, Hundsness and his team have spent the past 17 years evolving and developing Jupiter’s integrated systems to make the work of educators more seamless. It’s an iterative process, part art and part science.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

Two weeks ago I was due to visit a handful of innovative schools in New York City and the Bay area as part of my research. I am an edtech consultant and student of experience design at the University of the Arts, London. That’s the level of impact the school intends to continue to facilitate for its Bronx community.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2016

In response to this growing need, Tynker’s comprehensive, fun, game-based curriculum has been used by more than 50,000 schools to introduce students to computer programming. Tynker’s drone curriculum offers a structured approach to get elementary and middle school students flying drones in minutes. Tynker’s Drone Curriculum.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In 2015, as Arkansas implemented new learning standards and an end-of-year test, educators at Paragould School District received discouraging news: Their test scores were significantly below the state average. Using Data to Inform Instruction (Webinar for School Leaders). Their efforts have paid off. Edulastic Enterprise.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2018

Fleming says whether the district sets up a makerspace in an elementary school library, in a middle school classroom or in a high school cafeteria, each makerspace has a unique quality. There’s so much innovation in education today that teachers and administrators have to look beyond the walls of the school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook. How can I get away from that whole spin, wash, repeat cycle of: Here’s the study guide, take a test, forget what you learned, repeat? How can schools really make it a priority?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

For Robinson, the very concept of “school” becomes problematic when considering all of the other “incidentals and fiction” that have become attached to it over the last 50 years. One key example: standardized testing. education testing and support industry was a $16 billion business. In 2013 alone, the U.S. billion.)

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