eSchool News

JULY 28, 2021

NEW YORK – JULY 28, 2021 — Let Grow , a nonprofit promoting childhood independence, and Dr. Peter Gray, a professor of psychology at Boston College, recently published their study results on the positive effects of the lockdown on children in April and May 2020.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Reading fluency the ability to read accurately, automatically and with appropriate expression remains a critical yet often overlooked component of literacy development. students are not reading at proficient levels. By fourth grade, students transition from learning to read to reading to learn.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

NWEA research notes that students can lose up to two months of math skills over the summer, and reading abilities can also decline, particularly for students from underserved communities. For younger children, PBS Kids also provides games and shows that reinforce foundational skills in reading, math, and critical thinking.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

However, a recent study on the Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® (PowerUp) adaptive blended learning program found that PowerUp users outgained non-users by nearly 30 points. Lexia partnered with a mid-sized, Title 1 school district located in the Boston metropolitan area to evaluate PowerUp versus an alternate blended learning reading program.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2022

This model makes available ebooks and audiobooks on-demand in the Sora reading app to as many students as needed, with or without codes. Digital On-Demand Class Sets give schools the flexibility to allocate budget for assigned classroom reading even in situations where classes and rosters are not finalized.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

MADISON, WI – Today, Open Up Resources and Kiddom announced Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD ) has selected its top-rated EL Education K-5 Education Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for its 31 elementary schools in support of the district’s efforts to prioritize early literacy and beyond. Share assignments digitally; ? ABOUT KIDDOM.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. English Language arts teachers might want to create 5 ins and outs for reading, writing, language, and soft skills/study skills.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

I recently read 10 to 25 , a new book by David Yeager, one of the leading research psychologists in adolescent development and motivation. Studies have found that while many online learning programs can produce significant gains when used at recommended dosages, only about 5% of students actually use them as recommended.

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2020

Related content: In a time of crisis, a reading tournament scores big. In this vein, as a high school social studies educator, I have devised strategies to ensure that collaboration is incorporated into the classroom with an emphasis on critical thinking, problem solving, and inquiry. Collaborative song writing and art.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Reading proficiency requires the mastery of many complex skills. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Dr. Ness about the skills needed for reading, the most effective way to teach them and how Learning Ally’s Excite Reading can help. EdSurge: What does the science of reading show about the skills necessary to become a proficient reader?

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

I want the 4+ hours they have after school to be dedicated to exploring other interests–sports, instruments, playing in the backyard, building random art projects out of old boxes, and reading. ” As I read this, I felt guilty. My children spend 6+ hours in a classroom with their teachers each day. hours every other day.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

She needs to make slippers for my little brother as they follow the livestreamed art class.” For the most part, lessons for subjects that have been traditionally taught via blackboards and Powerpoint presentations—like math and reading—could still be delivered effectively using online tools. My mom is going crazy.

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Edsurge

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. The seed for the degree program was planted in 2016, when Husson received an anonymous $1 million donation to support the study and instruction of virtual reality.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The number of students choosing liberal arts majors is dipping. Bachelors of arts degrees in the humanities decreased from 36 percent in 1970 to 23 percent in 2016, according to data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. The parallel trends are caused by a mismatch between job seekers and employers, the study argues.

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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. It then generates personalized action plans that help students eliminate their trouble spots, and grow their reading and writing skills.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In an art class, a middle schooler drew a picture of her bedroom with colored pencils. For some students, art classes during the pandemic were a welcome escape; for others, they were a critical release—an opportunity for self-expression at a time of extreme stress and isolation.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

Whether exploring scientific phenomena, literary works, historical events, or visual art, observation is the foundation of deeper exploration and understanding. Art Analysis: Display a piece of art or a photograph and guide students through the routine. Next, students progress to the stage of “thinking.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Rather, Stinky Feet Day is the students’ hard-earned reward for reaching new benchmarks in silent reading. Silent reading is sometimes referred to as the “other fluency,” with oral fluency being the traditional standard-bearer. Yet, silent reading is a critical, albeit often overlooked, aspect of literacy development.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

But studying how the brain learns doesn’t necessarily mean memorizing proteins and brain chemistry. 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. This conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity.)

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Reading a Story: After reading a story with a surprise ending, the teacher could guide students to discuss how their predictions evolved as they read. This helps students understand the scientific process and how their understanding changed based on evidence. This promotes critical thinking and historical empathy.

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Edsurge

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.” My mom taught remedial reading, K-5.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

BOSTON In 2024, more than 2,600 districts, schools, and state departments purchased or renewed licenses to Lexia Aspire Professional Learning or the Lexia LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs. Dr. Akbar also praised the rubrics and assessments in the courses of study.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Liberal-arts colleges have long told students that they can major in whatever they want and still go on to a solid, and even lucrative, profession. Now Davidson is working to change that, for its students and for those at other liberal-arts colleges around the country. After all, plenty of English majors become lawyers and doctors.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Not being able to read has a profound effect on our self-esteem, social-emotional skills and imagination.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

“Around fourth grade, students transition from just reading for reading’s sake—or just for pleasure—to reading for understanding content,” he explains. But if students are reading inefficiently, it means they can’t get enough information from the text to develop background knowledge—or to acquire vocabulary.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Other components of the RPS literacy framework include Integrated Literacy which integrates English language arts standards, Next Generation Science Standards, C3 standards, and some health standards. The elementary schools use Units of Study Writing as the core writing resource aligned to standards.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Still, there’s an art to gamifying a lesson and ensuring that students are actually learning instead of just playing a game for points. There are a variety of reading and math apps and websites that cater to gamification, and even provide the opportunity for differentiation. Popular among students (and teachers!),

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

But as Eyler warns readers at the outset, he’s not a scientist himself, but a humanist with a PhD in medieval studies. Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity. EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science? It has by far been read more than any other blog post that we’ve written.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

Whether you teach ELA or another content area, chances are your students read in your class. And if they read, there’s a chance they might need to annotate. Hopefully this post can offer some strategies to help your students establish annotation as part of their regular reading practice. Read, stop, jot, explain.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2024

Over the past few years, more literacy tools have been using generative AI, either to accelerate children’s reading proficiency or to stimulate more reading interest. Using speech recognition technology to listen to a child read and using AI to offer feedback can be helpful as long as the technology is based on science-backed design.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Using Connect, Extend, Challenge at the Elementary Level Story Time Reflection Connect: After reading a story, ask students to relate a character or situation to something from their own lives. Extend: Prompt them to think about how the story might continue or how a character might act in a different setting.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2023

Featuring a dynamic and diverse group of educators, episodes offer age-appropriate content focusing on foundational reading, writing and literacy skills, with literacy coaches modeling best practices for using science of reading-based pedagogy.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Schools where students completed at least 40 reading activities (on average once per week) with the Achieve3000 Pro Georgia Edition saw the greatest growth, outperforming schools that weren’t using Achieve3000 by an average of 74 Lexile ® points. fourth-grade science and social studies. eighth-grade social studies.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Reading changes our brains. One study finds this to be particularly true for fictional stories, which allow readers to imagine themselves as other people, in other worlds, with different ideas and challenges. The effects of reading on the brain are also strongly influenced by the medium through which we read.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

On Wednesday, the firm announced it invested $50 million in a Series C round for Newsela , which offers an instructional content platform containing news and nonfiction articles at various reading levels. Sanchez says the platform saves teachers about five hours a week from searching for content online to use in a reading class.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

According to Fallon, “Students are living, shaping and immersed within a modular, meme-soaked, multimedia world, and video games are a dominant art form within that world.” We leveraged this format to mitigate the known weaknesses of read alouds, where students read portions of a text in class before a discussion.

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2024

. – Today 95 Percent Group LLC , the trusted source for comprehensive, proven literacy solutions, announced the Missouri Department of Elementary & Secondary Education approved its 95 Phonics Core Program ®, 95 Literacy Intervention System , and Sound Wall Classroom Kit as recommended English Language Arts Supplemental Resources.

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