eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Oak Heights Elementary School in Sweet Home, Ore., MobyMax … finds the holes in my students’ academic experience and fills them, contributing to a rock-solid foundation,” said Tim Swanson, a second-grade teacher who is also the school’s technology coach. grade levels after an average of 26 hours using MobyMax.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2018

The mentoring program gives students a chance to participate in community activities, engage in conversation with students in different grades, and demonstrate their SEL learning overall. Rather than always following a strict curriculum of assignments, give students the opportunity to work on passion projects.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

At some point, though, our experiences at the same Florida elementary school diverged. While my colleague was asked to lead a grade-level team, I was tapped to head up the school’s Black History Month programming. After school, she oversaw academic enrichment while I supervised detention. I am a Black man.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

In response, I’ve adapted my teaching approach to make assignments more interactive. These days, I’m assigning far less homework and have shifted away from busywork toward more purposeful and enriching activities. Nancy Chung is a 5th-grade teacher at Orchard Hills School and host of The Schoolyard Podcast by School Specialty.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

West Oxford Elementary School. Granville County Public Schools. “If Before school closures, what did a typical day look like? Before school closures, what did a typical day look like? At the school, I am a half-time ESL teacher and a half-time Instructional Support Coach. Ann Grey Newcomb. ESL Teacher.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. Sixth grade teachers can also facilitate collaboration. newsletters.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2019

Multimedia presentation tools can reduce student anxiety by encouraging a creative approach that not only builds design and tech skills but also can turn an intimidating final assignment into a fun experience. Grades: 2–12. Grades: 3–12. Grades: 6–12. Grades: 8–12. Grades: 8–12. Shadow Puppet Edu .

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. Sixth grade teachers can also facilitate collaboration. newsletters. I’m New Here.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Online learning has become a growing trend among K-12 students, including elementary students. In fact, we successfully launched our own online elementary schools, which grew by 10,000 students over the past four years. For example, what do your teachers and staff do when a student stops responding or submitting assignments?

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2021

Palo Alto– Osmo for Schools announces that it has supplied the Cincinnati School District with various Osmo for Schools learning systems which will be implemented into 50 classrooms by the start of the fall semester (August, 2021). Cincinnati schools recently reopened to full-time, in-person learning on April 1. “At

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

forming teacher-student relationships was highlighted as the top instructional practice for driving engagement across all grade levels and subjects. This result was consistent across grade levels and subjects. 1: Teacher-student relationships. With an average score of 4.6 Revisit expectations frequently, so that they aren’t forgotten.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief. “I They’re providing additional flexibility, assigning and grading less homework in light of the pandemic. We are where we are. The world has shifted.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

With the onset of the COVID virus, millions of PreK to Grade 5 students across the U.S. may have fallen critically behind in the basic skills they need to become good readers and be successful in school. Debee Tanzer of Tamarac Elementary, Florida, states “I have used HearBuilder in my therapy room for two years now.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

SALT LAKE CITY — June 28, 2021 — Today at ISTE Live 2021, Instructure launched the Canvas for Elementary user experience, a combination of features that make Canvas more user-friendly for elementary students. Easy-to-access tabs provide overviews of schedules and grades for all subjects. Personalization & Welcome Features.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

According to one of our Grade 6 teachers, Shannon Diven, her students could read but could not pull out details from the text to expand answers, explain answers, or to develop a piece of writing around the text (basically, reading comprehension). But achieving that goal isn’t easy. Authentic Reading Experiences Wanted.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Using Panorama Education s data platform to monitor attendance, student well-being, and academic performance, schools in Racine USD equip educators with valuable insights that enable them to design targeted strategies that tackle absenteeism at its root. We hold grade-level homeroom challenges with ice cream or a pizza party as a reward.”

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2019

As part of the Learner Variability Project, which “seek[s] to uncover strategies to meet learners where they are across varied contexts and needs,” Digital Promise’s team is examining the key factors for different grades and subject levels that impact student learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2018

In the video, Robinson challenges schools to promote and inspire creativity, but it’s difficult to know where to start, and some teachers aren’t sure if it’s possible. “I I don’t think creativity can be taught,” says Rayna Freedman, a fifth-grade teacher at Jordan/Jackson Elementary School in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As someone who has dedicated her career to making the world a better place through the education of our children, I was excited to learn that tablets and computers are nearly commonplace in elementary school classrooms across the nation. Is the content mapped to curriculum standards?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

SplashLearn announced Ann Salway’s class from Abner Creek Elementary School, South Carolina as the National Champions of SpringBoard Math Challenge 2021. Many weekends, I sat by my computer to respond to students who emailed me asking for more assignments! said Ann Salway, teacher of the winning class. About SplashLearn.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Math selfies, QR codes, and Kahoot games enrich one school. The district launched the program this school year, supplying 42 teachers across all grade levels and subject areas with iPad Minis, Google Chromebooks or laptops for a cost of about $475,000. They wanted to see the innovative ways educators are using such technology.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2017

Millennials might also recall seeing these systems introduced to classrooms during elementary school, and that’s because Apple made a massive push in penetrating the education market throughout the ‘90s by exposing millions of children to this product. Likely you saw these computers in ads, store windows or even owned one yourself.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Huinker, who was once Robinsons instructor, argues that math-specific instructional coaches like Robinson are crucial, especially for elementary school students. For instance, an often cited study showed that first-grade teachers with math anxiety passed it to their female but not their male students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 11, 2017

But starting today, Classroom makes it a lot easier for teachers to assign work to individual students and groups based on their unique needs. As they’re creating an assignment, post, or question, teachers can choose whether to share it with the entire class or only with a subset of students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

McComb School District down in McComb, Mississippi doesn’t just believe in the power of technology when it comes to personalized learning. At Summit, “scholars” are grouped by readiness and performance—not by traditional grade levels—and indicate evidence of mastery by completing projects at their own pace.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Students in younger grades can be paired with teams of students from other schools to talk about housing, transportation and religion, for example. “You can explore what’s unique about your school, what classes you have, what sports look like in your country, what play time looks like,” Olivieri-Barton said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

For those who can, it’s become abundantly clear that grades alone are insufficient to motivate learning. According to Rocky Bragg, a high school English teacher in the district, this policy has created some havoc. According to Rocky Bragg, a high school English teacher in the district, this policy has created some havoc.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

When we decided that we’d be giving our sixth-grade students control over their own learning this year, our colleagues told us we were crazy. This is especially true for sixth graders, they said, who are managing a challenging transition to middle school and lack independence. Here’s how we do this in our own sixth grade classrooms.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

Five years ago, I ditched whole-class lectures in my fifth grade brick-and-mortar classroom in favor of small group rotations. Left: A third grader works on adaptive software in a station rotation blended learning classroom; Right: A third grader designs her own company logo as part of an assignment from her Google Classroom playlist.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

These online tools make it simple for teachers to send class materials, grade assignments, conduct assessments and monitor student progression. Meanwhile, students can seamlessly collaborate with classmates , submit assignments digitally and access class materials outside of regular school hours. .

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k12 Digest

MAY 6, 2025

He is an elementary school principal with over 20 years of experience in administration, and over 25 years of experience in education. Matt started his career as a 5th-grade teacher in the Spring-Ford Area School District. In our district, one major issue was disruptive behavior in elementary school cafeterias.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

She was teaching fourth grade when a new integrated curriculum focused on careers was introduced district-wide—and it was making her lessons more relevant to the real world. It’s here that Brandt teaches, at the Cajon Valley Union School District, which serves about 16,000 students through eighth grade.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The new parent access feature allows parents to see what their children are learning, allowing them to view upcoming assignments, grades, and feedback by simply logging in. Joanne Lau, a Grade 1 and 2 teacher at David Livingstone Elementary School in Vancouver, BC, explains the benefit of giving parents access to student work.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

On that last point, my school, Shiloh Elementary School in Monroe, N.C., Currently, we have one immersion class—taught full-time in Spanish, with the goal of “immersing” or teaching Spanish to speakers of other languages, like English—in each of our Kindergarten through third grade classrooms.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“I think every child needs to have some kind of reading intervention,” says Ballone, a former seventh-grade English teacher. “It If it means we need to give students material one, two or three grade levels above what they are reading in order for them to progress, that’s what we do.” By grade five, they were reading on grade level.

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