Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Middle schoolers, they warned us, are unable to work at their own pace because they lack academic fundamentals, intrinsic motivation and basic time management skills. This is especially true for sixth graders, they said, who are managing a challenging transition to middle school and lack independence.

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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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Failure Assignments Communication Middle School 210

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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Teaching Assignments Learning Elementary School 161

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. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Robinson had to sort through her own math trauma. But she struggled with geometry.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. 00:00:35 Speaker 1 The math teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Buckle up and join us on this delightful journey through tech-savvy classrooms – from elementary school to high school – we’ll unlock a treasury of innovative ideas guaranteed to amuse the young minds while also preparing them for their future. Let’s dive in!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

When Mr. Jasper was an elementary school teacher he did a fine job of making connections and getting to know kids as people. He has since moved on to a middle school assistant principal position and I am confident he continues to care about kids much in the way he did when he was in the classroom. Check out this sample.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Take, for example, the distance learning plan created by Chaffey Joint Union High School District in California, which says that schoolwork completed by students through the end of the year can only preserve and improve grades, but not lower them. Many teachers watched their students brush off assignments and disappear from class.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. For others, he says, “We have to bring that into the school, into the family’s life, so they can see that their child can absolutely compete.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Moore: We are a small suburban school district (approximately 2400 students in two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school) located in Enola, PA that started the school year completely online. We develop playlists in OTIS and assign them to these staff members.

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Distance Learning Schools Assignments Coaching 170

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Personally, I have always enjoyed competition.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

AUSTIN, Texas — Even in elementary school, Luz Annette got into a lot of fights with other girls. At most schools, when kids do something suspension-worthy, you take away support,” says Reece Hartle, the middle school principal at Austin Achieve. “At At our school, they get more support.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. - Jill Hill “It was just a great chance to learn more about artificial intelligence and machine learning and how to encourage K-12 teachers to use more AI tools in their classrooms,” said Hill, the technology integration specialist at her middle school. EdSurge: How has your experience with AI Explorations impacted your practice?

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Intelligence Education Assignments Middle School 189

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sure, centers in elementary school made sense, but I wasn’t quite certain at first whether a middle school biology class could pull it off. At the end of September, it was time to give the students their group assignments and Kevin wasn’t the only one I was nervous about.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For all assignments, Laura responds with affirmative feedback with “glow or grow” information, meaning what students need to be aware of for future assignments or shares what they did great. Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson.

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Education Exams Motivation Elementary School 271

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Students are grouped by academic need so teachers can review topics with struggling students while the rest of the class works at their own pace, often on a playlist of exercises assigned by Canvas (grades 6-12) or Google Classroom (K-5). Tools used throughout Morris School District So, How Well Is It All Working?

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 147

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Is it ultimately the responsibility of a district to not only provide a student with a device, but also guarantee them access to anything they’re being assigned at school, at home? We have a class we call Tournament of Technology in our middle school geared toward design, coding, robotics, and video production.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Is it ultimately the responsibility of a district to not only provide a student with a device, but also guarantee them access to anything theyre being assigned at school, at home? We have a class we call Tournament of Technology in our middle school geared toward design, coding, robotics, and video production.

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Internet Accessibility Local Government Activities 283

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Create a vision that can scale: By contrast to Principe’s experience, we can see a shining example of scalable personalized learning in Jill Edwards’ district , where the successful student journey begins in the first days of elementary school and is clearly communicated to each stakeholder at every step along the way.

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Failure Learning Elementary School Elementary School 130

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2018

For the fall of 2016, the district had just built a new elementary school with an 802.11n wireless network from Cisco Meraki. We then followed up over the next two years with wireless deployments in both the middle school and high school. Select a Cloud Platform and Hardware.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The 2018 Niche.com rankings listed our district as one of the top 15 “Best School Districts in America” for the fourth year in a row. Four of our seven elementary schools are ranked in the top 20 schools in Pennsylvania, and our high school forensics team is recognized as one of the best teams in the nation.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 15, 2018

Google Forms are really my favorite tech tool,” said Brent Coley, principal of Alta Murrieta Elementary School (Calif.), When he worked at the middle school level, Coley said his staff had a lot of issues with students sticking gum on classroom furniture. But, they can also be huge in driving efficiency.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

At NPS, we've had our share of challenges, just like any other community, yet we remain a high performing, progressive school district. The district was the first in the state to open STEM Academies as part of their general public-school program. At the middle school level, they function as a school within a school.

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Beliefs STEM Laboratory Middle School 129

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

To make this shift, the district started by creating a pilot network of a few schools, dubbed “Lighthouse Schools,” that would experiment with transforming learning environments and essentially lead the way for the district. To read the other 13 school/district case studies, click here. According to the S.T.A.T.

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Communication Coaching Learning Elementary School 125

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Listening to her account, I was reminded of my own aggravations when dealing with adults as a young African American girl in middle school. TyKia, who had already attended a previous high school and was in danger of not graduating because of a lack of credits, explained that this type of treatment wasn’t uncommon.

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Teachers Learning Schools Elementary School 158

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Digital resources can save teachers innumerable hours of planning, grading, assigning, and assessing in the classroom. Most online assignments are auto-graded and scores are sent directly to a digital gradebook for teachers. Felicia Zorn has taught both middle school in Georgia and elementary school in Tennessee.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

Valenzisi’s district, located in southwestern Connecticut, comprises 11,600 students attending 12 elementary schools, four middle schools, two high schools, and one alternative high school program. Among the goals of the district’s IT department is to “seamlessly infuse technology at all grade levels.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

There’s a really interesting study of the Los Angeles Unified School District, which looked at grades and also performance on standardized tests in math for elementary school students. Teachers and schools are all very focused on what we do. I would encourage young elementary schools to really think about having a choir.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 14, 2016

This is apparent when students are asked to word process for other assignments. Besides, we want our children to communicate with digital effectiveness in elementary school! Middle School. So, at what age and how should we deliver keyboarding instruction? Keyboarding and the Scientific Method. Student workbooks.

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Intelligence Students Elementary School Elementary School 110

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. That includes librarians as well.

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History Culture Discussions High School 178

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One was Melissa Yarborough, a teacher at Navarro Middle School in Houston’s East End, which is home to one of the city’s historically Latino neighborhoods. While not targeted as a failing school, her campus became “NES-aligned,” meaning her principal opted into the New Education System. Map by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge.

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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. Lakya Taylor-Washington, Principal of Summit Elementary School in McComb. Two summers ago, our teachers underwent an intense training to prepare them for that jolt.

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Grades Testing Students Elementary School 110

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Sarah If you teach middle school, you already know about math anxiety. Sarah Riggs Johnson Nate Wolkenhauer Tier 4: “High Expectations, Flexible Means” Sarah When I support students, I’m very conscious of preserving the integrity of the test or assignment. They are more likely to raise their hand and offer up an answer.

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Math Testing Learning Failure 112

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Jamie Wong Baesa , a middle school math teacher who hasn’t seen her students’ faces since March. Geri Zamora , a high school history teacher who nearly lost a student to COVID-19. Kristen Stein , an elementary school teacher who enjoyed remote learning more than expected. Meet the First-Year Teachers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2024

The panel surveys about 2,400 school principals representing all grade levels. Elementary school teachers get about four hours of weekly planning time on average, which is 40 minutes less than their middle school counterparts and 49 minutes less than high school teachers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

69% believe it should be utilized for research in classrooms or at school. On the other hand, only one-fourth (25%) of parents with children ages 5 and up are very confident teachers will be able to identify assignments or essays produced by AI. 48% trust lesson plans and curriculum created with AI tools. Virgin Islands.

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