Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Schools are the ones legally responsible for protecting student data. And parents of elementary school-aged children, African-American parents, Hispanic parents and those with higher incomes report higher overall concern for this issue than other parents. Be thoughtful about what to use in the new school year.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. Kindergarten teacher Kelsea Heesacker comes in to chat with the school counselor and to grab a winter coat for a little girl who came to school without one. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Though they may not usually call themselves therapists, its relatively common for instructional coaches to think about their work in this way, according to DeAnn Huinker, a professor of mathematics education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

There have been plenty of adjustments to the classroom due to continued health precautions, and that has meant differences in what school supplies are needed. It’s the little things, like crayons, says Christine Slayton, a bilingual first grade teacher at Frank Del Olmo Elementary School in Los Angeles.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

From increased anxiety and depression related to unhealthy usage of social media , to our students’ decreased attention spans , it’s time to take a “less is more” approach. No, Edtech Minimalism doesn’t necessitate a complete abandonment of digital technology. That may seem counterintuitive.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2022

A version of this article first appeared at the Medium site of the Stanford GSE Office of Innovation and Technology. where elementary school students can select adventures and collect gifts as a result of learning core skills.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2021

But during the pandemic, online classes didn’t often allow the time for that individual attention. In her remarks, Chan mentioned Nottingham Elementary School , which closed for nearly four weeks after Hurricane Harvey in 2017, but invested in mental wellness and belonging in its recovery, and later saw test scores rise.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Not all students have reliable internet connections or devices, creating a digital divide that exacerbates existing inequalitiesespecially for younger learners in an online elementary school setting where consistent access is critical for foundational development.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

To understand how self-monitoring devices might impact education, first we need a definition of these technologies. According to Rich Voithofer, associate professor of educational technology at Ohio State University, wearables are an “intimate two-way interface between ourselves and the world.” Rich Voithofer.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. Sustaining its success for both students and staff requires continued attention and adjustments as the technology needs of our school community change over time.”.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. You never know who's paying attention.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

It focused on absences in early elementary school, between kindergarten and second grade. That means that because this is when the student’s relationship with school is being set, there are special considerations, such as how well the teacher understands the “handoff,” when the student is passed from the parent to the teacher.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

What if instead of having to compete with peers for the sun’s attention, it had room to grow in its own way, at its own pace? Although she was performing at grade level academically, she experienced increasing challenges with her attention, organization, peer interactions and behaviors at school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

For students who struggle, including children of poverty, telling them to pay attention or try harder isn’t going to accomplish much if their brains are not working effectively or efficiently. This is particularly true for students of poverty, who arrive at and often leave elementary school years below grade level.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. Work smarter, not harder.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We produced a three-part series on the issue called “ Attention Please ,” and two of those episodes made our list. So what can educators, policymakers and any lifelong learner gain from these new insights? It takes more these days to hold students’ attention and convince them to show up. What Will ChatGPT Mean for Teaching?

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. They (rightfully) paid attention to trauma and marginalization but missed the joy, creativity and production of BIPOC culture.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

But in addition to being an important outcome, learner agency may also be an undervalued resource for schools, especially when they have less control over how to structure students’ time and attention. The impacts of COVID-19 are highlighting at least three ways in which schools can benefit from nurturing students’ agency: 1.

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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. Share your “out-of-school” life: Think about all the projects you probably did in elementary school where you had to bring in pictures or cut out images from magazines to represent your life.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Over the past year, we’ve been unlearning some of the restrictive practices of formulaic writing that students have been taught since elementary school. Once they were done scoring, the students determined that the computer was no match, confirming that it lacked the specificity, musicality and soul that their writing exhibits.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

But for a child to thrive in those three areas, she needs to know how to self-regulate her emotions, behavior and attention. Schools, she argued, can’t ignore those students who are undergoing severe issues in their home and personal lives. Rosa Perez-Isiah, the principal of Lucille Smith Elementary School in Lawndale, Calif.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

Charter schools educate six percent of America’s children, but get an outsized amount of attention , pro and con. Partly because charter schools represent change: Charter schools have grown more than sevenfold in the last twenty years. If you’re an education wonk, you have an object of study in your own backyard.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2021

In addition, the three finalists for the award are: Grand Island Public Schools in Nebraska, Hancock Place Elementary School in Lemay, Missouri, and East Stroudsburg Area School District in Pennsylvania. All of the awardees and finalists were chosen from nominations submitted by educators from across the United States.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

In the fall of 2017, Green Springs Elementary noticed in the results of a Panorama SEL survey that students’ grit—their ability to persevere through setbacks to achieve important long-term goals—was at the 20th percentile compared to elementary schools in Panorama’s national database.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Many have lacked the social skills to interact with their peers, the ability to follow instructions and stick to a routine, the attention spans to sit through an entire story read aloud in class, Lambert says. Phoenix-Talent may be a more dramatic example, given the added impacts of the wildfire in 2020, but it is far from an anomaly.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

At the beginning of the year, Layla and her parents were concerned that her classes would be too easy for her; she had excelled at everything in elementary school and is both self reflective and motivated. Take a student of ours named Layla. In effect, this has freed us to focus on students’ self-management skills.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Student Blogging What it is: Providing students with an authentic audience is another powerful way that educators can personalize learning for their students. Having peers across the globe read and comment on my students’ posts causes my students to pay closer attention to what they are writing and sharing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2024

Media Literacy Education Many students start using social media when they’re in elementary school, Reich says, before they’re typically presented with school-based education on digital media literacy. This seeming competition for attention can be particularly hard for adolescent users to turn away from.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Design has gotten a lot of attention in popular culture recently, from the New York Times magazine’s Design Issue last fall, to a best-selling book about how to design a meaningful and fulfilling life. So how do we know we’re contributing to the solution and not aggravating the problem?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Districts are increasingly turning to teletherapy to help students who won’t necessarily get seen by limited school mental health professionals, who are usually called to intervene with students experiencing a crisis. Some edtech companies are turning their efforts to mental health, and mental health tech is turning its attention to students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Tannenbaum shares what shes learned about supporting early childhood educators in using technology with young learners. By Emily Tate Sullivan In December 2023, EdSurge published an in-depth look at a new child care model in Michigan, called Tri-Share, that has garnered much attention. Now Others Are Replicating It.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

After a certain amount of time, groups rotate, allowing everyone to get personalized attention from the teacher. The station rotation model is utilized across the district, at the elementary, middle and high school level, in both bilingual and mainstream classes. Meanwhile, In High School and Middle School.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2017

When we examined responses from elementary, middle and high school students, we found that students’ favorable views decreased as they grew older and progressed through school. These data suggest that what’s appropriate for developing stronger mindsets in elementary school may miss the mark for what’s needed for high schoolers.

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