eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2017

Unbeknownst to parents, all first-grade classes in a suburban Los Angeles elementary school were successfully taught by teacher robots during the 2015-2016 school year. The frontal lobe controls problem solving, self-monitoring, organization, and attention/concentration. Only one parent was in on the secret.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

One reason we chose MidSchoolMath is that the middle grades represent the critical time in a student’s academic career. When the Santa Fe Public School system had to select a new math curriculum last year, they went in search of something that met their pedagogical needs and best served their unique school population.

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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. Provide personal questionnaires, pay attention to the extracurriculars students participate in and their behavior with other students. 1: Teacher-student relationships.

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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

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. This could be using a guitar to sing songs, puppet animals, and more. The sky’s the limit.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

“Part of it is that they just were not prepared, I guess, for that many people to say that they wanted to be online,” says Claffey, who teaches third grade. “So I don't feel like I can give them what I could give them in the classroom as far as individual attention and differentiated lessons. Claffey’s is hardly an isolated case.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. The study focused on students’ academic achievement as measured by their most recent self-reported nine-week report card grades. Torres et al.,

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

Charlotte, NC — New Mexico’s Aztec Municipal School District (AMSD) today announced the renewal of its multiyear partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in three district elementary schools. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Consequently, for the simulations to be effective learning experiences, I must then teach them the foundational knowledge they should have been taught in younger grades. This can eat up days of instructional time before we’re ready to dive into grade-appropriate topics. This is not just a problem for teachers like me.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2019

Emerson says there was a huge culture shift, but thanks to the five-year plan Discovery designed, they rolled it out slowly, starting with four innovators at 20 elementary schools. a lot of attention, be careful to not diminish everyone else. When you give something like this STEAM Innovate!

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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

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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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

Chrissy Romano Arrabito teaches second grade at an elementary school in Hackensack, N.J., The school is located just a few miles outside New York City, the epicenter of the crisis in the U.S., Amy Mason, principal of Madison County Elementary School in Gurley, Ala., So where does one draw the line?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

” Her experiences with the new and growing field of global education caught the attention of Julie Lindsay, an Australian teacher, author and founder of Flat Connections , an online collaboration program. Her work in opening up the world for students began at those schools and has continued at Fountain Valley.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2017

Teachers are understandably wary about fly-by-night initiatives that take time and attention away from their teaching and give back little appreciable benefits. We use Chromebook carts for K-5 students and offer iPad carts that teachers can check out on demand. There’s no staff buy-in.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2016

Children in the Mehlville district may have the chance in two years to attend an elementary school with an alternative curriculum — one that uses real-world problems to help students learn and without the restraints grade levels sometimes place on learning. which has received national attention after it opened in 2014.

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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. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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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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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

SoWashCo Schools is a suburban district located southeast of St. Paul and serves students across 16 elementary schools, 4 middle schools and three traditional high schools. The Discovery Education Science Techbook series is a comprehensive, research-backed digital science solution for grades K-12.

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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? And, like her peers nationwide, her transition to first grade in the fall of 2021 was a challenging one. When I requested to have her evaluated for additional support at school, I was told to give her time.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis. –Dr. . This is how Deeper Learning is fostered.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

This is no easy task considering the reading gap continues to widen between lower and higher income students and the majority of our children do not read past a fourth grade reading level. Yet Reading Rainbow quickly proved to be more than a summer program and instantly captured young audiences’ attention and motivated children to read.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The children who heard more words were better prepared for learning when they started school, Hart and Risley found—and these same children, when followed into third grade, had larger vocabularies, were stronger readers, and got higher test scores. This is “driving vocabulary acquisition and attention,” Weil said. “It

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

West Elementary School Principal Lisa Vargas-Sinapi had a practical solution: Let’s move the bus stop. When kids are sick, they’re offered appointments at the school’s health clinic. Schools paid attention to younger children, in particular. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Learning Counsel has released the results of its third annual Survey of school and district digital curriculum strategy and transformation, sponsored by Ruckus Wireless. The survey found that 78 percent of students nationally have access to a computing device for a good portion of the school day or the full school day.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Chambers of commerce across 27 states will host in-person contests in their communities this school year. Located in Boerne, TX, Boerne ISD is a PK-12 school district with over 10,000 students across 12 campuses.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

While barely a blimp on the global scale, it could impact learning trajectories for millions of American students and have a significant impact on the conventional model of schooling. What warrants this attention? They can also change the fundamental cost structure of schooling. Microschools. What are microschools?

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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

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. But it also illuminates just how little value schoolwork has, from some students’ perspectives, except to feed a grade.

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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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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The “decoding threshold” refers to the point at which students can read text accurately and efficiently, allowing them to independently comprehend grade-level text. The findings give us a clearer understanding of what supports many older students need to read on grade-level.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. According to a study by the National Center for Education Statistics, nearly 60% of students report feeling bored during class, a clear indication that the traditional model often fails to capture attention.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

A first grade student is trying to read a passage on her iPad. Amira Learning is only one of a slew of edtech companies that have leveraged the advancements in voice-based AI to help improve foundational reading skills for learners from kindergarten right up to fourth grade. A digital avatar Amira, clad in olive green, is listening.

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