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. Attendance and achievement predict students’ probability of graduating high school, which in turn predicts lifetime earnings.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. The effect is further exacerbated in high school, where in many states, students encounter U.S. But they weren’t reading from a textbook. They were roleplaying.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. Today, during parent-teacher conferences, a parent approached me and asked, “Did you used to teach at Meramec Elementary School?” Her classroom has great energy.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

High school students in need of advanced mathematics courses need look no further than Stanford University. “This course follows a high level curriculum developed in my department to prepare Stanford undergraduate students for math, data science, AI, engineering, and all other quantitative disciplines.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. Today, during parent-teacher conferences, a parent approached me and asked, “Did you used to teach at Meramec Elementary School?” Her classroom has great energy.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

“By the time the students are in about the sixth or seventh grade, they have a five-and-a-half year difference in their oral language skills compared with children who started with high language skills,” Burns said. parents read to their children every day, and that figure drops to 33 percent for parents with a high school diploma or less.

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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. For instance, students at Van Ness Elementary school in Washington, D.C.

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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. MORE FROM EDTECH: See how K–12 schools are using professional services to support their one-to-one device programs. 4 Best Practices for a Successful Help-Desk Program.

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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. How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students. Another big theme that emerged was a spike in student disengagement.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The implementation also helped address challenges with certifications and staffing for their early college high school and STEM high school–when they no longer had a university partner providing physical education credits, Edmentum filled that gap with highly qualified, state-certified teachers and award-winning curriculum.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

When he was in high school, Zachary Farley latched onto the idea of becoming a teacher. 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.

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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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Gaggle Speaks

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The conversation around mental health in schools has often focused on older students—those in middle school, high school, and even college—where the pressure to perform academically and socially becomes overwhelming. This shift demands urgent attention.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

From elementary school to varsity-level competition, student-athletes learn teamwork, communication, and the value of perseverance. This means students can take university-level courses while still in high school, getting a head start on their college journey at no additional cost.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. We were discussing the agenda when the topic of ChatGPT elicited a collective groan.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

I spend my summer at the Jersey shore unwinding on the beach, reading all the books I didn’t have time for during the school year and planning for September. I also spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how my son will adjust as he enters his first year of high school. Don’t take yourself too seriously!

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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. This decline was most noticeable in students’ views about their talent and academic interests.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

As it stands now, a high percentage of K-12 students never getting the tools and training they need to make informed financial decisions. Only a third of states require high school students to take a course in personal finance , while less than half require them to take a course in economics before graduating.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2018

That's a tempting enough prompt for teachers but it was actually the question that 3rd grade students at Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, NY, recently got to answer. Throughout the school year, the SAC conducts grant analysis for the district-wide innovative grants and projects the foundation funds.

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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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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

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next is a free after-school program designed to make tech more accessible to students of color, many of whom lack opportunities to explore STEM fields in middle and high school. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The engineers who participated liked working with kids, and many shared their frustrations with never receiving much targeted help with career development in school. In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2016

Local volunteer fire departments conduct regular fire drills at the elementary schools. Some schools already send campus-wide text messages with class cancellations. has experienced an uptick in school and campus shootings. Since then, the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

We thought about elementary, middle and high school. This time, we chose something different for the middle grades because middle school students are kind of a different band of learners. We knew we needed high engagement that would capture their attention and foster learning in a different way.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Good video games are incredibly effective at capturing our attention, converting extrinsic rewards into intrinsic motivation, and creating meaningful experiences. If we’re going to make school relevant to today’s students, we must learn to leverage play in new ways. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

In my visits to elementary, middle, and high schools around the country this past academic year, here are five tips I took away for how educators can get beyond the buzz to implementation. Start where there is nothing Picking a place to implement new ideas and models can paralyze a school.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2023

After a stint as a restaurant server, eight years working as a community crisis liaison, and the last three years as a restorative interventionist in a public high school, he’s learned how to read people, how to build their trust, and how to form meaningful connections with them. One of our kids attends the school that I work at.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

Henry was not thriving in his public elementary school. His grades were high, but apart from that, little else seemed to be going right for him. “He When Henry was in third and fourth grade, he would come home from school anxious, unhappy and complaining of migraines. BETHEL, Conn. and starting a family.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

Yet the large majority of California’s public high schools don’t offer dedicated computer science or computer programming courses, according to a Sacramento Bee review of teacher assignment data from the California Department of Education. There are roughly 2 million public high school students in California.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The story by John Woodrow Cox follows 10-year-old Uvalde survivor Caitlyne Gonzales as she seeks to heal from the horrors of the May massacre she witnessed in her elementary school classroom. Emily I can recall little else that moved me this year the way the Washington Post story, “ An American Girl ,” did. Read more from Emily here.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2017

They boast three mobile VR labs and one stationary VR lab for the district’s four elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school. Nearby districts and schools regularly look to POB for advice and leadership when it comes to implementing VR and using the technology to engage and teach students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Virtual learning assistants, or mentors, will, with human overseers, autonomously support personalized development: Imagine personalized learning journeys powered by AI agents that bring relevant topics to your students’ attention, based on your interests.

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