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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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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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. “The This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

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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. And so forth.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In addition to the challenge of quickly adapting her teaching, Claffey also encountered an unexpected frustration: a class size of 60, featuring students from every elementary school in the district, which was later reduced to around 50 as new teachers were added. I’m doing my best, but sometimes kids just need that one-on-one time.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Provide personal questionnaires, pay attention to the extracurriculars students participate in and their behavior with other students. Tips for implementing this practice: Verbally encourage and allow students to share thoughts, questions, answers and comments. Take a genuine interest in students’ lives and passions.

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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?” This is a daily occurrence.

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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. In response, we created a tech team from among our staff to help advise the teachers and students with questions as they came up.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2017

Just this spring, a tech trend spun through the nation and it seemed as though almost every elementary school child was holding a fidget spinner. It was reported that the momentum of these small, ball-bearing devices provide a pleasing sensory experience, and therefore help hold the attention of those with ADHD or Autism.

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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?” This is a daily occurrence.

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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

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., But the exchange raised an interesting question about the expectations placed on educators during the pandemic.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

This number decreases further in schools whose students struggle to meet educational benchmarks, with teachers believing their time is better spent focusing on math, science and reading—in other words, the “testable” subjects. The EAD framework centers itself within the inquiry process encouraging student agency and authentic learning.

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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. .

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

I often describe how in its day the idea of using television to get children reading was considered “crazy” and experts questioned how this would encourage kids to read books. 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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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2019

While aesthetically pleasing, these may be a distraction to some students , such as those with attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. . The only question is how to ensure these spaces help move all students forward , regardless of their needs. by Jennifer Brown.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2022

Blockchain has gotten plenty of attention lately as a new mode of exchange, allowing experimental cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and the sale of NFTs in ways that leave an unalterable, fully transparent public record that tracks the transfer and ownership of digital things.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2021

But during the pandemic, online classes didn’t often allow the time for that individual attention. The platform provides teachers with a menu of steering questions, things like “How do you deal with stress or manage time?” or “What are you grateful for?” They need both to thrive.”

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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. School leaders asked: Which apps should we download? But when it comes to education and technology, this prevailing hypothesis is proving itself to be flawed.

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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

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” That means evaluating the curriculum’s illustrations, questioning the story lines, looking at the narratives laid out and the lifestyles depicted to scan for bias. “It didn’t sit well with us.”

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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? Microschools. What are microschools? Microschools have definitely made a mark in the K–12 landscape.

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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

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

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

DECEMBER 22, 2016

When students are beginning a Genius Hour project, they must first choose a researchable question; one where the answer will not result in a quick online search. Students then conduct research on their topic and question. Next, students must create something using their research that helps answer their original question.

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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. Hoping to Regain Attention of Students, Professors Pay More Attention to Them Getting and holding the attention of students is more difficult since the pandemic, according to many college instructors around the country.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

Because I did well in school, nobody was ever concerned. However, from the time I was in elementary school, it was difficult to complete assessments on time, and it always took me unreasonably long to finish homework in the evening. When I was in grad school, I had a teacher who carried a stack of name cards around the room.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

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. So, it was that, as well as the big shift in pedagogy that we were looking for.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

a text message prompts students to enter their heart rates and answer questions to put those numbers in context, including “what are you feeling” and “are you in a small or large class?” Can we correlate sitting posture and the attention of students?” Every three hours from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2017

In Panorama’s surveys conducted during the 2016-2017 school year in 68 schools, we asked teachers several questions about how possible it is for their students to change various qualities about themselves. We then compared teachers’ results with those from their students on analogous versions of these same survey questions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

But with the start of the school year around the corner, my typical new-school-year excitement was accompanied by sorrow. Much attention is given to teachers who leave, and rightfully so. Will our school recover? There are endless questions and worries. I know this because my cousins went to my school before me.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2020

Now, as a teacher myself, math is my favorite thing to teach,” explains Ward, a third-grade teacher at Bryan County Elementary School in rural Georgia. Let’s say the question is a division problem and 15 students got it correct, and five did not. They felt seen and reciprocated with their attention in the following class. “If

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York was hooked, in part because she says her school administration simply doesn’t have the time to observe teachers while tending to several other pressing concerns. “I This was giving me 100 percent quantifiable data on how many questions I asked and how often I asked them in a 90-minute class,” York says. It’s not a rubric.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Many of these accounts clearly illustrate both the challenge of answering the above question as well as the benefit and absolute necessity of doing so. Some of these educators will be joining us at the EdSurge Fusion Conference in October, working to help attendees find their own answer to this same question.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

The San Francisco-based startup helps teachers deliver engaging science lessons through a series of videos, discussion questions and lesson plans—all packaged as a “mystery.” with teachers using its materials on a monthly basis in 20 percent of elementary schools. The company claims it has reached 1 million children in the U.S.,

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