eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2019

The district has 33 schools, ranks in the top 6 or 7 in every category in the state, and is growing by 400 to 500 students per year. Biggest challenge: “In Florida, as in many states, we’d been given mandate after mandate about standardized testing, teacher evaluations, etc.,” says Bill Emerson, assistant superintendent.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside. If we want an active, informed and engaged republic, then commitment to those goals must begin in elementary school—if not earlier—and build momentum and depth throughout a student’s career.

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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. Bullying can happen throughout a lifetime but is most common in early adolescence (10-12 years old).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

Overall it reveals that educators, parents, and students want a balanced approach to K-12 testing that utilizes a variety of academic assessments designed to support and improve teaching and learning. Almost a year into its partnership with Achieve3000 , Margate Elementary School in Margate, Fla., A total of 708 U.S.

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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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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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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

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 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. Test: Go back to your humans to test them out. For me the answer lies in a trendy yet powerful framework: human-centered design.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Teachers tested prompt after prompt, and while the essays ChatGPT spit out weren’t exemplary, it was human enough for students to pass the work off as their own. Over the past year, we’ve been unlearning some of the restrictive practices of formulaic writing that students have been taught since elementary school.

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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. But of course, it isn’t a private school. In Washington, D.C.,

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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

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Despite many state standardized tests following the cookie-cutter approach of one-size-fits-all testing, educators every day are personalizing learning to meet the needs of individual students, meeting them at the intersection of their learning styles and the resources available to them. Student blogging helps provide.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It also helps that kids are most excited about school when they’re young. While enthusiasm can fade with age, at Qualcomm he noticed middle school students would still snap to attention when it came to the jobs they could one day have, the money they could make and their own interests.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

For instance, what’s the best time to take a test? When the school day is so packed with back-to-back classes and activities, how can students, parents and educators make the best use of time? There’s another study from Denmark, where students take standardized tests on computers. Improvements to standardized test scores.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

John Krajewski, the founder and CEO of Strange Loop Games, said game-based startups should find a way to test assumptions about their products early in order to avoid having a long period of risk where they’re unsure if their idea will work. It was a disaster,” he said.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Can we correlate sitting posture and the attention of students?” Victor Lee, associate professor of instructional technology and learning sciences at Utah State University, studied elementary school students who—outfitted with personal health trackers—analyzed their heart rates and step counts after they walked uphill and downhill.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

While teachers may always be the best line of defense for students falling behind, busy schedules don’t always permit the special attention and feedback that students need. AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores. Teachers Are Turning to AI Solutions for Assistance. eli.zimmerman_9856. Thu, 06/21/2018 - 15:06.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2016

The Cold War broadcasts interrupted TV shows with the message “this is a test of the emergency broadcast system.” Local volunteer fire departments conduct regular fire drills at the elementary schools. Some schools already send campus-wide text messages with class cancellations. Since then, the U.S.

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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. They can also use the Test Trainer Pro tool for asynchronous practice.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

with teachers using its materials on a monthly basis in 20 percent of elementary schools. Elementary school is often a forgotten place but it’s the most critical.” The company has tested the tool in nine school districts and charter management organizations, and plans to launch publicly in October.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Graham Glass, CEO & Founder, CYPHER Learning Finding new and innovative ways to support teachers will continue to be a priority for schools and districts this coming year and beyond.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

At Savannah-Chatham County Public Schools (SCCPSS) in Georgia, a three-school pilot in January 2020 grew into a district-wide online and offline reading program for students across its 34 elementary schools, according to Andrea Burkiett, director of curriculum and instruction for the district.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Still, in a city where math test scores are lower than average, some parents say even well-resourced programs backed by titans of the tech industry will only make a limited difference without broader interventions. “We It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

On those days, I would go over and give him some attention. In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them. Some days we would talk.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators. — Nicollette LeTellier, STEM Specialist for K-5, Swift Water Elementary School. And our HR department has pivoted to conduct employee interviews, testing, onboarding, and new hire orientations virtually.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The following stories offer a glimpse into how teachers, school leaders and researchers are using what we know about how people learn to improve schools and student outcomes that go beyond test scores, such as suspension rates and even the number of hours kids sleep at night.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

Since the Chromebook she’s testing out is compatible with any third-party stylus, Galanis is toying with the idea of asking students to find their own inexpensive models—which can cost as little as $10 on sites like Amazon—and adding it to their back-to-school supply lists.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

And thirdly, we believe that there will be more urgent attention paid to professional development for K-12 educators. — Nicollette LeTellier, STEM Specialist for K-5, Swift Water Elementary School. And our HR department has pivoted to conduct employee interviews, testing, onboarding, and new hire orientations virtually.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

Educators point to other barriers as well: During the last decade, the federal No Child Left Behind standards focused attention on core academic subjects such as math and English. Schools faced penalties if their students failed to perform well on tests that measured proficiency in those core subjects.

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Lab to Class

APRIL 21, 2025

School curriculums often focus on teaching students subject specific content such as math, science, and literature, but a newly released research study shows the importance of other soft skills such as emotional control, attentional control, and planning and prioritizing which together are often called Executive Functioning.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

And while not everyone agrees on an exact definition of this umbrella term, it’s frequently used to describe people who are on the autism spectrum, people with learning disabilities, and people with attention differences like ADD and ADHD, among others. But there are other ways that we can ask them to show that. How can we indicate?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Graham Glass, CEO & Founder, CYPHER Learning Finding new and innovative ways to support teachers will continue to be a priority for schools and districts this coming year and beyond.

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