Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Most of my students immigrated to the United States within the last year, and all of them were English learners, thus making it difficult for them to complete the activity. Unfortunately, the sentiment within my supervisor’s response is not unique to the curricula design for English learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

Homework has been getting a lot of attention in the media. In the long run, I think this break from academic tasks beyond the classroom will actually keep students more engaged at school. Wasn’t the argument for needing a brain break after a long day at school just as valid for teenagers? hours every other day.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2024

The reason I even graduated from high school was because my mom ran into my English teacher at the grocery store when I was in 10th grade, and the teacher mentioned that I’d missed class–a lot, actually. But the parent conference was solely about my kid and had my full attention. I certainly can.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Our school is a five-year program that works to create first-generation college students. North Carolina is a leading state in the number of “early colleges,” which allow students to earn a college degree with their high school diploma. Children’s books are designed to grab the attention of the reader and keep it.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

Unlike Innocent, Muan moves slowly and does not like attention. Like Innocent she is 20 years old, but the eldest of four children, with two of her siblings also attending our school. Called Accelerate to Graduate (A2G) this program is being piloted at Iroquois High School in Louisville, Ky, where I teach.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete. For me it was Ms. This same approach would work in other classes as well.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

In recent weeks, viral videos have portrayed a teacher wrestling a student to the ground at McClatchy High School in Sacramento, a student tossing Florin High School’s principal to the cafeteria floor and a school police officer throwing a student out of her chair in South Carolina. At McClatchy High School on Oct.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It was with great trepidation — knowing that I could not live up to this model but wanting to do my best — that I took my job teaching social studies at a small public high school in the Bronx. I spent the next decade at that same small school, and my time there reshaped my view of what makes a good teacher.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We have 20 schools serving over 10,000 students. Of those, approximately 2,700 are English Language learners. As a result, over 500 of our students who were at-risk of dropping out have now earned their high school diploma. San Benito CISD (SBCISD) lies at the southernmost tip of Texas, right on the border of Mexico.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Key points: Showing up for your students in small ways every day can have a huge impact Students are learning from their teachers all the time–reaching out in thoughtful ways does wonders See related article: Balancing high expectations with relationship building to boost engagement Throughout my career, I’ve held many titles.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2024

A typical situation is that you are speaking the Spanish language at home, and then English in the school setting, and that's something that sometimes is seen as the de facto,” Gauna says. after moving from Mexico with her family, but she wasn’t placed in a program for English learners. Say it in English!” has nearly 41.8

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

We asked education experts to share their thoughts regarding student success priorities in 2025 (find 50 edtech predictions for 2025 here )–discover what they had to say: Across the country, there is growing consensus and demand for high school transformation.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Classroom walls don’t exist to Toni Olivieri-Barton, a library technology educator at Fountain Valley School. She specializes in using technology to connect students at the private day and boarding high school in Fountain with students worldwide to do projects together. She also taught in China.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

NCTQ also examined whether these tests devote undue attention to methods of reading instruction that have been debunked by research and can hinder students from becoming strong readers, such as three-cueing. Additionally, NCTQ checked whether these tests combine reading with other subjects.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I credit my old high school Spanish classroom for my discovery. In November 2022, after that school received a Bright Spot award from Governor Polis for academic growththrough the pandemic, I received an email from the principal. Outdoor school was a causal part of their success. Improved attention and cognitive function.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With college application season in full swing and the competition for acceptance into top schools more competitive than ever, students are turning to AI-powered tools for application support, reveals a new survey from Brainly. Students are looking for ways to save time and assure them that they are on the right path.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

High school transcripts indicated that STAR students who were in smaller classes for a minimum of three years were substantially more likely to graduate from high school. For a student, individual attention can make the difference between effectively developing skills and just coasting along.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

More than half of the student population is Latino, and many of these students come from poor households where English isn’t spoken. Most of our preschool kids who are native Spanish speakers come to school without anybody having read to them,” said Napa County Superintendent of Schools Barbara Nemko. Mention Napa County, Calif.,

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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. Many teachers watched their students brush off assignments and disappear from class.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

During a lesson, it was easy to see students’ reactions—if they were paying attention, confused, or engaged—and I could adjust on the spot as needed. In the time of TikTok, attention spans have waned. When 9/11 happened, my high school English teacher stopped our normal routine, rolled in a TV set, and turned it on.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

By doing so, the district believes they are helping build young learners’ knowledge of the scientific fundamentals that will drive future success in the subject in middle school, high school, and beyond. Editable, ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2025

Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my students' attention. This student, a recent immigrant from El Salvador, often struggles because of his limited English ability in core subjects like math, reading and science. Class, class! Yes, yes, they responded in unison.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That’s been the experience of Bill Bass, a former English teacher who now serves as an innovation coordinator at a school district in St. It’s his job to make sure edtech is successfully integrated into schools there. “If If a teacher brings a tool to [a district], they should pay attention. Louis, Missouri.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Students were asked to predict what percentage of people in a state speak a language other than English at home. I had a teacher that pushed the boundaries of my understanding of the world outside my private Catholic high school in Wheaton, Illinois. I use my voice to grab the kids' attention. He got me excited about U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2025

While the numbers improved slightly compared to the preceding school year, high schoolers with disabilities were two to six times less likely to have access to classes and programs that help students do well in college during the 2021-22 school year.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. The most common example of essay assignments as summative assessment is an analysis of literature in English class.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

By offering students a chance to experience realistic patient simulations, we aim to bring attention to the universal relevance of blood donation through experiential learning. We are excited to bring this valuable resource to thousands of high school students across America,” said Raquel Bidarra, U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2023

My parents didn’t have the tools necessary to help a half-Korean girl navigate school and life. Over the course of middle school and high school, I met a few other biracial kids like me. Could I be the teacher that I needed when I was in school?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Not every student and teacher will get along, and not every middle or high school teacher will be able to befriend each of their students. Yet schools, which exist to educate and take care of kids, are especially fertile ground for this type of everything-is-fine thinking. In other words, optimism. It can be healthy too.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

However, although MSD offers a hopeful counterpoint to segregated schools nationwide , there is still room for improvement. While growth is happening across the district, certain groups of students, including English Language Learners and low-income students, are experiencing less success than others.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

At his first college, right out of high school, the young man born in Zacatecas, Mexico, hoped to play for the football team. At his second college, close to his home in East Hollywood, he says that he had a bad experience with the instructor about an early assignment in a developmental English course.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Qooco , a smartphone app, aims to help users develop fluency in English and Mandarin Chinese. But front, center and occupying the most space in the demo hall were a group of high-school students, offering samples of tomato juice. What captured our attention, though, was an added aesthetic twist on the headsets: cat ears.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2024

Subject-Specific Certifications : Check for specialized certifications that demonstrate expertise, like TEFL for English or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) for IT subjects. So for instance if you are in the UK then finding reputable private GCSE English tutors is better than picking a practitioner from another part of the world.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2021

A high-level general-purpose programming language, Python is being hailed today as the best coding language for beginners, including kids and teens. In Python, one can write concepts in fewer lines of code, making it a very useful and fast choice for tasks, especially for beginners, including kids.

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