eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

The impending STEAM worker shortage is no secret, and districts are working hard to ensure their students have early and frequent exposure to STEAM learning. In fact, early exposure is key to keeping students engaged in progressively challenging material. Keeping girls engaged in STEAM seems an uphill battle at times.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

On the 10th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on student engagement. Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. These adaptations do not need to be complicated either.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. If, like me, you work with younger students, you might have even seen one or two get up and start wandering the classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A different approach to teaching mathematics is needed—one that develops data literacy for all students. Not only would such an approach be more relevant and increase student engagement, it has the potential to reduce the widespread vulnerability to misleading information shared via social media. In most districts in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

When visitors step inside Lone Star Middle School, they notice a palpable enthusiasm for learning. Part of Nampa School District in Nampa, Idaho, the school fosters a remarkable culture of collaboration among educators and a dedication to powerful teaching and learning with technology.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2022

Shea Smith starts the middle-school digital media class he teaches with a ritual: He asks his students to open up their Chromebooks and answer a simple question, “How are you feeling today?” The students answer on a Google form by clicking on one of three emojis—a happy face, a straight face (indicating “Meh”) or a frowny face.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2021

Jackson Middle School moved to remote learning, and suddenly the steps to co-teaching weren’t the same. Working in a separate room, Nesler’s co-teacher couldn’t see students' responses to assessments and questions on Pear Deck’s teacher dashboard. We can see that we do have students engaging and participating.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As our new normal continues on and we begin 2023, I’m reflecting on what my students and I lost in 2022—and what we’ve gained. As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. In 2021, U.S.

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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

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. Middle schoolers need this kind of structure for familiarity.”

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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. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. A big part of the school structure is supporting students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2024

Part of why Lim wants to change how educators and parents talk to each other is because TalkingPoints is turning its attention to how communication can potentially lower chronic absenteeism. The app’s use for that purpose is being piloted in 29 districts with a collective 89,000 students. But are they quality conversations?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. Hidalgo began to envision a program where students would learn about their interests and natural abilities and tie them to specific careers covered in their core curriculum.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

The sample size was large enough—more than 1,000 students in seven states and in schools with differing student bodies, socioeconomic factors, and geographical locations—to answer the hypothesis in a statistically significant manner. Full size image here. But it’s not enough.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

“Teaching with high-quality instructional materials has a direct impact on student learning outcomes. With its adaptive learning and innovative instructional design, enVision provides educators the high-quality curriculum they are looking for to increase both student engagement and achievement.”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In Baselice’s game, each team of students represents one of the countries that initially started the war, and the objective of the game — played with index cards and a lot of negotiation between the teams — is to understand all the interconnected events that led to conflict breaking out. The role of the facilitator is key.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

That means that teachers’ attention is split. When they should be focusing on the content of the news and how it helps us understand our political system, including elections, they are instead forced to help students understand what exactly it means for something to actually be news—and if it’s worthy of sharing.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Steve Kahlfeldt wants his students to grasp how the census impacts them right now, not in some far-off future. Kahlfeldt has touched on the census many times in his 15 years as a middle school social studies teacher at Winfield School District 34 (22 years total as an educator). I use my voice to grab the kids' attention.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

I believe we’ll see increased attention to students’ mental health and, with it, an increase in the attention paid to the mental health crisis and severely limited resources in our schools. We’re seeing the pendulum swinging back to reintroducing career and technical exploration (CTE) in middle schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Minnesota’s South Washington County (SoWashCo) Schools today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in K-8 classrooms across the district. SoWashCo Schools is a suburban district located southeast of St.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

It got the students engaged and doing something as opposed to saying, ‘Well I can’t do that because I don’t have an autoclave.’. Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. If you talk to any of those students.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

These five components of curiosity quickly captivate students attention because learners are immediately engaged in ways that allow for their individual contextualization, cultural connections, and academic comprehension. Curiosity benefits priming the brain for learning (Robson, 2022).

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB, an education and consulting research firm, and his colleagues have found that students entering college now will likely struggle the most in math. These students were in early middle school or ninth grade when the pandemic started, and had to take classes like pre-algebra online.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

Students let out a sigh of relief, realizing it’s all pretend. But more importantly, every single one of them is listening attentively for their next instructions—right in the middle of math class. Middle school math students ready to save the world What may seem like an odd day in a “typical” math class is just the beginning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

These five components of curiosity quickly captivate students attention because learners are immediately engaged in ways that allow for their individual contextualization, cultural connections, and academic comprehension. Curiosity benefits priming the brain for learning (Robson, 2022).

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

But across the country, schools of all kinds have been adopting the model to improve student engagement and, by extension, student success. EdSurge took a look at how STAR is making the model work—and what other schools can learn from their example. A growing body of research supports McClennen’s claims.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

UCLA’s model caught the attention of the Harvard math department, which decided to host a training over the summer for college instructors looking to refashion their own calculus courses. Many of the educators at the event said they were attracted by the desire to increase student engagement and to make math more relevant to students’ lives.

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Teach Hub

MAY 30, 2024

You’ll gain insight into tips and strategies for incorporating new technologies and how to enhance student engagement. “Cult of Pedagogy” by Jennifer Gonzalez This podcast is packed with practical tips, strategies, and insights for educators from former middle school teacher Jennifer Gonzalez.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 12, 2025

According to The Glossary of Education Reform , classroom management is defined as the wide variety of skills and techniques that teachers use to keep students organized, orderly, focused, attentive, on task, and academically productive during a class.

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Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

For community college students, the primary opportunity for engagement is in the classroom, as they typically attend part-time with fewer extracurricular opportunities than their four-year counterparts. This is where I decided to pay attention to how Im explaining subjects, my result was that I explain through images.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

I believe we’ll see increased attention to students’ mental health and, with it, an increase in the attention paid to the mental health crisis and severely limited resources in our schools.

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