Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It’s 9:30 in the morning when Anton enters my classroom, an hour after the morning bell signals that breakfast is over and the school day is beginning. I wonder if he is going to be able to take our weekly formative assessment today, or if it will be another case of him rapidly clicking through the test simply to complete it.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Plus, when they make mistakes, they’re motivated to try new approaches to test theories. Introduce edtech tools to enhance learning Integrating edtech tools is an effective way to capture (and keep) students’ attention and enhance learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2021

And yet, there is a set of skills that’s not given enough attention in the classroom: Executive functioning. . While executive functioning is starting to gain some deserved attention in the classroom, parents can have a huge impact on the growth of these skills for their children. education system imparts on our youth.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2024

As the 2023 – 2024 academic year concludes this spring, school leaders will have the opportunity to review safety protocols and adopt new tools to foster a safe and secure learning environment for years to come. Also, key to a solid communication plan is ensuring the active involvement and participation of teachers and staff.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Financial literacy, and the role of K-12 schools in promoting it, is getting lots of attention these days. Nearly two-thirds of Americans can’t pass a basic financial literacy test, and data from the Federal Reserve show that consumer debt hit an all-time high in early August. For youth, the outlook is not much better.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2021

The number of high school graduates going straight to college decreased by 22 percent this fall , and higher ed lost about 400,000 students in the US. Ivy League schools take pride in their low acceptance rates, and the admissions process demoralizes those students who don’t get selected to their top schools.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2021

The pandemic forced a significant shift from traditional classrooms to virtual and hybrid teaching environments–often before schools and districts were ready. With integrated technology and software, schools improve student performance and teacher productivity through more accessible application and learning of edtech systems.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

From poor reading skills to chaotic classrooms, the stubbornly high rate at which kids are absent from school makes it harder to solve every other problem in education. The goal is to reverse what happened during the pandemic, when the share of kids who miss a lot of school nearly doubled. We have to break that cycle.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 5, 2024

Success stories like our student reading on the stationary bike, as well as schools’ reinvigorated focus on social-emotional learning in recent years, have led many educators to see the value in providing sensory spaces. Ideally, schools would have more than one sensory space. This is no different than what we should do academically.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that makes sense–as systemic as some issues facing our education system are, every school, class, and student is unique. There’s an entire school of thought on this. Yet through all that, there is perhaps one constant, one shared experience that is as universal as the No. Is there a lesson in that? Try, fail, learn, repeat.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

But researchers at Ball State University have concluded that various modes of instruction—whether in-person, virtual, or hybrid—did not play a significant role in learning loss among students in Indiana public schools during the 2020-21 school year. Schools faced a tough balancing act in making trade-offs about instructional style.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Newark Public Schools wants to see a districtwide expansion of an artificial intelligence tutoring tool after it was piloted at First Avenue School last year, as the district searches for ways to help students catch up from pandemic learning loss. The strategy here is not to do it in any one school only,” León added.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

In the rolling hills of Southwestern Pennsylvania, nestled among 350 acres of natural beauty, lies The Kiski School , a place where tradition meets transformation. The school offers a timeless boarding school experience where a tight-knit community forges lifelong friendships. Kiskis approach goes beyond academics.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2019

Demographics: Santa Rosa County (FL) District Schools is a high-performing rural district of about 28,000 students that stretches from the Gulf of Mexico to Alabama. 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. The coolest thing?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

The central question remains: How can schools use AI to strengthen, rather than diminish, the human elements of teaching? Schools set firm boundaries about what data their AI systems can collect and how they use it. Regular checks catch problems early, allowing schools to fix issues before they affect anyone’s learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2021

Recently, with the support of the Utah Legislature and groups like the Utah Private Schools Association, he has made some great strides. In 2011, Stephenson championed the Statewide Online Education Program, which was originally passed to increase access to quality, individualized online learning options for students attending public schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Key points: Virtual reality offers learning beyond just verbal communications 3 AR/VR resources that nurture student curiosity Reaching the 4Cs with 3D and virtual reality For more on VR in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Multilingual students face unique challenges that can hurt their performance in school. In the U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. As COVID-19 swept across the nation, many schools moved student and staff safety to the top of their priority lists. Nominated by : Rave Mobile Safety.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

On its face, the cell phone policy at Forest Hills High School seems clear: Phones cannot be used in school and must be turned off during the day, unless a teacher allows them as part of a lesson. Storage of phones can be expensive, at a time when schools are seeing budget cuts. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

.” Conferences gave educators–including administrators, classroom teachers, IT leaders, curriculum directors–to attend sessions targeted to their interests and their individual school or district needs. Of interest is Attention! Epson announced the expansion of its PowerLite ® and BrightLink ® laser projector lines.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This week on the podcast we’re talking about cybersecurity at schools—and how secure, or in some cases how vulnerable, the tech systems in school systems are these days. We’re focusing on a pretty unusual story about Bill Demirkapi, who had a pretty odd hobby while he was in high school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2021

12, 2021 — After participating in a pilot trial of the new EarlyBird game-based early literacy assessment, schools and districts across the United States have chosen to adopt EarlyBird for the 2021-22 school year. Maine School Administrative District No. Even students who struggle with attention are highly engaged.”.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

on a recent Wednesday, and the school stage hadn’t yet transformed into a reading room. A year ago, school would have been over around this time, and the students at Columbus East Elementary would be walking out the door. School leaders hope that will be enough time to teach students key skills they missed and boost test scores. “We

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2024

One morning, my students were getting ready for a math test and working through a set of review problems. Now, he was rewarding himself by attentively drawing cartoon cityscapes all over his paper. For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2025

In response, life as we knew it came to a halt, schools were canceled, and teachers rushed to transition to online learning. Across national assessments, like the Nations Report Card, interim assessments, and state summative tests, data shows a continued decline in reading scores between 2022 and 2024.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In fact, one state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all. The data brief, False Assurances: Many states’ licensure tests don’t signal whether elementary teachers understand reading instruction , provides the most up-to-date analysis on the quality of elementary reading teacher licensure exams being used by each state.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

At its most basic, grading of multiple choice quizzes and tests is now essentially instantaneous. When schools have access to that information, they can intervene, provide help and, potentially, save lives. In education, this increase in capacity is already showing up in numerous forms.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Before I adopted phenomena-based instruction, most of the questions students asked were some variation on, “Is this going to be on the test?” They were focused on whether they would have to memorize this fact or that process to pass a test. Instead, they are constantly asking themselves, “How does this connect to my driving question?”

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2020

Recently, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned schools about an increase in ransomware attacks during the pandemic, with attackers exploiting Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) connections that allow school employees to log in to district servers remotely. Bad guys know that, and they look for devices they can compromise.”.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

1 Hard to Motivate After a Long Day at School After spending six to seven hours in a structured, often high-pressure academic environment, students face the additional burden of homework. Other students may work part-time jobs after school, leaving less time for homework.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

With roughly 150 school districts, statewide data held value, but the diversity of education experiences across urban and rural areas underscored the need for individual student data as well. In 2019, 40 percent of South Dakota students attended rural public schools, which meant different student-teacher ratios and access to digital learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

In fact, spaced repetition is the key to all learning of knowledge-heavy subjects, from preschool literacy and numeracy exercises through high school, corporate training, and beyond. On weekends, I’d visit a friend on his farm in the Panamanian countryside, and this scarecrow would always catch my attention. So what’s “the tea?”

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2020

While we are facing a lot of uncertainty about what school will look like this fall, it is virtually certain that, when the 2020-21 school year begins, teachers who have always had diverse levels of student performance in their classroom will be looking at even greater diversity. The disruption will widen equity gaps.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

When Mysa School started about eight years ago, the microschool movement was new. A school with about 40 students in Washington, D.C., The idea is that having smaller school sizes enables students to develop much deeper relationships at school, says Siri Fiske, founder of Mysa School.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2023

In the first half of 2022, at least 34 major cyberattacks were made against schools. Too many warnings can numb end users into assuming the IT department is crying wolf and they may stop paying attention to warnings. Testing needs to occur with outside systems and partner organizations. Cybercrime cost more than $6.9

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