eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Our goal is to shift pedagogy toward a “culture of thinking” that supports more student agency and more effective use of the learning space itself. Now, we know it’s not all butterflies and unicorns, but we feel really optimistic and hold a strong belief that change has to start somewhere. Create spaces specific to grade levels.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Academic acceleration is one strategy designed to focus on teaching students grade level-appropriate lessons, while efficiently and effectively reteaching only the skills and lessons from earlier grades that are necessary to understand new content. Building a culture focused on the success of all students is non-negotiable.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Creating an empowering learning environment starts with a school culture built on structure, consistency, and emotional support. Here, learning goes beyond grades and test scores. But learning doesnt stop with formal training.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Yet as confident as they may seem, many are yearning for guidance and a way in which to align their beliefs with the pull of popular culture. For many students, high school and college are times of tremendous personal growth and experimentation. This is especially apparent during an election cycle.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

When Salvador Quijada, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School, thinks back on his own journey as a mathematician, he gives credit to one high school math teacher who pushed him to take on AP calculus. As a Newark resident, I see new restaurants, shows, and opportunities for culture and arts.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For a year, our leadership team crunched numbers and performed a comprehensive facilities study before determining to close one elementary school and reorganize grades by building. In my first year as an administrator, our district debated how to maximize finances in the face of declining enrollment. Until it wasn’t. Leaders develop teams.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Therefore, teachers can help students meet the physical activity recommendations by incorporating movement breaks in the classroom” ( Get The Facts: Movement Breaks in the Classroom Grades K-5 , 2023). References: Get the Facts: Movement Breaks in the Classroom Grades K-5. 2023, March 21). link] Helean, T. & 2023, March 21).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

In its Back-to-School survey, Brainly , the leading learning platform for all school subjects and grades, highlights a growing trend – a remarkable 66.5% of students in grades 6-12 actively seek external support for their homework and study needs. and English teacher Mary Ann Rafferty from Williams Middle Magnet School in Tampa, Fla.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The interest in our program has been intense; the school’s 500+ students come from 95 grade schools across several counties and even the neighboring state of Indiana. You can have the best seed but if the soil–or culture–is not cultivated, there will be no growth.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2019

While it’s the role of a parent or caregiver to communicate the family’s beliefs about gender expectations, teachers are key role models in kids’ lives and have an enormous impact on how kids regard themselves and their capabilities. Grades Pre-K–2. Grades 3–5. more tolerant views of sexual harassment. riskier behavior in boys.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Adaptive Educators By constantly adapting our curriculum, we have the ability to critically examine the culture we’re sharing and work to change the beliefs and messages schools transmit. During their visit, we reminisced over the map-making project about explorers that we did when they were in my fifth grade class.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. Some folks commented: “I have dyscalculia…When I was in the 3rd grade, my teacher yelled at me and said, 'How do you not understand this yet?!' Her journey is a testament to the power of support, resilience and belief in one’s potential.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2016

Study of grades 3-5 students showed improved math achievement with personalized learning approach. A research study from the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University demonstrates a link between an adaptive learning program and improvement in mathematics achievement for students in grades 3-5.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Glaser’s second grade classroom. In a particularly jarring study by Sian Beilock, girls in first and second grade classrooms with female teachers high in math anxiety had lower achievement in math and held more stereotyped beliefs about girls' abilities. I’m seated at my fake-wood desk in Ms. 60, 59, 58….I Tick tick tick.my

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Here’s the big takeaway: Data doesn’t just come in the form of grades, attendance records and answers on multiple choice questions. Let Data Inform (Not Drive) Many educators urge their fellow professionals to move away from the concept of “data-driven,” and instead towards a culture of “data-informed.” Over on the West Coast, Mt.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels. These gains led the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to single out Johnston County as the most improved school district in the state.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

When Dr. Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. This is the one we need for our middle grades. It’s a lot. What is MidSchoolMath really getting right?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

I take grades on module completion, but I exempt students who choose not to participate. Encourage confidence through preparation I set high expectations in my classroom, creating a culture where students rise to the challenge. Passion and belief in their potential go a long way.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When I taught first grade, we started every day with a community circle, where each student was given the opportunity to respond to a daily question or prompt. Within my own culture, circles are often used symbolically and literally for their ability to promote equity, interconnection and holism.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2022

They can’t read Shakespeare —a teacher told me when they found out I was starting a unit on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with my ninth-grade students— do you even know them? Implementation of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy Culturally relevant curriculum is informed by students’ cultures, backgrounds, interests, and strengths.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Toxic positivity is the belief that no matter how bad a situation is, we should all have a positive mindset about it. Go beyond “checking-in” to building a culture of relational trust. In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure. Avoid toxic positivity.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Sometimes, there is a belief that creative projects should be saved for the end of the week or even the end of the semester. Creativity needs to be embedded in everything we do with students; it needs to be part of the school culture. Why aren’t more schools pushing a creative mindset if we know it is powerful for learning?

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

Joseph Catholic School isnt just about grades; its about building confident, capable students who take ownership of their learning. As a 1:1 campus from kindergarten through eighth grade, every student has access to digital tools that enhance their education. Technology is another key part of the schools learning experience.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

The trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing culture wars and disappointing academic performance results have made education discourse particularly fraught. I have had more students head to first grade unable to spell their name or count to 10 than ever before. We all carry our own beliefs and bring our own biases.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

GORTON: Part of Vision One91 was to change grade configurations. We also moved to a one-to-one environment in fourth through 12th grade; our younger students are in a 2-to-1 ratio with technology in their classrooms. We deployed primarily Chromebooks , and went with the newer Chrome Tablets for kindergarten, first and second grade.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

The positive effect on our entire school community has been incredible; it’s helped create a school culture of trust and positivity. It comes down to our belief that when teachers, parents and students in a school work together as a community, they can transform education from the ground-up. a principal in Westland, Michigan.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And because it impacts students on every level—academic, social, physical, cultural, emotional and personal—it is essential to consistently embed the right curriculum to meet your district’s specific learning objectives and cater to the student population and organizational culture. The result?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. The district hoped that scrapping honors math classes and eighth grade algebra courses would reduce disparities in math learning in the district.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In many schools, including ours, there has been a shift of how student behaviors are regulated—moving away from rules-based standards to ones driven by a set of values determined by the desired climate and culture of each school. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

This is particularly true for students of poverty, who arrive at and often leave elementary school years below grade level. While a year of growth per school year is good, it is not going to work for children who enter school two or three years behind grade level. That’s it: a school culture of success and teams to make it happen.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That, in turn, is dependent upon their society, culture, past knowledge, personal experiences, and more. It is continuously tested as new ideas are added, either causing long-held beliefs to evolve or be replaced. Learning is constructed, not acquired, and is based on the fullness of a person’s individual lifetime of learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

At Zeal, the general belief is that data is most impactful when it is in the hands of teachers in the most simplified format. For Danner, there’s a more fundamental issue that must be addressed before access: building a culture and habit of looking at data—and doing something with it.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2025

Looking back on my educational journey, I recently reflected on my classroom experiences from kindergarten to fourth grade. The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

That belief fuels my passion for driving change in education. A strong foundation in early literacy is critical, but from fourth grade onward, we must accelerate learning through real-world experiences, project-based learning, and entrepreneurial education. Championing women in leadership is personal.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading. As a teacher or a student, you may remember a holiday-week screening of E.T.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

These activities encourage participation without the anxiety of high-stakes grading (Freeman et al., What to avoid: Grading active learning activities as if they were summative assessments is inappropriate. Revise and resubmit: Allow students to revise and resubmit work for a higher grade and additional feedback. Brookhart, S.

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