eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

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. 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.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Our students’ belief that everything they need to know is online can, without the right skillset, leave them prey to misinformation. These positive learning outcomes make esports popular in secondary grades, with both students and educators advocating for the addition and growth of scholastic esports in their middle and high schools.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Key points: Light-touch, low-cost interventions focused on attendance can pay dividends Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism For more news on student success, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub One surefire way to support student success?

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

Unfortunately, teachers and students are often unable to be sure there will be dependable, robust access outside of school depending on family and community circumstances. States, districts and schools are also uniquely positioned to share reduce cost or no cost out-of-school access options for families.

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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. more tolerant views of sexual harassment. riskier behavior in boys. career choices limited by gender norms.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female. Thus, math anxiety greets our students as soon as they enter school. It is true of parents and it is true of teachers.

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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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. “When students listen to audiobooks or watch audio media, they are able to become experienced with different cultures, dialects, and beliefs (Parmeter, p.24).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Usage statistics have given credence to our educators’ long-held beliefs that offering students independent reading choice and behind-the-computer-screen privacy increases interest and participation. But the data doesn’t always support preconceived notions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2017

When implemented within an elementary-school environment, middle-school students can mentor incoming fifth-grade students and help dispel anxious beliefs and urban myths that typically exist upon entry. Implementation can also exist between differing grade-levels within the same school, or even between schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

I believed technology would be powerful for our scholars and I wanted everyone to have access to it, but only one student in the entire school signed up for the program. We also have Chromebooks for every student and 3D printers and interactive whiteboards in our classrooms.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With the belief that STEM skills are best acquired starting at a young age, we start building foundational skills early in elementary school. Our vision statement is, “We inspire students to become STEM innovators and responsible global citizens.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

In 2009, when I began my first of teaching, I taught in a school without walls. I was at Malcolm X Elementary School (MXES), an imposing cement box centrally located in Washington DC’s most violent and poorest neighborhood. By the early 1980s, everyone was re-building walls within their schools. But I did not.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

JEP is one of the oldest and largest service-learning programs in the country, offering college students at USC the unique opportunity to work with faculty, neighborhood schools, and elementary school students to provide academic support.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2017

Today, schools and districts are making social-emotional development a priority, and with good reason. Research shows that educators play a profound role in promoting students’ social-emotional skills and beliefs. Even teachers who encourage students to try harder may end up being reinforced in their beliefs that intelligence is fixed.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Starting with the 2021-22 academic year, the 7 Mindsets curriculum will be used throughout the district’s 11 elementary schools, middle school, and two high schools. 7 Mindsets was initially implemented in a select number of Decatur’s elementary schools for that pilot project.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

In the state’s 600 elementary schools, there were fewer than 200 Black men teaching. “So So a vast majority of the elementary schools in South Carolina did not have a single Black male teacher,” Jones says. An additional 12 percent were school administrators.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Each of our 10 elementary schools has a digital learning specialist. We have spent time focused on creating a culturally proficient school system , which is a framework that we use to make sure that we are putting students first, and we’re thinking and talking about our values, beliefs, and assumptions. .

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k12 Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

That belief fuels my passion for driving change in education. For example, Ruby Bridges, the first African American child to integrate an elementary school, is only 70 years old today. Representation matters, and our words and encouragement shape a child’s belief in themselves.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

Both iD Tech and Emeritus share the belief that such offerings will only continue to grow in interest, and we are confident that we can open access for people everywhere to our courses and instructors.”. It positions individuals for success, starting in elementary school and continuing throughout their professional careers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Elementary school educators were more likely than secondary school educators to allow students relatively unstructured time to experiment with physical materials, often in the form of manipulatives. While most educators in our focus groups expressed similar ideas to Flamm, they did not offer one singular definition of making.

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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. to 2 years of academic progress for each school year. 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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

School is taking many shapes this year too, but one constant remains: a teacher’s belief that it’s not just about what they do in the front of the class – it’s about having their students’ backs. This stockpile of snacks helps teachers support their students wherever they are this school year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

It was clear there were many elements of our model that were working and should remain unchanged—specifically our core values of grit, relationships, ownership and wonder, and our belief that all kids are capable of extraordinary things. Jon Hanover is the founder and executive director of Roots Elementary School.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Marcus told me that he’d been viciously bullied during elementary school, peaking in middle school. It also taps into the belief structure and understanding of why someone wants to do something and how it aligns with their values and their unique talents, strengths and things they care about.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2019

My first year of teaching began in the stifling basement classroom of a public elementary school in a part of Newark, N.J., That fall, I found myself watching a young woman, we’ll call Omayra, through the glass doors of the school. I promised myself that my teaching would make a difference in the lives of my 38 children.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2018

That's a tempting enough prompt for teachers but it was actually the question that 3rd grade students at Grafflin Elementary School in Chappaqua, NY, recently got to answer. If you could buy anything to make your classroom a better place, what would it be? And small wonder why.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2023

In it, he discussed why he advocated for sad scenes to be included in his picture book " Love ", which I’d brought with me to school that day. So we gathered together to read the book the same way they did in elementary school, sitting next to each other on the floor, craning their necks to see the pictures.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

Though there are a number of strong language programs across the country, a 2016 report published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences showed evidence of declines in foreign language course offerings in elementary schools and middle schools over the years. Here’s some good news.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2016

This former elementary school principal-turned-consultant has a must-read blog on Education Week that will appeal to leaders, curriculum nerds, and anyone who is willing to work with others to move education forward. 3 Blogs I’m Reading.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It’s a well-worn idiom, which shapes the belief systems of too many schools and districts across the country. But as a guiding philosophy it can be paralyzing, particularly for a school district that’s doing well. We’ve all heard the old cliche, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” Several of our students were named U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2016

In addition, 35 teacher leaders and their principals, representing five elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, will participate in Discovery Education’s Digital Leader Corps.

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Beliefs Coaching Elementary School Elementary School 105

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2025

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. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The online program offers a solution to families seeking alternative ways to have students educated, while maintaining the core belief that traditional schooling is valuable and not easily replaced. Weinraub had a vision to expand the program to serve all students in the district.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

I do remember being very young and helping one of my aunts, like every year, set up her classroom before school started. My mom didn't finish her education degree until I was in elementary school, but then she became a [high school English teacher]. I spent a lot of time with her in her classroom growing up.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

They had limited impact on professional learning, says Epps, principal of the Mancos Early Learning Center and Elementary School. That’s critical, given the growing belief among educators that digital tools are worth their time. The district shifted its PD focus to peer coaching a few years ago.

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