Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One of my favorites is from Kate Wagner, principal of Red Mill Elementary, who says, “ We are no longer teaching to the middle.” Another comes from Jeff Silverman, principal of Christa McAuliffe Middle School, who explains that implementing personalized learning ”finally got us over the hurdle we were stuck at.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As schools across the country reopen for the new academic year, students will be greeted by more than teachers, administrators and their peers. . For many IT leaders, administrators and teachers, the technology also fuels their excitement and inspiration for the new school year. Gamifying Teacher Training on Blended Learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2020

In June, she became the instructional technology coach for two middle schools in the district: Doran Middle School and Henry Lord Community School. Through the program, five middle schools in Fall River Public Schools will be outfitted with enough Chromebooks to enable at-home learning for every student.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Pre-COVID-19, our “default setting” schedule had students join us on campus two days a week; middle school students attending Mondays and Wednesdays and high schoolers on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Limited exposure by assigning 1-2 teachers for each learning group.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

As more research and case studies come out in support of restorative justice programs, schools are increasingly turning to the approach to reduce suspension rates (which disproportionately affect students of color) and improve graduation rates. “At At our school, they get more support.” He wanted something better for local families.

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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. EdSurge: How did the new Shared Teacher Dashboard change remote and blended learning for you and your co-teacher? We are in a blended learning setting right now. then the pandemic hit. By 10:20 a.m.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Before starting Upbeat, Henry played a key role in the implementation of blended learning and evaluation of education technology products for Citizen Schools. Prior to Citizen Schools, Henry supported education technology companies in their sales and marketing strategies at Whiteboard Advisors.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

MDR reports a “surge,” with 1:1 schools most likely to be high schools (41 percent), then middle schools (37 percent) and finally elementary (22 percent). For this report—as the pandemic abruptly accelerated reliance on online learning—the Institute peppered a national representative sample of just under 600 U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. Sweat the school culture Culture matters more than technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2017

While many of the present educators seemed to embrace blended learning as not only inevitable but necessary, an anxiety around technology—and a nagging suspicion that something is missing from the conversation—made itself known. I see it as a support for blended learning.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Innovation Lab , at New Jersey’s Fair Haven school district , is our 5th and 6th grade STEAM creation. The lab is a blended-learning shared space where students can choose pre-made projects and design challenges from our four pillars—Computer Science, Engineering, Digital Arts, and, now, Entrepreneurship.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

A great deal of initial research exists about blended learning techniques such as game-based learning, but adoption has stalled because of a lack of scalable, practical techniques that have also proven effective. Without proof of success, many school districts have opted not to adopt new technologies.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Their participating schools can now access Lexia Core5 Reading (Core5) for grades 3-5 and Lexia PowerUp Literacy (PowerUp) for grades 6-8 as part of their school’s tutoring program in support of students with unfinished literacy learning because of pandemic learning loss.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

We embarked on research that not only answered my question, but also provided the genesis of our education start-up Legends of Learning. This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform. The Hero of Middle School. Andrew Jackson is now the Hero of Middle School.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the CRPE analysis, which looked at plans from more than 100 districts and charter school groups, less than half were offering summer programs for elementary and middle school students, while 58 percent were offering a program for high schoolers. But blended learning options are few and far between.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2016

As a matter of fact, the first time I ever heard these terms happened back when I was in college, where I also learned that taking a sabbatical is a requirement at some universities. With this in mind, I bet you can't name a K-12 educator who took a sabbatical while you were an elementary, middle school, or even high school student.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

As teachers continue to gain a better understanding of where they are in their development and where they need to go, WeTeachNYC has sought to connect them to high-quality professional learning resources and experiences designed to address their needs within their personal professional learning trajectory.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything! I asked them to create websites.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary is one of 10 “wall-to-wall” personalized learning schools that recently emerged as part of an initiative at Dallas ISD—one of the largest school districts in the country, serving 157,000 students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

We're launching our new K-5 math product, an innovative, blended learning solution this year, as well as a new video-based platform called MATHstream, which we are very excited about. We have been, for many years, a 6-12 core mathematics company. We're expanding within and outside of mathematics.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Before that, he spent 18 years as an English teacher and an assistant principal for Chicago Public Schools. Before that, as the dean of instruction and blended learning at Seton Education Partners, she enabled St. Rhonda Zajac is the director of English Language Arts at Syracuse City School District in New York state.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2018

We must get out of the “catch-up” business, where we’re trying to fix problems when a child reaches the end of elementary school or middle school. If we could do only one thing, I’d put my last dollar into early childhood education. I’d go substantially higher (in class size) to give my child access to a great educator.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

An authentic assessment in middle school might involve a cross curricular project, such as designing a community garden. Webinars —covering topics such as using video in K-12 classrooms, game-based learning, and journaling. Videos —featuring blended learning, virtual high school and other success stories.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

During his work at KIPP Empower, Kim realized there was a need for providing a scalable way to support schools and districts with blended learning. He founded Education Elements to meet that need. Horn from the Clayton Christensen Institute , Kim had the opportunity to help design KIPP Empower's instructional model.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2017

As teachers continue to gain a better understanding of where they are in their development and where they need to go, WeTeachNYC has sought to connect them to high-quality professional learning resources and experiences designed to address their needs within their personal professional learning trajectory.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Another reason for the concern is that as educators increasingly use digital tools to personalize learning for students, some have struggled to ensure that the environments they create are not isolating. Parents and educators rightly fear the image of rows of students on computers, never talking to another human being.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance. This is very different,” says Brown, the new principal at Renaissance who came from a traditional middle school last May. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

With serving such a large diverse community, equity is at our foundation, and we know that while some of our families have access to technology and internet at home, not all do. Our guidance to schools has been around non-digital as our primary focus. We’re working with those schools a little differently.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Jeffrey Tsang and Samir Bolar co-founded Mastery Design Collaborative (MDC) in 2013 with funding from the Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation and The Learning Accelerator. Tsang also served as the Chief Academic Officer of the national charter network Lighthouse Academies and was the principal of Bronx Lighthouse Charter School in New York City.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Elementary students are learning indigenous American creation stories, she added, and using the materials found in nature to create mixed-media visualizations of the stories that they hear. Middle-school students are studying the work of experts like Jane Goodall, a primatologist. We’ve been very organic.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2018

I’m an inner city, level 4 middle school teacher that provides free daily breakfasts and lunches to a diverse student population. The 8th grade just received their own profiled laptop since the school was deploying a blended learning/personalized learning initiative and the 1:1 student laptop was a key project.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

We’re creating a new approach to math learning, where students learn through collaboration and discussion to develop math and 21st century skills—we call it the Carnegie Learning Way. It’s a blended learning approach that combines online learning with face-to-face instruction. Dr. Peter H. Gimlet podcasts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Invest Time in People, Instead of Spending Money on New Hires In the move to using education technology, Sheppard says the district did a lot of restructuring in order to get everyone up to speed on new tools. To the other 13 school/district case studies, click here.

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Math Internet Study Elementary School 104

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

In fact, assistant Superintendent Shawn Carlson points out the one of the most successful uses of iPads in Boothbay has been in assessments. iPads allow students to easily collect images, audio, or video of student work and performances—all on the fly—which can then be preserved in digital portfolios.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

It's called the blended learning method that we're doing in Palo Alto Unified Schools. And it could be offered at the middle school level. It could be offered at the high school level. The kids are in control. So the ideal is to have it 50-50. How do you differentiate between fact and opinion?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

Brandee Ramirez Of layers in that role for one year, when I was working for the educational technology company. I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school. And so then I was there for a year, I loved it.

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Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

From “blended learning” to digital worksheets, below are a collection of comments from ten educators about their biggest edtech pet peeves. We're always going to be lifelong learners, so let's leave the “development” behind because we developed enough—let's start learning. Jennie Magiera Jennie Magiera: Blended learning.

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