eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Middle school students are still at the elementary level, and upper elementary students are still figuring out the basics of numeracy. When ELLs reach middle school two years behind in math (or more), it is very difficult for them to catch up. The truth is a little more complex.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Achieve3000 is the leading literacy solution in blended learning programs today, specializing in cloud-based, differentiated learning solutions for school-aged youth as well as adult learners. Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

“As a public school leveraging an innovative model, we believe that together with FuelEd the Vidalia Academy can offer more students across Georgia with the best education possible.”.

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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

JULY 10, 2017

In my visits to elementary, middle, and high schools around the country this past academic year, here are five tips I took away for how educators can get beyond the buzz to implementation. Start where there is nothing Picking a place to implement new ideas and models can paralyze a school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

So how do we prepare today’s high school journalists (and tomorrow’s mainstream reporters) for such an era? You might call her the hipster teacher since she embraced collaborative learning, flexible seating and student autonomy before it was trendy. We have it hanging up around Palo Alto High School.

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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). Trailing Google Classroom as the K-12 LMS of choice was Canvas, at 28 percent. Accelerated? Apparently 1:1 device access.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2023

The challenge Aldine ISD faced at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year was to prepare their students for the redesign of the math State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR), which added non-multiple-choice questions to align with the deep critical thinking and conceptual mathematics learning students should be doing in class.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2016

Ten middle and high schools are using the system’s digital curriculum management and delivery tools to support and optimize personalized learning. The high schools selected to participate in the pilot are: Coral Gables, Coral Reef, Miami Southridge and Miami Southwest.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

If your students are struggling with this, try one of these gamified approaches to learning math: Dimension M – math simulations for middle school and high school. Manga High — math content that adapts to particular student needs. Science simulations — lots of choices at the Middle School level.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers. As I wrote nearly a decade ago , “less than two-thirds of high schools–63%–offer physics. Only about half of high schools offer calculus.

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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. The data only represents one class in the high school, which was in its first two years of existence.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2016

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. For the past eight years, I've taught high school science in a rural 9-12th grade school district with 186 students. Why Take a Sabbatical?

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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

MAY 22, 2017

Portfolios also highlight learning’s natural progression. For instance, a high school freshman might undertake a service learning project that lasts until his graduation. His portfolio would highlight his project’s development, its revisions, and its completion as evidence of learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Now I’m back in my old Chicago neighborhood, and in some ways, it’s worse: Of the young men I deal with, very few have high school diplomas. In other words, for every dollar we invest in high-quality pre-K, dropout rates decline. None have graduated from college. Here are six lessons that those experiences have taught me.

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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. The platform, now called “ Highlight ”, supports teachers and schools as they develop personalized learning environments by managing passwords, the sign-on process and data analysis.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2021

Ernesto Saldivar is the director of Language Acquisition and Literacy at Bloom TWP High School District 206 in Illinois. Before that, he spent 18 years as an English teacher and an assistant principal for Chicago Public Schools. Kasey Webb is the associate superintendent of academic excellence in the Archdiocese of New Orleans.

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k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

He currently serves as the Proud Superintendent of the Texarkana Arkansas School District, where he is committed to making a lasting impact on students, educators, and the community. He later became the Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership for Kansas City Public Schools before taking the helm in Texarkana.

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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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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

wanted to implement a one-to-one device program at the city’s high school. School buildings in the district have been outfitted with Aruba wireless APs, and classrooms have been supplied with tools such as interactive whiteboards, student laptop carts and teacher devices. meghan.bogardu…. Fri, 03/30/2018 - 11:47. The problem?

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

The MLTI (Maine Learning Technology Initiative) program coevolved with the technology available. Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

An entrepreneur throughout middle and high school, he remembers selling friends 25 cent tickets to watch Flintstones movies projected on a wall in his basement. I love doing and learning new things. It’s a blended learning approach that combines online learning with face-to-face instruction.

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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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Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school. And so then I moved to a comprehensive high school with a really, Dr. Brandee Ramirez Dr. Brandee Ramirez A major need for intervention. And so then I was there for a year, I loved it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

They help me learn by using my hands,” he says. That’s one of the ways I learn best.” Taos Academy Charter School, which serves 225 students in grades 5-12, uses a blended learning model to improve student outcomes across diverse measures such as student achievement, career and college readiness, and graduation rate.

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