eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

An elementary school teacher discussed how math can be integrated into PE class–for instance, students can measure and make calculations related to how far they jump or how fast they run, or myriad other activities. When they are engaged, they retain what they learn. Its all about learning through physical activity.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Well, in one region—the Local District Northwest sector of the district—administrators, schools and teachers have been busy expanding efforts for blended learning implementation in collaboration with Stepan Mekhitarian. Stepan Mekhitarian: Well, I do professional development for 129 schools in our local district.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Expanding Possibilities with In-Person and Virtual Learning. I spent 10 years working in classrooms as a substitute teacher, but I decided to advance my career by becoming a certified middle school math teacher.

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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. “The

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

After a decade in the classroom, this year I took a role in my district as an elementary and middle school math instructional coach. Part of my job is going into a wide variety of classrooms between multiple different schools and grade levels.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

Statistics say over the summer, kids lose over two months of math skills, two months of reading skills, and one month of overall learning. Efforts to prevent summer learning loss propel often-unpopular year-round school initiatives and all manner of summer school and summer camps that focus on cerebral topics.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2018

In April 2018, eSchool News launched a new column, “Blending My Practice.” ” Our columnist, Raymond Steinmetz, teaches seventh-grade math at Portsmouth Middle School in Rhode Island. Column 2: Getting started with blended learning. Column 1: Overcoming my fears.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2021

Over the course of three years working together, Ohio teacher Heather Nesler and her co-teacher perfected a smoothly choreographed approach to co-teaching inclusive eighth-grade math classes. Jackson Middle School moved to remote learning, and suddenly the steps to co-teaching weren’t the same. Then the pandemic hit.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

He knows there is a saturated market of curricular options for schools, and he is confident in what Carnegie delivers: personalized, student-centered instruction for grades K-12. Malkin Carnegie Learning CEO EdSurge: A lot of companies talk about research and data, but your company takes that to another level.

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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

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. Their math scores improved only marginally. It’s tricky to determine causation here, Watkins says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

His fluidity perfectly suits his new role as CEO of Carnegie Learning —a company he believes is on the cusp of transforming itself and math instruction. Founded 20 years ago in the research labs of Carnegie Mellon University , Carnegie Learning provides software and services for 1:1 and blended math learning environments.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Instead, schools ought to be taking these opportunities to do what Heather Staker and I described in Blended —offering a la carte online courses with great digital curriculum mixed with elements of the Flex or Individual Rotation models of blended learning that match the path and pace of each individual’s students’ learning needs.

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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

MARCH 17, 2020

While it’s tempting to fret about how students will learn, and what online tools will make that possible, all that should take a backseat to something more important: their mental health and wellbeing, says Reshan Richards, director of studies at New Canaan Country School in Connecticut and a board member of Global Learning Academy.

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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. In high school, students might be asked to design a building using drafting software, math, and physics skills to create their final product.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

For eighth graders, it may have items like a calculator or a protractor, depending on the math concept they are learning. 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.

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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. In fall 2016, ASCEND will expand the prototype to the entire elementary school. All students in grades K-5 will have a multi-age literacy block.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

We just didn’t have the room to have a really nice, neat rack where we could say, ‘Here’s the server for math, here’s the server for English,’ ” says Thad Phipps, assistant superintendent for operations. In Artesia, space constraints played a major role in the district’s lack of centralized resources. “We

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

During 2009, then-Superintendent Darwin Stiffler and Associate Superintendent Duane Sheppard of Yuma Elementary School District One in Arizona had just taken their positions and were trying to figure out how to meet students’ needs. To start somewhere, they decided to search for digital content to help with improving student learning.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Day 3: Problem- and Inquiry-Based Learning – Review of last session’s evaluations and our rules of play – Crowdsourcing – Understanding how Wikipedia really works – Crowdsourcing ideas for students and teachers – Essential elements of project-based learning – PBL v. How could we make them better?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

I don’t love math. I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school. Because there isn’t a lot in in North Dakota at the time. And so I started with something else, interior design. I did that for a year and realized, you know what?

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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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