eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

myView Literacy © 2025 is a core English Language Arts (ELA) program for grades K-5 that empowers teachers and transforms students. Providing high-value, in-the-moment professional learning, Experience Math supports teachers with resources for intentional teaching and informed decision making to help them become better practitioners.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Students from the county apply to the program of their choice during eighth grade, a process that involves taking an admissions test; submitting transcripts, teacher recommendations and a personal video; and entering a lottery, since demand is high. Earlier this year, I was facilitating a series of three lessons about classroom management.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I entered the classroom through an alternative certification program , which meant I hadn’t received the same level of preparation as teachers who came through traditional teacher training routes. I struggled with classroom management, curriculum design and the pressures of working in a high-poverty school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Early learners—students in pre-kindergarten through second grade—have developmental needs that are markedly different from older students. With an eye toward managing this delicate balance, NewSchools began exploring the promise and potential of edtech tools for early learners. What's New at NewSchools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Starkville High School student Peyton Willoughby sat in his 10th grade English class Thursday not worried about struggling to hear his teacher because of new technology installed in the classroom. Here’s their interesting story: New tech installed at SOCSD helps with teaching through masks.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

With other classroom tools, I have to collect the data myself. And the data usually boils down to student grades,” York explains. These students often tended to be white and fluent in English. She’s taught fifth grade for 25 years in the Aurora Public School system in Colorado. TeachFX is easy to use, York says.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2014, students who participated in the computerized component of the program had 2 percentage point higher pass rates in math, English and reading than students who did not. Aydan Smith, a sixth-grade student, likes the way his teachers run school now. He says test data back that up. The school is drawing attention.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I carried these experiences with me into my classroom. I never once had a parent challenge me over an incident that occurred in class. I was in Nashville because I’d been told that I was needed by TFA and others in my echo chamber who congratulated me for making this “sacrifice.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. Davison loves sharing an example from that same fifth-grade class we learned about earlier, where their "hopper" project culminates in a race. They're also coding, measuring and problem-solving.

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Learning STEM Skills Beliefs 152

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2015

Grammaropolis is aligned with both national Common Core standards and Texas Expected Knowledge and Skills Objectives for grades K-6. Kids from 2nd grade-high school will love it. Kids over 3rd grade might prefer the website over the app because it offers greater variety in games. – See more at: [link]. Fee (free trial).

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Reading Students Grades Testing 129

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2018

TeacherKit , a useful classroom management app for iOS or Android, provides teachers with one location to log student attendance, take note of student behavior, record grades, create student-level reporting, and other tedious tasks that traditionally take time away from teaching. What I like. Any TeacherKit users out there?

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

When you compare that with their English-speaking peers, there’s a significant cognitive load to just navigating the school day. ” He started his daily routine with his own students, and when it worked well, the system caught on across the ninth grade the following year. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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Teaching Students Assignments Skills 129

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

If you own any or all of K-5 Structured Learning technology curriculum (6th edition), you have free access to the grade-level wiki. K-5, 32 webinars per grade (192 webinars), 9 months. Language: English. If you don’t own the curriculum, you can purchase access on a yearly basis here. how-to skills used in lessons.

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Curriculum Textbooks English Discussions 92

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Dual credit students may benefit from more one-to-one interactions with faculty, so inviting them to office hours to discuss why they didn’t earn the grade they hoped for could prove critical to their success. They might also feel challenged engaging with peers in group discussions or projects. They may not.

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Instructors Peer Review High School High School 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 11, 2015

If you own any or all of K-5 Structured Learning technology curriculum (5th edition), you have free access to the grade-level wiki. K-5, 32 webinars per grade (192 webinars), 9 months. Language: English. Just look on the front page of the book for a code. Contact Zeke dot Rowe at structuredlearning dot net.

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Curriculum Textbooks English Language 83

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2017

learning the sounds of the English language and their correspondence to letters that represent those sounds. Nationally, there is no significant change in 4th grade reading scores from 2011-2013 (NAEP, 2013). (* data from the Stern Center for Language and Learning ). understanding morphemes (smallest units of meaning in language).

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Learning Styles Students Language Languages 109

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

That’s what ‘one page in a sitting in 4th grade, 2 pages in 5th grade, 3 pages in 6th grade’ means. Tests were administered via digital devices (though there are options for paper-and-pencil). Expect students to type for extended periods without complaint. Common Core requires this.

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Testing Students Communication English 102

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 17, 2018

32 webinars per grade (192 webinars in all), 9 months. If you own any or all of K-5 Structured Learning technology curriculum (6th edition), you have free access to the six grade-levels. Language: English. It’s your mentor, your sidekick, your best friend in the tech ed field. how-to skills used in lessons. shared resources.

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Curriculum Textbooks English Language 74

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Dual credit students may benefit from more one-to-one interactions with faculty, so inviting them to office hours to discuss why they didn’t earn the grade they hoped for could prove critical to their success. They might also feel challenged engaging with peers in group discussions or projects. They may not.

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Instructors Peer Review High School High School 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Last year, only 61 percent of students who took the ACT high school English achievement test were deemed college-ready. Grades are to facilitate and improve learning, not judge students. To facilitate this, students are met where they are in their learning, not where the grade level says they should be.

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Learning Achievement Failure Math 89

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 12, 2016

If you own any or all of K-5 Structured Learning technology curriculum (5th edition), you have free access to the grade-level wiki. K-5, 32 webinars per grade (192 webinars), 9 months. Language: English. Just look on the front page of the book for a code. how-to skills used in lessons. a class Discussion Board. shared resources.

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Curriculum Textbooks English Discussions 74

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 25, 2016

Rubrics can be created in English or Spanish, in ten different subject areas, with ten or more skill categories (this varies depending upon the subject chosen). Pick a grading scale–either numeric or descriptive. When students submit their work, Essay Tagger adds them to your roster automatically in preparation to grading.

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Essay Evaluation Authentic Assessment Assignments 92

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

This opens up some problems, said Jessica Breheny, an English professor and the unions vice president. If she does attend one of those schools, her grade in this counseling class would be part of her official college transcript. Im sure there are 12-year-olds that are college-ready, but there are just less of them and its less likely.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

They may have set goals such as getting a high grade in a course, graduating with honors, landing a specific internship, or getting accepted into a graduate program. psychology, English/communication, etc) it may even be possible to embed these practices into assignments so that students have these skills before encountering a setback.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

They may have set goals such as getting a high grade in a course, graduating with honors, landing a specific internship, or getting accepted into a graduate program. psychology, English/communication, etc) it may even be possible to embed these practices into assignments so that students have these skills before encountering a setback.

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

.) “Maybe a student needs something particular from their teachers, like a content warning when there’s something particularly violent in the book they’re reading in English, or maybe they get overwhelmed by noise in the hallway and so they need to leave two minutes early to make it to their next class,” she says.

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Teaching Attention Counselling Accessibility 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

When Southeastern University education professor and associate provost Dr. Amy Bratten was teaching 9th-grade English, she had a sure-fire scheme for getting her students excited about reading Shakespeare. Let's say a student in second grade has witnessed domestic violence in their home,” she says. Or drug use? Or suicide?”

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Reading Curriculum English Languages 161

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

One of its first successful intervention programs involved weekly postcards sent home to families of students in early grades as absences occurred. Members participated in Google Classrooms, managing chat windows, creating activities and warm-ups and conducting small group breakout sessions for homework and academic support.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

In his freshman year, he started off with very high grades, but every year it went progressively lower and lower, to the point where at the end of his senior year, we weren't sure whether he was going to graduate. Next up is Sandra McConnell, a retired fifth-grade teacher, who had a career working in high technology before becoming a teacher.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

When I was in fifth grade, I remember sitting in science class, waiting anxiously for the teacher to return a recent test. Don’t ask me what grade I got , I thought to myself, desperate and embarrassed. Immediately, Mark, smirking in anticipation, asked me what grade I got. Am I Not Good at School, or Is School Not Good for Me?

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Testing 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

practice using conventions of standard English grammar and general academic and domain-specific vocabulary when speaking. Socratic seminar in a 2nd grade Common Core class. For Common Core schools, the Socratic Method prods students to: use text-based evidence to support their ideas. identify and evaluate claims and counterclaims.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Make it easier to become a teacher Laura Patranella, fourth grade English and social studies teacher at Vogel Elementary in Seguin, Texas I want President Trump to know: The basic economics of becoming a teacher really dont make sense. In my 11 years, I have seen many teachers come into the classroom with a lack of content knowledge.

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