eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Our third graders take state standardized tests, and our scores used to be pretty good,” explained Connie Hibbitts, Instructional Coach for all four elementary-middle schools in the county and an educator with 34 years of experience. After just a few months in, students’ hard work started paying off. That’s major.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I am a true believer in the power of coaching. I have previously written about the need for teachers to embrace this practice with a growth mindset and shed any negative stigmas attached to instructional coaching in order to realize its potential to improve our craft. This is part of the coaching process to make you better.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This journey requires collaboration among technology teams, instructional coaches and educators. Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2022

ALBANY – The Dougherty County School System is launching a new technology initiative for its students, teachers, and staff as part of a collaboration with Apple and educational non-profit Ed Farm. The initiative will allow DCSS to expand and enhance its educational technology ecosystem districtwide.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2022

This approach helps teachers reflect deeply and hold evidence-based discussions with coaches and colleagues. School-wide PD often feels disconnected from a new teacher’s work. Individual coaching can be a great addition to a district’s PD plan, but this is a resource-intensive approach.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. Kindergarten teacher Kelsea Heesacker comes in to chat with the school counselor and to grab a winter coat for a little girl who came to school without one. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. And a specially trained coach is in the thick of it, orchestrating it all. The games are clear, organized and inclusive.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

Instructional coaches can help teachers determine the best way to use the new space. Jennifer Brown is a K12 Education Strategist at CDW•G and former elementary school teacher, whose passion is elevating the learning experience through educational technology. by Jennifer Brown.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Provide ongoing feedback from those who understand blended learning AND instructional coaching. When provided with an instructional coach who provided ongoing observations with feedback and targeted coaching, the implementation was quicker and more effective. Invest in training coaches.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same. That can be done in various ways.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. I have been in California ever since. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

For educators and parents navigating the world of education technology, international players such as Byju’s may not yet be household names. FutureSchool offers project-based coding and math classes with live tutors who serve as coaches.) It’s free to schools. elementary schools have signed up for accounts.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2024

For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school. In 10th grade, for some extra cash, Campbell signed up to tutor elementary school students through a literacy program in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

We enrolled in the fellowship program, which began with a one-week training in the summer of 2019, put on by the nonprofit that developed the model, and extended into coaching throughout the current school year. It turned out that our sixth-grade English and science classes thrived under the model. Take a student of ours named Layla.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Math (everything from elementary school arithmetic to calculus and statistics). English (writing support, literature analysis coaching, vocabulary, and more). Where was this when I was in high school?). Science (Even physics! Social Studies. AP class support.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

At Edthena , a video coaching and professional learning platform, we work with many organizations working with video for the first time. We recently offered three actionable ideas for using video coaching that we’ve learned from our own partners. Coaches end up providing more feedback to teachers with a more efficient process.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Why Early Childhood Teachers Require a Unique Approach to Tech Coaching By Debbie Tannenbaum I have found that there are many ways to empower even the youngest students to get creative with digital tools, writes Debbie Tannenbaum, a school-based technology coach, in an essay. He lays out a better approach.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2016

In other districts, the resources may be available but there is still a desire to find new opportunities for students to interact with technology professionals. Students at DCPS’ Burrville Elementary School complete an Hour of Code session. Second, teachers got a chance to coach our employees as well as experiment with coding.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

From that focus group they narrowed the list of potential applications to professional development tools and, eventually, settled on a searchable database exclusively for elementary school math. When we went back to the advisory committee, we asked, ‘Where would you start if you were looking to make the largest impact?’" Litow says.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

The missing piece amounts to teacher training, which, for the most part, has been seriously lacking in schools during technology integrations, says Liz Kolb, a clinical associate professor of education technologies at the University of Michigan.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

In 2013, I was hired to teach computer science (CS) and video game design to students in grades K-5 at Monte Sano Elementary School in Huntsville, Ala. A year earlier, I had graduated with a teaching degree in elementary education. It was my first full-time teaching job.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia. His company coaches educators through the entire implementation process seeking feedback for iterations until about 18 months after the projects start.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Early in my teaching career, when I was 26 years old, I was offered and accepted a position as a dean at an elementary school in East Oakland, California. The following school year, I was promoted to assistant principal, and a year into that role, I had to cover our principal while she was on maternity leave.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Instead, educators described making as an approach to teaching and learning that puts students at the center; that encourages what educators variously termed “supported failure,” “controlled struggle,” and “failing forward”; and that teaches resilience, perseverance, empathy and problem-solving. How does this look in practice?

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

As a writing fellow, she explored the need for more radical approaches to building school communities that foster innovation, creativity, and empowerment and the importance of teacher voice in decision-making. Deitra Colquitt, co-principal at Pershing Elementary School in St. Who am I to write this?

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In educational technology, it can be difficult to discern a fad from a future classroom staple. The more I learned about it, the more I realized the untapped potential of this technology. Following the training, teachers were provided support as needed with troubleshooting, model lessons and coaching. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2024

Educators and students are still replaying the session in class as of today! Principals from several elementary schools have reached out to me to ensure Minecraft Education is in their programming. Teachers have informed me that they are forming after-school and lunchtime coding clubs.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Education technology continually examines and redesigns pedagogy in an attempt to meet the learning needs of our students. But rarely do we apply this same level of commitment and creativity to the learning experiences of educators. Staff can complete modules and sessions at their own pace and when it's convenient for them.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

It stands to reason that the more exposure children have to computer technology, coding, and robotics, the more prepared they will be for the future. Although we are in an area known for its wealth and opportunity, more than half our students are on the free and reduced lunch program.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

In our elementary school, FH Gizmos is a third-grade-run pop-up store. In our middle school, it is a student-run, online school startup that functions just like Amazon. Students at their elementary school store FH Gizmos is built the same way one would build a real, online business. And FH Gizmos was born.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

To make this shift, the district started by creating a pilot network of a few schools, dubbed “Lighthouse Schools,” that would experiment with transforming learning environments and essentially lead the way for the district. Katherine Cox, Instructional Coach at Mays Chapel Elementary. According to the S.T.A.T.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Written by Sarah, a professional learning coach from Colorado. Sarah’s school has a high population of ELL students and encourages a project-based environment. EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented Edthena? Describe how you used the product.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

At a recent panel at SXSW EDU, he explained why “tech-enabled” teachers in particular have a trend of leaving the classroom and entering careers in tech—especially education technology. When he was a teacher, he also coached, and found “every way” he could get “a little bit extra” in his paycheck each month.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2022

Since the onset of the pandemic, Seneca has been adapting their school-based services with that directive in mind. In some cases, they provide coaches who serve as coordinators for teachers and students in schools and in others they send service providers like therapists and behavioral health aids directly into classrooms.

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