eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Our intent was to get every kid, every day, involved in something positive outside the school day and extend that community learning past the classroom. The policy prohibits cell phone use in elementary and middle school and limits it to lunch and periods between classes for high school students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Sora Schools , an online, project-based middle school and high school, along with a wide network of innovators and education experts, collaborated to round up what are the biggest forces shaping education in 2023. Families are embracing alternative school options like never before.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2022

26, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — YouScience , the only fully-integrated platform provider of highly accurate aptitude-based assessments, personalized career guidance, and industry-recognized certifications, today announced the results of its new statewide talent report of Utah middle school and high school students, ” 2022 Utah Talent Report.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

Here’s what they had to say: In 2025 and beyond, providing high-quality professional learning will be essential in retaining teachers, as well as helping to ensure they feel fulfilled in their work. This online program has given us the system, support, and resources to make a measurable difference in our students’ reading growth.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. The truth is when you teach middle schoolers, you feel like you don’t make a difference. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. The truth is when you teach middle schoolers, you feel like you don’t make a difference. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If the interest at your school is bigger, engineers can make an all-school presentation at a middle- or high-school career day. Future City challenges middle-school students to take four months to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future using the free platform SimCity. Future City.

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2020

Los Coyotes Middle School. Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District, CA. “We She had gotten some iPad carts for our school but none of the teachers were using them. That’s when I met my tech coach and really began to learn how to best use technology. Danielle Carlisle. 6th Grade Social Science Teacher.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Teachers, parents, counselors, administrators, coaches, and other loved ones have faced an unprecedented challenge in this regard. Over the next year, we will see this momentum continue, as more schools realize the benefits and implement solutions to enable this. Districts will see the value in data-driven instructional coaching.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

That is a crucial skill that students really need for entering middle school. There was no change in average scores because while high performers did better than their counterparts in 2022, low performers did worse. Middle school math has been a problem area in the pandemics wake.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

According to Code.org, the majority of Americans want schools to teach computer science , but only 35 percent of high schools teach it. And even though 15 states have adopted a policy to give all high school students access to computer science courses, universities prepare way fewer computer science teachers than we need.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Last year, I changed from being a PE teacher to being the elementary innovation and technology coach and coordinator, and also joined our PBIS team. The rebuild of our House system started in the elementary school and will now be gradually implemented over the next few years in our middle school and high school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Christina Sorenson, language arts resource teacher, Henry Middle School, Cedar Park, Texas. “I Our school has made substantial growth over the last year with full RTI implementation in classrooms and an RTI center using i-Ready as our guide.”. On average, they made 1.8

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2019

We needed to get our students working toward the types of skills they needed to be successful after high school.”. In year two, five middle schools joined in; in year three, eight innovators at each high school came on board. Innovators had to apply, and we had lots of applicants,” says Emerson.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

More than a decade ago, while running a high-performing school that I loved, a small moment forever shifted how I lead. As a Black woman who was a teenage mother and had dropped out of high school, I was proud of my career and taking great care to figure out what was next.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Additionally, La’Toya is the Assistant Boys and Girls Powerlifting Coach for THEE Meridian High School. Beyond the professional realm, she is a proud mom to a rising Senior in high school and a 6th grader beginning middle school. Not stopping there, Dr. Pollard served as the Director of H.E.L.P.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

In “ Closing the Homework Gap: Equity of Access for All Students Outside of School ,” Rhonda Schroeder, EdD, principal, Arthur Elementary School, Oklahoma City, OK; Mike Cory, EdD, principal, Gettys Middle School, SC; Barbara J. Provide Out-of-School Access on Devices. Michael Cory is Principal of Richard H.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

New York’s Academy of Thought and Industry (ATI) is part of a network of Montessori-inspired middle schools, inheriting fifteen former students of AltSchool and its proprietary learning management system. One-on-one coaching will continue over the phone, he explains, as we are still waiting for his mentee to call.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

Cheri knows that the best solutions live within educators, and so coaches them in planning their own next steps. She also serves as a Crayola Education Consultant and coaches/manages assignments of Crayola freelance writers. Nancy is an advocate of art-infused education and helps educators adopt this teaching strategy.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

To support their professional growth, teachers will also have continued access to the AI Coach platform , which enables them to watch and reflect on videos of their classroom instruction, set professional goals, and receive personalized observation tips, coaching, and resources from a virtual, computerized AI coach.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This school year at Umatilla School District, two science teachers are embarking on a new career after years of real-world experience in the subject. “If you go to school and graduate, this is exactly what you will be doing in a job.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2018

I attended Everest Public High School in Redwood City, Calif., and during the years that I was in high school, never once did I hear about computer science, coding or hackathons. Once Graylene got into the program with the help of her teacher, she received a lot of support from the coaches she worked with.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The implementation also helped address challenges with certifications and staffing for their early college high school and STEM high school–when they no longer had a university partner providing physical education credits, Edmentum filled that gap with highly qualified, state-certified teachers and award-winning curriculum.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

These are the tough questions I asked myself when taking over as superintendent of Maury County Schools in Tennessee in August 2015. We also implemented a differentiated literacy program and digital library that measures reading with reading—not quiz scores and points.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2015

Effective support begins with teachers being able to see what instructional shifts look like in real classrooms, and then being able to work with colleagues, coaches, and instructional leaders to adapt and apply these in their classrooms. Jennifer began her career 14 years ago as a middle school teacher. Jennifer Carr.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

There was a little bit of everything at Visitacion Valley Middle School in San Francisco today. million donation to San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) and Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), marking the fifth year of its partnership with the former. Of the $12.2 Salesforce giving to SFUSD.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

For K–12 schools interested in upgrading their classrooms to fit a modern pedagogy, it is important to take an intentional approach that keeps academic success at the forefront of any decision. . High school and middle school students spend a lot of time in hallways, moving between classes. We Refreshed — Now What?

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2022

May 11, 2022— Curriculum Associates recently sponsored the 2022 School Superintendents of Alabama (SSA) scholarship program to help recognize and support students and educators throughout the state. Amanda Mak, graduating from Florence High School in the Florence City School District, who plans to attend the University of North Alabama.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

1, 2021 – Decatur Public Schools in Decatur, Ill., Starting with the 2021-22 academic year, the 7 Mindsets curriculum will be used throughout the district’s 11 elementary schools, middle school, and two high schools. The district made its decision after a two-year pilot of three programs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Then, they can develop their interest in taking other STEM courses as they continue in middle school and high school. Having that support of the whole group on the ISTE platform, connecting with other groups and team leaders, and especially having Steven Jones as our coach helped me a lot.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

That’s the hope, anyway, for the founders of this startup, currently in beta testing and targeted toward high school and middle school students. Parents then schedule a time for the 45-minute video call with the coach. The app, formerly called Blitz Bowl , matches students based on skill level.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

While teaching media arts technology in Grades 1–5, Adam continues to push the boundaries of edtech forward and discover new, insightful ways to keep his students, and his entire school community, excited about learning. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. There is a direct relationship between executive function development and the effectiveness of different types of learning activities.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2021

The key focus of the partnership is a new Math Momentum program, designed to help middle schools increase math learning outcomes. Initially designed to serve about 4,000 students each year, the program can be customized to each participating middle school based on its needs. In middle school, math gets more complex.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2023

Maria Montero Assistant Principal Mater Academy Charter Middle/High School, South Florida Recently, EdSurge spoke to Maria Montero , the assistant principal at Mater Academy Charter School , a Verizon Innovative Learning School in South Florida. The tech team and coaches also collaborate with the IT person.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2023

Some people choose to work exclusively with younger children while others prefer to teach middle school students or in high schools. They use mentoring and coaching resources and are genuinely interested in all of their students’ well-being and may even take a more hands-on approach to help them succeed.

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