eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The program, available 24/7, is designed to support all upper elementary and middle school educators, including content area teachers, classroom teachers, interventionists, speech pathologists and English language arts educators. Dr. Akbar also praised the rubrics and assessments in the courses of study.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Research shows that a positive school culture is associated with higher attendance rates and deeper engagement for both students and faculty. To develop mastery of their craft, teachers need ongoing professional learning opportunities, supplemented by personalized coaching and support.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The strategies span middle school to higher education contexts, across a variety of subjects including math, science, social studies, and literacy. Each strategy was created by an experienced educator, selected and supported by BetterLesson through their “Master Teacher Project” model.

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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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2019

Instead, we designed our own units of study and pulled in supplemental materials to align to our state’s standards. We brought in close-reading strategies, started an academic coaching program for teachers, and launched reading interventions and guided reading groups. 1:1 devices, renovated classrooms.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

My years as a classroom teacher and instructional math coach showed me that math not only is fun, and can be found everywhere, but every single person is capable of learning and excelling in the subject. Teachers can help students see how math animates science, history, music, social studies, art, and sports.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

A study co-authored by MIT scholars concludes that widely disseminated school quality ratings reflect the preparation and family background of their students as much or more than a school’s contribution to learning gains. Angrist is co-author of a newly published paper detailing the study’s results.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

Katie Blagden, K-4 STEAM educator and coach, Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School, Beverly, Mass. Lesa Wang, STEAM teacher, Marymount Lower Middle School, New York, NY. Related: 20 ideas for teaching coding in math, science, social studies, and ELA. Our robot, Milo , has been a great addition to our school team.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

From my former principal who helped me secure my first assistant principal job to another mentor who encouraged me to seek out executive coaching, I’ve been lucky to receive sound advice and practical support. A year ago, I had a new middle school principal and assistant principal who showed great potential and were hungry for development.

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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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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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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

Some colleges and universities encourage using standing or treadmill desks while studying, as well as taking breaks to exercise. We were able to accomplish this in a larger-than-life way by installing a system called L that uses projectors and educational games to create an amazing physical learning experience in our school gymnasiums.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

25 at the iNACOL conference in San Antonio, Texas, representatives from the Office of Edtech offered a preview of the beta version of the Edtech Rapid Cycle Evaluation (RCE) Coach , a free, online, openly-licensed platform that takes districts and schools through the process of evaluating and choosing the best tools for their individuals needs.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Name: Edlyft HQ: San Francisco Founded: 2019 For $250 a month per student, Edlyft provides computer science majors with group tutoring, study groups and guidance from people already proficient in the subject. Users receive access to study groups and a question bank of tens of thousands of questions.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2018

So many students go through their entire high school career without being exposed to computer science—a rapidly growing field of study that is an important key to opening doors to jobs at tech giants like Google, Apple and Facebook. I have quite a few friends who study and work in computer-related subjects.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

A shortage of trained teachers in Oregon is leaving school districts short-handed, so replacements without educational backgrounds are being recruited from other professions to fill the gap. 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.

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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. Outside of education, La’Toya is a four-time World Powerlifting Champion.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. Middle school students are navigating the most vulnerable and self-conscious developmental phase. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Victoria Salas Salcedo English Language Arts Teacher, Rancho Milpitas Middle School Victoria Salas Salcedo, a Bay Area middle school teacher who recently achieved National Board Certification in English Language Arts for Early Adolescence, has incorporated artificial intelligence in her classroom for the past three years.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer. Top referrers gave Black and Hispanic students an outsized share of ODRs relative to the proportion of Black and Hispanic students in their classes, according to the study.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Digital Promise recently spoke with educators from Lone Star Middle School in Nampa, Idaho, an HP Spotlight School. HP Spotlight Schools are part of the Reinvent the Classroom initiative , a collaboration between Digital Promise, HP, Microsoft and Intel, recognizing Powerful Learning with technology.

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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

APRIL 28, 2020

If a college baseball coach wants to improve the hitting average of his team, what should he do in batting practice? In fact, the Saxon math curriculum my teachers used when I was in middle school over 25 years ago leveraged interleaving. Remember the baseball study? This approach isn’t new. It’s a desirable difficulty.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. In 1998, critical research that examined data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) revealed teaching methods varied significantly across cultures , resulting in a “ teaching gap.”

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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. Horn and Heather Staker.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2021

with your own lessons and/or around instructional coaching). Or we could do: 1 introductory session for elementary school(s). 1 introductory session for middle school(s). 1 introductory session for high school(s). 1 introductory session for instructional / technology coaches and principals. Hope this helps!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Alicia Sewell, a middle school teacher in Alabama, has made a job transition that’s essentially the opposite of the one Bass made. “Maybe we know it will support our students and our teachers, so we provide access to it—but that doesn’t mean we're going to provide that district-wide.” Technology doesn't replace the teacher.”

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Realizing that teachers would need extra support in these new models, many schools focused heavily on professional development. Yet the authors found challenges as well. But in practice, they “used technology to reduce their student-to-teacher ratios during teacher-led instruction” to help lighten the load, according to the report.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She discovered multiple studies on the efficacy of peer feedback when well-guided by an instructor, some with numerous tips to be mined and applied. Though her study examined college mentoring programs, there was a clear connection for me. Middle school students role-play feedback interactions, 2019.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In February 2017, I was a digital coach at Pinecrest Academy St. Rose , a middle school in Las Vegas, where I supported teachers and students with tech-based initiatives. . However, as costs decrease, school districts that lack resources can usually find the money to secure at least a basic setup. Here’s How.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

AmeriCorps member Justin Roias, who spent a year working full-time in a Providence middle school through the federally-funded City Year program, is a clear example of why national service matters. Most of all, City Year’s work delivers results.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2024

Learning From My Experience One year, my son came home from school with some math homework that made my head spin, and he was only in the fifth grade. While I remembered the concepts he was studying from my own schooling experience, trying to emulate the instructions he received was nerve-wracking.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

Search Institute has studied these across different categories of relationships that arise in young people’s lives: family, teachers, mentors and peers. In other cases it was a teacher, mentor, coach, sibling or family friend that motivated them to persist. In some cases these caring adults were students’ parents.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC. What would tech lab look like when the dedicated set of student helpers moved on to the middle school?

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