Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 23, 2025

They extend far beyond typical indoor recess games and are designed to foster real communication and decision-making skills. This activity helps with review and building a classroom community. Try these ideas as part of your elementary PE games or during recess for a fun, active way to get kids collaborating.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. One major issue is the lack of personal interaction. Studies show that students in remote settings often feel isolated, which can lead to decreased motivation and engagement.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

Music Circle Time Special Education, Autism, Preschool & Speech Therapy Activity By Supporting Special Learners Grades: PreK-K Use classic tunes like the ABC Song and The Ants Go Marching to help students build communication and social skills through rhythm and repetition. Give them a try during Music in Our Schools Month in March.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. The transitional kindergarten program is typically offered within existing elementary schools, and all districts will be required to offer it.

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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 15, 2025

Too much screen time in elementary school is delaying reading and writing skills, weakening focus, and hurting social development." Right now, many teachers are seeing a sharp drop in focus during reading and writing (thanks to cell phones) and a growing dependence on AI to think and write. We're not heading for a learning crisis.

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Cal Matters

JULY 18, 2025

Josh Fryday, director of the state’s Office of Service and Community Engagement, said he didn’t know when the money would be available — or if it would get released at all. The administration does not communicate with us,” he said in an interview. Instead they make rash decisions that hurt our communities.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2025

But in Okanogan County, where 28 percent of children are living at or below the federal poverty level and 11 percent of elementary school children are unhoused, the need for affordable child care is dire. This is as true in Okanogan County, Washington, as it is anywhere nationwide.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2024

Communication plays a pivotal role in fostering a collaborative environment, ensuring the well-being of students and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. Schools have a two-fold challenge: Newcomers struggle to understand and be understood, and schools grapple with the means to effectively communicate with them.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We’d been using a number of applications to maintain open lines of communications with our parents and guardians. We knew that some were working, and others weren’t, and we wanted to create a more unified school-home communications approach. Related : Has your district unified school-to-home communications?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

“Discovery Museum’s Traveling Science Workshops help kids understand that their worlds are filled with opportunities to observe and do science and that in fact they already are scientists—and that’s exciting,” said Kevin Lorenc, director of corporate communications at MathWorks.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2023

The district reports 70 screens are live today with Carousel digital signage content coming from multiple contributors per school, with approximately 150 screens expected upon completion. Whitt points to the differences between how the J Everett Light Career Center and elementary schools use the system.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

When we were in the middle of the pandemic and everything in education was turned on its head, we realized that we needed a better way to communicate with parents and caregivers quickly and efficiently. This transition has proven to be one of the best decisions our district has made to enhance school-home communications.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

School-to-home communications is a fairly common sticking point for elementary school districts. Were both former teachers, and we largely relied on catching parents in the school drop-off line or sending reminders home with students when sharing vital school-to-home communications.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2020

Klassroom, the Paris-based company that reinvents parent-teacher communication in pre-kindergarten and all elementary school grades, just raised a $3 million seed round led by Bpifrance and several angel investors including Jerome Lecat, CEO at Scality, and Andy Myers, President at Waterford.org and former executive at Renaissance Learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

The district has approximately 3,700 students and comprises an Early Childhood Center, five elementary schools, one middle school, one high school and a technical school that serves its high schoolers and students from six other areas sending schools.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2017

public school system , teachers are facing the twofold challenge of communicating not only with these students, but with their families as well. I teach at Fort Sam Houston Elementary School, which is located on a military base in Texas. Here are three ways to enhance communication in a multi-cultural environment: 1.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2020

Trinity Elementary School recently enlisted Adorama Business Solutions , the premier technology resource for corporate, educational, and government institutions, to upgrade its in-house broadcast studio used to produce school announcements and offer production courses to students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2015

An elementary school computer specialist offers technology integration tips for administrators and teachers. However, mapping out a clear path, being flexible, and communicating the stakeholders can help that plan be successful. Embarking on a technology integration plan or beginning a technology pilot can be daunting.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As a New York City public school founder and principal, I immediately began work to transition to virtual learning for 3- to 11-year-olds. At my elementary school in the Bronx, 86 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-priced school lunch. Use surveys to check on basic needs like access to food.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2020

He was named CTO of the Year by the Pennsylvania Association for Educational Communications and Technology and one of the “20 to Watch” educators by the National School Boards Association for his work in IT. Roberts School District is located in northern Chester County, Pennsylvania. Title/District: The Owen J.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Key points: Light-touch, low-cost interventions focused on attendance can pay dividends Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism For more news on student success, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub One surefire way to support student success?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Today, Vivi, the only wireless screen mirroring and digital signage solution purpose-built for education, announced it has expanded into a communication tool that can connect an entire school. Vivi, which currently helps over 2,000 schools, introduces new Announcements features that extend Vivi’s reach beyond classroom walls.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2020

They also continue to learn new techniques and strategies as all schools everywhere move into the unknown. The district, located in northern Chester County, Pennsylvania, comprises five elementary schools, one middle school, and the Owen J. Roberts High School. In the elementary schools, we have Seesaw.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Tuesday, June 7, 2022) —Iowa’s Southwest Valley Community School District (SVCSD) today announced it is broadening its partnership with Discovery Education to support science education in elementary school classrooms districtwide.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Asynchronous communication tools: Integrate asynchronous communication tools such as discussion forums, blogs, or messaging platforms. By providing a virtual space for exploration, students can engage with the content at their own pace and in a less socially demanding environment.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2019

Resoundingly, they’ve asked that students develop competencies such as problem solving, perseverance, strong communication skills, creativity, and ingenuity. — Powell Valley Elementary School (@Panthers_PVES) March 21, 2019. Related: 3 ways technology & innovation are transforming classrooms.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

However, mapping out a clear path, being flexible, and communicating the stakeholders can help that plan be successful. Embarking on a technology integration plan or beginning a technology pilot can be daunting.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2018

When teaching the 21st-century skill of communication, many schools focus on reading and writing, but spoken communication is just as important to students’ success in school and in life. Grasse Elementary School in Perkasie, Penn., Howard Vogel: Confronting students’ fear of public speaking.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2020

Not even a global pandemic can dampen her enthusiasm when talking about her job as Director of Education Technology in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District (CA), where she serves 22,500 students at twenty-two elementary schools, two intermediate schools, four high schools, one alternative education center, and one adult education center.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

October was National Bullying Prevention Month , and in my decade of teaching in high-poverty public elementary schools, I’ve seen strategy after strategy and initiative after initiative implemented to decrease bullying. While every case is unique, having a general understanding of why a student chooses to bully can be helpful.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

But, if you look at the models like Expeditionary Learning, the New Tech model, Big Picture, and all of them, they’re top-heavy with high schools. I think part of it’s developmental in the sense that kids are more effective as communicators and collaborators when they get older and they also have more knowledge.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

While the online curriculum has recently been successfully received and implemented by 200 elementary school teachers in a pilot study in the southeastern region of the United States, the researchers hope that, with additional federal funding, the online curriculum can be soon accessed by teachers nationwide.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2018

Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., These students are all participants in The Creative School (formerly The Boys Institute) at Stanton Elementary School, an initiative designed to promote wellness and creativity—and to flip the narrative around young boys of color.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

In the case of Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) , when the district began a huge leap to personalized learning, its leaders consciously began designing a communications strategy to bring together students, teachers and families. But that communications strategy went beyond just sharing stories with families and teachers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Not even a global pandemic can dampen her enthusiasm when talking about her job as Director of Education Technology in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District (CA), where she serves 22,500 students at twenty-two elementary schools, two intermediate schools, four high schools, one alternative education center, and one adult education center.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

public school system , teachers are facing the twofold challenge of communicating not only with these students, but with their families as well. I teach at Fort Sam Houston Elementary School, which is located on a military base in Texas. Next page: 2 more strategies for building community at a multi-cultural school).

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2022

At Scott Elementary School, our approach to education is defined as GAIN (Growth in Academics through Innovation and Neuroeducation), which includes multiple initiatives to ensure each student reaches their maximum potential. Indiana is one of that states that has not adopted Common Core State Standards.

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