eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2019

Resoundingly, they’ve asked that students develop competencies such as problem solving, perseverance, strong communication skills, creativity, and ingenuity. The first pathway to launch is Construction, and due to our partnership with local industry, students are already participating in projects with real-world relevance across grade levels.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York.

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Lab to Class

MAY 26, 2025

Autism is widely associated in daily circles with people who are socially awkward, have a different way of thinking, and are generally less effective communicators. This recent study had various pairings of autistic, non-autistic and mixed-group participants and had them do two tasks.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Provide personal questionnaires, pay attention to the extracurriculars students participate in and their behavior with other students. Communicating clear expectations came in as the third most important instructional practice for driving engagement, with an average score of 4.34 5: Linking information and student participation (tie).

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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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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

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. Shepard Elementary School. Moulton plays a key role in this phase.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Today, during parent-teacher conferences, a parent approached me and asked, “Did you used to teach at Meramec Elementary School?” When I graduated with my master’s degree in education, there was a popular book that urged teachers not to smile for the first days of school. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Online learning has become a growing trend among K-12 students, including elementary students. In fact, we successfully launched our own online elementary schools, which grew by 10,000 students over the past four years. or “how will you communicate with families and students who are actively participating in their learning?”

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Amato, K12 Coalition–Teaching Channel As the 2023–2024 school year winds down, I find myself thinking about how educators are models for students, whether or not they are in a classroom. Nancy Chung is a 5th-grade teacher at Orchard Hills School and host of The Schoolyard Podcast by School Specialty.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

. “We conducted research across 7,000 schools and over 11 million students and found that schools can directly influence a students likelihood of being chronically absent by as much as 22 percent,” said Douglas Coulter, Panorama’s Director of Data Science. Positive communication with families is key.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Today, during parent-teacher conferences, a parent approached me and asked, “Did you used to teach at Meramec Elementary School?” When I graduated with my master’s degree in education, there was a popular book that urged teachers not to smile for the first days of school. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

There’s imparting the necessary technology skills students will need to thrive in their careers, as well as interpersonal skills such as collaboration and communication and making sure students can function in an increasingly globalized world. On that last point, my school, Shiloh Elementary School in Monroe, N.C.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

In fact, research shows that 80 percent of esports teams are comprised of students who have never before participated in extracurricular activities. Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis. –Dr. . Schenker, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2016

Briggs Elementary School in Ashburnham, Mass. I’m always trying to make connections between what’s happening in the classroom and what’s taking place in the ‘real world,’” said Davis, who later participated in an IoT Institute for Teachers program. Davis’ re-imagining of IoT for a new context is nothing new.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Through the creative process of designing, building, and programming robots, students gain a wealth of technical knowledge and communication skills that will serve them well throughout their lives.” ” VEX Robotics Competition and VEX IQ Challenge teams have until April 18, 2021 to qualify for the World Championship.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Not only do we want our children to be fluent readers but we also need them to be able to think critically about the information they receive and communicate their thoughts, ideas and opinions in an effective form. No doubt the definition of literacy is evolving in the 21st Century.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Communicate with K–12 Stakeholders Like a Pro. Don’t underestimate your ability to enhance communication using customizable Classwork features. Gauge participation with a glance to track staff’s completion of tasks and assignments. Post a question in the Classwork stream to engage staff in inquiry-driven discussions. .

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Experiencing the impact of poor acoustics in the classroom led me on a journey to create an environment where communication was optimal for students in my charge. In addition to each classroom’s Sharemike handheld microphones, we have purchased several additional teacher microphones for our shyest students to wear throughout the day.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In fact, research shows that 80 percent of esports teams are comprised of students who have never before participated in extracurricular activities. Much like participation in an athletic team, esports players learn how to work together as an effective team by communicating and collaborating with each other.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Throughout the competition, students will be able to develop their knowledge and technical skills in electrical, mechanical, and computer engineering as well as other skills such as project management and communications. The Wizprodigy Online STEM competition is open to students aged 12 to 16 years old with a prize pool totalling $2000.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Alyssa Navapanich “I’ve had a couple parents come in and sit through classes, but nothing like the access that parents had during the pandemic when the class is there for them to access it at any time on their computer,” Kelly Finlaw, an art teacher at a New York Public School in Washington Heights, says.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2024

Because of this, educators have come to expect students to participate actively in the learning process and transfer their knowledge from the classroom to life. Thanks to the pervasiveness of easy-to-use and free web-based tools, most teachers have one or more computers in the classroom with internet access.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2016

Middle school students from four states competed in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade level teams. Grade level teams from each location participated in five multiplayer rounds of mathematics-based video game play using DimensionU’s gaming platform. Each location represented a branch of the military and their respective STEM Outreach offices.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

In my role as an instructional science coach for the Redwood City School District, I lead the district’s STEAM program at John Gill Elementary School, a Title 1 school located in the heart of Silicon Valley. Then they split up into pairs and tried programming the robot to dance their own versions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Few had early learning experiences prior to starting school, she adds, and even concepts like which direction to turn the pages in a book are foreign to many of them. Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2020

It’s very interactive,” she says, and aims to build a sense of community among those who enroll. Since all participants are expected to be actively working in schools and with students in some capacity, the assignments are intended to be easily embedded throughout a school day, such as teaching a lesson a different way, Kolb says.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

NyRee Clayton-Taylor, a creative writing teacher at Wheatley Elementary School in Louisville, Ky., feels lucky that her school’s administration supports her use of hip-hop in the classroom, but she says it wasn’t always that way. And it takes more than positive relationships and strong communication to overcome it.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

With over 70 clubs, organizations, and honor societies, plus a robust athletics program featuring 25 varsity teams, Middle School teams, and a Youth Sports program, students are encouraged to step outside their comfort zones and discover new interests. Thats because we believe creativity fuels success, both in school and in life.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

During an eSchool News Innovation Roundtable with a focus on DEI, moderated by eSchool News Content Director Kevin Hogan, district leaders delved into the critical but complicated topic of DEI in school districts. What do they look like in terms of the active participation of teachers and students? AR: [One of the U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2020

elementary school classrooms, announced the launch of Osmo Live, a new interactive platform for live learning that offers engaging, hands-on Bootcamps for children in grades K-5. Taught by some of the best elementary instructors in the U.S., Online / Offline Integration.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2023

Many students, no doubt, built snowmen, went sledding and delighted in the unique childhood experience of an impromptu day out of school. It’s a rite of passage,” remarks David Law, superintendent of Minnetonka School District. If we have to use it, it’s a useful tool for public schools to have in a toolbox.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2021

Katy Beattie , Teacher-Librarian at Garfield Elementary School in Olympia, Washington, says: “Osmo’s are among my students’ absolute favorite things to have out in our school library. Osmo for Schools’ Pizza Co. Osmo for Schools , a division of Tangible Play, Inc.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Even though these students were behind their peers in some subject areas, we wanted them to be able to participate in meaningful ways. Space was limited for the first year of the Backpack League initiative, so students were selected to participate from elementary schools whose math and reading scores need improvement.

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