eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

One of my earliest projects as the Director of Environmental Education for a public school district in New York was in a middle school English Language Arts classroom. We used ELA standards to communicate our findings, both to the class and to the public. We measured our plants weekly and graphed our results.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

How it helps: Design thinking and communication skills are key components of education. How it helps: For struggling readers, English-language learners, or busy students who want to maximize their study time, Speechify makes content more accessible.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

This activity emphasizes computational thinking and problem-solving, incorporating Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and utilizing differentiation strategies to support diverse elementary learners. This task encourages them to work together, communicate effectively, and share their ideas.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

CPS uses NotebookLM for clear communication and understanding around the district’s guidance and policies, ensuring they’re following district mandates. CPS staff are creating Gems (custom AI experts in Google Gemini) when they upload the district’s curriculum development evidence guides and rubrics.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2025

The report, Family engagement as a long-term strategy for continued COVID recovery , synthesizes current research on family engagement, examines the effectiveness of current strategies, identifies common barriers, and offers guidance for how districts can communicate more effectively with families about student progress.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

This tool is especially powerful for developing creativity and communication skills. The platform covers a range of subjects–from science and math to English and social studies–and it’s a wonderful way to grab and keep students’ attention while illustrating key concepts.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Since 2009, he has taught History, English, and Theology in the United States, and has since expanded his expertise to the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Business studies in China. This means scaffolding teamwork, building communication skills, and offering different ways to contribute. Some students shine in front of an audience.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

million English learners in K-12 public schools in the fall of 2021, up from 4.6 Evaluate Vendors With 17 percent of its 12,700 students classified as English language learners as well as a significant refugee population, Jenks Public Schools in Oklahoma used the CITES framework to develop a robust vendor-evaluation process. “We

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. Today, emergent bilingual (EB) students, also known as English learners, account for 10.6 percent of U.S.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Music, in particular, has long been an ally of instructors teaching a second language (L2)—a language learned after one’s native tongue—especially since the field transitioned toward a more communicative approach. What do you think the song is trying to communicate? 2022; Nuessel and Marshall, 2008; Vidal and Nordgren, 2024).

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

The company recently completed a major evidence study across 242 sites and 25,000 students, showing significant improvements in English language arts, reduced disciplinary issues, better school culture, and 2.5 fewer absent days per student.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

It showcased communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking — the 4Cs in action. Collaboration: Teams build shared purpose and community. Confidence: English Language learners improve through hands-on projects. Teamwork: Students develop leadership and communication skills under pressure.

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Teach Hub

MAY 16, 2025

The “think” step gives introverted students or English language learners time to gather their thoughts, while the “pair” stage gives students a low-key way to talk through their ideas and see if they make sense before sharing them with the whole group. Think-Pair-Share levels the playing field.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2025

The committee built on the districts existing criteria which already included usability, data privacy and alignment with goals by adding new elements: AI capabilities, language support for English learners and accessibility features for students with disabilities. If students arent engaged, it doesnt matter how much we paid for it.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

Music, in particular, has long been an ally of instructors teaching a second language (L2)—a language learned after one’s native tongue—especially since the field transitioned toward a more communicative approach. What do you think the song is trying to communicate? 2022; Nuessel and Marshall, 2008; Vidal and Nordgren, 2024).

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

2024) found that mixing social service with cross-field learning in nursing exposed students to diverse challenges, which boosted their communication and problem-solving skills. Fluent in English, Arabic, and French, Prof. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , 12 (182). Yang et al. References O’Sullivan, G.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Alabama state law previously required students to take at least four years each of English, math, science and social studies to graduate from high school. The state is now calling that track the Option A diploma.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

2024) found that mixing social service with cross-field learning in nursing exposed students to diverse challenges, which boosted their communication and problem-solving skills. Fluent in English, Arabic, and French, Prof. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications , 12 (182). Yang et al. References O’Sullivan, G.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

In many districts, the programs at risk are the same ones that support compliance with federal education laws: Title III-supported English language services, Special Education instruction, and after-school accommodations often written into IEPs. But the mechanisms to fund those obligations are increasingly unstable. Document everything.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

In which that remote technology, the need for communications between students and teachers, quite possibly the need for communications and collaborations between students, the much higher level need for sharing of resources and using them and really interactive way. Take the US history course you develop it. The capability.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Math and English levels among incoming freshmen have improved in the past couple of years, university data show. Some high school seniors graduated at the time with stellar grades but below-average test scores in math and English, she said. She is scheduled to graduate this year and plans to pursue a PhD program in English.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Vision Board Student Workbook By Danielle Knight Grades: 4th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Students will create a 15×20 vision board using this eight-section guide. Once all the pages are complete, students can use the information to create a vision board.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 29, 2025

We’re not just teaching English; we’re focused on equipping Indian youth with the skills Europe desperately needs. The challenges are real: communicating our multi-faceted vision clearly, building trust with parents who need proof of ROI, and assuring investors of our scalable hybrid model.

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Skills English Culture Communication 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

What is your favorite way to communicate with friends? Narrative Writing Prompts: TASK CARDS By Stacey Lloyd Grades: 6th-10th Subjects: Creative Writing, English Language Arts Avoid writers block with a helpful set of narrative writing task cards. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Cal Matters

JULY 17, 2025

For example, of Google’s 17,000 positions for graduates from a UC, about 400 studied psychology, 350 studied political science and 200 studied English. Communication, research, writing and leadership are the top California skills employers want — all aspects of a traditional liberal arts education that universities like the UC provide.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Fun Debate Topics Persuasive Speaking Activity Middle School, High School By Lindsay Ann Learning Grades: 6th-9th Subjects: English Language Arts, Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS SL.9-10.4, You can even let your class come up with the wacky topics they’ll argue. 8; CCRA.SL.4

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Cal Matters

JULY 25, 2025

The administration also said it would withhold roughly $100 million for adult education, including money for English-language learning and high school equivalency courses. We’re moving in the right direction,” said Troy Flint, chief communications officer with the California School Boards Association.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2025

Joel Ryan, executive director of Washington State Association of Head Start Lack of communication and guidance from the Office of Head Start has been par for the course for providers in recent months. I think that they are going to, in the next four years, do all they can to try to dismantle the Head Start program.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Emma Gonzalez Gutierrez has struggled to communicate with the teachers of her five children for years. Recently, the kindergarten teacher texted her on the app, ReachWell, which allows the teacher to text in English and parents to receive the messages in their own language. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

In today’s educational environment, it is vital the school or district have a clear message with leaders understanding exactly what is to be communicated. It is equally important that families trust the authenticity of the communications. Does it provide two-way communication?

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Communication Questions Evaluation English 327

eSchool News

JULY 8, 2022

With more than 15,000 students across 25 different schools in central Washington state, one of our biggest goals coming into this past school year was to develop a feature-rich communications system that was the same for teachers, schools, and the district.

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Communication English Languages Language 281

eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2019

students are English language learners (ELL). The survey from communication app ClassDojo highlights the communication challenges teachers and families face each day due to language barriers. Seventy-one percent of teachers surveyed say they’ve taught children who speak English as a second language in the past three years.

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Language Languages Communication English 260

eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2024

The reason I even graduated from high school was because my mom ran into my English teacher at the grocery store when I was in 10th grade, and the teacher mentioned that I’d missed class–a lot, actually. I became determined to bridge that communication gap between schools and home. I certainly can.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2023

When I joined our district in 2021, I was asked to review its overall communications and ensure that we were communicating effectively both with our families and with the surrounding community. That platform didn’t have the features and resources we needed to be able to reach our communication goals.

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2024

Unfortunately, developing a communications plan is time- and resource-intensive, especially if the approach is fragmented and disjointed. For best results, a district communications strategic plan should identify key stakeholders, the outcomes you want to achieve with them, and the channels you’ll use for communication.

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Communication Schools Evaluation STEM 303

eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2022

With 3,300 students across three different schools, our district was using a variety of diverse applications for school-to-home communications. They all handled separate aspects of our teacher-parent communications, but they weren’t cohesive. The timing was ideal. Equity and Integration Made Simple.

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Communication English Languages Language 255

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. We have a large population of English language learners in our district.

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