eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

It also facilitates peer and teacher feedback, making assessment a more collaborative process. Adobe Express: Adobe Express allows students to record video responses to prompts, making it a good choice for educators looking to assess verbal communication, critical thinking, and creativity.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Ed Madison, a media professor and researcher at the UOs School of Journalism and Communication , created Sassy, an online career coach thats been officially adopted by the state of Oregon. Knapp plans to integrate Sassy into his future curriculum to help middle school students get a jump-start on career planning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2017

During project-based learning, students are given opportunities and options to customize their learning using the tools available to them, such as iPads (the school is one-to-one with the Apple tablets), desktops, projection screens, voice amplification systems, and tech-free solutions like meeting with experts and mentors.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

To support educators with student-centered learning, BetterLesson and Adobe have teamed up to create 325 free instructional strategies that build creativity, collaboration, and communication skills using products in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

There is truly nothing more powerful–or that grows your practice morethan watching yourself on video, and the use of this technology will help our teachers engage in more meaningful self-reflection while receiving targeted feedback from coaches and coordinators.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. Growing up, once we left school at the end of the day, it was over. Second, I communicated directly with parents.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

After seven years in the classroom teaching middle and high school students, I transitioned into instructional technology, where I currently serve as a digital integration specialist for South Carolinas Anderson School District Five. The result is a deeper understanding of each word.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

A former middle school teacher whose need for a better gradebook solution ultimately led him to found his own company, Hundsness and his team have spent the past 17 years evolving and developing Jupiter’s integrated systems to make the work of educators more seamless. We can meet schools where they are—as their LMS, SIS or both.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Some applications provide multi-sensory feedback; for example, students working with a virtual heart can see it pumping, hear it, and feel it beating. It encourages collaboration, teamwork, reinforces good communication, and at same time students are learning science.”.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Next, paste the copied selection of responses after the above prompt.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While mastering technical skills is essential, students must also develop soft skills like communication, collaboration and critical thinking to thrive beyond the classroom. We see soft skills mentioned in national and state standards related to career education, as well as in typical school district policies.

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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. Expand this exercise by challenging students to research a community issue they could address.

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Student Engagement Learning Students Middle School 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

You don’t wing anything,” says Guye Turner, who leads a middle school in Washington, D.C. Like Turner, she wants casual interactions with her teachers, but she has to schedule them: “I host an office hour every Thursday where teachers can come in with concerns or feedback or questions. They know that I’m always there.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. It's very much scaffolded, especially when students come into sixth grade.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Amid the technological advancements shaping education, the emergence of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and conversational agents like ChatGPT have further expanded the possibilities for learning and communication (Alam, 2023). Next, paste the copied selection of responses after the above prompt.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2023

Tools, such as AI-powered writing assistants and language-analysis platforms, offer real-time feedback and aim to empower students to engage in self-directed learning and refine their writing and editing skills. How have you communicated the purpose of AI tools to your students?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Galaxy Next Generation introduced G2 LINK , a classroom audio system that enhances teacher communication and student engagement in the classroom and throughout the school community. Teachers can access the front office, enable daily communications campus-wide, or initiative an emergency alert from the touch of a button.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

This opportunity allows me to learn from other district leaders while supporting teachers using student data and two-way communication tools to drive student success,” said Rachel Blackwell, Digital Learning Facilitator for Pulaski County Special School District. Representing seven U.S. Dr. Shepherd was the Asst.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

As we continue to recover from the impacts of COVID learning disruptions, parent communication and engagement will continue to be a strategic imperative for all schools. Parents have become used to increased information and communication from schools. — Russ Davis, Founder and CEO, SchoolStatus.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

External stakeholders, like parents, also have a large role in the school and teachers must be satisfied with the communication between them. Wellington suggested, “This can be gauged by asking teachers, do they think that parents and teachers at their school think of each other as partners?”. Join the Community.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

The Beauty of Freewriting Engaging in creative exercises such as freewriting, mind mapping, and storytelling can foster innovation and proficiency in essay writing skills, while seeking guidance from top essay writing services can offer valuable feedback and support in refining one’s craft to achieve academic excellence.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Read part one to learn how this teacher improved her student feedback system to increase student engagement. In 2016, our school began putting intentional effort into getting our students to value the learning process and to focus on growth rather than grades. Are you going to resubmit your chemical changes model?"

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I teach middle school English Language Arts at St. Joseph School in Chester County, Pa. Like most schools, we serve students with a range of abilities. I would encourage her to write more than one paragraph before coming to me, but she needed feedback constantly, and would apologize each time she came to my desk.

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Culture Feedback Writing Assignments 167

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform. The other teachers reported similar feedback. The Hero of Middle School. Andrew Jackson is now the Hero of Middle School. She adds, “It didn’t matter because Andrew Jackson is now the Hero of Middle School.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

At New Mexico’s Farmington Heights Middle School , teachers use game-based learning to personalize instruction. Games offer immediate, useful, and friendly feedback that is designed to motivate students to keep playing. Games provide targeted, in-the-moment feedback based on a player's current performance.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

But sometimes it is helpful to step back and consider what technology does best in the broadest terms—in communications, financial markets, self-driving cars, medicine or education—to improve, make more efficient, and even replace entire paradigms. Woot Math in an Algebra 1 Classroom. How to use Woot Math as a Scaffolded Worksheet.

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Math Middle School Middle School Quizzes 164

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

elementary and middle schools. Since its launch in August 2011, ClassDojo has held firm to its commitment to never charge teachers and schools. Screenshot from ClassDojo From awarding points to watching videos and decorating avatars, activities on Beyond School are supposed to be short, taking no longer than a few minutes each.

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Schools Feedback Middle School Middle School 158

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Of course, all this inspiration and motivation must co-exist with my commitment to provide them with the skills necessary to become successful team players, communicators, problem solvers and critical thinkers—traits employers look for when hiring in today’s competitive workforce. I’ve taught music full-time for a few years.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Posting students questions and comments communicates that thinking is valued; plus, posts stimulate more questions and comments. Communication Effective communication between university faculty and students is fundamental for enhancing academic success, student engagement, mental health, and trust. References Afzal, D.,

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

In addition, the program hones the skills needed to reinforce student engagement, application, exploration and use of communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity. The CoderZ professional development program has received a lot of positive feedback from teachers who have taken it.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” Scrawled across a form, the advice came from a group of 12 year olds at a mindfulness retreat hosted at a school near MIT. Manuj Dhariwal and Shruti Dhariwal, a pair of Ph.D.

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Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 205

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

West-Smith, a former English teacher, middle-school principal, and district curriculum supervisor, is the Curriculum Content Manager at. Provide feedback that works. Feedback is more helpful on an early draft than on a final one, she adds. Patti West-Smith. Turnitin , an Oakland, Calif.-based Vague is not.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

We used Soundtrap , a cloud-based audio recording studio and digital audio workstation (DAW), to stream chat, communicate with the other artists overseas, and record our cutting-edge musical piece. In all, more than 25 Pioneer choral students and another 15 ukulele students from a neighboring middle school took part in the recording process.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Pre-COVID-19, our “default setting” schedule had students join us on campus two days a week; middle school students attending Mondays and Wednesdays and high schoolers on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

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Hybrid Learning Blended Learning Schools STEM 216

k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

He currently serves as the Proud Superintendent of the Texarkana Arkansas School District, where he is committed to making a lasting impact on students, educators, and the community. He later became the Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership for Kansas City Public Schools before taking the helm in Texarkana.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Amid heightened concerns about school shootings, the reps also noted the technology would give administrators the ability to communicate with classrooms in a non-disruptive way. But because this is a novel approach, it’s hard to say whether students who are missing school would actually log on remotely using the new technology.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Posting students questions and comments communicates that thinking is valued; plus, posts stimulate more questions and comments. Communication Effective communication between university faculty and students is fundamental for enhancing academic success, student engagement, mental health, and trust. References Afzal, D.,

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Students Motivation Feedback Communication 111