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JUNE 4, 2025

A 2007 study led by Robert Balfanz at Johns Hopkins found that chronic absence in middle school and high school is often a leading predictor of dropping out. I think what we learned from the community coalition is that they really focused on communication and information to parents as an initial strategy.

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JULY 13, 2020

In September 2018, my school district approved the creation of my FH Knights esports team –the first middle school esports team in the country. As students are playing, esports coaches can incorporate leadership, communication, and teamwork training right into practice. Esports is a great way to teach soft skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

PBL also encourages collaboration and communication, as many projects are best completed in teams. Teachers can introduce community-based projects like designing solutions to environmental issues in their neighborhood, which not only reinforce STEM concepts but also show students the impact they can have.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Consistent, positive family communication. In elementary school, there’s frequent outreach. A recent report found that this wanes somewhat throughout middle school, and, by the time students reach high school, many schools subscribe to the belief that the need for school-to-home communication diminishes.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For starters, our administrators were using one communication system and teachers were using a completely different system. For example, one might develop a distribution list at the start of the new school year but would get a new student in January and forget to add the new parents to the distribution list.

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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

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. The district has adopted a “one school at a time” rollout strategy that helps its technology specialists effectively train staff before using the system.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2024

Last year, when Jayla Arensberg was a sophomore at Burnsville High School near St. Paul, Minnesota, a teacher showed her a flier saying that a program at the school could save her $25,000 on college. “I It’s a stark example of how the line between high school and college is blurring for more students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Passive uses of technology that primarily support adult goals: Taking an online test (weekly): 75 percent of high school students and 66 percent of middle school students Using a learning management system for organization (weekly): 72 percent of high school students and 67 percent of middle school students Active uses of technology that support students (..)

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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

MARCH 26, 2025

Chronic absenteeism remains a widespread challenge in schools across the country, but in Wisconsin, Racine Unified School District s Julian Thomas Elementary and Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School are demonstrating that innovative, data-driven approaches can make a difference. Positive communication with families is key.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Women play a crucial role in filling high-paying, in-demand STEM careers, but they account for just 34 percent of the STEM workforce , according to 2024 Female Students and STEM Report. Beginning in middle school, female students experience significant STEM exposure gaps that continue through high school.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

As a middle school Spanish teacher, my #1 goal is to have my students fall in love with learning a language the way I did in middle school. Gimkit – this is a newer game that was created by a high school student! Communication activity. Students may play as individuals or in groups. Fly Swatter!

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Many middle school and high school teachers feel immense pressure to move quickly through the curriculum. It makes it so much easier to design tasks and challenges that foster communication and collaboration. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent. I love the flexibility of working in this model.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2023

Dexter, Michigan — Dexter Community School, a mid-size school district located in Dexter, Michigan, has implemented Rise Vision’s digital signage solution to encourage student expression and creativity. The solution is also highly customizable, allowing schools to tailor their displays to meet their specific needs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition for 15 years, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. . California] Ryan Park, La Canada High School, La Canada Unified School District. PAUL, Minn.?–

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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. Roberts High School.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2022

This year’s finalists and honorable mention recipients feature outstanding innovations from young scientists – fourteen students ages 12 to 14 – who submitted a one-to two-minute video communicating a solution to an everyday problem in their community or the world and the science behind their solution. Stratford School.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

Here are the first six: Policy recommendation #1: Establish state AI networks States should establish statewide artificial intelligence networks so people, groups and agencies can connect, communicate, collaborate and coordinate AI efforts across each state.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

He teaches sixth graders at Technology Middle School in Sonoma, California. And as schools changed and kids changed – I call it the practice gap – I think people like me who get national prominence in a field, especially education, drift farther and farther away from the daily experience of the classroom teacher.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. The truth is when you teach middle schoolers, you feel like you don’t make a difference. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2021

Now, it is possible for faculty at middle schools, junior highs, and high schools to enjoy the user experience of personalization and parental engagement. PTC Wizard, developer of the PTC wizard platform, an online parent-teacher conference scheduler, announces full integration with Zoom video conferencing.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2020

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. We have Google Classroom and Canvas at the middle and high school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

That’s why at Jacksonville Independent School District we like to combine social-emotional learning with coding education. Here’s how it has worked since we introduced virtual robotics at our middle school. At the time, we did not have a robotics course for middle grades at all, though we did have an after-school STEM club.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2018

In fact, studies show that up to 60 percent of all high school students are “chronically disengaged” from their own learning. Cyberbullying has become more and more common, and a remarkable 20 percent of middle school students reported seriously contemplating suicide in a survey conducted by the Cyberbullying Research Center.

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JANUARY 3, 2025

We asked education experts to share their thoughts regarding student success priorities in 2025 (find 50 edtech predictions for 2025 here )–discover what they had to say: Across the country, there is growing consensus and demand for high school transformation. Students often learn best by doing.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

Key points: Tech tools can create more engaging and effective learning experiences A critical shift in digital instruction in 2025 How multimedia and interactive tech transform engagement For more news on digital tools, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In 2010, I began my teaching career as a high school English teacher.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. The truth is when you teach middle schoolers, you feel like you don’t make a difference. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Eleven years later, as I walk through the halls in a middle school/high school setting, I see students sitting on a tile floor crowded around a device trying to type, communicate, take videos, and record their voices with background noise and distractions often interrupting their progress. The environment.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2021

the winner of the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge ( #YoungScientist ), the nation’s premier middle school science competition. SparkCare+ is made up of two components: a communication with the participant, and a mechanism that uses deep neural networks to select therapeutic music. a seventh-grader at Harker Middle School.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

said Ryan Lancaster, executive director of communications for SPS. Our intent was to get every kid, every day, involved in something positive outside the school day and extend that community learning past the classroom. The question was not How do we get kids off their phones?

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition for 15 years, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. The GAME:IT Advanced course is the capstone course in the high school game design and programming pathway.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. Attendance and achievement predict students’ probability of graduating high school, which in turn predicts lifetime earnings.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The first district in Georgia to offer its students the power of learning with virtual reality, Cherokee County Schools implemented zSpace at Teasley Middle School last school year, expanding to a high school for the 2015-16 school year.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – Carousel Digital Signage has provided Elkhart Community Schools with a seamless way to communicate timely, up-to-date messages to its diverse network of students, faculty, staff, and visitors. The public school district is comprised of 14 elementary schools, three middle schools, and one high school.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

I wish the public knew that communication is the key, just like in every relationship. Establishing an open and transparent line of communication with families is key to educational success and positive relationship-building. Kim Booth, sixth grade teacher at Coleman Middle School in Duluth, Ga.: “I I miss my kids.

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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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