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

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

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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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

It is shockingly difficult for most teachers to alter their language in this manner. I want to start a conversation, but I also want the student to look at their classmates and communicate the information to them directly. It is also an invitation for the speaker to be attentive to communicating with the entire class.

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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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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? And, of course, we understand that fruits and flowers are intended, at least in part, to connect plants with animals, including humans, who tend to respond in ways that support the plant's propagation, but does that really count as communication ?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

With so many students coming from a range of backgrounds, school district communications can be challenging for us. To complicate matters further, the communication system that we previously used made it appear as if our messages had been sent when they had not.

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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. Speak their language. Related : Has your district unified school-to-home communications?

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

Project overview: Reading, recording, and reaching the world As an ESL teacher, Ive always looked for ways to make literacy feel meaningful and empowering, especially for students navigating a new language and culture. She communicated them in a way that was both thoughtful and relatable. The assignment?

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

— June 12, 2022 — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 13 million students, announced it has acquired Curiosity Media , the creator of innovative language learning platforms that empower people to more effectively communicate in Spanish and English.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Communication as a student in a foreign land depends heavily on knowledge of the language. The Ask a Tech Teacher international team has a few broader issues to think about when considering what barriers face students in foreign lands: Language: The Biggest Communication Barrier for Foreign Students?

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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

MARCH 3, 2022

The acquisition of TeachBoost further accelerates SchoolStatus’ strong momentum and supports its strategy to build a K12 communications and operations ecosystem that leverages the power of its data and engagement platform to drive better user experiences and student outcomes. RIDGELAND, Miss. RIDGELAND, Miss.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

and LEHI, Utah — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people worldwide, announced it has acquired Emmersion , the Utah-based leader in certifying language ability through artificial intelligence. Accurately establish language skills with AI. SAN MATEO, Calif.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2025

teachers work with diverse groups, often with varying language backgrounds and ability levels, in both indoor and outdoor settings. Clear verbal and nonverbal communication build trust and respect, making students feel heard and helping them more effectively develop motor skills.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2023

To help educators increase the support that both students and teachers receive from family engagement, ParentSquare , the award-winning unified school-home engagement platform for K12 education, has compiled resources for improving school-home communications in the upcoming school year. preferred languages and channels) 4.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

SchoolStatus , announced this month the acquisition of ClassTag , a unified family communication and engagement platform for educators, schools, and districts. ClassTag’s smart messages reach all families based on their preferred channel (SMS, email, app, web or paper) automatically translated into 100+ languages.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

17, 2022— ParentSquare , the award-winning unified school-home communications platform for K-12 education, has been named a vendor partner by the Educational Service Centers of Indiana (ESC of I). School staff and parents can also participate in one-to-one and group messaging with real-time language translation. Learn more at [link].

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2022

PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinvolved, a leading provider of K-12 communications, attendance, and engagement solutions supporting over 250,000 students and used within three of the top four school districts in the U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2023

. — SchoolStatus , a leader in K-12 data and communications, announced today the acquisition of ClassTag , a unified family communication and engagement platform for educators, schools, and districts. Seeing all relevant student information in one place helps families stay informed and get involved. Are they on track?”

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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. Facilitates communication and engagement.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2024

Could better communication between schools and parents alleviate the problem? To Lim, that means there’s a lot of room for improvement in how educators and parents are communicating. And other research has pointed to the importance of improving parent-teacher communication. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

At whatever stage, communicating with peers about proposed solutions is an important part of the design process, and shared ideas can lead to improved designs. Step 3: Use a mastery-based scale and describe each criterion at each level of mastery in student-friendly language.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

There are at least four languages spoken by the students I currently teach, so people are often surprised to learn that I’m monolingual. Nearly 4,500 students are eligible to receive direct language support services this year in Hamilton County Schools, the district where I teach in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

MADISON, WI – Today, Open Up Resources and Kiddom announced Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD ) has selected its top-rated EL Education K-5 Education Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for its 31 elementary schools in support of the district’s efforts to prioritize early literacy and beyond. Share assignments digitally; ? ABOUT KIDDOM.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

One of the persistent challenges in second language acquisition (SLA), especially within the communicative approach, is how to incorporate writing in a way that feels meaningful and beneficial to students. As a result, writing often takes a backseat, seen as an isolated, academic exercise rather than a communicative act.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2025

Surprisingly, learning a foreign language has a set of guidelines that–if followed–are pretty good predictors of success. For many, the challenge of learning a foreign language like English may seem daunting, but with the right strategies, the process can become both efficient and enjoyable.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. The good days, she says, are abundant thanks in great part to her ongoing enthusiasm for and belief in the power of communication in the lives of children and adults. For this installment, we spoke with Debi Ryan.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Key points: Virtual reality offers learning beyond just verbal communications 3 AR/VR resources that nurture student curiosity Reaching the 4Cs with 3D and virtual reality For more on VR in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Multilingual students face unique challenges that can hurt their performance in school. In the U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

When schools moved to remote instruction, communication between parents and educators soared. Parents have become used to increased information and communication from schools. The following tips can help teachers and administrators plan, establish, and maintain positive school-home communication processes that support student success.

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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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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 27, 2021

It is also how we communicate to our students that we value the process over the product. Teachers working with younger students or second language learners can create a choice board with sentence frames to provide students with additional support as they give each other focused feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

The overall quality of students’ work also suffers when they do not have the time and space needed to fully engage with academic tasks or produce artifacts to express and communicate their learning. Learning a Language: Acquiring a new language involves mastering vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and cultural nuances.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Additionally, the students broadened their vocabulary by learning language thats critical to their academic success. By sharing their process and final result Shark Tank -style, the students learned how to communicate effectively and pitch their ideas.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Question 1: Setting the stage When we asked educators about their top goals for the school year, a whopping 75 percent said “building strong communication” was at the top of their list. So, setting up a good communication routine is a fantastic goal for a successful 2023-24. But it can be a complex task.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2025

Heres where traditional AI systems tend to fall short: NLP fine-tuning Improves the form of communication but doesnt understand intent or depth. So, whats the problem with what we have now? Its not that existing AI tools are bad. Theyre just incomplete. Feedback loops Built to correct errors, not guide growth.

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