eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Additionally, the students broadened their vocabulary by learning language thats critical to their academic success. The results Work ED assessed the participating students before starting the program and then again once they completed it. It also taught students valuable professional skills that can be used in the workforce.

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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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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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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. Elianis It has helped me communicate better with my classmates when working on a project. percent of U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2020

If your student or child had to rapidly transition to an at-home learning environment as a struggling reader, an English language learner, or one with dyslexia, there are many ways that the support they were receiving in school can transfer to their home. This builds metacognition, which is key for comprehension and reading success.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

STEM can help with English language development by allowing students to engage with language in a variety of ways. Part of “doing STEM” means learning to speak the language of STEM. For MLs, grappling with STEM terms while also navigating a new language can make it extra challenging.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Consistent, positive family communication. 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. One essential mechanism for repairing that connection is family communication.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 25, 2019

Immersive Tools Are Poised to Change Communication in K–12 Schools. Online communities are certainly not new. Schools are a place to foster leadership, empathy, problem-solving and communication skills. In a virtual world, students are also not limited by their physical abilities, language proficiencies or resource availability.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Teachers can use observations with a checklist when students are: Engaged in group activities or discussions to monitor individual participation and contributions. Teachers might include the following items on a checklist: Participation: Is the student actively engaged in the activity/discussion? materials, technology, references)?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. Writing is essential for professional and long-distance communication.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Key points: Improving family engagement methods can be challenging, but not impossible See article: 5 tips to increase parent engagement See article: 3 tips to cultivate meaningful parent engagement For more news on school communication, see eSN’s Educational Leadership page As a school administrator, I thought a lot about family engagement.

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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

DECEMBER 25, 2020

If your student or child had to rapidly transition to an at-home learning environment as a struggling reader, an English language learner, or one with dyslexia, there are many ways that the support they were receiving in school can transfer to their home. This builds metacognition, which is key for comprehension and reading success.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

” Our classrooms are composed of diverse groups of students with different skills, abilities, preferences, language proficiencies, and academic needs. This allows teachers to quickly communicate the “must-do” stations to students and reuse those blank colored cards for future may-do versus must-do station rotations.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2017

During the annual April competition, student participants, as young as 4th graders, tackle real-world design challenges like how to build earthquake-proof structures and get arctic explorers safely across ice. That’s true to an extent, but if you’re good at math and can’t communicate, it’s going to be hard to be successful in any role.”.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Learners use the programming language Blockly to steer virtual robots through tasks such as collecting fruit, avoiding obstacles, and even planting a garden of their own design. Additionally, students also hone skills such as creativity, collaboration, and communication by participating in guided classroom activities and discussions.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Whether its reinforcing math concepts, improving reading comprehension, or learning a new language, these resources make learning more engaging and effective. For many students, developing social awareness, confidence, and communication skills requires structured support. Effective communication is a key aspect of the BIC System.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Before the pandemic, the idea of communicating with a therapist via text seemed unthinkable. But they dont need to be experiencing symptoms of mental illness or living with loss to participate. These digital natives communicate effortlessly through text and other online media. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

During an edWeb webinar , visual strategist and speech language pathologist Linda Hodgdon shared five tips to help students with autism begin the school year successfully. The most important thing to understand, Hodgdon said, is the communication strengths and challenges of children with autism. Communication.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

During the November 2024 meeting of CoSNs EdTech Innovation Committee , participants were asked those same questions, and shared their perspectives on what educators should do about the topic. We need common language and understanding around these terms. During the conversation, there was a need to define terms and shared language.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2019

Demographics: Iowa City Community School District serves more than 14,000 students across 30 schools. There are many after-school and summer programs available for students in the Iowa City area, but hurdles such as cost, awareness, language/cultural barriers and transportation were interfering with participation.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

. – June 23, 2022 – Students in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) who participated in online tutoring sessions with FEV Tutor , the most comprehensive virtual tutoring solution in K-12, demonstrated accelerated rates of growth relative to national norms in both math and reading on the NWEA MAP Growth Assessments.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2024

–Shanie Keelean, Deputy Superintendent, Rush-Henrietta Central School District, NY Communicate, communicate, communicate. You have to communicate, communicate, communicate. You need to be able to also make sure that you’re communicating with the larger community.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2025

KnoPro , a free digital tool for students 13+, provides them with the ability to participate in authentic business projects with mentorship from industry professionals and chances to win prize money. CTE is growing in popularity, with an increase in digital and virtual tools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

15, 2021— ParentSquare , the award-winning unified school-home communications platform for K-12 education, has been named a vendor partner by the Illinois Learning Technology Purchase Program (ILTPP). School staff and parents can also participate in one-to-one and group messaging with real-time language translation.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Creating learning communities of parents. Educators can improve family tech literacy by sending home instructional handouts in the parents’ native language, including hands-on tech demonstrations at events like back-to school nights and hosting family tech nights aimed at families with low tech use. Make participants feel welcome.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2022

10, 2022 —In a 2022 national survey about the future of school-home communications, school and district leaders said they would like to add more videos to improve communication with families. I have so many ideas on how we can use this enhanced resource to humanize our communications approach. SANTA BARBARA, CALIF.

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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 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. Rebuilding classroom connections in the era of phone-based childhoods would require district leaders to think big.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

As insights from neuroscience increasingly inform educational practices, we are seeing old theories and practices, such as whole language, challenged and new approaches more aligned to the science of learning emerge. work with a partner to light a bulb using the materials provided for you).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Now, parents will be able to respond to permission and form requests, make payments, and communicate more meaningfully with school educators and administrators directly on their mobile phones. I love the data analysis and communications capability SchoolStatus brings to the market, and I know Operoo customers will, too.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

ParentSquare , the award-winning unified school-to-home communications platform for K-12 education, will now be available for the district’s staff and the families of its 41,000 students to use for the 2021-22 school year. School staff and parents can also participate in one-to-one and group messaging with real-time language translation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

With numerous programming languages available, it can take time to pick a starting point. Through the CoderZ Robotics curriculum, kids learn to create, manage, and communicate with cyber robots in a virtual setting by inputting code. students with special needs, English Language Learners, etc.).

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2024

I recommend starting with a week of onboarding that includes an overview of your organization’s culture, how to build relationships and engage with students and parents online, and how to utilize the technology systems used to teach, monitor data, and communicate with families.

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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. More specifically, one of our SPLASH classes communicated with a woman in China.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In late 2023, the Federal Communications Commission proposed a $200 million program to gather data on schools’ cybersecurity and firewalls, to examine how we can best protect students, teachers and schools. End-to-end encryption (e2ee) can also help ensure no one but the sender and the recipient can read sensitive communications.

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