eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This year, Donahoo’s EAST students are in the process of testing and discovering the new equipment in one of Creston’s two brand-new next-generation learning spaces, also called 21st century classrooms. The classrooms are two of the first constructed in southwest Iowa and will be used by teachers in the district beginning next week.

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Learning Spaces Middle School Middle School STEM 279

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 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. The pedagogy.

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Teachers Assignments Students Participation 223

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. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts. Middle school students are navigating the most vulnerable and self-conscious developmental phase.

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Student Engagement Learning Students Middle School 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

One of my challenges as a music teacher is finding learning tools that inspire and motivate my students and engage them musically, regardless of their individual abilities. Taylor Haun (left) with a student Through electronic music, students can learn new tools. I’ve taught music full-time for a few years.

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Mobile Devices STEM Disabilities Motivation 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

More often than not they look at us like we’re nuts—rightly so—which is why in my learning environment, we take a slightly different approach, easing parents into our way of thinking slowly, and involving them and their and students in a hands-on way as they get acquainted with what we do and why—because what we do is pretty different.

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Middle School Middle School Learning Learning Spaces 132

eSchool News

MAY 23, 2024

This last year, we wrote and received a grant allowing us to install STEAM labs in all of our elementary and middle schools. STEAM labs provide a dedicated and engaging learning space to increase student mastery and achievement in core competencies while sparking their access, exposure, and interest in STEAM.

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Knowledge History Middle School Middle School 143

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

From Montessori to personalized, to college and life-prep schools, individual campuses picked up pedagogies and transformed their learning spaces. When there is no connection between learning practices taught in elementary, middle and high school, teachers do not recognize the importance of what they are doing.

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