eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Improving math achievement has long been a sticking point for U.S. Now, one Maryland school district is seeing substantial improvements in grades 6-8 math scores. Students who completed 10 Speak Agent learning activities experienced a 10 percent higher mean score than their peers on the PGCPS Math Benchmark assessments.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Today, the award-winning science series NOVA , produced for PBS by GBH Boston, announced the launch of NOVA Science Studio , a new national program to teach and engage young people through an interdisciplinary curriculum focused on science communication, digital media literacy, and video production.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

An interdisciplinary approach also means that students arent just experiencing this type of learning (and its associated gains) once a week in a science elective: they’re seeing daily connections and inherently feeling a larger personal connection with the environment, even in subjects like math and social studies.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2023

At the same time, administrators, teachers, and parents are finding new ways to help these students address learning loss.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Thats why Ive made a point of seeking out the best edtech tools for fostering teamwork and communication among my students. Whiteboard: Whiteboard is ideal for grades K-12 and works especially well for drawing, images, and math symbols. Best of all, it can be used for free, while larger subscriptions remain affordable.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Starting this fall, Alabama high school students can choose to take these classes–or any other state-approved career and technical education courses–in place of upper level math and science, such as Algebra 2 or chemistry. The state is now calling that track the Option A diploma.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Learning science company McGraw Hill today announced the release of Reveal Math, a new K-5 math program that offers a unique instructional model helping teachers incorporate both inquiry-focused and teacher-guided instructional strategies to unlock their students’ mathematical potential.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

/PRNewswire/ — Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation K-12 learning solutions leader, is excited to announce that the South Carolina State Board of Education has approved the full suite of Savvas K-12 math programs for statewide adoption across all grade levels.

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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 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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The community college’s math department didn’t consider it a math course. Although statistics was an accepted general education math course at institutions around the state, and the class used a valid inquiry-based pedagogical strategy, the math faculty nevertheless felt that the course needed to cover more algebra.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. And that's how people learn math. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. How do you prepare for that?

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

The ninth-graders in my classes and the preservice teachers I teach have one thing in common: math has not always come easy for them, and for many in both groups, learning math can be overwhelming. My answer: an immersive, 15-credit-hour semester of math. As Boaler asserts, “Everyone can learn math to high levels.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

MIND Education, a leader in neuroscience-driven math education solutions, has released transformative upgrades to the ST Math experience for students and teachers. ST Math’s new enhancements will accelerate math learning and conceptual understanding in less time,” said Jason Mendenhall, chief product officer at MIND Education. “ST

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Understanding that not all students express or communicate their understanding in the same way is crucial. By offering meaningful choices, we can ensure that every student has the opportunity to successfully apply and communicate their learning, accommodating their unique strengths and preferences.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Content areas, such as math and science, and other areas like memory, executive function, and social-emotional development are being informed by research. And while the science of reading is currently in the forefront of media cycles, many other areas of education are being informed by cognitive neuroscience research.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Here’s the latest: Communication between schools and parents or caregivers is absolutely critical, and the need to maintain consistent communication doesn’t wane as students become older, notes Dr. Kara Stern, director of Education and Engagement at SchoolStatus.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Available within Discovery Education Experience, the essential companion for engaged K-12 classrooms, this new content supports instruction in a variety of disciplines including ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Careers Exploration.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2024

The report dives into the research on summer programs, their implementation and design, as well as the efficacy of those programs for literacy, math, and social-emotional learning (SEL) outcomes. Summer programs should prioritize family communication to promote student participation. months of mathematics instruction and 4.1

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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. Below is a list of academic tasks that benefit from variable time on task.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2020

In our experience talking with educators, I think one aspect that came up as of paramount importance, and was maybe taken for granted by schools and school districts, was the ability to communicate home. Brett Woudenberg, CEO of MIND Research Institute : Math is the most challenging subject for parents to teach their children.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Create a channel for students to communicate directly with you while they are working in breakout rooms. A clear line of communication from groups in breakout rooms to the teacher will minimize frustration and help the teacher assist students as they navigate tasks. for a unit or text.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

Math Skills Reinforcement: For math classes, must-do stations could focus on foundational math skills that need reinforcement, as identified by assessment data, while may-do stations could offer problem-solving activities, collaborative real-world math challenges, or math games that stimulate critical thinking and application.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2021

As educators, we cannot predict what the future holds, but we understand the importance of developing core skills such as collaboration, effective communication, and problem solving in our students today.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

Putting the ‘E’ in integrative STEM instruction For more news on STEAM, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub According to the National Math and Science Initiative , STEM education helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, fosters communication, and bolsters teamwork.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2021

Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, writing had not received the same attention as math or reading. Writing is a complex cognitive ability that is foundational to the development of communication and thinking skills. Employers routinely report that they desire stronger written communication skills in their employees.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A 2019 Gallup study that included 128 schools and more than 110,000 students found that student engagement and hope were significantly positively related to student academic achievement progress in math, reading, and all subjects combined.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Key points: Students need algebra, but many get “stuck” as they learn Offering tutoring, particularly high-dosage tutoring outside of school hours, could help See related article: 5 ways virtual tutoring reinforces our after-school program Since the pandemic, students have struggled markedly in math, particularly algebra.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2021

Regardless, the most important qualification for virtual STEM is an authentic learning experience for students with some kind of real science, engineering, math, or technology practice built into it. This interactivity component is important so learning is tied to a real world application rather than it just being an abstract concept.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2022

Teachers can use story coding to bring history, science, world languages, ELA, and even math into their lessons.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2021

Teamwork and communication are the top skills employers are looking for, a new survey of hiring managers reveals. Students met online with their advisor, math teacher Arbin Lubiano, who talked with them about some of the 15 discrete skills the program’s curriculum emphasizes. Then, they played League of Legends in teams of five.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Not only does this affect their ability to communicate effectively, it also affects their reading skills, because writing and literacy are closely linked. Poor writing skills can have a compounding effect on student achievement, while also limiting students ability to communicate effectively. According to one analysis ,half of U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Meeting the Growing Demand for CS Skills Alexis Johnson First Grade Teacher, Canyons School District Computing and technology shape how we communicate, work and learn. For Stacey King, a secondary math and computer science teacher, the appeal was clear: “I love PD and am always looking for ways to help me be better.”

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