eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Ending the year on a strong note not only celebrates the achievements of students and staff but also sets the stage for a successful transition into the next academic year. Celebrate achievements: Reflecting on the successes of the school year is crucial for boosting morale and motivation among students and staff.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 22, 2025

In recent years, higher education has witnessed a surge in conversations around student mental health. National surveys consistently report escalating rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness among college students (American College Health Association 2023). Rather, learning how to refer students is vital.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

In our conversations throughout the year, educators reflected on the pressures they’ve endured and how in focusing on caring for students and families, their own health and well-being was often overlooked and in urgent need of addressing. If I’m referring a student, I should be able to refer myself too, right?”.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 29, 2025

When educators feel unsupported, their ability to mentor students and contribute to nursing scholarship declines, diminishing the overall quality of nursing education. Fostering a Culture of Civility Clark et al. 2011) emphasize the importance of fostering a culture of civility within nursing education. Levecque, K.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2023

As research reveals that relational trust leads to engagement and success, we are reminded that teachers hold our students’ stories and hopes—and here’s how school leaders can lay the foundation for relational trust so that school communities flourish. Use respectful language when talking with and about teachers. Encouragement matters.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

percent of students met or exceeded the Science standards. When race is considered as a factor in how students scored, the CAST scores show that only 13.75 percent of Black or African American students met or exceeded the Science standards. We are clearly not serving our Black students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2019

So I have a degree of sympathy when our students bring their Chromebooks in for repair. Unfortunately, we see some students whose devices need repair so often it casts doubt on just how careful they actually are with their devices. Establishing some degree of financial responsibility to students and parents for non-accidental damage.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

As November 8 th approached, I made sure to leave extra class time to allow my communications students to discuss the upcoming presidential election, hoping to align their discussions with topics on my syllabus. For many students, high school and college are times of tremendous personal growth and experimentation.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The ratio of students to school counselors in the United States continues to narrow, with data released this month showing it has reached the lowest point since 1986, the year the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) began tracking student-to-counselor ratios. And it didn’t happen overnight.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Today only 9 percent of low income students get a college degree by age 24, compared with 73 percent of higher income students, according to a study by the Pell Institute. Before considering a path to post-secondary education, students need help identifying and showcasing their own strengths from an early age.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

After all, without a consistent and functional faculty, the quality of students’ education is likely to suffer. Consider subsidizing telehealth counseling that more effectively fits into teachers’ schedules. Your approach here should certainly include building a culture of openness around mental health.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2024

Each year, some students do not meet these expectations, and as a result, they are told they have not earned a high school diploma and aren’t able to walk across the stage with their peers. If a diploma means we have prepared them, shouldn’t we be asking students what they want to be prepared for?

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

The school integrates leadership development, life skills, and hands-on learning experiences to ensure students leave not just prepared for college, but ready to take on the world. An AP curriculum challenges students to excel, and Harkness-style classes foster discussion and debate, giving students a voice in their learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

Students hear a lot of advice about the importance of what they do in high school, but they aren’t all hearing the same guidance. When researchers asked 290 college students about what advice they’d been given in high school, the researchers found that it was stratified by race. And the quality of the advice students get varies. “I

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

How Makerspaces in Schools Help Students Learn to Code. One way that schools are engaging students is by introducing coding activities in makerspaces, where students can use the creative culture to start establishing the building blocks of computational thinking. How Makerspace Tools Teach Students Coding Concepts.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2021

The weather may be warming up, but this year more than ever, “school’s out for summer” won’t be true for thousands of students across the country. It’s the first time in decades the district has offered summer programming for students of all grade levels. But just because these activities are fun, doesn’t mean they’re not serious.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

She said that since August, COVID protocols have been manageable and work feels almost normal, but she shared that while she’s grateful and relieved, she regularly worries about things “getting bad again”—whether it’s another wave of COVID or some other disruption shutting schools down or putting undue burdens on staff and students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

Thus began his transition, from teaching high school students to focusing on their teachers. One of the things the COVID-19 pandemic revealed is the assessment culture we’ve created in our schools. When I talk about transforming education, I'm talking about that culture. That's exactly what's happened.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

About a month into each semester, Gayle Golden sets aside a little time to ask her students about their learning. Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received. During the next class period, she discusses the findings with her students.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2023

Diaz is part of the first crop of high school students in a new pilot program offered by the state of California in partnership with the Child Mind Institute. The discrepancy stems from systemic factors like economic inequality, as well as cultural ones. Students like Diaz find out about the program through their schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2017

secondary schools and universities , where demand for counseling services is rapidly outstripping supply. Given the critical importance of mental well-being for student success both in school and after, how can schools evolve to better serve students in this area? Yet, mental health is a growing crisis within both.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

I welcome students into the building with an optimistic smile on my face while teachers give an endless supply of high fives, and students yawn and find a corner to sit with their friends. A student needs me, and so it begins. By the time I return, two students are waiting outside my office and I’ve got two notes on my door.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The metrics behind rankings are good to check, but might not accurately reflect what students are looking for. First Stage: College Admission College admission is a pivotal moment in a student’s academic journey, often accompanied by the daunting task of crafting a compelling personal statement.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

students attend public schools. If there are no school board members who are experts on corporate education reform and disruption, they may be blindly led to decisions that are not in the best district of students or the district. Charter schools have been known to cherry pick students by race, class and even disability levels.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

In fact, the school stopped suspending students altogether in 2015, after administrators realized the practice was denying their most at-risk students important social, emotional and academic reinforcements. Nearly all of its 1,500 students are Latino and designated as low-income. At our school, they get more support.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

SchoolStatus , a leader in K-12 data-driven solutions that empower student success, announced today the launch of its 2024-25 Customer Advisory Board (CAB). Since the company launched in 2012, SchoolStatus has been dedicated to developing innovative solutions that empower districts to make a real impact for students, families, and educators.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Her students stopped turning on their cameras and stopped responding despite her best efforts to keep them engaged. She knew that there were probably many reasons (that had nothing to do with her) for why her students weren’t showing up to class. She said she felt like a machine just pushing out work for students to do.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 1, 2025

I taught a group of students unlike any I had taught over the span of my long teaching experience in diverse settings and institutions. The students portrayed an exceptional level of behavioral engagement. At the end of my visit, I left those students and went back home to my regular educational setting.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Education and student well-being are stretched thin, and lingering learning gaps, exacerbated by the pandemic, present hurdles for all students–especially underrepresented students groups who were already at a disadvantage. Parents will step up to address the student mental health crisis.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2024

EdSurge: How do higher education institutions balance the need for tuition increases with the imperative to remain accessible to students from diverse economic backgrounds? For first-year college students, the average tuition discount rate is 56 percent. That is impactful when considering an annual tuition of $50,000!

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Youth mental health is in trouble , and schools have seen firsthand the rise in need for mental health services among students. Some edtech companies are turning their efforts to mental health, and mental health tech is turning its attention to students. Anyone can form a healthy relationship with a student,” Cipriano says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Searching for colleges where they will thrive, students compile their lists using standard metrics—size, location, major—unaware that they are eliminating some great options. Unfortunately, this means that a lot of students end up at colleges that don’t work out for them. Belinda Wilkerson sorting Corsava cards with her student.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2022

In California, experts agree the pandemic has exacerbated already deep-rooted mental health challenges for students. About one third of students of color said they did not have an adult at school with whom they could safely share their feelings. Lots of people in California are facing a tsunami of mental health needs.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Podcast How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources Episode 149. Carl Dindo, the Director of Campus Health Services for Northern Arizona University, to discuss innovative approaches to meeting student mental health needs. EAB · How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources Transcript [music] 0:00:11.2

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2021

The creation of the Chief People Officer role signifies the importance of people at the center of the company’s culture and strategy. With the rapid growth of the business in FY21 came significant growth in employee teams to support and ensure great service to schools and students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2023

How would you react if you learned that one of your students felt that you don’t treat them like a full person, with a life and responsibilities beyond the classroom? They began to view assignments and learning holistically, and started taking into account the students' lives and external challenges.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

Tallahassee Community College is finding out with a student-success technology known as early alerts. The idea is to gather information about a student based on factors like academic performance or attendance, and notify a professor or advisor to intervene with students who show early signs of struggle. Second Chances.

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