eSchool News

MAY 20, 2024

For me, it took Miss Natalia, my teacher from first grade to fourth grade. Initiatives like improved counselor ratios, enhanced peer counseling, and open parent dialogues are crucial. I was once a homeless teenager on the streets of Miami, and education saved and defined me. She was the perfect teacher.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Personalized profiles help determine target schools based on professional goals and grades. The average ratio for a public school counselor is 1:400 in California. Kollegio works alongside students during the college discovery and application process.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2024

In the Houston Independent School District, the first students to graduate under the new endorsement system in 2018 did not receive formal guidance about their endorsement tracks after their initial choice in ninth grade. As a result, the gender gap in completing the STEM endorsement in HISD almost completely disappeared, declining from 6.2%

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Director of College Counseling at MMI Preparatory School. Chrin, Ed.D., Currently, 40 eligible MMI students are set to benefit from the initiative, with the program already in place and being collaboratively administered by MMI and Lackawanna College staff. “We

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Well-being resources : Encourage self-care by providing resources such as access to counseling services, wellness programs, or relaxation spaces within the school. Transition plans : Develop comprehensive plans to support students as they move to the next grade level or school. Consider organizing wellness days or retreats.

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Teach Hub

MAY 9, 2024

Poor grades often signal an underlying issue that may go beyond the student’s understanding of the material, such as an external stressor or lack of motivation. Whatever the case, low grades can impact a student’s motivation and self-esteem leading to a cycle of poor performance.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

As educators, what is our role in terms of providing objective counsel regarding news sources, viewpoints and truth during an election cycle? This is a dangerous practice, as students who don’t share the same viewpoint become afraid to express themselves, for fear of a failing grade or being berated by the teacher in front of the class.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

8 th Grade Pre-Academies and 9 th –12 th Grade Academic Academies—a community college partnership, an extensive catalog of dual credit and Advanced Placement (AP) courses, a 6-12 ELA (English Language Arts) and social studies curriculum tied to news literacy, the Senior Experience course, as well as nationally recognized arts and athletics.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As districts around the country face ever-growing SEL and mental well-being needs among the students they serve, EmpowerU helps schools scale their counseling and support services—without hiring more staff.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

And since today’s school counselors work with all students in a school — through classroom instruction, small group, individual counseling and individual consultation — having those smaller ratios gives school counselors an opportunity to deliver information and curricula and … to address gaps around opportunity, equity and access.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Based on this data, students can determine whether they are ready to take unit assessments, which count towards their grade. Students are counseled on how to interpret their data and know that if certain formative assessments show areas of weakness, they should go back and work on them before requesting an assessment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

She was teaching fourth grade when a new integrated curriculum focused on careers was introduced district-wide—and it was making her lessons more relevant to the real world. It’s here that Brandt teaches, at the Cajon Valley Union School District, which serves about 16,000 students through eighth grade.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades. Building literacy skills in young readers must continue beyond third grade. First, we need to ensure that we are offering strong, evidence-based code instruction beyond the grades where those skills used to be actively taught.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

At the end of each academic quarter, students receive their grades in a one-on-one meeting in their dorm. “Our college counseling program is designed to support students at every stage of their high school career,” says Dr. Ott. Another unique Kiski tradition is the personal meetings with the Head of School.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Stoney Rogers, Technology Integration Specialist, Pascagoula-Gautier School District, Mississippi Stoney Rogers is a Technology Integration Specialist for the Pascagoula-Gautier School District (PGSD), where he collaborates with Pre-K through 12th-grade teachers to seamlessly integrate technology resources into the classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

While the Just Equations report highlights the problems that can arise when high school students don’t have access to good counseling, other previous reports have suggested that high school counselors can overcorrect in the other direction, tending to overemphasize the importance of calculus in college admissions.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. But good high school grades don’t always predict timely college completion. The pitch: Use deeper technology to make admissions more deeply human. “I

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

The Learning Counsel has released the results of its third annual Survey of school and district digital curriculum strategy and transformation, sponsored by Ruckus Wireless. is seeing greater than expected literacy gains among fourth- and fifth-grade students using KidBiz3000, one of Achieve3000’s differentiated literacy solutions.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

The tangled web of grading, posting assignments, and communicating with students—plus maintaining an engaging and supportive instructor presence, much less high academic standards—often turned confusion into chaos.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

Even when I came on and there were two of us counseling, it wasn’t enough to support that many students. We needed to acknowledge the steep, and growing, demand for counseling services, and we had to create time and space for every student reaching out to receive support. Over time, we’ve seen this approach prove effective.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

Kieschnick has designed content, implemented initiatives and trained educational leaders have been recognized by the Learning Counsel as being among the top 10 in the nation for their work in blended learning. How do we grade remote learners? That it’s not about getting grades from the gradebook; it's about skills.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

One challenge that students face as they advance through grades is that, as they get older, they get less individualized attention from adults at school, she explains. The startup company provides telehealth counseling to middle and high school students through school districts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

Mitchell founded Crete Academy , a nonprofit charter school in south Los Angeles for children grades preK through 6. The school offers each students, who often arrive to the school from local shelters or the streets, two physical and two dental exams, as well as on-site mental health counseling. The HadaNõu Collective. WordsLiive.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. The district hoped that scrapping honors math classes and eighth grade algebra courses would reduce disparities in math learning in the district.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2021

It’s the first time in decades the district has offered summer programming for students of all grade levels. High schoolers, whose day ends at lunchtime, will have access to college preparation, job training and counseling. But just because these activities are fun, doesn’t mean they’re not serious.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

They were paired through Big Brothers Big Sisters when Witchet was in fifth grade. I refused to accept [his grades] because I saw what his ingredients were,” Dennison says. Through that program, Witchet met a guidance counselor who helped him improve his grades and focus on his college goals. “It

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Based on this data, students can determine whether they are ready to take unit assessments, which count towards their grade. Students are counseled on how to interpret their data and know that if certain formative assessments show areas of weakness, they should go back and work on them before requesting an assessment.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

We don't just think of preschool through 6th grade anymore here.” These new players are tasked with thinking creatively about how to break down barriers between families and schools, between early childhood programs and elementary schools, and between teachers in different grades. It started with a mind shift,” she says. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

Christina Ramsay It’s not just about this one grade, lesson or day. Templates for School Counseling: Feelings. Ramsay: This work of social-emotional learning and mindfulness has to be our foundation because that’s how we ensure we're meeting our kids’ needs—by responding to them and building relationships with them.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Last year, I helped coordinate opportunities for grief counseling sessions led by mental health professionals and devoted meeting time for reflection and acknowledging feelings. He thought it might be a good idea to take his ninth grade students on a tour of the school to reacquaint them with the school building. It will be OK.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Her first semester grades at the California community college were not good, she says, and she didn’t know much about financial aid or academic advising. She’s also noticed that it feels harder to get access to resources like counseling and help at the writing center at the large university than it was at her community college.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Steven McDonald, a FERPA expert and general counsel at the Rhode Island School of Design, thinks similarly. That means a teacher can share students’ grades with the registrar, or contact the counseling office with concerns about a student’s mental health, without consent.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A lot of people think if a school has a 5 percent admit rate, they have a one in 20 chance of getting in, which is not what it is,” says Nathan Mathabane, associate director of college counseling at Woodside Priory School, in California, and a former admissions officer at Princeton University.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

According to Cody Venzke, CDT’s senior policy counsel, widespread monitoring can disproportionately impact students from low-income families who rely on school-issued devices because these devices typically track student activity more deeply than personal devices.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade. Bradley’s eighth and ninth grade years were a blur of therapists, and county and crisis management services. Becoming an Outsider It would be hard to identify a single cause of Bradley’s school avoidance, according to his mother, Deirdre. The problem only grew.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Our counseling team is going to be sending out weekly emails to ask teachers: Are there any students that you’re very concerned about for their social, emotional state? We’re really personalizing it for each individual school, and thinking about what’s appropriate also by grade span. Those are publicly available now on our website.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Putting those programs on their splash page by grade level and even by class helped students and teachers access the most useful programs. Webinars from The Learning Counsel and Imagine Learning. That kept everyone focused. It also kept the number of programs available manageable," she explains. Meriden’s reopening page.

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