eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

As a part of an ongoing initiative to enhance the health and wellness resources available to its students and families, the Baldwin Union Free School District (UFSD) is proud to launch the Baldwin Schools Wellness Center and to be among the first school districts in the nation to establish such a resource directly on campus at no cost to families.

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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

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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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

Jill Cook: So today's school counselor works with all students in a school around academic, career and social-emotional development, as opposed to the guidance counselor of old that many of us may have had experience with that perhaps just worked on the college admissions process at a high school or on disciplinary issues.

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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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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

MARCH 19, 2019

I was originally hired in 2015, to support the only counselor at our school, which served 500 students at the time. Even when I came on and there were two of us counseling, it wasn’t enough to support that many students. Take Jessica for example, whose eighth grade year was an emotional rollercoaster.

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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. I didn’t have a stellar academic record in middle school and freshman year of high school. What do you see for yourself?’”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. 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.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

“Everyone seeing themselves as [a mentor] in that whole school could be a mechanism to help and support students who are at risk for developing more significant mental health challenges.” The startup company provides telehealth counseling to middle and high school students through school districts.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Ready to Go' In January, Locklear contacted the director of the local Boys and Girls Club about her idea: What if they teamed up to help their middle school girls learn to code? The goal is to make it scalable to other middle schools adjacent to the university,” Mary Beth says. We had to take this on.”

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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 working with those schools a little differently. We’re trying to catch kids in the ways that we would normally do in the halls.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Becoming an Outsider It would be hard to identify a single cause of Bradley’s school avoidance, according to his mother, Deirdre. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade. Bradley would miss school here and there, but the growing tally of absences worried his mom. The problem only grew.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

Luz, who is now in eighth grade, was getting into physical altercations with her classmates. 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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Analog Solutions for Digital Problems Shari Camhi, superintendent of Baldwin Union Free School District in New York, says that cell phones have never been seen as anything but a distraction in the district of about 4,500 students. Theyre not allowed at all on elementary and middle school campuses.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

After a chance meeting with Rob Warren of Curriculum Associates, Ray, the founder of the consultancy K20Connect and former executive director of learning technology for Nashville public schools, took him along to visit Stratford STEM Magnet School Lower Campus, a middle school in Nashville that was failing at the time.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

. — Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. We see older readers struggle with foundational literacy skills, which are often only taught up until the third grade.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

In 2012, after hearing about Science Club for Girls, which runs programs for girls in both K-5 and middle school, she became a mentor for the group. They were curious, engaged, and excited to be there.” A mentor from Northeastern university (left) helps a teen girl use a heat press to make a custom t-shirt.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The space will provide learners access to technology, academic advising, tutoring and college counseling. The details haven’t been worked out yet, he says, but the site will likely be at an existing education space—a library, a school or a community college. Today, badges don’t count as credit. Instead, they come with other incentives.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For years, the school had been searching for ways to reverse the pattern of disengagement, build motivation to complete schoolwork and get students over that finish line at graduation. With no school counseling team — and teachers weary from other new programs and systems — EPIC needed a partner it could trust to serve Tier 2 students.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. That’s the teacher’s job. Send personal notes.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 4, 2025

Its one of the reasons why high school (and increasingly middle school!) Use these meaningful career exploration activities for high school students to help students discover their interests, skills, and passions. But whether they have an answer is a different story! In this activity, its possible! 9-10.10, CCRA.R.7,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades. Tim Hudson, Chief Learning Officer, DreamBox Learning Building literacy skills in young readers must continue beyond third grade. Phonics and fluency instruction need to extend, to meet students’ needs regardless of grade.

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Teach Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The process of getting students plugged into CTE programs in most states begins at the middle school level, where students will take interest surveys and personality style tests that will match up with what jobs fit their interests and styles. Both courses focus on career discovery and problem-solving skills.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

It will also cover college study skills and involve regular trips to the college with King to get familiar with campus support services like financial aid offices, career and employment resources, and professional counseling. That effort goes even further back than high school, though. Through two separate grant initiatives with.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Jody O’Brien , assistant superintendent of student services and equity at Marlborough Public Schools , Massachusetts, about her district's approach to chronic absenteeism. O'Brien What patterns of chronic absenteeism exist within your school community, such as specific grade levels or student populations?

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EAB

MAY 8, 2023

Chronically absent students are more likely than their peers with good attendance to face reading difficulties by third grade and less likely to earn a high school diploma. counseling, health services, operations/transportation, etc.). Look forward to virtual presentations of this research across the summer of 2023.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2024

For nine years he’s been the principal of Petoskey Middle School, a school of about 570 students, 42% of whom come from low-income homes. But middle school has always been a tumultuous time. You try to counsel them as best as you can and then provide some kind of disciplinary action.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We're committed to educational equity and we focus on students from 11th grade all the way through to college graduation. And just to put that in perspective too, the National School Counseling Association actually recommends a ratio of 250 to 1. I'd love the chance to talk about Let's Get Ready and the work that we do.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Note: Figures include charter schools. The Ravenswood City School District, which has about 1,600 students in its elementary and middle schools (excluding charters) in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, saw chronic absenteeism spike from just 471 out of 2,549 (18.5 A lot of students are behind by multiple grade levels."

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For the educators working with elementary- and middle school-aged students, many described turning microaggressions into opportunities for learning by using pointed but neutral follow-up questions to prompt student self-reflection, like “Why do you want to know?” There is a way we can connect." or “Why is that important?”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Reflecting on my own self-identification, I had a vague sense it had something to do with Holifield’s Algebra II class, which I took in ninth grade. People tend to get pushed away from math during adolescence or college, says Dana Miller-Cotto, an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley’s School of Education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Charla Austin-Harris shares plans for her Los Angeles-based charter school, "Learning by Design." When it comes to college counseling in public high schools, “most people have to fight for only two hours [of counseling] over four years,” says founder Eric Allen. Supporting College Applicants and Students Admit.me

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. As Bronx middle school teacher Roxanne Leak put it during an interview, “It’s unfortunate. Where do I go to share it? Where do I go to leave it? Teachers are leaving.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Olin does think, however, that the five-paragraph essay format is useful for elementary students, adding that fourth grade is when the state of Texas starts assessing students’ writing in standardized tests. Rita Platt is currently a teacher librarian with classes fromPre-K to fourth grade at St. Croix Falls Elementary School in St.

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