eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2023

The winners of the inaugural YouScience® Innovative Educator Award are Principal Steven Mazzola of Saunders Trades and Technical High School from Yonkers, New York, and School Counselor Darlene Goff of Chester County Schools from Henderson, Tennessee. Mazzola is the personification of a true educational warrior!

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Schonert-Reichl was a Professor in the Department of Educational and Counseling Psychology, and Special Education in the Faculty of Education at University of British Columbia (UBC) from 1991 to 2020. Prior to her graduate work, Dr. Schonert-Reichl worked as a middle school and alternative high school teacher.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

Twenty-seven students from nearby Zanesville High School had arrived to get a taste of what the higher education experience might be like. “I I got a photo with the mascot and also met the provost,” says Alexis Stallworth, a junior at Zanesville High School, which is about 50 miles east of Columbus in Ohio. “It

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Lindsay Senior High School offers learner choice over their mastery level. Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) operates on a performanced-based system, allowing learners (students) to “ work at their performance level and [advance] through learning…when they have demonstrated proficiency.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A report by the University of Chicago’s Crime Lab compared outcomes for students at schools participating in the program — about two dozen elementary and high schools, most of them on the city’s West and South sides — and for those at a control group of schools with similar demographics.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 18, 2025

High school is a time for students to grow and explore, and one of the best ways for them to navigate this journey of self-discovery is through goal setting. By setting clear, actionable goals, high schoolers can take concrete steps toward figuring out what they want to do or achieve and developing the skills theyll need to get there.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2024

Programs at member colleges include hosting summer learning opportunities and on-campus recruitment events for high schoolers, sending more admissions staff out to high schools in small towns, and tapping current college students to serve as peer mentors to freshmen arriving from places with sparse populations or low density.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. She first got involved as a student at Oxnard College by participating in research ethics training. She signed up. “Me

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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. At least, that’s according to a new report.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Lindsay Senior High School offers learner choice over their mastery level. Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) operates on a performanced-based system, allowing learners (students) to “ work at their performance level and [advance] through learning…when they have demonstrated proficiency.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I do not hold to the essentialist thinking that puts teachers into categories of “will participate in professional development” and “will not participate in professional development,” but rather, I follow the context principle as discussed in Todd Rose’s “The End of Average.”

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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. Called the Youth Mental Health Academy , it gives Los Angeles high schoolers from marginalized backgrounds a chance to explore careers in mental health.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

There might be one adult for every three kids in an elementary school classroom if a teacher has the support of aides, she continues, but that ratio grows throughout middle and high school. It’s low-cost and high-reward.” Students and families who participate don’t pay out of pocket. Is More Tech the Answer?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

The engineers who participated liked working with kids, and many shared their frustrations with never receiving much targeted help with career development in school. In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

The stress Rohan Pasari feels running a startup with 25 full-time employees still doesn’t quite compare with how he felt during his final two years of high school. As Pasari approached graduation from a private school in Kolkata, India, he worried about which college would accept him and couldn’t decide a major. “I

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

This helps our teachers strengthen their practices and participate in ongoing, reflective coaching at their own pace. Vrain Valley School District Career-connected learning will become more important than ever. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2019

The on-ramps we examined serve adults who are not earning a living wage—some without high school credentials. Many participants receive public assistance such as Medicaid or SNAP services. A number of programs specialize in working with formerly incarcerated adults. to date, serving 100,000 adults annually nationwide.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. Bradley loves baking lava cakes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

But while participating in a ride-along one day, he had an epiphany. Thus began his transition, from teaching high school students to focusing on their teachers. Still as passionate as ever about cultivating meaningful relationships, he also continues to work with kids as a high school football coach.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

“First, given the well-scaled status of the BBBS CBM program, even modest-sized benefits take on greater significance when considered in the context of the relatively large numbers of youth who may be experiencing them through participation in the program,” researchers wrote. What do you see for yourself?’”

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2023

Just ask Christian, a sixth grader who attends the local charter school Detroit Prep. He’s been attending this after-school program for the last three years. Early on, Christian says, he was a little reserved and shy, but participating at the gym helped improve his communication skills. Teenagers participate in a band class.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

College is our country’s post-high school default, and it doesn’t have to be. I think administrators at more schools across the county will lean into non-traditional supports for students including mentoring, behavioral counseling and socialization exercises for students. –Diane Myers, Ph.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

One afternoon, during Samuel Hill’s junior year at the Mississippi School for Math and Science, his parents told him that they wouldn’t be contributing to his college fund. While such news might have been devastating to some high school students, Hill took it with grace. It was not out of malice,” he explains with a smile.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

The startup previously participated in Facebook’s FbStart program for growing mobile startups. Pahamify (or “Understand” in English) charges at least $24 a year for features that include animated videos, college counseling and practice exams. The app covers subjects that range from science to social studies to economics.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Many schools address this through career technical education, work-based learning and college/career counseling. And Class Chats —classroom visits during which Amazon employees share their personal career journeys with middle and high school students—allow learners to experience real professional opportunities.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Middle schoolers have long been eligible to enroll in college classes in California, though only a few, high-achieving students actually do it. Navigating (college) as early as middle school is unheard of in their community, she said. First: Adjunct professor and school counselor Oscar Lamas teaches a college class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning. This is almost replacing the high-touch engagement students are used to having in high school,” says Katharine Meyer, a researcher at Brown University who helped to run the chatbot study. “It

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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

APRIL 3, 2019

As a teen, Khan taught herself Photoshop and is now focused on helping girls follow her lead and create successful STEM pathways for themselves as a mentor for ListoAmerica , part of the Clubhouse Network , which provides after school mentoring opportunities in underserved communities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2022

The new proposed policies would compare the earnings of program graduates to their student-loan debts, as well as to the earnings of other people who only have high school diplomas. First is workforce outcomes, including data about participant completion, job placement, earnings and return on investment.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction High school is a defining period in a teenagers life. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

During one study where participants were asked to complete a puzzle, Marciano says only those who left their phones in a different room were able to focus on the task at hand. The Baldwin school district is also teaching students not to take everything they see on social media at face value.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2020

and Tim Armstrong participated. The best public high school is Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Va., and the best private high school is Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H. Radian Capital led the round. Salesforce Ventures, Allen & Co. Arlington, Va.,

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

So high school and elementary school teachers as they were going out into the world and starting their careers and starting their practicums, there became a concern that the lives that they were leading online through their social media profiles would have an impact on their professional reputation.

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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.

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