eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Leverage multiple communication channels While traditional methods like newsletters and parent-teacher conferences remain valuable, incorporating popular technologies such as text messaging, social media, and mobile apps can enhance engagement and reach students and families where they are.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The eSpark Reading Lab brings advanced speech recognition and analysis technologies to the award-winning eSpark platform, beginning with a six-week phonics scope and sequence for the back-to-school season. This update strengthens eSpark’s already strong alignment with the science of reading.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2023

Evercore served as financial advisor and Latham & Watkins LLP served as legal counsel to IXL Learning. Choate, Hall and Stewart LLP served as legal counsel to Teachers Pay Teachers. About IXL Learning IXL Learning has revolutionized educational technology since its founding in 1998.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

As an Apple Distinguished School, Elmwood integrates technology in ways that feel seamless and empowering. But here, technology isnt a shiny extra. Technology at Elmwood is not a mere add-on, says Matt Perreault, Director of Technology. Technology doesnt get in the way here either. Its a bicycle for the mind.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Bringing College Access Into Communities Community-based college advising centers get a lot of foot traffic through one-on-one counseling sessions and group workshops. “He really wanted to go directly to the university, and it’s the first time he realized he could,” Seydel says.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

So far, discussions have been dominated by UNESCO’s recent counsel calling on schools to ban mobile phones. Gen-Z has grown up on technology, and we can’t simply ignore the advantages this can provide when helping them to engage with their education. This has been known for many years now.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2024

In this Q&A, Jenkins overviews some of the hurdles school leaders and special educators face and provides insights on embracing technology to serve all students. It just will not improve unless we take advantage of technology. You’ve been an early adopter of technology and speak about the role of emerging technologies.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Colleges and universities in the United States are increasingly integrating technology into developmental education programs, which are designed to bring underprepared students up to college level. Policymakers in Tennessee and Texas, for example, have explicitly encouraged the use of technology in developmental education reform.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Leveraging the power of technology and remote learning One way to alleviate burnout in education is to harness the power of technology to provide interventions to students with disabilities.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2024

I advocate for a comprehensive approach, blending political solutions and technological advancements. Initiatives like improved counselor ratios, enhanced peer counseling, and open parent dialogues are crucial. While acknowledging the complexity, technology has potential.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

eSchool Media is pleased to announce the three winners of the eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards : Dr. Ann Hughes, Director of Student Intervention for Sanger ISD in Texas; Kim Leblanc, Chief Technology Officer for Calcasieu Parish School Board in Louisiana; and Daniel Olivas, Network Analyst at Austin Independent School District in Texas.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2019

As a technology user, I have over the years: Dropped and broken my phone’s screen. Stuff happens to even the most careful technology user. Requiring/allowing students to leave their devices at school rather than take them home (not popular with teachers whose homework requires technology use). Would a carrot approach help?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2016

School district leaders’ top objective in transitioning to a digital curriculum is to achieve greater instructor effectiveness, according to a survey from The Learning Counsel. Providing technology training for teachers. Providing technology training for students. Advocating personalized paths of learning using resources.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2019

School personnel – administrators, educators, counselors, and legal counsel. Communication: The school leader should be the primary communicator, particularly with parents, so they need to consider the response team and technology (e.g., Community representatives – students, parents, and community leaders. Press protocols.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alyssa Parks first made an appointment at the counseling center at Marshall University thanks to her roommate. There is a stigma about that topic, and I think it’s getting better, but sometimes it’s nerve-wracking if you’ve never been to the counseling center.” Alyssa Parks. Photo courtesy of WVHEPC.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

A wide range of ancillary services, like counseling and speech pathology, are also offered, in addition to courses in media creation, robotics, and AP computer science. Perhaps in recognition of the school’s small size and unique focus, it doesn’t look much like a traditional school physically, either.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

I was encouraged by their mature approach, but also troubled by their dialogue, which often ranged from being frightened to air their views to confusion as to where they could find truthful information about the candidates—this from the Millennials who grew up with technology and have constant access via their handheld devices.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2016

Librarians and media specialists are bridging the gap between instruction and technology. With more than 20 years of experience in instructional technologies and K-12 education under her belt, Joquetta L. Johnson says that with the Information Age, librarians have effectively transformed into instructional technology leaders.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Topics could include new teaching strategies, technology integration, or stress management techniques. Well-being resources : Encourage self-care by providing resources such as access to counseling services, wellness programs, or relaxation spaces within the school. Consider organizing wellness days or retreats.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2020

It can be a reliable source of two meals a day, a refuge from an unstable home environment, or a way to access counseling and other mental health services. Would they have to stop counseling sessions? And I think that kind of helped draw them back into the right frame of mind to actually do a little bit of counseling.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2018

Technology-mediated advising is an increasingly popular reform that has the potential to offset these limitations and empower advisors and other support staff to more effectively reach underrepresented students. Technology systems provide insight into subgroup differences. Advising technologies help integrate support services.

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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2023

Darlene Goff of Chester County Schools uses data to transform educational experiences for students Darlene Goff of Chester County Schools in Henderson, Tennessee, has been counseling students for over 21 years. Nominations for subsequent winners can be submitted by completing a submission form.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

My days involve a combination of classroom counseling, meeting students in small groups and one-on-one sessions and consulting with staff and caregivers. We have enhanced our community partnerships to include an on-site mental health clinician as well as telehealth counseling for students.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At the end of each school year at Central High School, seniors grab a paint pen and write their post-graduation plans on a glass wall outside the counseling office. PAUL, Minn. — For many, that means announcing what college they’ve enrolled in. But the goal is to celebrate whatever path students are choosing, whether at a college or not. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

Doug Casey “What no one, including myself, who looked at the law foresaw was that the general counsel's office at the state department of education interpreted that a written contract had to be in place between any vendor and any school system throughout the state,” Vance said at the event. Amelia Vance.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2020

Career counseling, exploration, and placement services are online,” said Carlos O. To do this, they’ll need to lead in technology rather than lag behind industry, and help define the new technologies they need to help students succeed. But some colleges are working to overcome those challenges to respond to the pandemic. "We

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2023

Working with people—in addition to working with the technology or materials or curriculum—means that cooperative interactions occur daily. via a board, reverse-mentoring, mastermind groups) build relationships and friendships with people who can provide feedback or counsel, so teachers are moving towards progress and growth.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2018

In the last five years, according to Amelia Vance, director of education privacy & policy counsel at the Future of Privacy Forum (FPF), over 600 bills on the topic have been introduced and 125 new laws have passed in about 40 states. Andy Wallace, director of technology, South Portland (ME) Schools.

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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

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The technology company has developed a robust, clinician-designed online therapy platform for their own network of teletherapy providers, and made a version of it available to schools during the pandemic. “The Special education caseloads in schools have continued to rise, increasing backlogs, and driving clinician burnout.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Two Major Battles’ Kelli Frazier, now a counselor at Bowie Middle School and colleague of Ibarra, was undertaking her counseling internship during the COVID-19 lockdown. Those have been our two major battles on the discipline front that go along with counseling,” Ibarra explained. After Covid, we saw an increase in aggression.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The Every Student Succeeds Act includes block grants intended for technology, among other uses. The legislation also includes a sizeable state block-grant program intended for technology, among other uses. Title IV, Part A includes three subparts, including one that speaks directly to technology in schools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Digital learning cemented itself as a “must have” in schools this year, and equity remained front and center, too, continuing conversations around inequitable technology access, along with racial and socioeconomic disparities and discrimination. To be intentional and thoughtful to what technology can provide for teachers and students.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2017

Courtney Carnes, MS, ATR-BC, holds a master’s degree in art therapy with a concentration in counseling from Mount Mary University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and a Bachelor of Science in pre-art therapy with a minor in leadership from Indiana Wesleyan University in Marion, Indiana. About the Presenters.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), a group of six Democratic senators sent letters last week to three proctoring companies—ExamSoft, Proctorio and ProctorU—inquiring about the technologies they use to monitor users, how they ensure accuracy and what steps they take to protect students’ privacy. but also ‘Should we do this?’

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Members of the CAB were selected based on their deep knowledge of education technology, passion for improving learning outcomes, and success in supporting students’ academic achievements and families’ evolving needs.

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