eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2023

Notre Dame Elementary School, Grade 1 William D., Episcopal School of Dallas-Lower Campus, Grade 2 Juliana J., Dunstan Catholic School, Grade 3 Alex H., Heritage Elementary School, Grade 4 Gian P., Philomena Elementary School, Grade 5 Logan W., Linden Elementary School, Grade 6 Tiger K.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

–James Hood, Principal, Rodburn Elementary School , Rowan County Schools The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are transforming the educational landscape, ushering in a more integrated and dynamic approach to teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Student success is a critically important issue for school districts–and not simply because districts want students to perform well. Improving student learning and student success is necessary for students to compete in a rapidly changing world that requires critical thinking, creativity, and adaptability.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Middle school teachers can now integrate science lessons with data collection and coding using new packages from Vernier Software & Technology and SAM Labs. With worldwide distribution to over 140 countries, Vernier data loggers are used by educators and students from elementary school to university.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2016

Robotics programs drive interest and teach critical thinking. She moved her fingers gingerly to maneuver the machine — which looked more like a two-wheel, upright tractor than the humanoid version people often think of — over to a blue Lego piece. “This is basically like advanced Legos.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2022

Bolsters students’ capacity for critical thinking and perseverance through complex tasks ? Each elementary school is equipped with a Smartlab, where students attend each school day for 30 minutes. At the middle school level, students regularly attend classes in the Dyer Family STEM Center.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2019

At The Village School in Houston, TX, instructional technology specialist Ruth O’Brien and middle school teacher Marc Abrate help students develop skills that help not only in coding, but in areas such as problem solving, critical thinking, and collaboration.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

Unfortunately, teachers and students are often unable to be sure there will be dependable, robust access outside of school depending on family and community circumstances. States, districts and schools are also uniquely positioned to share reduce cost or no cost out-of-school access options for families. About the Presenters.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The unit is designed for 2nd-grade students for two very specific reasons: 1) early elementary schools are eager for age-appropriate STEM resources; and 2) 2nd-graders have the literacy skills to write questions, to read content, and to note their own observations. Why is the blacktop hotter than the grass?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“D&D saved my life, I’ve seen it save and change the lives of others, and I watch as it shapes the lives of the children who learn to play in my class,” said Kade Wells, Harrisburg North Middle School ELA Instructor in South Dakota and founder of Building Heroez. My students’ test score growth doubled each time they tested.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

Administrators build in regularly scheduled coding for students in select elementary schools, with students utilizing Code.org curriculum to enhance and deepen their critical thinking skills. The primary goal of camp is to increase the self-confidence of middle school girls in STEM.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

This standalone data-collection platform takes the award-winning LabQuest interface and enhances it with a robust set of new features and functionality for middle school, high school, and college students to use during classroom, laboratory, or field investigations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Buckle up and join us on this delightful journey through tech-savvy classrooms – from elementary school to high school – we’ll unlock a treasury of innovative ideas guaranteed to amuse the young minds while also preparing them for their future. Let’s dive in! Another fantastic example is Lightbot.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

Middle school often gets a bad rap. But what if we understood the neurological reasons behind the bizarre middle school behavior we often see? So, after a decade as a teacher and administrator, when I was presented with an opportunity to start a new middle school, I seized it. Wells Middle School.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It takes critical thinking and a sense for the numbers to even understand how or why a student’s approach might be wrong, Barclay says.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2021

The annual award, with prizes valued at $5,500, recognizes one middle school, high school, or college educator from any STEM subject area for innovatively using Vernier products to teach engineering concepts or practices to students. “We

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2020

This affordable wireless sensor can be used in the classroom or out in the field to help middle school, high school, and college-level students investigate and analyze a variety of environmental factors.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

Chosen by a panel of NSTA-appointed experts, this year’s winners—one middle school educator and two high school educators—showed innovative uses of data-collection technology to engage students in STEM learning. Category: Middle School. Eric Sullenberger, Russia Local School, Russia, OH.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Vernier Software & Technology recently announced science educator Tyson Vrbas of Manhattan Catholic Schools in Manhattan, Kansas as the 2021 Engineering Award winner. With worldwide distribution to over 150 countries, Vernier data loggers are used by educators and students from elementary school to university.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Without access or success, their advancement to higher-order math and other skills, like abstract and critical thinking or data analysis, is obstructed.” Research suggests that taking algebra courses in high school is one of several important indicators for students’ college readiness and success.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. Next came the communication phase, when those 20-plus competencies were condensed into a more memorable set of 4Cs: communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In high school, I participated in Teacher Cadets , a program that allows high school students to explore the education field as a possible career, in part by having them go into local elementary and middle schools and by serving and observing in the field. But I did enjoy teaching.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Discovery Education Experience will now be available in all district elementary and middle school classrooms. Together, these resources provide educators with a suite of powerful tools with which they can create opportunities for critical thinking and problem-solving. Discovery Education Coding.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Through this multi-year collaboration, educators and students in the district’s elementary and middle schools will return to the classroom this fall with access to award-winning digital resources supporting science instruction. SoWashCo Schools is a suburban district located southeast of St.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

PPS is a thriving, urban school division serving more than 13,300 students. The district consists of three high schools, three middle schools, and 13 elementary schools, as well as preschool, alternative school, and adult education facilities. Based in part on the award-winning Discovery Education?

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Digital Citizenship for Students at Elementary School Levels. Elementary students should be taught how to stay safe online, but mainly, they need to learn that the online world is connected to the real world. Digital Citizenship for Students at Middle and High School Levels.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Digital Citizenship for Students at Elementary School Levels. Elementary students should be taught how to stay safe online, but mainly, they need to learn that the online world is connected to the real world. Digital Citizenship for Students at Middle and High School Levels.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Count Connie Scalzetti, a middle-school teacher at CICS West Belden in Chicago, among the believers. In the middle school, students leverage the. Scalzetti’s classroom is typical of what happens throughout the school. As she puts it, competency-based learning “gives students the chance. How did that happen?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 21, 2017

Middle School; free. Published by the Rice University School of Mathematics, these five CSI -based adventures, from novice to advanced, ask students to use critical thinking skills, including the creativity nurtured by art, to solve tricky evidence-based cases. critical thinking. CSI Adventures.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Instead, Ming suggested that the educators and investors in the audience should not be focused solely on training students for potential coding and programming jobs—but on equipping them to apply creativity and critical thinking to the tools and technologies today. We need to build a society of explorers.”

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Class Tech Tips

JANUARY 23, 2025

Liz Garden , my co-Fellow for the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) Center for Innovative Learning (CIL) , and I had a chance to sit down at the NAESP / NASSP UNITED conference last July and talk with Erik Francis. If youre not familiar with Eriks work, he is a Depth of Knowledge (DOK) virtuoso.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

– Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good? – Going deeper with the components of high-quality PBL – A PBL case study – Making sense of PBL in our own context – Getting set up with Feedly and some awesome school leadership blogs.

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k12 Digest

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

By 7th grade, some of them are already working on Advanced Algebra I, and by 8th grade, they might complete Honors Geometryeffectively finishing two high school math courses before even leaving middle school. On the other hand, if a student needs extra support, math specialists step in. ” But heres the twistSt.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2021

“For 40 years, Vernier Software & Technology has supported hands-on science exploration, and we are excited to now support these 40 educators—from five elementary schools, eight middle schools, 23 high schools, and four colleges—as they use data-collection technology with their students.”. Middle School.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

We tell the government officials that this is whats happening, and this is what students need, and they dont listen to us, and these are people that have never stepped foot in a classroom, elementary school teacher Billie Arthur said. We have one elementary, one middle, and one high school. Then give me a zero.I

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