eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

During a session at FETC 2024, Tom Murray, Director of Innovation for Future Ready Schools, dove into just what, exactly, makes for the effective use of edtech in supporting student engagement. Simply incorporating a device into the classroom doesn’t mean students will automatically engage with their learning. “A ”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. As a teacher, it filters through my relationships with students and into the curriculum I curate. In doing so, it makes me wonder, what else have we unknowingly appropriated from Indigenous culture? It seems, too, that more and more schools plant gardens.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education at the University of Michigan, is an enrolled member of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi. As a former science teacher and instructional coach, though, he was looking for a way to deliver the teachings of tribal elders to a broader audience via distance education. “How

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2025

Now, district leaders are reassessing those tools to identify redundancies, reduce costs and prioritize what actually works for students and teachers. Cot, assistant director of educational technology for the Massachusetts education department. If students arent engaged, it doesnt matter how much we paid for it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

Rise Vision helps schools improve communication and safety, increase student involvement, celebrate student achievements, and create a positive school culture. Rise Vision helps schools improve communication and safety, increase student involvement, celebrate student achievements, and create a positive school culture.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2024

One of my biggest goals as a technology instructor is to teach my students skills and provide them with tools that I feel will best stoke their curiosity and prepare them for the world outside of the classroom. I particularly love using these types of resources with upper elementary students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

Like one episode about supporting LGBTQ students. the 2022 teacher of the year in Kentucky who is gay and who quit the profession out of fear amid growing hostility toward LGBTQ educators and students at his school. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Once simply a quiet space to check out books, libraries have evolved to provide students with a holistic and interactive learning experience. This shift reflects a move toward active and collaborative learning environments, as well as provides students with the tools and resources to engage in hands-on, creative learning projects.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). More Diverse Than Ever Gen Z represents about 69 million U.S. residents.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — ParentPowered PBC , an education technology company that provides research-based digital family engagement, today announced the appointment of Terri Soutor as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Melissa Palmer as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). over two years. . ” Founding CEO Ben York, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. Researchers acknowledge that aversion to math is so strong in our culture that at a certain point, being bad at math became a shared cultural identity.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Procedural, boring and, in some cases, totally outdated , math lessons just dont seem to pull students in. It also connects to other issues, such as the rigid class sequences that some experts warn block certain students from advancing in math and that exclude courses like data science that would be useful for students future careers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2024

Because it’s often easier to picture how you might integrate a tool or strategy after seeing another educator do the same, here are some examples of how teachers are using digital tools in their own classrooms: McKenna Akane, a new STEM teacher in the Alberton School District in Montana, uses Bee-Bots.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

To support improved student outcomes, educators increasingly look to technology. But how do they fuel authentic engagement, using technology as a tool to not only enhance learning but also inspire curiosity and strengthen connections? Mitchell spent four years in the classroom before transitioning to a district role.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Over the last nine months, weve worked with eight fellows whose pathways in education are as diverse as they have ever been, including a trauma psychotherapist turned early childhood counselor, a physics teacher with a penchant for storytelling and a Jordan-born immigrant who moved to the United States to pursue her passion for teaching.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Last year, I presented a paper on using technology in my Arabic class at the Ohio Foreign Language Association summer conference. At the end of my session, a Spanish language teacher opened the discussion by talking about students dismissing her work because it is not an essential subject in the state.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tim Lum is one of millions of students who returned to college as an adult, getting a two-year degree at his local community college. And this year, at the age of 36, he's one of 13 percent of the nation's college students who transferred institutions in fall of 2023. To his surprise, though, many other students appear more disengaged.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Using powerful speech recognition technology, the program supports students in grades K-6 to build their linguistic confidence in academic English. More than 162,000 students and 77,000 educators at 7,400 schools used the program during the 2024 school year. In addition, those students practiced academic conversations 4.3

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Some experts believe this new technology can have a positive impact on teaching and learning, while others fret it may weaken the teaching of critical thinking and increase bias by spreading misinformation about different groups and cultures. Secret 2: Student expertise. Does this all sound far-fetched?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Many teachers have a lunch crew that same group of students who choose to make their classroom a home base during the week. When our district went remote for three semesters, I noticed students had difficulty re-learning to socialize and navigate changing friendships and relationships with each other and adults in the school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2024

How to Help Students Run a Genius Bar Modeled after Apple’s popular tech support stations, a Genius Bar in a school setting is a student-run help desk where peers provide tech support, advice on digital tools, and assistance with various tech-related issues.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2022

Students returned to their school buildings, we had months of lower COVID rates and some of kids’ favorite learning strategies—like group projects, stations and flexible seating—came back. COVID remains, and students are still getting sick, or going to school with fears of catching the virus. In many ways it was.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2024

At that moment, it dawned on me that traditional SEL approaches might not suffice for students entrenched in adversity, necessitating a more nuanced and culturally sensitive framework to effectively meet their emotional needs. However, many students have told me directly, "Miss, that doesn't make me feel better."

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

When Wendy Schatzberg, an associate professor at Utah Tech University, was teaching introductory chemistry, she thought her students would know how to use basic Microsoft Office tools like Excel and Word. And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Recently, I met with two education leaders to discuss how to improve teacher and student engagement through creativity. Building in more creativity comes down to student agency—teaching students to find their voice. Ultimately, we want our students to be successful beyond the classroom walls.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2021

We do this by focusing on our environment, climate and culture in order to develop the protective factors that support resilience. Others will take notice and eventually a cultural shift may take place. The same coaching tools and strategies that work for individuals work for organizations as well.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2024

When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. And that’s true even when instructors force students to put away their smartphones. EdSurge connected with Turner to learn about this new world of fragmented attention and what educators can do to reach these increasingly distracted students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system. This statistic is exacerbated by an inverse representation of students — 23% Native Hawaiian and 9% Japanese.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2024

Part of digital equity in schools is access to high-speed internet and reliable technology devices, but another component includes giving all students the opportunity to use those devices and that access to build digital literacy. How access to technology can create equity in schools The latest iteration of the U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

s bilingual students. The Department of Education dubbed speaking a second language a “superpower” when it announced plans last year to support multilingual education with grants. In states like California and New York , students speak as many as 150 languages. Chances are good that if you were one of the 5.3

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library. Makerspaces, or library media centers that encourage collaboration and support student invention, are on the rise across the United States. As the U.S. As the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I believe that my experience with students inside the classroom informs, to a great measure, the work that I do today as a school diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) leader. A teacher at heart who values community, I often reflect on my past experiences with students and the ways we explored, celebrated and protected our cultural identity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Del Real Viramontes joined its Puente program , which embedded him in a cohort of students in a math and English course sequence. He took students on tours of university campuses and helped them build connections there. The transfer outcomes are even worse for Black students, Latino students, and low-income students, he adds.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2024

This collaboration offers a unique collection of acclaimed professional learning resources that provides districts and educators with unlimited and simultaneous access to the digital content they need when they need it for PD growth and student success.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, technology can play a pivotal role in shaping the learning experience. Verizon is working to empower educators and students with cutting-edge tools essential for unlocking the full potential of education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2023

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. The teacher knows from working with the student previously that although she can easily follow the algorithmic steps of the math problem, she struggles with her reasoning and ability to make sense of the steps she is taking.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Each fall, every teacher must wage a few key wars with a new class of students. My colleague and I teach the same group of 11th grade students in our Title I high school in Oakland; she teaches history, and I teach them science. Early in the year, we noticed most students were extremely attached to their phones. The lowest?

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