eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2019

Demographics: Fairfield County Schools is a small, rural, high-poverty school district in South Carolina. The district is composed of five elementary schools and four secondary schools, serving more than 2,600 students.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

On Thursday, the organization announced the launch of #ISeeMe, a campaign aimed at boosting the amount of culturally responsive materials in U.S. Wondwossen is a former elementary school ESL teacher, and when she was in the classroom, she used to tell her students they were “language superheroes.” “The classrooms.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

As a curriculum and learning specialist at an elementary school in Verona, Wisconsin, l have the opportunity to work with amazing educators and students of all cultures; as a prior bilingual resource and two-way immersion Spanish teacher, I like to honor the language learners in our classrooms.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

students speak a language other than English at home, and approximately 16 percent of children live in poverty. Here are some innovative approaches: Multilingual workshops : Host interactive workshops in multiple languages, ensuring all families can participate fully in attendance education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

The contest enables communities to vote for their elementary school to win $10,000 to support financial literacy education in their school. Each resource is culturally authentic, reflects the diversity of today’s world, and includes embedded supports, like closed captioning, text-to-speech, and language translations. .

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Waltham, MA — KinderLab Robotics today announced that it has donated four KIBO robot kits to La Puerta Abierta , a school in Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala. Part of a partnership with Sewickley Academy , near Pittsburgh, PA, this donation will foster cross-cultural collaboration between the schools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

We saw how having the language to talk about difficult experiences —such as prolonged exposure to intense stress and collective trauma—serves as a critical first step in being able to acknowledge, process and face these widespread events. If I’m referring a student, I should be able to refer myself too, right?”.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Key points: Light-touch, low-cost interventions focused on attendance can pay dividends Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism For more news on student success, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub One surefire way to support student success?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

“Unfortunately many students leave elementary school still not proficient in reading, and that creates a significant barrier to their ability to learn across subjects. Most middle and high school teachers are not trained in the teaching of foundational reading skills (e.g.,

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Department of Education looked at video-based coaching in about 100 elementary schools. Teachers with five or fewer years of experience and those with teaching practices in the bottom third of participants saw even greater improvement in both math and English language arts.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C., Hind Haddad, an Arabic language teacher in Columbus, Ohio, experienced many microaggressions as a Muslim educator. In addition to their students, these fellows also stressed how important their own identities are as teachers in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

About Oklahoma City Public Schools. Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) is a multi-cultural district serving more than 34,000 students. It is the largest traditional school district in Oklahoma and employs over 5,000 people. Over 60 languages are represented within our district, and 16,500 of our students are bilingual.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. I understand that you had to learn a couple different languages as part of your schooling.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our country is home to a wide range of diverse and vibrant cultures, and it’s important that we acknowledge and value the languages these students already bring with them when they enter U.S. We need to prioritize discussions on how to effectively support multilingual students. They were coding, collaborating, and creating.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

On that last point, my school, Shiloh Elementary School in Monroe, N.C., Wouldn’t teaching fluency a foreign language be the ultimate means to prepare students for a diverse and multicultural world? She told the students about her culture and showed them her home. wondered if we were doing enough.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Data Bridge Builders Award Winner: Tonja Brun & Team (Savannah Chatham Public Schools, GA) This award recognizes an organization that excels at collaborating and building toward a data-driven culture to improve teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. These activities help students develop their language skills, build vocabulary, enhance listening comprehension, and foster a love for stories.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

Our student body is predominantly Black, but we are quite diverse and have many cultures represented among our students. Approximately 20 percent of our scholars speak English as a second language. I have been with the district for 20 years, though I didn’t become the superintendent until April 2020.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

Districts in the League have committed to developing thoughtful, long-term solutions to overcome the obstacles that many populations of students face one of the world’s most important languages. In South Fayette Township School District, kindergartners are taught (and excel in) basic coding and computational thinking principles.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

One of my elementary school teachers saw beyond that label. I listened actively not just to their words, but to their emotions, body language, and non-verbal cues. Each of our situations was unique, but the label was the same. She knew my circumstances, but she didn’t let that become an excuse for lowering expectations.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. At the intersection of analog and digital learning opportunities, the value of school libraries has increased at all levels of education.

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Teach Hub

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

My teacher was a wonderful lady who was originally from Columbia and provided her students with knowledge of the culture, dialect, and the best ways to communicate through her language. My experience of learning a foreign language was eye-opening, exciting, and rewarding. What are the Benefits of Learning a Foreign Language?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Starting with the 2021-22 academic year, the 7 Mindsets curriculum will be used throughout the district’s 11 elementary schools, middle school, and two high schools. 7 Mindsets was initially implemented in a select number of Decatur’s elementary schools for that pilot project. About 7 Mindsets.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This day encourages us to look beyond boundaries, religions, and cultures, focusing instead on the simple act of being kind. The quick answer is that students spend half their waking hours in or around school. Elementary School Students Do a chore without being reminded. Help a teacher after school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Her commitment and advocacy drove the expansion of Hazel services to include both in-home and at-school mental health support, plus the addition of elementary schools to the program. His dedication to excellence and steady support have created a culture of achievement and growth at Clover High School.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Early in my teaching career, when I was 26 years old, I was offered and accepted a position as a dean at an elementary school in East Oakland, California. The following school year, I was promoted to assistant principal, and a year into that role, I had to cover our principal while she was on maternity leave.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

However, although MSD offers a hopeful counterpoint to segregated schools nationwide , there is still room for improvement. While growth is happening across the district, certain groups of students, including English Language Learners and low-income students, are experiencing less success than others.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I was often made to feel inferior by peers and sometimes even teachers because of my parents' level of formal education, my struggles with language acquisition, and the reality that I came from a working-class family. Today, I teach at an elementary school where more than 65 percent of the students identify as Hispanic / Latino.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

When Bill offered an article on a new class he started that helps English Language Learners, I was excited. He’s included contact information so you can reach him with questions: Computer Literacy for English Language Learners. One evening a man from another culture asked me how to spell a specific word.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

These differences include the areas of the brain responsible for working memory, impulse regulation, visuospatial skills, language and cognitive control. This is particularly true for students of poverty, who arrive at and often leave elementary school years below grade level.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2024

For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school. In 10th grade, for some extra cash, Campbell signed up to tutor elementary school students through a literacy program in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The schools for the 2023-24 ALAS Sister Schools program are: Pair #1 Abelardo Martinez Otero School (high school) in Arecibo, Puerto Rico Champlain Valley Union High School in Hinesburg, Vermont Pair #2 Pablo Casals School (high school) in Bayamon, Puerto Rico Hanover Elementary School in S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The foundation has been putting money towards math education for some time, even winding down its language arts investments to do so. The transformation Zearn is striving for is a large cultural change in student attitude, hoping to move toward a new normal where math isn’t perceived as uniquely scary.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. Schools are realizing that many of their teachers were not taught this approach to instruction. –Jason Carroll, Chief Product Officer, Texthelp.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT Even before ChatGPT was released, AI experts were exploring how to detect language written by this new kind of bot. So they’re looking for inspiration from other sectors — including video game design and elementary school classrooms — to keep lectures interesting.

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