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. Next week: See how a district created an immersive learning environment.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Our goal is to shift pedagogy toward a “culture of thinking” that supports more student agency and more effective use of the learning space itself. As part of that mission, we knew we needed innovative furnishings for the learning environments, which would go hand-in-hand with that work.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2017

I teach at Fort Sam Houston Elementary School, which is located on a military base in Texas. ELL students and families are very common at this school, because the military here has an exchange program with the surrounding nations, where military personnel can trade places with other personnel around the globe.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

With student well-being declining after a year of school closures, the need for connection and social-emotional recovery is critical, especially for our nation’s youngest learners. This allows educators greater choice in providing relevant, research-based SEL programming for every classroom and school community.”.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, June 2, 2022) — To keep students engaged in learning all summer long, Discovery Education and its Social Impact Partners are offering students and caregivers an array of no-cost dynamic digital resources they can use at home. The contest is open through June 17, 2022.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Middle and high school math are also in the midst of a shake-up, as states and professional organizations seek to alter rigid pathways that move a student through traditional courses that can feel uninspiring. But in high school, teachers more typically create their own curriculum, despite a lack of training how to design curriculum.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

During this month, we recognize the contributions, heritage, culture, and importance of Hispanic and Latinx Americans and how they have shaped our country’s character. Here are eight opportunities for your school or district to celebrate. Learn Spanish! Host a cultural night for families and the community.

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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 6, 2024

Communication plays a pivotal role in fostering a collaborative environment, ensuring the well-being of students and promoting a culture of continuous improvement. It’s not just about understanding words; it’s about connecting with those words on a cultural and emotional level.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

Developing Effective Principals: What Kind of Learning Matters? It also examines survey results and statewide policies to understand the extent to which principals have access to high-quality learning opportunities and the role of policies in increasing access.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

Through our Voices of Change project, EdSurge has been conversing with educators and school leaders to understand how schools are adapting to meet the needs of their learning communities as they face the 2021-22 school year. If I’m referring a student, I should be able to refer myself too, right?”.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Playworks has launched SparkPlay, an online, subscription-based education resource to support the continuous learning of safe and healthy play for school and youth development staff. SparkPlay equips teachers and youth development staff with guided learning paths on topics like group management, play facilitation and play systems.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Learn to ride the wave. I found myself dialing down my teacher self, showing up in ways that neither reflected nor respected my commitment to teaching and learning. Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C., Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C., Just accept it.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2016

Four schools share quick and easy practices to improve attendance, reduce discipline referrals and suspensions, and increase academic achievement. The research is clear: the culture of a school can have a direct impact on student learning and achievement. This improvement is huge for us,” said Love.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

to support engaging, hands-on science learning for middle school students. which is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), to help students gain a deeper understanding of the initial scientific concepts being taught and to motivate their learning throughout the remainder of the unit.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

BEAVERTON, Oregon, March 31, 2022 — Leveraging standards-based instructional content and its award-winning technology, Vernier Software & Technology is announcing Vernier Connections , an innovative web-based platform to engage high school students in hands-on STEM learning and exploration.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

After making a major shift to remote learning at the beginning of the pandemic, some teachers had to adjust to another unfamiliar environment when their school buildings reopened: teaching students online and in-person at the same time. You have to build the culture first.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

We’re proud to partner with an organization that not only shares this focus but is driving an entire culture change within the schools of our customers from all across the country,” said Kevin Zerber, co-founder and CEO of Treering Yearbooks. Learn more about this partnership and how you can get involved here.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2023

PRWEB) — Sourcewell , a trusted advisor to education leaders, announces that North Star Central Elementary School in Boswell, Pennsylvania—home to more than 350 pre-K–4 students—is seeing significant growth in students’ math scores, despite national trends. “At PAUL, MINN.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

But it’s not all bad–educators found success as they dedicated their efforts to improving student engagement and achievement, creating community-based approaches to learning, and inspiring students to become lifelong learners. I have more confidence in my instruction because they aren’t always asking, “Why are we learning this?”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In a recent edWebinar , hosted by edWeb.net, Michelle Luhtala, library department chair, and Donna Burns, technology integrator, both from New Canaan High School (NCHS) in Connecticut, showcased the transformation of the NCHS library from a collection of used reference and biography books into a living, breathing makerspace.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Through this program, the inaugural class of 16 principals representing schools across 16 states will have the opportunity to receive monthly, high-quality professional development and grow as leaders as they work in small cohorts to analyze data, learn to plan strategically, and share information with different constituencies. “A

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As we wrapped up 2020, we thought for sure that 2021 might bring us a reprieve from pandemic learning. Virtual and hybrid learning continued into the spring, but then classrooms welcomed back students for full-time in-person learning in the fall. And now, we head into our third year of learning during a global pandemic.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. This disconnect shows the urgent need for SEL initiatives to not only be culturally responsive but also adaptive to the diverse realities of our students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

MADISON, WI – Today, Open Up Resources and Kiddom announced Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD ) has selected its top-rated EL Education K-5 Education Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for its 31 elementary schools in support of the district’s efforts to prioritize early literacy and beyond. To learn more, visit [link].

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2020

As a new principal at Dunwoody Springs Elementary School in Fulton County Schools, GA, Ivy Goggins faced pockets of success in the building, a climate of teachers working in silos, and the lack of true collaboration. Related content: 5 ways to develop a school leadership program.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Belpré: The Pura Belpré Award is presented annually to a Latino/Latina writer and illustrator whose work best portrays, affirms, and celebrates the Latino cultural experience in an outstanding work of literature for children and youth. Printz: The Michael L. But much like television, what is it that makes a story stand out?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Jump to: Johnston County Public Schools , Carol Cleveland , Colene Hardy , Joey Norris , Jhone M. Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

This is an element of “whole body listening,” a practice of respectful and attentive listening all students learn at the fifth grade teacher’s school, Hazel Wolf K-8 STEM in Seattle. Whole body listening” is just one part of the school’s approach to and emphasis on social and emotional learning. We solve problems.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Our educational institutions, from elementary schools to universities, are not immune to the growing threat of cybercrime. This highlights a significant vulnerability: While schools increasingly rely on digital tools and platforms to enhance learning, many lack robust cybersecurity measures to safeguard sensitive data.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The study was funded by the Reading Reimagined program of the Advanced Education Research and Development Fund (AERDF, pronounced like air-diff), and provided a specific reading fluency protocol along with professional learning to sixth grade teachers in a large, urban U.S. school district in 2022-23.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

This created some limitations and also meant that students were not learning to be loyal to their house and develop the team spirit. Last year, I changed from being a PE teacher to being the elementary innovation and technology coach and coordinator, and also joined our PBIS team. These help our students to become global citizens.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

In elementary school, there’s frequent outreach. A recent report found that this wanes somewhat throughout middle school, and, by the time students reach high school, many schools subscribe to the belief that the need for school-to-home communication diminishes. Consistent, positive family communication.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

This has hit education like a tidal wave, leaving precious little time for our teachers to process it, and especially to learn how to do it well. The consequence, in many schools, is that teachers have begun to use technology but have forced it into all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons. Technology Tuesdays. Flipped PD.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. Strong relationships are foundational to creating supportive learning environments where students feel safe enough to contribute.

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