Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like: What would happen if students had access to a catalog of free and?this culturally relevant textbooks? What would be the result for students, specifically students who are from underserved communities?” Her experiences couldn’t be further away from the examples her elementary school books centered on?farming.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2017

As more and more ELL students enter the U.S. public school system , teachers are facing the twofold challenge of communicating not only with these students, but with their families as well. I teach at Fort Sam Houston Elementary School, which is located on a military base in Texas.

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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. For many K–12 students, this represents an early introduction to the risks of digital data collection–and, unfortunately, cybercrime. Schools across the U.S. million individuals.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Just like my little book club, as librarians and teachers, I know you’re looking to connect students with their next favorite book, which means you need to be ahead of the trends and know about the titles emerging as the next generation of books to remember. My #BritReads favorite for upper elementary school is a throwback to my childhood.

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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Procedural, boring and, in some cases, totally outdated , math lessons just dont seem to pull students in.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

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

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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. Futernick shares these recorded discussions on his podcast, “ Courageous Conversations About Our Schools. ”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

But what if we reimagined attendance not just as a policy to enforce, but as an essential part of the curriculum for both students and parents? This paradigm shift could revolutionize how schools, students, and families approach this critical aspect of education. According to recent data, over 20 percent of U.S.

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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. Host a cultural night for families and the community. Learn Spanish!

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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. This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on instructional strategies for better student engagement. 1: Teacher-student relationships.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

About two-and-a-half years ago, staff at the nonprofit crowdfunding platform DonorsChoose.org began to notice an uptick in teacher requests for resources in which students could “see themselves”—that was the key phrase that kept coming up. The special power of my students was that they could speak more than one language,” she said. “As

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

In that time, each fellow has managed to speak vulnerably about educational leadership, student engagement and systemic challenges in K-12 education. Burns opening quote is a reminder that teaching is purpose-driven work and that student growth and development depend on supporting teachers and school leaders.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

Fifth-grade teacher Kim Voge has had students literally beg her to give them more writing assignments. Voge has also watched students who began her class too shy to ask questions blossom into confident, capable, autonomous learners who can ask for help or advocate for themselves. Focus on student ownership.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2018

Science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) are not just important topics for school children—they are essential to our culture. The Business Higher Education Foundation determined that, by the time students reach high school, 83 percent report lacking proficiency or interest in STEM. That statistic is staggering.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2024

As soon as we did the training for our new program, Lexia PowerUp Literacy, the teachers loved that they could see which students were and weren’t working in the program. Everyone is enrolled in it and the students split their time between math and reading. We also have PLCs where grade-level teachers meet to discuss student progress.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

The research finds that the preparation and professional development a school principal receives not only shapes their efficacy as a leader , but are also associated with positive outcomes for teachers and students. . Developing Effective Principals: What Kind of Learning Matters?

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

In our conversations throughout the year, educators reflected on the pressures they’ve endured and how in focusing on caring for students and families, their own health and well-being was often overlooked and in urgent need of addressing. If I’m referring a student, I should be able to refer myself too, right?”.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

“By opening up our playbook online through SparkPlay, we hope to inspire adults everywhere – teachers, after school staff, families – to help kids build relationships and important life skills by playing.” The national nonprofit works to ensure that play is an integral part of a kid’s day–in school and beyond.

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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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

to engage students in a virtual field trip to the International Space Station (ISS). During this unique distance learning opportunity, students will participate in the ExoLab-8 plant science experiment in which they will grow and analyze their own legumes simultaneously with legumes grown in space. This month, Magnitude.io

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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. Ultimately, we’re learning what we can about better meeting basic student learning needs through comfort and well-being in the spaces where they spend so much of their time every day.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Treering’s crowdsourcing features and custom pages foster inclusivity, and the San Mateo-based yearbook company is honored to help advance Sandy Hook Promise’s work to foster inclusion and empathy in the effort to make schools safer and more supportive for students. “We This makes the traditional yearbook a lot less relevant.

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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

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. elementary schools. Fully Web-Based Curriculum for Grades K–5 is Intuitively Designed for Modern Classrooms.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Under the leadership of a great principal, teachers thrive, students engage with core content and school administrative functions run smoothly. Conventional wisdom recognizes the value of school principals, and research backs it up. Researchers now believe that what makes a great principal also makes a great school.

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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. She believed her students could achieve great things. Her teacher training begins in June.

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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. Sometimes, it’s not what we think… We know what librarians are buying for their students.

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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. When I looked for research on the effectiveness of SEL in impoverished neighborhoods serving Black and Latino students, I found limited data.

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The findings point to strong outcomes, including: Students who scored below the 50th percentile on the Capti Assess Reading Efficiency subtest demonstrated a statistically significant positive difference between the pre- and post-tests after experiencing the protocol. phonemic awareness, phonics) to address this problem.”

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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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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

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The old system meant that students were changing houses each year based on which class they were in. This created some limitations and also meant that students were not learning to be loyal to their house and develop the team spirit. These help our students to become global citizens. Choosing foundational school values.

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