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JUNE 25, 2020

For example, Dr. Nicole Abera is the director of elementary and middle school programs at the Katherine Thomas School in Washington, D.C., She is intentional about actively listening to her community (educators, parents and students) more accurately define the problems that need to be addressed.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But schools are stretched thin for mental health staff, with as many as 100,000 more mental health professionals needed around the country. A school district in Virginia even constructed a middle school building with extra glass in the hopes that more natural light will serve as a palliative.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Alicia Sewell, a middle school teacher in Alabama, has made a job transition that’s essentially the opposite of the one Bass made. During the pandemic, she moved from a district-level position in instructional technology back into the classroom. Technology doesn't replace the teacher.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

What understanding learning differences can teach us about personalized learning For 35 years, Chartwell Middle School, near Monterey, Calif., According to Fusion attendee, Steve Henderson, Head of Lower and Middle School, the key is to understand and create learning spaces that work for the diverse needs of Chartwell’s student body.

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JULY 24, 2017

As part of the Mouse Design League , our team presented the project we created to help people with disabilities. Our team designed a project called “Locus,” a wearable device for individuals with nonverbal disabilities to help caregivers ensure the safety of their clients. Halsey Middle School. STEM From Dance.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

As it turned out, Kevin was mostly non-verbal with emotional and learning disabilities. He was also an apathetic student who lacked the ability and desire to self-start or persist with educational tasks. To start, I set up five centers: lab, science skills, reading, technology and a makerspace. Kevin didn’t look at me.

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APRIL 10, 2024

Dirkin says the group wanted the document to help school districts and educators think through the use of generative AI without defaulting to either extreme of banning it or allowing unrestricted use. There’s a myriad of questions that come weekly, and that’s growing,” Liabenow says.

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APRIL 23, 2019

So, What’s Alternative About Our School? I’m a ninth grade English teacher at Collier and all of my students are classified with a disability and have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) that qualifies them for special education services. Our motto: “Where small miracles happen everyday.”

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Furthermore, students with disabilities are sometimes unable to play a traditional instrument. Just as important, they’re building relationships essential to navigate those influential middle-school and high-school years. But the options are limited and can be expensive.

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MARCH 27, 2017

There were complications in my birth, and so they've kind of always known, but it wasn't formally a learning disability until about 4th or 5th grade. You've been in school for quite a while now, so, what has your experience been as a student both when you were in K-12 and now in college? What worked for you? Let me know!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Jessica Campos, Instructional Technology Coach, Mesquite Independent School District In the 2024 to 2025 school year, districts will be asking more questions about evidence of impact when they’re evaluating and selecting education technology solutions. Schenker, Ed.D.,

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The researcher would not disclose which middle school she worked with to conduct the research. The team at KSU has submitted their paper to the Research in Middle Level Education Online journal and is currently waiting on a response. Instead she purchased headsets off the shelf.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

Professor Gina Sipley, Instructor of Reading and Basic Education at SUNY Nassau Community College in New York, says she and her fellow educators are often looking for closed captioning technologies. “As Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

Leigh Estabrooks has seen students in New York City invent a tool that will prevent fires from igniting on the city’s subway tracks and students in North Carolina create a system that helps farmers identify disabilities in their livestock. How many middle school and high school students actually say that they're inventors?

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JULY 31, 2019

Or even, “How might we create a playground space for disabled students?” For many people, failure equals disaster,” says Amy Raney, middle school learning specialist at Good Shepherd Episcopal. Problems take the form of a question such as, “How might we design a classroom habitat for plants and animals to co-exist?”

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JULY 30, 2020

In the beginning, many of those related to Google and Google Classroom but now include social-emotional learning, working with students with disabilities, working with English language learners and physical education. With OTIS, we can provide curated playlists that include district-mandated courses. John Hattie, Visible Learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

Amanda Lotz knows all too well how difficult it can be to engage middle school students in life sciences, especially those with emotional disorders, behavioral issues, or learning disabilities. There may be no better example of meeting students where they are than Arnold’s gamification of the learning process.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

“I talked to an elementary school teacher at a Boston meetup, and she put together a whole personalized learning system for grades K-3. But when I asked her what would happen after the kids left her school and went to the middle school, she shrugged her shoulders.” It was so impressive,” explains Principe.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Educational technology solutions that are engaging, effective, and easy-to-use for students, teachers, and chief academic officers will continue to play a crucial role in the year ahead. Ultimately, what matters is what works for improving achievement. –Dr.

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MAY 2, 2018

When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. School often left me feeling inadequate. I struggled to sit still, focus, engage and memorize. I became a teacher to empower students who feel as disconnected as I did.

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MAY 12, 2022

Murphy teaches life skills to 35 students with a wide range of developmental and intellectual disabilities. Her workload—and the mental, psychological and financial burden they carried—had become untenable. Each student has an IEP and needs individualized academic, physical and emotional support. Nicole Gray.

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MAY 9, 2017

I did a two-week intersession course last semester where we built out a piece of technology for a neighboring middle school for kids with severe physical disabilities. We had ten different groups of students who all were assigned an individual student with a different disability.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

So he’s been trying to spread awareness about what he says is the student perspective on the bill, that it will decrease education funding for public schools. Jefferson says that means fewer opportunities for students with disabilities, or for students in rural areas or who want to work in public schools one day.

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APRIL 2, 2018

Carl Brownlee, middle school teacher Here’s a popular movie plot: Great teacher goes into a troubled neighborhood and turns around a low-performing school. Educators love the messages from these films, and even children are inspired. During the 2015-16 school year, only 0.7

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

At Marietta City Schools, located north of Atlanta, we’re making every effort to end these types of destructive practices and give those like Ignacio, not another dead end but a true beginning. All but one of our students are black or hispanic, and over 30 percent of them are students with some type of cognitive or behavioral disability.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2023

There's a range and a variation [of chronic absence] by ethnicity, and you see higher levels for kids who are affected by or have a disability. It can affect your middle school achievement, and it actually gets connected to an increase in suspensions or behavioral challenges.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

What does it mean to report on education technology from a student lens? What are virtual school lobbyists doing to impact the national discussion on school choice and accountability? EdSurge: I’m curious to hear about the perspective you bring to your education technology coverage.

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MARCH 24, 2021

When prioritizing testing, we recommend that schools prioritize teachers and staff first, then high school and middle school students and then elementary school [students.]” Is it the paraprofessionals, is it the bus drivers, the school secretaries? That could be a random sample of teachers and students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A bias incident is defined as any hostile expression that may be motivated by another person’s race, color, disability, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity. If not countered or met with a more authentic narrative, those ideas can, in time, lead to patterns of hate and biased behavior.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

But the truth is, the majority of K-12 librarians and educators agree with the research: comprehension is consistent regardless of the mode of consumption. Audiobooks bring a range of benefits, from expanding vocabulary and strengthening reading fluency to supporting learners with disabilities.

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JULY 15, 2020

Am I failing my husband by putting their health in jeopardy’” and going back to work, says Crystal, a middle school math teacher who asked to be identified only by her first name to discuss sensitive family health matters. I have tens of thousands of dollars in student loan debt to be an educator. And I have a master’s degree.

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APRIL 22, 2025

The agency also removed content on sexuality from its middle-school health classes, including chapters on sexually transmitted diseases, abuse and neglect, sexual harassment, human reproduction and the menstrual cycle.

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