eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama. It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Check out this inspiring video of CAPS students changing the life of a disabled student.).

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. 20k+ per year).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English.

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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. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama. It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Check out this inspiring video of CAPS students changing the life of a disabled student.).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

As a Black student in a predominantly white school, he says he excelled in his studies in elementary school. But after doing poorly on a math placement exam in middle school, he was placed in a math class for students with learning disabilities. Applications , which will be open at 8 A.M. today, are due on Nov.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

She has a second-grade son who grew up in a dual-language home and needs support to ensure he is proficient in reading. For these parents, understanding how local school systems are serving the needs of English Language Learners (ELL) is critical. Coreas has also learned to advocate for her children with data.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 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. –Amy Gulley, M.Ed –Amy Gulley, M.Ed

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Tony Wan, Managing Editor Access and Equity How can we accommodate students who have learning disabilities in online instruction and practice universal design principles? They may be used to texting or chatting with friends on social media, but how they interact in the online school setting will be different,” she says.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Over the last 10 years or so, the word “neurodivergent” has become a more common part of our everyday language. This shift in language acknowledges that everyone’s brain is different, and if we set up our schools in a way that makes room for many variations, we’ll all be better off.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

Harsh disciplinary measures were disproportionately impacting Black children—who accounted for nearly half of all expulsions but only 18 percent of children attending public pre-K—and children with disabilities. There has been some progress. Sixteen states have adopted laws limiting or prohibiting suspension and expulsion in early grades.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Jill Edwards Yet, Principe worries that this roulette of school models, where there is little consistency between schools and grade levels, creates more challenges for students. “I I talked to an elementary school teacher at a Boston meetup, and she put together a whole personalized learning system for grades K-3.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Role : Elementary school English/language arts teacher Location : Cooter, Missouri Salary : $40,000 Years teaching : 22 Additional jobs : School custodian, house cleaner, painter and more Stacey Robinson poses in her classroom in Cooter, Missouri. Stacey Robinson. She can cover her rent, utilities and groceries with that.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In my blog post, I also quoted Loveless’ statement that, because the NAEP Proficient standard is so aspirational, “ If high school students are required to meet NAEP proficient to graduate from high school, large numbers will fail. DPS isn’t doing great on these fronts, but it’s not an outlier either.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

High school senior at Newton North High School in Newton, MA, Yishai Barth, feels strongly about the importance of Universal Design Language (UDL). From elementary school grades upwards, a student may be given a book to read and asked to write a review afterwards. This tool I use is called Sonocent Audio Notetaker.

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Lab to Class

APRIL 21, 2025

The focus of the study was on the correlation between executive functioning skills and language skills. The results of the study showed that students who scored higher in executive functioning such as planning, organizing, and regulating their behaviors were also much better at language based tasks.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

We also received questions on various subject-specific curricula, with English language arts (at both the elementary and secondary levels) being the most popular. Secondary-level English language arts: 7.5% In particular, district leaders were interested in best practices for supporting students with disabilities.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

In addition to educational performance, school districts should also be looking at student feedback, surveys, classroom behavior, and social skills. For example, a school with a high number of English as an additional language (EAL) students might focus on targeted support for reading and language skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

It’s not why Tim Huber, principal at Harris Creek Elementary School, part of North Carolina’s Wake County Public School System, is seeing more and more children in the early grades show up to school wearing smartwatches. “It The psychology of fear—it’s extremely powerful,” says Huber, the elementary school principal. “We

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In elementary school, frequent absences are linked to a higher likelihood of dropout—even if attendance improves over time. They also helped translate district communications into other languages. Research shows that attendance is key to academic success, so preventing absenteeism is critical.

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Edsurge

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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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis. With more than 20 percent of U.S.

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