eSchool News

MAY 16, 2022

Having access to diverse texts helps children expand their vocabularies, deepens their understanding of language, provides opportunities for problem-solving, provides critical affirming experiences to students’ lives, and presents opportunities for students to learn about people with different lived experiences. percent of total books).

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

Special education programs have been the target of legal challenges on the grounds of discrimination and racial bias, yet the study found that minority children are underdiagnosed across five disability conditions for which U.S. UCI-Penn State findings contradict prior research, public perception and federal legislation, policies.

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Edsurge

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. A language is something to absorb, not to memorize. I struggled to sit still, focus, engage and memorize.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

When parents question things like assignments, or the practice of teaching that they see through their lenses, they may not be aware of the overall state of the class, or the range of abilities, disabilities, interests and considerations that go into the planning and teaching.” See also: Want to Show Teachers You Appreciate Them?

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system. At a macro level, disability organizations are finding ways to work together that would never have happened before the pandemic.

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Edsurge

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., Moskowitz says, “ Their reading analysis skills have increased as they contemplate how poets might have felt and why they chose that particular language.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

This is not surprising as the first few years of school are when learners build the foundations for literacy. We have a complex language where one letter pattern can stand for different sounds (COW and SNOW), and where similar sounds can be spelled in different ways (WAIT and WEIGHT).

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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

AUGUST 2, 2018

What understanding learning differences can teach us about personalized learning For 35 years, Chartwell Middle School, near Monterey, Calif., focused primarily on supporting students with language-based learning differences, primarily dyslexia.

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Edsurge

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 31, 2017

As professors begin to digitize their curriculum and develop videos for both face-to-face and distance education, these new resources need to be ADA compliant to meet the needs of students with IEPs and documented disabilities,” she says. The result? The benefits don’t stop there.

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Edsurge

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

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

This is not surprising as the first few years of school are when learners build the foundations for literacy. We have a complex language where one letter pattern can stand for different sounds (COW and SNOW), and where similar sounds can be spelled in different ways (WAIT and WEIGHT).

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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. Nicole Gray.

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Edsurge

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. How has making inspired you as a teacher?

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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. For more information on equitable grading systems, see our Standards-Based Learning at Middle Schools and Competency-Based Grading in High Schools research briefs.

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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 also used to be that we saw young English language learners tended to show up to school pretty regularly [prior to the pandemic].

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Schools English Languages Language 185

Edsurge

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. In fact, in a broken district such as Detroit’s, schools in hard-bitten neighborhoods sometimes go from “turnarounds” to closure.

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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

Audiobooks bring a range of benefits, from expanding vocabulary and strengthening reading fluency to supporting learners with disabilities. As such, middle school will remain a pivotal time to spark curiosity and initiate career exploration as students begin to discover their passions and see whats possible for their futures.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2025

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), which is enforced by the United States Department of Education, mandates that students with disabilities receive free and appropriate public education (FAPE) along with necessary services and accommodations. Inner-city urban schools often face unique challenges (i.e.,

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