Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Use ice breakers for high school students to learn more about them as individuals. Table of Contents 1. Begin with a fresh start 2. Create personal relationships 3.

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JULY 3, 2025

Programs that fund after-school services, ELL support, and Special Education staffing are now in limbo, leaving states like California and Connecticut facing massive shortfalls with no warning ( CT Insider , AP News ). Without them, schools may struggle to provide coaching, mentoring, or skill development for staff already stretched thin.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

At the start of every new school year, conversations often turn to one thing: goal-setting. Vision Board Student Workbook By Danielle Knight Grades: 4th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Students will create a 15×20 vision board using this eight-section guide.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

The Grandview school district’s headquarters is nearly 1,000 miles away from the White House. Planning something as simple as back-to-school registration takes longer because Trump’s aggressive immigration enforcement has made parents afraid to come to evening events. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2025

Hayley Leibson, a mother from Mill Valley, a wealthy area just north of San Francisco, started hunting for a language-immersion child care program when her son was 8 months old. “I Some schools laughed her out of the room, telling her that other families applied as soon as they became pregnant. Leibson finally found child care.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

residents who speak a language other than English at home. Often, the role of ad hoc interpreter falls to the child–everything from information-sharing and school policies to interpreting for their own parent-teacher conference. I talk to a lot of parents, both as a parent myself and in my work advocating for language services.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Current approaches to identifying students with reading disabilities are often problematic and ineffective, and will not lead students to academic success. Research tells us that dyslexia is due to a problem in language rather than in vision, specifically the phonological system, which is used for processing speech sounds.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2015

As schools make recorded lessons available to students online, they may not be making them accessible. This new case highlights a particularly controversial subject in an era where more colleges and K-12 schools are making lectures available online and developing related content that may not always be accessible to students with disabilities.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Florida Senate votes to consider coding a foreign language for graduation requirements. State senators in Florida overwhelmingly approved a proposal to allow high school students to count computer coding as a foreign language course, although questions linger about whether the two subjects should be considered one and the same.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lunch hours are spent hunched over smartphones, and after-school time means less sports and more Snapchat. At Spokane Public Schools (SPS), educators and administrators are reversing the side effects of social media by re-connecting with students through school-based extracurricular activities. A lot of them wanted an art club.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Demographics: West Broward High School , located in Pembroke Pines, Fla., Many of those struggling were English-language learners (ELLs) whose English proficiency wasn’t at the level needed to comprehend challenging texts within these exams. Some were students with learning disabilities.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers. schools for less than two years.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Through his expertise as a professional development strategist, he has supported districts in the implementation of Generative Artificial Intelligence in their schools. Protecting the data of students with disabilities is crucial for several reasons. The levels are organized in terms of how much personalization of the tool is possible.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

In a recent edWebinar , Aimee Dearmon, Speech and Language Pathologist (SLP) and Board Certified Behavior Analyst (BCBA), says the disruption of routines, schedules, classroom layouts, and necessary social distancing protocols will be very difficult for our most vulnerable students with autism and other developmental disabilities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2015

Haynes High School in Washington, D.C., 44 percent of students are English language learners, have special needs, or both. Haynes has a one-to-one laptop program, and students also can bring their own devices to school. Flipped learning and one-to-one are a powerful combo for some populations. million children in the U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 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.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

The reasons that students remain struggling readers in middle and high school are frequently based on myths and misconceptions. Decades of research have shown that effective readers have a solid and automatic knowledge of how to translate the sounds of our language to the print that represents those sounds.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2020

This presents a major problem for students with dyslexia who need specialized help to learn how to read—and for educators who need to play catch up once they realize 20 percent of their students likely have a language-based learning disability. Related content: My tech essentials for students with dyslexia.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2022

“There may be systematic differences in students’ comfort level with (computer-based tests) depending on their access to computers in the home and at school,” the researchers wrote. The differences were quite pronounced, equating to about five months of learning in math and 11 months—more than a full school year—in English language arts.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2024

This increase–driven by improved identification and diagnosis, heightened awareness, advocacy, and broader definitions of disabilities–presents substantial challenges for school districts. million over the past decade. million over the past decade. In fact, only 23 states and territories met IDEA requirements in 2023.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2024

Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban and suburban districts.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

may have fallen critically behind in the basic skills they need to become good readers and be successful in school. Is easily accessible at school or home. HearBuilder is used in Preschool and Elementary School, Response to Intervention (RTI), Title 1, English language learner, Head Start, and Homeschool settings.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Accessibility is a “critical key” when it comes to leveraging technology for all students — including those with disabilities, according to a new toolkit offering accessibility resources and tips for state and district education leaders.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

For more than a decade, University of Kansas researchers have been developing a virtual reality system to help students with disabilities, especially those with autism spectrum disorder, to learn, practice and improve social skills they need in a typical school day. Office of Special Education Programs has awarded a five-year, $2.5

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

Students using the free Sora student reading app have now accessed more than 100 million books from their school’s digital collections since Sora launched in 2018. Sora is the award-winning student reading app available in more than 53,000 schools worldwide.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

A Teacher’s Guide to Applying Universal Design for Learning in Today’s Classrooms, Second Edition and assistant superintendent of schools at the Groton-Dunstable (MA) Regional School District, helped me truly understand what UDL is and, perhaps more important, what it isn’t. To do this, we have to change the way we “do” school.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2025

Roughly 1 out of every 7 children in public school has an identified disability, according to a recent analysis, but both traditional public and charter schools have a long way to go to provide equal opportunities for those students — which they have the right to receive. The brief focuses on U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

But it would be pretty hard to figure that out from most states’ school report cards. Polikoff added that states and others “need to give parents an accurate accounting of how their individual student is doing but also how schools are doing in general.” Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news site covering educational change in public schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The reasons that students remain struggling readers in middle and high school are frequently based on myths and misconceptions. Decades of research have shown that effective readers have a solid and automatic knowledge of how to translate the sounds of our language to the print that represents those sounds.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2016

Leslie Patterson said she knew nothing about dyslexia when she first became an elementary school teacher. Now, the certified academic language therapist and licensed dyslexia teacher at Griffis Elementary School in Caddo Mills (Texas) is leading the way in using technology to help some of her dyslexic students develop a love for reading.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

What’s more, educators indicate a disparity when it comes to the likelihood of using Generative AI in the classroom, with district and school leaders perceived as less likely to embrace new AI tools when compared to educators and students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

was first spoken during the height of gang wars in Los Angeles, when I was a new speech language pathologist in the Los Angeles Unified School District. More than 30 years later, I now work at a 700-student elementary school in Washington state and I have a caseload of 50 students consisting of varying disabilities.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

schools and its impact is being felt by students who need consistent, high-quality educators the most. Special education positions have some of the highest number of vacancies in school districts across the US. School administrators are taking a hard look at how to prevent burnout.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

It’s a rare and wonderful human being who steps up to serve in special education,” said Susan Enfield, superintendent-in-residence of ILO Group and former superintendent of Washoe County School District in Nevada. At the same time, education leaders at the state and local levels report they are short staffed. “It’s

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 80 percent of students with learning disabilities have dyslexia. In order to create a learning environment that feels safe, comfortable and empowering for students, schools need to adhere to basic guiding principles. Identify Indicators. Going Forward. Join the Community.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Kinsley will help Super Duper create new products addressing additional areas of development to help meet the needs of clinic- and school-based occupational therapists. “I She focuses on play and enjoys the challenge of creating fun and intuitive products to meet the needs of both children and clinicians. About Super Duper Publications.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: School libraries have evolved to offer students and teachers everything they need See article: Modern students need modern librarians See article: 10 reasons we love school librarians For more news on school libraries, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page What makes an effective school library?

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