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 To read more about North Star’s success, please visit [link].

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. Surprisingly, only one-third of students with disabilities reported it to their institution (NCES, 2022). Most common accommodations by students with disabilities.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Authored by Fernanda Pérez Perez, a recipient of The Blaschke Fellowship, the report explores the transformative potential of artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance educational accessibility and support for students, particularly those with disabilities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

on a recent Wednesday, and the school stage hadn’t yet transformed into a reading room. But this year, a group of fifth graders were instead sitting on the school’s stage, reading aloud about the life of Rosa Parks as they worked on reading fluency and comprehension. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2017

Cox Middle School focused on literacy, math, and lowering discipline referrals, which adds a social-emotional learning aspect to our plan. With myON , more than 12,000 books have been read and students have spent more than 4,000 hours reading. One-third of the students are enrolled in advanced math and English.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2024

The White House Council of Economic Advisors found that chronic absenteeism significantly contributed to drops in the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores, accounting for 16 to 27 percent of NAEP score declines in math and 36–45 percent in reading.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Example: Two Teacher-Led Stations – One Differentiated, One Guided Reading and Discussion Reading Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Teacher 1: Differentiated Instruction Station At this station, students are grouped by their reading comprehension levels.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The result was a large achievement gap in math. “We Pilot Study Brief from Digital Promise.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. There was a lot of fear around math and a lot of kids’ mindsets shifted to ‘I’m not good at math,’” explains Perez.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2019

An Individualized Education Plan (IEP) attempts to not only identify areas of challenge for a student—fine motor skills, language development, reading and comprehension, written and verbal language skills, social interaction, etc.—but Math is his favorite subject, and he enjoys learning it. Bring on the learning revolution!

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

“The addition of such a strong special education leader to our team is part of Lexia’s ongoing commitment to support the needs of school districts striving to help every student to read, write and speak confidently and proficiently,” said Lexia President Nick Gaehde.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Over the last 30 years, federal laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (1990) opened the door for more students with disabilities to enroll in college. Surprisingly, only one-third of students with disabilities reported it to their institution (NCES, 2022). Most common accommodations by students with disabilities.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

We’ll see more schools and districts placing a priority on SEL instruction just like math or reading. Jennifer Pastor, Fourth Grade Math Teacher, Tioga Elementary School , Rapides Parish Schools, Louisiana & a 2022 Curriculum Associates Extraordinary Educator. “As

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Achievement increasing by up to 240 percent in math and reading. Scores for grades 2-8 in math and reading on year-to-year Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments show 140 to 240 percent growth, with the highest scores in grades 6-8—when students typically see a slight decline.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are behind next-generation improvements in a range of software tools for students with sensory or learning disabilities. How do you present science, technology, engineering, and math content? These are exciting times in the world of assistive learning technology.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2017

Students who are blind rarely major in math or science, and Emily Schlenker understands why, from personal experience. What has repeatedly snagged her ability to study it, however, has been when homework assignments include charts and graphs that her screen-reading software can’t process. And he wasn’t alone in raising concerns.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Now, while she gets settled into her first official year as a teacher on a temporary one-year license, Montgomery will complete her certifications in secondary math and special education through an alternative teacher licensing program. After high school, I initially went away to college to study to become a secondary math teacher.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

As an education community, we are beginning to understand the depth of the pandemic’s impact, especially on our students of color, our English Language learners and our students with disabilities. Recently, EdSurge spoke with Regina Meeks , an elementary math and ELA teacher in North Carolina. How can I make it fun?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

As such, from the characters portrayed in online programs to reading excerpts included in curricular products, it is important for all education companies to provide, and educators to seek out, more culturally relevant, modifiable, and accessible resources to effectively meet the varying learning needs of all students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

— Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. Many teachers in older grades are not taught how to teach foundational literacy skills.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2024

Read the other articles here and here. For the past four years, applied learning pedagogies, including digital tools like game-based platforms, have been explored within LAUSD to build math, literacy and social-emotional learning competencies using applied learning pedagogy.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

But he was reading and writing at a kindergarten level, according to diagnostic tests. John, whose name has been changed, is dyslexic and had been struggling with reading and writing for years. So many students are unable to read and write proficiently. He wasn’t alone. John’s sharp intellect was apparent. I was ecstatic.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2022

The research used MAP Growth assessment data and revealed that while students with disabilities, English learners, and rural students make gains at rates equal to or faster than their grade-level peers during the school year, these students also experience greater learning loss in the summer, leading to persistent achievement gaps.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Kris Astle, Global Education Strategist, SMART Technologies Far too many students continue to struggle with reading, with post-pandemic recovery remaining slow—and in some cases, stagnant—among our young readers. Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

The new programs also have increased training for leading special student populations, including students with disabilities, English language learners and early childhood students. On the 2015 AzMERIT statewide benchmark exam, only 2 percent of ELLs passed the language arts section, and 6 percent passed the math section of the exam.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2015

Tech-infused alternatives to granular education activities such as note-taking, math, and reading allow students with specialized needs to use their abilities (strengths) to work around their disabilities (challenges). Signed Stories–for reading. Babakus–for mathematical functions. Sonocent Audio Notetaker.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

As he very maturely shared with his teacher, he couldn’t read the application. Through research and evaluation, psychologists in the 1970s and ’80s sought to develop a new framework to stop over-identifying students as disabled. Jason explained that he wanted to support his family by applying for a job at the local convenience store.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2019

I’d make up stories to what I thought was going to happen, but never once cracked the books open to attempt to read the print. I didn’t discover this until after I had taught kindergarten for 10 years and became a reading program implementation specialist for educators around the country. My whole body shut down.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For example, design a lesson for a fifth grade boy with a reading learning disability who is interested in sports. Spark their interest and you know, get them excited about math or reading or whatever. Now you get. At least it’s not going to be a complete lesson, but you’ll get a spike.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Key points: About two-thirds of American students fail to meet reading standards every year when tested in 4 th , 8 th , and 12 th grades. 1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. Popularity: OG/MSL is the most popular dyslexia/reading intervention in the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

They gave their takes on innovating in math and social emotional learning. When Teaching Students Math, Concepts Matter More Than Process By Nicola Hodkowski Researcher Nicola Hodkowski makes a case for moving beyond students memorizing the process of doing math and instead fostering a deep understanding of mathematical concepts.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2022

She plans instruction for four separate grade levels—second through fifth—and two different subject areas—math and ELA—while also deciding which classroom technology is best suited to each day’s lesson. One of the tools that kind of started it off for me was Read&Write for Google Chrome. How does she do it?

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2020

Years from now, when we look back on how the pandemic transformed education, transcripts will read like a “tale of the tape” for how we addressed—and sought to correct—systemic inequities within our schools. What if we opened extra sections for students who need additional support to pass math, science and other core courses?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A lot of mainstream education tech is not designed with folks with disabilities in mind. Fifty-six percent of the children of survey respondents had disabilities beyond a visual impairment. A lot of mainstream education tech is not designed with folks with disabilities in mind,” he says.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Oregon teachers wish they didn’t have to give their students Smarter Balanced English and math tests because the tests take too much time, have confusing directions and are unfair for students who don’t have computers at home or who have inadequate technology at school. A new survey reveals discontent with length, logistics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

The tools span everything from music to time-saving shortcuts and supports for struggling students or those with learning disabilities. Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.” showed off three Chrome extensions useful for those with reading difficulties.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

Encourage students to do annotations — to read with pen or pencil or highlighter. On a positive note, such tools could greatly assist students with learning disabilities. Kids will wind up hating baseball, not loving math.” Plenty of the newest AI tools for education are aimed at educators, promising to save them time.

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