eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

In just a few months, I transitioned from being a student at the University of Montana’s College of Education to leading the instruction of a room of rambunctious middle school students interested in STEM. This professional learning covered one of the most-discussed new technologies of the day: artificial intelligence.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2025

Key points: Caring connections can support and uplift students 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation 5 restorative practices that help teachers create connections For more on teacher-student relationships, visit eSNs SEL & Well-Being hub Middle school marks the transition from late childhood to early adolescence.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition for 15 years, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. Here’s a sample of the newest edtech innovations, products, and solutions eSchool News learned about during the show.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

By incorporating real-world experiences and addressing problems, I aim to engage students and encourage them to devise solutions to these challenges. For instance, when discussing natural resources in geography, I pose a thought-provoking question: What is something you cannot live without? According to Moser et.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The feedback is listed in three easy-to-read columns, which helps make even complex discussions easy to digest. Then, TeachFX generates personalized reports on academic vocabulary, talk ratio, and student engagement. Of course, strategies to increase engagement in the classroom go beyond boosting the time students spend talking.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

The NEA encourages teachers to bring physical activity into the classroom by incorporating brain breaks in students daily routines or taking classroom activities outside. We installed L systems , featuring Epson laser projectors , in every elementary and middle school gymnasium.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2023

By doing so, the district believes they are leveraging students’ natural curiosity about the world around them to build the scientific fundamentals that will drive future success in the subject in middle school, high school, and beyond.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

In that time, each fellow has managed to speak vulnerably about educational leadership, student engagement and systemic challenges in K-12 education. Burns opening quote is a reminder that teaching is purpose-driven work and that student growth and development depend on supporting teachers and school leaders.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2024

We also have PLCs where grade-level teachers meet to discuss student progress. We had regular meetings with our representative and we talked a lot about goal setting for both teachers and students. As the class kicked off, people kept coming back to me asking why our students were doing better than some of the other schools.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

We have to take care of the staff if we want to take care of our students John Bosselman The rhythm and rituals of learning depend on people, not tech. But his focus these days is on keeping daily rhythm and rituals that allow for students to be in discussion and collaboration with each other, including regular communication protocols.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Its exactly how we felt before our team at South Park Middle School went on a PBIS journey that produced results and led us to an opportunity to present at training conferences and spread the word to our fellow educators in Pennsylvania. We know what youre probably thinking right now: Thats great, but how do we get there?

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

In addition, district educators will receive in-depth professional learning opportunities that will help them integrate their new resources into instruction and create engaging lessons that prepare students for success beyond the classroom. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2015

This year, Donahoo’s EAST students are in the process of testing and discovering the new equipment in one of Creston’s two brand-new next-generation learning spaces, also called 21st century classrooms. The classrooms are two of the first constructed in southwest Iowa and will be used by teachers in the district beginning next week.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. Most of the oldest students of this generation are now in middle school. And I’ve heard repeatedly that engagement is low.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

But in addition to being an important outcome, learner agency may also be an undervalued resource for schools, especially when they have less control over how to structure students’ time and attention. The impacts of COVID-19 are highlighting at least three ways in which schools can benefit from nurturing students’ agency: 1.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Research studies don’t provide strong evidence that synchronous learning universally leads to better student engagement and learning outcomes than asynchronous learning or vice versa. This social-emotional investment is even more important now to support students coping with the emotional toll of the pandemic.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2022

Going to the Moon with NASA Hear Erica Alvarez, NASA Systems Engineering & Integration Manager for Advanced Exploration Systems, share fun facts about the Artemis mission, explain why it’s important, and discuss how studying the moon helps us better understand and protect our Earth.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

This time, we chose something different for the middle grades because middle school students are kind of a different band of learners. We knew we needed high engagement that would capture their attention and foster learning in a different way. Middle schoolers need this kind of structure for familiarity.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2021

Jackson Middle School moved to remote learning, and suddenly the steps to co-teaching weren’t the same. Working in a separate room, Nesler’s co-teacher couldn’t see students' responses to assessments and questions on Pear Deck’s teacher dashboard. She can offer so much more student support. then the pandemic hit.

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

MARCH 4, 2025

Getting students engaged in reading isnt always easy. You have the students who cant wait to read, and the kids who would rather do anything else. To get all your students on board, you know you need a mix of structure and choice. Students need to be held accountable and given some freedom.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It’s conference season—the time of the year when parents and teachers meet to discuss each student’s progress. In most schools, this is a private conversation between the child’s teacher and parent(s). The teacher offers an overview about the student’s performance, and then they explain the report card or other set of data.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. For others, he says, “We have to bring that into the school, into the family’s life, so they can see that their child can absolutely compete.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s back-to-school season across the country, and while this is met with mixed emotions, like it or not, classroom doors are open and welcoming students. Here are some back-to-school tips, advice, and valuable insights from educators, stakeholders, and industry experts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems. According to video documentation in the study, U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2021

Breakthrough SJC is an education nonprofit embedded in an independent school but serving about 300 students across our Orange County, Calif., Nationally, our parent organization, Breakthrough Collaborative, serves over 10,000 students. But by far the most important element of the program’s success was the college students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

My job is to make sure that the tech use is meaningful and purposeful - when used correctly technology can help enhance and transform my lessons, provide real-world activities, and increase student engagement. Jill Weber, Cheney Middle School. Jill posts the completed videos on YouTube to reach a larger audience.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The implementation also helped address challenges with certifications and staffing for their early college high school and STEM high school–when they no longer had a university partner providing physical education credits, Edmentum filled that gap with highly qualified, state-certified teachers and award-winning curriculum.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. Highlight mental health resources: Ensure students know where to find help if they’re struggling. .

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. With GoGuardian in place, teachers had insight into how engaged students were and if they were understanding the lesson. They can be anywhere and be part of the class.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

“I was the poster-child for anti-technology in my district,” says Willie Maddux, an 8th grade World History teacher at Prescott South Middle School in Cookeville, Tenn. The thought of using technology used to leave him, “worried about student engagement because we talk a lot. Key and Maddux are based in the same school.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Steve Kahlfeldt wants his students to grasp how the census impacts them right now, not in some far-off future. Kahlfeldt has touched on the census many times in his 15 years as a middle school social studies teacher at Winfield School District 34 (22 years total as an educator). This was a perfect follow-up activity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It’s a nationwide teachable moment in which the entire country is constantly discussing a hearty list of key standards that is supposed to inform our instruction. But this big deal comes with big problems for educators, who must also help their students navigate the daily deluge of political media—especially in recent elections.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. Competition can be thrilling and motivating to those who choose to engage. But it’s important to remember that competition is not a golden key to unlock student engagement.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In Baselice’s game, each team of students represents one of the countries that initially started the war, and the objective of the game — played with index cards and a lot of negotiation between the teams — is to understand all the interconnected events that led to conflict breaking out. The role of the facilitator is key.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

It got the students engaged and doing something as opposed to saying, ‘Well I can’t do that because I don’t have an autoclave.’. Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2021

2021) — Minnesota’s Bloomington Public Schools ?(BPS) supporting science education in elementary and middle school classrooms across the district.?Through and students?in In grades 6-8, educators will begin the 2021-2022 school year using Discovery Education?Science SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, August?11,?2021)

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