eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced a three-year agreement with Austin Independent School District to bring its adaptive software to approximately 70,000 students. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Everything about Ray, from his seat choice to his body language in class, indicated that he didn’t want to be noticed. Classroom learning and management all begin with relationships, and SEL can guide the relationship and community building process. And for the first half of his 9th grade year, he did enough to pass, earning Cs and Ds.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2021

One of the many challenges with distance learning is finding ways for students to engage in active and interpersonal learning experiences that increase their understanding of STEM. Related content: A device in every hand during COVID-19.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2020

In that time Hong Kong International School (HKIS) has delivered over 200 hours of daily lessons online, across all subjects, from language arts to culinary arts, PE to science, religion to Chinese. Related content: 5 ways to support the shift to distance learning. These are Wellbeing Wednesdays, which means no screens all day.

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APRIL 13, 2020

They typically gather in classrooms to learn social studies, math, science and language arts from teachers who work at the corrections facility, located about 50 miles down the Mississippi River from St. The teenaged boys at Red Wing juvenile detention center are accustomed to six hours of school a day. Paul, Minnesota.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

During this time, learning loss–the reversal of academic progress due to disrupted formal education–has been of significant concern to educators. Unfortunately, studies show that English Language Learners (ELLs) have been disproportionately impacted by learning loss, as compared to their peers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

It’s important for teachers to find ways to teach social-emotional learning and character development to help their students build the skills necessary to process the events of 2020 and to persevere and succeed in (for many students) a distance learning or hybrid environment. The program has been a success.

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APRIL 9, 2020

high schoolers can tune into KCET for shows about language arts (“The Great American Read”), social studies (“African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross”) and science (“Rivers of Life: The Amazon”). For example, from 9 a.m.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2022

That is why they are moving forward with a research-based English Language Arts curriculum that is both innovative and effective in teaching the next generation of students. “By delivering hands-on, curriculum-aligned professional learning, we can empower teachers to make the most of our Language Arts curriculum.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

These systems employ natural language processing technologies to provide automated feedback messages to students to guide their revisions. Related content: 10 distance learning writing lessons. Despite the potential of AWE systems to support writing instruction, they have not been widely adopted by schools or teachers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Parent Engagement: Discover effective strategies for teachers and principals to promote parent, family, and community partnerships that support student learning. Vocabulary Cards: Gain quick and easy access to standards-based vocabulary words to plan and deliver impactful distance learning sessions.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

After listening to educators, parents and caregivers from across the country, Savvas Learning Company today introduced a range of platform enhancements and new K-12 educational products aimed at making distance learning more impactful. Savvas Realize Optimized for Distance Learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Many schools across the country have moved to hybrid or distance learning. Those that have purchased classroom copies of the supporting texts for the EL Education Language Arts Curriculum have asked for a way to provide teachers and students with permission to reuse those texts. Kids Can Press; Prestwick House, Inc. and more.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

In a time when teachers have had to adapt to hybrid, synchronous, and/or asynchronous learning environments, Twig Distance Learning (included with Twig Science Nevada) offers flexibility via on-demand Twig Coach lessons and Video Labs, which allow students to experience standards-based lessons and hands-on science wherever they are.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2022

Within the past few years, thanks to COVID-19 and distance learning, the amount of technology in schools across the country has increased a hundredfold. To the relief of the world, education has mostly returned to the classroom after the pandemic mandated distance and hybrid learning. Department of Education, 2016).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2023

This is the second Best of STEM award for Building Blocks of Science â 3D , which reinforces Carolina’s commitment to support all students by ensuring that language barriers do not hinder students’ opportunities to excel. This recognition reaffirms our commitment to revolutionizing education through innovation and hybrid learning solutions.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

MathWorks has partnered with the Museum since 2010 to bring TSW to school classrooms, supporting program growth as well as the development of virtual workshops and distance learning resources for teachers during the pandemic. And, [TSW] connects kids as they work together—even if they speak different languages. About MathWorks.

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AUGUST 25, 2023

Educators Pick Best of STEM® 2023 Awards Winners Best Educator Support for Teaching & Learning BrainPOP Science Best Freebies for STEM Careers STEM Careers Coalition (Discovery Education) Best Freebies for STEM Curriculum Integration FILTERED (HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology) Best Innovation for 2023 ExploreLearning Frax Best Integration (..)

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JANUARY 27, 2021

And about 40 percent of students face other hurdles in getting online, such as language barriers. This especially impacts students who are English language learners. funding support for these efforts has been insufficient to close the full distance learning digital divide. Ultimately.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

A lack of access to connectivity and devices for distance learning, especially in low-income and under-resourced communities, has resulted in ELs being at a high risk for suffering from “COVID learning slide.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Based around Blackbird’s proprietary educational version of JavaScript, Blackbird provides students, even those who have not been drawn to STEM or coding, with an understanding and aptitude in one of the most commonly used programming languages on earth. Blackbird has been the best thing for my students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

When the coronavirus pandemic forced schools across the nation to close in March and switch to distance learning in a matter of weeks (or for some, just days), tech teams, administrators, and teachers – as well as students and parents – had no choice but to figure out a solution, and fast.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This result is of interest, particularly in times of increased focus on distance learning, since it shows AR [with the Merge Cube] can provide students an effective method of absorbing complex 3D material independently while using fewer resources.”.

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JULY 2, 2024

Careful Language Even the education leaders pushing for measures to keep AI from displacing educators have gone out of their way to note that the technology could have beneficial applications in education. They're being cautious about the language they use to ensure they're not prohibiting the use of AI altogether.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2021

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, state leaders began searching for a digital assessment that would reliably measure student growth during distance learning and identify potential knowledge gaps throughout the year.

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JUNE 4, 2020

This is the first of a three-part series looking at how social-emotional learning strategies can support teachers of students with learning differences during the pandemic. The necessary and rapid move to distance learning in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been disabling for our education system.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). a division of Cambium Learning Group, Inc., is dedicated to changing people’s lives through the power of language and literacy education.

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JULY 8, 2024

When young students miss school, their teachers begin to think of them as less capable in math and language and less committed to learning, according to a new study. But during the coronavirus closures, schools switched to distance learning options. But how does missing so much school influence those relationships?

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2020

Additional resources include The No-Nonsense Distance Learning Resource Guide, weekly webinars to support teachers and districts, ongoing articles and professional learning materials to aid with distance learning, and peer-to-peer communications with OUR’s 6-8 Math community. Learning can’t wait.

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JUNE 15, 2020

Before they can think about welcoming back students, schools will need to prepare for the new year with tighter budgets and a better way to support distance learning, among other seemingly endless questions. Staffing Schools everywhere are creating contingency plans to address the reality of deep budget cuts.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2020

Designed by a pair of speech-language pathologists, InferCabulary helps learners infer deep meanings of nuanced words by analyzing and interpreting the common thread among carefully chosen images and associated captions. To get free access, schools can visit this page. InferCabulary version 2.0

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JULY 8, 2020

to enact emergency distance learning.) Then he checked by discipline, comparing math to science to English/language arts. In math, 14 percent of adoptions are OER, compared to 4 percent for English/language arts, 2 percent for science and 1 percent for history and social studies. Below are three takeaways from the report.

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JUNE 11, 2020

Bonus points for tools that facilitate communication in multiple tongues, says Aaron Walker, founder and CEO of Camelback Ventures: “If we are going to integrate parents and families into the learning experience, it’s going to force us to embrace the true diversity of this country, and that includes the languages people speak at home.”

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JUNE 25, 2020

Families are making choices about what to prioritize during distance learning while navigating unique demands of work, family and health. At the end of the day we can make constructive choices about our practice, building from student needs, requirements and the affordances and challenges of distance learning strategies.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

This year’s event featured more than 800 sessions on various topics such as leadership, mathematics, STEAM, digital citizenship, literacy, English language arts, and more. Cyber Acoustics , a leading manufacturer of EdTech for all in-person and virtual classrooms, showcased the new CA Essential Webcam Flex.

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JUNE 2, 2020

That system hampered the flexibility needed to provide remediation for English-language learners and special education students. Students will return to school from wildly different experiences with remote learning. Addressing widening differences is a challenge that does not fit neatly into 50-minute segments.

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JUNE 8, 2021

At the onset of the pandemic, distance learning provided a unique opportunity for working students: Without having to spend time getting to campus, and with the ability to log in to Zoom from anywhere, time on the job could extend to virtually any point of the day. In Alexandria, Va.,

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