eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2021

Students from other areas of the desert also take advantage of the quality education provided by our schools. More than 27,000 students attend 34 schools in the district including traditional high schools, alternative high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, and 16 preschools, including a federally funded Head Start program.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Museum educators deliver twenty-three STEM topics, including Sound, Weather & Climate, Physical Changes of Matter, and Force & Motion, to give elementary and middle school students direct experience with how things work in the physical world.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2020

To support educators with student-centered learning, BetterLesson and Adobe have teamed up to create 325 free instructional strategies that build creativity, collaboration, and communication skills using products in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

Here’s a sample of the newest edtech innovations, products, and solutions eSchool News learned about during the show. 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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2023

Awards have been earned in such subjects as elementary and middle-school science, biology, chemistry, physical science, environmental science, career technical education (CTE), and anatomy and physiology. This recognition reaffirms our commitment to revolutionizing education through innovation and hybrid learning solutions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2020

The free MackinVIA digital content management system is available to all schools and is providing users with hundreds of free MackinClassic eBooks to assist with distance learning initiatives due to the COVID-19 health crisis. The free titles can be downloaded and will be made available until the end of 2020.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Many English Learners (ELs) across the United States have gone months without exposure to the academic English they require for success in school and that they would normally receive in formal education settings. times more effective than typical interventions for both EL and non-EL middle school students.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

The resources are organized by: Early childhood/elementary Middle school/high school Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles. Area Educators for Social Justice website has a collection of resources for educators.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2020

In June, she became the instructional technology coach for two middle schools in the district: Doran Middle School and Henry Lord Community School. Through the program, five middle schools in Fall River Public Schools will be outfitted with enough Chromebooks to enable at-home learning for every student.

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2020

Los Coyotes Middle School. Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District, CA. “We Related content: This visual arts teacher steps outside the box during distance learning. Even though I had already been using a lot of technology for the assignments, I still had a lot of redesign to do after moving to remote learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Middle schoolers, they warned us, are unable to work at their own pace because they lack academic fundamentals, intrinsic motivation and basic time management skills. This is especially true for sixth graders, they said, who are managing a challenging transition to middle school and lack independence.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2020

If students read their way through 12 episodes, that’s equivalent to completing a middle school chapter book! Blog Post: How Making Students the Boss Can Empower Them in Virtual Learning. Words of Encouragement Campaign: Middle school can be a tough time for students.

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Edsurge

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As it was, Italy also had similar issues with distance learning. In a comprehensive article written for BMC Public Health Distance learning in Italian primary and middle school children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a national survey , the study revealed gaps in access. Scarpellini, F., Cartabia, M.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2022

Justin Hall, who teaches math at Rancho Cucamonga Middle School , understands this need well. A 16-year veteran middle school teacher, Hall is a big proponent of increasing access to information for all education stakeholders. During the distance learning months, we did parent conferences over Zoom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

As a Certified Partner of the nonprofit OpenSciEd since August 2021, Kendall Hunt will offer a customized version of OpenSciEd’s high-quality middle school science instructional materials in a dynamic format through Kiddom’s comprehensive digital curriculum platform.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. For example, we added more K-2 teachers to decrease the student-to-teacher ratio for our youngest students who spent their earliest years in distance learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Take Janet Lake, who is used to standing all day to teach ninth graders at her school in the San Diego Unified School District. During the first week of distance learning, she tried sitting, but her feet swelled up. So she created a makeshift standing desk, where she now works from each day.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2020

Our guidance to schools has been around non-digital as our primary focus. We do have a couple of middle schools that do have one-to-one [device] take-home programs with internet access through the Digital Promise Verizon Innovative Learning Schools program. We’re working with those schools a little differently.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

We are approaching the two month mark since schools shut their doors in response to COVID-19, and we are now entering a new phase in the learning process. Despite an optimistic start, educators and students alike are realizing that remote learning is not all that it’s cracked up to be. Zoom fatigue is real.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Moore: We are a small suburban school district (approximately 2400 students in two elementary schools, one middle school and one high school) located in Enola, PA that started the school year completely online. Prior to OTIS, how was your district handling PD?

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

The Bartlesville High School and Madison Middle School labs were completed in late 2015 and the Central Middle School lab is scheduled to be completed in August 2016. Details: As of January 2016, nearly 800 middle and high school students are taking STEM courses in the Bartlesville Public School District.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

How do you make the weather when it’s raining on one part of your virtual school and not on the other? In distance learning, the way you dress, walk or project your voice aren’t as relevant. You don’t wing anything,” says Guye Turner, who leads a middle school in Washington, D.C.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2022

In many instances, these experiences with technology greatly improved my students’ retention of course material and made their learning experiences more engaging. Being a middle school teacher, learning on Zoom was hard for the majority of my students. Through this process, I learned many important lessons.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Schools are working out how to support educators to implement student IEPs in previously uncharted territory , drafting the rules as they go. Families are making choices about what to prioritize during distance learning while navigating unique demands of work, family and health.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

We’re seeing the pendulum swinging back to reintroducing career and technical exploration (CTE) in middle schools. Combined with promising results from middle schools with renewed CTE, more schools, both rural and urban, are realizing there are many successful paths for their students beyond a 4-year degree.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

class of the school year, actually their last P.E. class as a middle school student, Esme had pursued Eduardo across campus with a set of classroom scissors, sharp end out. teacher to allow—quickly descended into a breach of each and every tenet of our school’s Core Values.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

For those who can, it’s become abundantly clear that grades alone are insufficient to motivate learning. But some schools have taken the opportunity to invite students—usually considered the beneficiaries of resources—to pitch in and become resources themselves.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

Even those who are excited about distance learning have understandable concerns about the amount of screen time kids are experiencing these days. we were going to hold off until middle school. He doesn’t have a phone or an easy way to be in contact with his friends. But when he’s gaming, now he can hear their voices.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Museum educators deliver twenty-three STEM topics—including Sound, Weather & Climate, Physical Changes of Matter, and Force & Motion—to give elementary and middle school students direct experience with how things work in the physical world. It is the only classroom-based program of its kind in Massachusetts.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

. –Jessica Petersen, General Manager of Professional Development Services, Catapult Learning We’re seeing the pendulum swinging back to reintroducing career and technical exploration (CTE) in middle schools. Most importantly, ongoing, meaningful school-home communication is paramount. –Joy Smithson, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2023

In some ways, middle school is very much the same as it was a decade ago. In my own classroom, I recognize some of the hallmarks of the middle school years — changing voices, students spurting up three inches by the time May rolls around, and the awkwardness of being surrounded by so many developmental stages at once.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Jamie Wong Baesa , a middle school math teacher who hasn’t seen her students’ faces since March. Geri Zamora , a high school history teacher who nearly lost a student to COVID-19. Right: The desk area where she taught during remote learning. Instead, her middle school assigned a different subject for each day of the week.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2021

Once it became clear that we were in a full-fledged pandemic last Spring, most schools shifted to a “distance learning/distance teaching” model. By and large, the ways of teaching and the expectations of student learning were the same as they were before the shutdown.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2024

In April 2020, teachers were beginning to realize that their schools’ closures would not be all that temporary. They’d need to make do with haphazard plans for distance learning through the end of the school year — perhaps longer. Around this time four years ago, a seismic event was rippling across education.

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