eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2020

Macking one of the world’s largest providers of print books, ebooks, audiobooks, and video is offering access to its ebook library and distance learning content for free. If your school or district has closed due to COVID-19 or is shifting to temporary online or distance learning, MackinVIA has an effective solution.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

When Highline Public Schools starts its academic year on September 9, the district will implement an engaging distance learning model that Superintendent Dr. Susan Enfield and her team developed over the summer. Lessons learned from family and student feedback.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2020

As districts have moved to distance learning amid fears of the spread of COVID-19, it has been a learning experience for all — even in schools like ours that have had a 1:1 computer initiative for years. Jersey Community High School is located in a small rural district in southwest Illinois, about 45 miles from St.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2020

When everyone in our district received the message that school would be closing, many people’s first reaction was to think we simply had a long spring break. But not us educators – teachers across our district immediately got to work, learning new technologies and adjusting curriculum for our new reality: distance learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2020

Infobase, the award-winning provider of digital reference content to the school and library community, today announced that it has created a variety of distance learning packages to help schools, colleges and universities, and public libraries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2020

Distance learning has become a new reality for many learning institutions across the country. Many districts that lacked distance learning plans, communication tools, and training for teachers found the rapid change from the classroom to distance learning a bit too challenging.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Last spring, school districts rushed to transition to distance learning as quickly as possible to protect the health and safety of students, teachers and staff. Now, schools are reflecting on what worked, what didn’t, and how these learnings can be applied to prepare for safe and effective learning this fall.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2021

The ripple effects of COVID-19 have thrust the world into uncertain times, and especially schools and students. As K–12 educators try to adjust to a new reality, many stories in the media note a tension between maintaining academic expectations while also supporting students’ basic needs during distance learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Today’s students, teachers, and administrative staff are facing unprecedented connectivity challenges as the 2020 school year brings more and more distance learning options. This enables commercial users — e.g. school districts — to leverage a vast amount of invaluable underutilized mid-band spectrum.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

For students across Texas and around the country, bridging the digital divide and providing reliable Internet connectivity that enables distance learning for students without Internet access are among the top priorities for state governments, school districts, teachers and parents alike. Many students across the U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2020

If your student or child had to rapidly transition to an at-home learning environment as a struggling reader, an English language learner, or one with dyslexia, there are many ways that the support they were receiving in school can transfer to their home.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Distance learning has long been a part of the education landscape. Virtual learning has become a permanent fixture in modern academia. Virtual learning has become a permanent fixture in modern academia. Digital Citizenship: Online Communities By Banyan Global Learning, for Grade K-4. North Mankato, Minn.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Stomping through puddles, scrambling over fallen logs and digging in the dirt with sticks may not sound like traditional educational activities, but they are core parts of the curriculum in “forest schools,” EdSource reports.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Discovery Museum announced today the launch of its Feel the Force laboratory toolkit, the first offering in a new product series for K-5 remote learning called Field Trip on Tour. The toolkits are available to order now at an introductory price, for Spring 2021 student learning. They are available for free on the Museum’s website.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

COVID-19 is leading to months of learning loss for students across the state of California. So state leaders are providing schools $5.3 Much of that money is going to devices, software, and internet access for distance learning. billion in funding to try to address the issue moving forward. We don’t do it alone, though.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

When visitors step inside Lone Star Middle School, they notice a palpable enthusiasm for learning. Part of Nampa School District in Nampa, Idaho, the school fosters a remarkable culture of collaboration among educators and a dedication to powerful teaching and learning with technology.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

You might be wondering how this is possible—how one might actually minimize their dependence on education technology in an era of remote instruction and screen-dependent learning. But doing so is imperative if we want to re-humanize learning experiences for our students. School leaders asked: Which apps should we download?

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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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Catlin Tucker

MAY 25, 2020

I think it’s likely that schools will begin the year online or adopt a blended learning model that allows for fewer students on campus at one time. Either way, it will be helpful for teachers to know what worked well for students during this time of distance learning and what didn’t work.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

Even before the world got turned upside down and we closed our schools, most people knew that K-12 education was in need of innovative ideas, practices and tools. We're all striving to get back to at least some version of in-person learning. In recent months, I've focused on bridging the gap between in-person and distance learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And while these may just seem the latest bright and shiny objects to capture our trending eyes, if we step back and examine the pedagogy supporting these “buzzwords,” we can see the importance they have in reaching our students in both in-person and hybrid-distance learning classrooms. Social and emotional learning is a process.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2020

School buildings may have closed as the coronavirus pandemic swept across the country, but teaching and learning didn’t stop—they just moved in new directions. Administrators, teachers, and staff transitioned quickly to take learning online, a move that provided new opportunities even as it brought consistent challenges.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 4, 2020

Schools in California will not reopen this year. Teachers are scrambling to move their offline courses online to ensure that students continue learning for the remainder of the school year. Understandably, the focus is on online learning as that is a new and unfamiliar learning landscape for a lot of educators.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2021

Everything from laptops and mobile devices to interactive touchscreens and even virtual reality are becoming commonplace in schools districts, colleges, and universities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2020

The pandemic has struck the education system especially hard as schools had to swiftly adjust operations to fit within a remote learning environment. For schools that are addressing a shift to e-learning for the first time, it may feel overwhelming trying to successfully implement a learning model that answers your district’s needs.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2020

As students, teachers, and families prepare for the 2020-21 school year, social-emotional learning will play an important role in helping them navigate the emotional and logistical challenges created by the events of the last few months. To download the 2020 Back to School Guide, visit: [link].

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2020

If schools remain closed, they’ll need to prepare for more remote learning. On the other hand, there’s a chance schools might be able to open back up, in which case they’ll likely need to have students come in shifts in order to maintain social distancing. Related content: 10 blended learning resources for schools.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2020

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, schools across the country struggle to move their brick-and-mortar classrooms to remote online learning environments. director at Hayutin & Associates, during a recent edLeader Panel.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Scholastic, with YouGov, surveyed public school Pre-K–12 educators in winter 2020 to gather their thoughts on equity in education, literacy instruction, family engagement, professional development, and funding priorities. Only 12% say that schools are extremely or very prepared to do so in the 2020–21 academic year.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2021

The pandemic has taken a toll on students’ mental health as they adjusted to the sweeping changes in their schools and communities. The move by many schools to distance or hybrid learning contributed to mental health issues like isolation, anxiety and depression. Take time to foster relationships with students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

In Metro Nashville School District, where I teach kindergarten, 85 percent of our students are on free and reduced lunch, so when schools closed due to COVID-19 a few weeks later, our focus was on meeting the humanitarian needs of our families, many of whom were still recovering from a natural disaster.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

As we embark on a new year against the backdrop of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, we continue to live in an extraordinary age of mass school closures and distance learning. Despite this growth, however, the pandemic has not been smooth sailing for schools and online education providers. Edtech explosion.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Many publishers waived copyright fees for use of materials in distance learning, made teaching resources freely available and aggregated useful content. During the summer, this triage of educational practices and policies slowed down as teachers and students settled into the new normal of extended remote and blended learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

To take advantage of the near-ubiquity of cellular service, some school districts have recently distributed mobile hotspots to students. The only other thing I would say for school districts to think about is, it’s more expensive to do cellular. Public media leaders decided swiftly that a partnership with the school system made sense.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2020

” I immediately thought about all of the teachers who are preparing to start the school year online and wondering how to structure their online time with students. In a distance learning scenario, those interactions are gold! The first thing he said was “routines rule all.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Providing science and math content online can be relatively straightforward, but engaging students in true distance learning requires more than just transmittal of information. Related content: How collaboration enables meaningful distance learning. Math made meaningful.

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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.

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