eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

. “Implementing TutorMe gives our students access to a vetted education professional tutor anytime they need help, in any subject, at their fingertips,” said Neal Kellogg, director of educational technology services. It is the largest traditional school district in Oklahoma and employs over 5,000 people.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. with teachers using its materials on a monthly basis in 20 percent of elementary schools. Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2021

16, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that all schools throughout Alabama can now boost literacy instruction via LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning. BOSTON (Aug. showed growth in knowledge. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Administrators can see a full picture of academic progress across a district, school, grade and class, down to the individual student. Developed to address the decades-long gap in reading proficiency across the nation, PowerUp is designed to enhance core English language arts instruction for struggling readers in grades six and above.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. I understand that you had to learn a couple different languages as part of your schooling.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. I am excited to share my knowledge of incorporating technology into the classroom and hope that it provides you with the support and inspiration you need. Technology and Young Children.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

This gamified approach to supporting student well-being, called #WinAtSocial, empowers students to navigate their social world positively — including social media and technology — to fuel their health, happiness, and future success.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. Go digital with eBooks and audiobooks.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 11, 2019

For English language learners, labels that include a picture of an object next to the appropriate words in both English and the students’ native language can support language acquisition. Teachers can also find tips online, such as CDW•G K–12 Education Strategist David Andrade’s blog, “ Educational Technology Guy.”.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

It’s a sign of the mixed but highly charged mood among many educators — who see both promise and potential threat in generative AI tech. 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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2015

“Blended learning definitely has been an important factor in the changes we’ve seen in our students, our teachers, and in our schools,” says David Rose, deputy chief in the district’s Dept. of Educational Technology and Library Programs.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

I’m very excited to see education technology playing a larger role in the tech community,” says Markosian, CEO of Epic! “As elementary schools are using Epic!, We have an ever-growing library of Spanish and Chinese books and will be adding more languages in the future. Some 70 percent of U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Stephen Wolfram’s blog post about the need to teach computational thinking in schools. While I don’t agree that the Wolfram Language is superior to every other modern programming language, from C and Java to Python and Scratch, I think he makes some very compelling points. (We published an excerpt of Wolfram’s post here.).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Students built the app using R, an open source programming language. The agency connected participants with K-12 education experts before coding ever began. Wong says her team realized through those conversations that high schools and elementary schools had plenty of data-literacy resources to draw from.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Math (everything from elementary school arithmetic to calculus and statistics). Where was this when I was in high school?). Online tutoring Our local public library has a free online tutoring service that not only offers tutoring in every subject a student might ever need. Science (Even physics!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. Kindergarten teacher Kelsea Heesacker comes in to chat with the school counselor and to grab a winter coat for a little girl who came to school without one. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

In this episode of the EdSurge On Air podcast, we hear from four educators who share how technology tools engage their students and expanded their classrooms, whether that’s connecting with students around the world or learning a new language through technology and how that can spark community. Here’s part one and two.)

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

Experts argue that relationships are the key to pulling students back into the classroom, a crucial feat if they are going to limit the long-term consequences of school closures during the pandemic. But how does missing so much school influence those relationships?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Students who speak a language other than English at home accounted for a greater share of Los Angeles' enrollment dip than students who speak only English, as noted by the Public Policy Institute of California, most likely driven by lower birth rates among Latinas.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Educators around the country this week are celebrating the Hour of Code, an international effort to bring awareness to computer science. Johnston Elementary school (P.S. Throughout her school this week there are balloons and colorful signs on the walls. But at Emma L. I try to connect it to their real life.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

In my role as an instructional science coach for the Redwood City School District, I lead the district’s STEAM program at John Gill Elementary School, a Title 1 school located in the heart of Silicon Valley. It’s less important that they master all the different uses of the computer programming language.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. 2022 will be the year of decision making for K-12 educators. . Schools had a crash course in greater instructional technology usage during the pandemic.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

As a Black student in a predominantly white school, he says he excelled in his studies in elementary school. But after doing poorly on a math placement exam in middle school, he was placed in a math class for students with learning disabilities. Applications , which will be open at 8 A.M. today, are due on Nov.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. Large language models can analyze classroom discussions at scale. Large language models can analyze classroom discussions at scale. These observations generated by AI can take quick effect.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Flashlight reading at Golden Grove Elementary School. Linda EdgecombGolden Grove Elementary School students using Reading Plus.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2022

Since then, our game-based learning platform has been used to teach over 20 million students real-typed Python, JavaScript and C++ coding languages through the power of play. Learning the language of code is not unlike learning any other language. Scaffolded curriculum provides a clear path for young learners.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

Wondwossen is a former elementary school ESL teacher, and when she was in the classroom, she used to tell her students they were “language superheroes.” “The The special power of my students was that they could speak more than one language,” she said. “As

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. That's why I incorporate American Sign Language.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

However, although MSD offers a hopeful counterpoint to segregated schools nationwide , there is still room for improvement. While growth is happening across the district, certain groups of students, including English Language Learners and low-income students, are experiencing less success than others.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

When Bill offered an article on a new class he started that helps English Language Learners, I was excited. He’s included contact information so you can reach him with questions: Computer Literacy for English Language Learners. My graduate studies focused on integrating technology across the curriculum.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2021

The award celebrates schools and districts for their excellence using the science of reading and LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) , a professional learning solution that provides K-5 educators with the knowledge to be literacy and language experts. About Cambium Learning Group.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Students also experience the same frustrations, whether they’re conducting research in a science classroom or looking for the perfect picture for the book trailer they are making in English language arts. A good place to start is by modeling good search behavior.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Partnership offers automated assessment of students’ oral reading fluency — for testing at school or at home . Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions provider for K-12 education, announced it is partnering with Analytic Measures Inc.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

When I first heard about carving out this time, I was excited to try it with my students because I thought it would be a fresh way to integrate research and questioning into my Language Arts curriculum. In a nearby elementary school, a student collected 2,500 books after learning about illiteracy statistics in the world.

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