Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

And 28 elementary schools in the state did not have a single proficient student. In the intervening years, the state passed a number of changes — including the Alabama Numeracy Act — in an effort to boost K-5 elementary math performance. Professional learning support for teachers is vital, Knighten says.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. Among the hurdles is helping families — and educators themselves — understand one of the flagship offerings of the program: transitional kindergarten.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from students extolling the influence children’s television shows had on their journeys to donning the cap and gown — one fresh grad writes that she plans to become an elementary school teacher thanks to PBS.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Armed with just two suitcases and far away from her Mexican home, Lopez Elizondo came to Crain Elementary School in Victoria, Texas, to work in the districts bilingual program. While more than 300 school districts in the state report a paucity of bilingual teachers, the situation in Victoria is even more acute.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2025

But in Okanogan County, where 28 percent of children are living at or below the federal poverty level and 11 percent of elementary school children are unhoused, the need for affordable child care is dire. This is as true in Okanogan County, Washington, as it is anywhere nationwide. Kennedy Jr.s

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2017

Just as the atmosphere in the classroom changes to suit the students’ age and learning requirements, the technology in the classroom also has to accommodate the learning requirements of that age group. Identifying the Components of a Great Technology System. Next page: 4 more components of a great technology system).

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2025

Before inspecting a program, Leibson found it nearly impossible to discern whether the school seemed to her like a money-grab that didn’t care much about the kids. It helped her to chat with teachers and other parents, who warned her of pest problems and other issues.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. But certainly, it seems like teachers arent being set up for success. That has consequences.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Newark Public Schools (NPS) has approved expanding implementation of Lexia Learning’s Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) and Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® (PowerUp) throughout its K-5 and K-8 schools. In all, the strong ESSA rated literacy solutions will now be serving almost 20,000 students in 41 schools. About Lexia Learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2024

. – School Specialty , a leading provider of learning environments and supplies to the pre-K–12 education market, today announced the 2024 winners of its annual Crystal Apple Awards, which celebrate teachers who embody inspiration, leadership, and passion in teaching. and Canada.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Waxhaw, North Carolina – North Carolina based QoreInsights, an innovative education technology company, is excited to announce the launch of its AI-Enabled Personalized Professional Learning Grant for Rural Districts. Most importantly, it adapts in real-time to address ever-changing teacher and student needs.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2024

The Classroom Education Plan© (CEP) supports teachers and coaches helping them to improve their core instructional practice. We developed CEP to create equity for both teacher and student learning. Schools will be able to award teachers up to 36 job-embedded continuing education credits!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2022

ALBANY – The Dougherty County School System is launching a new technology initiative for its students, teachers, and staff as part of a collaboration with Apple and educational non-profit Ed Farm. The initiative will allow DCSS to expand and enhance its educational technology ecosystem districtwide.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

What is some advice you might give to teachers out there then from what they can learn from your experience playing poker? My advice to teachers would be to actually, literally teach their kids how to play poker. But at the poker table, you find yourself making these mistakes anyway because it's such an emotional environment.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2022

And because her parents—both teachers—couldn’t afford to help out much with her expenses, she held onto her job at Polly’s, commuting two hours home on weekends to pick up shifts. As I tried to get a house of my own, a car, I found that, as a teacher, there was really no choice.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Luckily, our literacy program pilot went well, and we slowly expanded our use of our literacy program across the elementary schools in our district with a before-school program. We had growth data in every elementary school like we’ve never seen before. A reading program that everyone loves.

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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. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. Her teacher training begins in June.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2024

Heidi Rose, an elementary school teacher in Denver, Colorado, knows that all too well. I was having a hard time functioning and just continually thinking about how far past the point of no return we are,” she says, sitting on a too-small stool at a shared table in her first grade classroom at Lincoln Elementary School.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

When he was in high school, Zachary Farley latched onto the idea of becoming a teacher. This path seemed like the best way to blend his love of linguistics with his interest in teaching — that is, until he took a job as a paraprofessional at an elementary school in his hometown of Corona, California.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2024

For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school. In 10th grade, for some extra cash, Campbell signed up to tutor elementary school students through a literacy program in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2022

In Secretary Cardona’s vision to elevate the teaching profession, he highlights three priorities: improving teacher pipeline, supporting teacher growth and investing in teacher retention. What this makes abundantly clear is that the future of education depends directly on our commitment to the success of new teachers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Although the use of adaptive learning tools is growing among K-8 schools, some barriers still remain. 60 percent of those who are using these solutions said training teachers to use the systems is their top challenge. K-8 leaders who are not using these solutions cited budget issues as the top reason why. About the Presenters.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

After making a major shift to remote learning at the beginning of the pandemic, some teachers had to adjust to another unfamiliar environment when their school buildings reopened: teaching students online and in-person at the same time. Whatever the case, teaching this way takes a major mind shift and a lot of work, teachers say.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. They soon realized that their strategy for letting teachers put together their own math instruction was part of the problem.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

A few years ago, Chrissy Romano-Arribito began to experience something that may sound familiar to a lot of teachers: burnout. Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2020

Not even a global pandemic can dampen her enthusiasm when talking about her job as Director of Education Technology in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District (CA), where she serves 22,500 students at twenty-two elementary schools, two intermediate schools, four high schools, one alternative education center, and one adult education center.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Caleb Brown : My third grade teacher, Ms. Wright would come to mind as an example of how to do education right. But I did enjoy teaching.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2024

For the last year, EdSurge has been showcasing students enrolled in teacher preparation programs to understand who is going into teaching today — and why. In each profile, we hand the mic over to an aspiring educator, letting them explain, in their own words, what drew them into this career path and why they’ve stuck with it.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

There’s a lot of talk these days about the teacher pipeline. So we began to wonder: Who are the students in teacher preparation programs today, undeterred by the status of the profession, full of resolve and hope and momentum? In a new series called Future Teachers, we try to answer that question. It was in elementary school.

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Edsurge

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. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Colder The study, “ Do Teachers Perceive Absent Students Differently? Why does that matter? Under Gottfried’s view, this is misguided.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Too often, teachers are rapidly elevated from the classroom to school leadership positions, whether to fill an unexpected vacancy, act as an interim administrator or to take on a permanent leadership role. It is essential to recognize that the premature placement of teachers into leadership roles comes at a cost.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Fast ForWord helped Buchanan County elementary school students improve to an 83% pass rate on the Standards of Learning (SOL) test, the yearly state assessment taken by all students in Virginia Public Schools. Teachers can see a big difference in students’ reading abilities,” adds Hibbitts. “That’s major.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

When students returned to the classroom after COVID-19 lockdowns, teachers found themselves in a triple role: instructor, mental health proctor and public health enforcer. There have been plenty of adjustments to the classroom due to continued health precautions, and that has meant differences in what school supplies are needed.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2024

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital solutions learning wherever it takes place. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 million educators and 45 million students worldwide, and its resources are accessed in over 100 countries and territories. Discovery, Inc.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. But TeachFX, she adds, is focused not on her students’ achievements, but instead on her performance as a teacher. Generative AI has stormed into education.

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