eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

BOSTON Charlotte Brett, the librarian at Antrim Elementary School in New Hampshire is the winner of the grand prize of a $4,000 gift certificate in the Lexia Library Wish program. Gift certificates of $40 have been awarded to 74 more educators. 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

APRIL 7, 2023

Celebrating its 13 th year, the US-based EdTech Awards program is the world’s largest recognition program for education technology, recognizing the strongest EdTech solutions. EdTech Digest Editor Rivero continued: “These innovators, leaders, and trendsetters of education technology, are the way forward.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

The message reads: “TenMarks will no longer be available after the 2018-2019 school year. Licenses for TenMarks Math and Writing will be honored through June 20, 2019.” TenMarks’ co-founders Andrew Joseph and Rohit Agarwal, joined Amazon Education after the transaction but left , respectively, in 2016 and 2017.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2021

The Alabama State Department of Education adopted use of LETRS as part of the Alabama Literacy Act, which in addition to providing foundational literacy support, also provides intensive support for the state’s lowest performing elementary schools. showed growth in knowledge. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Caitlin Smith, the director of technology, has been in the K-12 educational technology space for 10 years.

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. But if you’re teaching creative writing in a K–12 classroom or a community college, at the end of the day you’re most likely required to stamp a letter grade—or at least a percentage score—on your students’ work.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. The Source of Teachers’ Concerns Years ago, I learned about artificial intelligence (AI) assistance in student writing in an online forum for English teachers.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

One of those educators who used the program is Lynmara Coln, the director of Student Opportunity and Multilingual Services at Prince William County Schools in Virginia. After a pilot, the district has allowed individual middle and elementary schools to purchase Lexia English during the 2024-2025 school year.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As a parent, Laura knows the value of a teacher who truly cares about each individual student and that is exactly how she chooses to impact students’ lives and educational journeys—by making those connections, whether students are 38 miles or 1,038 miles away. Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson.

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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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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. The BHS Help Desk curriculum strives to give students real-world learning opportunities,” Scheffer writes. by Jennifer Brown.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

That’s the premise of the Voices of Change Writing Fellowship, which EdSurge kicked off last year. We brought together a group of diverse educator writers from across the country—representing a wide range of identities, experiences, backgrounds and perspectives—to share their experiences navigating the school year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

I did get to a point where I saw that the kids were coming in and their love of reading and writing was just slowly going out the door,” she says. Experts like Bowdoin College education chair Doris Santoro, author of the book “ Demoralized ,” define the concept in moral terms. It was making it hard for her to do good work.

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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. No, Edtech Minimalism doesn’t necessitate a complete abandonment of digital technology. That may seem counterintuitive.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to. She was a special education teacher. It was very draining.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As a preschool and elementary school librarian, I’ll tell you that there’s nothing more foundational for literacy than time spent snuggled up with a trusted adult, soaking in a story, sharing the words, laughing (or crying) and learning to love the way the words unfold in a well-told tale. Long Way Down” by Jason Reynolds.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

I have many great memories from elementary school, but my favorite memories revolve around field trips. While traditional field trips continue to offer opportunities to create memorable learning environments for students of all ages, a new wave of technologies have created new, virtual field trip (VFT) experiences.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Some of his writing stretched my thinking in new directions. I completely agree that computational thinking is critical to a well-rounded computer science education. A well-rounded computer science education requires a balance of all three skills: coding, computational thinking and computer science.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. What might it mean for their writing to explore how current competitors are now on equal footing with their former colonizers?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

25 on the personal website of Roger Billings, the founder and chairman of Acellus, the company’s courseware development team writes that “about a dozen Acellus lessons have been tagged as racist or as having sexist content. 19, 176 public schools in the state and 12 public charter schools have Acellus licenses.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

I talk about Mr. Jasper a lot when I write or speak to teachers about nurturing kids in their classrooms. When Mr. Jasper was an elementary school teacher he did a fine job of making connections and getting to know kids as people. If they don’t know 10 things about you, they won’t learn from you.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2016

And I imagine that topic will endure as our boys progress into elementary school and beyond. Examples might include giving better feedback at work, improving my skills in a second language, or learning how to write SQL queries. At the end of the week, I’ll write a brief reflection on how it went and what I learned.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

While videoconferencing tools are readily available, many schools overlook — or are not aware of — the benefits this technology can bring. . In a recent study conducted by InFocus , AVTechnology and Tech & Learning, only 19 percent of the 201 education technology users surveyed use videoconferencing in their schools. . “K–12

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Blended learning “can provide educators and students with a wealth of actionable insights on student learning, needs and preferences, empowering them to deliver the right learning resources at the right time for the right students,” according to the Consortium for School Networking’s Tech Enablers 2019 report.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

Kujawa says they’re also serving others outside their student body; anyone ages 18 and under in the community is eligible for the free meals at Leyden, including the elementary school students in the area. “If Other times the kids will show up and write messages to the staff. In her kitchen, cooks arrive around 7 a.m.,

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education. When making the switch to a modern learning environment, it can be easy for K–12 schools to get distracted by the impressive array of new education technology and lose sight of the reason to adopt these tools in the first place: to improve student outcomes.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Math (everything from elementary school arithmetic to calculus and statistics). English (writing support, literature analysis coaching, vocabulary, and more). Where was this when I was in high school?). Science (Even physics! Social Studies.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. Some have tried journaling but struggle to express themselves in writing. During one of the sessions, a seasoned teacher's candid remarks struck a chord.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2017

Ellen Goodman has been a teaching technology for over 20 years in the Brooklyn. With more than 177 projects funded through the website, she is known as the DonorsChoose guru among New York City’s education technology community. This is a process. Stay away from the buzzwords.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. That’s a smart move considering a recent USA Today/Ipsos poll found that 20 percent of teachers are “unlikely to go back to school if their classrooms reopen in the fall.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

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. CGU has a teacher residency program that let him stay in the elementary school he was already in.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Why Early Childhood Teachers Require a Unique Approach to Tech Coaching By Debbie Tannenbaum I have found that there are many ways to empower even the youngest students to get creative with digital tools, writes Debbie Tannenbaum, a school-based technology coach, in an essay.

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