eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The seven teams – Carnegie Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Eedi, Rising Academies, the University of Colorado Boulder, Khan Academy, and the University of Florida – are committed to harnessing the potential of AI and machine learning to develop innovative, affordable interventions to enhance middle school math education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2023

The integration of AI tools in English language arts (ELA) instruction has emerged as a potentially transformative pedagogical approach that could redefine the traditional landscape of education. EdSurge: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, you piloted a multifaceted AI program to support the teaching of argumentative writing.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Ready to Go' In January, Locklear contacted the director of the local Boys and Girls Club about her idea: What if they teamed up to help their middle school girls learn to code? The goal is to make it scalable to other middle schools adjacent to the university,” Mary Beth says. We had to take this on.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

BOSTON In 2024, more than 2,600 districts, schools, and state departments purchased or renewed licenses to Lexia Aspire Professional Learning or the Lexia LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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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

MAY 2, 2018

When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. School often left me feeling inadequate. A language is something to absorb, not to memorize. I struggled to sit still, focus, engage and memorize.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA– Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today that elementary students from Buchanan County, Virginia School District achieved unprecedented reading gains using Carnegie Learning’s Fast ForWord ® reading and language program.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. Knowing this, we opted to pilot the Lexia Core5 Reading adaptive blended learning literacy program a few years ago.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

times more effective than typical interventions for both EL and non-EL middle school students. Developed to address the decades-long gap in reading proficiency across the nation, Lexia PowerUp Literacy is designed to enhance core English language arts instruction for struggling readers in grades 6-12.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, all middle and high school students within the district will have access to Reading Plus for the following three years. The significant expansion follows a successful pilot program and small implementation at six of the district’s middle schools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Students built the app using R, an open source programming language. Wong says her team realized through those conversations that high schools and elementary schools had plenty of data-literacy resources to draw from. It was middle school that experienced a gap.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

IKNOW will combine the VR aspects of VOISS with AI features such as large language models to enhance the systems capabilities and allow more natural interactions than listening to prerecorded narratives and responding by pushing buttons.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

Erin Haley, middle school teacher at The Bayshore School in Daly City, Calif.: “YES I’ve had fully educated parents tell me that they appreciate what I do, coupled with those now infamous words, ‘I don’t know how or why you teach.’” Noppinger, eighth grade math teacher at Dumbarton Middle School in Towson, Md.: “I

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

At SchoolStatus, we firmly believe that educators’ voices must be central in shaping education technology. Our Customer Advisory Board enables us to directly collaborate with the people who best understand the needs of schools and districts across the U.S. Dr. Shepherd was the Asst.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The IDA Standards emphasize the importance of equipping teachers with an in-depth understanding of language structure, particularly the science of reading. About Cambium Learning Group Cambium Learning Group is the education essentials company, providing award-winning education technology and services for K-12 educators and students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2025

Yet, in the art room, where images are the universal language, his talent shines, allowing his classmates to see his strengths, not just his struggles. I believe in the power of the artsits ability to transcend language barriers and how it helps all students, especially multilingual learners, thrive in school. was jarring.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

Kim Booth, sixth grade teacher at Coleman Middle School in Duluth, Ga.: “I Claire Peterson, middle school teacher at Pat Neff Middle School in San Antonio, Texas: “This isn't the same. Sheri Clyde, first grade teacher at Mary Finn School in Southborough, Mass.: “How And, give the teacher some grace.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

As educators seek innovative methods to engage students and enhance the learning experience, artificial intelligence (AI) is proving to be an invaluable asset. How Students Use AI to Design Solutions for Their Community How Using AI Optimizes Instruction and Learning in Secondary Writing Can AI Help Teachers With Grading?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. All middle schools in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) have officially begun to incorporate digital citizenship education into the curriculum.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2016

Independent academic research of New York City middle school students shows LightSail’s adaptive literacy platform helps sustain, grow reading performance in summer months. They evaluated the technology’s impact on student learning, impact on reader identity, and perceptions of the technology. percent minority, with 88.8

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke to Hadzovic about her experiences using AI in her instructional practices in middle school English classes. Aida Hadzovic English Language Arts Teacher, Brooklyn School District Hadzovic: At first, to be honest, I was hesitant. Like many teachers, I wasn’t sure about using AI in my teaching.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts. Figure 1: Teacher v. Related Articles Teaching Partner, Grading Assistant or Substitute Teacher?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is But first she has them examine the role formal and informal language plays in their own writing. “I Where was your conventional language? Is it quality writing?

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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

JUNE 22, 2016

Educational technology company Oddcast launched a new version of its Voki website for teachers along with a free iOS application called Voki for Education. Voki educational characters have been shown to enhance classroom teaching and maintain a spirit of fun and engagement among students at all levels.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2019

And when he’s not spending time with some of his favorites—StarCraft and Hearthstone—he’s teaching middle school students how to build their own. It’s almost like a Language Arts activity in a lot of ways,” Isaacs says. In fact, that’s how his own classes at William Annin Middle School first started.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2024

The roots of the nonprofit were seeded when Lim was growing up in a London suburb, where her Korean immigrant mother worked hard to overcome the language barrier to ask teachers what she could do to support her daughter’s education. At the elementary level, it was 19 percent.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Sometimes elementary and middle school teachers come across as apologetic about how “little” they are doing in relation to personalized learning. However, none of this would be successful without a the strong foundation students receive before they enter high school. But they’re doing more than they think.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Another Language A reader from Utah : “For me the breakthrough was finding out math is just another language with its own grammar and syntax. It is a language that is very eloquent at describing what we see in the natural world, and like all languages conveys meaning and understanding. The issue is algebra skills.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Suddenly, lessons on the physics of energy were tied to teaching kids how to be theme park engineers, and language arts and math lessons were anchored in running and marketing a profitable startup. For others, he says, “We have to bring that into the school, into the family’s life, so they can see that their child can absolutely compete.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

Much has changed since we introduced the first generation of our Scratch programming language and online community, back in 2007. Graphical programming languages were generally seen as toys or gimmicks, not appropriate for educational applications. And the library of extensions with continue to grow over time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

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. Additionally, many of the affected students were from immigrant families where language barriers were already problematic.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are.

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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

MAY 22, 2024

After starting with MATHia , an adaptive AI tutor that personalizes instruction for middle and high school students, Carnegie Learning branched out last year into AI-based tools for literacy, languages, tutoring and even professional learning for teachers and leaders. Their ethos is relentless questioning and exploring.

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