eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

This includes new lab series for high school chemistry and biology, which are being offered at an introductory price for schools and districts through the end of the year, as well as new individual labs for high school physics, middle school physical science, and middle school life science.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. Of the more than 1,000 grants terminated, 417 were specifically related to STEM education research and valued at more than $322 million.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2017

From mobile devices to gaming and online learning, students are ready to take charge of their learning, often outpacing their schools in their use of these digital tools for learning. More than one-third of middle school students say they have already taken an online class in math, science and English.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2020

Whether the 2020-21 school year is starting in the classroom or remotely, Follett is ensuring elementary and middle school students won’t be missing out on one of their favorite back-to-school traditions: the book fair.

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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. Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) is a multi-cultural district serving more than 34,000 students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

“We have a lot of qualitative data from coaches, teachers, and administrative staff explaining how students who were indifferent to their studies have turned around because of our esports program,” says Alvaro Brito, STEAM Administrator, Department of Educational Technology & Innovation for Compton Unified School District.

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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.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

3M and Discovery Education announced 31 State Merit Winners in the 2022 3M Young Scientist Challenge. As the nation’s premier middle school science competition for 15 years, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Aspire is a flexible, self-paced digital solution that helps educators apply science-based strategies that accelerate literacy skills among students in grades 4-8 across disciplines and all levels of literacy competencies. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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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

MARCH 2, 2021

times more effective than typical interventions for both EL and non-EL middle school students. The study focused on 122 sixth-grade students enrolled in six supplemental reading classes at two district middle schools. In fact, the program was more than 2.5 Classes were randomly assigned to one of the two programs.

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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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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

Where technology now plays a role is in scaling the use of data. Educational technology tools are gathering immense amounts of student data. Everything is housed in the school Google and Microsoft OneDrive accounts,” said Brittney Reeves, assistant principal at Gulf Shores Middle School, in her Future of Education…

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 17, 2021

Allie Beldin’s love of educational technology began long before teachers made the necessary move to online learning. For Beldin, a sixth grade math teacher at Stallings Island Middle School in Georgia, educational technology has been a resource throughout her career for supporting struggling students and making classes more fun.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

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. That really motivated our focus toward middle school teachers and students,” Wong says. “We

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Our third graders take state standardized tests, and our scores used to be pretty good,” explained Connie Hibbitts, Instructional Coach for all four elementary-middle schools in the county and an educator with 34 years of experience. After just a few months in, students’ hard work started paying off.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

million students from all 50 states, Renaissance’s midyear How Kids Are Performing report provides targeted insights to help educators accelerate spring and summer learning. Students at rural schools also saw the greatest improvement in achievement results between the fall and winter reports. Based on the assessment data of 3.8

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2020

In June, she became the instructional technology coach for two middle schools in the district: Doran Middle School and Henry Lord Community School. Through the program, five middle schools in Fall River Public Schools will be outfitted with enough Chromebooks to enable at-home learning for every student.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. Most of the oldest students of this generation are now in middle school. To help educators do that, I often ask them: “Do we know what our students value?

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Middle schoolers, they warned us, are unable to work at their own pace because they lack academic fundamentals, intrinsic motivation and basic time management skills. This is especially true for sixth graders, they said, who are managing a challenging transition to middle school and lack independence.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The Taylor School District, in the Michigan town of the same name, prides itself on its vision of being the innovative destination district where ALL succeed. Nearly 5,800 students attend classes at one of the district’s eight elementary schools, two middle schools, and high school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

Middle school often gets a bad rap. Unfortunately, the challenges of early adolescence are often misunderstood, which too frequently results in negative experiences for educators, families and students. But what if we understood the neurological reasons behind the bizarre middle school behavior we often see?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Such standards can prepare students as they move through middle school and high school and be complemented and deepened by a high school data science course, that some states and colleges now accept as an alternative to algebra 2. In most districts in the U.S.,

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2021

CODiE Award finalists represent applications, products, and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services, and related technologies across the PreK–20 sector. Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center was honored as one of 152 finalists across the 42 education technology categories.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Or take Barbie Prince, a middle school teacher in Baltimore, who is used to walking around the room as she teaches and looking over students’ shoulders to monitor their progress. These are some of the things we learned when educators shared their experiences working and teaching from home—and snapped a few photos of their new setups.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Despite the many barriers to dual enrollment programs that still exist, several states and school districts are working harder to spread the word to get more students interested in trying them. In some districts, students learn about dual enrollment in middle school, so they are already prepared to dual-enroll once they reach high school.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

IKNOW will also provide a real-time student progress monitoring system, telling them, educators and families how long students spoke, how frequently they spoke, number of keywords used, where students may have struggled in the system and other data to help enhance understanding.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Aspire is a flexible, self-paced digital solution that helps educators apply science-based strategies that accelerate literacy skills among students in grades 4-8 across disciplines and all levels of literacy competencies. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. Students are the problem.”

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2021

The funds will help expand the district’s college readiness centers into its three middle schools. The district is also repurposing a middle school building into a career and technical education center, where students can work toward certifications during the day, and adults can take classes with local college instructors at night.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

“They actually have materials to support teachers engaging in online experiences, everything from what it looks like to teach physical education online to working with students with special needs,” says Richard Ferdig, a professor of educational technology at Kent State University.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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