eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

With the release of the Nation’s Report Card and ongoing school staffing shortages, states and professional organizations will need to rethink the benefits of technology in supporting students in special education programs. D, SVP, Special Education – Behavior, Specialized Education Services, Inc.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

All teachers and students are currently experiencing challenges with accessibility, the promotion of emotional and physical wellness, and academic progress—issues that the special education community knows all too well. Can best practice be translated to this way of educating? And our teachers are under tremendous pressure.

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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. The content is crafted by teachers certified in Literacy, ESL, General Education, and Special Education and is presented by animated Voki characters.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Before starting Upbeat, Henry played a key role in the implementation of blended learning and evaluation of education technology products for Citizen Schools. Prior to Citizen Schools, Henry supported education technology companies in their sales and marketing strategies at Whiteboard Advisors.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

“These results have helped students and I to be aware that we all learn differently and to develop pathways for the greatest success.” "[We] break down data by ELLs versus non-ELLs, special education students versus non-SPED students, and students receiving particular interventions.".

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. The same is true for students with special needs. Why don’t you try this now.” Maybe they get fewer problems or customized tasks to meet their reading level.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. Here’s how one special education teacher, Stephanie Landrum, who teaches at Horizon K-8 Charter School in Boulder, Co.,

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

Mental health As students returned to the classroom, a larger share of students needed social-emotional learning and mental health attention, says Shelley Jackson, a seventh grade special education teacher for KIPP All Middle School in the Bronx. Even the students who would normally perform well were struggling.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments. Digital Promise recently spoke with educators from Lone Star Middle School in Nampa, Idaho, an HP Spotlight School. Is there anything I can help you with?’

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

Was this perception shared by teachers at one of the biggest education technology conferences in the world? I am a special education teacher, so everything feels like personalized learning. Special Education teacher at Auburn School District in Seattle, Washington. Moving from an assessment. “I

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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. This dedication to meeting the needs of his students has served the school well.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology as a #GoOpen ambassador for his use of open educational resources. He then went on to study school psychology and special education in graduate school. His mother taught in schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Role : High school special education teacher Location : Chicago, Illinois Salary : $45,000 Years teaching : 6 Additional jobs : Bartender, nanny Reaghan Murphy guides students through a math problem. Spencer makes $45,000 as a special education teacher at an elementary school. Reaghan Murphy. Nicole Gray.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Becoming an Outsider It would be hard to identify a single cause of Bradley’s school avoidance, according to his mother, Deirdre. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade. Bradley would miss school here and there, but the growing tally of absences worried his mom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the CRPE analysis, which looked at plans from more than 100 districts and charter school groups, less than half were offering summer programs for elementary and middle school students, while 58 percent were offering a program for high schoolers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. After a split second, she enthusiastically replied, “Mesopotamia!”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

million goes to San Francisco Unified School District and Oakland Unified School District to fund principals’ innovative ideas, hiring computer science and math teachers, developing college and career guidance and buying assistive technology for special education. Salesforce’s donation this year of $8.5

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to. She was a special education teacher. I think of my public education in segments. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there. When did you realize you wanted to become a teacher yourself?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Anthony Principe worked as a special education teacher in Boston, Mass. for more than 30 years, and throughout that period he watched the educators in his city experiment with different instructional philosophies. For Principe, this type of response indicates a problematic lack of planning between schools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Marisa Kaplan: I spent 11 years in classrooms in New York City as a special-education teacher, an ELA teacher and an instructional coach. One of my early teaching jobs was as a special-education teacher in a first-grade inclusion class, and some of our students had motor impairments, used wheelchairs and walkers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Funding in both districts will go toward hiring math and computer science middle school staff, buying assistive technology for special education students and supporting college and career programs. Salesforce has increased its donation each year since piloting the donation program to school districts in 2013.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2019

in Elementary Education and Special Education, she was a full-time middle school teacher who tutored on the side before deciding to open TREAD Educational Services. A Bit of the Backstory: Forbes: Tutoring For The Modern Age. Clark Winning Pitch on Apple's Planet of the Apps. With a B.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

Our Program Expands to Serve More Students Three years into our program, we now have 18 trained high school mentors, two senior interns leading the program and about 65 impacted students, 50 of which are meeting mentors on a weekly basis. As our program has expanded, the process for identifying mentees has become more robust.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Most importantly, the team had met its initial goal to provide all students with access to the technology without placing more demands on their teachers. What would tech lab look like when the dedicated set of student helpers moved on to the middle school? We had found our groove, but we had concerns about the upcoming year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

Istation , Collins is intent on sparking that same love of learning in new generations of students, while creating opportunities for them to succeed in school and, by extension, life. But in education, technology threatens no one. Specifically, he wanted to play a part in education reform.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8 percent graduation rate—an impressive feat given that 70 percent of students are on free-and-reduced lunch and anywhere from 12 to 15 percent are in special education. Ryan Connole, dean of students at Providence’s DelSesto Middle School, offered a contrary perspective.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Based on the interviews she’s conducted with educators in her research, she thinks many proponents really believe data walls are a positive thing that motivate kids. In particular, she has studied their use at the middle school level. “We

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

I’ve been teaching at Moores Mill Intermediate School in New Market, Ala., Throughout my career, I have taught special education in self-contained classrooms and collaborative team teaching environments, and this year, I became a part-time school counselor, though I’m still in the classroom for a portion of the day.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

Special Education teacher Sean Arnold is serious about playful learning. Amanda Lotz knows all too well how difficult it can be to engage middle school students in life sciences, especially those with emotional disorders, behavioral issues, or learning disabilities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Written by Beth , a middle school math teacher & interventionist from Iowa. Beth’s school has high populations of special education and ELL students. EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented Woot Math? Achieve3000.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

I’m a ninth grade English teacher at Collier and all of my students are classified with a disability and have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) that qualifies them for special education services. I expected to see her counselor, who had called the meeting a few days prior, her teachers and maybe an administrator.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

. –Michele Dick, Education Specialist, Wacom With the release of the Nation’s Report Card and ongoing school staffing shortages, states and professional organizations will need to rethink the benefits of technology in supporting students in special education programs. –Diane Myers, Ph.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? Count Connie Scalzetti, a middle-school teacher at CICS West Belden in Chicago, among the believers. In the middle school, students leverage the. Equity isn’t everyone getting the same thing.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

Easy access to high-quality content: The WeTeachNYC Library When Angela Bedford-Jack moved from her position as a librarian in a NYC middle school to work at the central offices, she brought her passion for granting access to knowledge and resources to developing the WeTeachNYC Library.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Before her administrative roles, Mathison was a middle school science teacher, leading grade-level teams and the science department. At these team meetings, there will be not only the classroom teachers but also interventionists, special education teachers and sometimes related arts teachers.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

“We personalize learning all the time, we just don’t call it that,” says special education teacher Gina Tesoriero who has been teaching middle schoolers for over a decade. They were immediately taken with the museum’s learning model and wanted to incorporate elements of it into their classrooms at Simon Baruch Middle School 104.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I was working as a special education teacher in Cobb County School District at the time. The clear discrimination towards the special education population really bothered me, mostly because I could see that it was systemic and possibly out of my reach to fix. This is especially true for at-risk students.

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