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. Dr. Akbar also praised the rubrics and assessments in the courses of study. Strength of reading is so important.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service. Is your edtech efficacy study up to par? Digital Promise invites edtech developers to share their studies for review.

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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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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. Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: “The I miss my kids.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2019

When Kimberly Head-Trotter, a teacher at McKissack Middle School in Nashville, Tenn., realized how enthusiastic her social studies students were about the civil rights movement, she decided to help them explore the rich history of their own city through project-based learning. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Fri, 06/21/2019 - 14:43.

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MAY 13, 2020

“It’s one of the easiest things to do to really understand what that environment looks like, feels like and behaves like,” says Kerry Rice, a professor at Boise State University who has studied effective online learning. Middle school teachers often must focus on combating student distraction and loss of focus.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination. Middle school is awful. If worrying about belonging is powerful enough to be a learning roadblock for students, does that mean that a potential solution is compassion?

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MARCH 4, 2024

Which students get to attempt intellectually stimulating courses like calculus may rely in part on where they attend high school rather than just their aptitude for math, according to a new study. It was the first publication based on RAND’s American Mathematics Educator Study.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

If you ask middle school and high school students these days the most important skills they’re learning, they’re likely to name something they picked up on their own, outside of normal school hours. And these are not just super-precocious kids digging into self-directed study—what Evans calls “free agent learning.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

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. He seemed to think that if students would just study and be compliant then they would do well.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2024

These acknowledgments, granted to programs demonstrating exceptional quality and evidence-based positive impact on student success, come as education leaders double down on programs shown to increase academic achievement. Combined, the duo provides a comprehensive, evidence-based math solution from kindergarten through middle school.

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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. The situation in Italy was similar to other nations regarding teacher technology use. Continuity in Education.”

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

Now a soon-to-be released study from Vanderbilt University demonstrates the impact of rigorous, peer reviewed research into curricular tools, in this case showing that students who played edgames outperformed their peers on standardized tests. Minecraft —Teaches kids how to code through play. This is how knowledge progresses.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally. Previous studies have noted that schools serving well-off communities are more likely to offer computer science than less-resourced schools. The report found that disparities in participation are the lowest in K-8 classes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Assessing Drivers of Student Interest and Engagement Amazon Future Engineer , Amazon’s global philanthropic computer science education program, recently commissioned research from Gallup to better understand student interest and engagement in the computer science field. The study of U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2025

Dr. Evans observed how the physical posture of a 7th-grade study participant changed when she read a small print and a large print book. Large print books decreased stress about reading for most readers who participated in the study. Their impact can be immediate and visible. With small print, her posture was visibly stressed.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2019

My first experience as an educator was teaching middle-school mathematics and science in Baltimore. Educators must be able to distinguish between moments of “ productive persistence ” and moments where students are simply spinning their wheels. The tool relied on publically released data from Carnegie Learning.)

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

And among educators from 14 different schools studied by a Harvard researcher for the 2019 book “ Where Teachers Thrive ,” most teachers said they did not have enough time to accomplish the “essential” duties of their jobs.

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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. There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

Anthony Caccavo is a middle school curriculum coordinator and social studies teacher at St. Middle school technologist Benjamin Lloyd knows his students are already using VR to watch movies and game at home. His goal is to help them to see the academic and creative potential while at school.

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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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

A University of Missouri study found that students who feel their teachers care about them also report receiving better instruction. Researchers say that positive teacher-student relationships tend to start declining after first grade, with the lowest drop in middle school, before evening out in high school.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2021

Breakthrough SJC is an education nonprofit embedded in an independent school but serving about 300 students across our Orange County, Calif., The college students who signed up to be mentors—known as "learning pod leaders"—to middle school students at Breakthrough San Juan Capistrano this spring.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Research suggests that taking algebra courses in high school is one of several important indicators for students’ college readiness and success. Passing Algebra I is also a requirement for high school graduation. Or through studying the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The study on “frequent teacher referrers” was published in the journal Education Researcher this summer. Jing Liu, assistant professor in education policy at the University of Maryland College Park, says that he and his fellow researchers were surprised by their findings.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. Middle school students are navigating the most vulnerable and self-conscious developmental phase. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

When it comes to education technology, most educators would agree on two primary premises: Our needs are many, and we’re not short on tools to meet those needs. When it comes to education technology, most educators would agree on two primary premises: Our needs are many, and we’re not short on tools to meet those needs.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

The Australian researcher who led the study found that those who helped others were thanked in just one of 20 instances. That’s not the case at Leadership Public Schools, a network of urban charter high schools in California, where gratitude is woven into the schoolwide culture.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (Office of Edtech, for short) issued a Request for Proposal for a better way to help schools evaluate edtech tools before making a purchase and. “[We In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

In Oakland, CA, more than 60 students at James Madison Middle School gather to talk about money. In 2015, we launched the FutureSmart Digital program—a gamified, web-based financial education course, in partnership with education technology company EVERFI. The conversation is robust.

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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. It's just something that I've studied a lot.”

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