eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2022

Instructional audio benefits all students—students with learning loss, students in the back of classrooms, non-native English speakers, and others. Small Elementary School in South Portland, Maine. Here’s how I’m using instructional audio as a second-grade teacher at Dora L. Come on down!”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2021

More than 27,000 students attend 34 schools in the district including traditional high schools, alternative high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, and 16 preschools, including a federally funded Head Start program. The following has been edited for clarity.).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Michael Kimberlin, third- grade teacher, Pease Elementary School, Austin, Texas. Most of our students are economically disadvantaged, and many arrive at school below grade level. Our school has made substantial growth over the last year with full RTI implementation in classrooms and an RTI center using i-Ready as our guide.”.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We did receive some pushback from our elementary schools related to one app we phased out, but we were able to address that by showing them just how much more they’d be able to do in the new platform. Once we piloted our communications platform and showed them firsthand, the elementary teachers realized it was true.

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eSchool News

JULY 29, 2020

Klassroom, the Paris-based company that reinvents parent-teacher communication in pre-kindergarten and all elementary school grades, just raised a $3 million seed round led by Bpifrance and several angel investors including Jerome Lecat, CEO at Scality, and Andy Myers, President at Waterford.org and former executive at Renaissance Learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

public school system , teachers are facing the twofold challenge of communicating not only with these students, but with their families as well. After all, non-English-speaking families have the same desires as native English speakers to know how their child is doing academically, emotionally, and socially.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

(NYSE: RST) to extend its world language program to military families and adult learners, in addition to supplementing traditional language learning instruction to its middle and high school students and English-language learners. The most common languages studied include Spanish, French, Latin and English.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced a three-year agreement with Austin Independent School District to bring its adaptive software to approximately 70,000 students. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2016

About 73 percent of our nearly 9,000 students qualify for free or reduced-price lunches, and 36 percent are bilingual or speak English as a second language. We have a fiber network connecting our 13 schools. 1) High-speed internet access at home as well as school.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

.” The two schools in the study are an elementary school and middle school in Schiller Park, Illinois, which reflect similar demographics to many schools across the country.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Each won $5,000 grants as well as the schoolwide semester’s subscription to Rosetta Stone English. I have given my students over 10,000 books.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Get reliable data to meet reading goals Early elementary school years are crucial for building foundational skills that shape a child’s education. Available in 57 languages, IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2017

public school system , teachers are facing the twofold challenge of communicating not only with these students, but with their families as well. After all, non-English-speaking families have the same desires as native English speakers to know how their child is doing academically, emotionally, and socially.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

I embarrassed myself early enough into the game to recognize I needed to do what I always did in elementary school gym class: fade into the background until no one noticed I was sitting on the bench. I laced up my shoes, already daydreaming about bragging to my eighth graders the next day.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2024

Instead of finding one novel for a whole class to read, I’m often helping English teachers find engaging books for 26 different students–and that’s just one class. The role of the school librarian and library media specialist is a dynamic one, constantly evolving to meet the needs of teachers and students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Black/African American students, Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx students, and Native American/Alaskan students are less likely to attend a high school that offers foundational computer science.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With the belief that STEM skills are best acquired starting at a young age, we start building foundational skills early in elementary school. Best practices for a running a successful STEM school Running a STEM-focused school can have its challenges. Here are some ways to set your STEM-focused school up for success.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Serving diverse demographics, ensuring maximum investment impact Our district—Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky—encompasses 70 schools and programs that serve more than 41,000 students from backgrounds representing 95 home languages.

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eSchool News

JULY 9, 2019

Cordata Elementary School is a 400-student public school serving grades PreK-5 in the Bellingham School District in Washington. The school has the highest percentage of English Language Learners in the district at 33 percent; and 68 percent of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-priced lunch.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Unfortunately, our education system often struggles to provide adequate support for these students if they don’t know English. However, I am hopeful that this year we will witness a renewed commitment towards providing resources, policies, and initiatives that cater to English Language Learners and promote multilingualism in schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Addressing Systemic Challenges and Supporting Educator Sustainability Last but not least, educators were not only adamant about the systemic challenges of K-12 education, but also expressed ways schools and districts can work to better support the retention of educators in our schools.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

students speak a language other than English at home, and approximately 16 percent of children live in poverty. According to recent data, over 20 percent of U.S. These statistics underscore the diverse backgrounds and challenges families in our communities face.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

All of the Riverside Insights products are designed to maximize accessibility for all learners, including assessments with the options of large print, audio directions and braille, as well as creating versions to accommodate English learners. in addition to a number of submissions from around the world.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Northwood Elementary School, Napa, Calif. I teach a class for ELL students, some of whom came to the school knowing very little English. Elizabeth Leone, EL teacher, Webster Elementary School, Manchester, New Hampshire. “In Barb Corna, lead academic specialist for the Accelerate Math program.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2021

“This pathway was designed to enable students to graduate High School with the computer programming skills necessary to enter the workforce, or continue their education at the university level,” said Mike Lynch, Director of Education, Blackbird.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Administrators can see a full picture of academic progress across a district, school, grade and class, down to the individual student. Developed to address the decades-long gap in reading proficiency across the nation, PowerUp is designed to enhance core English language arts instruction for struggling readers in grades six and above.

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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. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. There was a shift in culture and in school.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2023

.” The two schools in the study are an elementary school and middle school in Schiller Park, Illinois, which reflect similar demographics to many schools across the country.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2024

This was right about the time a leading literacy vendor was rolling out its new literacy program for struggling adolescent readers, so the following year I decided to integrate that program into our English curriculum. Plus, they had the resource hub with everything in it, including all of the lessons.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Before Blackbird there were no tools available to bridge the expanse between elementary school block-based introductions to coding, and high school’s more advanced text-based coding, leading to frustration and a well-documented drop-off in computer science when students enter high school,” said Ness Blackbird, cofounder of Blackbird.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

Approximately 20 percent of our scholars speak English as a second language. I believed technology would be powerful for our scholars and I wanted everyone to have access to it, but only one student in the entire school signed up for the program.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Ten to 15 percent of students entering the intervention program at the start of the school year were able to “graduate” and transition back to the traditional classroom by January. Every year we’ve expanded our use of the curriculum, and today use it in all seven of Neshaminy’s elementary schools. Teaching students to decode .

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

. “For all we know, the founder of the next Facebook is right here in the Ravenswood School District.” ” In Ravenswood City School District, about 90 percent of students from kindergarten to eighth grade are low income and 67 percent are English language learners.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

The positive impact on student literacy outcomes was evident, with over half of students in the pilot program reaching or nearing grade-level reading standards by the end of the school year, motivating the district to expand the services offered. For the 2024–2025 school year, Literacy First, in partnership with both Chattanooga 2.0

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

The school district is also working with Carousel partner Jamf to securely convert Apple TV devices into media players, and providing access to meeting room schedules on mobile devices. Elkhart Community Schools serves approximately 12,000 students. Based in Elkhart, Ind.,

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