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ISTE+ASCD Reveals 2025 Honorees for Innovation and Excellence in Education

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Sierra Sands Unified School District, (Ridgecrest, CA): Lisa Decker, Director of Elementary Education, Dulce Baca, Principal, Pierce Elementary School, and Julie Frisbee, English Language Arts Instructional Coach. The Sierra Sands Unified School District educates over 5,200 students in 11 schools.

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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million English learners in K-12 public schools in the fall of 2021, up from 4.6

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ISTE+ASCD Reveals 2025 Honorees for Innovation and Excellence in Education

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Sierra Sands Unified School District, (Ridgecrest, CA): Lisa Decker, Director of Elementary Education, Dulce Baca, Principal, Pierce Elementary School, and Julie Frisbee, English Language Arts Instructional Coach. The Sierra Sands Unified School District educates over 5,200 students in 11 schools.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

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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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Why the Trump administration grounded these middle schoolers’ drones–and other STEM research

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Some of the Latina mothers in the study, for example, saw that English learners had a lot of anxiety about taking high-stakes tests, so they created a peer study group for them. NSF cuts felt from elementary school to college Some researchers are applying for emergency funding from private foundations to salvage what they can.

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Teachers From Mexico Give English Learners a Boost in Small Texas School District

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Armed with just two suitcases and far away from her Mexican home, Lopez Elizondo came to Crain Elementary School in Victoria, Texas, to work in the districts bilingual program. She even worried about her English, noting that while she speaks her second language well, using it professionally every day was intimidating at first.

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How Magnolia ISD ‘leveled the playing field’ for students in math

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More than a third of its students come from low-income families, and one out of every eight students is an English language learner. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia. She knew no English and had never been in a formal school setting before,” Szako said.

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