eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

Charlotte, NC — New Mexico’s Aztec Municipal School District (AMSD) today announced the renewal of its multiyear partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in three district elementary schools. Editable, ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish.

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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 2, 2016

How innovative districts are exposing more students to coding and closing the participation gap. Endorsement by the White House is valuable to those new to introducing computer science (CS) in the classroom, as well as others, like members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , who have championed CS for years.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Department of Education looked at video-based coaching in about 100 elementary schools. Teachers with five or fewer years of experience and those with teaching practices in the bottom third of participants saw even greater improvement in both math and English language arts.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

In early 2010, I began the search for the best amplification system to implement in the classrooms of Veterans Memorial Elementary School to improve learning for students with hearing loss and impairments, learning disabilities, and English Language learners. Next page: Build enthusiasm by starting with Rock Star teachers.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

In many schools and districts, half or less of their students participate in remote learning. Many students are unable to participate virtually due to resource constraints. According to Rocky Bragg, a high school English teacher in the district, this policy has created some havoc. One factor is learner agency.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The district is using two programs, ST-Math and First in Math , for math instruction, and myON and Lexia Learning for English Language Arts and reading in most of its participating elementary schools.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

Over 10 weeks, my administrative team and I asked every school board member, administrator, teacher, staff member, and parent to answer one simple question: What should students know before leaving elementary school, middle school, and high school? All students proficient in Algebra 1 by the end of eighth grade.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

The New York Times Learning Network, which offers educational resources, runs multiple contests and challenges for students and I picked one for my students to participate in. The one I started with was a multimedia challenge asking students to share what high school is like for them.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

VCSC is one of Vigo County’s largest employers, serving nearly 14,000 students across three traditional high schools, five middle schools, 15 elementary schools, an alternative school, and a virtual school. Editable, ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

West Elementary School Principal Lisa Vargas-Sinapi had a practical solution: Let’s move the bus stop. When kids are sick, they’re offered appointments at the school’s health clinic. Henderson also created a student council and invited kids to participate who wouldn’t normally be selected. newsletters.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

On that last point, my school, Shiloh Elementary School in Monroe, N.C., Currently, we have one immersion class—taught full-time in Spanish, with the goal of “immersing” or teaching Spanish to speakers of other languages, like English—in each of our Kindergarten through third grade classrooms.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

Marina Umaschi Bers at Tufts University, coding is fast becoming a form of literacy that students will need to understand and use, similar to reading and writing in English. Through our computer science program, we hope our students continue to learn the skills they’ll need to participate in shaping the future of Silicon Valley.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

I’ve earned two master’s degrees, received a Fulbright scholarship and participated in several prestigious education fellowships. Today, I teach at an elementary school where more than 65 percent of the students identify as Hispanic / Latino. Teaching them is an immense privilege, one that I do not take lightly.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Alyssa Navapanich “I’ve had a couple parents come in and sit through classes, but nothing like the access that parents had during the pandemic when the class is there for them to access it at any time on their computer,” Kelly Finlaw, an art teacher at a New York Public School in Washington Heights, says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. The following February, the district sent an email to school leaders gauging interest in participating in the initiative. The data only represents one class in the high school, which was in its first two years of existence.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Her experiences couldn’t be further away from the examples her elementary school books centered on?farming. Filling the Gaps Subjects like English and lower-level math are well-covered in the OER ecosystem. As a little girl, I’m like, ‘I don't know what’s happening on the farm.’ OER] is not just a PDF anymore.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis. –Dr. .

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

During an eSchool News Innovation Roundtable with a focus on DEI, moderated by eSchool News Content Director Kevin Hogan, district leaders delved into the critical but complicated topic of DEI in school districts. What do they look like in terms of the active participation of teachers and students? AR: [One of the U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Even though these students were behind their peers in some subject areas, we wanted them to be able to participate in meaningful ways. Space was limited for the first year of the Backpack League initiative, so students were selected to participate from elementary schools whose math and reading scores need improvement.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

During an eSchool News Innovation Roundtable with a focus on DEI, moderated by eSchool News Content Director Kevin Hogan, district leaders delved into the critical but complicated topic of DEI in school districts. What do they look like in terms of the active participation of teachers and students? AR: [One of the U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Michael Ballone, director of curriculum for the K-8 Marlboro Township Public Schools in New Jersey, has a clear idea of what most literacy instruction gets wrong: it only serves struggling readers. “I I think every child needs to have some kind of reading intervention,” says Ballone, a former seventh-grade English teacher. “It

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2022

Entsminger, an elementary school principal outside of Chicago, says his district was not able to serve nearly as many children as usual with its summer program this year, and the reason boils down to staffing. For a couple of hours each day, kids gather on blankets under trees in local parks and learn from a licensed school teacher.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Rayna Freedman is a 5th-grade teacher at Jordan/Jackson Elementary School in Mansfield, Mass. This past school year, she started piloting a Google Home in her classroom. For its part, Google tells EdSurge that the company is currently focused on making the Google Home “experience exceptional in the home.” That wasn’t happening.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

First up is Mimi Kasner, principal at Francis Scott Key Elementary School in San Francisco. I switched to a whole different major and became a computer technology teacher in an elementary school. Once I had first grade student, a little girl, who came to our school in Kindergarten.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Seventy-eight percent of its students are low income and 22 percent are learning English. But last year, changes in Ryan’s classroom gave Ryan a different way to participate in learning. Despite “initiative fatigue,” out of Fresno’s 3600 teachers, 400 applied in its first year and 220 were randomly selected to participate.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. Microsoft Forms is flexible enough to support formative assessments of an entire grade.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2015

My notes from yesterday’s Code.org elementary coding workshop… Ben Schafer , University of Northern Iowa, Facilitator. Code.org’s elementary school courses overview [VIDEO]. Code.org elementary curriculum was created in conjunction with Cal-Berkeley. Short 20-hour courses for elementary school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. The school has served as the model for poor performance in the area—listed in both Waco Tribune-Herald and on KCEN-TV for falling below state standards for the last six years.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Personally, I have always enjoyed competition.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

What’s happened with COVID is low-income students and students of color had less internet access, so with the closures, there were kids who literally could not participate in school. And that means equitable resources, intentional efforts to integrate our schools so that kids have the experience of diverse peers and diverse teachers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

These students often tended to be white and fluent in English. Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. Students should be equal participants in their learning,” says Phipps. These observations generated by AI can take quick effect.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Breaking Out of My Rut In 2014, when I started teaching English Language Arts at McClarin Success Academy, an alternative high school, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I hoped I’d find a home at this school for kids who hadn’t found success anywhere else. Eight years into my career, I was frustrated and welcomed any change.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

From this discussion we learned that our students loved to create and they could make connections between what they were doing outside of school and subjects like English language arts, math and art. As a group, we plan to make this an annual event and create additional offshoots for elementary school and high school students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2017

Each area feeds into one comprehensive high school with a variety of Career and Technical Education STEM/STEAM pathways including computer science, engineering, environmental science, health science, and manufacturing and construction. In the 2016–17 school year, over 7,000 scholars from all FWPS participated in Hour of Code.

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