eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Partnership offers automated assessment of students’ oral reading fluency — for testing at school or at home . AMI) , an educational technology company, to provide a fully automated assessment tool that uses artificial intelligence and voice technology to measure K-5 students’ reading abilities. (AMI)

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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2024

One of my favorite parts of my job includes helping classroom teachers choose what their students might want to read next. 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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To close knowledge gaps and support every student, IXL equips Missouri educators with its award-winning PK-5 ELA curriculum, which personalizes learning and is grounded in the Science of Reading methodology. It then generates personalized action plans that help students eliminate their trouble spots, and grow their reading and writing skills.

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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

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. Everyone is enrolled in it and the students split their time between math and reading. Train every teacher.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Offers additional features, including a read-to-me for younger readers, offline reading and reading badges for reaching certain levels and tasks. The content is personalized overtime as kids start reading, interacting and taking quizzes. elementary schools are using Epic!, and reading in school and beyond.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Rigorous review process confirms Lexia Core5 Reading and PowerUp Literacy programs are strongly aligned to Florida’s newest standards. Core5 is an adaptive blended learning program that accelerates the foundational and advanced literacy skills for students of all abilities in elementary grades.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation. Listed here in alphabetical order by school/district name are 10 of the awards program finalists. Read about 10 more finalists here !) Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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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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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

In Neshaminy School District, northeast of Philadelphia, nearly 20 percent of our struggling K–2 students spend 30 minutes a day, five days a week in small-group reading intervention. Up until four years ago, each school’s reading intervention staff developed materials based on best practices.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Literacy First tutoring model supports children at Title I schools in grades K-2, providing personalized literacy instruction to address individual needs. Through high-impact, one-to-one tutoring during the school day, they close gaps in literacy skills and set students on a path to excel in school and life as they learn to read.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

During the Black Lives Matter protests of 2020, teacher accounts were abuzz with reading lists and calls to adopt culturally responsive and culturally sustaining pedagogies. All too often, the books on these reading centered traumatizing and marginalizing protagonists. As it turns out, my students were scholars of the sport.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Compared with the past, the majority of young adults don’t read for pleasure. In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day that wasn’t assigned for school, one study found. Reading has the potential to open doors, expand horizons, and provide escape. It’s not that they can’t.

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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

MAY 13, 2019

Northwood Elementary School, Napa, Calif. Lisa Keith, blended learning specialist, Guilford County (NC) School District. LETRS , Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling, from Voyager Sopris Learning, is truly life changing for an educator.

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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

JANUARY 16, 2025

–James Hood, Principal, Rodburn Elementary School , Rowan County Schools The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are transforming the educational landscape, ushering in a more integrated and dynamic approach to teaching and learning. .

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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

AUGUST 19, 2020

Many young children’s reading skills were already far behind before the virus struck. HearBuilder provides an excellent way for parents, teachers and therapists to help students catch up and continue building skills, whether or not their school is doing in-person instruction.”.

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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 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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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

More than half of the student population is Latino, and many of these students come from poor households where English isn’t spoken. Most of our preschool kids who are native Spanish speakers come to school without anybody having read to them,” said Napa County Superintendent of Schools Barbara Nemko.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Launched in 2014 for secondary grade students and in 2020 for elementary school students, Listenwise harnesses the power of listening to advance literacy and learning in all students by using podcasts as classroom texts, amplifying content and providing students practice in required listening skills.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 19, 2025

As I considered how to introduce this post, I started by looking for statistics that could paint a picture of where modern-day students are with their reading skills. I typed “Kids Can’t Read” into my search bar, looked at the results, and realized I could skip this step.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

The Smarty Summer by Achieve3000: Diving into Early Literacy Initiative aims to prepare children for kindergarten reading success. Achieve3000 and Virginia Beach City Public Schools have partnered to create Smarty Summer: Diving into Early Literacy, a new kindergarten reading readiness initiative exclusively for Virginia Beach students.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

Instead of creating lifelong readers, have I made reading a chore in an effort to bolster academic statistics? Even though there are some wonderful educators doing fabulous things in the schools within the district, their efforts are often times engulfed by the overwhelming demands upon them to have the district look better statistically.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2018

What leads to reading success? In my view, success with reading doesn’t follow from drill and kill practices that stifle interest and motivation. Additionally, nonfiction content that showcases stories of success and hope for people of color drives reading motivation for racially diverse students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Hearing and understanding what is being said in the classroom play a crucial role in a student’s speech and language development, reading and spelling ability, attention and concentration, and overall academic achievement. Becky Oristaglio, Speech and Language Pathologist.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

I used to wake up at 5:30 in the morning to teach a preschooler in China how to read, write and speak English. Claire Cummings teaching English online to students in China for VIPKid. Many policymakers, families and educators hold onto the nostalgia of the traditional school model, but it was failing us even before the pandemic.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

I recently read. Stephen Wolfram’s blog post about the need to teach computational thinking in schools. Nobody in the “learn to code” movement argues for this, and every educator would agree with Wolfram's analogy that teaching raw coding syntax alone would be like teaching English handwriting without teaching how to write an essay.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

In any given third-grade classroom, you can find a student who is reading at a level far beyond their age, and another who is still working on letter recognition. We also implemented a differentiated literacy program and digital library that measures reading with reading—not quiz scores and points. Creating the Keys to Success.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Barrow Elementary School, we have a project which takes all these things into account. PebbleGo also has a read-aloud feature, so every student can follow along, regardless of their reading ability. Flipgrid is the video discussion platform that students use to record a video of themselves reading their persuasive essay.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Each week, we will share a story about how a district used technology in schools to improve something. Come back each week for insight on transforming everything from reading scores to wireless network performance.]. Students in those courses and grade levels—at all schools—were given access to the technology.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

For example, my students read a variety of books about education to learn more about challenges and solutions in the field. For this project, students invite teachers, school leaders and families to engage in the conversation. As I became more comfortable, I began designing my own projects.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2015

schools have seen student proficiency levels jump in math and reading in recent years. Blended learning definitely has been an important factor in the changes we’ve seen in our students, our teachers, and in our schools,” says David Rose, deputy chief in the district’s Dept. They have a good reason to visit.

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