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

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

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. Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Tier 1 and Tier 2 research shows undisputed favorable outcomes for schools implementing IXL.

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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

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

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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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

Helps students increase their basic skills as shown in research studies. “We 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.”. Complies with State and Common Core educational standards.

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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

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

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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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

note : Choosing hardware or software for an entire school district is a momentous decision, so it only makes sense that districts across the country are choosing to pilot products before signing on the dotted line. Central Falls School District, Rhode Island. Listen and Learn.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

The book shares approaches, updated practices and case studies on how educators can make learning global. This is Olivieri-Barton’s second year at Fountain Valley; she previously worked at an elementary school in Academy School District 20 and the high school in Manitou Springs District 14.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Recent research highlights the value of video: A study conducted through the U.S. Department of Education looked at video-based coaching in about 100 elementary schools. A group of 350 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-grade teachers were split into groups.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2019

Chula Vista School District is the largest elementary school district in California. Of our 30,000 students, 34 percent are English learners (EL), and 52 percent are students living in poverty. Mexico border, making EL instruction a top priority in our schools. We’re located approximately five miles from the U.S.-Mexico

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the second-largest school division in Virginia, with 55 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, 12 high schools, and a number of secondary/post-secondary specialty centers.

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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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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. today, are due on Nov.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

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. It’s a particularly great platform for integrating computer science into other subjects of study.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Ray Salazar has been teaching high school Journalism and English in Chicago Public Schools for over twenty years. Studies show that the pandemic caused a drop in test scores in reading and math, with the students who were already struggling showing the largest declines. hours before the pandemic.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

Highline Public Schools is committed to pioneering a pre-K-12 coding pathway that provides access to coding for all students. Administrators build in regularly scheduled coding for students in select elementary schools, with students utilizing Code.org curriculum to enhance and deepen their critical thinking skills.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. For this project, students invite teachers, school leaders and families to engage in the conversation.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2019

Demographics: Fairfield County Schools is a small, rural, high-poverty school district in South Carolina. The district is composed of five elementary schools and four secondary schools, serving more than 2,600 students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Flashlight reading at Golden Grove Elementary School. Linda Edgecomb National studies bear out Edgecomb’s insights. Source: Linda Edgecomb.

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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. Mention Napa County, Calif.,

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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

AUGUST 18, 2020

Math (everything from elementary school arithmetic to calculus and statistics). English (writing support, literature analysis coaching, vocabulary, and more). Where was this when I was in high school?). Social Studies. Science (Even physics! AP class support.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2024

Many of these takeaways, which we outline below, align with those found in a recent study of what it would take to attract Generation Z to the teaching profession. Pricila Cano Padron, of Dallas, Texas, remembers her “wake-up call” in middle school, when she helped tutor English-learning classmates in math and reading (she is bilingual).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

16, 2021 – Carolina Biological announced that two of its elementary school science programs are among the rigorous list of new science materials just adopted by the South Carolina State Board of Education for the state’s K-12 science curriculum. The Smithsonian also demonstrated through a five-year study funded by a U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In addition to the challenge of quickly adapting her teaching, Claffey also encountered an unexpected frustration: a class size of 60, featuring students from every elementary school in the district, which was later reduced to around 50 as new teachers were added.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

When Bill offered an article on a new class he started that helps English Language Learners, I was excited. He’s included contact information so you can reach him with questions: Computer Literacy for English Language Learners. My graduate studies focused on integrating technology across the curriculum.

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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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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. We did a study of 100,000 hours of audio of non-TeachFX users. We’ve been able to create an inexpensive observer effect,” Poskin claims.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Of the district’s 230 schools, 36 expressed interest in being a test school, eight participated in the pilot and five ultimately received funding and support to launch the wall-to-wall model in Fall 2015. Students at Dan D.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Harvard is very interested in creating an incubator, where educators can come in and try out their ideas and they would help do the data and study those ideas. Kids got a preschool intervention, and it seemed like it went well initially—in elementary school those kids started to move up. I think we need to really push for that.

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