EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

Artificial Intelligence, Authentic Impact: How Educational AI is Making the Grade. Schools are following suit: Technavio’s “ Artificial Intelligence Market in the US Education Sector 2018-2022 ” report predicts a nearly 48 percent growth rate for AI tools over the next three years. . eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 08/27/2019 - 11:25.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

BOSTON (June 8, 2021) – Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that Florida’s Commissioner of Education has approved Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) as curriculum in elementary intervention courses. Lexia® PowerUp® Literacy (PowerUp) has also been approved for intervention courses in grades six and above.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

I can evaluate how clearly I give directions, how purposefully I manage time, how meaningfully I relay the significance of the work, or whether I call on students equitably. Nancy Chung is a 5th-grade teacher at Orchard Hills School and host of The Schoolyard Podcast by School Specialty.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Shepard Elementary School. Smith’s approach ensures that the technology chosen benefits the entire district.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

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. It creates a positive environment that is more focused on coaching than evaluation.

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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

MARCH 21, 2017

Predictably, these “dose-effect” programs rarely exist long enough to be properly evaluated. However, emerging interactive video technologies can support new and innovative approaches to the preventive and reflective side of school violence prevention and conflict resolution. Age and grade division are also common in school.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As someone who has dedicated her career to making the world a better place through the education of our children, I was excited to learn that tablets and computers are nearly commonplace in elementary school classrooms across the nation. Is the content mapped to curriculum standards?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For a year, our leadership team crunched numbers and performed a comprehensive facilities study before determining to close one elementary school and reorganize grades by building. As school leaders, we have an inherent drive to innovate so that we may better our students’ learning experiences. Until it wasn’t.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

“Children with co-occurring academic and behavior problems in first grade: Distal outcomes in twelfth grade.” Journal of School Psychology , 51(1), 117-128. Prevention in practice: Resources for school psychologists.” Considerations for evaluating universal screening assessments.” In School Psychology Forum (Vol.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 8, 2018

That was a voicemail message I received from a friend, a principal at a local elementary school one sunny summer afternoon. Her 30 slightly apprehensive teachers had to deliver a digital literacy curriculum to her 450+ students the next school year. I’ve got a big challenge. What was the challenge?

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2017

At the beginning of the 2016-17 school year, 82 percent of Morgen Owings Elementary School’s students were working below grade level. Now, six months later, just 40 percent are working below grade level. We have work to do, but shifting our mindset regarding assessment has made a huge impact.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The new “COVID-friendly” algorithm saves time and evaluates factors such as social groups, extracurricular activities, bus routes and household dynamics to determine the impact of interactions at school. Class Solver integrates seamlessly with many student management systems. It was a huge life saver!”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2019

The district has 33 schools, ranks in the top 6 or 7 in every category in the state, and is growing by 400 to 500 students per year. Biggest challenge: “In Florida, as in many states, we’d been given mandate after mandate about standardized testing, teacher evaluations, etc.,” says Bill Emerson, assistant superintendent.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. Kindergarten teacher Kelsea Heesacker comes in to chat with the school counselor and to grab a winter coat for a little girl who came to school without one. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2021

Take Concourse Village Elementary School, a South Bronx, N.Y., district school with whom we have been partnering on an innovative project-based learning model called RevX. They choose authentic and personally-relevant challenges (this past summer, discrimination was top of mind) and design solutions that they apply and evaluate.

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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

MAY 3, 2016

Based on the programs I was using, I could evaluate how to differentiate instruction for my students,” she said. But tracking how well her students were meeting specific grade-level standards at any moment during the year wasn’t an option for her at that time, nor was looking at larger trends until after the school year had ended.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. We need to re-evaluate our goals and how we meet them. I think we need to do some serious instructional reflection.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, he points to the product’s assessment strategies focused on student outcomes, employing a combination of automated evaluations and teacher-led assessments to ensure comprehensive learning assessment. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. There’s. Did the student.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

SoWashCo Schools is a suburban district located southeast of St. Paul and serves students across 16 elementary schools, 4 middle schools and three traditional high schools. The Discovery Education Science Techbook series is a comprehensive, research-backed digital science solution for grades K-12.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

The data from child-specific, accurate speech technology from SoapBox coupled with Learning Without Tears’ activities and proprietary pathing formulas drive efficacy and empowers young learners with the essential literacy skills they need to access grade level text.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2015

that use netTrekker or icurio to find, organize and share hundreds of thousands of standards-aligned resources that are professionally evaluated, tagged and maintained, ensuring students truly benefit from their digital shift. Cabarrus County School District, Concord, North Carolina (icurio).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

For example, the report, based on a review completed several months ago, estimated that 40% of elementary schools, more than 200, still lacked adequate wireless Internet service. As of this week, the number of schools with substandard Wi-Fi stood at 19, said Bill Wherritt, a deputy facilities director.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

And, like her peers nationwide, her transition to first grade in the fall of 2021 was a challenging one. Although she was performing at grade level academically, she experienced increasing challenges with her attention, organization, peer interactions and behaviors at school. It’s every kid in this grade,” her teacher said.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey. But systemic pressures, such as top-down initiatives or punitive evaluation systems, can deplete teacher autonomy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2021

Personalized Learning Preparatory at Sam Houston Elementary School in Dallas reopened its school building to PreK-5 students with simultaneous learning in the fall after months of remote learning. “I Second grade in-person and virtual students in Angie Lee's classroom reflect on their daily commitment.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Schools plan and implement the multidisciplinary learning modules, and the topics and duration may vary based on local needs and interests. Pupils participate in planning the modules, and teachers make sure that, throughout this process, students from varying grade levels work together.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience.

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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

JUNE 11, 2020

For those who can, it’s become abundantly clear that grades alone are insufficient to motivate learning. According to Rocky Bragg, a high school English teacher in the district, this policy has created some havoc. But it also illuminates just how little value schoolwork has, from some students’ perspectives, except to feed a grade.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

When visiting a classroom last year to lead a lesson on multimedia creations for a group of elementary school students, we tackled this issue together. Students can see how teachers make snap judgments to rule out certain search results and how they dig deeper into other search results to evaluate their authority.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

It focused on absences in early elementary school, between kindergarten and second grade. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Colder The study, “ Do Teachers Perceive Absent Students Differently? ,” was published in the journal AERA Open in late June.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Melvin Love, principal at Oxmoor Valley Elementary School in Birmingham City Schools in Alabama. When I came to this school in 2015, our data from the state of Alabama showed an eight percent proficiency in reading in grades three through five.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. To summarize, while hybrid learning models offer promising solutions, their success hinges on thoughtful execution and consistent evaluation. Something broke in American education these past years.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Early in my teaching career, when I was 26 years old, I was offered and accepted a position as a dean at an elementary school in East Oakland, California. The following school year, I was promoted to assistant principal, and a year into that role, I had to cover our principal while she was on maternity leave.

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