eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

While ALVS has provided rigorous and engaging online curriculum to students in grades 6-12 for many years, the pandemic made ALVS see a sudden influx of 5,000 new virtual students. Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

The meteoric rise of Chinese edtech companies has dimmed recently as the Chinese government shifted regulations around online tutoring , in an effort to “ protect students’ right to rest, improve the quality of school education and reduce the burden on parents.” It’s free to schools. elementary schools have signed up for accounts.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Studies in districts like Los Angeles Unified have found that students who passed Algebra I by 9th grade are twice as likely to graduate as those who did not. Their Latino peers comprised 25 percent of students in schools that offered Algebra I in eighth grade, but just 18 percent of the students enrolled. Source: U.S.

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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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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. Success will no longer be measured only by grades or course completion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. My fifth-grade scores were tops in the district,” Szako said.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

She was teaching fourth grade when a new integrated curriculum focused on careers was introduced district-wide—and it was making her lessons more relevant to the real world. It’s here that Brandt teaches, at the Cajon Valley Union School District, which serves about 16,000 students through eighth grade.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

during lessons, and offer students a variety of ways to complete assignments rather than requiring everyone to write a paper or take a timed exam. According to Erin Wilkey Oh, an executive editor at Common Sense Media, “Elementary school-aged students and even some middle schoolers have trouble fully understanding news events.”

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

James Mills (left) and Kaiya Everett (right), two sixth grade students at DPA designing websites to host their original trivia games. Emily Tate / EdSurge) An expressed goal of the school, Ashton said, is to have 100 percent of students pass the AP Computer Science Principles exam by the end of 10th grade. “We

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Summative assessments, such as final exams, can be a great way to assess the efficacy of a curriculum within a school , offering a view of an entire class in order to judge what materials or classroom structures may need to be adjusted for the next year. . Formative Assessments and Student Data Are Pathways to Adaptive Learning.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, AI assistants helped bolster first-grade students, a majority of whom were struggling to achieve high test scores in science, technology, engineering and math courses. Public Schools, AI has helped increase graduation rates. “A AI Solutions Drive Higher STEM Test Scores.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

She has a second-grade son who grew up in a dual-language home and needs support to ensure he is proficient in reading. For these parents, understanding how local school systems are serving the needs of English Language Learners (ELL) is critical. Coreas has also learned to advocate for her children with data.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Some school leaders turn to expensive technology and troves of data as an answer to low proficiency problems in public schools. She notes that some students who have high effect sizes, meaning they learned a lot from the teacher’s instruction during a unit, still show to be below proficiency during the exams.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. As they transition from first grade, to second, to third, their classroom devices change, too. The cohort consisted of three elementary schools (including Rogers Elementary), one middle school and a new high school that had only ninth graders.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

We had three schools performing academically in the bottom five percent in the state—they were the lowest of the lowest. And this past year two of those schools came off the list! Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools. She has a 4.0 Algebra 1 — In 2018, 19.8%

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Districts will forgo a ‘wait to fail’ model where students are identified in third or fourth grade before receiving the instruction they need vs. giving instruction to all students from the onset of school. — Nicollette LeTellier, STEM Specialist for K-5, Swift Water Elementary School. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

If the district did require measurable improvements from consultants based on indicators such as the percent of students reading on grade level, the outcome would likely be mixed. EdSurge analyzed data from the state report card on every elementary school in the first personalized learning implementation cohort.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

On March 22, Google and the Lemann Foundation, an education nonprofit in Brazil, announced plans for an initiative that will deliver digital lessons directly to the cellphones of elementary school teachers. The Prova Brasil [the standardized Brazilian national exam]data tell us which are the most problematic areas.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2016

Time is a powerful variable driving the operation of schools. Just consider the constructs of grade levels, attendance and seat time, school days and class periods, final exams and grade reports, and standardized testing. Cynthia Day ( @msdayvt ) is an educator at Barre Town Middle and Elementary School in Vermont.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

In fact, during the first PARCC exam, I was teaching in an affluent, high-performing school. Would you believe that these students actually did better on the exam than their more affluent counterparts? Erika Valdez-Betsch is a fourth grade teacher at Murray Elementary School in Hobbs, New Mexico.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Districts will forgo a ‘wait to fail’ model where students are identified in third or fourth grade before receiving the instruction they need vs. giving instruction to all students from the onset of school. — Nicollette LeTellier, STEM Specialist for K-5, Swift Water Elementary School. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

The additional beauty in formative assessments is that we can use the data without always having to assign a grade to it. There’s also a summative assessment option (think end-of-unit exams). She taught elementary school students in Richmond for 12 years before becoming an Instructional Technology Resource Teacher (ITRT).

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. In fact, in the book, Steve is quoted saying, "If I could put one computer in a school and one person would find that computer, it would change their life." The eighth grade decided that their gift to the school would be four or six Apple II’s.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

California is increasingly pushing high schools to offer community college classes directly to students during the regular school day, a set-up known as dual enrollment. By 2030, California Community Colleges Chancellor Sonya Chiristian wants all high school students to graduate with at least four college courses completed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

From elementary school grades upwards, a student may be given a book to read and asked to write a review afterwards. In this new world, for instance, a dyslexic student could use software like Sonocent to have all of their exams given orally. They then may move on to reading a poem and answering questions.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Inquiries about instruction and academic programming have stayed relatively steady over the past four years, though we did see a notable increase in questions related to grading practices. Not only does equitable grading prioritize student content knowledge, it also avoids the 0-100 grading scale entirely, either through a new scale (e.g.,

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Teach Thought

MAY 18, 2025

Some educators count it as a summative assessment, similar to an exam, essay, or project. We’ve even seen teachers use it as a final exam. The facilitator can use a rubric or a scoring guide to grade a seminar (see ‘The Difference Between a Scoring Guide & A Rubric’).

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

The education sector was squarely in the middle of China’s fight against COVID and the after effects continue to be felt: In early April, the government announced it would delay important exams, including the gaokao , the university entrance exam in China. Wuhan, the epicenter of the epidemic, was locked down on January 23.

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