eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

K-12 school systems are facing a “perfect storm” of challenges today. . The pandemic has put students well behind in their education, with millions of children achieving below grade level in reading and math. students in grades 3-8 revealed that reading and math test scores dropped significantly from fall 2019 to fall 2021.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

Tailored specifically for the unique needs of education environments, WeVideo Classroom features intuitive organizational tools that allows teachers to easily create and assign multimedia projects, set up collaborative student groups, monitor progress, and share feedback. said Rhonda Jenkins, LMC Director, Kendall Elementary School.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

Unaddressed student mental health needs are associated with behavior problems, school violence, substance abuse, dropping out, and poor academic performance (Darney et al., This includes a growth mindset and a sense of belonging to their school or college. Journal of School Psychology , 51(1), 117-128. Reinke, W. Herman, K.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

And even though 15 states have adopted a policy to give all high school students access to computer science courses, universities prepare way fewer computer science teachers than we need. It’s more abysmal in the younger grades, with only six states giving all K-12 students access. Beverly Sklar.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

As the new school year begins, elementary school teachers are now able to access a new, free online artificial intelligence (AI) tool designed to strengthen their math instruction and help students learn at higher levels.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

It’s easy to critique a learning experience in hindsight—to make judgements like “I wish there were longer breaks,” “I wanted better feedback” or “I needed more visuals.” But those reflections aren’t very useful unless we take that feedback and use it to make change.

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2017

According to one of our Grade 6 teachers, Shannon Diven, her students could read but could not pull out details from the text to expand answers, explain answers, or to develop a piece of writing around the text (basically, reading comprehension). But achieving that goal isn’t easy. Authentic Reading Experiences Wanted.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Ryan Johnson, former instructional technology coordinator, Enterprise (CA) Elementary School District. With both of these tools, the students are able to work independently and receive immediate feedback on skills and concepts in order to achieve mastery. Suzannah Evans, 1st-grade blended building leader, St.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Some of my favorite ways include using video for self-reflection and for peer feedback. Spending less time grading piles of busywork has left me more energy to enhance my teaching and enabled me to craft interactive lessons tailored to my students, creating a more engaging learning experience for all. Learning can happen in many ways!

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

An elementary school teacher discussed how math can be integrated into PE class–for instance, students can measure and make calculations related to how far they jump or how fast they run, or myriad other activities. If you are purchasing equipment, do a trial run first with one classroom or one school. Teachers loved it.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Key points: Video-based coaching offers insight on teacher practices and makes feedback more effective I’m a first-year teacher. 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

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. During the change stage, we strived to empower early adopters and make modifications to the rollout based on their feedback. Until it wasn’t.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

There is truly nothing more powerful–or that grows your practice morethan watching yourself on video, and the use of this technology will help our teachers engage in more meaningful self-reflection while receiving targeted feedback from coaches and coordinators.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The unit is designed for 2nd-grade students for two very specific reasons: 1) early elementary schools are eager for age-appropriate STEM resources; and 2) 2nd-graders have the literacy skills to write questions, to read content, and to note their own observations.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

SALT LAKE CITY — June 28, 2021 — Today at ISTE Live 2021, Instructure launched the Canvas for Elementary user experience, a combination of features that make Canvas more user-friendly for elementary students. Easy-to-access tabs provide overviews of schedules and grades for all subjects. Personalization & Welcome Features.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2016

Students in Melinda Lamm’s fifth-grade class at Wells Elementary School in North Carolina were in the computer lab, but not a single student was looking at a computer screen. Because the program is still in development, Google is taking any and all feedback seriously. Ok, where are we now?” Real world application.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2024

According to the National Center for School Mental Health , universal screening is the assessment of students to determine whether they may be in jeopardy regarding their well-being. What continued to move the program forward was the ability to pilot the program with an elementary school counselor and an administrator.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2019

Between a declining birth rate in the area that we serve and more students and their families choosing nontraditional options such as online schools, our enrollment recently shrank to the point that we needed to close a building and reallocate some of our resources.

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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. Technology is a huge part of my classroom atmosphere,” says Skeate.

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

A first grade student is trying to read a passage on her iPad. Amira Learning is only one of a slew of edtech companies that have leveraged the advancements in voice-based AI to help improve foundational reading skills for learners from kindergarten right up to fourth grade. A digital avatar Amira, clad in olive green, is listening.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. Here are three key expectations that are redefining modern education: Interactive Learning : Students expect dynamic, interactive lessons that incorporate multimedia elements and real-time feedback. Passive learning is no longer acceptable.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2020

elementary school classrooms, announced the launch of Osmo Live, a new interactive platform for live learning that offers engaging, hands-on Bootcamps for children in grades K-5. Taught by some of the best elementary instructors in the U.S., Personalized Feedback.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

These two challenges are at the heart of why one-room schoolhouses were replaced by age-graded elementary schools and subject-specialist secondary schools. In contrast, many microschools today include mixed age classes but take advantage of new learning technologies to make the small school model more feasible.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2017

Johnston Elementary school (P.S. Chloe Mcphatter, 1st-grade student “Ms. Throughout her school this week there are balloons and colorful signs on the walls. Hour of Code in Brooklyn elementary school, Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu “Ms. But at Emma L. I want to teach coding too when I grow up.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

Daily teacher feedback was used by the Illustrative Mathematics authoring team in the refinement of the materials. We are excited to move to a district-wide adoption in all three grades this year.”.

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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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

As part of a new IBM philanthropic initiative, the supercomputer is helping to power a searchable database of open educational math resources designed for teachers in grades K-5. IBM’s famous Watson computing system—which defeated Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings in 2011—is coming to education, if not quite the classroom. Litow says.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Students from the county apply to the program of their choice during eighth grade, a process that involves taking an admissions test; submitting transcripts, teacher recommendations and a personal video; and entering a lottery, since demand is high. Earlier this year, I was facilitating a series of three lessons about classroom management.

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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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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2015

The new parent access feature allows parents to see what their children are learning, allowing them to view upcoming assignments, grades, and feedback by simply logging in. Joanne Lau, a Grade 1 and 2 teacher at David Livingstone Elementary School in Vancouver, BC, explains the benefit of giving parents access to student work.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

It focused on absences in early elementary school, between kindergarten and second grade. That means that because this is when the student’s relationship with school is being set, there are special considerations, such as how well the teacher understands the “handoff,” when the student is passed from the parent to the teacher.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

These online tools make it simple for teachers to send class materials, grade assignments, conduct assessments and monitor student progression. Meanwhile, students can seamlessly collaborate with classmates , submit assignments digitally and access class materials outside of regular school hours. .

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