eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The school system has 13,000 students enrolled throughout the city and approximately 2,100 staff members working each day. Easy-to-follow instructions guide students through data collection, measurement, data analysis, and interpretation, while feedback provided by both open-ended and auto-graded questions reinforces correct ideas. 

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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

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

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Additional key highlights include: Growing Need for K12 Safety Solutions: Implementations of CrisisAlert doubled from 2021 to 2022, and delivered over 50,000 alerts in the Fall 2022 semester, a 100% increase from Fall 2021 Elementary schools continue to experience the highest rate of alerts out of all school types, averaging 22.8

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Sometimes elementary and middle school teachers come across as apologetic about how “little” they are doing in relation to personalized learning. However, none of this would be successful without a the strong foundation students receive before they enter high school. But they’re doing more than they think.

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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. Personally, I have always enjoyed competition.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Starting with the 2021-22 academic year, the 7 Mindsets curriculum will be used throughout the district’s 11 elementary schools, middle school, and two high schools. 7 Mindsets was initially implemented in a select number of Decatur’s elementary schools for that pilot project.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Through phone calls that allowed her to get to know them and discover what motivates them, she took the extra steps like providing individualized feedback on assessments and checking not just for completion, but for understanding. Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2016

And I imagine that topic will endure as our boys progress into elementary school and beyond. Examples might include giving better feedback at work, improving my skills in a second language, or learning how to write SQL queries. She was previously Redesign Administrator at Burnett Middle School in San Jose, Calif.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2024

When my principal asked if I would be interested in teaching one elective period per day for the middle school population, I suggested a STEM elective since I had just taught a summer full of STEM during NYC’s annual STEM in the City programming. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Bragg described his duties as “back-seat driving”—synthesizing, challenging, questioning, and giving feedback. For instance, students at Van Ness Elementary school in Washington, D.C. With students largely running the show, what was there left to do? In essence, responsibilities between the teacher and the learner flipped.

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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. What Are Summative Assessments Vs. Formative Assessments.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Lora Clark, principal at Morris’s Normandy Park Elementary School, explains that due to the range of students’ language levels, bilingual classes remain necessary. However, she notes that because of the success of their blended program, individual student needs are being met with direct instruction and feedback.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The nonprofit runs the learning platform Zearn Math, whose instruction stresses interactive features and feedback to students, according to the website. But for a teacher with 90 students in middle school or 140 students in high school, that's very complicated to do without ongoing sources of information.”

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 15, 2018

Google Forms are really my favorite tech tool,” said Brent Coley, principal of Alta Murrieta Elementary School (Calif.), Coley offered up four innovative ways educators and administrators can embrace Google Forms to streamline documentation and feedback. Differentiate Instruction with Homework Feedback Forms.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Provide ongoing feedback from those who understand blended learning AND instructional coaching. When provided with an instructional coach who provided ongoing observations with feedback and targeted coaching, the implementation was quicker and more effective.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The network began the Greenfield Schools design project to research what the future of school could be, with the goal of opening two new schools in 2015—an elementary school and a middle school. The first Greenfield Schools launched in August 2015 in New Haven, CT.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Students may drop off their written work and receive detailed feedback from an expert tutor within a day. “Schools and districts across the country are facing unprecedented challenges, from learning loss to staffing shortages. Established in 1870, LCPS is located in Washington, D.C.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2016

years for elementary school, 1.5 years for middle school and 1 year for high school – with new levels being added every month. We were able to see firsthand the impact on engagement and on student learning – we’re really excited to roll the new features out to all of our schools in September.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Understand your students’ needs: One hardworking educator (and Fusion speaker), Farhat Ahmad , knew that compliance-based data collection, which often shows little regard for student feedback, risks further alienating an already disenfranchised student population.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

These experiences expose students to diverse perspectives, competition, and invaluable feedback, helping them grow as thinkers, creators, and leaders. From elementary school to varsity-level competition, student-athletes learn teamwork, communication, and the value of perseverance.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

We use resources from Project Lead The Way [a nonprofit that provides STEM curriculum and lesson plans to schools] and Naviance [an online tool to help students plan and prepare for college and career skills]. We’re now 1:1 with MacBooks at our high school, with some HP devices. You have to know what your kids need.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2016

In addition, 35 teacher leaders and their principals, representing five elementary schools, two middle schools and one high school, will participate in Discovery Education’s Digital Leader Corps.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

Not only do kids do a robotics challenge on that theme—it’s SPACE in 2019—they also do a project in which they go out in their community and identify a problem, invent a solution, and take it back to the people who inspired it for feedback. Better yet, start a whole progression of K-12 programs in your school district.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2020

These are great for Middle School and High School students, as well as teachers. If you have another platform, try Draw a Stickman (well-suited for elementary school ages). Edit photos using preset filters or advanced photo editing tools like brightness, contrast, saturation, tint, and blur. SmartMusic.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

“At first we thought this was just going to be a hoop we have to jump through in order to get these devices,” admits Daniel Hodge, a personalized learning coach at Barnwell Elementary School in Fulton County, echoing the concerns and confusion shared by other Fulton County educators in an interview with EdSurge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Q Wunder provides a complete elementary school SEL curriculum with 15 social-emotional learning topics rolled out in 48 CASEL-aligned lesson plans, all powered with engaging music, videos, games, and activities. The most notable example was a Texas middle school, able to avert a potential shooting based on data from this program. .

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One was Melissa Yarborough, a teacher at Navarro Middle School in Houston’s East End, which is home to one of the city’s historically Latino neighborhoods. While not targeted as a failing school, her campus became “NES-aligned,” meaning her principal opted into the New Education System. Map by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge.

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Teach Hub

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Imagine a class where the students do not feel valued by their teacher; a class where students do not have a voice, are not asked for feedback on what and how they are learning, and where the teacher is unaware of their feelings. We usually think of elementary schools engaging in this with a higher grade paired with a longer grade.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Q Wunder provides a complete elementary school SEL curriculum with 15 social-emotional learning topics rolled out in 48 CASEL-aligned lesson plans, all powered with engaging music, videos, games, and activities. The most notable example was a Texas middle school, able to avert a potential shooting based on data from this program. .

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Teach Thought

MAY 18, 2025

This peer feedback can be more effective than feedback from a single facilitator who is also observing 10 to 15 other speakers (and their peer coaches). It is up to the facilitator to decide how feedback will be shared. Will students share their feedback with each other one-on-one?

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Elevate k12

JUNE 21, 2024

From elementary school through middle school and on to high school, in wealthy and poor school districts, full-time, part-time, and substitute teachers are in short supply. In the last few years, instability in schools has been linked to falling test scores and increased emotional needs from students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

When schools across Pennsylvania closed earlier this year during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, staff and students leveraged Tightrope Media Systems’ Cablecast Community Media platform and new Screenweave LIVE cloud-based service to continue broadcasting to their community.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Xiaohong Yang, an elementary school administrator at Beijing, shared that only online mental health courses were mandatory for elementary school students in Chaoyang district in Beijing. In addition, in-home physical education courses were strongly promoted by schools and teachers.

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