eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2018

I try not to constantly filter or block my student’s Internet access, but it’s nice to have a program that can keep them focused if they get off task.”—Tom NBCT, business and marketing education/DECA advisor, Apex Friendship High School, N.C. Suzannah Evans, 1st-grade blended building leader, St. Tom Gilbert, M.

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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 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. At our district, we started with installing the L system in an elementary school that serves grades 3-5.

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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

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Unified School District, including limited classroom use of iPads and other computers, inadequate support for teachers and partial or inconsistent access to the internet. 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

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The latest proof point is Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum, which has been acquired by Discovery Education. elementary schools, according to Mystery Science co-founder Keith Schact. And as it turns out, edtech companies are attracting a premium from buyers as well.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The initiative involved three projects: wireless networks at schools. In deploying the devices, the district targeted grade levels and courses such as 7th-grade civics, 9th- and 10th-grade English, and middle school math. Students in those courses and grade levels—at all schools—were given access to the technology.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2019

Chula Vista School District is the largest elementary school district in California. Mexico border, making EL instruction a top priority in our schools. Five years ago, we began the journey to implement a 1:1 initiative across our 41 schools, for third through sixth grade.

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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

APRIL 16, 2020

Chrissy Romano Arrabito teaches second grade at an elementary school in Hackensack, N.J., The school is located just a few miles outside New York City, the epicenter of the crisis in the U.S., Amy Mason, principal of Madison County Elementary School in Gurley, Ala., So where does one draw the line?

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

They were worried about their presentation (and grade) because Alex never completed his project work at home. After three months, Alex finally told me that he did not have internet access at home. Worse, as I began to make more discreet inquiries, I learned that I had many more students with internet access issues.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

The pandemic has also reignited a debate that teachers and academics have struggled with for decades: What is the most effective strategy for assigning and grading homework? School districts and educators have responded in a variety of ways. But educators disagree about how they should respond. We are where we are.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

“Part of it is that they just were not prepared, I guess, for that many people to say that they wanted to be online,” says Claffey, who teaches third grade. “So In a separate study , Lin used models to determine that students’ final grades began to suffer once class sizes reached 45 students—a number he uses as an upper limit.

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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

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. It is important to model how you skim or read a page on the internet to gather information and record what you’ve found.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Below is a machine-generated transcript of the interview: 00:00:20 Speaker 1 Because nobody goes to learn how to be a computer science teacher and then goes to to, to, to elementary schools. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. 00:00:35 Speaker 1 The math teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 5, 2021

Written by “Karen Weaver a 3rd grade elementary school teacher and author of the upcoming children’s book “The Magic Pencil”, it covers all the basics. Watching TV, browsing the Internet, checking social media, playing video games, and now, even remote learning all require using a device.

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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. Something broke in American education these past years. I went out to our international contributors for ideas. They had a lot, but this one I thought I’d cover first: Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Like good hygiene, good digital citizenship is a set of responsibilities all internet users should practice. For K–12 students, lessons on how to use the internet safely and be effective online citizens are likely part of receiving any new classroom device. Digital Citizenship for Students at Elementary School Levels.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Like good hygiene, good digital citizenship is a set of responsibilities all internet users should practice. For K–12 students, lessons on how to use the internet safely and be effective online citizens are likely part of receiving any new classroom device. Digital Citizenship for Students at Elementary School Levels.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

What’s happened with COVID is low-income students and students of color had less internet access, so with the closures, there were kids who literally could not participate in school. The schoolhouse door was barred for them because they didn’t have internet access. But they should have both. That shouldn’t be.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

In their efforts to best serve students who’ve experienced trauma in their early years, some schools are literally knocking down walls. But as Jon Hanover, founder and executive director of Roots Elementary School, discovered, the physical learning environment is only one small part of the equation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Virtual book club Why : Extends reading beyond the library, creates a community of readers, connects students across classes, grade levels, and schools How : Flipgrid, Padlet, Wakelet, Jamboard A digital reading journal is a great way to sustain a virtual book club.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The children who heard more words were better prepared for learning when they started school, Hart and Risley found—and these same children, when followed into third grade, had larger vocabularies, were stronger readers, and got higher test scores. But “if you can’t read to your children often enough, someone has to,” he said.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2024

The famous food writer lives in Manhattan and has children entering fourth and 10th grade this year. I recently got to ask Perelman that myself, along with other questions — like what has most surprised her about the endeavor and what recipe on her site most says “back to school.” I love buying school supplies.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Elementary schools, high schools, universities and even vocational training courses are ideal places to incorporate 3D printing as part of the curriculum. . Instead of Internet searches or museum excursions, students can hold in their hands accurate representations of fossils, tools, and other artifacts from the past.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Our elementary schools are almost one-to-one, with a 1-to-2 ratio of devices to students. Elementary students don’t take devices home with them because we don’t see the educational need. We have been doing one-to-one in high schools for nine years, and last year we went one-to-one for grades six through 12.

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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

AUGUST 23, 2021

Research suggests that elementary grade students were less likely to receive instruction and feedback than older students while studying remotely. They didn’t socialize, they didn’t come to school.” This year, her school is investing in more time and teacher training devoted to social-emotional development.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

Edgar Ochoa’s middle-schoolers in the Roosevelt Elementary School District in Phoenix took their science, technology, engineering and math learning to the next level when they became Global Problem Solvers and tackled serious issues in their community and beyond.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Offering school curriculum, project-based learning and support for teachers, the program encourages students to begin exploring computer science in elementary school, equipping them with the skills needed for successful careers. More opportunities for future engineers. Amazon Future Engineer Fulfillment Center Tours.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

A lot has changed—they were using fax machines back then and now we have the internet. So maybe your participation grade in an online course is better than a student who would just log in quickly, log out. Ultimately, I think it probably hurt my grades in certain circumstances. So some updates are in order.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Taking aim at standardized testing in particular, Robinson advocates for a “revolution” in learning—and praises several schools that are realigning priorities to put the focus back on inspiring students. Goodbye ABCs: How One State Is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments What happens when you take away grades and grade levels?

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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 project, launched during the Google for Brazil event, will be funded through a $4.8

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2016

Students at DCPS’ Burrville Elementary School complete an Hour of Code session. The Benefits of Collaboration One way to overcome these hurdles is for school districts to collaborate with outside organizations and companies, many of whom are thrilled to provide volunteers and support. “How

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. And the data usually boils down to student grades,” York explains. She’s taught fifth grade for 25 years in the Aurora Public School system in Colorado.

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