eSchool News

MAY 15, 2023

The benefits of esports make a compelling case for creating a program: Research shows that students who participate in scholastic esports experience social and emotional benefits, increased academic achievement, and higher graduation rates.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC. The problem: there wasn’t a plan for implementing these new tools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

forming teacher-student relationships was highlighted as the top instructional practice for driving engagement across all grade levels and subjects. Provide personal questionnaires, pay attention to the extracurriculars students participate in and their behavior with other students. 1: Teacher-student relationships.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

“The State of Computer Science Education report shows that while investments and participation in computer science education have grown, the disparities in access are still profound. public high schools offer foundational computer science (up from 57.5 We need every state to require a computer science graduation requirement.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

14-18, 2016 to provide an introduction to coding skills for elementary and middle school students. The winning school will receive a one-year subscription to EasyTech and EasyCode Premium, Learning.com ’s digital literacy and coding curriculum for grades K-8.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The benefits of esports make a compelling case for creating a program: Research shows that students who participate in scholastic esports experience social and emotional benefits, increased academic achievement, and higher graduation rates. But that’s only a risk if schools and teachers hold a low bar for what they expect of their students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Create spaces specific to grade levels. Based on specific grade levels, those kits of parts were designed to support active learning and engagement in the classroom. The kits were designed to meet the specific developmental requirements of grade level bands. Get teachers onboard and acclimated early.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2018

The mentoring program gives students a chance to participate in community activities, engage in conversation with students in different grades, and demonstrate their SEL learning overall. O’Tasha Morgan’s district, students started to take on leadership roles and achieve more after the district implemented a mentoring program.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

At some point, though, our experiences at the same Florida elementary school diverged. While my colleague was asked to lead a grade-level team, I was tapped to head up the school’s Black History Month programming. After school, she oversaw academic enrichment while I supervised detention.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Moreover, chronic absenteeism rates vary significantly across grade levels: Elementary school: 16 percent Middle school: 20 percent High school: 30 percent And when we consider socio-economic factors, schools in high poverty districts saw a much greater jump in chronic absenteeism.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Tuesday, June 7, 2022) —Iowa’s Southwest Valley Community School District (SVCSD) today announced it is broadening its partnership with Discovery Education to support science education in elementary school classrooms districtwide. Discovery Education Science Techbooks.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

Charlotte, NC — When elementary school teachers and students across Kentucky’s Johnson County School District (JCSD) return to their classrooms this Fall, they will find new resources in their high-tech toolkits thanks to an expanded partnership with Discovery Education.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2021

The Alabama State Department of Education funding is to support kindergarten through third grade teachers, in addition to Pre-K, administrators, and other support positions that impact K-3 literacy in the state. At that time, 109 participants completed the LETRS for Early Childhood Educators course, and 97.2%

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

The top-performing teams are: High School Division (Grades 9-12) THS Wind Breakers from Tabb High School in Yorktown, Va. Mauston Gummy Bears from Mauston High School in Mauston, Wis. The Quilt Blockers from Darlington High School in Darlington, Wis. from Smithfield Middle School in Smithfield, Va.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The National Science Foundation has pushed for broadening participation in STEM fields and increasing diversity for populations that have previously been excluded from STEM-related opportunities.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

During this unique distance learning opportunity, students will participate in the ExoLab-8 plant science experiment in which they will grow and analyze their own legumes simultaneously with legumes grown in space. Then students will have the opportunity to participate in post-flight genetic and data analysis. This month, Magnitude.io

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Amato, K12 Coalition–Teaching Channel As the 2023–2024 school year winds down, I find myself thinking about how educators are models for students, whether or not they are in a classroom. Nancy Chung is a 5th-grade teacher at Orchard Hills School and host of The Schoolyard Podcast by School Specialty.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

Mega success with participation from over 600K students. The 7 th edition of SpringBoard Math Challenge 2021 was opened to elementary classrooms across North America on March 1, 2021 (the competition ended on May 9, 2021). All the participating students will also receive a ‘Certificate of Participation’.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2022

Over the duration of this 10-week math challenge, SpringBoard saw participation from over 400,000 students from 20,000+ classes! SplashLearn would like to congratulate each and every school, teacher, and student who participated in the competition.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2018

Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., These students are all participants in The Creative School (formerly The Boys Institute) at Stanton Elementary School, an initiative designed to promote wellness and creativity—and to flip the narrative around young boys of color.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

How innovative districts are exposing more students to coding and closing the participation gap. Endorsement by the White House is valuable to those new to introducing computer science (CS) in the classroom, as well as others, like members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , who have championed CS for years.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2019

The students queried for the survey are participants in this year’s MathWorks Math Modeling (M3) Challenge, a national internet-based contest organized by SIAM. Exposing students to STEM in early grades can help them retain their interest in and love of learning these topics.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2023

million in grants to 13 Massachusetts school districts to implement Ignite! Reading’s one-on-one, virtual-powered literacy tutoring for 3,000 first grade students this fall. The One8 Foundation is expanding schools’ ability to access programs like Ignite! BOSTON – The One8 Foundation today announced it is providing over $5.7

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

SpringBoard Math Challenge 2022, open to all classes from Kindergarten to grade 5, will run from March 1 – May 8, 2022. Participation is free for the SpringBoard Math Challenge, whichis designed to give teachers and schools the opportunity to engage their elementary school students through fun math challenges aligned to the curriculum.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. Consider equitable systems for calling on students to participate in discussions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

Charlotte, NC — New Mexico’s Aztec Municipal School District (AMSD) today announced the renewal of its multiyear partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in three district elementary schools. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2017

connects students from different grade levels within the same school or between different schools. Age and grade division are also common in school. Implementation can also exist between differing grade-levels within the same school, or even between schools. to elicit their participation.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2018

I believe personal finance should be part of every American’s lifelong learning plan, from elementary school through and into adulthood. In December, our center issued its third state-by-state report card on high school personal finance education. It’s that important. Report cards also were issued in 2013 and 2015.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Using Panorama Education s data platform to monitor attendance, student well-being, and academic performance, schools in Racine USD equip educators with valuable insights that enable them to design targeted strategies that tackle absenteeism at its root. We hold grade-level homeroom challenges with ice cream or a pizza party as a reward.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

December will mark the end of the 12-week program, and students will present beta versions of their app at a conference for participants. The Opportunity Project has yielded nearly 150 open data tools created by more than 1,500 participants to date, according to the U.S. It was middle school that experienced a gap.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. Consider equitable systems for calling on students to participate in discussions.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Online learning has become a growing trend among K-12 students, including elementary students. In fact, we successfully launched our own online elementary schools, which grew by 10,000 students over the past four years. or “how will you communicate with families and students who are actively participating in their learning?”

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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. Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. Something broke in American education these past years.

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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. More than half a million students have participated as Beta testers since September. Instead, they were all peering through small cardboard boxes.

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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 31, 2021

Participating in a simulation of the Constitutional Convention offered them a structured experience to practice the skills necessary for civic discourse—listening, discussing and compromising. This can eat up days of instructional time before we’re ready to dive into grade-appropriate topics. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Students across Indiana’s Vigo County School Corporation (VCSC) will add new, high-quality learning resources to their digital book bags this Fall thanks to a new partnership with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Discovery Education Science Techbooks. Mystery Science.

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