eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

From its powerful PK-2 early literacy curriculum to its math literacy tools to their many professional learning opportunities, Waterford.org offers helps teachers and parents’ partner on supporting the developing literacy and math skills of elementary school students. Alongside Eureka Math, we use i-Ready.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The study was funded by the Reading Reimagined program of the Advanced Education Research and Development Fund (AERDF, pronounced like air-diff), and provided a specific reading fluency protocol along with professional learning to sixth grade teachers in a large, urban U.S. school district in 2022-23.

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Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2018

Based on what we had learned, we worked to create a simple and tailored interface for the app that would not only engage and delight this specific population of students, but also lower their stress and anxiety levels while working within the platform. For kids who are struggling in class, that’s a steep climb.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

But it’s not all bad–educators found success as they dedicated their efforts to improving student engagement and achievement, creating community-based approaches to learning, and inspiring students to become lifelong learners. Students are not just passively learning math; they’re actively participating.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

January 13, 2021) – WeVideo today launched WeVideo Classroom , a cloud-based multimedia creation platform customized for educators to help drive student engagement and ignite deeper learning through the creative process. said Rhonda Jenkins, LMC Director, Kendall Elementary School. Mountain View, Calif.

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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

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

MARCH 31, 2025

The NEA encourages teachers to bring physical activity into the classroom by incorporating brain breaks in students daily routines or taking classroom activities outside. Get feedback, work out any kinks, and get it to the point where the teachers love it before expanding it to other classrooms and/or schools. Teachers loved it.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Let’s teach our students to steer through the online ocean of data to be both effective researchers and responsible digital citizens. These positive learning outcomes make esports popular in secondary grades, with both students and educators advocating for the addition and growth of scholastic esports in their middle and high schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Fun topics keep students engaged in learning, and what better way to pull students in than framing a lesson around Halloween? From vampires and ghost ships to bats and pumpkin facts, it’s easy to craft lessons for students in all grades.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

One reason we chose MidSchoolMath is that the middle grades represent the critical time in a student’s academic career. When the Santa Fe Public School system had to select a new math curriculum last year, they went in search of something that met their pedagogical needs and best served their unique school population.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

With her laptop wirelessly connected to the projector, she can carry it with her while mingling with students as she teaches. In first grade—and in most grade levels—proximity is key. When students see you animated and even physically walking them through a lesson, their engagement is higher.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

During the first year of the robotics program for our K-2 students, I discovered a few keys to be successful when bringing coding to this age group. I started my robotics journey with a lesson for the first- and second-grade enrichment classes, working with two to three robots so that students were working in teams.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2024

Our county funded our literacy program purchase, and because our elementary schools were already using another program from our literacy partner, they were able to transition to the former as soon as they entered sixth grade. Everyone is enrolled in it and the students split their time between math and reading.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Once you see students engaged and learning through play, it clicks and the question goes from how to how do we add more?” For nearly three decades, I used purposeful play in my classroom and have seen firsthand the impact it has on both students and teachers,” said Alicia Miller, a retired elementary school teacher from Evans, GA.

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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. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Ideally, by surpassing compliance goals and student-driven learning, we can get to an even more important goal — critical thinking. Students in grades 6–9 are now 1:1 with iPads as part of our district-wide Project Connect program. The instructor can leave comments for students (i.e.,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

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. 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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Explicit, systematic, personalized instruction science corrects missed learning opportunities, and instills the confidence and positive learning identity all students deserve to develop at school. Within 5 days, everyone just loved KIBO—students and teachers! They were coding, collaborating, and creating.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2017

To help make all of our students aware of the career options available to them, in 2015 I created a virtual career wheel for Kankakee teachers to follow. Each grade focuses on a different segment of careers, so as students move through elementary school they are able to explore a variety of fields and recognize where their interests lie.

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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.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

We are looking forward to supporting Virginia Beach’s students and parents, as well as their dedicated educators, with this new initiative.”. Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, January 19, 2022) — Shawnee Mission School District (SMSD) in Johnson County, Kansas has initiated a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education. The Discovery Education Science Techbook series is a comprehensive, research-backed science solution for grades K-12.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2021

May 5, 2021) — Virginia’s Chesapeake Public Schools (CPS) today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education designed to inspire, engage and empower the district’s 16,300 K-5 students and improve academic achievement. comprehensive, research-backed science solution for grades K-12. The Discovery Education?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

SoWashCo Schools is a suburban district located southeast of St. Paul and serves students across 16 elementary schools, 4 middle schools and three traditional high schools. The Discovery Education Science Techbook series is a comprehensive, research-backed digital science solution for grades K-12.

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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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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. Moulton plays a key role in this phase.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Consequently, for the simulations to be effective learning experiences, I must then teach them the foundational knowledge they should have been taught in younger grades. This can eat up days of instructional time before we’re ready to dive into grade-appropriate topics. This is not just a problem for teachers like me.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

By addressing the different interests and specific needs of students, educators can enhance and improve student engagement. With higher engagement students will spend more time learning. We must involve students in the process and help them set realistic goals and follow through.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation , a Maryland-based Public Charter Organization, we took STEM instruction to the next level by making it the central focus of all of our schools. We are a STEM-based charter school network serving more than 3,900 students in grades K-12 at seven different campuses.

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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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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.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

The heightened stress of COVID-19 has led many teachers to think more critically about their impact on students’ mental wellbeing, and districts around the country are turning toward social-emotional learning as a way to nurture and better support students during this time of isolation and increased anxiety. We are where we are.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

With these resources, district educators are empowered to build real-world learning experiences that connect students to the world around them while preparing them for future success. . The Discovery Education Science Techbook series is a comprehensive, research-backed science solution for grades K-12.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Eventually, Laura became the first full-time teacher with ALVS, and she now connects with students all over the globe. 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.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2016

“The implementation of Tynker coding and the STEM and project-based lessons has led to an amazing shift in our students’ engagement in all grades,” says Jenny Anderson, STEM Coordinator at the Casita Elementary School in Vista Unified School District. 12 STEM courses are included for grades 3-8.

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