Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. My fifth-grade scores were tops in the district,” Szako said.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2022

Nearly everyone remembers the stress of taking a test in school. In fact, around 40 percent of students regularly report experiencing moderate to severe anxiety over tests. Unfortunately, that stress isn’t limited to students in higher grades.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It is the time of year where we analyze the data from the first two months of school, tweak instruction to meet student needs, and accelerate our efforts to help our students achieve as much growth as possible. Your district can purchase a school account and it will provide 24/7 access to around 40,000 books to students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Researchers at the University of Missouri (MU) College of Education have developed a one-item readiness test that can accurately predict kindergartners’ success in school. If a child struggles in kindergarten and falls behind his or her peers, it is very difficult for them to catch up in later grades,” Stormont said.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Meanwhile, just 20% of principals said their school offered the class in eighth grade and that any student could take it. According to a new nationally representative survey released Tuesday, 65% of U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The platform’s curriculum for grades PK-2 is designed according to research-based best practices for effective early literacy instruction and focuses on systematic, structured phonemic awareness and phonics instruction.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2023

According to the latest report from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), fourth- and eighth-grade students’ math scores declined in both grades in most states—marking the largest score decline since the initial assessments in 1990. This year’s World Math Day winners in the United States by grade are: Austin H.,

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. moving away from just using the word “grades” has been an important piece of keeping students motivated in the program.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

– The Social Institute announced that it has expanded its pioneering peer-to-peer learning technology to meet the needs of third-grade students, available starting Fall of 2023. The developmentally appropriate lessons come in response to demand from elementary schools nationwide and the U.S. Durham, N.C.–

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We had added additional phonemic awareness instruction into kindergarten and first grade classrooms, but we knew we still needed to make improvements to our district literacy program to better support our students. Better reading test scores. We had growth data in every elementary school like we’ve never seen before.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2021

With 640 students in grades K-4, our Mississippi elementary school serves a diverse population. In 2020, we were at a point with the third-grade reading test where we weren’t as prepared as we should have been. This is when each grade level focuses on interventions and enrichment.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

As a third-grade teacher, I love that the program gives my students expository text so they can learn about real-world events and are allowed to give their opinion. Michael Kimberlin, third- grade teacher, Pease Elementary School, Austin, Texas. Mary (LA) Parish Schools. “ Bridget Guillot, Title I liaison, St.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

He thought of it as an easy way to leave school for a few hours, but it ended up sparking “an unknown interest in teaching,” he said. Today, the sixth grade math and science teacher at McKinley Elementary School is a quiet rock star. I never looked for ‘gaps’ or ‘learning loss.’

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA– Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today that elementary students from Buchanan County, Virginia School District achieved unprecedented reading gains using Carnegie Learning’s Fast ForWord ® reading and language program. And this program was it.”

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2020

Not even a global pandemic can dampen her enthusiasm when talking about her job as Director of Education Technology in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District (CA), where she serves 22,500 students at twenty-two elementary schools, two intermediate schools, four high schools, one alternative education center, and one adult education center.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Have them create their inventions and test them out. Using this approach, kids get to learn about developing hypotheses (if I do this, I will get that), testing their hypotheses via building prototypes, and observing whether the prototypes work as expected. Want to really promote science to kids so they keep that interest?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Not even a global pandemic can dampen her enthusiasm when talking about her job as Director of Education Technology in the Newport-Mesa Unified School District (CA), where she serves 22,500 students at twenty-two elementary schools, two intermediate schools, four high schools, one alternative education center, and one adult education center.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

Over the course of the three-day event, these highly skilled students were tested on their knowledge of renewable energy, their design and problem-solving skills, and their wind turbines’ energy output by a team of renewable energy educators and industry professionals. The Quilt Blockers from Darlington High School in Darlington, Wis.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

Fully Web-Based Curriculum for Grades K–5 is Intuitively Designed for Modern Classrooms. With student well-being declining after a year of school closures, the need for connection and social-emotional recovery is critical, especially for our nation’s youngest learners. elementary schools. About Second Step® Programs.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2024

The report also cautions that the pandemic’s full effects on high school graduation likely haven’t been felt yet, as the children who struggled in middle and elementary school are still working their way toward a diploma. Members of the class of 2028 were in fourth grade in March 2020 and are currently high school freshmen.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Here’s what educators have to say about the 2023-2024 school year: Improving engagement and test scores with phenomena-based curricula April Pence, Edison High School Last year was my first time using phenomena-based units aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in chemistry.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2021

Palo Alto– Osmo for Schools announces that it has supplied the Cincinnati School District with various Osmo for Schools learning systems which will be implemented into 50 classrooms by the start of the fall semester (August, 2021). Cincinnati schools recently reopened to full-time, in-person learning on April 1. “At

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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

MAY 10, 2019

As the school year winds down, tests and final projects are looming. Grades: 2–12. Shadow Puppet Edu has so many excellent features it’s a creative must-have for elementary school classrooms. Grades: 3–12. Grades: 6–12. Grades: 8–12. Grades: 8–12. Shadow Puppet Edu . Price: Free.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. The eSchool Media K-12 Hero Awards program, sponsored by Trox , recognizes the determined and dedicated efforts of educators throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2018

For the last six years, data has been part of our “secret sauce” here at Bronson Elementary School in Bronson, Fla. Many of our students come from economically disadvantaged homes so we know we need to continually work harder than most schools to help our students succeed academically—and data helps us do this.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2017

Unbeknownst to parents, all first-grade classes in a suburban Los Angeles elementary school were successfully taught by teacher robots during the 2015-2016 school year. Only one parent was in on the secret. The frontal lobe controls problem solving, self-monitoring, organization, and attention/concentration.

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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

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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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2023

When he was a first grader at Rivermont Elementary School, Mason was overwhelmed by his emotions. Mason Rollins, right, listens to a mindfulness lesson in his fourth grade class about reducing test-taking anxiety. But that was before Mason was introduced to a program at school that focuses on student well-being. “I

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

It’s no wonder that there has been a surge of interest in having students, particularly those in grades K through 12, learn computer science. Finally, you get to play, test, tweak, and share, (or not). Code Studio offers a 20 hour-long coding course for elementary school students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2019

Now in its 14th year, the competition involves thousands of high school juniors and seniors committing 14 consecutive hours on a designated weekend in March to come up with a solution to a real-world problem using mathematical modeling. “If

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Math selfies, QR codes, and Kahoot games enrich one school. The district launched the program this school year, supplying 42 teachers across all grade levels and subject areas with iPad Minis, Google Chromebooks or laptops for a cost of about $475,000. ” “They have their benchmark (test).

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2022

SplashLearn announced Matthew Norris’ class from Sunset Park Elementary, North Carolina as the National Champions of SpringBoard Math Challenge 2022, US. The 1st runner-up was Lisa Machado’s class from Pacific Union School, California and the 2nd runner-up was Erin Noel’s class from Petersburg Elementary School, Illinois.

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