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? and Canada—is a?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The deal provides 83 elementary schools and 17 high schools with access to IXL’s award-winning program to supplement instruction in math and English language arts. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Had things gone according to plan, every public school student in Los Angeles would be working on his or her own iPad by now and textbooks would be largely a thing of the past. 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

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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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

APRIL 3, 2022

The contest enables communities to vote for their elementary school to win $10,000 that can be used for critical educator resources that teach kids how to earn, save, spend, and donate. The contest is open through June 17, 2022, and communities can find more resources for elementary students at cha-chingusa.org. .

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APRIL 25, 2017

McComb School District down in McComb, Mississippi doesn’t just believe in the power of technology when it comes to personalized learning. At Summit, “scholars” are grouped by readiness and performance—not by traditional grade levels—and indicate evidence of mastery by completing projects at their own pace.

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MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. But they weren’t reading from a textbook. This can eat up days of instructional time before we’re ready to dive into grade-appropriate topics. They were roleplaying.

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MAY 8, 2023

And the latest national assessment scores in 4th and 8th grade were historically low , a troubling early sign that more students may get stuck when they encounter more advanced mathematics in high school and college, possibly deterring them from pursuing STEM studies. I have a daughter who's in fifth grade right now.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, May 20, 2021) —Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District (VWSD) today launched a new multiyear partnership with Discovery Education that helps educators connect current classroom instruction to students’ possible future career paths.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. Something broke in American education these past years.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12. The Be Vape Free initiative has at its core the proven-effective CATCH My Breath program which equips students in Grades 5-12 with the science-based background knowledge and practical refusal skills necessary to avoid risky behaviors like vaping.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

A school is more than just classrooms and textbooks; its a place where young minds take shape, dreams take flight, and lifelong connections are made. At Gulliver Preparatory School , this sentiment has held true for nearly a century. Krutulis, becoming a symbol of academic excellence in South Florida.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Flashlight reading at Golden Grove Elementary School. Linda EdgecombGolden Grove Elementary School students using Reading Plus.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

One reason why was the need in North Texas for thousands more people trained to serve children from birth through third grade. Another was a push to prepare future teachers specifically for those young learners, rather than for elementary schools more broadly. “We So far, interest has been high.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” As with any distance learning program, teachers at the school level are also reviewing content before they are assigned, similarly to how textbooks are used for instruction.”

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But for Fisher, theres a reason that students in later grades often question why they are learning math. These days, almost every math curriculum in early childhood and elementary school includes games, usually a board or dice game, says Yvonne Liu-Constant, a practitioner specialist for Project Zero. Another Word for Fun?

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. California] Connor Chin, Ocean Grove Charter School, Private.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. As they transition from first grade, to second, to third, their classroom devices change, too. The cohort consisted of three elementary schools (including Rogers Elementary), one middle school and a new high school that had only ninth graders.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

First up is Mimi Kasner, principal at Francis Scott Key Elementary School in San Francisco. I switched to a whole different major and became a computer technology teacher in an elementary school. Once I had first grade student, a little girl, who came to our school in Kindergarten. I said, “What do you mean?”

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2021

The second fastest-growing school district in Indiana, Perry Township Schools serves nearly 16,700 students across two early learning academies, four kindergarten academies, eleven elementary schools, two middle schools, two sixth grade academies, two high schools, and one alternative learning program.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

PPS is a thriving, urban school division serving more than 13,300 students. The district consists of three high schools, three middle schools, and 13 elementary schools, as well as preschool, alternative school, and adult education facilities. comprehensive, research-backed science solution for grades K-12.

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JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. Instead of relying on textbooks and teacher direction, these students had to think critically about unfolding events, collaborate with peers and adults, and make creative use of digital tools to communicate their ideas.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

We will see more districts leveraging real-time data so families can understand more than just what their child’s grades are. School-home communications will focus on driving meaningful results, promoting student success, and engaging all families. And on top of that, mental health needs are at an all-time high.

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k12 Digest

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Over the years, the campus has evolved with cutting-edge resources like an Innovation Lab and Technology Learning Lab, ensuring students in grades 1-8 are equipped with Chromebooks and a robust STEM curriculum. From the transition between 4th and 5th grade, students’ growth is tracked closely.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2017

Say you want to be an elementary school teacher, for example, but are worried about math. For example, using an internal DreamBox metric called “growth points,” third grade students whose teachers accessed our PD modules on three or more occasions progressed 25.4 growth points compared to 18.7

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. In fact, in the book, Steve is quoted saying, "If I could put one computer in a school and one person would find that computer, it would change their life." Before school, recess, lunch, after school.’ Now the school had a dilemma.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

elementary schools.”. For example, the Common Core Standards for grades K-5 require students to be familiar with a range of text types from diverse cultures and time periods. In the end, it’s the teacher that makes the difference—not the textbook, or in this case, the basal reader. In the End.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

Many years before formally learning about how gears work, playing with gears “did more mathematical development than anything I was taught in elementary school,” he wrote, noting that he later created mental gear-driven multiplication tables and equations with variables.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

We will see more districts leveraging real-time data so families can understand more than just what their child’s grades are. School-home communications will focus on driving meaningful results, promoting student success, and engaging all families. And on top of that, mental health needs are at an all-time high.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

It’s popular to predict the death of the textbook—and these days even textbook providers seem eager to move away from their age-old publishing model. Perhaps we’re in the zombie phase of textbook publishing, when commercial texts are walking corpses that never get fully eradicated. What do you mean by textbook?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Whereas once they had to wait until honors high school courses, students of all levels are now introduced to primary sources in elementary school. The C3 Framework for Social Studies State Standards —already half a decade old—offers a guide on how to build source skills across the grades. That’s no surprise.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Teach the Brain's Biology We rightly think of the brain as the center of knowledge, and yet we often don’t spend enough time teaching students about how the brain works—especially in the elementary and middle grades. This belief makes it difficult to instill the idea that SEL concepts can be taught.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2025

Manuel Sanchez was a veteran math teacher with three decades of experience when his Chicago elementary school tapped him to be an academic interventionist. Students who leave elementary school as poor readers may struggle the rest of their academic careers. But at first he felt lost in his new role.

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