Edsurge

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. The effect is further exacerbated in high school, where in many states, students encounter U.S. history and civics for the first time as upperclassmen.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In the world of nonfiction, students are starting to learn about race and history through books like Unspeakable: The Tulsa Race Massacre , We Are Still Here! My #BritReads favorite for upper elementary school is a throwback to my childhood.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

Explore the ways that our present continues to be shaped by our collective past through a powerful glimpse at the Armenian Genocide, an important and often overlooked chapter of history. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades-3-12.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

One of my elementary school teachers saw beyond that label. Each of our situations was unique, but the label was the same. The label didn’t capture my potential, my dreams, or my resilience; it just categorized me for funding and accountability purposes.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

The solutions dashboard notification history helps us distribute the right number of communications–like knowing when to use targeted Smart Alerts for parent and guardian communication–versus sending correspondence to the entire school. Access to data, metrics and analytics.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

They all have clear ideas about what they want to do after high school, and their VHS Learning courses played a pivotal role in helping them pursue those goals. Lilly Brunnick from Newburyport High School in Massachusetts won one of the two $1,000 scholarships. Hailey Kriz from Westborough High School in Massachusetts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Victor Machado, an ESL teacher at East Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, won the $10,000 grand prize, along with a schoolwide semester’s subscription to Rosetta Stone English. Maxwell Elementary School in Tennessee, won for creating a Super Families workshop series program and celebrating her ELL first-graders’ “superpowers.”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

EdSurge connected with Heitner to talk about what she’s learned and what advice she gives educators at all levels, from elementary school through college. My son's high school is obsessed with getting us to check Canvas, which is [the learning management system] they use, and it's where all the assignments are.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At the time, I had just finished my Teach For America commitment at my placement school, Miami Northwestern Senior High School, where I had the benefit of working in a historically Black community at a public high school with a majority Black staff and leadership team with members who looked like me.

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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. . The ability to handle and examine historical objects contributes in many ways to making history lessons more interesting. . A Revolutionized Classroom.

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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. Kids should see characters in the texts that they read that are diverse.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and walked through an exhibit that highlights the history of the building as well as former President John F. As a music teacher and the coordinator for the Academy for the Fine Arts at Governor Thomas Johnson High School, I consider myself fortunate. How Did We Get Here?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The implementation also helped address challenges with certifications and staffing for their early college high school and STEM high school–when they no longer had a university partner providing physical education credits, Edmentum filled that gap with highly qualified, state-certified teachers and award-winning curriculum.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Robert Groven, director of the Minnesota Urban Debate League, has been coaching high school debate competitions for more than 30 years, and he’s noticed a marked shift in student behavior in the past decade or so. Deborah Appleman: I [used to be] a high school English teacher, but at Carleton I'm in the educational studies department.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2021

Explore the ways that our present continues to be shaped by our collective past through a powerful glimpse at the Armenian Genocide, an important and often overlooked chapter of history. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades-3-12.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

I was raised in Round Rock, Texas, the only Black student in my elementary school. I remember how hard my parents fought to get me and my brother into accelerated math, how my mother was the only parent of color on the school’s steering committee, and yet I was brought up to believe that race didn’t matter.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2022

It’s been extremely difficult,” said Michael Brown, a high school principal in Westminster, Maryland, and president of the Maryland Association for Secondary School Principals. Few principals would dispute that the last three school years have been the most taxing of their career.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2016

Lowe’s grants to SkillsUSA chapters will serve schools and communities nationwide. Lowe’s , the largest corporate donor in SkillsUSA history, has renewed its partnership with a $1.5 Norwalk High School, Norwalk, Calif. — $24,600: Students will upgrade their culinary classroom with more equipment and food prep space.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

With nearly 100 years of history and a forward-thinking approach, Gulliver Prep stands alone as Miamis school of choice, preparing students for a dynamic and diverse world. Simon Hess, President of Gulliver Prep Unlocking Potential Every great school is built on one foundation: exceptional teachers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

He declined to say how many schools he’s sold to so far. Educational customers listed on the company website include Mercury Mine Elementary School in Phoenix, Oakland Academy in Portage, Mich., and Eisenhower High School in Lawton, Okla. When the company last raised money in 2016, Phillippov had a staff of 12.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The story by John Woodrow Cox follows 10-year-old Uvalde survivor Caitlyne Gonzales as she seeks to heal from the horrors of the May massacre she witnessed in her elementary school classroom. Do you love history? If you said yes to either, you should definitely check out Puppet History. Do you love puppets?

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

Born and raised in Alaska, Cardoza enrolled in college right after high school to pursue a career in dentistry. She enrolled in an online undergraduate program to pursue her bachelor’s degree, with plans to become a high school social studies teacher. After high school, I decided to go the dental route, which was … fine.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2023

A view of Mater Dei Catholic High School in Chula Vista, California during wildfires in September 2020. I’m tired of living through history,” a student complained. In it, he discussed why he advocated for sad scenes to be included in his picture book " Love ", which I’d brought with me to school that day.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

On my school tours, I see second- and third-grade students who are not interested in giving a report or reading a book out loud. And they’re learning history without even knowing it. About 8000 students in our middle and high school 1:1 take-home laptop program use Minecraft.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We’re excited to bring you more episodes this year, including more installments in our new series about growing public skepticism about higher education and the impact that is having on the choices students make after high school. If you have a suggestion for a topic or guest for 2024, please send that my way at jeff@edsurge.com.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Current Grade School year (2021-2022) Last Full, Cohesive, COVID-Free Grade (2018-19) 12th9th11th8th10th7th9th6th8th5th7th4th6th3rd5th2nd4th1st3rdK2ndPK1st- One of us, Glenn, teaches 10th grade history, and the last time his students had a non-mask wearing, COVID free school year was in seventh grade.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

We had three schools performing academically in the bottom five percent in the state—they were the lowest of the lowest. And this past year two of those schools came off the list! Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools. Algebra 1 — In 2018, 19.8%

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2017

Current statistics show that scholars of color and females are underrepresented in STEM fields across the country, and so FWPS is actively taking steps to provide STEM and STEAM (STEM with an emphasis on the arts) opportunities for each scholar from kindergarten through high school graduation. STEM Exploration Night.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. As the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

In the state’s 600 elementary schools, there were fewer than 200 Black men teaching. “So So a vast majority of the elementary schools in South Carolina did not have a single Black male teacher,” Jones says. By mandating school desegregation, Brown v. Starting in 1954, all that changed.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

“Sometimes things get very isolating just because you're in the confines of your own classroom…teachers don't necessarily share things with one another, especially when it involves a traumatic situation such as this,” said Oakland, California elementary school teacher Nikita Gibbs, referring to the upheaval due to the pandemic. “It

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

Yet the large majority of California’s public high schools don’t offer dedicated computer science or computer programming courses, according to a Sacramento Bee review of teacher assignment data from the California Department of Education. There are roughly 2 million public high school students in California.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

Clifford Crone Middle School, Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204 Samarth Mahapatra , Marietta, Ga., Dodgen Middle School, Cobb County High School Area 1 Snigtha Mohanraj , West Haven, Conn., Engineering and Science University Magnet School, New Haven Public School District Veda Murthy , Herndon, Va.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

A couple of years ago, my high school students created their own scavenger hunt with QR codes , and loved learning from one another that way. High Hope #2: Project-Based Learning That is Real-World Where we are: Students are tackling simulated scenarios via project-based learning in classrooms across the country.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2020

Tech tools often seem focused on core classroom subjects like math, science, and history. Many forget the wealth of webtools available for classes many schools call ‘Specials’–those that round out a student’s day and prepare them for college and career. Save as a high-quality image or a printable PDF.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

To foster a culture of growth mindset, I combined both explicit and implicit teaching through literature, science and history—and list technologies that I’ve used to push growth mindset even further. Jennifer Guido ( @missguidoedu ) is a Third Grade Teacher at Shields Elementary School in the Cape Henlopen School District in Delaware.

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