eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Woodcrest Elementary School. Fullerton School District. What motivated you to become a Special Education teacher? Related content: How this high school choir director managed remote learning. Before the schools closed, what did a typical day look like? Karina Tran.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Wong says her team realized through those conversations that high schools and elementary schools had plenty of data-literacy resources to draw from. It was middle school that experienced a gap. That really motivated our focus toward middle school teachers and students,” Wong says. “We

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

For high school students, building strong student-teacher relationships is key. Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School motivates students with in-building celebrations and events, including field trips, quarterly dances, and bike raffles, all linked to student attendance. ” You have to get on it right away, Paproth said.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma. For years, the school had been searching for ways to reverse the pattern of disengagement, build motivation to complete schoolwork and get students over that finish line at graduation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Her overarching goal is to ensure every student has access to job readiness education in their K-12 educational career and every senior has a seamless transition into their best-fit post-high school experiences. “She is a phenomenal asset to our district, and we are so proud of her and the amazing work she leads.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Wizprodigy is a new and exciting online STEM competition focused on inspiring middle school and high school students across North America to learn coding and to build their own design of a mini Tesla Cybertruck. Find out more at [link].

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

It’s incredibly heartening to see that despite an ongoing pandemic and social and political unrest, schools and districts across the U.S. are motivated to improve teaching and learning in new environments and adopt strategies that promote social justice,” said Matt Kennard, CEO of BetterLesson.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to. I was a senior in high school when the pandemic started.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

RIF will continue to align our model based on complementing the science of reading with the critical element of the joy of reading which will be especially important as educators look for ways to motivate and encourage greater frequency and engagement in reading. We must bolster our collective faith that this is a problem we can solve.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

High school students in need of advanced mathematics courses need look no further than Stanford University. “This course follows a high level curriculum developed in my department to prepare Stanford undergraduate students for math, data science, AI, engineering, and all other quantitative disciplines.

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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. For instance, students at Van Ness Elementary school in Washington, D.C.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2024

For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school. In 10th grade, for some extra cash, Campbell signed up to tutor elementary school students through a literacy program in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. What motivates them? What worries them?

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We were in an older junior high model. We added 36 classrooms to our high school and brought our ninth-graders up. At the high school we put in a fabrication lab that has 3D printers , laser etchers and a CNC router. . Each of our 10 elementary schools has a digital learning specialist.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

As a music teacher and the coordinator for the Academy for the Fine Arts at Governor Thomas Johnson High School, I consider myself fortunate. In my district, for example, elementary students spend an average of 300 hours a year engaged in arts-based instruction including music, visual art, theater and movement.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

I started my first college advising session with Marcus with the same question I always asked: “If you could do anything after high school knowing that you would be successful, financially secure, and your friends and family would support you, what would you do?” His speed of response surprised me.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

When he was in high school, Zachary Farley latched onto the idea of becoming a teacher. This path seemed like the best way to blend his love of linguistics with his interest in teaching — that is, until he took a job as a paraprofessional at an elementary school in his hometown of Corona, California.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2024

The 10 future teachers we interviewed span different geographies, backgrounds, education experiences and motivations. Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Each story — each person — is unique.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Another was a push to prepare future teachers specifically for those young learners, rather than for elementary schools more broadly. “We Right now in most states the floor of expectation is: high school diploma, finger-printed and free of tuberculosis,” Evans Allvin says. Some are new to the pandemic.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

Though there are a number of strong language programs across the country, a 2016 report published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences showed evidence of declines in foreign language course offerings in elementary schools and middle schools over the years. Census Bureau, 78 percent of the U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Written by Federico , the Dean of Innovation at a high school in Florida. Federico’s school has a 1:1 device environment and uses project-based learning elements. EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented MasteryConnect? MasteryConnect : . TodaysMeet.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Good video games are incredibly effective at capturing our attention, converting extrinsic rewards into intrinsic motivation, and creating meaningful experiences. If we’re going to make school relevant to today’s students, we must learn to leverage play in new ways. Games fulfill different core psychological needs.

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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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

One study from nonprofit organization America’s Promise Alliance found that young people who dropped out of high school were far more likely to report that they did not reach out to anyone for help when they had trouble in school. Schools of course are no stranger to the power of relationships that studies like these highlight.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2023

After a stint as a restaurant server, eight years working as a community crisis liaison, and the last three years as a restorative interventionist in a public high school, he’s learned how to read people, how to build their trust, and how to form meaningful connections with them. Is there a specific memory or story associated with it?

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

From elementary school to varsity-level competition, student-athletes learn teamwork, communication, and the value of perseverance. This means students can take university-level courses while still in high school, getting a head start on their college journey at no additional cost. The result?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2019

SSR also offers a multitude of advantages when it comes to student motivation, preparation for the workforce and, most importantly, comprehension. Psst.intrinsic motivation theorists hate it!) Motivation for reading begins to decline in the fourth grade, and dips to its lowest point in high school.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Motivated by her teaching experiences and the critical connection between teacher wellness and student social-emotional learning, Nankin formed Breathe For Change—a movement to empower educators as champions of well-being. They came across Breathe For Change’s new two-day SEL*F certification, and sent 19 high-school teachers to participate.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2022

Schools have begun to recognize the value of esports, with more than 8,600 US high schools having started video-gaming teams since 2018. The gameplay creates instant engagement and motivates learners to quickly level up their coding skills. The code editor offers helpful nudges to novice programmers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

When there is no connection between learning practices taught in elementary, middle and high school, teachers do not recognize the importance of what they are doing. I talked to an elementary school teacher at a Boston meetup, and she put together a whole personalized learning system for grades K-3.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2018

Now I’m back in my old Chicago neighborhood, and in some ways, it’s worse: Of the young men I deal with, very few have high school diplomas. In other words, for every dollar we invest in high-quality pre-K, dropout rates decline. None have graduated from college. Here are six lessons that those experiences have taught me.

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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. I didn’t know what type of community or school environment I was going to be in.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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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

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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