Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. For this project, students invite teachers, school leaders and families to engage in the conversation.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Barrow Elementary School, we have a project which takes all these things into account. Every student has a voice in the project, no matter if they are in general education, special education, gifted, English as a second language, or early-intervention programs. And those voices reach the world.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. As the U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

The Odeum games focus on Social Studies, Language Arts, and Foreign Languages for grades 6 through 12. We want to bring the excitement of field trips into our classrooms, so the students can experience history or literature rather than just memorize words and dates.

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Failure Schools Social Studies Elementary School 133

Edsurge

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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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

The latest cohort, unveiled over two days at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif., featured 124 companies from 18 countries—marking the largest class in the accelerator’s history. with teachers using its materials on a monthly basis in 20 percent of elementary schools. million in revenues this year and $1.5

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. Schools are realizing that many of their teachers were not taught this approach to instruction. –Jason Carroll, Chief Product Officer, Texthelp.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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Coaching Fairness Elementary School Elementary School 159

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2018

Rayna Freedman is a 5th-grade teacher at Jordan/Jackson Elementary School in Mansfield, Mass. This past school year, she started piloting a Google Home in her classroom. For its part, Google tells EdSurge that the company is currently focused on making the Google Home “experience exceptional in the home.” That wasn’t happening.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

One pair of kids from his class ended up comparing the person with the most toes in history to the person with the fewest toes. Just like when learning sports, language or music, structured practice is really important for math, Barbara Oakley, distinguished professor of engineering for Oakland University, wrote in an email to EdSurge.

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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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Science Art Knowledge Grades 174

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

Inside the Quest to Detect (and Tame) ChatGPT Even before ChatGPT was released, AI experts were exploring how to detect language written by this new kind of bot. How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students.

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Instructors Attention Lecturing Essay 139

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2019

And all students in a school should be able to use the bathroom that matches their gender identity, with an option for a gender-neutral bathroom if that student chooses. Do you have any language that you recommend that schools use with parents, or how do schools convey this?

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Schools Students Language Languages 161

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Her commitment and advocacy drove the expansion of Hazel services to include both in-home and at-school mental health support, plus the addition of elementary schools to the program. His dedication to excellence and steady support have created a culture of achievement and growth at Clover High School.

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Education Math Reading Secondary Education 287

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

Due to a schoolwide initiative, my behavior “clip chart” system ended, and in turn, school rules were replaced with a language that promoted growth mindset. I was determined to epitomize this with my students and end hearing the dreaded, “I can’t do this”-esque language that can sometimes plague a lesson or project.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

One can easily imagine an Epic Rap Battle of History between the Luddites and Futurists on this very topic. An 8th grade World History teacher at Prescott South Middle School in Cookeville, Tenn., Has a more hotly debated or wholly unanswerable question ever been posed?

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Technology History Coaching Elementary School 110

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Perhaps the largest was underestimating the differences between starting a school from scratch from taking over a school with its own students, history and challenges. “We The makeup of classrooms are changing and increasingly we have classrooms with multi-language learners,” said Holzapfel.

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Failure Language Languages Elementary School 132

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Amani Ghusein Ghusein, who teaches science to grades 3 through 8 at Dawes Elementary School, caught the surprise announcement made on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that cryptocurrency and finance company Ripple had made a huge donation to fund every project on education crowdfunding site DonorsChoose. She was glad she did.

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Teachers Elementary School Elementary School Special Education 140

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. To create compelling video arguments, student teams interviewed experts in economic development, researched state history and geography, and even wrote poems to sing the praises of their region.

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Skills Critical Thinking Communication Gamification 167

Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2017

The history is important to understand. government operated boarding schools in Native communities with the explicit purpose of destroying ties between students and their Native cultures. At STAR, our challenge is to prepare our students for the 21st century while also honoring their unique cultural identity. For many decades, the U.S.

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Culture History STEM Blended Learning 107

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

As these tools become more integrated into the classroom, teachers will want to ensure that all students, including those with disabilities or language barriers, are being supported. Schools are realizing that many of their teachers were not taught this approach to instruction. –Jason Carroll, Chief Product Officer, Texthelp.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 297

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Letkiewicz: As an elementary school teacher, I'm really interested in how we can use AI in classrooms and the tools we can give teachers to make learning more engaging for students, especially this year for the schools that are going all online. EdSurge: How has your experience with AI Explorations impacted your practice?

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Intelligence Education Assignments Middle School 189

eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2016

Students are almost 20 times as likely to take Advanced Placement English language or literature as they are to take AP computer science. All told, about 35,000 California public high school students were enrolled in courses dedicated to computer programming or computer science last school year, state figures show.

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Science Laboratory Math English 108

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

We saw how having the language to talk about difficult experiences —such as prolonged exposure to intense stress and collective trauma—serves as a critical first step in being able to acknowledge, process and face these widespread events. Even hailing from vastly different corners of the U.S., in an interview.

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Culture Education Schools Communication 189

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 360

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

For example: Describe in neutral language what the story is trying to accomplish. She trains coaches who work with the state’s elementary school teachers to improve reading and writing instruction. The answer was something more robust than Microsoft Word’s tracked changes or Google Docs’ version history, but along those lines.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

There is a long history [at St. Paul Public Schools] of meeting the needs of students who are marginalized for their sexual orientation or gender identity,” explains Clark Hoelscher, a program specialist for Out for Equity, now housed in Saint Paul Public Schools’ Department of Equity. “The

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Curriculum Students English Language 107

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 19, 2025

By the middle of elementary school, it is assumed that most students have basic decoding skills they know how to turn letters into sounds and sounds into words, but reading is a lot more than saying the words on the page. But many of them don’t really know how to do that.

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Reading Knowledge English Feedback 114

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 7, 2025

Subjects: English Language Arts, Science, Writing Address Common Core State Standards for writing with an inquiry-based learning activity that works for any lesson. Help students use their inquiry skills in social studies classes, including history, sociology, and world cultures.

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Social Studies Learning Math Writing 80

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

That place, for a history nerd like myself, is truly one of the most mindblowing cities in the world. When I realized many of my students knew a lot about Ataturk but nothing about other famous figures like Nelson Mandela or Anne Frank, something inside me would not settle for just teaching these kids a language.

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Education Special Education Middle School Middle School 122

k12

APRIL 14, 2025

Elementary students begin to explore the world around them, ask big questions, and develop the critical thinking skills that make STEM subjects so exciting. At K12, we know that early exposure to elementary school STEM education helps students build confidence, creativity, and a love for discovery that lasts a lifetime.

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STEM Science Elementary School Elementary School 52

Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

In addition to educational performance, school districts should also be looking at student feedback, surveys, classroom behavior, and social skills. For example, a school with a high number of English as an additional language (EAL) students might focus on targeted support for reading and language skills.

Education 52

Education Learning Styles Special Education Feedback 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Gamification Intelligence Reading Ethics 130

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2020

Geri Zamora , a high school history teacher who nearly lost a student to COVID-19. Kristen Stein , an elementary school teacher who enjoyed remote learning more than expected. She was diagnosed with severe dyslexia and ADHD in third grade, and her elementary school years were shaped by those learning challenges.

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Teachers Grades Elementary School Elementary School 217

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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Essay Education Culture Elementary School 167

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2020

He started his career as an elementary school teacher. Then he became a high school guidance counselor and dean of students. After that, he founded his own public middle school in the Bronx and served as its principal for 10 years. So this is all systemic racism and how it manifests in our schools.

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Education Schools Middle School Middle School 178

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2024

For example, 69 percent of Democrats said a book about “same-sex penguin adoption” — an obvious nod to “And Tango Makes Three” — would be appropriate for elementary school while only 24 percent of Republicans agreed. By political party, 55 percent of Democrats and 32 percent of Republicans said it would be appropriate.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Participation 216