eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A K-2 literacy coach at Rose Hamilton Elementary School in Centerville, Frame is part of the first cohort of educators that trained in reading science practices as part of the Indiana Literacy Cadre. This opens up a world of knowledge and imagination. What’s your favorite lesson to teach and why?

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2019

As the school year winds down, tests and final projects are looming. Class presentations can be a great way for students to synthesize knowledge, practice public speaking, and interact with their classmates. Shadow Puppet Edu has so many excellent features it’s a creative must-have for elementary school classrooms.

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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

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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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S. Yet despite my success using reenactments and roleplaying, students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

It’s no secret that over the years and due to more standardized testing, science has become a backburner subject in many American elementary schools. So how do we empower teachers with the knowledge, time, and tools they need to not only teach STEM topics, but also do so with vigor and passion?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In “ Timesaving Strategies for Selecting Interventions for Struggling Readers ,” Cindy Kanuch, reading specialist at Calhan Elementary School, presented tips on working to address skill deficits in the most efficient and effective manner, which in some situations can help students improve in as soon as one to two weeks.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Our districts, Imagine Schools and Carbondale Elementary School District #95 (CES), might not seem to have much in common at first glance. Helping” students to answer test questions does not really help them at all. Overall, testing went very well, but we hit a little trouble especially with second grade remote testing.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

The company’s equity framework ensures that a solid structure exists from which to test, address, and mitigate bias in all areas, from data processing and model building to product design and evaluation activities. With Phonics, Reading, and Me, students build skills and knowledge and connect the text to their own diverse experiences.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Almost three-quarters of knowledge workers plan to leave their jobs if they don’t get enough flexibility. Flexibility is particularly important for the younger workers schools need to hire for the future. Recent needs for COVID-19 testing, helping family members and emergency child care have emphasized this disparity.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy’s support for the arts was admirable, but unfortunately, due to a number of societal factors, it wasn’t enough to increase arts education offerings for students in public schools. I watched as the focus on academic subjects tied to standardized tests eliminated elective slots in student schedules.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Here’s the problem: In spite of the relative success of programs like Code.org and CS4ALL, the latest data from the College Board show that only 28 percent of the AP Computer Science test-takers in 2018 were women. Ensuring that every teacher has the knowledge and resources to provide a quality computing education is key.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

.” Peres, an advocate for student-led initiatives, has played an instrumental role in establishing and developing two student stores that provide clothing and other branded items to the high school, middle and elementary schools within the district.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Despite many state standardized tests following the cookie-cutter approach of one-size-fits-all testing, educators every day are personalizing learning to meet the needs of individual students, meeting them at the intersection of their learning styles and the resources available to them.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills. not noticeable overtly).

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2021

Second Step programs are research-based, teacher-informed, and classroom-tested, and promote the social-emotional development, safety, and well-being of children from Early Learning through Grade 8. elementary schools. By lifting up children today, we’re helping them create a safe and positive society for the future.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

While enthusiasm can fade with age, at Qualcomm he noticed middle school students would still snap to attention when it came to the jobs they could one day have, the money they could make and their own interests. At the end, test-takers are given three such interest codes—the first of which, known as the “leading” code, is the most important.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Students from the county apply to the program of their choice during eighth grade, a process that involves taking an admissions test; submitting transcripts, teacher recommendations and a personal video; and entering a lottery, since demand is high. They evaluated the museum’s education program and worked together to design a new curriculum.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

It focused on absences in early elementary school, between kindergarten and second grade. Regardless, for the researchers, the study adds to a knowledge base about larger classroom dynamics. When a student misses school, he says, that has a ripple effect on everyone else in the classroom.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 3, 2025

Rather than asking for help, I sought knowledge relentlesslyreading leadership books, earning my master’s in public administration, and building a network of mentors who helped shape my growth. For example, Ruby Bridges, the first African American child to integrate an elementary school, is only 70 years old today.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

And what’s preventing that knowledge from making it into classrooms where students are falling behind? We’re not preparing teachers well in math, especially at the elementary level, says Yasemin Copur-Gencturk, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California, whose research focuses on teacher education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Its because when instruction is devised for tests its not sensitive to whether the knowledge it imparts is long-lasting, Fisher says. So more fun can be helpful, provided it builds on pathways of automatic math knowledge in students brains. Unsurprisingly, this exerts different pressures on teachers than public schools.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

Rapid Growth Byju’s got its start by delivering what students and their families would readily pay for: Test prep. Cofounder Byju Raveendran built a reputation as a compelling and successful tutor, helping students gear up to take India’s Common Admission Test, the entrance exam for the country’s top graduate management schools.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson. Mark Hess has served in a variety of roles since he was hired in 1993 by Walled Lake Consolidated School District in Walled Lake, Michigan. Her work is innovative and pushes boundaries–and she’s great at sharing her knowledge with others!

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

When it comes to assessing student knowledge levels, data has empowered more schools to choose formative assessments versus summative assessments. . When the learner’s understanding is deep enough, the skills and knowledge transfer to new situations. The evidence gathered should provide information about that transfer.

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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. We are pleased to have helped these talented students gain the life skills and knowledge they need to take the next step in their academic journey.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

To deal with the challenges of today and tomorrow, we need to equip the next generation with the skills and knowledge necessary to adapt and overcome these challenges. This school year, one of the biggest challenges for school administrators has been trying to work through the ongoing challenges of the pandemic.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

The school received federal funding that included money for classroom technology. Starting in the fall of 2011, Burns spent two years working in a one-to-one environment with tablets in an elementary school setting. Sometimes the testing app becomes a part of the decision, and I think that’s unfortunate. Amy Brown, M.Ed.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Transcend does this in three ways: building and replicating new school models, developing a community of talented individuals that can support school model redesign, and sharing knowledge on school model redesign. The first Greenfield Schools launched in August 2015 in New Haven, CT.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2019

My first year of teaching began in the stifling basement classroom of a public elementary school in a part of Newark, N.J., That fall, I found myself watching a young woman, we’ll call Omayra, through the glass doors of the school. They conflated this vision with scores on standardized tests. In the U.S.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Several teachers in New York started the effort around a decade ago, and Zearn is now used by a quarter of elementary school students and more than a million middle school students around the country, according to sign-on figures tracked by the group.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

When it first opened its doors in 2004 as a part of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the organization took a leading role in opening charter schools across the city—130 of them, to be exact. At the heart of the platform is the school search database , which can be viewed in both map and table fom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2022

Students can start as early as upper elementary school with programs like Ozaria , a narrative adventure game that sets a foundation of core computer science (CS) concepts. With a basic knowledge of coding, anyone can step into the arena. Code powers the strategies and tactics in battle.

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