Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C., These biases manifest in various ways, such as underestimating Black students math abilities and providing less encouragement. Hind Haddad, an Arabic language teacher in Columbus, Ohio, experienced many microaggressions as a Muslim educator.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced a three-year agreement with Austin Independent School District to bring its adaptive software to approximately 70,000 students. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Algebra is often considered a gateway class.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. She currently serves as the principal of Austin Steward Elementary School #46 in Rochester, New York.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

This paradigm shift could revolutionize how schools, students, and families approach this critical aspect of education. Imagine a world where attendance is taught with the same rigor and methodology as math or science. students speak a language other than English at home, and approximately 16 percent of children live in poverty.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

/PRNewswire/ — IXL, the award-winning personalized learning platform used by 16 million students, has been named a High Quality Evidence-Based Instructional Material for Early Literacy by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA– Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today that elementary students from Buchanan County, Virginia School District achieved unprecedented reading gains using Carnegie Learning’s Fast ForWord ® reading and language program. That’s major.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

A “full support school” since 2018, we were dealing with some major challenges. I learned about Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling Suite (LETRS) from my mentor principal at the state department, which works with schools like Central Elementary to establish the specific benchmarks that each Alabama school must reach.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

The following selection of no-cost digital resources created with social impact partners connect families to engaging learning experiences: Inspire the next generation of solution seekers with STEM and math-specific family activities from the STEM Careers Coalition. The contest is open through June 17, 2022.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

” The two schools in the study are an elementary school and middle school in Schiller Park, Illinois, which reflect similar demographics to many schools across the country.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2017

School has always been a place for learning math, science, history, and art, but now it’s also becoming the place for students to learn other skills that are crucial to their future success and happiness, no matter where they end up. I am the principal of Chattahoochee Elementary School in Cumming, GA.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Our country is home to a wide range of diverse and vibrant cultures, and it’s important that we acknowledge and value the languages these students already bring with them when they enter U.S. The situation is compounded by an anticipation of a dire shortage of teachers, particularly in math and special education. –Dr.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis. –Dr. .

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

This year, we will use video as an informal look at the level of math conversations going on in their classrooms.”. Barb Corna, lead academic specialist for the Accelerate Math program. Northwood Elementary School, Napa, Calif. Lisa Keith, blended learning specialist, Guilford County (NC) School District.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in math education. Falling behind in math can have long term consequences, since the subject can function as a gateway into STEM careers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

Code.org ’s free online courses teach programming languages or how to create games, apps, and websites. Katie Blagden, K-4 STEAM educator and coach, Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School, Beverly, Mass. Lesa Wang, STEAM teacher, Marymount Lower Middle School, New York, NY. They especially love dancing with him.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Illustrative Mathematics (IM) and Family Engagement Lab have partnered to bridge classroom curriculum and at-home learning in elementary school mathematics. Through this partnership, Family Engagement Lab will align its FASTalk (Families and Schools Talk) family engagement tool with the IM K–5 Math curriculum.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Code Studio offers a 20 hour-long coding course for elementary school students. Scratch is a free programming language, developed at the MIT Media Lab. Project GUTS : code.org and Project Growing Up Thinking Scientifically (GUTS) developed a middle school program that focuses on computer science, modeling, and simulation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you’re evaluating math programs at your school, a good option to consider is ORIGO Education’s Stepping Stones. Here’s one educator’s story about how Stepping Stones made a big difference with his students’ math skills: How Magnolia ISD has ‘leveled the playing field’ for students in math.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With the belief that STEM skills are best acquired starting at a young age, we start building foundational skills early in elementary school. Best practices for a running a successful STEM school Running a STEM-focused school can have its challenges. Here are some ways to set your STEM-focused school up for success.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The eSchool News Hero Awards , honors educators for their exemplary use of innovative edtech to support student learning: John Arthur , 6th grade teacher at Meadowlark Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah Dr. Jesus Jara , superintendent of Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada Tom Lamont , painting and design technology instructor at Blackstone (..)

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Based around Blackbird’s proprietary educational version of JavaScript, Blackbird provides students, even those who have not been drawn to STEM or coding, with an understanding and aptitude in one of the most commonly used programming languages on earth.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

MENLO PARK, CA [August 24, 2017] — Open Up Resources, the nonprofit provider of openly licensed curriculum for K–12 schools, has released its first openly licensed core program, the Illustrative Mathematics 6–8 Math curriculum. schools, the curriculum is now available for free to school districts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

On that last point, my school, Shiloh Elementary School in Monroe, N.C., Wouldn’t teaching fluency a foreign language be the ultimate means to prepare students for a diverse and multicultural world? Then, students practiced the math concept using a link in their Google Classroom. wondered if we were doing enough.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Department of Education looked at video-based coaching in about 100 elementary schools. Teachers with five or fewer years of experience and those with teaching practices in the bottom third of participants saw even greater improvement in both math and English language arts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). 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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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

–James Hood, Principal, Rodburn Elementary School , Rowan County Schools The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are transforming the educational landscape, ushering in a more integrated and dynamic approach to teaching and learning.

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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. With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. I understand that you had to learn a couple different languages as part of your schooling.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

” “I use Dungeons & Dragons both in my classroom and as an after school extracurricular with students from grades 3 to 8,” said Emilie Rayner, an Elementary School Teacher in Ontario, Canada. “In My students’ test score growth doubled each time they tested.” ABOUT DUNGEONS & DRAGONS.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2016

Districts in the League have committed to developing thoughtful, long-term solutions to overcome the obstacles that many populations of students face one of the world’s most important languages. Highline Public Schools is committed to pioneering a pre-K-12 coding pathway that provides access to coding for all students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Piedmont City School District is a remote, rural part of northeast Alabama. It is difficult for the 1,200-student district to offer STEM, foreign language or Advanced Placement courses year-round. Blue Valley Public Schools (Kans.) Many students’ families could not afford computers, or even an internet connection.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

16, 2021 – Carolina Biological announced that two of its elementary school science programs are among the rigorous list of new science materials just adopted by the South Carolina State Board of Education for the state’s K-12 science curriculum. COLUMBIA, SC, Dec. Smithsonian Science for the Classroom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2020

As we head into this next school year, teachers, administrators, and districts have brought their best game plan—solid online curriculum, resources to support that learning, training for teachers in online platforms and plenty of out-of-the-box thinking about meeting families’ needs as we power on through a pandemic. Science (Even physics!

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. This ignores the language processing differences between typical and exceptional brains.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

Robert Pronovost, the science, technology, engineering and math coordinator at the Ravenswood City School District (Calif.), has a mission: to spark student interest in those topics by bringing tech-filled “makerspaces” to low-income schools. “Every kid deserves to find what drives them,” Pronovost said.

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