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. McClintic, C., & Klimek, K. link] Gozuyesil, E., & Dikici, A.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Students who begin elementary school and haven’t become proficient at speaking English after five years in school should be identified as what educators call “long-term English learners” (LTELs), according to a new paper from Rice University researchers. Related content: How we turned around our English Language Learner program.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

The findings come from a new study from K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA. Led by Dr. Chase Nordengren, principal research lead for Effective Instructional Strategies at NWEA, the study zoomed into two schools that have historically shown high growth for diverse populations of students, including through the pandemic. .”

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2023

A study in the Journal of Experimental Psychology suggests math-anxious students choose less-effective study methods. Yi Hwang Academy of Language Excellence, Kindergarten Henry M., Notre Dame Elementary School, Grade 1 William D., Episcopal School of Dallas-Lower Campus, Grade 2 Juliana J.,

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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA recently released results of a yearlong study examining the effectiveness of a reading fluency intervention targeting struggling middle school readers from historically marginalized populations or those living in poverty. school district in 2022-23. .

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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. Beverly Sklar.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2020

Helps students increase their basic skills as shown in research studies. “We HearBuilder provides an excellent way for parents, teachers and therapists to help students catch up and continue building skills, whether or not their school is doing in-person instruction.”. Complies with State and Common Core educational standards.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Black/African American students, Hispanic/Latino/Latina/Latinx students, and Native American/Alaskan students are less likely to attend a high school that offers foundational computer science. Notably, the benefits are even more pronounced for low-income students, Black students, and female students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Whether it’s homework help or a study session, students pair up with their private tutor for a personalized 1-on-1 lesson in the advanced lesson space. Each session is archived, so students can conveniently access past lessons to help them with coursework and studying. square miles in the center of Oklahoma.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Key points: Light-touch, low-cost interventions focused on attendance can pay dividends Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism For more news on student success, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub One surefire way to support student success?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2021

16, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that all schools throughout Alabama can now boost literacy instruction via LETRS® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning. BOSTON (Aug. showed growth in knowledge.

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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

. “For all we know, the founder of the next Facebook is right here in the Ravenswood School District.” ” In Ravenswood City School District, about 90 percent of students from kindergarten to eighth grade are low income and 67 percent are English language learners.

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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. We need to prioritize discussions on how to effectively support multilingual students. They were coding, collaborating, and creating. –Dr.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Administrators can see a full picture of academic progress across a district, school, grade and class, down to the individual student. Developed to address the decades-long gap in reading proficiency across the nation, PowerUp is designed to enhance core English language arts instruction for struggling readers in grades six and above.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Recent research highlights the value of video: A study conducted through the U.S. Department of Education looked at video-based coaching in about 100 elementary schools. A group of 350 4th-, 5th-, and 6th-grade teachers were split into groups.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. were studying a world language or American Sign Language.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2018

When I was teaching social studies in elementary school, I often found that while my ideas were endless, my planning time was limited. Despite my best efforts, I struggled to adequately prepare for all of my social studies lessons in a given week. Cross-curricular learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

note : Choosing hardware or software for an entire school district is a momentous decision, so it only makes sense that districts across the country are choosing to pilot products before signing on the dotted line. Central Falls School District, Rhode Island. Becky Oristaglio, Speech and Language Pathologist. Listen and Learn.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

When young students miss school, their teachers begin to think of them as less capable in math and language and less committed to learning, according to a new study. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Colder The study, “ Do Teachers Perceive Absent Students Differently?

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the second-largest school division in Virginia, with 55 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, 12 high schools, and a number of secondary/post-secondary specialty centers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2022

When La Puerta Abierta secured mathematics professor and data analyst Gaspar Yataz Pop as a volunteer to teach robotics using KIBO, the idea for the STEAM-powered collaboration between the schools’ students was born. “We For more information, please visit KinderLabRobotics.com.

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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. Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take.

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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

JANUARY 28, 2021

Launched in 2014 for secondary grade students and in 2020 for elementary school students, Listenwise harnesses the power of listening to advance literacy and learning in all students by using podcasts as classroom texts, amplifying content and providing students practice in required listening skills.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2019

Demographics: Fairfield County Schools is a small, rural, high-poverty school district in South Carolina. The district is composed of five elementary schools and four secondary schools, serving more than 2,600 students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Stephen Wolfram’s blog post about the need to teach computational thinking in schools. While I don’t agree that the Wolfram Language is superior to every other modern programming language, from C and Java to Python and Scratch, I think he makes some very compelling points. (We published an excerpt of Wolfram’s post here.).

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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.

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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. Now, a group of parents, educators and game developers have come together to create a game theater for modern age scholars.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. We did a study of 100,000 hours of audio of non-TeachFX users. Large language models can analyze classroom discussions at scale. Large language models can analyze classroom discussions at scale.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Math (everything from elementary school arithmetic to calculus and statistics). Where was this when I was in high school?). Social Studies. Online tutoring Our local public library has a free online tutoring service that not only offers tutoring in every subject a student might ever need. Science (Even physics!

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