Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We did receive some pushback from our elementary schools related to one app we phased out, but we were able to address that by showing them just how much more they’d be able to do in the new platform. Once we piloted our communications platform and showed them firsthand, the elementary teachers realized it was true.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Oak Heights Elementary School in Sweet Home, Ore., MobyMax … finds the holes in my students’ academic experience and fills them, contributing to a rock-solid foundation,” said Tim Swanson, a second-grade teacher who is also the school’s technology coach. grade levels after an average of 26 hours using MobyMax.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Kristina Stratton, principal, Westside Elementary School, Florida. “In Kennedy School, Connecticut. “I I want to provide my students with opportunities to learn how to code using the Evo robots , which use a color coding language. Esra Murray, library media specialist, Cider Mill Elementary School, Connecticut.

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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

MAY 10, 2019

Shadow Puppet Edu has so many excellent features it’s a creative must-have for elementary school classrooms. While recording, they can use the drawing tool to write directly on the screen or the spotlight tool to highlight certain sections. Screencastify . Price: Free; premium version $24/yr. Platforms: Website.

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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. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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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 20, 2022

Trusted by thousands of schools nationwide, over 1.5 million students have free access to expert 1-on-1 guidance 24/7 in more than 300 subjects, as well as a Writing Lab for quick, detailed feedback on papers. It is the largest traditional school district in Oklahoma and employs over 5,000 people.

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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

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

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

MARCH 20, 2023

All components: student books, lesson cards, digital learning, reading response journals, sound-spelling activities, and formative assessment cards work together to provide ample opportunities for children to read, talk, and write—all vital steps on the path toward successful reading.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

The message reads: “TenMarks will no longer be available after the 2018-2019 school year. Licenses for TenMarks Math and Writing will be honored through June 20, 2019.” Last August, the team unveiled an instructional writing tool for students in grades 4 to 6. It was so sudden and there was no reasoning,” she recalls.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face. It allows me to share my morning message, where each student comes up to the board to write their name, circle the letter of the day, and engage in drawing and coloring activities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Achieve3000 is the leading literacy solution in blended learning programs today, specializing in cloud-based, differentiated learning solutions for school-aged youth as well as adult learners. Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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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. Should we teach computational thinking without coding?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. Kindergarten teacher Kelsea Heesacker comes in to chat with the school counselor and to grab a winter coat for a little girl who came to school without one. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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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? wondered if we were doing enough. that has provided us the means for our immersion program.

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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. Next page: 3 tools to deliver cross-curricular lessons).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. But if you’re teaching creative writing in a K–12 classroom or a community college, at the end of the day you’re most likely required to stamp a letter grade—or at least a percentage score—on your students’ work.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. They're being cautious about the language they use to ensure they're not prohibiting the use of AI altogether.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Nemko and her staff were aware of the “30 million word gap”: the research-backed idea that children who grow up in poverty come to school having heard 30 million fewer spoken words than their peers from middle-class or upper-class homes putting them at a sharp disadvantage in terms of their language skills.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2020

Math (everything from elementary school arithmetic to calculus and statistics). English (writing support, literature analysis coaching, vocabulary, and more). Where was this when I was in high school?). Science (Even physics! Social Studies.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Barrow Elementary School, we have a project which takes all these things into account. Some students are talented writers, so they shine in the persuasive writing. At the David C. Some students are natural public speakers, so their talent lies in the presentation of their nominee.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2018

Marina Umaschi Bers at Tufts University, coding is fast becoming a form of literacy that students will need to understand and use, similar to reading and writing in English. It’s less important that they master all the different uses of the computer programming language.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. That's why I incorporate American Sign Language.

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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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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

DECEMBER 24, 2016

And I imagine that topic will endure as our boys progress into elementary school and beyond. Examples might include giving better feedback at work, improving my skills in a second language, or learning how to write SQL queries. At the end of the week, I’ll write a brief reflection on how it went and what I learned.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

When Bill offered an article on a new class he started that helps English Language Learners, I was excited. He’s included contact information so you can reach him with questions: Computer Literacy for English Language Learners. He then asked me to write words for him to copy in his notebook. Typing by the Numbers”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2022

Since then, our game-based learning platform has been used to teach over 20 million students real-typed Python, JavaScript and C++ coding languages through the power of play. Learning the language of code is not unlike learning any other language. Scaffolded curriculum provides a clear path for young learners.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2021

The award celebrates schools and districts for their excellence using the science of reading and LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) , a professional learning solution that provides K-5 educators with the knowledge to be literacy and language experts. Louisa Moats. About Voyager Sopris Learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” 19, 176 public schools in the state and 12 public charter schools have Acellus licenses. Together, those schools serve nearly 80,000 students. In a statement posted Aug.

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