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From curiosity to clarity: Showcasing career paths to young learners

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2025

This year, I judged the middle school career research event, which allows students to explore careers of interest by completing a career interest survey, researching a field, and presenting key details such as education requirements, job outlook, salary, and what a typical workday looks like.

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5 edtech resources that support literacy in elementary school

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Key points: Literacy is critical for students–and elementary years are a pivotal time These online tools help students develop essential literacy skills See related article: How efficacy studies improve literacy instruction For more news on literacy, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Fall is the best time of year in Montana.

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Blackbird Announces First-ever Purpose-built Middle School Coding Education Platform

eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Created to Address the “Middle School Gap” – Blackbird Teaches Real-world Computer Science Skills, Aligned to Educational Standards. Not just because of distance learning but because of the logical step to advance skills from block coding to programming,” said Ben Durham , technology teacher for Portland Public Schools.

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Discovery Museum Celebrates 30 Years of Delivering Hands-On Science in Elementary School Classrooms

eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992.

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Vernier Software & Technology Launches E-Book to Support Hands-On Science Learning for Middle School Students

eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

to support engaging, hands-on science learning for middle school students. Our partnership with OpenSciEd gives middle school teachers access to free, standards-aligned, technology-integrated instructional materials to support this work.

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How a middle school teacher grew students’ math scores despite pandemic challenges

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

As a senior at Indianapolis’ Ben Davis High School, Jacob Gregory enrolled in an Exploratory Teaching program. He thought of it as an easy way to leave school for a few hours, but it ended up sparking “an unknown interest in teaching,” he said.

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School libraries are disappearing when students need them most

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

In 2014, I got my first teaching job at a brand new high school in Detroit. The building had once been an elementary school with a fully functioning library. Two years later, that room had become a dumping ground for unused supplies, and the school football team frequently used it as a meeting space. newsletters.

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Early coding can greatly benefit students–here’s how one school does it

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2019

Coding and computer programming are slowly becoming part of the core curriculum in schools and districts across the U.S.–and Research says students are more likely to maintain their interest in coding if they’re exposed to it at an early age, and now, some schools are starting in elementary school.

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Carousel Cloud Scales with Indianapolis School District for K-12 Communications

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2023

The district reports 70 screens are live today with Carousel digital signage content coming from multiple contributors per school, with approximately 150 screens expected upon completion. The district has adopted a “one school at a time” rollout strategy that helps its technology specialists effectively train staff before using the system.

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District leaders share successes while managing school tech in the midst of the COVID crisis

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2020

Roberts School District (OJRSD) in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. He was named CTO of the Year by the Pennsylvania Association for Educational Communications and Technology and one of the “20 to Watch” educators by the National School Boards Association for his work in IT. Roberts High School.

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3 tips to combat chronic absenteeism in high schools

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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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. In middle and high school courses, its really difficult to connect math to the real world, says Lindsey Henderson, policy director of math for the nonprofit ExcelinEd. When would I ever use this?

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Elementary-level STEM education fosters our future innovators

eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Traditionally, the spotlight on STEM education appears to occur in high school and late middle school grade-levels. Elementary school years mark a critical phase in a child’s cognitive development.

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New Investigations Now Available for Middle School Science Teachers to Help Engage Students in Three-Dimensional Learning

eSchool News

MAY 13, 2021

BEAVERTON, Oregon, May 13, 2021 — Vernier Software & Technology is offering new, robust investigations to help middle school teachers engage students in science as they learn in the classroom or they continue to learn from home. To learn more about these resources, visit www.vernier.com/middle-school.

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How Middle School Obsessions Can Shape Career Paths.

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

Think back to your days in middle school, specifically to what you did after you slung your backpack off at home and began to unwind. What would your answer have been if a teacher asked, “What am I doing outside of school that I want to tell other students about?” I know what mine would have been.

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3 ways to improve science literacy

eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2022

While teachers often experience the same year or course again and again, students and their families can really see how students change over the years in school. Families can see that what students learn each year builds on what has come before. Unfortunately, our system isn’t always coherent.

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Fighting chronic absenteeism with data-driven insights–and a little fun, too

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Chronic absenteeism remains a widespread challenge in schools across the country, but in Wisconsin, Racine Unified School District s Julian Thomas Elementary and Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School are demonstrating that innovative, data-driven approaches can make a difference. I took that on right away, Paproth said.

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Can you take algebra in eighth grade? In many cases, the answer is no

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. But that picture differed by state.

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Oklahoma City Public Schools Announces TutorMe Partnership

eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — TutorMe , the online tutoring solution of the future, and Oklahoma City Public Schools (OKCPS) today announced an agreement to provide more than 35,000 K-12 students with free access to TutorMe’s online 24/7 tutoring service for the 2021-2022 school year. About Oklahoma City Public Schools.

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Districts, Schools, and Educators Nationwide Honored as the Inaugural Winners of the Discovery Education Awards

eSchool News

MAY 9, 2024

The Discovery Education Awards honor districts, schools, and educators who accelerate achievement among students by tapping into their natural curiosity and desire to learn. districts, schools, and educators who have impacted student learning by adapting and personalizing instruction to better pique curiosity and engagement.

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Students Step up to Lead Tech Implementation at Their Elementary School

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

Maggie is a fifth grader at Roosevelt Elementary School in Park Ridge, Illinois and in Fall 2017, she was trained to become a “TechXpert” at her school so she could coach fellow students daily during the tech lab at the LRC. What would tech lab look like when the dedicated set of student helpers moved on to the middle school?

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Remote learning hurt high school grad rates–ditching exit exams helped

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Until now, the story of how COVID affected who got their high school diploma went something like this: Graduation rates dipped a little for the class of 2021, but recovered the following year. Where a student lived and what policies their school followed during the pandemic affected how likely they were to graduate from high school.

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Using house points and digital coins to promote school values

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

We’re a K-12 American Curriculum/IB school, so our goal with Houses is to support our learners to develop specific skills that have a positive impact on the school culture. Our elementary school follows the PYP Program, which uses the 10 IB Learner Profile Attributes, which include being principled, caring, and a risk-taker.

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Buchanan County Schools See 380% Improvement in Reading with Carnegie Learning

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. And this program was it.”

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Middleschoolers design and build STEM carts for younger students

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Their assignment: Design a cart to carry today’s tools for STEM learning — the teaching of science, technology, engineering and math — in Hampton Township’s three elementary schools. “We 13 at the middle school. 13 at the middle school.

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Free access to Mackin’s Distance learning solution

eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2020

If your school or district has closed due to COVID-19 or is shifting to temporary online or distance learning, MackinVIA has an effective solution. Elementary School. Middle School. Middle School. High School. 4,500+ Multi-User eBooks. 3,000+ Multi-User eBooks. 3,000+ Multi-User eBooks.

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10 schools to pilot new digital courseware

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Citizen Schools will develop the program at schools across four states that are currently using digital courseware during the expanded day. The schools are: 1. Greenleaf Elementary School (Oakland, Calif.). Joseph George Middle School (San Jose, Calif.). Sheppard Middle School (San Jose, Calif.).

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Carousel Digital Signage and Indiana School District Get into the School Spirit

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – Carousel Digital Signage has provided Elkhart Community Schools with a seamless way to communicate timely, up-to-date messages to its diverse network of students, faculty, staff, and visitors. Elkhart Community Schools serves approximately 12,000 students. Based in Elkhart, Ind.,

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How a sheriff’s department and a school teamed up for SEL

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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Phenix City Schools Awarded Cognia STEM Certification

eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2022

August 4, 2022) — Phenix City Schools (PCS) are now STEM certified, becoming the largest and fourth district in the nation. Every school in the PCS system earned Cognia’s STEM Certification in June. This announcement was made at PCS’ 2022 Institute, a system-wide meeting before the beginning of school. Phenix City, Ala.

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In some schools, computer science starts in kindergarten

eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2016

Florida’s Broward County School District is starting young with computer science instruction, integrating it in math and science classes at the kindergarten level. More than 110 of the district’s 139 elementary schools are teaching it this year, reaching about 27,000 students. Students get 40 hours of it yearly.

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Inside the schools where college prep and project-based learning go hand-in-hand

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2015

High Tech High — the San Diego-based charter-school system comprised of five high schools and eight total elementary and middle schools — likes to think of itself as something of an outlier. A PBL approach is making strides at a system where 99 percent of students go to college.

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Iowa’s Southwest Valley Community School District Broadens Partnership with Discovery Education Supporting Science Instruction in Elementary School Classrooms

eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Tuesday, June 7, 2022) —Iowa’s Southwest Valley Community School District (SVCSD) today announced it is broadening its partnership with Discovery Education to support science education in elementary school classrooms districtwide.

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The hidden benefits of a move to online instruction

eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2020

While no one could have been completely prepared for what has since developed, schools in the Owen J. Roberts School District (OJRSD) were already using several learning management tools that eased the transition. They also continue to learn new techniques and strategies as all schools everywhere move into the unknown.

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School district invents custom charging solution for all schools

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

As Denton Independent School District (ISD) prepares for future ready classrooms with technology and builds new schools, the Texas district is partnering with LocknCharge to create a new mobile device charging cabinet – the Carrier 15 Charging Station™. We are not a 1:1 district.

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Stop! Why the mis-definition of student equity needs to end

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

” These wise words, from a Florida elementary school principal, get to the core of a new look at barriers to equity in education. Some families need a higher level of support and resources to participate equally in educational success,” said a middle school teacher in Colorado who participated in the survey.

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5 ways to update aging media centers

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2023

We used this ESSER funding opportunity—plus some additional funding from other sources—to thoroughly review our current facilities across 27 different schools. Others, however, were still using furniture from 1972—the same year that the schools had opened. Prioritize schools with the most need.

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6 reasons to support K-5 coding

eSchool News

JULY 25, 2019

In many districts, students still get their first introduction to computer science and coding in middle school or high school. Related content: Why we should teach coding in elementary school. That timing, argues John Pearce, is all wrong. “If Take the universal coding concept of a “conditional,” for instance.

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A 5-point plan for post-pandemic education

eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2023

With all the changes COVID-19 brought to schools, perhaps the one that most people forget is how the virus altered the delivery of education. The main reason school looks different is that districts bought a heap of specialized technology just to keep instruction alive during those three years.

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Why districts need to think creatively–inside the box

eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2021

Scott Bailey, Superintendent for Desert Sands Unified School District (CA), didn’t let the pandemic get in the way of his team’s plans. Students from other areas of the desert also take advantage of the quality education provided by our schools. Instead, he used the disruptions as an opportunity to accelerate.

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Computer science education sees more investment, but access gaps linger

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

It features national and state-level policy and implementation data, focusing on high school data. Eleven states now require students to earn credit in computer science to graduate from high school. public high schools offer foundational computer science (up from 57.5

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Data really is the secret sauce in the K-12 classroom

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. We had growth data in every elementary school like we’ve never seen before. Better reading test scores.

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How to implement a districtwide K-12 computer science program

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2022

The state has recognized this importance by mandating that all schools incorporate computer science for students in kindergarten through 12th grade. As the career and STEM academy director for Barr-Reeve Community Schools, I helped our district integrate computer science into our K-12 students’ school days.

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School system makes world languages available to military and ELL families through digital access program

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Tennessee’s Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) is on a mission to bring language learning resources to its diverse community and student body of more than 33,500. Middle and high school students and adult learners also have access to the program outside of the classroom to study at their own pace.

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From curiosity to clarity: Showcasing career paths to young learners

5 edtech resources that support literacy in elementary school

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Blackbird Announces First-ever Purpose-built Middle School Coding Education Platform

Discovery Museum Celebrates 30 Years of Delivering Hands-On Science in Elementary School Classrooms

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How a middle school teacher grew students’ math scores despite pandemic challenges

School libraries are disappearing when students need them most

Early coding can greatly benefit students–here’s how one school does it

Carousel Cloud Scales with Indianapolis School District for K-12 Communications

District leaders share successes while managing school tech in the midst of the COVID crisis

3 tips to combat chronic absenteeism in high schools

Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

Elementary-level STEM education fosters our future innovators

New Investigations Now Available for Middle School Science Teachers to Help Engage Students in Three-Dimensional Learning

How Middle School Obsessions Can Shape Career Paths.

3 ways to improve science literacy

Fighting chronic absenteeism with data-driven insights–and a little fun, too

Can you take algebra in eighth grade? In many cases, the answer is no

Oklahoma City Public Schools Announces TutorMe Partnership

Districts, Schools, and Educators Nationwide Honored as the Inaugural Winners of the Discovery Education Awards

Students Step up to Lead Tech Implementation at Their Elementary School

Remote learning hurt high school grad rates–ditching exit exams helped

Using house points and digital coins to promote school values

Buchanan County Schools See 380% Improvement in Reading with Carnegie Learning

Middleschoolers design and build STEM carts for younger students

Free access to Mackin’s Distance learning solution

10 schools to pilot new digital courseware

Carousel Digital Signage and Indiana School District Get into the School Spirit

How a sheriff’s department and a school teamed up for SEL

Phenix City Schools Awarded Cognia STEM Certification

In some schools, computer science starts in kindergarten

Inside the schools where college prep and project-based learning go hand-in-hand

Iowa’s Southwest Valley Community School District Broadens Partnership with Discovery Education Supporting Science Instruction in Elementary School Classrooms

The hidden benefits of a move to online instruction

School district invents custom charging solution for all schools

Stop! Why the mis-definition of student equity needs to end

5 ways to update aging media centers

6 reasons to support K-5 coding

A 5-point plan for post-pandemic education

Why districts need to think creatively–inside the box

Computer science education sees more investment, but access gaps linger

Data really is the secret sauce in the K-12 classroom

How to implement a districtwide K-12 computer science program

School system makes world languages available to military and ELL families through digital access program

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