Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. In his own experience as a high school teacher, before he joined a publishing company, Shadel noticed that students were passionate about robotics and computer science but were indifferent toward traditional courses.

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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. When I was growing up, I spent much of my free time in my metro Detroit school library. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2020

Roberts School District (OJRSD) in the suburbs of Philadelphia, PA. He teaches as a professor in the Graduate Education Department at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA and Neumann University, Aston, PA. Roberts School District is located in northern Chester County, Pennsylvania. Roberts High School.

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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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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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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2022

In other words, if a progression is successfully followed, what kids learn in first grade should set the stage for what they learn later in elementary school, what students learn in middle school should build upon what they learn in elementary school, and so on.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2020

The district, located in northern Chester County, Pennsylvania, comprises five elementary schools, one middle school, and the Owen J. Roberts High School. Sanfrancesco teaches as a professor in the Graduate Education Department at Saint Joseph’s University, Philadelphia, PA and Neumann University, Aston, PA.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. I felt like I spent more time managing behaviors than teaching. newsletters.

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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 were primarily using a reading workshop and balanced literacy model to teach reading. Easy access to valuable data.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2022

With recent research showcasing the growing number of STEM-related jobs that will be available to our graduates in Indiana in the coming years, teaching computer science skills has become as important as teaching students how to read or do math. Our program uses our existing staff, who were not previously computer science teachers.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2022

Every lower-grade teacher I know has huge numbers of students who love math but the older they get, the more those numbers shrink until by Middle School, they’re anemic, at best. 15+ Websites to Teach Financial Literacy. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Have students try these.

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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

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on first-year teaching supports. This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

At the Carson City School District’s Professional Development Center, CAFÉ means more than just providing coffee and snacks: It refers to the ongoing, personalized professional development teachers need to transform their teaching and their students’ learning with technology. Next page: How teachers use the CAFÉ.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2020

As Supervisor of Technology at Linwood Board of Education in South Jersey, he has the added pressure of overseeing their robust maker space programs while managing the current hybrid teaching setup. FP : We actually have our computer teacher at our elementary schools, who has morphed into a STEM teacher as well, which is great.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2016

High-quality instruction in STEM requires both teaching expertise and content knowledge. Yet, at the elementary school level, many teachers haven’t had any specialized education or training in science, leaving them at a loss for PD in STEM. million Math-Science Partnership Grant from the Florida Department of Education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2020

As Supervisor of Technology at Linwood Board of Education in South Jersey, he has the added pressure of overseeing their robust maker space programs while managing the current hybrid teaching setup. FP : We actually have our computer teacher at our elementary schools, who has morphed into a STEM teacher as well, which is great.

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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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

14-18, 2016 to provide an introduction to coding skills for elementary and middle school students. The winning school will receive a one-year subscription to EasyTech and EasyCode Premium, Learning.com ’s digital literacy and coding curriculum for grades K-8. . Schools can register for the Code-a-Thon from Oct.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

An effective way to tackle the challenge of teaching core academics to all students across ability levels is to implement a personalized approach supported by a variety of carefully chosen digital resources. In our first year, we implemented personalized learning in our six middle schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

He teaches sixth graders at Technology Middle School in Sonoma, California. Why did you return to classroom teaching? But, on the flip side, in elementary school, it tends to be more inquiry-based approached. I had drifted farther and farther away from life in the trenches. So, there’s no sweet spot.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Christina Sorenson, language arts resource teacher, Henry Middle School, Cedar Park, Texas. “I For the last three years, I’ve had my students on this program, along with teaching, tutoring, and intervention, and all—and I mean all—my students have passed the STAAR reading since I’ve used this program.”. On average, they made 1.8

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

VCSC is one of Vigo County’s largest employers, serving nearly 14,000 students across three traditional high schools, five middle schools, 15 elementary schools, an alternative school, and a virtual school.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Over the last nine months, weve worked with eight fellows whose pathways in education are as diverse as they have ever been, including a trauma psychotherapist turned early childhood counselor, a physics teacher with a penchant for storytelling and a Jordan-born immigrant who moved to the United States to pursue her passion for teaching.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

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. The findings come from a new study from K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA.

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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

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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Elementary teachers, who may have more cross-curricular experience with STEM, can provide support to educators who teach middle or high-school students with a more distinct focus on content areas such as science or mathematics. Expose students to STEM at an early age.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

According to Code.org, the majority of Americans want schools to teach computer science , but only 35 percent of high schools teach it. Code.org ’s free online courses teach programming languages or how to create games, apps, and websites. Lesa Wang, STEAM teacher, Marymount Lower Middle School, New York, NY.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

It is an ingredient for their success through college and careers, and it is also a frequently cited goal among educators working to reimagine teaching and learning. Our Canopy Project , which documented student-centered learning plans in schools, found that three-quarters of them are designed to foster learner agency.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2016

More than 110 of the district’s 139 elementary schools are teaching it this year, reaching about 27,000 students. That’s a significant increase from last year, when 80 schools taught it to 3,000 students. In elementary school, students get 18 hours of integrated computer science curriculum each year.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Kristina Stratton, principal, Westside Elementary School, Florida. “In Teach STEAM skills. Esra Murray, library media specialist, Cider Mill Elementary School, Connecticut. Jenna Rosienski, 7th-grade teacher, Franklin Middle School, Wisconsin. “My Give students more time in our makerspace.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Code Studio offers a 20 hour-long coding course for elementary school students. Project GUTS : code.org and Project Growing Up Thinking Scientifically (GUTS) developed a middle school program that focuses on computer science, modeling, and simulation. Other coding resources for younger students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

Moreover, chronic absenteeism rates vary significantly across grade levels: Elementary school: 16 percent Middle school: 20 percent High school: 30 percent And when we consider socio-economic factors, schools in high poverty districts saw a much greater jump in chronic absenteeism.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and that means educators across the globe are still finding inventive and innovative ways to support and teach students in classrooms, during hybrid instruction, and in virtual settings. The district’s student population is extremely diverse.

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