Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Midwood High School students —created I Motivate You , a device that displays uplifting phrases. Barrett Elementary School second graders —designed their own pyramids. Writing the first version of the code was easy. Jakob Sperry —created GyRings , a fidget widget for people with ADHD. Alexis Lewis —inventor.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“D&D saved my life, I’ve seen it save and change the lives of others, and I watch as it shapes the lives of the children who learn to play in my class,” said Kade Wells, Harrisburg North Middle School ELA Instructor in South Dakota and founder of Building Heroez. My students’ test score growth doubled each time they tested.”

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 14, 2025

There will always be reliable and relatable topics that K-5 students want to write about. Encourage deeper thinking and advance writing skills by adding a new layer of creativity and skill-building with this list of unique elementary writing prompts, which can help turn your go-tos into gold! Write their dialogue.

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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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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. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey. I did get to a point where I saw that the kids were coming in and their love of reading and writing was just slowly going out the door,” she says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2018

Fleming says whether the district sets up a makerspace in an elementary school library, in a middle school classroom or in a high school cafeteria, each makerspace has a unique quality. One elementary school she worked with took all the offbeat and childish ideas from its students and designed a “whimsey” theme.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

I talk about Mr. Jasper a lot when I write or speak to teachers about nurturing kids in their classrooms. When Mr. Jasper was an elementary school teacher he did a fine job of making connections and getting to know kids as people. Many are coming to school but their minds and bodies may not be ready for learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Sometimes elementary and middle school teachers come across as apologetic about how “little” they are doing in relation to personalized learning. However, none of this would be successful without a the strong foundation students receive before they enter high school. But they’re doing more than they think.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Personally, I have always enjoyed competition.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. The BHS Help Desk curriculum strives to give students real-world learning opportunities,” Scheffer writes. by Jennifer Brown.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson. Mark Hess has served in a variety of roles since he was hired in 1993 by Walled Lake Consolidated School District in Walled Lake, Michigan. Nominee: Neal Kellogg , Oklahoma City Public Schools Nominated by: TutorMe.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

EdSurge connected with Heitner to talk about what she’s learned and what advice she gives educators at all levels, from elementary school through college. And no one ever said starting high school was easy. In fact, famously we know starting middle school and starting high school are big transitions for almost all students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2024

For example, when preparing a project, a fifth grader will do the research using the internet, collaborate with classmates on Google, write the report with a web-based tool, share it using digital tools, and then use those learned skills in other classes. Students have become digital citizens.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Lilly Brunnick from Newburyport High School in Massachusetts won one of the two $1,000 scholarships. Volunteer teaching in the Bahamas during her junior year had made Brunnick seriously consider becoming an elementary school teacher. Isaac Kakiko from Hatboro-Horsham High School in Pennsylvania also won a $1,000 scholarship.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sure, centers in elementary school made sense, but I wasn’t quite certain at first whether a middle school biology class could pull it off. Universally, students lean more toward writing about what they learned about themselves (e.g. After two weeks, it was time to collect and grade the portfolios.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Elementary School Students Do a chore without being reminded. Wave hello to the school principal. Middle School Students Bring coffee to your mom. Offer to help your teacher during lunch or after school. Write a gratitude card and give it to someone who works at the school.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Like No Other School Year is chock full of interesting information about school responses during the pandemic. Pamela asked me to write the chapter on leadership. Coronavirus Chronicles 027 – Marion-Walker Elementary School. Coronavirus Chronicles 043 – Bunche Middle School.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. Microsoft Forms is flexible enough to support formative assessments of an entire grade.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

She was talking about computer science—the subject at the core of the middle school she founded in Southeast D.C. Computer science-focused schools are not so rare anymore. The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code. Seeing my own creation is cool.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Their natural interests and abilities became apparent—whether it was writing, drawing or a head for numbers. In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. But it rarely starts any younger.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

We have a class we call Tournament of Technology in our middle school geared toward design, coding, robotics, and video production. I see where technology will play a significant role–there are some awesome programs to reinforce those reading, writing, and math skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

We have a class we call Tournament of Technology in our middle school geared toward design, coding, robotics, and video production. I see where technology will play a significant role–there are some awesome programs to reinforce those reading, writing, and math skills.

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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. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Each of our 10 elementary schools has a digital learning specialist. We have spent time focused on creating a culturally proficient school system , which is a framework that we use to make sure that we are putting students first, and we’re thinking and talking about our values, beliefs, and assumptions. . Photo: Rachel Gorton.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2021

23, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today announced the formation of its customer advisory board, a group of key customers who will support the company’s goal of helping more learners read, write, and speak with confidence. “It BOSTON (Aug. The board’s inaugural meetings occurred on July 20 and 21.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

In a nearby elementary school, a student collected 2,500 books after learning about illiteracy statistics in the world. This not only helps our community give back, but it teaches our students how to reach out, write proposals, and communicate effectively. In fact, programs like Genius Hour are preparing them for right now.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 21, 2018

For the fall of 2016, the district had just built a new elementary school with an 802.11n wireless network from Cisco Meraki. We then followed up over the next two years with wireless deployments in both the middle school and high school. Select a Cloud Platform and Hardware.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2017

Perry elementary school in Brooklyn, NY. But just like Williams, she knew how crucial computer science and programming literacy was for her students at Woodland Middle School. Additionally, share the benefits of learning how to write code with your students. “I can barely fix a printer.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Students are told that “everyone is working to move their number” even higher, says Demetria Tumpkin, a second grade teacher at the school. At South Newton Elementary School In Newton, N.C., In particular, she has studied their use at the middle school level. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

To make this shift, the district started by creating a pilot network of a few schools, dubbed “Lighthouse Schools,” that would experiment with transforming learning environments and essentially lead the way for the district. To read the other 13 school/district case studies, click here. According to the S.T.A.T.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Listening to her account, I was reminded of my own aggravations when dealing with adults as a young African American girl in middle school. TyKia, who had already attended a previous high school and was in danger of not graduating because of a lack of credits, explained that this type of treatment wasn’t uncommon.

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