eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’ve learned leadership is about using the privilege of our position to build collaborative teams of talented and motivated individuals who can help us stay ahead of any problems and drive innovation that brings impactful change. Last year, I had to adjust our schools’ bell schedule to accommodate a week of state testing.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma. For years, the school had been searching for ways to reverse the pattern of disengagement, build motivation to complete schoolwork and get students over that finish line at graduation.

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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. Next steps: We plan to have teachers start using the Mosaic platform this year.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

. “Kathy is one of the most committed teachers I have ever worked with, and she is constantly looking for new and innovative ways to motivate her students and cultivate student learning.” Both businesses are Gold Certified by the national DECA and bring in a combined six figures in annual sales.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

At Inkster Preparatory Academy outside Detroit, students track their scores on the high-stakes NWEA Map test on the walls of their classrooms. The practice is known as “data walls,” and is designed to serve as a motivational tool. At South Newton Elementary School In Newton, N.C.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

And it’s the small stuff of classrooms that raise the biggest questions: what we want schools to accomplish, and for which kids. Pondiscio embedded in a South Bronx Success Academy elementary school for a year of close observation; as he says, for all the controversy, his main question was, “What do the kids do all day?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Stipulating that I haven’t yet used this one, here’s what teachers say about Education Galaxy that kept me reading: “…95% of my students passed the state test and I feel I owe it to Education Galaxy.” It’s been built 100% from the ground up to each state’s standards to match the rigor of the state tests.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. moving away from just using the word “grades” has been an important piece of keeping students motivated in the program.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

3 Advocacy groups, backed by dyslexia authorities at universities, have pushed for dyslexia legislation across the country with these outcomes: 4 40 states now mandate dyslexia screening, and more than 30 list approved screeners that schools must use. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills. link] New York State Senate.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting. Another surprise, Hattie said, was that the more active learning done in a flipped classroom, the worse the outcome.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy’s support for the arts was admirable, but unfortunately, due to a number of societal factors, it wasn’t enough to increase arts education offerings for students in public schools. I watched as the focus on academic subjects tied to standardized tests eliminated elective slots in student schedules.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2021

Cincinnati schools recently reopened to full-time, in-person learning on April 1. “At After the district’s dedicated IT department tested the Osmo for Schools’ products to make sure they are safe and ensure privacy, she and others began testing Osmo out. “We

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

There are also general competencies all children must acquire to become resilient, self-efficacious and self-motivated, Gibson said. Schools, she argued, can’t ignore those students who are undergoing severe issues in their home and personal lives. Rosa Perez-Isiah, the principal of Lucille Smith Elementary School in Lawndale, Calif.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Partnership offers automated assessment of students’ oral reading fluency — for testing at school or at home . For the start of the new school year, Savvas is pairing myView Literacy ©, its leading core K-5 literacy program, and Reading Spot , a digital library, with AMI’s Moby.Read.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I was trying to think of a way to both motivate students to complete projects and, at the same time, find a use for their projects once they were finished. In our elementary school, FH Gizmos is a third-grade-run pop-up store. In school, subjects are traditionally taught in silos. And FH Gizmos was born.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Students from the county apply to the program of their choice during eighth grade, a process that involves taking an admissions test; submitting transcripts, teacher recommendations and a personal video; and entering a lottery, since demand is high.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Its because when instruction is devised for tests its not sensitive to whether the knowledge it imparts is long-lasting, Fisher says. That gave them a sense of agency and motivated them to tackle complex problems. Fishers school, Breakwater, is small, with about 180 students and class sizes of around 15 students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Very rarely we encounter an issue when we have too many students in our school using the platform and they run into a submission problem. We've also been able to workout peak testing time with MasteryConnect's support so they have been great at accommodating our needs. Written by Karen , an elementary school teacher from Arizona.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2019

SSR also offers a multitude of advantages when it comes to student motivation, preparation for the workforce and, most importantly, comprehension. Psst.intrinsic motivation theorists hate it!) This is key in allowing students to continually test their ability to deduce the meaning of words based on context.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Some national studies link four-day school weeks to slumping academic performance for students. For instance, one analysis from the Annenberg Institute found that the available data shows a “ relatively small, negative average ” in standardized test scores for reading and math in districts that adopt four-day policies.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2022

The gameplay creates instant engagement and motivates learners to quickly level up their coding skills. Students can start as early as upper elementary school with programs like Ozaria , a narrative adventure game that sets a foundation of core computer science (CS) concepts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

On the contrary, it can be very constructive and a great motivator. Where kids are being pitted against each other on the basis of spurious forms of testing, it sets up a false sense of antagonism between people that I think we should avoid. and testing companies have put a big emphasis on improving these standings to not much success.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Transcend’s leaders consider their work “research and development” for schools and districts that are redesigning their models because they apply learning sciences, motivation sciences and implementation sciences to the biggest questions school operators are wrestling with.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 28, 2018

Edgar Ochoa’s middle-schoolers in the Roosevelt Elementary School District in Phoenix took their science, technology, engineering and math learning to the next level when they became Global Problem Solvers and tackled serious issues in their community and beyond. This project was perfect for them. Students are highly engaged.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2018

We must get out of the “catch-up” business, where we’re trying to fix problems when a child reaches the end of elementary school or middle school. They deserve a chance to find joy in learning—to become lifelong learners motivated by the challenge of solving problems. Poverty is not destiny.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. The school has served as the model for poor performance in the area—listed in both Waco Tribune-Herald and on KCEN-TV for falling below state standards for the last six years. Jessica Torres. “In

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Some school leaders turn to expensive technology and troves of data as an answer to low proficiency problems in public schools. When I entered the school four years ago, we were the lowest performing school in our zone and one of the lowest performing schools in the state,” Beaird explains. “As

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Finally, I predict data security to be a continued focus for schools in 2024. Looking ahead to 2024, the industry is poised to transition to an offensive stance.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

The following stories offer a glimpse into how teachers, school leaders and researchers are using what we know about how people learn to improve schools and student outcomes that go beyond test scores, such as suspension rates and even the number of hours kids sleep at night.

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Teach Hub

AUGUST 20, 2024

One classroom management strategy that has stood the test of time is the good old behavior chart. In the late 1990’s as many as 70% of elementary school teachers were using some behavior chart in the classroom, according to a study published in the Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The Reimagine School program brings together up to ten schools in a district represented by teams of four to six school leaders that are dedicated to planning, designing, building, testing and refining a new model for their school. In fall 2016, ASCEND will expand the prototype to the entire elementary school.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. In fact, in the book, Steve is quoted saying, "If I could put one computer in a school and one person would find that computer, it would change their life." I've told people for the last three or four years, I'm not working to sell boxes.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The first was that the timing of the March 2022 NAEP tests should give us pause when interpreting the results. Most educators in America probably would tell us that, as difficult as the 2020-2021 school year was, the 2021-2022 year was even tougher. during the months that immediately preceded the test.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

stand the test of time–do students stay engaged even after playing it over and over. My students are motivated to practice their math skills in a fun and interactive way both at school and at home. They are so excited to play and learn!” – Sue McCulloch, Grade 3/4 Northport Elementary School.

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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. When my Whack-a-Mole prototype wasn’t working, I would make a list of things that could be wrong and test them individually.

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