Organized Classroom

JUNE 11, 2025

Innovative Fundraising Ideas for Elementary School Classrooms Innovation in fundraising can inspire students to think outside the box and come up with unique approaches to support charitable causes. What are some innovative fundraising ideas for elementary school classrooms? Check out Teacher Life Balance Academy HERE !

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. As a result, your role involves creating a learning atmosphere that encourages questioning and exploration.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

Give them a try during Music in Our Schools Month in March. Add music to classic recess games When you think of music in elementary school, you might picture kids pounding out rhythms with Boomwhackers or squeaking away on recorders. But don’t hit pause there: Music and movement are key players in a child’s development.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2025

When Wendy Lundeen began teaching transitional kindergarten over a dozen years ago, it was seen as an unconventional option to help prepare children to one day enter elementary school. The transitional kindergarten program is typically offered within existing elementary schools, and all districts will be required to offer it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

In response to questions from Chalkbeat about why NSF cancelled Take Flight and other research projects, a spokesperson for NSF reiterated that rationale, and said the agency would still fund projects that “promote the progress of science, advance the national health, prosperity and welfare and secure the national defense.”

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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 21, 2025

Yet we do not question why we live in states of extreme anxiety and dread. Today, most children go to elementary schools where corporal punishment is off the table. "In our society," writes hooks, "we make much of love and say little about fear. Yet we are all terribly afraid most of the time. The rumors are enough.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 2, 2025

5b This no-mess Google Sheets pixel art project includes two differentiated activities with 10 or 20 questions to meet all your students’ needs. Volume of Rectangular Prisms 5th Grade Math Pixel Art Digital Volume Activity By Pick Up and Go Resources Grades: 5th-7th Standards: CCSS5.MD.C.5b

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

But most people acquire most of their knowledge outside school, and in school only insofar as school, in a few rich counties, has come their place of confinement during an increasing part of their lives.” Sadly, most of what we do in standard school is offer answers to questions that no child has ever asked.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 26, 2025

There were no instructions or training for using the computer terminals on our desks: we were expected to figure it out and we all did, mainly by goofing around on it, asking each other questions, and sending massive numbers of messages, then leaning around the corner to ask, "Did you get it?"

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Jodi Durgin

JULY 6, 2025

Patrick’s Day vocabulary activity where students can write words related to what they learn about 3-2-1 summarizer activity about winter where students write 3 things they discovered, 2 interesting facts they learned, and 1 question they have now about the Irish holiday St. Patrick’s Day activities for elementary students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

It is the time of year where we analyze the data from the first two months of school, tweak instruction to meet student needs, and accelerate our efforts to help our students achieve as much growth as possible. For the older grades, there are videos where teachers can add comprehension questions to check for understanding.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Traveling Science Workshops (TSW) are state curriculum-aligned, small group, in-classroom workshops that use simple, everyday materials and a hands-on approach to allow students to be scientists: exploring, observing, asking questions, and sharing discoveries.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

Now, a new report suggests that teacher preparation programs underemphasize math instruction at the elementary school level. But many elementary school teachers are uncomfortable with math in a way that can pass on to students. Elementary school teachers have to be generalists and cant spend all their time studying math.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2018

This is a common question administrators and educational practitioners ask when considering LMS adoption at the district level. Is it really possible for young learners to effectively use a learning management system (LMS)?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

As someone who has dedicated her career to making the world a better place through the education of our children, I was excited to learn that tablets and computers are nearly commonplace in elementary school classrooms across the nation.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As a New York City public school founder and principal, I immediately began work to transition to virtual learning for 3- to 11-year-olds. But the most urgent question that flashed through my mind was: How are we going to make sure our children have the basics such as food?

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2023

Charlotte, NC — When elementary school teachers and students across Kentucky’s Johnson County School District (JCSD) return to their classrooms this Fall, they will find new resources in their high-tech toolkits thanks to an expanded partnership with Discovery Education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

But the book’s great value, and the pleasure in reading it, is in its careful, loving description of the daily life of an urban charter school. And it’s the small stuff of classrooms that raise the biggest questions: what we want schools to accomplish, and for which kids. But of course, it isn’t a private school.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

One of the first videos she found was titled “10 Science Projects for Elementary School Students,” which demonstrates a simple experiment and explains what is happening. Technology connected her with the information she needed to answer her own questions. . In almost all of these instances, she was her own teacher.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The prompt I used with ChatGPT was: “List 10 everyday problems that could be solved by a solution that an elementary school student could develop.” With the example of the book holder, questions to discuss could be: What materials work best to keep the book from slipping? Where does the science come in, though?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Education leaders are worried about learning loss, equity, and helping students get back into a typical school routine–all while addressing increasing social-emotional needs. This all begs the question: How has COVID permanently altered the future of learning?

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

Voge has also watched students who began her class too shy to ask questions blossom into confident, capable, autonomous learners who can ask for help or advocate for themselves. As Jon Corippo, chief learning officer for the nonprofit group Computer-Using Educators ( CUE ), put it: “When do you see that ever?”. What’s her “secret sauce?”

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

As an early childhood specialist who taught kindergarten through second grade for 12 years, I remember watching the progression of cognitive and social development throughout the early elementary school years. Kindergarteners frequently respond to questions with unrelated statements of fact that are of interest to them.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

was first spoken during the height of gang wars in Los Angeles, when I was a new speech language pathologist in the Los Angeles Unified School District. More than 30 years later, I now work at a 700-student elementary school in Washington state and I have a caseload of 50 students consisting of varying disabilities.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

As the father of an elementary school student, I’m one of these parents. Because I have experience in the edtech industry, I have some thoughts on what I think the key question should be: How can I nurture a genuine love of learning? Should I turn to AI for tutoring when my child struggles?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 11, 2023

CodeHS, a leading platform for K-12 computer science education, has launched a curriculum for elementary schools to fit seamlessly into a K-12 computer science pathway. With ready-to-go lessons, CodeHS makes teaching computer science simple even for elementary teachers who have never taught computer science before.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2015

For many tweens heading into middle school, the transition from elementary school won’t be marked only by new teachers, class schedules and locker assignments but also by a gleaming new phone. Deciding whether a middle schooler is ready to take on mobile phone responsibility is a personal decision for each family.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2015

The other day I was working with a group of elementary school teachers on lesson planning with technology. Instead, I asked them a question: How can you be sure that students understand the vocabulary? The real challenge is not integrating technology effectively. It’s developing a vision for technology use.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Peek inside Brittany Horning’s second-grade class at L’Ouverture Elementary School, and you’ll see kids sprawled on large ottomans, perched atop bouncy seats, lying back on gamer-style recliners and using footstools as makeshift desks. They talk, peer over shoulders, ask questions, share discoveries.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2023

A 2022 survey by the Consortium for School Networking shows that more than 80 percent of U.S. schools now have a device for each K-12 student. That’s way up from pre-pandemic numbers, where about two of three high schools and middle schools were one-to-one and less than half of elementary schools had a device for each student.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

These questions compelled me to speak with education leaders about how the educator shortage is impacting their communities and what they’re doing to combat it. But even in his rural district, they are seeing 25 applicants for an elementary school job that used to garner 100 applicants. “I I have four kids.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2017

The answers to their questions have never been more than a click of a button away. Even the youngest learners know that you can find out the answer to a question right now on the internet. As an elementary school, we are very concerned about inappropriate content. Guiding Research.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

We asked three flipped teachers — one from an elementary school, one from a junior high, and one from a high school — to describe what learning looks like in their world. Burkett Elementary, Pennsylvania. Beth Hobbs, third-grade teacher. Students become excited to meet and discuss their novels.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The unit is designed for 2nd-grade students for two very specific reasons: 1) early elementary schools are eager for age-appropriate STEM resources; and 2) 2nd-graders have the literacy skills to write questions, to read content, and to note their own observations. What are we L earning? What is our E vidence?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The consequence, in many schools, is that teachers have begun to use technology but have forced it into all the wrong places and for all the wrong reasons. At Grand Oak Elementary School in Huntersville, NC we have worked hard to create an environment where we are supporting our staff through this transition.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

Charlotte, NC — New Mexico’s Aztec Municipal School District (AMSD) today announced the renewal of its multiyear partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in three district elementary schools. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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