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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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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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

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Have them create their inventions and test them out. Using this approach, kids get to learn about developing hypotheses (if I do this, I will get that), testing their hypotheses via building prototypes, and observing whether the prototypes work as expected. This question introduces friction and material properties into the discussion.

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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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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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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. “The This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Here’s what educators have to say about the 2023-2024 school year: Improving engagement and test scores with phenomena-based curricula April Pence, Edison High School Last year was my first time using phenomena-based units aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in chemistry. before I even ask.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Additionally, students receive immediate corrective feedback after every missed question, enabling them to quickly understand their mistakes and progress. Get reliable data to meet reading goals Early elementary school years are crucial for building foundational skills that shape a child’s education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2020

Infobase, the award-winning provider of digital reference content to the school and library community, today announced that it has created a variety of distance learning packages to help schools, colleges and universities, and public libraries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2017

In the kindergarten classes at Newton-Lee Elementary School in Loudoun County, Virginia, wonderment is at an all-time high as the students squeal with delight. By refocusing our work from “one to one” to “One to the World,” a new set of questions naturally emerges.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. Tick tick tick.my I thought so. Probably not.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Our districts, Imagine Schools and Carbondale Elementary School District #95 (CES), might not seem to have much in common at first glance. Sixteen of our schools and approximately 5,000 students agreed to participate. Helping” students to answer test questions does not really help them at all.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2018

In the video, Robinson challenges schools to promote and inspire creativity, but it’s difficult to know where to start, and some teachers aren’t sure if it’s possible. “I I don’t think creativity can be taught,” says Rayna Freedman, a fifth-grade teacher at Jordan/Jackson Elementary School in Mansfield, Massachusetts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

. –Rebecca Bergstrom, Induction Coordinator, Adams 12 Five Star Schools In 2025 we will continue to see a shift toward learning opportunities that allow students to make real change in their communities. As the NGSS continues to gain traction, we can expect a shift in how student learning is assessed.

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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. Related: Data-informed instruction can affect every lesson; here’s how.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In “ Timesaving Strategies for Selecting Interventions for Struggling Readers ,” Cindy Kanuch, reading specialist at Calhan Elementary School, presented tips on working to address skill deficits in the most efficient and effective manner, which in some situations can help students improve in as soon as one to two weeks.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

These are the tough questions I asked myself when taking over as superintendent of Maury County Schools in Tennessee in August 2015. As a district leader, how do I support our teachers and ensure that they are challenging students who are at a higher level while providing struggling students with proper support?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Studies show that the pandemic caused a drop in test scores in reading and math, with the students who were already struggling showing the largest declines. He spearheads the Alabama Conference on Grading and Assessment in Learning , an annual event where educators discuss best practices for testing and grading students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Context matters, and we have to ask the questions to understand the context for each and every student. Internet access is not affordable for all families, so that raises the question around whether this is about equitable access to technology or about affordability. Without question. I think the issue is more affordability.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. Kindergarten teacher Kelsea Heesacker comes in to chat with the school counselor and to grab a winter coat for a little girl who came to school without one. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Context matters, and we have to ask the questions to understand the context for each and every student. Internet access is not affordable for all families, so that raises the question around whether this is about equitable access to technology or about affordability. Without question. I think the issue is more affordability.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2016

For many schools the answer seems to be some variation of personalized learning, as interpreted by school administrators or outside curriculum savants. For two Chicago-area schools, however, the solution came down to asking students: How do you want to learn? “Kids are very compliant,” she said of her school.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Here’s the problem: In spite of the relative success of programs like Code.org and CS4ALL, the latest data from the College Board show that only 28 percent of the AP Computer Science test-takers in 2018 were women. For the past two and a half years, we’ve been exploring this question at Michigan State University.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction. Here, the former elementary classroom teacher and math teacher advisor shares her thoughts on personalizing learning for individuals’ needs—and her school’s preferred platform for doing just that.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside. While the EAD roadmap is not a curriculum, it does provide thematic questions anchored both in history and civics, which educators can use to guide curricular and pedagogical decisions.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics. They would say, 'Oh, no.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Teachers tested prompt after prompt, and while the essays ChatGPT spit out weren’t exemplary, it was human enough for students to pass the work off as their own. Over the past year, we’ve been unlearning some of the restrictive practices of formulaic writing that students have been taught since elementary school.

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Over the past weeks, readers have asked us many questions about the impact of the coronavirus on education in many different areas, from admissions to advice for young children, from salaries to student privacy and whether school closures actually work. Related EdSurge article on this topic: Want to Help Schools Closed by COVID-19?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Despite many state standardized tests following the cookie-cutter approach of one-size-fits-all testing, educators every day are personalizing learning to meet the needs of individual students, meeting them at the intersection of their learning styles and the resources available to them.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

While enthusiasm can fade with age, at Qualcomm he noticed middle school students would still snap to attention when it came to the jobs they could one day have, the money they could make and their own interests. At the end, test-takers are given three such interest codes—the first of which, known as the “leading” code, is the most important.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Test scores in reading and math reflect a pandemic-era decline, but progress in some academic disciplines can’t be so rigidly quantified. And unlike a math test or English project, sharing work from art classes is low stress. It’s a safe entry into school,” she says. “It

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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. Hey, We’re All on the Same Team Here’ Fans of flipped learning had some questions about the new study’s conclusions.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 2, 2018

For instance, what’s the best time to take a test? When the school day is so packed with back-to-back classes and activities, how can students, parents and educators make the best use of time? There’s another study from Denmark, where students take standardized tests on computers. Improvements to standardized test scores.

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