Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Rather, Stinky Feet Day is the students’ hard-earned reward for reaching new benchmarks in silent reading. special education) students, it was only 1.12.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. 7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population. Popularity: OG/MSL is the most popular dyslexia/reading intervention in the U.S.

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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. This allowed us to offer a week of access to the tech lab to two classes at a time.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

John Fisher College of Education and brings almost 30 years of diverse experience in the field of education. Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2024

Recently, the district focused on building multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS), or what they term multi-layered systems of support, for behavior, with a shift from focusing solely on special education interventions to building preventative and targeted systems of support across behavior and social emotional learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Identifying students early in the year who may have problems can allow teachers and parents to provide special attention throughout the year to help them succeed, said Melissa Stormont, a professor of special education at MU. “If Early in the school year, those teachers used the screener to rate nearly 900 students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2017

In a differentiated learning environment, students are organized into groups based on proficiency on a particular topic – for example, an elementary school classroom might be divided into an advanced reading group, an intermediate reading group and a developmental reading group.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

We’ll see more schools and districts placing a priority on SEL instruction just like math or reading. Dr. Norah Barney, EdD, Director of Special Education and Curriculum, Anaconda School District #10, Montana. Forty-eight states are reporting a shortage of special education teachers this school year.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation. Listed here in alphabetical order by school/district name are 10 of the awards program finalists. Read about 10 more finalists here !)

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

We are in an educational crisis in this country,” explains Thomas Webber, chairman of Super Duper Publications. Many young children’s reading skills were already far behind before the virus struck. Helps students increase their basic skills as shown in research studies. “We

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2023

The eSchool News Hero Awards , honors educators for their exemplary use of innovative edtech to support student learning: John Arthur , 6th grade teacher at Meadowlark Elementary School in Salt Lake City, Utah Dr. Jesus Jara , superintendent of Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada Tom Lamont , painting and design technology instructor at Blackstone (..)

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

. –Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind This year many schools will continue to focus on ensuring that their curriculum and instruction aligns with the science of reading. Therefore, many schools/districts have adopted social emotional learning curriculums to address these needs that will continue to be a focus into the new year.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Research indicates math, reading achievement in early grades also influences later science achievement. Math and reading achievement also were associated with science achievement in those grades, which suggests that improving math and reading skills in lower-performing students might help improve their science achievement gaps.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Educators today are trying harder than ever to diversify their teaching practices, using a variety of tools and materials, incorporating different learning styles, and also allowing students to have a voice in their learning. Barrow Elementary School, we have a project which takes all these things into account. At the David C.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Hearing and understanding what is being said in the classroom play a crucial role in a student’s speech and language development, reading and spelling ability, attention and concentration, and overall academic achievement. We received the funding, and in 2010, 29 Lightspeed systems were installed at Veterans Memorial Elementary.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

There have been plenty of adjustments to the classroom due to continued health precautions, and that has meant differences in what school supplies are needed. It’s the little things, like crayons, says Christine Slayton, a bilingual first grade teacher at Frank Del Olmo Elementary School in Los Angeles.

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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. She was a special education teacher. Because that's a calling.

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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

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Library innovations in the 21 st century include building a space that students actually want to inhabi, whicht is imperative to facilitating their learning and curiosity when it comes to reading. During the 2021-2022 school year, the Reading School District saw over 13,000 ebooks and audiobooks checked out through the Sora K-12 reading app.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Kris Astle, Global Education Strategist, SMART Technologies Far too many students continue to struggle with reading, with post-pandemic recovery remaining slow—and in some cases, stagnant—among our young readers. Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2021

Brittany Thomas , 5th grade teacher at Glen Burnie Park Elementary in Glen Burnie, Maryland, says: . As a reading teacher, I like to use Osmo with students to engage learners and develop their writing skills. Osmo for Schools’ Pizza Co. Summer is a good time for students to extend their classroom learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Many have lacked the social skills to interact with their peers, the ability to follow instructions and stick to a routine, the attention spans to sit through an entire story read aloud in class, Lambert says. Rather than reading physical books, some children are having stories read aloud to them from a phone.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Key points: About two-thirds of American students fail to meet reading standards every year when tested in 4 th , 8 th , and 12 th grades. 1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. Schools have to pay for the screeners and teachers to get trained in administering the screening.

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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. New Hampshire schools participating in NG2 represent urban, suburban and rural parts of the state.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Some of our kids haven’t been in school for two years and are having a hard time adjusting to being back in the classroom. Some have had too much screen time and it’s changed the way their brain works and we’re seeing more students qualifying for special education services and needing help. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

What are you reading?” Who says the passage we read about in a grammar lesson can’t be from Martin Luther King, Jr.? But the problem was, I never knew if any of it mattered to them, until I saw Elif reading The Diary of Anne Frank. The power of education and exposure. Seeing her read that book changed me.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the predictions educators and industry experts made for learning in 2022. Some of our kids haven’t been in school for two years and are having a hard time adjusting to being back in the classroom. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2023

After a stint as a restaurant server, eight years working as a community crisis liaison, and the last three years as a restorative interventionist in a public high school, he’s learned how to read people, how to build their trust, and how to form meaningful connections with them. One of our kids attends the school that I work at.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

From elementary school grades upwards, a student may be given a book to read and asked to write a review afterwards. They then may move on to reading a poem and answering questions. That struggle was problematic in many ways because much of it was incompatible with a traditional educational setting.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Middle school teachers achieve this through the Summit Learning Platform and elementary school teachers leverage the Google Suite and Google Classroom. Teacher created playlists with a variety of activities give students the power of choice in determining how they want to practice or learn.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Kris Astle, Global Education Strategist, SMART Technologies Far too many students continue to struggle with reading, with post-pandemic recovery remaining slow—and in some cases, stagnant—among our young readers. Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

Reading and math scores are at their lowest in decades, while mental illnesses, absenteeism, and bullying are on the rise. School teachers say they’re battling to reach students while facing their own problems of understaffing, low salaries, and scarce resources. Our education system has not kept up with the modern world.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them. It takes some students longer to learn to read the symbol system of Algebra.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

You can listen to our conversation in the player above, read the full transcript here , or take a look at the highlights below. For example, there are many elementary schools that still use timed tests as a way to increase math fluency for math facts. Q: You use the term neurodiversity instead of neurodivergent. Why is that?

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

When you enter Parker-Varney Elementary School, you are immediately struck by the relaxed atmosphere. Our second grade students in our 2/3 Band went from 29% proficient in September 2016 to 77% proficient in June 2017 on i-Ready reading assessments. We have also seen a decrease in Special Education referrals by 20%.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation. Becky Alexander is the principal at Morris Elementary School in Morris, Oklahoma. She has inspired change at the school by leading its faculty and staff to embrace technology and enrich their strategy toward 21st century learning.

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