eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Fast ForWord helped Buchanan County elementary school students improve to an 83% pass rate on the Standards of Learning (SOL) test, the yearly state assessment taken by all students in Virginia Public Schools. “That’s major. We were looking for something that covered all the underlying components of strong literacy.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2024

How one district implemented universal screening: Roswell ISD case study Cynthia Price is a district-wide behavior specialist for Roswell Independent School District in New Mexico. The mindset was that special education has the space and the practices already in place.

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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

JUNE 18, 2024

12 The reviews find that many studies lack scientific rigor. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse for literacy does not contain any study that has a significant positive effect on broad reading achievement for this group. Feasibility of implementation Cost Special ed: U.S. Department of Education.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

Complies with State and Common Core educational standards. Helps students increase their basic skills as shown in research studies. “We We are in an educational crisis in this country,” explains Thomas Webber, chairman of Super Duper Publications.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

The report cites prior research noting that children’s kindergarten math and reading achievement is strongly predictive of their achievement in elementary school, and the achievement gaps begin very early. “If Morgan, an associate professor of education policy studies at Pennsylvania State University.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

. –Erin Bailey, Director of Content, Reading Is Fundamental By the 2023-24 school year, career connected learning will become a priority for district administrators, superintendents, state leaders, and parents. The situation is compounded by an anticipation of a dire shortage of teachers, particularly in math and special education.

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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. Through persistent efforts, Ms.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

note : Choosing hardware or software for an entire school district is a momentous decision, so it only makes sense that districts across the country are choosing to pilot products before signing on the dotted line. Central Falls School District, Rhode Island. Listen and Learn. We made plans to expand our pilot.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2016

Jeanne is a teacher (elementary and part-time professor) and Tanya is a university professor (former special education teacher) who loved using technology as a teaching tool. It’s probably not giving much away to say that the most important learning outcome we found was that experience is the greatest teacher.

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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. special education) students, it was only 1.12. Flashlight reading at Golden Grove Elementary School. Edgecomb was concerned.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

Like Dylin, senior Jada Harper hopes to be a teacher too someday, focusing on early childhood special education. For half the school day, students do regular coursework at their high school. For the teacher prep program, that meant a local elementary school.

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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., Motivation Julie Marsh is a researcher at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Letting students record and embed their voice responses directly into information fields in online forms does wonders for ELLs, younger students who can’t read yet, special education students, and students who have difficulty reading. Holzweiss asked. Evolve your programming.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

12 The reviews find that many studies lack scientific rigor. Department of Education’s What Works Clearinghouse for literacy does not contain any study that has a significant positive effect on broad reading achievement for this group. Feasibility of implementation Cost Special ed: U.S. 20k+ per year). Stevens, E.A.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

He then went on to study school psychology and special education in graduate school. His mother taught in schools. There are five magnet schools in the elementary levels—a school for arts, aerospace and engineering, medical science, international studies, and technology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Because much of last year was very unpredictable, the normal content and study skills were not fully taught. During the first few months of this year, I spent a lot of time reviewing ways for the students to study, as well as making up for missing content. –Jami Davis, Technology Teacher, Mansfield Independent School District.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Unfortunately, many students leaving elementary school are still not proficient in reading, and that creates a significant barrier to their ability to learn across subjects. Middle and high school teachers will need support to help older students with foundational reading skills to address this problem. Diane Myers, Ph.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8 percent graduation rate—an impressive feat given that 70 percent of students are on free-and-reduced lunch and anywhere from 12 to 15 percent are in special education. The school sets clear times for certain elective classes—like P.E.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Photo Credit: Marisa Kaplan This week I talked with other educators who shared their powerful stories: Elaine Mendez (an instructional coach from Belleville Public Schools) and AJ Bianco (a 7th and 8th grade Social Studies teacher from Harrington Park School)—who learned to make mistakes and show off their nerdy sides.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2023

More than a decade after earning his bachelor’s degree in psychology, Davenport is a student once again, pursuing his license to become a high school special education teacher. One of our kids attends the school that I work at. Three of them are at an elementary school nearby. Photo courtesy of Davenport.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Because much of last year was very unpredictable, the normal content and study skills were not fully taught. During the first few months of this year, I spent a lot of time reviewing ways for the students to study, as well as making up for missing content. –Jami Davis, Technology Teacher, Mansfield Independent School District.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

One of the core commitments of Distinctive Schools is. Our students and staff embrace, study, and promote social justice and protect the rights of others. Our K-8 school serves 531 students in the Belmont-Cragin neighborhood of Chicago. social justice. Equity was a major driver in implementing competency based learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2015

Thirty years ago a professor at Harvard University released findings from a series of studies. From elementary school grades upwards, a student may be given a book to read and asked to write a review afterwards. That struggle was problematic in many ways because much of it was incompatible with a traditional educational setting.

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Lab to Class

APRIL 21, 2025

School curriculums often focus on teaching students subject specific content such as math, science, and literature, but a newly released research study shows the importance of other soft skills such as emotional control, attentional control, and planning and prioritizing which together are often called Executive Functioning.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 24, 2024

It’s an especially severe problem for specialist roles, as seen in the special education teacher shortage. The crisis in public education is widening student achievement gaps, causing a dangerous feedback loop that disproportionately affects Black students, low-income students , and students with special educational needs.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Unfortunately, many students leaving elementary school are still not proficient in reading, and that creates a significant barrier to their ability to learn across subjects. Middle and high school teachers will need support to help older students with foundational reading skills to address this problem. Diane Myers, Ph.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. Extra work with symbols: Students with dyslexia or other language-based learning differences may struggle with the vocabulary of math, calling an inequality sign by its elementary school name, “the alligator mouth thingy.”

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

We also want to reduce disproportionality—where minority students (specifically, black and Latinx students in our district) are overrepresented in special education and discipline referrals. Book: Lost at School, by Dr. Ross Green. Why did you decide to adopt special education case management technology?

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2021

Cost/Benefit The benefits of high-quality, widely accessible preschool go well beyond economics, and decades of research have shown the lasting impact of high-quality early childhood education. Any well-designed universal preschool program, he adds, would lay out a path to establishing salary parity industry-wide. is currently $11.65

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

In December, Emily McMahan gave up her career of 12 years as a special education teacher in Rutherfordton, North Carolina, after telling her therapist that her job felt like a prison, both physically and mentally. “Every minute I wasn’t with the kids, personally, I was beyond treading water with my mental health,” she says. “I

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2025

The students academic levels span an incredible range–from kindergarten-level skills to almost high school-level proficiency. As the principal of a mid-sized urban elementary school, I work hand-in-hand with my teachers to surface and implement the strategies and tactics we believe will benefit the diverse learners in our school.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

We tell the government officials that this is whats happening, and this is what students need, and they dont listen to us, and these are people that have never stepped foot in a classroom, elementary school teacher Billie Arthur said. Below, we highlight four educators requests for Trump as his administration takes shape.

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