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. 20k+ per year).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Finding patterns and honing in on struggling readers’ skill deficits will quickly point educators to the appropriate intervention. When testing for a skill deficit, is it important to identify the precise lowest skill level with which a student struggles, and begin remediation from there. About the Presenter. Join the Community.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2021

The learning systems are intended for specialized learning units covering preschool to grade 12. Cincinnati schools recently reopened to full-time, in-person learning on April 1. “At We hope this opens up the eyes of other special education departments around the country.”.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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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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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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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. 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.,

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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. Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind The integration of AI in education has the potential to revolutionize the way students learn, especially for non-traditional learners.

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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. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

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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

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Steadman, who teaches at Mendell Elementary School in this highly-diverse Boston neighborhood, passed along her concerns to a colleague, Madeline Gillespie, a family support coordinator. Gillespie spoke with the girl’s mother and learned they were living in a shelter and had no way to get to school. ROXBURY, Mass.

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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

DECEMBER 23, 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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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. He could use a calculator during tests, but he had to learn a strategy for tracking those negative signs.

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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. When students have underqualified teachers or full-time substitutes , they’re more likely to experience learning delays, low graduation rates, and test scores below grade level.

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Lab to Class

APRIL 21, 2025

The children with better executive functioning skills scored better on receptive language tests, but it may actually go deeper than just a simple one way relationship. When students are able to focus better and control themselves better, they are more able to pay attention to tasks, score better on tests and learn more.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 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. Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind The integration of AI in education has the potential to revolutionize the way students learn, especially for non-traditional learners.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 21, 2024

Ask anyone in the education system, and you’ll hear the same story: Teachers are leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers. From elementary school through middle school and on to high school, in wealthy and poor school districts, full-time, part-time, and substitute teachers are in short supply.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

For example, there are many elementary schools that still use timed tests as a way to increase math fluency for math facts. Change 2: Revisit Your Assessment Practices Kircher-Morris: We need to really make sure that when we are assessing something, we’re assessing what we are actually wanting to assess.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The campus technology people, the assistant principals, school staff, it’s been a big task. His team likes to beta test new technologies to explore the benefits for all of their end users, including security technologies that help keep the district safe. Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

Bethany Collins, who taught at middle schools in the Los Angeles area for more than eight years, left teaching in January after maternity leave wiped out her sick days—and her district told her she couldn’t take any more paid time off, even if she or her daughter tested positive for COVID. I was just drowning.” Empathy evaporated.

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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. –Dr. .

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Armed with just two suitcases and far away from her Mexican home, Lopez Elizondo came to Crain Elementary School in Victoria, Texas, to work in the districts bilingual program. Four worked at Crains bilingual program while the fifth worked in the districts special education department.

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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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