eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The reading growth observed and measured in my class clearly indicates the great things D&D can do in schools. My students’ test score growth doubled each time they tested.” In class, I asked my students to go around the table and use a few words to describe Dungeons & Dragons to peers who had not heard of it.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 14, 2025

There will always be reliable and relatable topics that K-5 students want to write about. Encourage deeper thinking and advance writing skills by adding a new layer of creativity and skill-building with this list of unique elementary writing prompts, which can help turn your go-tos into gold! Write their dialogue.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Shepard Elementary School. Moulton plays a key role in this phase.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

The company’s equity framework ensures that a solid structure exists from which to test, address, and mitigate bias in all areas, from data processing and model building to product design and evaluation activities. With Phonics, Reading, and Me, students build skills and knowledge and connect the text to their own diverse experiences.

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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

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

MARCH 31, 2021

history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2018

Fleming says whether the district sets up a makerspace in an elementary school library, in a middle school classroom or in a high school cafeteria, each makerspace has a unique quality. There’s so much innovation in education today that teachers and administrators have to look beyond the walls of the school.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Instead, he crafted an entirely new curriculum that he felt would better resonate with students, a series of reading and writing assignments that looked at the stages of grief. “I 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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

In my opinion, we need to absolutely do away with standardized testing–its a waste of time; all were doing is teaching a kid whether they can or cannot take a test and most students walk away feeling that they failed. Were still testing kids just like we did in the late 90s. So, we test whether or not we covered content.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

In my opinion, we need to absolutely do away with standardized testing–it’s a waste of time; all we’re doing is teaching a kid whether they can or cannot take a test and most students walk away feeling that they failed. We’re still testing kids just like we did in the late 90s.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

But while teaching middle school a few years ago, she began to feel the squeeze from high stakes testing, administrator turnover and battles over curriculum scripting. I did get to a point where I saw that the kids were coming in and their love of reading and writing was just slowly going out the door,” she says.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson. Mark Hess has served in a variety of roles since he was hired in 1993 by Walled Lake Consolidated School District in Walled Lake, Michigan. Nominee: Neal Kellogg , Oklahoma City Public Schools Nominated by: TutorMe.

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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. not noticeable overtly).

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. The BHS Help Desk curriculum strives to give students real-world learning opportunities,” Scheffer writes. by Jennifer Brown.

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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. Student blogging helps provide.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Halloween is a big deal at my school.

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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

DECEMBER 24, 2016

And I imagine that topic will endure as our boys progress into elementary school and beyond. Instead of waiting until a test is failed, we can use formative assessments to know whether student learning is on track. At the end of the week, I’ll write a brief reflection on how it went and what I learned.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Lilly Brunnick from Newburyport High School in Massachusetts won one of the two $1,000 scholarships. Volunteer teaching in the Bahamas during her junior year had made Brunnick seriously consider becoming an elementary school teacher. Isaac Kakiko from Hatboro-Horsham High School in Pennsylvania also won a $1,000 scholarship.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

And it’s the small stuff of classrooms that raise the biggest questions: what we want schools to accomplish, and for which kids. Pondiscio embedded in a South Bronx Success Academy elementary school for a year of close observation; as he says, for all the controversy, his main question was, “What do the kids do all day?”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At that critical moment when a teacher chalks a problem on the board and asks everyone to write out an answer, for instance, one kid might stall by sharpening a pencil, another might doodle or feign writing, and another might stare into space — though not thinking about the problem at hand. Well, for one, the workspace.

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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. that of 'Grades,'” Earick writes in an upcoming report on the project. NG2] tackles long-standing educational barriers to personalized learning.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. Microsoft Forms is flexible enough to support formative assessments of an entire grade.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Their natural interests and abilities became apparent—whether it was writing, drawing or a head for numbers. 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.

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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.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

The children who heard more words were better prepared for learning when they started school, Hart and Risley found—and these same children, when followed into third grade, had larger vocabularies, were stronger readers, and got higher test scores. The most recent NAEP scores showed that just 36 percent of U.S.

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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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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

“We don’t just need computer science graduates to fill computing jobs; we need people with technical abilities to fill jobs in almost every industry ,” Victoria Espinel, president of Software.org: the BSA Foundation and chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on the Digital Economy and Society, writes in a blog post.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Students from the county apply to the program of their choice during eighth grade, a process that involves taking an admissions test; submitting transcripts, teacher recommendations and a personal video; and entering a lottery, since demand is high.

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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. I had parents write me and say, ‘I watched your video, that was amazing. And unlike a math test or English project, sharing work from art classes is low stress. So much fun.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 16, 2018

Starting in the fall of 2011, Burns spent two years working in a one-to-one environment with tablets in an elementary school setting. Today, she’s a full-time consultant and runs Class Tech Tips , where she blogs and writes about educational technology and works closely in the classroom with administrators, students and teachers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

during lessons, and offer students a variety of ways to complete assignments rather than requiring everyone to write a paper or take a timed exam. The Downsides of Closing Schools and Colleges in a Crisis. Tools That Build Real-World Writing Skills. What about AP tests? Tools for Project-Based Learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

elementary schools.”. My students then suggested rounding up various versions of fairy tales, analyzed them, and then took a stab at writing their own fairy tales. One way I made good use of the basal reader is to use a story for teaching writing. Standardized Test Preparation. Standardized Test Preparation.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

I had been teaching conflict resolution to elementary school children in Washington, D.C., s largest public elementary school, I have been teaching “peace class” to over 600 children a week as one of their weekly specials for over 15 years. for five years when I suddenly realized I was doing it all wrong.

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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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