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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention.

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MARCH 15, 2018

Think back to your days in middle school, specifically to what you did after you slung your backpack off at home and began to unwind. What would your answer have been if a teacher asked, “What am I doing outside of school that I want to tell other students about?”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2021

More than 27,000 students attend 34 schools in the district including traditional high schools, alternative high schools, middle schools, elementary schools, and 16 preschools, including a federally funded Head Start program. The following has been edited for clarity.).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

For the last few years, this enterprising duo has been flipping their English classes, co-moderating a weekly Twitter education chat, presenting at conferences, planning lessons, and collaborating regularly from opposite sides of the country. Thomasson, who teaches English at Forestview High School in Gastonia, N.C.,

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MAY 9, 2025

When done correctly, experts say, dual enrollment can be a critical pathway from high school to college, especially as todays high school seniors are less prepared to move to higher education. Currently, the program offers a math program and could soon include biology, English, and potentially physics or psychology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2023

Whitehorne Middle School in Verona, New Jersey. Ecole Dickinsfield School in Alberta, Canada. Bangor High School in Bangor, Maine. Stephen Catholic School in Riverview, Florida. Lamphere High School in Madison Heights, Michigan. Tates Creek High School in Lexington, Kentucky.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

Key points: Tech tools can create more engaging and effective learning experiences A critical shift in digital instruction in 2025 How multimedia and interactive tech transform engagement For more news on digital tools, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In 2010, I began my teaching career as a high school English teacher.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

NEW YORK – Students are gearing up for the 2023 school year, and new research from Brainly reveals that AI is an integral element in middle and high school students’ academic life – even as educators debate and worry whether the revolutionary technology belongs in the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

For example, when we didnt have a coach for one of the schools in our middle school football program, our navigators mobilized for really good candidates in a short amount of time just from their personal outreach. In only two years, student engagement in extracurriculars has nearly doubled.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

students speak a language other than English at home, and approximately 16 percent of children live in poverty. According to recent data, over 20 percent of U.S. These statistics underscore the diverse backgrounds and challenges families in our communities face.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Historically, English language learner (ELL) instruction has primarily focused on reading and writing. As a result of this literacy-first focus, by the time ELLs become proficient readers in English, they are often many years behind in math. The truth is a little more complex. ELL teachers are focused on reading and writing.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Christina Sorenson, language arts resource teacher, Henry Middle School, Cedar Park, Texas. “I Even after 10 years with Fast ForWord, teachers still tell me how thankful they are because it covers skills they can’t cover in an English language arts classroom. On average, they made 1.8

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2021

“This pathway was designed to enable students to graduate High School with the computer programming skills necessary to enter the workforce, or continue their education at the university level,” said Mike Lynch, Director of Education, Blackbird.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

(September 29, 2021) – Reading Plus, an evidence-based online program that uses personalized instruction to improve students’ reading proficiency, today announced the expanded use of its platform within the Beaufort County School District in South Carolina.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

At my middle school, for example, we use WordFlight to support Tier 2 and Tier 3 students who are not yet proficient readers based on a beginning-of-year screening. This online program has given us the system, support, and resources to make a measurable difference in our students’ reading growth.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA – Carousel Digital Signage has provided Elkhart Community Schools with a seamless way to communicate timely, up-to-date messages to its diverse network of students, faculty, staff, and visitors. The public school district is comprised of 14 elementary schools, three middle schools, and one high school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We have 20 schools serving over 10,000 students. Of those, approximately 2,700 are English Language learners. As a result, over 500 of our students who were at-risk of dropping out have now earned their high school diploma. San Benito CISD (SBCISD) lies at the southernmost tip of Texas, right on the border of Mexico.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

We asked education experts to share their thoughts regarding student success priorities in 2025 (find 50 edtech predictions for 2025 here )–discover what they had to say: Across the country, there is growing consensus and demand for high school transformation. Students often learn best by doing.

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MAY 6, 2020

A resounding ‘yes’ Gabriel Vogel, 11th grade teacher at Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, Va.: “Yes! I am hoping that parents can appreciate and understand, even more now, all that teachers do to be surrogate parents and help them help their child in the school setting. YES THEY HAVE!

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2019

If our registrars can train elementary students to arena schedule—which they have—junior high and high school students shouldn’t have a problem. Next steps: Several of our high school locations host 9th-grade students; we are beginning the process of having our incoming 9th-grade students use arena scheduling.

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MAY 5, 2020

Kim Booth, sixth grade teacher at Coleman Middle School in Duluth, Ga.: “I Claire Peterson, middle school teacher at Pat Neff Middle School in San Antonio, Texas: “This isn't the same. Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: “The I miss my kids.

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APRIL 27, 2017

Twenty-seven students from nearby Zanesville High School had arrived to get a taste of what the higher education experience might be like. “I I got a photo with the mascot and also met the provost,” says Alexis Stallworth, a junior at Zanesville High School, which is about 50 miles east of Columbus in Ohio. “It

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The Catalyze Challenge was created to meet this moment, with grants funding inventive ideas for career-connected learning at middle and high schools and programs supporting the transition to early college coursework. Collegiate Academies – Next Level NOLA: Bridging High School and Beyond (Louisiana).

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

As a part of an ongoing initiative to enhance the health and wellness resources available to its students and families, the Baldwin Union Free School District (UFSD) is proud to launch the Baldwin Schools Wellness Center and to be among the first school districts in the nation to establish such a resource directly on campus at no cost to families.

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MAY 28, 2024

That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Unfortunately, our education system often struggles to provide adequate support for these students if they don’t know English. However, I am hopeful that this year we will witness a renewed commitment towards providing resources, policies, and initiatives that cater to English Language Learners and promote multilingualism in schools.

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MAY 27, 2025

Addressing Systemic Challenges and Supporting Educator Sustainability Last but not least, educators were not only adamant about the systemic challenges of K-12 education, but also expressed ways schools and districts can work to better support the retention of educators in our schools.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2023

By doing so, the district believes they are leveraging students’ natural curiosity about the world around them to build the scientific fundamentals that will drive future success in the subject in middle school, high school, and beyond.

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JUNE 11, 2020

Take, for example, the distance learning plan created by Chaffey Joint Union High School District in California, which says that schoolwork completed by students through the end of the year can only preserve and improve grades, but not lower them. Many teachers watched their students brush off assignments and disappear from class.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

This student, a recent immigrant from El Salvador, often struggles because of his limited English ability in core subjects like math, reading and science. I believe in the power of the artsits ability to transcend language barriers and how it helps all students, especially multilingual learners, thrive in school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2016

With the new interactive, the Electoral Decoder, middle and high school students learn about the impact of the Electoral College. Students in these classrooms will receive instruction 50 percent of the time in English and 50 percent of the time in Spanish, culminating in dual language comprehension and fluency.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Biggest challenge: MDCPS’ challenge was to increase graduation rates so that at least 90 percent of students will graduate with a standard high school diploma by 2020. In deploying the devices, the district targeted grade levels and courses such as 7th-grade civics, 9th- and 10th-grade English, and middle school math.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Thats according to a survey of 700 elementary and middle school teachers by Study.com, an online learning platform, that queried educators in January about student achievement. Some parents may have difficulty understanding the classwork or whats happening in school because they arent fluent in English.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

VCSC is one of Vigo County’s largest employers, serving nearly 14,000 students across three traditional high schools, five middle schools, 15 elementary schools, an alternative school, and a virtual school.

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JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

By doing so, the district believes they are helping build young learners’ knowledge of the scientific fundamentals that will drive future success in the subject in middle school, high school, and beyond. Editable, ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the second-largest school division in Virginia, with 55 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, 12 high schools, and a number of secondary/post-secondary specialty centers.

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