Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

First Educational Version of a Programming Language Enables Middle School Code Education – Bridging the Middle School Gap. PORTLAND, May 12, 2021 – Blackbird today announced the official release of the world’s first educational version of JavaScript.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Many English Learners (ELs) across the United States have gone months without exposure to the academic English they require for success in school and that they would normally receive in formal education settings. times more effective than typical interventions for both EL and non-EL middle school students.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Most teachers groan at the mention of “articulation.” When teachers know what they are trying to achieve, they design lessons with intention and a clear sense of purpose. The basic idea is that teachers identify 5 “outs” or skills students will master by the time they leave their class.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As the back-to-school season unfolded in New York, the city’s teachers set up their classrooms how they usually do: by putting up posters, reading through curriculums, sharpening pencils, and, for roughly a decade , charging Chromebooks. The one place where I was free from the pressure to snap and scroll was school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Key points: Virtual reality offers learning beyond just verbal communications 3 AR/VR resources that nurture student curiosity Reaching the 4Cs with 3D and virtual reality For more on VR in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Multilingual students face unique challenges that can hurt their performance in school. In the U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In partnership with eSchool News, Illuminate Education is spotlighting teachers in a series recognizing educators, the way they have moved instruction online during COVID-19, and how they have prioritized the needs of their students. English Teacher, 7th-9th Grade. What inspired you to be a teacher? Madeline Caballero.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for our free New York newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated my Brooklyn public school classroom with quotes from famous people reflecting on the importance of reading. I hoped to inspire my students to fall in love with reading.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I vividly remember my English teacher, Mrs. Grant, bringing a stack of 20 well-read copies of A Wrinkle in Time out from the closet for everyone in the class. Which is why middle school English teachers like Carrie Friday at Southwest Middle School in Palm Bay, Florida are using the book club model instead.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Leading school science supplier Carolina Biological launched three new sets of K-8 digital resources for remote teaching this fall: Smithsonian Science for the Classroom @HOME, Smithsonian Science and Technology Concepts Middle School@HOME , and Building Blocks of Science 3D@HOME. Professional Learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2021

In my experience as an Educational Technology Specialist (ETS) and many years as a middle school teacher, one thing I have learned is that if students have a choice in demonstrating their knowledge and showcasing their skills, they are often more invested in the task or end product.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

In a previous post titled Save Your Sanity with a Things to Revamp for Next Year List , Catlin shared her “things to revamp for next year” document, which is another format teachers can use to reflect and capture their thoughts. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school.

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Edsurge

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?” What do I wish I could show my teacher and my peers?

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

The 2022 PBL Champions are: District PBL Champion Broward County Public Schools (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) School PBL Champion Thomas A. This year’s recipient was Rose Moe, a 6th-grade math teacher at Lincoln Middle School in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. About the Champions.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

When I was growing up, I assumed that my teachers knew everything, including all of the “right answers.” Now that I’ve been a teacher for 15 years, I know this simply isn’t true. In fact, some of the most powerful learning in my middle school science classroom has happened when I’ve pretended to NOT know the “right answer.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

Sign up for our free New York newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated my Brooklyn public school classroom with quotes from famous people reflecting on the importance of reading. I hoped to inspire my students to fall in love with reading.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Kennedy Middle School would pivot to remote learning because of the pandemic. Her Title I school in Riviera Beach has a growing population of English language learners. But, Smith wondered how teachers could make classroom best practices and strategies work in a virtual world. Podcast: Leading Equity.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

Overnight, many parents—especially those with younger children—have been thrust into the role of homeschool teachers. In some ways, the sudden change has given parents a newfound appreciation for the work teachers do day in and day out, and the challenges they face working with dozens of young people at a time. How can you tell?

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2021

In my experience as an Educational Technology Specialist (ETS) and many years as a middle school teacher, one thing I have learned is that if students have a choice in demonstrating their knowledge and showcasing their skills, they are often more invested in the task or end product.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The annual report comes from Code.org , the Computer Science Teachers Association , and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance and offers a comprehensive analysis of national progress in providing computer science education. It features national and state-level policy and implementation data, focusing on high school data.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

When school buildings across the country closed their doors due to the coronavirus pandemic, many teachers had about a weekend’s notice—if that—to gather up their belongings and reimagine their classrooms from their homes. In celebration of Teacher Appreciation Week, we’ve rounded up some of their answers below.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

(NYSE: RST) to extend its world language program to military families and adult learners, in addition to supplementing traditional language learning instruction to its middle and high school students and English-language learners. The most common languages studied include Spanish, French, Latin and English.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

How two teachers overcome the challenges of flipping their classrooms and co-planning lessons across states. Who says you can only use the flipped teaching method in your own class or with other teachers in your school or district? Thomasson, who teaches English at Forestview High School in Gastonia, N.C.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Phase 3 Live Finale: Elementary, middle and high school teams competed in a 30-minute esports showdown, held at the Levan Center of Innovation at Nova Southeastern University, to design climate-resilient schools. Confidence: English Language learners improve through hands-on projects. Focus on teacher support.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

It’s conference season—the time of the year when parents and teachers meet to discuss each student’s progress. In most schools, this is a private conversation between the child’s teacher and parent(s). The teacher offers an overview about the student’s performance, and then they explain the report card or other set of data.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2024

This was right about the time a leading literacy vendor was rolling out its new literacy program for struggling adolescent readers, so the following year I decided to integrate that program into our English curriculum. At that point, teachers really began to understand the value of using the literacy tool. Train every teacher.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. This fall, Martinez will become a bilingual teacher for students in kindergarten through eighth grade in Morgan Hill, a small city near San Jose, California, as part of the next Teach for America cohort.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 29, 2015

Economics in Plain English –from Atlantic Monthly–videos. Basic Economic Terms. Basic Economics Jumbled. Be Your Own Boss. BrainPop—money movie. Business and Profit Millionaire Game. Coffeeshop Game. Economic Concepts. Economic Systems. Economic Terms. Economic Terms Mini-Quiz. Economics Flashcards. Economics Flashcards. Economy Terms.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Seven months into its partnership with Achieve3000 , a Calcasieu Parish School in Lake Charles, La., saw greater than expected literacy gains on the Spring 2016 Louisiana Educational Assessment Program (LEAP) for English language arts among middle school students regularly using one of Achieve3000’s differentiated literacy solutions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

The factors behind the continued dip in scores are multilayered, but teachers might tell you that the key reason why some students arent making progress is that parents arent making schoolwork a priority at home. Some parents may have difficulty understanding the classwork or whats happening in school because they arent fluent in English.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

As a graduate student and teacher, I’m only known to my students from the collarbones up, so everything within the camera frame is appropriate, clean, and gives off that put-together vibe. Students and teachers are lonely, isolated, depressed. This semester I feel like a bad teacher, disconnected and struggling.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2024

For the last year, EdSurge has been showcasing students enrolled in teacher preparation programs to understand who is going into teaching today — and why. The series, called “ America’s Future Teachers ,” comes at a time when the teaching profession is in turmoil. Some have left the field.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2015

Middlebury Interactive Languages launches new program for school districts; also available through partner Fuel Education.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

The teacher explains the model, the students understand the expectations, and the class moves into stations smoothly. When introducing station rotation, I encourage teachers to embrace a couple of routines to make the experience run more smoothly. Once students understand the objective, they practice moving from station to station.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

But where in the conversation are the people implementing those tools: the teachers? In a survey released earlier this year, the edtech company Clever found that 85 percent of administrators say teachers are involved in choosing tools. It’s his job to make sure edtech is successfully integrated into schools there. “If

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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. ELL teachers are focused on reading and writing.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2023

MiEN helped its new partners to renovate spaces for cafés, esports, teacher lounges, student unions, common areas, makerspaces, and even an entire school building. The categories of projects and the participating schools are listed below: Café Space Projects. Teacher Lounge Project. Bangor High School in Bangor, Maine.

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