eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

School and district leaders should adopt a continuous improvement framework, emphasizing iterative assessment and refinement of strategies to meet the evolving educational landscape. This involves a cycle of planning, implementing, evaluating, and adjusting, with engagement of pertinent individuals to ensure ongoing relevancy.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

. – Aperture Education, the leading provider of research-based social and emotional learning assessments for K-12 schools, has added two new solutions to its product suite. DESSA Middle School Student Self-Report Adolescents’ engagement is critical to learning success.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

At Marlboro Township (NJ) Public Schools, a K-8 district, we are doing several things to ensure that our students are on a path to college and career readiness before they move on to high school. Moreover, we have the largest number of students in our area who are accepted into highly competitive vocational schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Let’s take an example of a middle school student struggling with systems of equations. It is easier to tell a 6 th grader that he has a hard time with systems of equations than tell a high school student he doesn’t understand the second World War. This balance becomes harder to strike as more topics are presented.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. There’s.

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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

OCTOBER 22, 2021

the winner of the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge ( #YoungScientist ), the nation’s premier middle school science competition. Sarah Park, an eighth-grader at Bolles School – Bartram in Jacksonville, Fla. an eighth-grader at Dodgen Middle School in Cobb County High School Area 1. 18 and 19, 2021.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2019

Biggest challenge: “In Florida, as in many states, we’d been given mandate after mandate about standardized testing, teacher evaluations, etc.,” We needed to get our students working toward the types of skills they needed to be successful after high school.”. says Bill Emerson, assistant superintendent.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

As a result, there’s a significant gap between students’ soft skill attainment as they leave high school and what’s needed to be successful in the workforce and as happy contributors to society. Assessment could take various forms, including [evaluations in] project-based learning, simulations and scenario-based tests.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2019

Solution: We began our search for a new registration process by evaluating numerous scheduling formats ranging from future scheduling and arena scheduling to flexible modular scheduling and rotational scheduling. Our middle school locations are currently discussing and outlining ways to expand arena scheduling to junior high.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. Students are the problem.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. Examples of survey items used by students to evaluate teachers via the Network for Educator Effectiveness. This teacher makes lessons interesting.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

So how do we prepare today’s high school journalists (and tomorrow’s mainstream reporters) for such an era? I remember a study came out last October from Stanford , and it talked about how students struggled to evaluate the credibility of information they find online. We have it hanging up around Palo Alto High School.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Nonprofit’s 8GA program aims to extend learning day for 8th graders to support them through high school and beyond. If a child can succeed in the 8th grade, he or she has a greater chance of graduating high school, attending college and securing a good-paying job.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2019

Demographics: The Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District (ISD) is the third-largest district in Texas, covering 186 square miles and serving more than 115,000 students. The Houston district currently includes 11 high schools, 18 middle schools, 54 elementary schools, and five special campuses.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

high school science teacher Nicole Vick says that new approaches to science teaching over the past few years, including the introduction of new standards, has encouraged more hands-on activities and personal relevance that makes the subject more meaningful to students. “And At Century High School in Bismarck, N.D.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2024

Middle school students will establish strategies for digital well-being and discuss how online information can influence opinions through information bubbles.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The implementation also helped address challenges with certifications and staffing for their early college high school and STEM high school–when they no longer had a university partner providing physical education credits, Edmentum filled that gap with highly qualified, state-certified teachers and award-winning curriculum.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

But barriers to eligibility for that scholarship persisted: Just 76 percent of students in Akron Public Schools’ class of 2017 graduated from high school within four years. Susan Kushner Benson, associate professor Kushner Benson leads the partnership between the I Promise School and the University of Akron.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. Each finalist will be evaluated on a series of challenges, including a presentation of their completed innovation.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. Arizona] Prisha Shroff, Accelerated Middle School, Chandler Unified School District. PAUL, Minn.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

“Ignite My Future in School impacted students in my classrooms by providing authentic learning experiences that challenged my students to use computational thinking skills to solve real world problems,” said Jenna Rosienski, Assistant Principal – Franklin Middle School, Janesville, WS. “ currently teach computer science.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2017

Opened in 1995 as a dropout recovery high school and one of the first generation of charters in Texas, the George Gervin Academy is actually six campuses in one—with five campuses in San Antonio and one in Phoenix. All told, the schools serve about 1,500 students from pre-kindergarten through grade 12.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 6, 2020

If your school doesn’t teach a course about personal economics, there are many online sites that address the topic as mini-lessons. Age group: Middle school. Age group: middle and high school. Age group: Upper elementary, middle and high school. Age group: high school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 29, 2022

I’ve noticed news stories about schools adding financial literacy to the High School course load (yay!). If your school doesn’t teach personal economics but would like to, there are many online sites that address the topic as mini-lessons. Age group: High school. Some are narrative; others games.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 30, 2015

If your school doesn’t teach a course about personal economics, there are many online sites that address the topic as mini-lessons. Once they’ve completed these exercises, they pretend that they have just graduated from high school, have a job, and must save $2,000 to start college. Some are narrative; others games.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 2, 2023

12 Tips for Teaching Middle School Tech. How to Evaluate Apps. It’s Here–the High School Technology Curriculum! How Kids Can Build Their Own Apps (for HofC). 7 Authentic Assessment Tools. 10 Tech Tools for Your Math Class. 15 Websites to Teach Financial Literacy. 18 Ideas for Warm-ups and Exit Tickets.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One of my favorites is from Kate Wagner, principal of Red Mill Elementary, who says, “ We are no longer teaching to the middle.” Another comes from Jeff Silverman, principal of Christa McAuliffe Middle School, who explains that implementing personalized learning ”finally got us over the hurdle we were stuck at.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Kiddom , an all-in-one education platform for high-quality digital curriculum, has expanded its partnership with Kendall Hunt Publishing. Kendall Hunt will offer a customized version of OpenSciEd’s high-quality middle school science instructional materials in a dynamic format through Kiddom’s comprehensive digital curriculum platform.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Tip #2: Loosen Up Roadblocks and Reconsider How Teacher Evaluations Look According to Brady, certain policies and district requirements aren’t conducive to allowing CBL to flourish. It’s a real problem when we fund schools by attendance, especially when that can look different if you aren’t judging students by ‘seat time,” she says.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Try high school students. These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. It’s wildly outside what most students get exposed to in school,” says von Oy. The others were evaluated based on visual details and creative use of math formulas and animation features.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

A recent study using data of high school students found that kids who in high school reported having a natural mentor were 12 to 26 percentage points more likely to go to college than kids who did not, controlling for everything else. That's a massive effect. We've made no progress on that in the past 10 years.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

For instance, a high school freshman might undertake a service learning project that lasts until his graduation. Summative Assessments—Data Points Unlike formative assessments, summative assessments are evaluative in nature—taking place after instruction is complete and gauging mastery of a skill or competency.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. There is a direct relationship between executive function development and the effectiveness of different types of learning activities.

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