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. 00:04:43 Speaker 1 There’s uh, automatic or passive evaluations. There’s. In the end. And I think today.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for an exclusive mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for an exclusive mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.” We eagerly await this year’s entries!”.

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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

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. Creating a tangible context in which students can learn and apply abstract concepts can help us raise the next generation of STEM professionals.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

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. Kiddom , an all-in-one education platform for high-quality digital curriculum, has expanded its partnership with Kendall Hunt Publishing.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2017

I have been in school administration for 12 years now, and one of the things that I absolutely have learned to hate is the formal teacher evaluation process. 3 Better Teacher Evaluation Alternatives to “Gotcha” Tactics. 3 Better Teacher Evaluation Alternatives to “Gotcha” Tactics.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

and abroad, while focusing on supporting disconnected and marginalized student populations and empowering girls in STEM. TCS envisioned the first-of-its-kind STEM/computer science education program with a mission to make computational thinking accessible to every student and educator. Beyond the U.S., currently teach computer science.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Basically, it’s because there aren’t enough education opportunities that require that sort of skill and those there are, usually rhyme with ‘math’ or ‘science’ which to many kids are “just too complicated” Enter STEM–Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics. “I

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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. The 2021 finalists, honorable mention recipients prove the efficacy of STEM thinking.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Vrain Valley School District Career-connected learning will become more important than ever. The workforce has undergone significant changes, and today’s jobs require advanced skills and specialized training, particularly in STEM fields. Thus, preparing the next generation of STEM-literate citizens has never been more critical.

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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. This year’s state merit winners prove the efficacy of STEM thinking.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Following a comprehensive evaluation, the Oklahoma State Textbook Committee has unanimously approved the Elementary and Middle School editions of Discovery Education’s Science Techbook for statewide use as core instructional resources. Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for an exclusive mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

. – April 20, 2021 – After a rigorous evaluation, the Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) has added CoderZ to its online list of professional learning programs. One example is Todd Leff, a CS and technology teacher who has been teaching programming at Kingsview Middle School in Maryland.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Angrist and Pathak are both professors in the MIT Department of Economics and co-founders of MIT’s Blueprint Labs, a research group that often examines school performance. In these districts, students can opt for any school in the district, but some schools are oversubscribed.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As Alpha Public Schools administrator Jin-Soo Huh told EdSurge this past summer , “Edtech companies have a responsibility when putting out studies to understand data clearly and present it accurately.” Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Minnesota’s South Washington County (SoWashCo) Schools today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in K-8 classrooms across the district. SoWashCo Schools is a suburban district located southeast of St. STEM Connect. Mystery Science.

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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 14, 2023

We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

Studying a zebrafish might be the key to increasing students’ science knowledge and attitudes toward science education–at least, that’s what a five-year evaluation of 20,000 K-12 students indicates. Middle school students demonstrated significant positive gains on 8 of 9 knowledge questions.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

EdReports — the highly regarded, independent nonprofit designed to improve education by providing reviews of K-12 instructional materials — applies evidence-based analysis in evaluating math and ELA programs. Known as “gateways,” the categories include: “Focus & Coherence,” “Rigor and Mathematical Practices,” and “Usability.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Committed to maintaining the highest safety and security standards, MPS consistently evaluates and updates its protocols. Building on a successful pilot of Metrasens Ultra detectors in the previous academic year, MPS officially integrated them at the start of the 2023-2024 school year.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

Particularly for STEM courses, Nguyen says it’s important to have an instructor who has not just the pedagogical knowledge but also the content knowledge to effectively teach the class. That doesn’t mean the picture is rosy in the Hawkeye State, where many districts started the school year without a full roster of teachers and substitutes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2020

He asks students to evaluate the sources of information they’re reading and, where possible, gets them to think about how other disciplines, such as biology or the social sciences, are involved. He also plans to introduce the Atlantic’s provocatively-headlined, but well-regarded piece “ You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus.”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

and abroad, while focusing on supporting disconnected and marginalized student populations and empowering girls in STEM. TCS envisioned the first-of-its-kind STEM/computer science education program with a mission to make computational thinking accessible to every student and educator. Beyond the U.S., currently teach computer science.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Having a snapshot of real-time peer review data gave me more insight into how students were using teacher-developed criteria to evaluate one another. Middle school students role-play feedback interactions, 2019. These changes made a significant impact. Several hands went up: “The teacher!” “No,

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

Now, teachers teach to a variety of learning styles, differentiate learning for our students with twice-weekly Response to Intervention time and give opportunities for student collaboration—such as STEM projects and our Spark literary and visual arts magazine. And this past year two of those schools came off the list!

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same. They LOVED sharing what they learned using Adobe Spark!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

It’s about changing the culture and mindset of a school. My journey to build this opportunity for my students has helped me recognize the importance of student voice and simultaneously lead me down a road of self-evaluation as an educator and facilitator. This summit was also designed to give current local clubs a bigger platform.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

The others were evaluated based on visual details and creative use of math formulas and animation features. There was one rule that helped winnow it down: Submissions couldn’t include recognizably copyrighted material. “We We got some Disney characters,” he shares, which were disqualified. Desmos is no stranger to beautiful doodles.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

However, Reich pointed out that users should be wary of claims made by Carnegie Learning marketers that the product “doubles math learning in one year” when, as Reich describes , “middle school students using Cognitive Tutor performed no better than students in a regular algebra class.” To help, Digital Promise launched on Aug.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

Choice can be a powerful thing —provided you can evaluate, and act on, the options available to you. For decades, Chicago parents have been able to apply to send their kids to their school of choice—and they can put as many as 20 schools on their wish list. That’s what we should be talking about,” he says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two years later. Art / Music.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

But it really kicks in during middle school. What we find in our middle schools is that students are starting to develop their own voices as writers,” Cotton says. We provide training so they all have a good sense of how to evaluate writing and provide feedback to students.” And useful feedback is crucial.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

Jacqueline Prester was a self-proclaimed hustler in middle school. It also gives the Department of Education the authority to hire experts to evaluate and make recommendations for curriculum. Mowing lawns, babysitting—she took the initiative to earn her own money. What kinds of learning results are you seeing from your students?

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