eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Effective feedback is vital for several reasons, allowing for students to adopt new study strategies, identify weaknesses, and chart development over time. Let’s take an example of a middle school student struggling with systems of equations. Implementing systems like ExamSoft or Canvas for online exams can facilitate this.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

Test Prep, “takes all the actual materials we use in class and creates something that is not generic.” – Cody Ashley, middle school teacher Middle school, high school and college students preparing for class exams and state assessments can build personalized study plans in seconds using Brainly’s generative AI technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Name: Edlyft HQ: San Francisco Founded: 2019 For $250 a month per student, Edlyft provides computer science majors with group tutoring, study groups and guidance from people already proficient in the subject. Users receive access to study groups and a question bank of tens of thousands of questions.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service. Is your edtech efficacy study up to par? Digital Promise invites edtech developers to share their studies for review.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A parent from Iowa : “As it happens my daughter is a freshman in ME taking Calc 2 this semester and I was helping her study for her first big exam last night. Get rid of the societal lies that everyone needs to go to college and everyone must strive to go to an Ivy League school rather than one that is their best fit.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Research suggests that taking algebra courses in high school is one of several important indicators for students’ college readiness and success. Passing Algebra I is also a requirement for high school graduation. Or through studying the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on communities of color.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. It had been more than a year and a half since she had studied Mesopotamia, yet she was able to pull it out of memory without a second thought. Many studies had been conducted in university labs. The purpose?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Margaret Honey, President & CEO, Scratch Foundation I expect to see even more K12 leaders embrace a holistic vision of student success–one that recognizes that academic knowledge and durable skills need to be developed in tandem in our schools and classrooms.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. The takeaway?

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

For instance, an often cited study showed that first-grade teachers with math anxiety passed it to their female but not their male students. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. For others, he says, “We have to bring that into the school, into the family’s life, so they can see that their child can absolutely compete.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For 14 years, Laura Johnson has taught a variety of subjects, including social studies, psychology, and music and art appreciation–all virtually within ALVS. She started as a part-time teacher while she was still at a brick-and-mortar school, where she drove 38 miles each way to teach.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform. Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development, whose research team worked with us to produce a controlled study that would conclusively report whether game based-learning increased student achievement.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

Researchers at California Polytechnic State University conducted a study in 1994, which showed conclusively that the group that was given a random assortment of pitches did much better in the post test than the group that received blocked pitches—several of one kind followed by several of another—and the control group.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Summative assessments, such as final exams, can be a great way to assess the efficacy of a curriculum within a school , offering a view of an entire class in order to judge what materials or classroom structures may need to be adjusted for the next year. . by Eli Zimmerman.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

Other students study drawing and painting, so they will learn how to use code to create their artwork. In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent. Some of the students enjoy freestyle rap and dance, so they will learn how to simulate or enhance their performances using code. This isn’t new.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Of the district’s 230 schools, 36 expressed interest in being a test school, eight participated in the pilot and five ultimately received funding and support to launch the wall-to-wall model in Fall 2015. Another early challenge they faced was getting everyone on the same page. Everyone had a different understanding of the work.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

Sara Rowe and Lennelle Gilpin, who teach middle school geography in Wentzville, Mo., Michael Milton, a high school history teacher in Burlington, Mass., The sweet spot for Carmen has always been pegged at about middle school, when kids are just old enough to get the puns and the geography.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

How does a school engage a senior and the entire learning community, especially in late April when seniors are close to exams and all students are grappling with spring fever and the not-too-distant target of summer? Students are exposed to each of the program areas during their lower and middle school years.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2018

a district middle school located in the Bronx. At least that’s what Jean Dalton Encke, the principal of the school thought. Students were expected to finish the exam in about two hours. When school was dismissed at 2:45 pm, Dalton set off to check on students, confident that they were headed home.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 20, 2019

One way school districts are ensuring this is by introducing career topics and studies to middle school students. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education , middle school is the time when students are the most likely to become disengaged from learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

A few days later, at a study session with parents on Jan. After gaining board and trustee approval in June 2016, the district decided to run a one-year pilot program for the 2016-2017 school year for sixth graders at the district’s two middle schools, Graham and Crittenden. 17 study session. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Students might attend a field trip, using their phones to capture images that support a topic of study. For instance, a high school freshman might undertake a service learning project that lasts until his graduation. When I taught high school English, I used summative assessment results as part of data talks with students.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This app adds fun to what often is the stressful task of preparing for SAT exams. This app is well-suited for its purpose of SAT language prep, as well as useful for PSAT and GRE prep needs and general vocabulary building skills at a middle school and high school level. Education Applications. Conclusion.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2023

He can take his Praxis exam as soon as this summer and begin looking for a full-time teaching position in Knoxville, Tennessee, where he grew up and currently lives with his wife and six children. One of our kids attends the school that I work at. Three of them are at an elementary school nearby. Photo courtesy of Davenport.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Encourage a balanced routine: Remind students to structure their days with a mix of study, exercise, and relaxation. I’ve seen a number of tools that pass the privacy tests and offer tutoring on specific national and state standards and exams which are very attractive to schools if the price is right.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

I took a law and policy class my senior year of high school, and so at the end of the year instead of having a final exam, we each were tasked with finding a problem related to policy, government, law of politics and coming up with a way to fix it. This conversation has been lightly edited and condensed for clarity. Simmons: Sure.

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Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

An examination of middle school organizational structures in the United States and Australia. Problems, Resources, and Issues in Mathematics Undergraduate Studies , 13 (1), 7584. These reflections illustrate the role that the mentor teacher can play in scaffolding learning experiences for LAs. Ellerbrock, C., Gomez Johnson, K.,Jakopovic,

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Theres also a review game and study guide lesson to bring the unit to a close and prepare students for the upcoming exam. I made sure to include an assessment in the Grammar Lessons Bundle. There is a quiz for each of the grammar units, which you can print or use Google Forms.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

For more information on equitable grading systems, see our Standards-Based Learning at Middle Schools and Competency-Based Grading in High Schools research briefs. Additionally, some studies show that retention can lead to behavioral issues, increased absences, and lower peer acceptance among retained students.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

While these students — a group we’re calling experienced multilinguals — are probably quite comfortable and fluent with speaking English socially, they may still be unfamiliar with the academic language used in science, social studies, math, and other content areas. I’ve had mostly A’s and B’s on most of my exams. by that time.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

However, the evidence for this from her study was weak. For example, she says, the civics exam asks a question about what the longest river in the U.S. Still, the path was winding and not limited to school. School also taught Ta to conduct research, which was helpful. Youth are motivated to participate , she says.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Carl Brownlee, middle school teacher Here’s a popular movie plot: Great teacher goes into a troubled neighborhood and turns around a low-performing school. In fact, in a broken district such as Detroit’s, schools in hard-bitten neighborhoods sometimes go from “turnarounds” to closure.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2017

Spring means one thing to many elementary and middle schools across the country: test prep. Students across the country are gearing up to take federally mandated, state-administered exams, and teachers, administrators and parents all feel the heat. Derek Briggs examined paid, in-school and out-of-school SAT prep programs.

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