eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

The report, Voices of New Hampshire Students: Career-Connected Learning’s Role in Building Bright Futures , examines the impact of career-connected learning on the more than 8,500 New Hampshire students in grades 5-12. About half of students say while at school, they learned about a job or career they previously did not know about.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At my district’s high schools, personalized learning is fairly easy to see. Sometimes elementary and middle school teachers come across as apologetic about how “little” they are doing in relation to personalized learning. This document helped standardize what good teaching looks like at elementary, middle and high school levels.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2023

Add to this the fact that districts often emphasize and require science teachers to host and participate in school and district Science Fairs, and it is no wonder that good science teachers are hard to come by.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

At a city-sponsored early childhood education fair where we met, mental health resources, classes, and after-school programs were on display for enrollment. Nearly 40 percent of residents over the age of 25 have not graduated from high school. Those who spend time with children in elementary grades definitely reply “no”.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The debate over using test scores in college admissions has oscillated between requiring them and questioning their necessity in favor of relying more on student grade point averages (GPAs). While high school GPAs provide valuable insight, grade inflation can mar their reliability.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2020

In the Sewanhaka Central High School District , located on Long Island just outside of New York City, educators moved as quickly as they could to ensure as little interruption to learning as possible. “All the systems and tools were there.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Key points: Encouraging reading is a top priority, no matter how the material is presented Boycotting book fairs no more Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub I love a good classic. After all, I named my son Holden. Educators agree.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2021

This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 7-12. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12. This virtual experience is appropriate for students in grades 5-9.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

At Chesapeake Lighthouse Foundation , a Maryland-based Public Charter Organization, we took STEM instruction to the next level by making it the central focus of all of our schools. We are a STEM-based charter school network serving more than 3,900 students in grades K-12 at seven different campuses. This in turn sparks passion.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Lessons plans cover a number of subjects and can be adapted to fit multiple grade levels. A lesson on Musical Harlem for grades 3-5 lesson helps students learn about the Harlem Renaissance as they create original jazz artwork.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Connect to students through your heart My daughters 5th grade substitute teacher stepped in this past fall, when the school had a last-minute vacancy to fill. The mind of a young student is wired to sniff out fairness, or lack thereof. We connect with our hearts, our muscles, and our minds.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

For Scott Looney, there’d be no hesitating: He would have every school switch from traditional grading to competency-based evaluations. Looney is the mastermind behind the Mastery Transcript Consortium (MTC), an organization made up of over 100 private schools. They just make sense.”. The MTC is not alone in its mission.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If the interest at your school is bigger, engineers can make an all-school presentation at a middle- or high-school career day. DiscoverE offers a wide selection of hands-on science-fair-type activities to inspire and motivate students. Each details appropriate grades, time required, and step-by-step activities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition for 15 years, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. . Arizona] Iraj Shroff, BASIS Chandler Charter School, BASIS Charter Schools.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

Ruthie Zhang from Littleton High School in Massachusetts was the other $1,000 scholarship winner. Zhang related how she took many different VHS Learning classes including AP Economics and AP Human Geography , between 8 th and 12 th grade, courses that were not offered at her small school.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Over the 10 years of the Read on myON collaboration, hundreds of thousands of children from birth through 8th grade have had free access to the myON platform. Hillsborough Schools is proudly celebrating the highest graduation rate in our district’s history: 89.2% in the 2020–2021 school year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

To ensure that students are empowered not only to ethically use AI but also to understand how it’s made, we have to start with a focus on creating a progression of skills from Kindergarten to 12th grade that covers understanding and exploring machine learning and key concepts around student AI use, such as ethics and data privacy.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2016

White House competition is giving schools the chance to design and realize the perfect makerspace. A new Department of Education-sponsored challenge is letting high school students design the makerspace of their dreams — with $200,000 going to as many as 10 winning schools to help turn their plans into reality.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This school year at Umatilla School District, two science teachers are embarking on a new career after years of real-world experience in the subject. “It was like going back to school again. “If you go to school and graduate, this is exactly what you will be doing in a job.” It was pretty difficult.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Research indicates math, reading achievement in early grades also influences later science achievement. Their science achievement gaps remained fairly stable from third grade through eighth grade. Morgan, an associate professor of education policy studies at Pennsylvania State University.

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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

AUGUST 14, 2018

Through my work with educators across the country, I know the number of elementary school districts and administrators turning to LMS adoption is increasing for all grades—preparing students at a young age to use the technology they will need to master for high school, college, and beyond.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Students entering kindergarten today will graduate high school in 2034. While 2019 NAEP scores show just under half of white fourth-grade students were reading at or above proficiency, the number drops to 18 percent , or roughly one in six, for Black students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

“When you attend a rural public high school like I did, no one explains to you that you are creating a resume that you will use when you apply to colleges,” she wrote. Outcomes, Testing and Grading Which methods of assessment best measure learning and ability? Are standardized tests a fair gauge for predicting college success?

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure. Department of Education in efforts to provide schools with quality online material. image via AP ].

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2023

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for a 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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natbanting

APRIL 28, 2021

In 2015, my students and I founded an annual math fair in my school division. Inspired by mathematical play, the fair grew from humble beginnings into a staple of my mathematical calendar. The three were delivered as a set and lived in each elementary school for about six school days. NatBanting

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original version of this article appeared in Grading for Growth. I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. In that whole last paragraph, notice that I didn’t say anything about grades. And again—none of this had anything to do with grades. The grades got out of the way and let us learn.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

During Engineers Week, engineering societies, universities, companies, and other organizations organize workshops, competitions, seminars, outreach programs to schools, career fairs, and networking events.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Christina Romero: When I was teaching third grade, I had a student who truly struggled with her behavior. Even though they will move on to a different teacher the following year, or even other schools, they will be in the same grade cohort for many years. Any time there was a group activity, she had to be the first to share.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

They were asked to agree or disagree with statements about college and career plans, how they’re faring in school and with their mental health, among other topics. Amongst the high school seniors, most reported having applied to trade school, community college or a university along with federal financial aid.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Public Schools showcases its students’ STEM successes at its annual Tinker Fair. . It’s a culmination of robotics and programming being taught at every grade level. At Warren Township High School in Illinois, students are also learning these skills by participating in a yearly hackathon. . DeQueen (Ark.)

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Esther was my student five years ago at my former school, where I taught in an accelerated learning pilot program designed to service students in danger of aging out of high school due to their age at enrollment. schools for less than two years. Just the recognition of this counter narrative has changed my teaching.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2016

The STEM Challenge is open to middle school and high school students in the U.S. in grades five through twelve. Nearly 4,000 middle and high school youth participated in the 2014-15 competition. Previous winners have showcased their games at the White House Science Fair.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

How educators respond to this next pandemic –students’ anxiety and stress–will certainly remain a critically important priority for school administrators, counselors and psychologists in 2021. There’s a critical need for more funding for schools, including fair pay for teachers. Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

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