eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As a global leader in assessment, reading, and math solutions for pre-K–12 schools and districts, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. in the 2020–2021 school year. About Renaissance.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Math teachers: This is for you. Here are some great suggestions from efriend and math afficionado, Matt Kim: Before I was ever a high school math teacher, I was always a hardcore technophile. For the most part, these are just great ways to incorporate tech in your math classroom so feel free to give them a try!

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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

MARCH 6, 2016

Research indicates math, reading achievement in early grades also influences later science achievement. Math and reading achievement also were associated with science achievement in those grades, which suggests that improving math and reading skills in lower-performing students might help improve their science achievement gaps.

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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

School has always been a place to train students for their eventual adult lives. Cultural norms have long dictated the foundation they need to ­survive in ­society and the workforce — reading, writing, math and science. . That’s because today’s schools are preparing students for careers we haven’t yet imagined. DeQueen (Ark.)

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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. Instead, they power up glowing iPad screens and swipe and tap their way through math problems, the day’s reading or interactive content. By and large, it’s working.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

The first day of high school is usually filled with icebreakers, like the classic, two truths and a lie. Not only was I unprepared for the levels of math and study skills required, but as a bleeding-heart, 17-year-old, I wanted to do something to help my community. This led me to wonder: What’s so fun about science?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

We must ensure students have the basic reading and math competencies they need to succeed in any trade. Students entering kindergarten today will graduate high school in 2034. Now is the time to reinforce the fundamental scaffolding that determines whether a child has a fair shot at success later in life.

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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. He is teaching two standard life sciences classes and five science, technology, engineering and math-based science classes for seventh- and eighth-grade students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

This is a class where I try to help students move from a rigid, “there’s only one way to do it and there’s always one correct answer” approach to math into a more nuanced view. They learn why high school geometry, a topic most of them intend to teach in the future, is the way it is and why its results are true.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The same study also captured responses from 1,000 K-8 students, of whom 89 percent said play made them “more excited” to go to school. While there’s focus on getting kids to socialize, school leaders and administrators also have one eye trained on the slipping reading and math scores in their districts. That’s frustrating.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Oregon teachers wish they didn’t have to give their students Smarter Balanced English and math tests because the tests take too much time, have confusing directions and are unfair for students who don’t have computers at home or who have inadequate technology at school. The behaviors in my classroom have been awful.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

I remember how hard my parents fought to get me and my brother into accelerated math, how my mother was the only parent of color on the school’s steering committee, and yet I was brought up to believe that race didn’t matter. Today, I teach marketing at the same high school I attended.

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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. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the ideas based on your research findings?

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2016

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, E-Line Media, and founding sponsor the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) aim to motivate interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among youth by transforming their natural passions for playing video games into designing and creating their own.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

If they have a question, the facilitator—they aren’t called teachers here—will say, ‘Did you Google it?’” “We’re really trying to make the students leaders, to make them feel like they have experiences that they can legitimately list on a résumé before they even graduate high school.” This piece takes a few grams to print.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2022

Currently, a senior in high school has the same device as a student in first grade, regardless of their programming. Then, put yourself in the shoes of a 10-year-old who can't read on grade level, has no concept of math and is expected to do word problems in real-world scenarios with vocabulary they don't understand.”

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Then, Clear Creek Independent School District librarians Shirley Dickey, Laura Gladney-Lemon and Mindy Hutt began to see the real educational value in their MakerBot machines. It’s a visual representation of math they’d been doing all year long ,” she said. I don’t charge the kid who needs the printer for the science fair, though.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

Last year the nonprofit began piloting what it called the Environmental Context Dashboard, a system that assigned a score of 1 to 100 to every student who took the SAT to indicate the strength of the educational resources in their high school and neighborhood. And Landscape will no longer boil its information down to a single number.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

In fact, I was a peer mediator when I was in high school, though truth be told, I became a mediator so that I could opt out of health class. We set norms and ground rules, we gave each person involved a fair opportunity to speak and we followed that darn script. We embarked on a journey that was quite vulnerable for me.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

The list includes Ryan Hoch (29), a one-time TFA math teacher who in 2013 co-founded the college readiness platform Overgrad. CASA Academy co-CEO Jenna Leahy (28), another TFA alum and “30 Under 30” honoree, heads up the Arizona-based charter school where more than 70 percent of students are English language learners.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

School District , educators across multiple disciplines are using this program to build student engagement. . “It Students demonstrate their knowledge in core subjects, such as math, through traditional worksheets or by creating projects with Tynker.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Role : High school biology teacher Location : Berlin, Maryland Salary : $71,000 Years teaching : 11 Second job : Co-owner of Buzz Meadery Megan Hines holds a glass of honey wine at Buzz Meadery, which she owns with her husband, a fellow teacher. Megan Hines. Teaching, in a lot of ways, was perhaps getting in the way of that growth.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

A B+ in math may hide the fact that while a student is good at graphing, he may be struggling with calculations.” Looney (who, as a reminder, has yet to implement this type of elevation at his school), believes it will be fairly similar to traditional grading. Imagine you teach World History,” Looney explains.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

In an effort to increase the number and diversity of high school students taking AP CS classes, this fall the College Board will launch a new AP course that teaches a broader range of computing skills, especially skills that involve art, design, and other non-CS practices.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 26, 2024

Using AI to create tailored learning In a not-too-distant-past, math teachers complained that calculators would make students worse at basic arithmetic. They projected that students would not be able to make calculations through mental math or even lose the ability to put pen to paper. So, what really happened?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Sioux Center High School. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Davenport West High School. Learned enough English to transition into regular classes in 8th grade, finished all high school coursework by 11th grade, now taking 5 AP classes as a senior. Pleasant Middle School.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

MindSpark was once Share Fair Nation. Beginning life in 2007 as Share Fair Nation, a Morgridge Family Foundation-sponsored project to bring free professional development events to high school and college campuses, it had cultivated a reputation for high-quality presentations coupled with an exciting, but somewhat diverting atmosphere.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

It only says something about whether students have yet attained the reading, writing, and math skills they will use to gain knowledge in college or career training; it makes no statement about what they are capable of learning.” I wasn’t comfortable with that until I was 35. It didn’t even occur to me that it could possibly be a positive.”

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Testing Essay Blended Courses Skills 160

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Though this may not be optimal for museum flow, it begs the question: what can schools learn about engagement and personalization from this type of informal learning institution? What can schools and teachers learn from NYSCI? The apps were prototyped in Tesoriero and Solarsh’s classes.

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Science Learning Schools Gamification 145

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2017

Fair, Honest Product Valuation When a developer has built a new edtech product with blood, sweat and tears, it’s easy for her to see its worth. However, at one of our SCEC high schools, we had no ELA users. Instead, we were placed in math, science and history classrooms. But this isn’t always obvious from the outside.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

–Lisa Cumming, Science Teacher, Olmsted Falls High School. Some of our kids haven’t been in school for two years and are having a hard time adjusting to being back in the classroom. In March 2020, many were either starting school for the first time or in critical developmental years and had to go to school virtually.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Also by the NEA , this site includes Middle School lesson plans on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and anti-slavery, background resources, interactive maps, games, quizzes, video, and audio. Activities for High School. Games and online activities. Learn about each President. President for a Day!

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