eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The seven teams – Carnegie Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Eedi, Rising Academies, the University of Colorado Boulder, Khan Academy, and the University of Florida – are committed to harnessing the potential of AI and machine learning to develop innovative, affordable interventions to enhance middle school math education.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Based on feedback from the companys school-based partners, these updates make teaching and learning even more relevant, engaging, and personalized for users of Discovery Education products.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Tricider is a free online tool that simplifies the decision-making process and makes it more equitable by allowing users to leave plenty of feedback. The feedback is listed in three easy-to-read columns, which helps make even complex discussions easy to digest. Teachers use their phones to capture an audio recording of their lesson.

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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

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The strategies span middle school to higher education contexts, across a variety of subjects including math, science, social studies, and literacy. Each strategy was created by an experienced educator, selected and supported by BetterLesson through their “Master Teacher Project” model. For more information click here.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. Middle school students are navigating the most vulnerable and self-conscious developmental phase. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Its exactly how we felt before our team at South Park Middle School went on a PBIS journey that produced results and led us to an opportunity to present at training conferences and spread the word to our fellow educators in Pennsylvania. We know what youre probably thinking right now: Thats great, but how do we get there?

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2016

Independent academic research of New York City middle school students shows LightSail’s adaptive literacy platform helps sustain, grow reading performance in summer months. As teacher feedback on student annotations increased, so did the amount of minutes students read on the platform. ”

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

al (2019), Integrative teaching benefits middle-level learners as it potentially increases student engagement, motivation, and achievement. Provide ongoing feedback: Providing constructive feedback is essential for helping students identify their strengths and areas for improvements. Middle School Journal , 50 (2), 1727.

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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. Fully asynchronous online learning is probably best suited to adult learners who are motivated to apply what they learn to their work.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

That approach is informed by a learning science framework developed by the team, which posits that the right combination of motivational experiences, repeated practice and real-world projects are key to helping students grasp new concepts. But motivation is not enough. Each resource on Composer is classified as one of three types.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

At New Mexico’s Farmington Heights Middle School , teachers use game-based learning to personalize instruction. Games offer immediate, useful, and friendly feedback that is designed to motivate students to keep playing. Games provide targeted, in-the-moment feedback based on a player's current performance.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma. For years, the school had been searching for ways to reverse the pattern of disengagement, build motivation to complete schoolwork and get students over that finish line at graduation.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2024

Combined, the duo provides a comprehensive, evidence-based math solution from kindergarten through middle school. Comprehensive Progress Tracking: A complete and comprehensive method for monitoring student progress via analytics and feedback. To learn more about Mathletics, please visit [link].

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2017

I used my 1:1 laptops to create a paperless classroom, providing instant teacher feedback on writing assignments. I even administered frequent student surveys to get their feedback. I meticulously graded every classwork assignment and sent them individualized feedback. And is success on the test enough?

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

In many schools and districts, half or less of their students participate in remote learning. For those who can, it’s become abundantly clear that grades alone are insufficient to motivate learning. Bragg described his duties as “back-seat driving”—synthesizing, challenging, questioning, and giving feedback.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2024

The path to their collective goal is equally succinct: continuous research, customer feedback and growth. Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University created the first adaptive AI-driven tutor for teaching middle school mathematics, MATHia, which is still one of our flagship products. And grow, they have.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

One of my challenges as a music teacher is finding learning tools that inspire and motivate my students and engage them musically, regardless of their individual abilities. Then, by sharing their music online and enlisting feedback, they connect with their peers in a meaningful way.

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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. These principles of feedback driven-metacognition and retrieval would take my teaching skills farther than I had imagined. We’d discuss and students would get immediate feedback. Was retrieval possible?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Feedback: In our interviews, we learned that teachers have a strong desire to source lessons, activities, and resources that simultaneously align to state standards and resonate with their students. Feedback: Nearly every teacher we’ve spoken to admits that there aren’t enough hours in the day to accomplish everything on their to do list.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

What motivates one may not motivate all. It supports constructive feedback, helps navigate academic challenges, and promotes an inclusive learning environment. Clear and direct communication for expectations and assignments with helpful feedback are one aspect of effective communication.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2017

Fortunately for my students and me, my trepidation motivated me to act. I applied (again, motivated by fear) and was accepted. As a result, I joined the ranks of three middle school teachers and a fellow high school teacher in a two year commitment to learn about and integrate technology in our classrooms.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2017

In my last role as Redesign Administrator at an urban middle school, I immersed myself in it. Students would then be motivated to take ownership of their own learning and growth—or so we thought. Student-driven diagnosis, motivation and growth would be natural by-products. I love data. But it didn’t work.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Electronic music has not only motivated my music teaching, but also provided a reprieve from my everyday stresses. In all, more than 25 Pioneer choral students and another 15 ukulele students from a neighboring middle school took part in the recording process. When your students are done, help them share it with others.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2017

Unlike the Laurel School, whose programs are open to self-selecting, entrepreneurially-minded students, Louisville Collegiate pushes entrepreneurial thinking into much of its curricular offerings. In the lower and middle-school grades, for example, developing an entrepreneurial mindset is the key to student success.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2017

This year, after 15 years of teaching middle school English, I moved to a 3rd grade classroom. I find the faster the feedback, the more motivated the student. Teaching is improved when we develop relationships with students and provide them with high quality and fast feedback. Even tomorrow is too late.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

When you get close enough to the heart, you can feel it beating in your hand through phone vibrations (known as haptic feedback). My children are now on regular video chats, as is my husband, a middle school science teacher. In my pursuit to “level up,” I was motivated to walk miles to reach the latest mob , or creature.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

They are driven, motivated and informed. Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Her mother was a middle school science teacher whose parenting “really incorporated a lot of that curiosity and wonder and awe, kind of like we saw at the Smithsonian here today,” she says. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too. Students give the best feedback,” she says.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

What motivates one may not motivate all. It supports constructive feedback, helps navigate academic challenges, and promotes an inclusive learning environment. Clear and direct communication for expectations and assignments with helpful feedback are one aspect of effective communication.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In 2015, as Arkansas implemented new learning standards and an end-of-year test, educators at Paragould School District received discouraging news: Their test scores were significantly below the state average. Because these custom assessments are administered online, teachers and administrators get immediate feedback on skill gaps.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

A well-regarded teacher comes to the principal—who the participant or group is role playing—complaining of a disruptive, bullying coworker, who blames students and other teachers and won’t take constructive feedback. Scenarios still involve choosing dialogue options from a list—some nurturing, others more blunt—and receiving feedback.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

These experiences expose students to diverse perspectives, competition, and invaluable feedback, helping them grow as thinkers, creators, and leaders. The arts programsspanning dance, music, visual arts, and theatershowcase student talent on national stages. Exposure to the arts is a cornerstone of the Gulliver experience. The result?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2018

I don’t have direct experience with it so I jumped at the chance to share Middle School teacher Karessa Parish’s experiences. We wanted to flip the culture at our school. Even my least motivated student has their ID out waiting for me to come around when I’m going points. Create Challenges and Games.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Additionally, we need to listen to concerns and create feedback loops between school and home. They are motivated,” observes Zimmer, commenting on the topic of diversity in library collections. For example, female students traditionally show a sharp decrease in interest in coding by the time they get to middle school.

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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.

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