Imagination Soup

MAY 21, 2025

Take a middle grade reading road trip around the USA! Discover the best middle grade books set in each state of the United States of. The post 50 States Reading Road Trip (Middle Grade Books Set in the USA) appeared first on Imagination Soup.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I failed to appreciate the value of clear expectations and the inescapable necessity that my students needed to walk out of my class with a grade. For the next four years, I used Kevin Gannons grading contract to implement more structure and Barbara Schapiros third space to reflect on what worked for me and my students.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

The personalized, one-on-one support that Ignite Reading provides is exactly what our students need to build strong foundational reading skills by the end of first grade. AI-enhanced supports for students in grades 6-12. Its programs focus on kindergarten readiness, third-grade reading proficiency and algebra proficiency.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

Through this single activity, students across grade levels showed statistically significant improvement in moods; decreases in stress; increased connections to themselves, others, and nature; and an increased understanding of how humans affect the environment. The results were remarkable.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

Suitable for: All grade levels–from elementary children designing a poster about dinosaurs to high school students putting together a multimedia history project. Suitable for: All grade levels–from young readers developing fluency to high school students preparing for exams.

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Teach Thought

MAY 19, 2025

Good candidates for game-based learning games include Portal 2, Civilization VI, Democracy 4, and Assassin's Creed Museum Tour.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2025

More than 80 percent of graduate programs earn an F grade for their math preparation. Regent University, for instance, improved from a D grade to an A+ by introducing two new mathematics courses designed to fill gaps in math content preparation. They need to know why those steps work,says NCTQ President Heather Peske.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

She introduced regular in-person celebrations and rewards for students with good attendance, including: Monthly donuts with me for one student from each grade. Our Social Worker, Tacey Mannarino, developed a plan to boost attendance and make kids feel like VIPs. Monthly pizza delivery by me to the family of one student from each building.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

The Healey-Driscoll Administration recently announced that schools and districts in Massachusetts are invited to apply for high-dosage early literacy tutoring for K-3 students with 1st grade as the state’s top priority. For more information about Ignite Reading’s Massachusetts partnerships, visit [link].

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2025

We now incorporate all our non-academic data, such as attendance, as well as comprehensive academic grades and scores from courses and testing, both current and historical. We received data based on grade-level academic standard assumptions instead of the individualized foundational literacy skills students needed.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. How does using rubrics benefit students?

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

Educators can adopt similar strategies to design interdisciplinary lessons that promote engagement, creativity, and foundational literacy and STEM competencies across grade levels. Identify the intended grade level and the specific ISTE Student Standards the lesson will address.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

In 2024, both Oklahoma and Wisconsin lowered what it means for students to be proficient in grade-level content. Florida is actively looking at removing graduation requirements which include passing a 10th grade English Language Arts assessment and a statewide algebra test. Now, they have proposed eliminating an Algebra II requirement.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

.” Colorado Springs School District 11 is leveraging PowerSchool’s AI-powered solution, PowerBuddy for Learning , to help educators spend more time teaching to create a more engaging, personalized experience for students.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Here are just four edtech tools that can help transform teamwork in the classroom : Padlet: One of my first go-to tools is Padlet–its super easy to use and works great for grades 3-12. Whiteboard: Whiteboard is ideal for grades K-12 and works especially well for drawing, images, and math symbols.

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2025

Exploratorium: Science Snacks The Exploratorium, a renowned museum of science, art, and human perception in San Francisco, offers Science Snacks–free, hands-on STEM activities designed for students in grades 3-12.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2025

South Korea and Singapore have already begun integrating AI across grade levels, training teachers en masse, and building AI-customized learning platforms. China sees education as a strategic asset in the AI arms race. When it comes to AI literacy, the U.S. trails its global peers. Finland offers free national AI courses for all citizens.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2025

On the 2024 NAEP fourth grade math assessment, Alabama made the largest jump in the nation, leap-frogging 18 states to go from last in the country in 2019, to 32nd. “If we want students to succeed, we need to invest in better preparation and support for great math instruction.” This press release originally appeared online.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

When she needed a fun end-of-year activity for her first-grade students incorporating Candyland, gummy bears and phonics, Irene Farmer turned to ChatGPT. “It Grading, especially, is viewed with skepticism. Administrative work and basic instructional support are at the top of their wish lists. Teachers want guidance, not outsourcing.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2025

In the eighth grade, he started working on a math program that uses AI to provide just-in-time feedback and contextual hints. Among students who scored below the national average, the majority–68 percent in grade four and 75 percent in grade eight –are economically disadvantaged.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

EnlightenAI : Offers adaptive AI grading and feedback, on-demand AI feedback for students, data-driven teaching materials Learning Genie : Creates entire units of instruction, lesson plans, assessments, and differentiated instruction. Snorkl : Students record voice and whiteboard work to answer teacher-provided questions.

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eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2025

The following scenario is becoming more common for educators: You’re grading assignments, reading them one-by-one, until one of them catches your eye. There’s no denying that AI can enhance learning and digital literacy, but some usage raises important questions about ethics and its impact on academic outcomes.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2025

Delayed readers are students whose reading development lags behind typical age or grade expectations. Foundational skills to support reading for understanding in kindergarten through 3rd grade (IES Practice Guide). What is a delayed reader? Supporting delayed readers starts with understanding who they are. Foorman, B. Denton, C.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Highlights include new Math Talks for grades 3-5, which feature activities focused on making sense of mathematics through open-ended prompts and rich student discussions, Daily Fix-Its and Weekly Edits, which are teacher-led presentations targeting common student grammar errors, and more. The new civics-focused series, Need toKnow Jr.,

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2025

When schools recognize the challenges students face and provide interventions that foster their sense of belonging, attendance, grades, and graduation rates skyrocket. Combatting the chronic absenteeism crisis requires educators, parents, and students to embrace a shared commitment to regular attendance.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

Cultivating Confidence: Transforming Middle Grades Math Education : A public charter school in Orangeburg, SC, offers a dynamic Algebra 1-focused related arts course to enhance math and reading skills while fostering positive math identities.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

Sometimes you can tell by the graphics at the younger age levels (where everyone is working through the graphic-intense modules), but in sixth grade, it looks like you’re watching a YouTube story. Aesthetically, you would never know that a child is working on the adolescent literacy program in a classroom.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

Math isn’t my strongest subject, and when a student asked me to help solve an equation involving angles, I hesitated.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

In order to fill the need for these high-wage, in-demand jobs, early STEM intervention and career awareness for students in the middle grades are necessary. Additionally, the median annual wage for STEM occupations in 2023 was $101,650, in comparison to non-STEM occupations at $46,680.

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STEM Grades Students Critical Thinking 328

eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

Furthermore, it’s a powerful tool for developing literacy skills and content knowledge in a way that resonates with children across grade levels and learning styles. The platform lets you filter texts by grade, Lexile level, or topic.

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Quizzes Social Studies Learning Students 161

eSchool News

MAY 30, 2025

Easy to find, not always true: Helping students evaluate AI-generated content For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub For years now, the promise of AI in education has centered around efficiency–grading faster, recommending better content, or predicting where a student might struggle.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

Achieving proficiency in reading by third grade is considered a milestone for long-term success in school and in life because of its correlation to a range of positive educational and life outcomes. Kindergarten and first graders more than tripled their scores on five of six subtests.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

The end of the year is not just a time for wrapping up grades and packing up classrooms–it’s also a powerful opportunity for growth and renewal. Standards-based grading is a great way for students to view growth over time, and also highlight that it doesn’t matter when they learned the content, but that they did.

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Schools Motivation Science Teaching 240

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

A first grade teacher with no formal CS background, she jumped at the chance to explore how computer science principles could enhance early literacy instruction — and ended up transforming her classroom in the process. In Johnson’s first grade classroom, students organized vocabulary words, engaging in practical pattern recognition. “It

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading. Under the states Read to Achieve law, students who score at Level 1 or 2 in reading on the third grade End-of-Grade (EOG) test and do not qualify for a good cause exemption are required to attend a summer reading camp.

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Failure Motivation Gamification Cognitive Development 328

eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

It used survey responses of 434 students in grades 5-12. The RAND study drew on data from their newly established American Youth Panel, a nationally representative survey of students ages 12-21.

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Elementary School Elementary School Study Math 272

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Teacher 1 provides targeted instruction based on each group’s needs: Group 1 (Below Grade Level): Students work on identifying key details in a simplified fable with additional visual supports. Group 2 (On Grade Level): Students read a standard-level folktale and discuss the central message.

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