Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. That push is evident at Brookdale.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

The company has launched Gale In Context: Literature, a new resource for literature instruction and learning that helps high schoolers engage and thrive in English language arts (ELA). Gale In Context databases have a long history of supporting academic achievement and future-ready skill development.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

What was the point of living through history if you didn’t record it? Our students can share their thoughts, observations, and opinions about history and create primary sources along the way. A student-created primary source for today’s history can be as simple as: Reflecting on current events in a Google doc journal.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Our school is a five-year program that works to create first-generation college students. North Carolina is a leading state in the number of “early colleges,” which allow students to earn a college degree with their high school diploma. iCivics takes a topic that can be sort of sedate and makes it engaging and interesting.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2015

High school isn’t what it used to be. With that goal in mind, a group of 13 Richmond-area school systems have banded together to start a new regional high school that will allow students to meet their core requirements while getting an education focused on computer science.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Caleb Brown : My third grade teacher, Ms. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

What do you remember from history class? To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Perfect as bell-ringers, exit tickets, or brain breaks for high school , these five-minute writing ideas are a great way to get students into a writing state of mind right after the bell rings. 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 19, 2021

Jamie Ellman’s eleventh grade students haven’t read from a textbook all year. It’s because of the technology-focused model of Moe and Gene Johnson High School, where she teaches history to sophomores and juniors. In the school’s current hybrid model, students can elect whether they’d prefer to learn…

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2023

Brainly’s Back-to-School survey highlights a growing trend–66.5 percent of students in grades 6-12 actively seek external support for their homework and study needs. The research shows that 67 percent of middle and high school students are using AI to help with their schoolwork. percent), history (14.7

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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. Quite possibly.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I’ll never forget when my 5th-grade teacher had our class reenact a scene from the book "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry". Elephants aren’t anomalies.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Typically, information presented to students is either qualitative or too broad, such as during parent-teacher conferences or through course grades. In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Two years ago, I was having lunch with good friends and colleagues Bob Regan from the Big History Project and Alan Louie, my co-founder at TextGenome. The Big History Project (BHP)’s approach relies on building a complete curriculum but inviting customization—“a perpetual first draft.” The Big History Project’s writing rubric.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

NEW YORK – Students are gearing up for the 2023 school year, and new research from Brainly reveals that AI is an integral element in middle and high school students’ academic life – even as educators debate and worry whether the revolutionary technology belongs in the classroom.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

History and Civics in American Schools is a new book that details the decline of history and civics knowledge among students — and offers a plan for how states and local school districts can foster understanding of and curiosity about our nation’s history. history and civics standards.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As an assistant principal in a public school in Manhattan, I have begun to use explicit instruction more in my own teaching and have focused on explicit instruction in my professional development with the history and physical education teachers I supervise. My daughter in high school needs explicit instruction.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Pearson Edgington, a high school senior who piloted TeachTap, shared his experience: “TeachTap made studying for my AP exams actually fun and interesting. History, World History, European History, U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2023

history teacher Travis Malekpour hesitated assigning his students work in the classroom that required a computer. Three years later, Malekpour, who teaches in Queens, doesn’t think twice about assigning and grading in-class work that requires a device. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. newsletters.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

For home-schooled students like me, the process of earning a high school diploma is a bit more complicated than it is for “traditional” pupils. Those complications extend into the higher education world where some colleges accept home-school diplomas and others require GED® test scores as part of the application process.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2024

The reason I even graduated from high school was because my mom ran into my English teacher at the grocery store when I was in 10th grade, and the teacher mentioned that I’d missed class–a lot, actually. I became determined to bridge that communication gap between schools and home. I certainly can.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

While I encourage my own students to understand and practice the importance of prompting, I also encourage younger students to begin with a student-friendly pre-prompted AI, such as Magic School , to help guide students through the proper implementation of AI. Esports is one such extracurricular activity. Plus, students LOVE AR/VR!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged. But even students who do successfully navigate their schooling emerge with only a specific (and often narrow) skillset that may or may not match their strengths or interests.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Composed of education leaders with firsthand experience in K-12 districts and schools around the county, this board will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategic direction and product roadmap, building on SchoolStatus’ long history of collaboration with educators.

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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

APRIL 8, 2021

Explore the ways that our present continues to be shaped by our collective past through a powerful glimpse at the Armenian Genocide, an important and often overlooked chapter of history. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12. This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 5-12.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

High school students from LaGuardia High School, aka the Fame School, have been hosting a series of free public information sessions for New York middle school students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. For example, one of our high schoolers, James, isn’t doing his assignments in World History class. Instead of focusing on World War II, she has him research the history of Air Jordan shoes.

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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. Consequently, for the simulations to be effective learning experiences, I must then teach them the foundational knowledge they should have been taught in younger grades.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2017

Other students may not care about their grades or understand how their current education connects to their future success. Spanish 1 was my worst grade in high school, and guess what subject I teach now? That day I learned about the impact of political decisions, war, the military, history, and mental health.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

After several years of disrupted learning, schools are taking stock of the range of challenges that need to be addressed—challenges resulting from the most significant disruption to K-12 education in history. The workforce of the future requires that schools equip students with the right skills for the jobs of the future.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2020

The program encompasses the creation, deployment and evaluation of a new computer science curriculum for Missouri high school juniors and seniors based on the new curriculum/training standards set forth through Missouri House Bill 3 (HB3). McGillicuddy, Math & Computer Science Instructor at Rosati-Kain High School.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I have a vivid memory of a co-worker visiting me in the library at school to mention that my older son Gus had fallen out of his desk in class. My classroom teachers have been so impressed with student engagement with the lock boxes that I have been recruited to help set up math, history, and science lessons using Breakout EDU.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park that I grew up in, there were no murals of Filipino American history or dynamic swing sets anchored to poured-in-place rubber child safe surfaces. There was, after all, no evidence from the history books, nor from the teaching, that offered evidence otherwise.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

While this type of information may not translate to high school students if they are already familiar with the topics, it does provide an obvious opportunity for educators: Teach what students are interested in. This may seem far off from a 5th-grade classroom, but people who start early continue these habits throughout their lives.

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