eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Its learners receive all of their core academic content—English, history, social studies, and math—through competency-based online courses. They cover a myriad of topics, often in an interdisciplinary format: from Adulting 101, Renewable Energy, and Beekeeping to Comparative Religions and International Relations.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We spoke with ninth-grade History Teacher Nick Pant, from Dayton Regional STEM School, about successfully implementing Unreal Engine in the classroom. I am a social studies teacher who got introduced to game design as a result of trying to motivate students to study history. I am by no means a game designer.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Due to the expectation that teachers can cover unrealistic grade-level standards, they are often strapped for time. Moving the Needle My perspective as a history teacher is that service learning and social-emotional learning are competing initiatives.

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Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2019

Making Space Located 30 miles north of Chicago, Lake Forest Country Day School (LFCDS) is an independent school that serves students from pre-k through eighth grade. This project was part of our student-led mobile innovation program and after three months of planning, we were finally ready to set up shop.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In practice, however, teachers tend to seek out specialists for a technological solution that makes an assignment or grading practice more efficient: A teacher takes a new tool or technique and applies it to previous content or assignments. These interactions are transactional rather than transformational; they enforce the status quo.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

APRIL 25, 2025

Math Continental Mathematics League (CML) is a national competition designed for students in grades 2 through 12. Reading Word Masters is a national competition for students in grades 3-8 that focuses on vocabulary and verbal reasoning. Battle of the Books is a voluntary reading incentive program for students in grades 3-12.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2018

About 125 students and a faculty team that teaches core classes, such as English, math, science and social ­studies, are assigned exclusively to each neighborhood. “It I was just in a fourth-grade classroom. It becomes a school within a school,” Cryer says. Our research shows that kids need to move,” she says. “I

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