eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Creative projects help students connect new information to prior knowledge through critical thinking and problem solving. With the use of technology, students are better able to apply their knowledge in different ways and be creative in their learning. Why creativity? Creativity is an essential skill for all students to have.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Over the 2015-16 school year, students who worked with Achieve3000’s literacy solutions, KidBizPro ® for grades 2-5, TeenBizPro ® for grades 6-8, and EmpowerPro ® for grades 9-12 ( Pro ) saw significant literacy gains. fourth-grade science and social studies. seventh-grade science.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Preparing teachers to teach these five components–known as scientifically-based reading instruction–can ensure more than 1 million additional students enter 4th grade able to read each year. Require a strong reading test for anyone teaching students in the elementary grades. This press release originally appeared online.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

As a result, students may struggle to participate in classroom discussions, access higher-order thinking tasks, and meet grade-level expectations. Instead of defaulting to translations, it’s important to consider a range of scaffolding strategies that build both language and content knowledge.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Educators throughout the state can now administer the diagnostic as a beginning-of-year and mid-year assessment to measure students’ overall grade-level proficiency in math and English language arts based on Virginia’s Standards of Learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

As a fourth-grade teacher, Ive seen how gamification can transform a regular lesson into something my students look forward to. “Empirical research has shown that students in gamified classrooms tend to participate more actively in lessons, leading to improved academic performance and retention of knowledge” (Dehghanzadeh et al.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

With a focus on students in grades 7-12, I’ve made it a mission to help struggling readers become proficient. This newfound knowledge helped me open a whole new world for my students. They don’t want to interact with anyone, and by the time they reach 7 th grade, they definitely don’t want to be reminded of their reading struggles.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S. Yet despite my success using reenactments and roleplaying, students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. I studied relentlessly under immense pressure, and my hard work paid off when I was accepted to my desired university. They told me a good education would guarantee a bright future.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL’s first-of-its-kind assessment suite works in concert with its math curriculum to give educators real-time insight into performance, pinpoint gaps in knowledge and provide specific next steps to help each student grow. To further target instruction, the diagnostic provides educators with personalized action plans for each student.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Divided by K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 grade bands, the ready-to-use resources support weekly instructional goals and were created based on the most searched terms during each month of the school year. Designed for students in grades K-12, these activities bring science, technology, engineering, and math to life inside and outside the classroom.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Using powerful speech recognition technology, the program supports students in grades K-6 to build their linguistic confidence in academic English. Seventeen characters with diverse backgrounds help students practice speaking skills by engaging with content in academic subjects such as math, science, social studies, and general knowledge.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Through this partnership, all 33 schools in the district will use IXL to supplement math, English language arts, science and social studies instruction. One of the district’s priorities was to fill knowledge gaps that arose during school closures. Laredo ISD is located in Laredo, Texas , on the border with Mexico.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2023

They are building in Minecraft Education to demonstrate skills and knowledge, Brooks said. Create signs or posters with login information, and have more experienced Minecraft users, or students in older grades, come in to help younger students. Building structures or settings can also bring social studies lessons to life.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2023

They are building in Minecraft Education to demonstrate skills and knowledge, Brooks said. Create signs or posters with login information, and have more experienced Minecraft users, or students in older grades, come in to help younger students. Building structures or settings can also bring social studies lessons to life.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Or, as the “Out of the Box” report says: “Imagine, for example, elementary classes that deeply embed the science of reading, making use of phonics instruction to the degree appropriate for each student and using technology and artificial intelligence to support building the requisite vocabulary and content knowledge to access rigorous text.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Under the MIZ program, there are 20 districts implementing IXL to boost achievement for students in pre-K through 8th grade. IXL’s adaptive assessment, the Real-Time Diagnostic , evaluates students across every concept in the K-12 curriculum, generating an accurate portrait of students’ knowledge levels in math and language arts.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. About IXL Learning Currently used by 14 million students and in 95 of the top 100 U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

The goal of the study was to determine IXL Math’s efficacy on students in grades 3-5. Additionally, IXL’s comprehensive diagnostic reports allow administrators to easily identify students across their district who are working below grade level and may need additional support.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2018

UDL, which is a set of principles for curriculum development that aims to provide all students an equal opportunity to learn, can be used by educators at any grade level or subject area. Sixth grade social studies teacher, Ashlynn Sandoval provides content by showing a video that has captions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

In its Back-to-School survey, Brainly , the leading learning platform for all school subjects and grades, highlights a growing trend – a remarkable 66.5% of students in grades 6-12 actively seek external support for their homework and study needs. of all subject searches and underscoring the need for assistance.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2018

UDL, which is a set of principles for curriculum development that aims to provide all students an equal opportunity to learn, can be used by educators at any grade level or subject area. Sixth-grade social studies teacher Ashlynn Sandoval provides content by showing a video that has captions.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, district leaders and teachers sought a digital resource aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards, supportive of hands-on learning, and accessible to the district’s English Language Learners. Currently, the company’s Social Studies Techbooks are used in middle school classrooms districtwide.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

The world that they live in is technology based,” said Cindy Pusanik, a sixth-grade language arts teacher at Robinson Middle. “We We need to give them the skills and knowledge.”. The district has also bought digital textbooks in science and social studies classes.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“This series of surveys further our knowledge on what libraries are doing right and allows us to see where and how we can advocate for better understanding the roles libraries play in the lives of the average person. Five combine reading with other subjects, such as social studies or science.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

It’s more abysmal in the younger grades, with only six states giving all K-12 students access. Related: 20 ideas for teaching coding in math, science, social studies, and ELA. Lauren Marrone, 11th-grade physics & zoology teacher, North Paulding High School, Dallas, Georgia. They especially love dancing with him.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

We are a STEM-based charter school network serving more than 3,900 students in grades K-12 at seven different campuses. But what about when you’re teaching English or social studies? STEM isn’t just something we teach; it’s interwoven in the work we do inside and outside of the schoolhouse. Infuse STEM into all subject areas.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

Through this new collaboration, Wilson County educators will, beginning in the 2016-2017 school year, integrate Discovery Education’s Science Techbook (Grades K-12), Social Studies Techbook (Grades 6-8) and Math Techbook (Grades 6-12) into classroom instruction. Director of Schools at Wilson County Schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Iowa BIG : A community conversation about the knowledge and skills young people need to become engaged and successful members of the community as adults was linked with an initiative to send 60 community leaders back to school alongside learners over a four-month period.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Even with some disagreement about the cost effectiveness of chasing the benefits of small class size, most researches agree that it does have a positive impact, particularly on students in younger grades. The NEA examined the research on STAR students and focused on the long-term results from the follow-up studies.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot. The chatbot is getting trained on the same rubric to instantly give students feedback on their ability to critically evaluate historical text.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The pandemic has created urgency to move beyond the status quo, and community-generated portraits of a graduate have swept the nation, highlighting the knowledge and skills many Americans want their young people to possess upon graduation. Success will no longer be measured only by grades or course completion. — Jonah M.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

CLEPs assess college-level knowledge and passing scores on the exams are accepted as credit at more than 2,900 colleges and universities. It took me wading in and really examining how the course modules aligned with my own Social Studies curriculum to figure out how to incorporate it best.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Whether they have a knowledge of how to use it appropriately is another question.”. Scheffer is working with the high school’s principal and department heads to figure out how to integrate digital citizenship education school-wide and deliver lessons that are tailored to each grade level. “We

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Learning begins from a position of strength by capitalizing on existing knowledge. I opted to remain at my school—where our enrollment of English learners, immigrants and refugees continues to hover at one-fourth of the total enrollment—to teach students in 9-12 grade social studies.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

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