Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The Department of Education dubbed speaking a second language a “superpower” when it announced plans last year to support multilingual education with grants. In states like California and New York , students speak as many as 150 languages. Arabic, the second-most common home language, comes in with a mere 2.5

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

It was an entry point for me to begin thinking about what a rich profession teaching is, along with how students develop their early reading skills, especially when they are learning multiple languages at once. Here are three best practices that are effective regardless of the languages your students speak at home.

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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

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Adding IXL Language Arts to the list ensures that eligible local education agencies across the state can request reimbursement for purchasing the platform to enhance early literacy instruction. It then generates personalized action plans that help students eliminate their trouble spots, and grow their reading and writing skills.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

CoderZ, an award-winning, cloud-based robotics and STEM platform, is helping educators introduce computer science in elementary and early middle school with its new Code Farm coding and robotics course for grades four through six.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Meanwhile, just 20% of principals said their school offered the class in eighth grade and that any student could take it. Historically, students from low-income families have had less access to algebra in eighth grade, too.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What skills, abilities, language proficiencies, interests, and/or learning preferences are present in a class? Grading is the most time-consuming task teachers are responsible for beyond the classroom. Most of the teachers I know spend hours of their evenings and weekends grading student work. The answer did not surprise me.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

Then in college, when he started learning Mandarin, a deep love of languages took hold, and he began to make new plans. After graduating, Farley entered a program to become a speech-language pathologist. He had a front-row seat to a career that would allow him to pursue his two greatest passions: language and learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested? x Interested?

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

News outlets have detailed the rollout by the Texas Education Agency of a natural language processing program, a form of artificial intelligence, to score the written portion of standardized tests administered to students in third grade and up. Raña is not against the idea of using natural language processing on student assessments.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Meanwhile, educators across regions and grade levels estimate roughly half (47 percent) of their students are using AI for schoolwork. K-12 and higher education educators rank among the lowest globally for AI adoption, use among both groups has increased over the last year. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Based on the reading data I’ve collected from my students, the percentage of students reading well below grade level is rising. Just four years ago, approximately 10% of my students were reading below grade level. Today, an alarming 30% are below grade level, with 25% scoring well below grade level.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2021

Note : This station rotation series pictured above is designed for a 6th grade English Language Arts class. Amy Tobener-Talley teaches ELA, ELD, and Digital Technology at a dual-immersion language school in Sonoma County. Create an overview of the rotations with links to resources and documents.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. Ryan has worked in a public school setting for about two decades, following a stint in the medical track of speech language pathology. She calls her job soul-filling, and she has anecdotes to back it up.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Other components of the RPS literacy framework include Integrated Literacy which integrates English language arts standards, Next Generation Science Standards, C3 standards, and some health standards. Extended transfer beyond the Daily Core 4 is embedded within the framework as well. We have a number of students with gaps in literacy.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

For example, the Shaywitz DyslexiaScreen (Yale) is a survey that asks teachers to make judgments on how often they think a student displays problems in their language behaviors such as oral expression. This ignores the language processing differences between typical and exceptional brains.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

How do we ensure students achieve proficiency with the English language while receiving a rich and comprehensive education? Thanks to computer-driven translation, AI, and advanced classroom tools, we stand to put every student on a path to success with the English language and beyond. Today’s technology presents us with answers.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Ill never forget a particular student in my Grade 8 math class. It becomes the anchor for coherent expectations and a common language that supports teaching and learning schoolwide. When grade-level rigor is built in, teachers are freed up to focus on how to deliver lessons in a way that invites all students into mathematics.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

reduces the time teachers spend grading because they simply mark the language on the rubric and do not have to write additional feedback to justify a score. The beauty of a standards-aligned, mastery-based rubric is that it: can be used to assess a variety of products in relation to specific criteria.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key points: Scaffolds help ELLs learn the language and master academic content This ESL teacher ensures students learn the language–and feel the love How edtech is transforming bilingual education in the U.S. Math Though math is often seen as a universal language, the academic vocabulary can create significant barriers for ELLs.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

KinderLab Robotics, creator of the award-winning KIBO robot , is expanding its curriculum offerings to serve students in grades 35 with Exploring with KIBO. The new curriculum includes 60 hours of standards-aligned lessons and activities specifically designed for upper elementary grades, with 20 hours of instruction per grade level.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Now, one Maryland school district is seeing substantial improvements in grades 6-8 math scores. A new impact study at Prince George’s County Public Schools (PGCPS) found that students in grades 6 to 8 who used Speak Agent Math+Language outperformed their peers who did not use the program.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2025

Delayed readers are students whose reading development lags behind typical age or grade expectations. Common issues include deficits in phonological awareness (Kilpatrick, 2015), limited exposure to language-rich environments, and instructional mismatches. What is a delayed reader? Journal of Literacy Research, 51(3), 271289.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The new research findings are based on fall 2022 assessment data from nearly 7 million US students in grades 3-8. We have a complex language where one letter pattern can stand for different sounds, such as COW and SNOW, and where similar sounds can be spelled different ways, such as WAIT and WEIGHT.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

students speak a language other than English at home, and approximately 16 percent of children live in poverty. Given this diversity and the varying challenges across grade levels, what might an effective attendance curriculum look like in practice? According to recent data, over 20 percent of U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2023

Students who were in grades K-3 during pandemic shutdowns may be most affected. I think students who were in grades K-3 during the height of learning disruptions are the most likely to have lasting effects on their reading proficiency from pandemic disruptions. First, that means assessing the critical, foundational skills like phonics.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Gaps in foundational knowledge, especially in early grades and exacerbated by continued pandemic-related learning loss, can make advanced topics more difficult to grasp later on. Because FDR has a large ELL population, the platforms language translation feature is particularly helpful.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

From a 5th grade teacher lens, it is evident that students are more likely to engage in an educational activity when it is “gamified,” and even more so when it is gamified with technology. IXL language arts also incorporates gamification, but it is a paid subscription (free 30-day trial). Let’s start off with reading apps and websites.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2024

However, a combined total of 69 percent said their primary motive was to prepare for upcoming courses, develop better study skills or improve their grades. Math and foreign languages lead the pack, though there’s a notable discrepancy between what tutors see as important and what students express interest in.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

I learned about Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling Suite (LETRS) from my mentor principal at the state department, which works with schools like Central Elementary to establish the specific benchmarks that each Alabama school must reach. A “full support school” since 2018, we were dealing with some major challenges.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

Although I love teaching all subjects, I always choose English/language arts and social studies, in part because I love the challenge of engaging young leaners in these important subjects.

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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. About IXL Currently used by 16 million students and in 96 of the top 100 U.S.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Carrie Rosenberg, a fourth grade teacher at Community Christian School, notes that gamification is one of the biggest education trends right now. ” Many students want more than just good grades from school–they want something physical or immediate. , and Prodigy to gamify her instruction and motivate students.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Students come into our classrooms with different life experiences, prior knowledge, and language proficiencies. even has a translation tool that is in Beta that can translate your pre-assessment into another language to ensure the math teacher is getting an accurate representation of what every student knows and can do. MagicSchool.ai

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

The standards guide teachers as they design learning experiences for students; however, the standards are not written in student-friendly language. Teachers working with older students may want to challenge them to work collaboratively to discuss specific standards or learning goals and rewrite them in student-friendly language.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It’s especially stark in high schools, where studies indicate that EB high school students have a chronic absenteeism rate of 25 percent, compared to 18 percent for their non-EB peers in the same grade. Use multiple types of communication : Recognize that different families have various communication preferences.

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