eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2024

Although all members of the team worked hard to maintain continuity of learning during the pandemic, COVID has left our students’ reading and math skills in a state of emergency. Eureka Math is also an important component in our efforts to boost student success in math. Alongside Eureka Math, we use i-Ready.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

As students return to class this fall, K–12 teachers and administrators face many challenges—and math instruction is high on the list. Educators now face the daunting task of making up for lost instructional time from the COVID-19 pandemic, while at the same time, addressing drops in math achievement and teaching grade-level content.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2021

Early studies are showing significant learning loss in math due to the pandemic. Over a decade ago, Vail School District overhauled our math curriculum and intervention plan and have continued to make updates as our students’ needs have evolved. In this article, I’ll share my top five “must haves” for any math intervention initiative.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

The problem for many struggling math students is that often those “universal” numbers and symbols hide in surrounding contexts of unfamiliar vocabulary, settings, and narratives. In the process, math can actually become a universal thread to connect many types of content and learners. Math is joyful! Math is joyful!

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

This shift has led to the growing adoption of co-teaching models, where general and special education teachers collaborate to meet the diverse needs of their students. First, let’s explore the benefits of using the station rotation model to enhance co-teaching and create more inclusive classrooms.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2022

As the nation works to collectively get students back on track after pandemic-era learning disruptions, new research provides promising evidence that learning acceleration can help all students catch up and move forward in math. a student struggled 17 percent less when they experienced learning acceleration versus when they were remediated.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2024

launch of MathVizy , a groundbreaking AI transforming how math is taught and learned. MathVizy is the first math-specific AI to combine step-by-step problem-solving with interactive visualizations, making math education accessible, engaging, and intuitive for students, teachers, and parents nationwide.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Algebra is often considered a gateway class.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Improving math achievement has long been a sticking point for U.S. Now, one Maryland school district is seeing substantial improvements in grades 6-8 math scores. Students who completed 10 Speak Agent learning activities experienced a 10 percent higher mean score than their peers on the PGCPS Math Benchmark assessments.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Math is a fundamental part of K-12 education, but students often face significant challenges in mastering increasingly challenging math concepts. Many students suffer from math anxiety, which can lead to a lack of confidence and motivation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Best practices now suggest that instead of cocooning students, we teach them to be good digital citizens , confident and competent. 1st Grade A critical skill for first graders is to not only understand the idea of a “digital citizen” but why it’s important to be one. It didn’t work. Then, it’s called an avatar.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2024

But reality teaches us otherwise. Just as we don’t become fluent in art, language, or sports through repetitive drills over a few weeks, mastering math requires a different approach. Research shows that spaced learning, or teaching students by distributing smaller groups of lessons on a given topic over time, is more effective.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Im in my fifth year teaching science to fifth and sixth graders, but, like every other teacher at the K-8 charter school where I work, I also teach reading. The message was clear: We needed to start teaching older students how to sound out and read unfamiliar words. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Lets be honest, math doesnt have the best reputation. According to this survey , 42% of Americans disliked math classes during their K-12 education. For many, math feels like swimming upstream. As a teacher, that makes engaging students in math a real challenge. Keeping math relevant and interactive is key.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

As a senior at Indianapolis’ Ben Davis High School, Jacob Gregory enrolled in an Exploratory Teaching program. He thought of it as an easy way to leave school for a few hours, but it ended up sparking “an unknown interest in teaching,” he said. I never looked for ‘gaps’ or ‘learning loss.’

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

. — IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 14 million students, announced that it has been added to Utah’s K-12 Math Personalized Learning Software Grant list by the state’s STEM Action Center.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

When Salvador Quijada, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School, thinks back on his own journey as a mathematician, he gives credit to one high school math teacher who pushed him to take on AP calculus. What’s your favorite lesson to teach and why? Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. So I feel like I have to apologize: Sorry, Im talking to you about math. Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject. Math As Humanities?

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2024

I’m in my fifth year teaching science to fifth and sixth graders, but, like every other teacher at the K-8 charter school where I work, I also teach reading. The message was clear: We needed to start teaching older students how to sound out and read unfamiliar words. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat. newsletters.

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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. CoderZ believes STEM education is essential for the future and should be universally available to all kids.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

/PRNewswire/ — Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation K-12 learning solutions leader, is excited to announce that the South Carolina State Board of Education has approved the full suite of Savvas K-12 math programs for statewide adoption across all grade levels.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2023

In May, NAEP reported that eighth grade students’ U.S It’s a record of consistency that has earned NAEP scores a reputation as “the nation’s report card.” Recently, that report card revealed some worrying trends. History and civics scores declined significantly between 2018 and 2022.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

The development of Discovery Educations newest content is based on feedback from the companys school-based partners and makes teaching and learning even more relevant, interesting, and personalized for users of Discovery Education products. The Superpower of Story: A Virtual Field Trip to Warner Bros.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

BALTIMORE, Maryland — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, has unveiled the findings of a Johns Hopkins University study that affirms IXL Math’s effectiveness in boosting student achievement. The goal of the study was to determine IXL Math’s efficacy on students in grades 3-5.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) is supporting the creation of powerful tool suites that can enhance the teaching and learning process, it seems reasonable to identify some ways that teacher assistants can use these tools as well. The nationwide shortage of teachers has caused a similar shortage in the ranks of teacher assistants.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

IXL covers all the areas needed to teach language arts, containing more than 2,400 skills spanning reading comprehension, grammar, vocabulary and more. Available in 57 languages, IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

We asked educators to share their views about teaching and learning in 2025 (find industry predictions for 2025 here ). By embracing interdisciplinary learning, NGSS weaves math, language arts, and social science concepts into the science classroom, creating a richer, more connected educational experience for students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Key points: All students are math language learners, regardless of their home language Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs How to support multilingual learners in STEM For more news on language learners, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Math isnt just about numbers. Post the terms on math walls.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play. I mean, its fun!

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

At the time, we did not have a robotics course for middle grades at all, though we did have an after-school STEM club. Existing STEM programs A few years ago, we were looking for a robotics solution for our middle school students to use primarily to get them engaged with engineering before high school.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2023

— The National Math and Science Initiative (NMSI) is pleased to announce the generous support of TC Energy through a $100,000 grant to bolster the training of Virginia teachers. DALLAS AND NORFOLK, VA. By expanding the program’s reach, the TC Energy grant will directly benefit approximately 250 teachers across Virginia.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Key points: Focus on what students can do, instead of what they cant Design thinking in the 21st century is an imperative Empathy, adaptability, and real-world readiness: Supporting students in 2025 For more on a growth mindset, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub In the words of Carol Dweck, Becoming is better than being.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

During our conversation, we explored aspects of the teaching profession that are time-consuming and create work-life imbalance. One culprit is the mentality that, “If I don’t grade it, the students won’t do it.” First, I do not think grades are an effective long-term strategy for motivating most students.

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