eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

School-based educators have transparent paths to salary increases based on experience, but typically have limited paths for advancement, perhaps moving between grades, obtaining certifications, or earning advanced degrees to enter into a leadership position.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

With the release of the Nation’s Report Card and ongoing school staffing shortages, states and professional organizations will need to rethink the benefits of technology in supporting students in special education programs. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

When visitors step inside Lone Star Middle School, they notice a palpable enthusiasm for learning. Part of Nampa School District in Nampa, Idaho, the school fosters a remarkable culture of collaboration among educators and a dedication to powerful teaching and learning with technology.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Research indicates math, reading achievement in early grades also influences later science achievement. Their science achievement gaps remained fairly stable from third grade through eighth grade. Morgan, an associate professor of education policy studies at Pennsylvania State University.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Explicit, systematic, personalized instruction science corrects missed learning opportunities, and instills the confidence and positive learning identity all students deserve to develop at school. It is important to get students exposed to coding and robotics early so it will be natural to them once they get to middle school and beyond.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

. — SpringMath, an award winning, complete MTSS solution for math, recently received the highest possible rating for fall classification accuracy in every grade submitted to the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII). NCII is the premier site for rating intervention and assessment tools for education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

All teachers and students are currently experiencing challenges with accessibility, the promotion of emotional and physical wellness, and academic progress—issues that the special education community knows all too well. Can best practice be translated to this way of educating? At East High School in Rochester, N.Y.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. Follow a Twitter PLN—Davis suggests Microsoft Innovative Educator groups ( #MIEE ). Read Grading for Equity by Joe Feldman. Recommendations from @jodavisITC.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

There have been plenty of adjustments to the classroom due to continued health precautions, and that has meant differences in what school supplies are needed. It’s the little things, like crayons, says Christine Slayton, a bilingual first grade teacher at Frank Del Olmo Elementary School in Los Angeles.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2023

“The STAAR redesign increases the level of rigor,” said Tiana Rodriguez, Program Director of Middle School Mathematics. Samuel Ramirez, Math Instructional Specialist at Aldine Ninth Grade School, agrees. “We Serving 61,633 students across 14 middle school and 15 high school campuses, 91.6%

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. Here’s how one special education teacher, Stephanie Landrum, who teaches at Horizon K-8 Charter School in Boulder, Co.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

To shed some light on the questions above, EdSurge talked to six educators to get their take. Here’s the big takeaway: Data doesn’t just come in the form of grades, attendance records and answers on multiple choice questions. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education. Over on the West Coast, Mt.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the CRPE analysis, which looked at plans from more than 100 districts and charter school groups, less than half were offering summer programs for elementary and middle school students, while 58 percent were offering a program for high schoolers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. After a split second, she enthusiastically replied, “Mesopotamia!” The purpose?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Becoming an Outsider It would be hard to identify a single cause of Bradley’s school avoidance, according to his mother, Deirdre. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade. Bradley would miss school here and there, but the growing tally of absences worried his mom. The problem only grew.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments. Digital Promise recently spoke with educators from Lone Star Middle School in Nampa, Idaho, an HP Spotlight School. Is there anything I can help you with?’

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2020

As part of ASU’s commitment to supporting parents by providing free educational resources, ASU created [link] where parents can find hundreds of original teaching videos covering every K-8 grade level across every core subject. Miacademy videos on ASU For You address academic needs across all elementary and middle-school ages.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Anthony Principe worked as a special education teacher in Boston, Mass. for more than 30 years, and throughout that period he watched the educators in his city experiment with different instructional philosophies. They can also see changes in a number of resources or the school size.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Funding in both districts will go toward hiring math and computer science middle school staff, buying assistive technology for special education students and supporting college and career programs. Salesforce has increased its donation each year since piloting the donation program to school districts in 2013.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Photo Credit: Marisa Kaplan This week I talked with other educators who shared their powerful stories: Elaine Mendez (an instructional coach from Belleville Public Schools) and AJ Bianco (a 7th and 8th grade Social Studies teacher from Harrington Park School)—who learned to make mistakes and show off their nerdy sides.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2018

In January 2016, the parent teacher organization at Roosevelt Elementary generously purchased a number of new tools for our school including Spheros, Dash and Dots, Cubelets, Snap Circuits, Osmos, Marble Mazes and a 3D printer. What would tech lab look like when the dedicated set of student helpers moved on to the middle school?

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

We intentionally select and educate young adults, we give them time and space to observe mental health professionals in action and ask questions and then we set them free to work with their peers in an authentic, unscripted way. Take Jessica for example, whose eighth grade year was an emotional rollercoaster.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Before her administrative roles, Mathison was a middle school science teacher, leading grade-level teams and the science department. Becky Mathison From a system or district perspective, ensuring consistency between and among grade levels is really important.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Students are told that “everyone is working to move their number” even higher, says Demetria Tumpkin, a second grade teacher at the school. At South Newton Elementary School In Newton, N.C., Back when she was a third grade teacher at a school in Virginia, Hall put up a data wall in her classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Does competency-based education hold the key to providing an equitable learning opportunity to every student? Count Connie Scalzetti, a middle-school teacher at CICS West Belden in Chicago, among the believers. In the middle school, students leverage the. Equity isn’t everyone getting the same thing.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2021

.” Growth for Mississippi Students Using Classworks Classworks continues to have an impact on Mississippi students, even during the tumultuous 2020 – 21 school year. A recent study of middle school students revealed that students who used Classworks in grades six to eight experienced, on average, 5.7%

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Written by Beth , a middle school math teacher & interventionist from Iowa. Beth’s school has high populations of special education and ELL students. EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented Woot Math? Achieve3000.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

. –Michele Dick, Education Specialist, Wacom With the release of the Nation’s Report Card and ongoing school staffing shortages, states and professional organizations will need to rethink the benefits of technology in supporting students in special education programs.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

He then went on to study school psychology and special education in graduate school. His mother taught in schools. But by fifth grade I should understand more specific science and medical related careers, maybe something like biotechnology or biochemistry, and be aware of these other professions.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 4, 2025

Its one of the reasons why high school (and increasingly middle school!) is a prime time for educators to teach students about professional pathways after graduation. Use these meaningful career exploration activities for high school students to help students discover their interests, skills, and passions.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Eight percent of entering students are on grade level, but by graduation, an estimated 80-plus percent are. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8 percent graduation rate—an impressive feat given that 70 percent of students are on free-and-reduced lunch and anywhere from 12 to 15 percent are in special education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

So, What’s Alternative About Our School? I’m a ninth grade English teacher at Collier and all of my students are classified with a disability and have an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) that qualifies them for special education services. Our motto: “Where small miracles happen everyday.”

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Disabilities Schools Learning Disabilities English 167

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

Easy access to high-quality content: The WeTeachNYC Library When Angela Bedford-Jack moved from her position as a librarian in a NYC middle school to work at the central offices, she brought her passion for granting access to knowledge and resources to developing the WeTeachNYC Library.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

Specifically, he wanted to play a part in education reform. So in 1998, he and seven colleagues launched an animated e-learning platform designed to engage elementary and middle school students in math, reading and Spanish curriculum while supporting teachers with assessment tools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2018

I knew that if I wanted to grow this program to reach my entire school community, I’d need to present evidence that it was working. From Focus Student to Small Group Pilot As a special education teacher at The Bayshore School in Daly City, Calif., I met her when she was in fifth grade.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

“We personalize learning all the time, we just don’t call it that,” says special education teacher Gina Tesoriero who has been teaching middle schoolers for over a decade. They were immediately taken with the museum’s learning model and wanted to incorporate elements of it into their classrooms at Simon Baruch Middle School 104.

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