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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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 12, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (June 12, 2022) —New Jersey’s Middle Township Public Schools (MTPS) announced it has initiated a new partnership with Discovery Education that will enhance science instruction for middle school students districtwide. Discovery Education Science Techbooks.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

. – When young students learn coding, they hone skills – such as computational thinking and collaboration – that enhance their success in school and future careers. The course is aligned with relevant standards frameworks, such as CSTA and NGSS, and includes extension opportunities for middle school classrooms.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

Teach to a group or individuals. At the middle school, Lexia PowerUp is used as a tool within English Language Development classes. While using Core5, during the 2023-2024 school year, 208 students (40 percent) using the program advanced at least one grade level of material.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Charlotte, NC Discovery Education , the creators of indispensable K-12 learning solutions used in classrooms around the world, today announced an exciting new slate of standards-aligned educational content and instructional resources for Back-to-School 2025 that will inspire teachers and engage students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2019

We have to teach the skills that will let students enjoy their earnings and look forward to financial security. Related: What is your school doing to teach financial literacy? 3 things I’ve learned about teaching financial literacy. Make it personal. We have to help the students connect to the material.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for our free New York newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated my Brooklyn public school classroom with quotes from famous people reflecting on the importance of reading. And those who didn’t?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Here’s how it has worked since we introduced virtual robotics at our middle school. 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

JANUARY 16, 2025

At the same time, schools are placing a stronger emphasis on mental health, equity, and future-ready skills, ensuring students are not only academically successful but also are prepared for the challenges of today’s every-changing world.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

The proliferation of AI tools has outpaced efforts to understand how AI’s presence might change teaching practices or the role of the teacher. How do teachers view and position AI tools in their teaching? Teachers who used AI as a teaching partner saw AI feedback as a tool to enhance their teaching and their students’ learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Illinois’ Shiloh CUSD #1 today announced an expansion of its partnership with Discovery Education that adds a new, cutting-edge resource to the district’s middle school and high school science curriculum. Pivot Interactives offers opportunities for students to explore and learn for themselves.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. For example, Marylands state board has flagged that it wants every student career ready by the end of 10th grade. Middle schools tend to rely more on high-quality curriculum resources, Shadel says.

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

MAY 28, 2025

Thats why I started using a six-day middle school research project before I dove into an entire research unit because it gave students a strong foundation for writing. This research project is also a good way to review skills or fill time at the end of the school year. Day Three: Practice Research The research continues!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

  CHARLOTTE, NC — Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) today announced it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education supporting the district’s five-year strategic plan, Expedition to 2025: Purpose. The school system has 13,000 students enrolled throughout the city and approximately 2,100 staff members working each day.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. As I researched articulation strategies, I found “5 Ins and 5 Outs” mentioned in a Teaching Channel video. These “outs” become the “ins” for the next grade level.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the increased availability of AI tools in classrooms accelerated by the pandemic and showing no signs of a slowdown, teaching has become yet another field in which professional work is shared with tools like AI. We wondered about the role of AI in one specific teaching practice: assessing student learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

Sign up for our free New York newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated my Brooklyn public school classroom with quotes from famous people reflecting on the importance of reading.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

As a middle school Spanish teacher, my #1 goal is to have my students fall in love with learning a language the way I did in middle school. When learning a second language, it’s important to teach reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Here is an example of a sheet used in a 4th grade math class.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. I felt like I spent more time managing behaviors than teaching.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2019

As one middle school teacher in their research explained, “I’m not interested in just giving them a definition of sexting, because that’s not going to help them make a decision at 10 o’clock on a Saturday night.”. Here are some lesson plans that support helping kids think before they post: 3rd-, 4th-, and 5th-grade lesson plans.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on first-year teaching supports. This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When I volunteer in my children’s elementary classrooms (1st and 3rd grade), I am struck by how frequently the teacher finds time to work directly with small groups of students to offer additional support, review concepts, assess understanding, and practice skills. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I was an avid reader who read well above grade-level, but even I didn’t like to read the books that were forced on me. Which is why middle school English teachers like Carrie Friday at Southwest Middle School in Palm Bay, Florida are using the book club model instead.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2024

I’d used a gamified coding platform in my previous district and figured it would be a good fit for my new school. When I took this position, we didn’t really have anything related to robotics, so we were looking for ways to get students in eighth grade into a CTE pathway. The plan has worked out very well so far.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Students across Indiana’s Vigo County School Corporation (VCSC) will add new, high-quality learning resources to their digital book bags this Fall thanks to a new partnership with worldwide edtech leader Discovery Education. Discovery Education Science Techbooks. Mystery Science.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2022

It may not be ideal, but there are so many that, as education researcher Bob Marzano once noted, if we taught students to master every standard in each grade, we’d have students in class year-round and they wouldn’t graduate until they were in their twenties! This year, teachers are finding themselves with even more ground to cover.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

BURLINGTON, NC – Leading school science supplier Carolina Biological Supply Company announced that its Certified Version of OpenSciEd for grades 6 to 8 received all-green ratings from non-profit EdReports. Working with Carolina as a certified partner resulted in another excellent version of our curriculum.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

5 steps to boost CTE programs and fill workforce pipelines For more news on career readiness, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Fifty-nine percent of students say they would like more opportunities for career-connected learning, according to a new report from the New Hampshire Learning Initiative and Gallup.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. It’s about more than tests and grades. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

It was the beginning of sixth grade, braces, and the descent into the digital world. I was just texting my friends, sending memes, sharing homework answers, and opening up about school crushes. As the Chromecarts rolled in around eighth or ninth grade, however, the connection waned. I got my first iPhone on my 11th birthday.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

At Title I schools, where students are often at a disadvantage from the start, measuring success can look different depending on the student and the circumstance. In my classroom, students generally read below grade level. So when it comes to reading, sometimes success can look like a student simply picking up a book.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Instructional monitoring: Monitored student progress and adjusted their teaching strategy as needed. Researchers say that positive teacher-student relationships tend to start declining after first grade, with the lowest drop in middle school, before evening out in high school.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Leading school science supplier Carolina Biological launched three new sets of K-8 digital resources for remote teaching this fall: Smithsonian Science for the Classroom @HOME, Smithsonian Science and Technology Concepts Middle School@HOME , and Building Blocks of Science 3D@HOME. Professional Learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2023

The awards program, operated in partnership with the National Science Teaching Association (NSTA), MCH Strategic Data and the National Association of Biology Teachers (NABT), spotlights innovative products, technologies, and services that are changing the world of STEM education.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

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. Related : We can teach math better–here’s how How I use digital curriculum in my math classroom. Where do educators start?

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