eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

Kanawha County, the state’s largest school system, distributed more than 14,000 iPad tablet computers to every middle and high school student in the county last school year through the roughly $14 million Learning 20/20 initiative, said Leah Sparks, Kanawha’s technology director.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

After successfully implementing Achieve3000’s literacy solutions in 13 of the district’s lowest-performing Title I elementary, middle and high schools, Muscogee County School District (MCSD) in Columbus, Georgia, will expand its implementation to include 21 additional schools. high school biology.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

But it’s not all bad–educators found success as they dedicated their efforts to improving student engagement and achievement, creating community-based approaches to learning, and inspiring students to become lifelong learners. I have more confidence in my instruction because they aren’t always asking, “Why are we learning this?”

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Nardolilli’s experience in designing educational games goes back to when he would create science-themed birthday parties at an after-school science center. Now, he and Baselice collaborate to create and test games and are actively trying to gather evidence that these activities aren’t just good for engagement, but for long-term learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Under Mr. Hatcher’s guidance, Akron Public Schools partnered with Edmentum to integrate cutting-edge learning technologies, harnessing their full potential to enhance learning outcomes. Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

As education policy moves away from the much-maligned No Child Left Behind and toward new legislation focusing on learning outcomes, technology-enabled formative assessments are moving to the foreground as a way to gauge student learning in real time. “[Districts] are really looking to publishers to help them with that.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This approach ensures effective learning outcomes and supports diverse educational settings and needs. Below is a machine-generated transcript of the interview: 00:00:20 Speaker 1 Because nobody goes to learn how to be a computer science teacher and then goes to to, to, to elementary schools. 00:04:29 Speaker 2 OK.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

Thus began his transition, from teaching high school students to focusing on their teachers. Still as passionate as ever about cultivating meaningful relationships, he also continues to work with kids as a high school football coach. First and foremost, we have to ask ourselves for the desired outcome.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2019

Some of them have no idea how many times they check their phones,” says Yvonne Shiu, the principal of San Mateo High School in California. Founded in 2014, the San Francisco-based company says that it has leased pouches to more than 1,000 schools across the country, including a handful of colleges and universities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In New Tech Network schools, grades are weighted according to five categories. At my New Tech high school in Columbus, Indiana , content accounts for 60% of a grade and the other categories (written and oral communication, collaboration, and agency) each garner 10%. learning outcomes emphasized by the New Tech Network.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Of the district’s 230 schools, 36 expressed interest in being a test school, eight participated in the pilot and five ultimately received funding and support to launch the wall-to-wall model in Fall 2015. The school that didn’t—Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary—saw the greatest improvements in student progress.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

This vision is centered on establishing a growth model with expanding choice options for students, enhancing personalized learning pathways, and providing a wide variety of blended learning opportunities to support increased student engagement and improved student learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2020

This line of thinking led ICLE and HMH to develop a resource called Bridge and Grow Pathways , a roadmap to help teachers prioritize learning outcomes. The aim is to focus on essential areas of learning, as well as tap into outcomes that may have been compromised the previous year. It's super sophisticated.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. Aaron pushed the district to trial the product, which led to a full implementation in the bathrooms throughout the high school.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2016

BenchPrep, a digital learning platform company, will work with ACT to leverage technology to bring personalized, web- and mobile-based ACT test prep to all ACT test takers. million students in the US high school Class of 2015 took the ACT test—approximately 59 percent of all high school graduates in the United States.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. MORE FROM EDTECH: See how K–12 schools are using professional services to support their one-to-one device programs. 4 Best Practices for a Successful Help-Desk Program.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

It eventually expanded into high school, scaling up its challenges like levels in a video game and borrowing elements from game design—such as its approach to final exams, which are interactive and structured like “final boss” levels. But make no mistake: game design is very important for learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

It just so happened that a group of about 50 biology students were testing products from Hands-On Labs, a company that offers at-home lab kits coupled with online instruction and assessments. Our goal is to allow students to gain access to realistic labs that enable them to perform experiments and achieve desired learning outcomes,” he said.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Our new book, Learning Transformed , published by ASCD, outlines eight keys to intentionally designing tomorrow’s schools to prepare today’s learners for success far beyond earning a high school diploma. Key #2: The learning experience must be redesigned and made personal. A budget impasse. A political attack.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

But high school English and journalism teacher Bryan Christopher is using micro-writing regularly in his classroom to support identity development and to build a sense of belonging. What Does Growth Look Like for a Student Who Isn’t Having Success on Standardized Tests? This New Orleans School Actually Provides It.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

CoCo is still in its beta phase, being tested out by educators from 65 different countries. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Everybody’s going after the students with good SAT and the 18-year-old high-school students. These courses are as rigorous, and they have the same learning outcomes as the courses we teach on campus. The other place I hope hybrid will work, because we’re going to test it out, is international. They’ve got nothing.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2018

Now, some educators—and consultants—are calling for edtech consulting firms to be held accountable for whether or not their million-dollar advice translates into improved, measurable learning outcomes. Ashkenas says school leaders should be direct in asking consultants what they are accountable for. Graphic credit: Jenny Abamu.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And as I began to research this issue, I discovered that most of the technology investment in educational institutions really doesn’t impact learning engagement for learning outcomes. He effectively provides his students with what he refers to as “low-stakes” testing.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

As a senior in high school he persuaded his parents to upgrade their internet speed so that he could stream online course videos from MIT. Acumen , we have been increasingly looking for business models with the potential to improve learning outcomes for the poor. Start with test prep.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

College is our country’s post-high school default, and it doesn’t have to be. Technology investments must have documented plans for impacting teaching and learning outcomes, and companies that cannot provide evidence and support with documenting impact will get left behind. Not every assessment needs to be a test.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

For a highly experiential health-related field like SLP with a clinical component, customizable VR experiences offer a unique opportunity to increase student learning outcomes and improve patient therapeutic outcomes. As part of the VR initiative, students took a two-part learning module on VR in SLP. & Abadia, R.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some schools, in their initial attempts to use technology, focused more on choosing devices and apps than on preparing teachers. This is a model that simply doesn’t lead to good learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2025

Learning applications, student information systems (SIS), financial aid platforms and testing applications often operate independently, with no communication between them. For example, AI tools should use data responsibly, improving learning outcomes without storing sensitive information in proprietary, vendor-controlled data lakes.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

For a highly experiential health-related field like SLP with a clinical component, customizable VR experiences offer a unique opportunity to increase student learning outcomes and improve patient therapeutic outcomes. As part of the VR initiative, students took a two-part learning module on VR in SLP. & Abadia, R.

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Language Languages Laboratory Learning Outcomes 103

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Arrested Development: Children, Trauma and School : The session may bring back memories of the TV comedy series, but the talk from former high-school principal Liz Dozier is serious matter. Hear what led Hampshire College to ban standardized test results as an admissions requirement, and what the school has learned since.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

By Rebecca Koenig In Pursuit of Personalized Learning Baraniuk played electric guitar in high school rock bands while growing up in Winnipeg, Canada—the same city, he notes, that spawned The Guess Who. So far, OpenStax Tutor is available for beta testing in physics, biology and sociology courses.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2025

Believe it or not that Jesse, I mean I know a lot of school districts, that’s when we. Beta test in education with remote learning and COVID. Most of the, if I recall correctly, in my conversations, most of those conversations involved around social emotional learning. Into this great. So tired of talking about it.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 10, 2016

Co-located with a corporate startup accelerator at a former brownfield site of Iowa Steel, Iowa BIG is a project-based learning option for Cedar Rapids area high school students. Students spend half of their day at their traditional, ‘mother ship’ high school and the other half at Iowa BIG.

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Learning Outcomes Achievement Internet High School 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

As she moves through the pages, Derbidge switches tones, adds inflection, pauses for dramatic effect and occasionally interrupts herself to ask the girls questions about the plot, testing their comprehension. It has totally changed the dynamic of our center.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

And as I began to research this issue, I discovered that most of the technology investment in educational institutions really doesn’t impact learning engagement for learning outcomes. He effectively provides his students with what he refers to as “low-stakes” testing.

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