eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

We asked education experts to share their thoughts regarding student success priorities in 2025 (find 50 edtech predictions for 2025 here )–discover what they had to say: Across the country, there is growing consensus and demand for high school transformation. Students often learn best by doing.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

NEW YORK – Students are gearing up for the 2023 school year, and new research from Brainly reveals that AI is an integral element in middle and high school students’ academic life – even as educators debate and worry whether the revolutionary technology belongs in the classroom. To their AI tools.

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MAY 6, 2020

A resounding ‘yes’ Gabriel Vogel, 11th grade teacher at Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, Va.: “Yes! I am hoping that parents can appreciate and understand, even more now, all that teachers do to be surrogate parents and help them help their child in the school setting. YES THEY HAVE!

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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MAY 5, 2020

Kim Booth, sixth grade teacher at Coleman Middle School in Duluth, Ga.: “I Claire Peterson, middle school teacher at Pat Neff Middle School in San Antonio, Texas: “This isn't the same. Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: “The

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MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside. They were roleplaying.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

As a part of an ongoing initiative to enhance the health and wellness resources available to its students and families, the Baldwin Union Free School District (UFSD) is proud to launch the Baldwin Schools Wellness Center and to be among the first school districts in the nation to establish such a resource directly on campus at no cost to families.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to middle schools and high schools, the average classroom looks more like a typical startup office than the traditional classroom of the past. Today, schools across the country look to educators to customize lesson plans to the learning requirements of their unique classrooms and students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the second-largest school division in Virginia, with 55 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, 12 high schools, and a number of secondary/post-secondary specialty centers.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Jill Weber, Cheney Middle School. We all strive to develop students with the skills necessary to be successful after high school graduation. The National Council for the Social Studies urges us to find ways for our kids to “take informed action” based on what they have learned.

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MAY 4, 2020

Personalized Notes Claire Peterson, teacher at Pat Neff Middle School in San Antonio, Texas: “Words are always good to hear. Every ripped out sheet of paper with the words, ‘Thank you, Mrs. Kind Words, Thanks and Acknowledgement Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.:

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

So how do we prepare today’s high school journalists (and tomorrow’s mainstream reporters) for such an era? We have it hanging up around Palo Alto High School. And it could easily be a four-week block that could be put into a social studies program. And it could be offered at the middle school level.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The approach is more prevalent in some “pockets” of the country, Townsley says, particularly New Hampshire , Maine and Wisconsin , with more recent adoptions in schools in Connecticut , New Mexico and Oregon. "The He has since left the school system, in part over frustration with the policy, and now teaches overseas.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

“Ignite My Future in School impacted students in my classrooms by providing authentic learning experiences that challenged my students to use computational thinking skills to solve real world problems,” said Jenna Rosienski, Assistant Principal – Franklin Middle School, Janesville, WS. “ currently teach computer science.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2016

Kids are going to learn computers one way or another,” said Bryant, a 10th-grade history teacher at Gadsden City High School. Bryant was one of 25 middle school and high school teachers on Thursday who were learning cyber security techniques at Jacksonville State University.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Anthony Caccavo is a middle school curriculum coordinator and social studies teacher at St. Heidi Bernasconi , a biology and marine biology teacher at Clarkstown High School North in New York, is one of the lucky teachers who piloted Google Expeditions in her classroom. John’s Prep in Massachusetts.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For social studies educators, a presidential election year is a big deal. I’ve always relished these times because they’re part of what makes social studies special. Social studies teachers must support their students as they encounter: Major attacks on journalism. Evolving forms of media delivery.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Buckle up and join us on this delightful journey through tech-savvy classrooms – from elementary school to high school – we’ll unlock a treasury of innovative ideas guaranteed to amuse the young minds while also preparing them for their future. Fear not, we’ve got you covered! Let’s dive in!

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2016

Tynker , provider of creative computing that has introduced more than 32 million kids to computer programming through innovative game-like learning activities and courses, announced a new curriculum for high schools across the U.S. and Canada. Tynker’s Drone Curriculum. STEM Courses and Project-Based Learning.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But he says colleagues have also adapted the platform for other traditional subjects including science and social studies. It becomes relevant to them when you turn your class into a game,” says Isaacs, a 50-year-old teacher at William Annin Middle School and Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J.

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APRIL 19, 2018

High school sophomore Olivia Surdam thought she wanted to have a career in healthcare as a doctor or nurse, but after recognizing that her sensitive stomach would cause barriers for a career path in patient care, Surdam started considering other options with her advisory teacher.

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MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths? The concept just wasn’t intuitive. That really wasn’t the rule that she was being taught.

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APRIL 19, 2023

My middle school choir teacher recorded and released an acclaimed gospel album. My high school English teacher starred in commercials and made a name for herself as a voice actor. In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2015

“I like that it teaches you more about science, social studies and reading,” said the 12-year-old Ooltewah Middle School student about the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) training program called Learning Blade. “The early numbers show a tremendous return on investment.”

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same. Instead of creating them myself, I taught the students to use Adobe Spark.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Kahlfeldt has touched on the census many times in his 15 years as a middle school social studies teacher at Winfield School District 34 (22 years total as an educator). He also shares how his zesty attitude toward social studies makes lessons on the census—and many other topics—pop for his students.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It was 2006, and Miller—then an investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times—had just spoken to 175 sixth graders at his daughter’s middle school about his job as a journalist and why it mattered. The journalists were one part of that.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. The absence of elephants from middle and high school curricula limits intellectual representation for students.

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JUNE 12, 2017

Kennedy High School in Winston-Salem, N.C., On the second day of his current job, as principal of nearby Lexington Middle School, he discovered that a social studies teacher was also using the game. As he was strolling down the hallways of John F. It was a learning party.”. He happily obliged.

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JULY 10, 2017

In my visits to elementary, middle, and high schools around the country this past academic year, here are five tips I took away for how educators can get beyond the buzz to implementation. Start where there is nothing Picking a place to implement new ideas and models can paralyze a school.

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APRIL 14, 2020

Past Teachers-in-Residence include a middle school science teacher, a kindergarten teacher and a performing arts teacher, but for this year’s program, the library specifically wanted to bring on a civics teacher to build out its digital collection of civics-focused curriculum materials. I currently work in an alternative high school.

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MARCH 18, 2020

The app covers subjects that range from science to social studies to economics. That’s the hope, anyway, for the founders of this startup, currently in beta testing and targeted toward high school and middle school students. The startup claims to have $7,000 in monthly revenue through subscriptions.

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JANUARY 30, 2017

The next semester those four teachers repeated the same PD process and present their sample lessons to the other core content teachers in their school. Middle-school teachers in the pilot became so excited that the middle school produced twice the number of lessons using Google Slides than the high school.

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JUNE 26, 2017

It’s hard in large, high school classes. “I I think it is difficult to do it in a high school setting, but it is a really good idea. It’s a little bit hard to do in high school because you have such large classes.”. Technology and Business teacher at Paoli Community School in Mitchell, Indiana.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

HUPP: We are one of 50 schools from across the country participating in the Dynamic Learning Project with Google and Digital Promise. We also just finished renovating our high school with new interactive displays and collaborative furniture. We just launched a new computer science program this year.

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