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. High school students, especially, can feel singled out and embarrassed, even when you do something meant to help. Why don’t you try this now.”

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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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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2023

The challenge Aldine ISD faced at the beginning of the 2022-23 school year was to prepare their students for the redesign of the math State of Texas Assessment of Academic Readiness (STAAR), which added non-multiple-choice questions to align with the deep critical thinking and conceptual mathematics learning students should be doing in class.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Waiting to address science achievement gaps by middle or high school may be waiting too long. Funding for this study was provided by the National Center for Special Education Research, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S. Department of Education.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2023

. — Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience Even as we continue to overhaul training and curriculum around the science of reading, students who passed through our classrooms prior to this awakening sit in our buildings right up through high school without the early foundations that enable all the complex literacy processes thereafter.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Role : High school biology teacher Location : Berlin, Maryland Salary : $71,000 Years teaching : 11 Second job : Co-owner of Buzz Meadery Megan Hines holds a glass of honey wine at Buzz Meadery, which she owns with her husband, a fellow teacher. Spencer makes $45,000 as a special education teacher at an elementary school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to. She was a special education teacher. I was a senior in high school when the pandemic started. I think of my public education in segments. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2017

I am a special education teacher, so everything feels like personalized learning. Special Education teacher at Auburn School District in Seattle, Washington. 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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

“These results have helped students and I to be aware that we all learn differently and to develop pathways for the greatest success.” "[We] break down data by ELLs versus non-ELLs, special education students versus non-SPED students, and students receiving particular interventions.". That’s where the data truly tells a story.”

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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. For Principe, this type of response indicates a problematic lack of planning between schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

While teaching media arts technology in Grades 1–5, Adam continues to push the boundaries of edtech forward and discover new, insightful ways to keep his students, and his entire school community, excited about learning. This dedication to meeting the needs of his students has served the school well.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

million goes to San Francisco Unified School District and Oakland Unified School District to fund principals’ innovative ideas, hiring computer science and math teachers, developing college and career guidance and buying assistive technology for special education. The goal is growing the talent at these schools, Lee adds.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

In fact, I was a peer mediator when I was in high school, though truth be told, I became a mediator so that I could opt out of health class. We launched the mentoring program as a strand of our existing service learning course at our high school. They were strong listeners who cared deeply for their peers in the school.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

As edtech buzzwords new and old swirl , it is easy for educators to get lost among the fads du jour, much less apply the principles behind lofty ideas to make meaningful progress for students. Start where there is nothing Picking a place to implement new ideas and models can paralyze a school.

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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. When I came here two years ago, we had a 60 percent high school graduation rate. We’re now 1:1 with MacBooks at our high school, with some HP devices.

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Textbooks Technology Middle School Middle School 161

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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Check below for TCEA 2017 marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. SafeBAE will enhance Impero’s library of sexting-related keywords and will help Impero create a new keyword library of terms related to the bullying of sexual assault victims.

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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

JULY 5, 2023

After a stint as a restaurant server, eight years working as a community crisis liaison, and the last three years as a restorative interventionist in a public high school, he’s learned how to read people, how to build their trust, and how to form meaningful connections with them. One of our kids attends the school that I work at.

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Teachers High School High School Motivation 169

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Round tables are one of the unique ways we work together to meet each student’s needs at Collier High School, which is operated by a non-profit organization, Collier Youth Services. But there were staff members from the occupational therapy (OT) and speech departments, as well as a few of her previous teachers from our middle school.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

As teachers continue to gain a better understanding of where they are in their development and where they need to go, WeTeachNYC has sought to connect them to high-quality professional learning resources and experiences designed to address their needs within their personal professional learning trajectory.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I was working as a special education teacher in Cobb County School District at the time. The clear discrimination towards the special education population really bothered me, mostly because I could see that it was systemic and possibly out of my reach to fix. Educators wear a lot of hats.

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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. –Diane Myers, Ph.

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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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Science Learning Schools Gamification 145

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2017

As teachers continue to gain a better understanding of where they are in their development and where they need to go, WeTeachNYC has sought to connect them to high-quality professional learning resources and experiences designed to address their needs within their personal professional learning trajectory.

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Teachers Learning Blended Learning Knowledge 119

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Lower high school graduation rates caused by chronic absences can result in an underemployed population , negatively affecting economic productivity and stability. For example, our high school has an average daily attendance rate of 97 percent, meaning 97 percent of our students are here.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

” –Jenna Rodgers, Middle School Teacher. ” — Sara Giroux, Special Education Teacher. ” — Anna Marie Sossong, High School Teacher. That means you can focus on student progress and commit less time to scouring the internet for something useful.” More about Kiddom.

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Quizzes Mobile Devices Assignments Internet 79

The Life of a Conflicted Teacher

MARCH 28, 2025

We talked about ML students (multilingual learners) and the matrix that is used to decide if they need more intervention, more time, or if they need to be referred to special education services. Our middle school was pretty tight. I knew some of the elementary teachers and never saw the high school ones.

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English Languages Language Special Education 40

Elevate k12

JUNE 21, 2024

Ask anyone in the education system, and you’ll hear the same story: Teachers are leaving the profession in unprecedented numbers. From elementary school through middle school and on to high school, in wealthy and poor school districts, full-time, part-time, and substitute teachers are in short supply.

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Teachers Culture Feedback Testing 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Sarah If you teach middle school, you already know about math anxiety. Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. They are more likely to raise their hand and offer up an answer. The fear of getting the problem “wrong” starts early.

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Math Testing Learning Failure 112

eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2024

As a high school wrestler many years ago, Jon Wilcox was expected to help coach much younger students who were learning to wrestle. For nine years he’s been the principal of Petoskey Middle School, a school of about 570 students, 42% of whom come from low-income homes. How do you deal with middle school conflicts?

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Middle School Middle School Culture Schools 280

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

During the event, the ten entrepreneurs from Camelback’s second class took to the mic to present their startups, many of which sought to support and empower underserved groups such as special education students, male teachers of color, and black millennials. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. As Bronx middle school teacher Roxanne Leak put it during an interview, “It’s unfortunate. Because as an educator, they just say, "Oh, you're just tired.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Languages 189

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

. — Ken Cook, Director of School Safety & Advocacy, Allegion In 2025, expanding successful access to higher education will depend on bold partnerships between colleges and schools, and with employers, to better support historically underserved communities.

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