eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

Batavia, Illinois, June 14, 2021 — Flinn Scientific, a flagship provider of science lab materials and safety and STEM solutions for the K-16 education market, is enhancing its award-winning Science2Go to further support high school biology, chemistry, environmental science, and physics teaching and learning. More about Science2Go.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

One study showed that high school student interest and motivation in physics were significantly boosted with the introduction of probeware to physics classes, and similar trends have been reported in vocational schools as well as elementary and middle school classes.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

The pair joined forces in 2012 after Morris, who teaches sixth grade English and History at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon, Calif., Thomasson, who teaches English at Forestview High School in Gastonia, N.C., was introduced to the flipped learning concept. “I Starting from scratch.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2015

The materials uses ArcGIS Online web mapping and analysis tools to enhance middle school earth science lessons. GISetc is an award-winning, longstanding publisher of GIS curricula materials for primary and secondary school students. Esri plans to release high school level GeoInquiries for U.S. Plate Tectonics.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

In just a few months, I transitioned from being a student at the University of Montana’s College of Education to leading the instruction of a room of rambunctious middle school students interested in STEM. This organization provides educators with free textual resources and STEM kits for grades kindergarten through high school.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2021

From traveling the world to recycling water and cans, families can dive into the wide world of STEM and sustainability with K-12 activities from the STEM Careers Coalition – the first-of-its-kind national STEM initiative powered by corporate leaders and anchored in schools by Discovery Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 21, 2019

The High School technology curriculum prepares students for their college-and-career future not by teaching widgets and programs—though that happens—but by showing them how to use the tech they have acquired throughout their education. This is the first of three books focused on high school students and their unique technology needs.

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Edsurge

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. Elementary math textbooks claim to be aligned with Common Core standards, but they’re sometimes not, Copur-Gencturk says.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

Test Prep, “takes all the actual materials we use in class and creates something that is not generic.” – Cody Ashley, middle school teacher Middle school, high school and college students preparing for class exams and state assessments can build personalized study plans in seconds using Brainly’s generative AI technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2025

elementary, middle and high schools, and the results were striking. Teacher librarian Tasha Squires reported that when given a choice between standard books and large print, her students at ONeill Middle School in Downers Grove, Illinois, chose large print by a 2-to-1 margin.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

This school year at Umatilla School District, two science teachers are embarking on a new career after years of real-world experience in the subject. “I’m going to bring 20 years of experience in here from everything I’ve seen that you don’t see in the textbook,” he said.

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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

MAY 20, 2021

The Vicksburg Warren School District (VWSD) serves all of Warren County, Mississippi, and has an enrollment of approximately 7,200 students in grades Pre-K through 12. VWSD consists of three high schools (grades 9 – 12), three middle schools (grades 7-8), ten elementary schools, and an alternative program.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

So how do we prepare today’s high school journalists (and tomorrow’s mainstream reporters) for such an era? I propose teachers do the traditional lecture, textbook method for 80 percent of the time. We have it hanging up around Palo Alto High School. And it could be offered at the middle school level.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. Arizona] Prisha Shroff, Accelerated Middle School, Chandler Unified School District. PAUL, Minn.

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Edsurge

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. But they weren’t reading from a textbook. The effect is further exacerbated in high school, where in many states, students encounter U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. Clifford Crone Middle School, Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204 Samarth Mahapatra , Marietta, Ga.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Quest objectives include reading chapters in the textbook, and students can complete formative assessments in the form of “battles.” 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. “It

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Try high school students. These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. It’s wildly outside what most students get exposed to in school,” says von Oy. Another is a recreation of Vincent Van Gogh’s famous “Starry Night.” But these aren’t professional animators or graphic artists.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

A school is more than just classrooms and textbooks; its a place where young minds take shape, dreams take flight, and lifelong connections are made. At Gulliver Preparatory School , this sentiment has held true for nearly a century. Krutulis, becoming a symbol of academic excellence in South Florida.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook. Going back seven or eight years ago, another colleague and I pitched an idea: Why don’t we move away from the standard use of a textbook? My advice to young teachers is to go for it.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Get rid of the societal lies that everyone needs to go to college and everyone must strive to go to an Ivy League school rather than one that is their best fit. I got As in middle school but soon as high school the teaching got muddled. You will see more success all around.” That was geography.”

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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 data only represents one class in the high school, which was in its first two years of existence.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Her mother was a middle school science teacher whose parenting “really incorporated a lot of that curiosity and wonder and awe, kind of like we saw at the Smithsonian here today,” she says. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too. Teaching during the pandemic has been hard, Rivera acknowledges. “I

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

That’s in part because the framework prioritized alternatives to calculus and also recommended delaying Algebra I, an onramp course to high school math and a critical juncture in the race to calculus, until ninth grade for most students. Euler’s method to 20 amazing High School students with varying levels of mathematics background!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. The absence of elephants from middle and high school curricula limits intellectual representation for students. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2021

Through its award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia resources, and the largest professional learning network of its kind, Discovery Education is transforming teaching and learning, creating immersive STEM experiences, and improving academic achievement around the globe. Learn more about the winners and sweepstakes here.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Wheeler: One reason we chose MidSchoolMath is that the middle grades represent the critical time in a student’s academic career. We thought about elementary, middle and high school. This time, we chose something different for the middle grades because middle school students are kind of a different band of learners.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

The companies have offered to deliver food and learning materials like laptops and textbooks to students’ homes. Instead of kids going to schools, things have to come to them,” says Z?m m, founded in 2014, has about 3,000 contract drivers who service 250 school districts across six states. m CEO Ritu Narayan.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

So let me just include that in the book, just to introduce and build that language so that, maybe when they get to high school, they can participate at the table. And then also thinking about role models and how a lot of these amazing women are written out of the textbooks, and we don't hear about them.

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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? Describe how you used the product.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2021

The second fastest-growing school district in Indiana, Perry Township Schools serves nearly 16,700 students across two early learning academies, four kindergarten academies, eleven elementary schools, two middle schools, two sixth grade academies, two high schools, and one alternative learning program.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

PPS is a thriving, urban school division serving more than 13,300 students. The district consists of three high schools, three middle schools, and 13 elementary schools, as well as preschool, alternative school, and adult education facilities. Based in part on the award-winning Discovery Education?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

She thinks it’s “kind of seen as old-fashioned,” and most college and university campuses would go with composition and writing textbooks such as “The Little Seagull Handbook,” “The Everyday Writer” or “The Writer’s Reference.” She says her school is literature-based—grammar is not “the essence” of English classes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

From her earliest teachers to those she had in high school, Cano Padron developed close relationships with the educators in her life — many of whom she has now come to see as role models — and began to think about how she could one day offer to other children what was given to her. It really didn't hit me until probably middle school.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 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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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

“What was really unique about the property was that it was equally popular at school and at home, and you can say that about very few brands.” That makes it especially valuable to an education company like HMH, which is best known among teachers and students as a textbook publisher. Physical geography is important,” Keller says.

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