eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

When I was in the classroom, I quickly learned that students are feeling this eco-anxiety whether were talking about climate change or not. I asked myself: If a teachers role is to prepare students for the real world, shouldnt we be helping them solve the climate crisis? On the other side, students gave the plants compliments.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

PITTSBURGH, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, today announced that its blended core Middle School Math Solution received perfect scores in a new report published by EdReports.org. Do they help teachers build productive habits of mind in their students?

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

First Educational Version of a Programming Language Enables Middle School Code Education – Bridging the Middle School Gap. Traditionally, code teaching systems use unmodified programming languages.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2021

As we prepare students for college, career, and life, it’s vital that we foster skills that will ensure students are successful. As educators, we’ve heard about the importance of the “21st century 4 C’s” to our students’ future success.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Tennessee’s Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) is on a mission to bring language learning resources to its diverse community and student body of more than 33,500. To improve and broaden language learning resources for its students and community, CMCSS today announced it has partnered with Rosetta Stone Inc.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Key points: Virtual reality offers learning beyond just verbal communications 3 AR/VR resources that nurture student curiosity Reaching the 4Cs with 3D and virtual reality For more on VR in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Multilingual students face unique challenges that can hurt their performance in school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In fact, some of the most powerful learning in my middle school science classroom has happened when I’ve pretended to NOT know the “right answer.” That’s when students take the lead and start to offer up their own ideas, share their experiences, and make powerful connections—sometimes amazing ones that I would never have thought of.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The pandemic’s on students’ social and emotional well-being continues to be felt in schools nationwide. Here at Lincoln County R-III School District in Missouri, we are no different. Many of our students are struggling with regulating their emotions. We’re seeing students needing more social and emotional support.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2021

As we prepare students for college, career, and life, it’s vital that we foster skills that will ensure students are successful. As educators, we’ve heard about the importance of the “21st century 4 C’s” to our students’ future success.

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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. The basic idea is that teachers identify 5 “outs” or skills students will master by the time they leave their class. 2 Teachers interpret the standards differently.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

The field trip was part of the Foundation’s annual enrichment trip centered on exposing students to burgeoning aerospace and technology careers. So, how did the Crockett Foundation’s students, most of whom attend Title I schools and live in historically under-resourced communities, achieve this sort of success?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

But what if we reimagined attendance not just as a policy to enforce, but as an essential part of the curriculum for both students and parents? This paradigm shift could revolutionize how schools, students, and families approach this critical aspect of education. According to recent data, over 20 percent of U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Kennedy Middle School would pivot to remote learning because of the pandemic. We had to figure out how to get students engaged online, which was already a focus in the brick-and-mortar setting. “We Her Title I school in Riviera Beach has a growing population of English language learners.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2015

At the start of the app, an adult will decide if the student(s) will work on receptive or expressive language, and then kids create a character by uploading an image or using an avatar. Students or teachers can then drag their avatars to one or more environments and then slide the transporter icon to begin their quests.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lunch hours are spent hunched over smartphones, and after-school time means less sports and more Snapchat. The adverse effects of this excessive screen time have significantly impacted students social- emotional health. Engaging with students was a top priority for workgroup members. A lot of them wanted an art club.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Boone County School District is offering digital world language learning to 10,500 students—half of its student population. Three hundred kindergarten and first grade ELL students and 10,200 WL students in grades 2-8 have access to the digital learning program. It’s a win-win situation for our students.”.

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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. Students still love Kahoot!

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

Think back to your days in middle school, specifically to what you did after you slung your backpack off at home and began to unwind. What would your answer have been if a teacher asked, “What am I doing outside of school that I want to tell other students about?” I know what mine would have been.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

Whether you use a planning guide or not, they are a great place to make notes on what worked well and what didn’t for you (and your students) this year. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school. Ask yourself: What do I want to keep? What should I let go of?

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2022

Having access to diverse texts helps children expand their vocabularies, deepens their understanding of language, provides opportunities for problem-solving, provides critical affirming experiences to students’ lives, and presents opportunities for students to learn about people with different lived experiences.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Twig Science Next Gen for middle school is an investigation-based science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) solution developed for the three-dimensional Next Generation Science Standards.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

Time management is a constant struggle for teachers since they spend most of their days working directly with students. Planning is critical to creating meaningful learning opportunities for students. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2023

Using Desmos was seen as being particularly egregious, as educators feared that students may have access to the internet and may surf the web while they should be learning or during summative assessments. A few years later, the discussion changed to an argument about the pros and cons of using a Desmos calculator on their classroom iPads.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2015

A few months ago, I was searching for resources to support computer science education for middle school students—girls in particular—when I came across Google CS First. Not really knowing what it was, I went ahead and registered my school, and then myself—as a teacher host, advocate, volunteer, and guru all at the same time.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2019

Exeter (CA) Unified School District is a small, rural district with approximately 2,800 students, 61 percent of whom are Hispanic and 62 percent of whom are socioeconomically disadvantaged. Approximately one in seven of our students are English language learners. Starting with the standards.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Student success is a critically important issue for school districts–and not simply because districts want students to perform well. Improving student learning and student success is necessary for students to compete in a rapidly changing world that requires critical thinking, creativity, and adaptability.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2019

Low reading ability is a major contributor to learning inequality in our schools. An estimated 26 million students have learning differences, including tens of thousands of students with dyslexia, a neurological condition that affects reading and related language-based processing skills. Here’s how.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

All three teach Spanish to middle school students, but their independent classrooms are unique. Boyd teaches Spanish to fifth through eighth graders at Poplar Grove Middle School. Alberto and Mario Herraez teach fifth and sixth grade students, respectively, in the Spanish immersion…

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2020

Teton Science Schools opened enrollment for 2020-21 Place Network Online courses for middle school students this week. Each course is designed as an academically challenging place-based experience that integrates language arts, math, science, and the visual arts. Three courses will be offered this year.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2018

million English language learners (ELLs) in elementary and middle school classrooms, learning and understanding the language of mathematics can be a challenge. Supporting ELLs requires a commitment to a shift in practices that involves the entire school and also branches out to the community. For many of the 4.5

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2020

In that time Hong Kong International School (HKIS) has delivered over 200 hours of daily lessons online, across all subjects, from language arts to culinary arts, PE to science, religion to Chinese. But a couple of Wednesdays a month, middle school students at HKIS push aside their laptops and turn off their tablets.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The seven teams – Carnegie Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Eedi, Rising Academies, the University of Colorado Boulder, Khan Academy, and the University of Florida – are committed to harnessing the potential of AI and machine learning to develop innovative, affordable interventions to enhance middle school math education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. But that picture differed by state.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2023

The integration of AI tools in English language arts (ELA) instruction has emerged as a potentially transformative pedagogical approach that could redefine the traditional landscape of education. Students who may never have paused to reflect and consider their writing can now do so at the touch of a button.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. were studying a world language or American Sign Language. The answer?

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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. The materials are rigorously evaluated for alignment to standards and usability by teams of educators. “As

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Key points: Light-touch, low-cost interventions focused on attendance can pay dividends Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism For more news on student success, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub One surefire way to support student success?

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