eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key points: Scaffolds help ELLs learn the language and master academic content This ESL teacher ensures students learn the language–and feel the love How edtech is transforming bilingual education in the U.S. Social studies Social studies classrooms are vocabulary-heavy and context-dependent, which can pose a challenge for ELLs.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

She wanted me to know that although she could not yet speak English, she felt confident as a learner in her first language. Research shows that students who are classified as English language learners may be perceived by teachers as less capable than their non-ELL peers. It’s so important that Esther spoke up about this.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2016

Florida Senate votes to consider coding a foreign language for graduation requirements. State senators in Florida overwhelmingly approved a proposal to allow high school students to count computer coding as a foreign language course, although questions linger about whether the two subjects should be considered one and the same.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2022

As an educator for over 27 years and a Digital Learning Specialist (social studies) for the past 7 years in Atlanta Public Schools, I have supported educators across my district and beyond as they purposefully integrate technology in the classroom to promote engagement and 21 st century skill development.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

MADISON, WI – Today, Open Up Resources and Kiddom announced Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD ) has selected its top-rated EL Education K-5 Education Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for its 31 elementary schools in support of the district’s efforts to prioritize early literacy and beyond. Share assignments digitally; ? ABOUT KIDDOM.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Teaching data literacy helps students succeed academically and develop the civic skills theyll need to navigate the wider world. You dont need to be a data scientist to teach data literacy. In social studies , students can interpret historical or demographic data, question sources, and discuss how data is used to shape policy.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Teachers’ jobs are about much more than teaching in the classroom or online. EDSITEment offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials in the subject areas of history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

During the “emergency teaching” era of the COVID-19 pandemic, digital resources and edtech tools were used by educators worldwide in an effort to maintain students’ continuity of learning. Interestingly, the post-COVID teaching environment has so far, in my opinion, been marked by a strong desire to see things done with pencil and paper.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

When teachers turn a lesson or tough-to-teach concept into a motivational gamed or use a fun competition to teach new concepts, students become immersed in their learning and are often more engaged–meaning they’re more likely to retain information. , and Prodigy to gamify her instruction and motivate students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2023

Key points: SEL teaches students to think and behave like healthy, mature adults SEL helps students become better learners and take ownership of that learning Every educator hopes to equip their students with the knowledge they need to thrive as a healthy adult. This is certainly a worthy goal, but how exactly do we go about teaching this?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

Participating schools will receive Achieve3000’s 24/7 differentiated, blended instruction for students, teaching resources and blended professional development for educators, real-time data dashboard for administrators, and robust home support for parents and guardians. fourth-grade science and social studies.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Adding IXL Language Arts to the list ensures that eligible local education agencies across the state can request reimbursement for purchasing the platform to enhance early literacy instruction. It then generates personalized action plans that help students eliminate their trouble spots, and grow their reading and writing skills.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 6, 2015

The latest version of SAS Curriculum Pathways offers with improved search, user ratings and comments, individual home pages and automated resource recommendations–all with a goal of making learning and teaching more effective, and with more personalization, than ever. “We The new SAS Curriculum Pathways is a substantial leap forward.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me. Teaching has consumed me.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Our STEAM curriculum and projects come ready-to-teach and can be used by teachers of all experience levels, even if they’ve never taught STEAM subjects before. TinkRworks comes ready to teach and can be implemented in a variety of settings, including classrooms, makerspaces, after school programs, and summer school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2018

I’m not sure if teachers dreaded faculty meetings more than I did, but while standing in an auditorium filled with tired-looking faculty after a long day of teaching, I sometimes had this thought: If I did a dance or paused unsuspectingly, would that gain their attention, even if only for a moment?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Seventh-grade students in Jeanne Halderson’s social studies and English language arts class and Liz Ramsay’s science and mathematics class are the first to field-test the green screens in the schoolwork. They also used the green screens for social studies lessons, taking an epic selfie with the whole class.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

As a former social studies educator and current learning specialist, my idea of nirvana is to help grow students who can examine issues from multiple perspectives. Cooperative learning training also embeds methods to develop social skills. Our teachers love the training.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two years later. It’s not just the Language Arts or Reading teacher’s sole responsibility to teach literacy. Art / Music. Bethany Lake.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

History teacher Lauren Cella's "Gen Z Teaches History" series has earned about 30 million views on Instagram and TikTok combined. All three of these historic royals have been the subject of “Gen Z Teaches History,” a viral video series created by Lauren Cella, who teaches 10th grade history. And they're like, ‘No, Miss, they do.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

He swears by using children’s books to learn and maintain information, as they are full of pictures and infographics and engaging language that keeps the audience entertained. My advice: Model what you teach As I encourage my students to get involved in civics, I do the same. This principle can be extended to the classroom.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2015

There are lessons in math, language arts, science, and social studies for three grade ranges encompassing the K-12 spectrum. One example of the collaborative lessons within the guide is a social studies lesson for grades three to five, called “Who Can Vote?” Available for download at [link].

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

According to Code.org, the majority of Americans want schools to teach computer science , but only 35 percent of high schools teach it. Code.org ’s free online courses teach programming languages or how to create games, apps, and websites. Related: 20 ideas for teaching coding in math, science, social studies, and ELA.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2020

What made you want to go into education and begin teaching? I’ve been loving every moment of teaching and I know this is my calling. So in a six hour period, we would go over math, social studies, language arts, reading, writing, and science. I’m a fifth grade teacher that covers all content.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. IXL also provides test preparation skill plans and personalized study plans for the SAT and ACT.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Imagine sending a teenage driver onto a highway in an unfamiliar area, where road signs are in a foreign language, lanes change direction without warning, fog and rain obscure visibility, the car has faulty brakes, and the passengers are giving bad directions. I have seen this many times in my own classroom, where I teach history and U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2017

Spanish 1 was my worst grade in high school, and guess what subject I teach now? I primarily teach Spanish. Having a real life experience in Nicaragua with native speakers forever changed the way I would understand the world and motivated me to learn a language. That’s right. What Real Life Can Do for All Subjects.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change. In a prepared statement, the company announced that IntegratePLUS was available to school districts of all sizes immediately.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2017

English Language Arts and social studies standards are often tangled webs of both skills and content, not so easily separated. Click here for free download of Standards-Based Grading for ELA and Social Studies. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. Click here to book a PD Consult.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

This level of responsiveness is invaluable when teaching any subject where a single knowledge void or misunderstanding can completely derail a student’s progress, from mathematics to programming. However, AI poses potential dangers to students, including data, privacy concerns, and inherent bias that can spread misinformation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Educators throughout the state can now administer the diagnostic as a beginning-of-year and mid-year assessment to measure students’ overall grade-level proficiency in math and English language arts based on Virginia’s Standards of Learning. About IXL Currently used by 16 million students and in 96 of the top 100 U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

And then there are the AI advocates at Merlyn Mind, who announced the launch of a suite of large language models (LLMs) specifically tailored for the education sector under an open-source license. state standards in science, social studies and English Language Arts.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2024

McGraw Hill: The global education leader is rolling out Spanish-language versions of all 30 McGraw Hill AR activities on Verizon Innovative Learning HQ. All 30 activities across math, science and social studies subject areas are now available via app and web.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

— IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 13 million students, announced that the Pennsylvania Evidence Resource Center (ERC) has added IXL Math and IXL English Language Arts (ELA) to its list of evidence-based resources. ” How Pennsylvania educators use IXL’s award-winning platform.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2022

The partnership will provide teachers the ability to utilize the ELA curriculum on Kiddom’s platform to share assignments digitally, communicate with students, and deliver personalized feedback on submissions, while prioritizing student reading proficiency and content knowledge of science and social studies.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

They often do this by intentionally choosing language that shapes the learning environment. The examples below show how they pull this off, teaching children to build caring and respectful learning communities in which participants take each other’s ideas seriously. “What are you thinking?”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. About IXL Currently used by 14 million students and in 95 of the top 100 U.S.

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