eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Our Customer Advisory Board enables us to directly collaborate with the people who best understand the needs of schools and districts across the U.S. Beyond the professional realm, she is a proud mom to a rising Senior in high school and a 6th grader beginning middle school. Dr. Shepherd was the Asst.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. This approach ensures effective learning outcomes and supports diverse educational settings and needs. In the end.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. Fath found this when she designed a board game called Outbreak for middle schoolers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

All avatar voices that iKNOW users encounter are provided by real middle school students, educators and administrators. Our hope and expectation is that iKNOW will further engage students to develop the essential social emotional skills to then apply in the real world to improve their overall learning outcomes.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2021

The key focus of the partnership is a new Math Momentum program, designed to help middle schools increase math learning outcomes. Initially designed to serve about 4,000 students each year, the program can be customized to each participating middle school based on its needs.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

The conversation was meaningful and productive, but unfortunately, the administration at the Connecticut middle school where Hafiz currently teaches hadn’t actually asked her to facilitate it. “I would hate to think about only their mathematical ability, whether they could solve a trig problem or not,” she adds.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Moderated by Victor Rivero, Editor-in-Chief of EdTech Digest, and Sean Salai, a cultural reporter at The Washington Times, the roundtable also featured Brainly’s Bill Salak; history teacher Cody Ashley from Cristovall Middle School and High School in Cristovall, Texas; science teacher Heather Haas from John Glenn High School in Walkerton, Ind.;

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

As it turns out, nurturing students’ abilities to contribute and lead can have big payoffs as schools face ongoing uncertainty. Agency as both a learning outcome—and a precious resource Agency is generally defined as an important learning outcome , characterized by the ability for students to set and pursue their own learning goals.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

Start with the “why”: Teachers should critically consider the significance of their instructional approaches: Why is this method or content essential for students learning? Having a clear vision of the desired learning outcomes enables educators plan effectively and what instructional strategies to use.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Alef Education , a leading global education technology provider that empowers 21st century learning, partnered with NexGen Education to offer all North Carolina districts access without any cost. At NexGen, we measure our success based on the improvement in the learning outcomes of the students who we serve.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Under Mr. Hatcher’s guidance, Akron Public Schools partnered with Edmentum to integrate cutting-edge learning technologies, harnessing their full potential to enhance learning outcomes. Our entire partnership has really helped our district to continue to thrive.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything!

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2018

When we set out to design an engaging kickball unit for our middle school students, we asked ourselves how we could learn from the 2002 A’s. Data Goes to the Gym As a self-confessed nerd, my memories of middle school kickball are of being picked last and worrying about taking errant kicks to the face. How, you ask?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. Sustaining its success for both students and staff requires continued attention and adjustments as the technology needs of our school community change over time.”.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

“We appreciate EdReports for recognizing the high-quality of our entire enVision K-12 math series,” said Savvas Learning Company CEO Bethlam Forsa. Teaching with high-quality instructional materials has a direct impact on student learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts. This kind of collaboration doesn’t exist in Scratch or Code.org.

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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 school that didn’t—Ignacio Zaragoza Elementary—saw the greatest improvements in student progress.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

3D printing also supports inclusion efforts for students of various learning styles and improves collaboration and speaking skills. Jody Britten, a senior associate at the Metiri Group , talked about how 3D technologies and data visualization tools lead to better learning outcomes with EdTech.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

The analytics enable PLI stakeholders, from the district’s Board straight through to principals and PLI teachers, to see the degree that the PLI is being implemented and its impact on learning outcomes across the district. Participating in even one or two PLI professional learning courses has an impact on learning outcomes.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Research has shown that compassion in education can lead to improved student motivation, reduced anxiety, and enhanced learning outcomes (Goleman, 2011). For 20 years, she was an elementary and middle school classroom teacher, primarily in the Cherry Creek School District, Colorado.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2024

It's about ensuring that edtech investments support educators, giving them the tools to meaningfully impact student learning outcomes. It's about ensuring that edtech investments support educators, giving them the tools to meaningfully impact student learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Due to the nature of the process, learning outcomes may not be evident at the outset, which can be uncomfortable for some. For many people, failure equals disaster,” says Amy Raney, middle school learning specialist at Good Shepherd Episcopal. Instead, failure should be celebrated and integral to learning.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Technology investments must have documented plans for impacting teaching and learning outcomes, and companies that cannot provide evidence and support with documenting impact will get left behind. We’re seeing the pendulum swinging back to reintroducing career and technical exploration (CTE) in middle schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Here are a few tips from the Ask a Tech Teacher team for High School students who want to get the most out of these important years: Creating A Digital Study Plan: Tips And Tools for High School Students Developing a digital study plan can be a game-changer for high school students aiming to improve their academic performance.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2016

Most schools that dive deep into project-based learning tend to be smaller charter or magnet schools that have the ability to hire new educators and create new schedules and instructional paradigms from scratch. Projects at the school range from two to twelve weeks. What could you do at YOUR traditional school?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Founded in 2006, DreamBox has steadily built out a suite of online math programs for elementary and middle-school students. Instead of the usual private-equity conversations around profits and margins, Rogers wanted to talk about DreamBox’s research and learning outcomes. We do care about financial outcomes.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2025

Research has shown that compassion in education can lead to improved student motivation, reduced anxiety, and enhanced learning outcomes (Goleman, 2011). For 20 years, she was an elementary and middle school classroom teacher, primarily in the Cherry Creek School District, Colorado.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc. Ramaz is a modern Orthodox day school that has recently implemented an AI LAB by RobotLAB in their middle school. RobotLAB worked directly with the Ramaz team to discuss the customization and implementation of their lab.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In April 2016, the organization launched a six-week MyWays micropilot at Memorial Elementary School and Sanborn Regional Middle School. Sanborn’s middle school uses a homegrown framework for developing personal and social habits called General Learning Outcomes (GLO).

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Before her administrative roles, Mathison was a middle school science teacher, leading grade-level teams and the science department.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

However, Reich pointed out that users should be wary of claims made by Carnegie Learning marketers that the product “doubles math learning in one year” when, as Reich describes , “middle school students using Cognitive Tutor performed no better than students in a regular algebra class.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. That’s why the partnership with Kiddom is important. It brings the analytics to understand who we’re serving.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Digital Promise was created to address this gap, accelerating innovation in education and expanding learning opportunities. In combination with Verizon Innovative Learning Schools , participating middle schools have “always-available access to technology,” which improves learning and allows participation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Listening to her account, I was reminded of my own aggravations when dealing with adults as a young African American girl in middle school. As I sat across from Tykia, a 17-year-old student from Success Academy in Lexington, Ky., I could feel her frustration as she detailed a recent argument with a substitute bus driver.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Kiddom’s partnership with Open Up Resources helps us improve teachers’ lives in their quest to improve learning outcomes.” — Ahsan Rizvi, CEO of Kiddom. However, teachers are scrapped for time and can’t spend hours scoping and sequencing curriculum if we want them to individualize instruction.

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