eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

The Tennessee STEM Innovation Network, through legislative support, is making a supplemental STEM career awareness curriculum available at no cost to all middle schools in the state. In the first month, over 25 percent of middle schools in Tennessee have begun the process of using Learning Blade to supplement STEM activities.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“D&D saved my life, I’ve seen it save and change the lives of others, and I watch as it shapes the lives of the children who learn to play in my class,” said Kade Wells, Harrisburg North Middle School ELA Instructor in South Dakota and founder of Building Heroez.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Cesar Chavez Ravenswood Middle School (CCRMS) in East Palo Alto is named after the famed Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist. This tribute is fitting, given that the majority of the school’s students identify as Hispanic or Latinx. That shouldn't be a barrier for students to be able to participate.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

Vadim wanted to create enough curriculum games so they would be effective daily learning tools in schools. I had one big question: Would using games as a primary learning tool actually improve my students’ performance? This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

One of my challenges as a music teacher is finding learning tools that inspire and motivate my students and engage them musically, regardless of their individual abilities. Just as important, they’re building relationships essential to navigate those influential middle-school and high-school years.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2017

Each area feeds into one comprehensive high school with a variety of Career and Technical Education STEM/STEAM pathways including computer science, engineering, environmental science, health science, and manufacturing and construction. In the 2016–17 school year, over 7,000 scholars from all FWPS participated in Hour of Code.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

This helps our teachers strengthen their practices and participate in ongoing, reflective coaching at their own pace. Vrain Valley School District Career-connected learning will become more important than ever. –David Baker, Professional Development Coordinator.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“There are many kinds of assessments that educators use in the classroom—what makes them ‘formative’ is when the information from the assessment is used to adapt the instructional approach to meet students’ learning needs.”. MORE FROM EDTECH: Read more about adaptive learning tools teachers are using in their classrooms!

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

HUPP: We are one of 50 schools from across the country participating in the Dynamic Learning Project with Google and Digital Promise. We also just finished renovating our high school with new interactive displays and collaborative furniture. EDTECH: How did VR first get on your radar as a possible learning tool?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Lincoln teaches seventh grade at a diverse middle school. Lincoln likes to hit the ground running, so every Monday when students get to her classroom the first thing they do is log into the learning management system (LMS) to participate in an online course.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 27, 2020

The goal of social studies is to promote civic competence — the knowledge required to be active and engaged participants in public life and the community. In the past decade, technology has become the disruptive tool of choice among teachers to make what traditionally is a droll collection of subjects energizing and inspiring.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Because digital devices and online environments can simultaneously be transformatively empowering and maddeningly disruptive, the work of integrating digital learning tools into schools is usually difficult and complex. Fears about digital learning tools are especially tricky because they’re primarily emotional, not logical.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

They learn about the beauty industry and the local theatre through field trips and hands-on disciplinary work. Down the road at Okoboji Middle School , students learn about coding, robotics, computer-aided drafting, and 3D design in their Designing for the Future and Robots: Let the Races Begin projects.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

In the coming year, we will continue to see a growing number of these partnerships as well as a growing commitment to career readiness programs at the high school level which will empower students to pursue college or meaningful careers upon graduation. When students lead conferences and talk about their writing, they own their education.

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