Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. government as well.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) is equipping each of its 30,000 middle school students with a laptop this year in the district’s latest move to make its classrooms more tech-savvy. Every classroom inside a school building was connected to wireless internet before last school year.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2025

Dr. Evans observed how the physical posture of a 7th-grade study participant changed when she read a small print and a large print book. Large print books decreased stress about reading for most readers who participated in the study. Their impact can be immediate and visible. With small print, her posture was visibly stressed.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Currently, the company’s Social Studies Techbooks are used in middle school classrooms districtwide. From stories of ancient cultures to in-depth explorations of civics and government, this comprehensive digital textbook takes concepts off the pages and brings lessons to life. .

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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

APRIL 21, 2022

Going to the Moon with NASA Hear Erica Alvarez, NASA Systems Engineering & Integration Manager for Advanced Exploration Systems, share fun facts about the Artemis mission, explain why it’s important, and discuss how studying the moon helps us better understand and protect our Earth.

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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 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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

A shortage of trained teachers in Oregon is leaving school districts short-handed, so replacements without educational backgrounds are being recruited from other professions to fill the gap. 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.

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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. With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Digital Promise recently spoke with educators from Lone Star Middle School in Nampa, Idaho, an HP Spotlight School. HP Spotlight Schools are part of the Reinvent the Classroom initiative , a collaboration between Digital Promise, HP, Microsoft and Intel, recognizing Powerful Learning with technology.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

In the latest phase of this multiyear collaboration, all district middle school students will receive access to a dynamic digital social studies textbook. To empower educators to provide middle school students these essential skills, the district selected Discovery Education’s? Social Studies?Techbook.?Featuring

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

But Michael Miller, a UC Santa Barbara professor, began to study how the human brain retrieves memory and realized there was no single brain that looked like this mythical average. “We In education, this is particularly harmful to students because it affects pacing guides, textbooks and how states measure who achieves—and who fails.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A parent from Iowa : “As it happens my daughter is a freshman in ME taking Calc 2 this semester and I was helping her study for her first big exam last night. 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.

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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. How can I get away from that whole spin, wash, repeat cycle of: Here’s the study guide, take a test, forget what you learned, repeat? It really was transformative. Be yourself.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. My First Big Risk: Flipping the Script When I became a teacher, I promised myself that I wouldn’t teach from the textbook and bore my students with presentations. The period couldn’t end fast enough.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But he says colleagues have also adapted the platform for other traditional subjects including science and social studies. Quest objectives include reading chapters in the textbook, and students can complete formative assessments in the form of “battles.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. 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

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Portland, OR – NWEA , a not-for-profit, research and educational services organization serving K-12 students, today announced progress it has made toward creating an accessible and equitable math assessment for middle school students with visual impairments. Last October, NWEA was awarded an AI for Accessibility grant from Microsoft.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Changing the way calculus is taught, proponents argue, helps more students find math approachable and relevant, making them therefore more likely to succeed while studying it. A study of the course published by its creators suggests it’s been successful in engaging underrepresented students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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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. They didn’t know if they preferred working in a small group, directly with the teacher or independently using a self-paced video.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Written by Beth , a middle school math teacher & interventionist from Iowa. Beth’s school has high populations of special education and ELL students. Describe how you used the product.

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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

MARCH 13, 2017

So in 1998, he and seven colleagues launched an animated e-learning platform designed to engage elementary and middle school students in math, reading and Spanish curriculum while supporting teachers with assessment tools. Our country has a lot of struggling students and they need a different tool than the textbook.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

Name : Pricila Cano Padron Age : 22 Hometown: Dallas, Texas College : Dallas College Area of study : Early childhood education Hometown : Dallas, Texas EdSurge: What is your earliest memory of a teacher? It really didn't hit me until probably middle school. This month, we are featuring Cano Padron. It's a change. Oh, absolutely.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2018

When I was in middle school, I was diagnosed with a learning disability, so the “typical” school experience was always a challenge for me. School often left me feeling inadequate. I struggled to sit still, focus, engage and memorize. I became a teacher to empower students who feel as disconnected as I did.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

Instead of relying on textbooks and teacher direction, these students had to think critically about unfolding events, collaborate with peers and adults, and make creative use of digital tools to communicate their ideas. In the process, they also learned plenty about social studies and civic engagement.

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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. Oh, my God, let me tell you!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

It blends skills into class studies for authentic learning. Note: These teacher textbooks can be replaced with student workbooks. Ultimate Guide to Keyboarding: Middle School. This will be your curriculum map, showing you what tech to teach your children when they are ready for it. Essential Guide to Keyboarding: K-8.

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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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

It’s based on decades of proven research and combines consumable textbooks, intelligent 1-to-1 math tutoring software, professional learning and data analysis services. The classroom environment is where we’ve designed our textbooks and lessons to promote group-based discussion and exploration of math topics in a more creative fashion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

Unfortunately, most textbooks offer no easy way to measure overall progress toward completing state or national standards, nor do they backfill for a lack of knowledge. For example, the National Dropout Prevention Center conducted a year-long study of the Measuring Up program and its impact on student outcomes.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 22, 2016

Blends skills into class studies for authentic learning. Note: These teacher textbooks can be replaced with two student workbooks. Ultimate Guide to Keyboarding: Middle School. This will be your curriculum map, showing you what tech to teach your children when they are ready for it. Essential Guide to Keyboarding: K-8.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

Planet3’s Formative Years Kelly founded Planet3 in 2013 to blend top-tier commercial game designers with instructional experts and create a digital platform to teach middle-school science. In the agreement with Clark County School District, nine middle schools agreed to the Planet3 pilot program from August 2016 to May 2017.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

Unlike traditional textbooks and library resources, Kiddom content providers are internet-based making them accessible from anywhere, on desktops and mobile devices, and easily blended into classroom lesson plans. ” –Jenna Rodgers, Middle School Teacher. ” — Sara Giroux, Special Education Teacher.

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