eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

Additional grants include: $200,000 from the Bezos Family Foundation , which is a directors gift supporting early and adolescent learning through grants and programs that advance the science of learning. By investing in students and teachers, we are building a stronger future for our community.

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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. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. 00:00:35 Speaker 1 The math teacher.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This “cookbook recipe” teaching style not only stifles creativity, but it can also hinder critical thinking skill development. As a science teacher for grades 1-3, I wanted to create a completely different science lab experience for my young students. All students in grades 1-3 currently use TinkRworks for science labs.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2024

Computer science principles give students critical computational thinking skills that will serve them in any career field or professional endeavor. Let’s take a look at K-12 computer science trends and where computer science education is heading across the country: Who is a computer science educator?

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2023

Learning those skills may have been relegated to a business information class or weekly trips to a computer lab. Computer science is a rapidly advancing field; educators have to make those changes if they are going to prepare their students for the modern world. That’s a significant change in less than a generation.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Key points: Students must feel connected to the learning material to engage in science Helping science-averse teachers integrate STEM and literacy Want to improve STEM education? But are today’s students truly engaging with science education? How can educators reach students who struggle to engage with science?

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Indiana is requiring new teacher training. Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world. New York Gov. New Jersey Gov.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2021

As teachers navigate online learning, hybrid schedules, or the demands of the concurrent classroom, I’ve recommended the station rotation model. I know this recommendation may seem odd given that most teachers are not in classrooms daily with students, or if they are, there are strict social distancing protocols in place.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The evolving needs of the IT workforce are constantly discussed–even people who are far from it understand the constantly growing needs for computer science. high schools don’t consistently offer computer science education and IT classes. Often this choice falls on the teachers themselves. And yet, U.S.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

If we wish to see continued success, we will need to use everything the science of reading has taught us and provide students with a healthy diet of explicit literacy instruction that includes foundational skills like decoding, in addition to building content knowledge and higher-order comprehension strategies.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2025

Across the country, too many children are struggling to read, and too many teachers are struggling to help them. Teacher preparation programs and school districts across the nation have been slow to fully embrace this research base, known as the science of reading. And how do we fix it?

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. These platforms allow students to practice skills at their own pace while giving teachers real-time insights into their progress.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2024

Key points: Building science literacy skills takes creativity and grit 3 free STEAM education resources to nurture student curiosity 4 essential resources for building research skills in high school For more news on STEM learning, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub Science literacy is a crucial skill for modern students.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

I’ve trained many teachers who use choice boards and ask, “What’s the difference between a choice board and a playlist?” Despite this reality, most learning is teacher-paced, not student-paced. The focus is on the teacher covering content and moving students through lessons on a strict timeline.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2023

Key points: Interactivity and engaging resources can make science more approachable Elementary school teachers need easy-to-use science tools that will grab students’ attention During my time as a kindergarten teacher, I learned three major lessons about our youngest learners’ relationship to science.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Once I set my mind to jump in, however, it was exciting to see my students becoming energized and engaged because they were able to see for themselves why science is relevant to their lives. Here’s how I was able to overcome my fear and get started–and why phenomena-based science is so important for our students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2022

When coding merges with storytelling, you have story coding, in which students use computational skills and design thinking as they demonstrate creativity across core curricular areas. Teachers can use story coding to bring history, science, world languages, ELA, and even math into their lessons.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

This uncertainty can be daunting, but one thing is clear: Foundational knowledge in computer science will be essential, no matter what paths they choose. As educators and industry leaders, we must ask: What do students and their teachers need to prepare for a future that is still unfolding?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Fortunately, the district earned a grant that allowed us to offer computer science at every grade level, starting as early as pre-K. Because many of our teachers had no background in computer science, though, this large-scale implementation was no easy task.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

This is especially true in science classes, with their specific terms and complex sentence structures. Multilingual learners performed pretty well because they got the support they needed, and they had different ways to express their understanding beyond the typical ways that they did in the science classroom.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The fulfillment I find in helping elementary school students develop their literacy skills has driven my interest in the science of reading. As the single most-discussed topic in education at this moment, the science of reading has been a focus of intense interest in state legislatures nationwide.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

Top of mind for commission members after the group’s initial meeting was how to ensure AI is thoughtfully infused in K-12 and postsecondary curricula in a manner that equips students for success in a workforce that will demand AI skills and know-how for jobs that largely do not yet exist. Henry McMaster and is co-chaired by Brad D.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Districts incorporating the science of reading into their curricula are seeing improved student outcomes. for literacy saw fourth-grade reading scores rise by 10 points – even after school closures during the pandemic – due to an emphasis on explicitly teaching foundational reading skills and professional development.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

How much time do you think the average K–3 student spends learning about science? Well, according to the 2018 National Survey of Science and Mathematics Education , K–3 students spent an average of 89 minutes studying ELA, 57 minutes learning math, and a miniscule 18 minutes a day on science. Thirty minutes a day? An hour a day?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2024

In her two years of high school at Dearborn Public Schools’ Virtual K-12 school, rising junior Weaam AlAliyi has already learned about computer programming, understanding algorithms, and data analysis in three computer science courses. Gaining computer science skills is “increasingly important in today’s digital world,” Weaam said.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 6th most-read story focuses on the science of reading for older students. Many never acquired the literacy skills that are tied to power and privilege in this country.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2023

Utilizing a Roblox Community Fund grant , the organization will explore innovative ways to use 3D immersive experiences to engage students in the study of science and assess their achievements in the subject. Current assessments often leave out non-academic skills like student-decision making or progress toward reaching a goal.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Computer science teacher Shanua Newton-Rodriguez is hoping to lead by example. A woman of color who grew up in the Bronx, she wants to see more students who look like her learning Java, Python, web design, or other coding skills. It’s still taking some time, even for the adults, to validate computer science. newsletters.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

In short, according to the National Center on Improving Literacy , the science of reading is “research, over time, from multiple fields of study using methods that confirm and disconfirm theories on how children best learn to read.” It is not a specific program or intervention or phonics-based programs that drill phonics skills.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

SEL skills can be implemented into any content area; it just takes a little intentionality and planning. By including aspects of SEL in hands-on, inquiry-based activities, we can help students develop these skills organically. So, how do we as educators actively foster these qualities in our students?

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2025

Our rigorous curriculum is taught by Pennsylvania-certified teachers trained to provide virtual instruction in real time and is focused on providing all students the educational resources and out-of-classroom experiences they need to become successful, lifelong learners. There is also a free trial.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. It also connects to other issues, such as the rigid class sequences that some experts warn block certain students from advancing in math and that exclude courses like data science that would be useful for students future careers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

To help teachers recognize, respond to and prevent bullying toward these students, researchers at the University of Missouri collaborated to develop an evidence-based, online professional development curriculum. In the diverse public school district where we piloted this program, the teachers found it enjoyable and relevant.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

I was a chemist, not a teacher. I beat the national average of 3-5 years for high school math and science teachers. Meaningful opportunities for teachers to build expertise and leadership beyond their classroom add to a sense of professionalism and fulfillment. Not teaching. Maybe exploring the world. He hired me anyway.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

LLMs can personalize learning, reduce teachers administrative burdens, and make more adaptive and insightful assessments. Yet, according to a 2024 survey by Impact Research, 51 percent of K-12 teachers report that they do not use ChatGPT regularly for their jobs. Teachers hold the power to either harness AI in their classrooms or not.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers. Embracing change with a hands-on approach to STEAM learning With my usual 20-page final project firmly in the rearview mirror, I instead instructed my pre-service teacher students to play and explore. We will learn a lot from this!”

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Starting this fall, Alabama high school students can choose to take these classes–or any other state-approved career and technical education courses–in place of upper level math and science, such as Algebra 2 or chemistry. The most popular classes, he said, are financial management and family consumer science.

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