eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015. We are excited to begin the school year with these new resources.”.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

February 17, 2022— Curriculum Associates has named Jamilah Hud-Kirk, principal of Fountain Elementary in Clayton County Public Schools in Forest Park, GA, as the recipient of its 2022 Inspire Award. This includes 13 years as principal at Fountain Elementary, where she currently serves more than 600 students in Grades pre-K–5.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Access early black Friday deals from now through November 27, 2022. Dell has deals for listeners of the show and readers of the Cool Cat Teacher blog going live right now through November 27th of 2022. I'm excited to announce that if you go to www.dell.com/epp/coolcatteacher you can take advantage of early access.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Friday, February 4, 2022)? – The 2022 Possibility Grant Sweepstakes, which offers five K-12 schools across the United States an opportunity to win a $5,000 STEM grant to purchase supplies and technology for any STEM-related initiative, is now accepting entries here. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

BOSTON – Clark County School District (CCSD) in Nevada, has made Lexia LETRS ® (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs available to most elementary schools in the district with a plan to continue expanding the program to additional elementary and early childhood teachers and administrators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

You’ll get access to activities, strategies, and tools to improve the four domains of wellness. Norwood Elementary School. Chris and his wife, Heidi, will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary on July 25, 2022. Free Educator Wellness Toolkit. Educator wellness is now more important than ever. Blog: [link].

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Boston – July 28, 2022 – Two VHS Learning students earned top honors on the 2022 National Latin Exam (NLE), with one achieving a perfect score and earning a gold medal. The NLE was taken by more than 100,000 students in 2022. The NLE is a test given annually to Latin students across the United States and around the world.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Riverside Insights ®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today announced that it won Best Accessibility Solution in the inaugural Excellence in Equity Awards program presented by the American Consortium for Equity in Education. ITASCA, Ill. About the Excellence in Equity Awards. About Riverside Insights.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 24, 2020

Laptops, mobile hotspots and software applications have all become necessary tools in this new normal, but some students — and even teachers — still don’t have access to them. billion Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund , $3 billion Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund and $307.5

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 23, 2020

Laptops, mobile hotspots and software applications have all become necessary tools in this new normal, but some students — and even teachers — still don’t have access to them. billion Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund , $3 billion Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund and $307.5

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Many students came with their parents, and they were so excited to receive a shiny new iPad,” said DeAnza Baker, principal at Sunset Vista Elementary School in Phoenix, Arizona, which begins its first year in the program. Having devices and internet access is a game changer for our students’ success,” O’Rourke said.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The early years are vital to a child’s long-term achievement in reading, so teaching vocabulary and content knowledge in preschool and in the elementary grades is essential. 4 Free Downloadable Chapter Books for Elementary Students. January 21, 2022. How to Boost Your Students’ Reading Comprehension. They go hand in hand.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

10, 2022) – Renaissance , the global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is honored to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the community reading initiative Read on myON , a first-of-its-kind partnership between Renaissance and Hillsborough County Public Schools.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. Of course for a long time there have been concerns about things like the books kids have access to.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 10, 2022

Lake Forest Elementary Takes Over Our Instagram. We kicked off 2021-2022 with the ST Math bulletin board decorating contest. That's why we began 2022 with a national challenge to motivate students to waddle towards their puzzle goals. Take a look at this bracket from Sonora Elementary in Springdale, Arkansas.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2022

School networks are getting faster and more modern, but school IT leaders and IT departments struggle to keep up with the demand for remote access and support, according to an annual CoSN survey. And 1:1 strategies are happening at all grade levels, including at the elementary level.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

Learning is more accessible because virtual robots do not require hardware, space, or other associated costs. Once I saw how they possessed both drive and tenacity, they participated in a virtual robotics competition–the Fall 2022 CoderZ League Robotics Competition.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

Cabin John MD – Early learning leader, Learning Without Tears, today affirmed that equity and access are at the core of Phonics, Reading, and Me —its K–3 supplemental literacy program designed to help students learn the skills they need to become proficient readers. SoapBox is a privacy-first and equity-by-design company.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Have you ever thought about what you would do if you oversaw your very own elementary school? For Benita Grant , her dream came true six years ago when she became the Principal of Fickett Elementary School , a K-5 elementary school in the Atlanta Public School District located in Southwest Atlanta. The Game Room.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Laptops, mobile hotspots and software applications have all become necessary tools in this new normal, but some students — and even teachers — still don’t have access to them. billion Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund , $3 billion Governor’s Emergency Education Relief (GEER) Fund and $307.5

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Norwood Elementary School. Chris and his wife, Heidi, will celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary on July 25, 2022. Or does your assistant say, “hey, if this person calls, they get immediate access?” Furthermore, he was the parody writer and voice of Burleson ISD's school year launch videos from 2016 to 2019.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

During the 2021-2022 academic year, students taking VHS Learning online courses had an average course pass rate of 91%. In 2022, those students who previously failed a course and retook it with VHS Learning summer school had an average pass rate of 75%. This average pass rate has remained consistent at 91% over the last three years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Students at Bessemer Elementary School don’t have to go far to see a doctor. Piloted at Bessemer, the program has gradually expanded to 15 of the district’s Title I schools, high-poverty schools where families may lack access to health care. To access the program, parents must opt in at the beginning of the school year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The two events prevented many children from accessing high-quality, in-person early care and education opportunities before kindergarten. Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past. It has also expanded the program in a few ways.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. Needless to say, our access to reliable data improved significantly once we had a unified literacy program in place. Easy access to valuable data.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

In a simulation exercise across nearly 100 large school districts, the academics were able to redraw elementary school boundaries to reduce racial segregation by 12 percent while cutting almost one minute off of students’ average commuting time. That’s nearly every district in the nation that has more than one elementary school.

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Edthena

JUNE 14, 2022

15-year teaching veteran Heather Gardner has built strong relationships with students at Cloverdale Elementary School in Moreno Valley. DJ” strives to provide STEM access to all students and prioritizes hands-on and inquiry-based STEM learning experiences. Heather Gardner. Susanne Smock. Bering Strait School District – Elim, AK.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, June 2, 2022) — To keep students engaged in learning all summer long, Discovery Education and its Social Impact Partners are offering students and caregivers an array of no-cost dynamic digital resources they can use at home. The contest is open through June 17, 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

There’s no shortage of peer support programs to evaluate, and tools used to deploy them are evolving to become more professional and accessible in an increasingly digital world. Vivian, a volunteer at Teen Link, dons a headset to take a call Wednesday, June 22, 2022. The post Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her two children, however, were students at one of the targeted schools, Pugh Elementary in the city’s northeastern Denver Harbor neighborhood. It had an A rating from the state in 2022. Dowda found another librarian position in the district at Almeda Elementary and said she was happy at her new school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Regina Meeks , an elementary math and ELA teacher in North Carolina. When you design your lessons based on the UDL framework, you create an accessible learning environment where all of your students have the best chance to learn.” Learning Without Limits: Increasing Tech Accessibility in the K–12 Classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

12, 2024 column about how chronic absenteeism remains stubbornly high in elementary, middle and high schools. Attendance has failed to snap back and recovered only a bit during the 2022-23 year, according to data from 38 states and the District of Columbia collected by FutureED, a think tank based at Georgetown University.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 15, 2024

A stark example occurred in 2022 when the Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest school system, fell victim to a ransomware attack over Labor Day weekend. A report last year from Emsisoft revealed a surge in K-12 cyberattacks with cases more than doubling from 45 in 2022 to 108 in 2023.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2023

states permanently closed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a 2022 report from Child Care Aware of America , a national membership association that works to improve child care and the early childhood profession. It’s not clear how much money the preschools have access to.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2022

Washington Depot, Connecticut, January 18, 2022 – Slooh, the only organization offering live online telescope feeds to students, is now offering an affordable way for teachers to bring the power of its network of online telescopes to all students with The Online Telescope for Teachers. We are changing that,” continued Paolucci. “ About Slooh.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Students who miss school also miss important social interaction with their peers, access to regular meals and special services such as speech therapy or counseling. These districts implemented proactive, positive attendance management strategies and tools over three consecutive school years (2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-2024).

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

After three months, Alex finally told me that he did not have internet access at home. Worse, as I began to make more discreet inquiries, I learned that I had many more students with internet access issues. This proactive approach helped build community support and engage others with our access challenges.

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