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Navigating back-to-school anxiety: A K-12 success guide

eSchool News

As the 2025-2026 academic year approaches, experiencing anxiety about returning to the classroom is a natural response to change that affects everyone differently. From elementary students facing new classroom environments to high school teachers preparing for curriculum changes, these feelings manifest uniquely across age groups.

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From school year to summer: Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy

eSchool News

The platform’s language translation tools, embedded accessibility features, and rich visual supports ensure students can learn at their own pace, in their own way, and still meet the high academic standards we uphold across the district. But accessibility alone isn’t enough. Our librarians reinforce these habits weekly.

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How our district turned a sea of data into a compass for change

eSchool News

One of the first things we noticed was a pocket of students who weren’t making progress on foundational literacy skills at the elementary level. We received data based on grade-level academic standard assumptions instead of the individualized foundational literacy skills students needed.

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What teachers want Donald Trump to know about their schools and their jobs

eSchool News

We tell the government officials that this is whats happening, and this is what students need, and they dont listen to us, and these are people that have never stepped foot in a classroom, elementary school teacher Billie Arthur said. We have one elementary, one middle, and one high school. We love these babies.

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3 Tips for Easily Implementing Social-Emotional Learning – by John Gamba

ViewSonic Education

Experience tells us there are three key features that, taken together, contribute to successful SEL and whole-child outcomes in elementary and middle school. 2 Ensure SEL Curriculum is Based on Industry-Recognized Academic Standards. Most of them claim some kind of pedagogical or academic alignment. That’s the bad news.

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IBM Foundation launches free online software to help K-5 teachers prepare math lessons and help students learn.

Educational Technology Guy

Faced with the pressures of limited time, higher academic standards, diverse student needs, and the responsibility to teach many subjects and multiple grade levels, elementary school teachers have expressed a critical need for easy-to-use, well-designed math resources and ongoing support. Take a look and sign up for free.

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To Close the Math Achievement Gap, We Must Recognize What Students Bring to the Classroom

Edsurge

Picture the following: A student volunteers to answer a math question in an elementary school classroom. As we think about the future of math classrooms, we continue to explore how academic standards and cultural, social and emotional development intersect to support learning mathematics.