Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2023

In this second post, the author outlines three questions school and systems leaders should answer before procurement when considering new edtech. This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

In 2020, the DOE introduced the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, a signature part of the American Rescue Plan (ARP) to help schools improve indoor air quality (IAQ) and return their students back to the classroom. Department of Education (DOE).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2020

AHS eventually buys a ceiling-mounted ‘GCam’ for every classroom, which captures video, sound (through an area microphone), and screen capture into unified ‘GCasts’ that can be uploaded to the AHS Learning Management System, which also contains RSS feeds, blogs, and Google Docs-like environments for every course.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2022

This year’s 2nd most-read story focuses on creating an elementary esports program. Thus far, conversations around esports have centered on collegiate and secondary levels, however, a recent change in the winds has shifted the conversation to elementary esports. There was no ranking system, no score keeping.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Forty percent of the nation’s school systems need to replace at least half of their HVAC systems, according to a 2020 study by the Government Accountability Office. The ARP provides $122 billion for the Elementary and Secondary Schools Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Charlotte, NC —Alaska’s Matanuska-Susitna Borough School District (MSBSD) announced a new partnership with global edtech leader Discovery Education that will enhance science education across the school system. This research and more can be found here.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

In this third post, the author describes lessons learned while leading a cohort of diverse schools and districts through a process of strengthening their edtech systems. Each team worked on addressing a specific problem of practice in their school system.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina literally washed away the New Orleans public school system. More problematic, these issues also include how to educate students who cannot learn online, such as students with special needs, English language learners and early elementary children. Public education will never be the same.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2024

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund gave districts nearly $200 billion. School systems leveraged these funds to pay for high-dosage tutoring, early literacy support, leadership development, enhanced counseling, expanded student exposure to career pathways and other endeavors.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

AI shows up in instructional chatbots, personalized learning systems and administrative tools. In 2020, the AI Explorations program released a four-volume series of guides for elementary, secondary, elective and computer science teachers— Hands-On AI Projects for the Classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2023

As caregivers, educators and school systems continue to navigate how to process and respond to the stresses and traumas young people experience, we need to continue to push the conversation toward proactive, preventative support. Typically, we tend to associate SEL programs with elementary-aged students.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Data also shows an increase in chronic absenteeism resulting from anxiety, most notably at the secondary levels. It also helped our district move forward with the systemic work needed for change by looking at the program as a mindset, rather than a curriculum, and embedding it into everyday school life. Next Steps for our District.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Parent Empowerment: Key to Changing Education Systems. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In the coming year, that broad trend will continue, with a shift to looking beyond knowledge building as schools, districts, and states begin improving capacity and creating systems aligned to the science of reading. No curriculum, however, is the science of reading, and I believe schools and districts are beginning to understand this.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2021

During the crises of 2020-21, we clearly saw that our education system needs to innovate to make it more equitable, agile, relevant and responsive. billion in Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funding into our education system. Why local communities?

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

This is especially evident in the elementary grades, which on average only teach social studies 30 minutes a week. We need real and systemic change.” We need real and systemic change. If we want an active, informed and engaged republic, then commitment to those goals must begin in elementary school—if not earlier.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2022

At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation. At secondary schools, we’d have to toss out 5-day-per-week class rotations. One relatively easy option would be for elementary classes to have their normal classes 4 days a week. So let’s imagine. But more creative approaches may be necessary.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

This week marks one year since an unspeakable act of violence was carried out in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. One year since a gunman stole the lives of 19 fourth graders and two teachers at Robb Elementary. Children at Robb Elementary were of course most acutely affected by the shooting in Uvalde.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I also got trained in Wilson Reading Systems, an Orton-Gillingham and multisensory approach to teaching the basic phonics instruction many of my middle school students never received. In my experience, conversations about the science of reading are happening primarily with elementary and early childhood educators.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 10, 2021

In an alphabetic system such as English, developing readers must be able to isolate the sounds within speech in order to associate those sounds with the letters that represent them. Phonological Awareness: Activity Ideas for Elementary Students. Massachusett Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Johnson, K.

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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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Through school visits and panel discussions with TDSB officials, district leaders explored local policies and systems, the use of data for equity, and professional development and training for teachers and leaders, keeping an eye and ear toward what they could bring back to their own school communities.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 11, 2021

Over time, however, especially after the experience of participating in the 40 Hour Teacher Workweek , my wheels started turning about how I could apply Angela’s strategies to my own secondary classroom. The filing system that makes this possible is the organizational tool I’m most proud of, and it’s what I’m going to share with you today.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

There's absolutely no support system in our school right now for us [educators].But Compassion Fatigue While symptoms of burnout were unfortunately all too familiar to educators we talked with, many said they were hearing about compassion fatigue and secondary trauma for the first time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Yet, by the time students graduate, he said, the goal at the secondary school is that they have “reading levels ready for college.” Many students struggle at the secondary level with decoding, typically multisyllabic words, so those longer words that they’re encountering in science text, for example, or in social studies text,” Wexler said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Despite mounting evidence that schools are not turning out to be major incubators or vectors of Covid-19 transmission, New York City shut down its public school system in November. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Unsurprisingly, such foundational STEM disparities extend far beyond secondary school education.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2021

I attended low-performing elementary and middle schools in San Francisco, and no one in my family had ever gone to college. For too long, our education and training systems have been trapped in far-outdated industrial era conceptions of adolescence, education and work.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The five new licenses signed in 2021 represent more than 7,300 institutions and 2.6 million students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Name: Caleb Brown Age: 20 College: Clemson University Area of study: History, secondary education Intends to teach: Social studies Hometown: Rock Hill, South Carolina EdSurge: What is one of your earliest memories of a teacher? I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

It has alerted districts to dramatic issues—including a stark rise in students seeming to be contemplating suicide, revealed by tech systems that surveil students and send reports to school leaders about internet activity flagged as inappropriate. (Of Of course, that kind of high-tech surveillance in schools has raised privacy concerns.)

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

In Molly Long’s kindergarten class at Burrus Elementary in Hendersonville, Tenn., Manipulating numbers in different ways, part of a supplemental math curriculum for Murphy’s whole class at Hilltop Elementary in this suburb of Philadelphia, is an attempt to address those problems.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

Conversations about the science of reading are happening primarily with elementary and early childhood educators. But how are we addressing the ways that the system has failed our secondary students when they first learned to read? Here are 4 simple steps to help educators begin implementing the science of reading.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

I also don’t want members tracking their hours or thinking about that at all during back-to-school: the goal for the first six weeks of the school year is to create systems that will help them save time later. There is a group for elementary (K-5) and one for secondary. We really don’t talk about the hours much in the club.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2022

MDE is investing up to $49 million of its American Rescue Plan Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) III funds in four new services to support student safety and learning statewide.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

We discuss what going to the next level in the classroom and in online learning means both at the secondary and college level. I hold a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education from Indiana University. I received my PhD in Instructional Systems Technology from Indiana University. Donor’s Choose. Dr. Tim Green.

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Fidelis Education

APRIL 7, 2016

The Student Information System functions as a large data repository, not as a platform for managing teaching and learning. The LMS platform workflows have made the lives of college professors infinitely easier, but in many respects the LMS is a point solution specifically designed to manage courses only. Want to dive into the data?

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eSchool News

JULY 9, 2021

education system. million of their Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) funds (almost half) on software tools that facilitate learning. . Here are three things school districts must consider before falling into the trap of adding more applications or monitoring components to their IT systems.

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