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Science-backed scalable tools improve student mental health

eSchool News

These screening tools, often referred to as universal mental health screeners, are not in the purview of most school administrators; however, when they become aware of these types of tools, most express strong interest in their own school using one (Wood & McDaniel, 2020). References: 1.Albers, Albers, Glover, T. link] Belfer, M.

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The Importance of Play in Schools

Waterford

Whether you’re a preschool or elementary school teacher, you’re sure to find the ideas you need to help your students learn through play. January 2020. Pediatrics: Official Journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, January 2007, 119(1), pp. September 2020. Provide Time and Space for Play. Ginsberg, K.R. Healthline.

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Strategies for Motivating Students: Start with Intrinsic Motivation

Waterford

Elementary-aged children are highly motivated when their teachers prioritize content mastery and understanding over high test scores.[2] International Journal on E-Learning, July 2007, 6(3), pp. The value of choosing intrinsic motivation over its extrinsic counterpart is clear, but it’s not always easy to know where to start.

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Dollars and sense: Can financial literacy help students learn math? 

The Hechinger Report

Since 2020, nine U.S. Since 2020, nine U.S. Professors blame the pandemic Experts say the subprime mortgage crisis that helped spark the Great Recession in 2007, followed by pandemic economic uncertainty and today’s inflationary period, may have heightened Americans’ desire for a solid financial understanding.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. In mid-March 2020, schools in Lindsay Unified shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

eSchool News

in 2013, and then becoming part of education technology and services provider Cambium Learning Group in 2020, and integrating with reading intervention provider Voyager Sopris Learning. “In Among those strategic milestones was first joining with language learning system creator Rosetta Stone Inc.

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Can After-School Programs Help Children Recover From the Pandemic?

Edsurge

In Afterschool Alliance’s “America After 3PM” report released last year, the organization found that between 2014 and 2020, participation in after-school programming decreased and barriers to participation and unmet demand grew. In one room, elementary students are buzzing during a reading class. Children take a coding class.