eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2021

Wednesday, April 28, 2021) — Discovery Education – the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms – today launched the new Social-Emotional Learning Coalition. Silver Spring, Md.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

Educators, Students, and Families Receive Access to Dynamic Learning Resources for SEL Day. Educators, students, and families are invited to explore social-emotional learning with dynamic digital resources from Discovery Education and its diverse network of partners.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

– Michael Gorman ( 21centuryedtech ) By now you have run into the idea of AI (Artificial Intelligence in education. It helps us by learning, solving problems, and making decisions, just like we do! In education, AI can be helpful. It can make learning more personalized for each student.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

BetterLesson , a leading provider of high quality virtual and in-person K-12 professional learning, announces Matthew Kennard as its new CEO. BetterLesson launched in 2008 with a mission to provide a simple way for educators to connect and share high-quality lesson plans.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Friday March 11, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, high quality digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) Day nationwide. Discovery Education is the worldwide?EdTech?leader

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

We’re excited to partner with DEED, CORE and ASDN to offer this program to Alaska’s teachers and support their efforts to continuously hone their professional skills in service to their state’s children.”. Our offerings expand the professional development opportunities available to all educators across the state. Portland, Ore.,

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Achieving educational equity doesn’t just happen when schools change their expectations and goals in the classroom. While teachers and staff agree on the value of educational equity, they need a deeper understanding in order to combat it in the classroom. By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 16, 2018

was preparing to deploy one-to-one Chromebooks a few years ago, the amount of professional development and training needed for educators was overwhelming. In order to make sure educators were getting the professional learning experiences they needed , Douglas and her team went through several steps to create more flexible (and fun) PD.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 7, 2019

Rachel Eells's (2011) meta-analysis of studies related to collective efficacy and achievement in education demonstrated that the beliefs teachers hold about the ability of the school as a whole are "strongly and positively associated with student achievement across subject areas and in multiple locations" (p. Begin with the end in mind (i.e.,

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

Discovery Education , the worldwide?edtech?leader leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes?place. To empower educators to provide middle school students these essential skills, the district selected Discovery Education’s? the platform?each

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

During this broadcast, the NFL team with the winning NFL PLAY 60 exercise of the 2020-2021 season will be announced. Throughout January, kids were asked to cast their vote for their favorite team created NFL PLAY 60 exercise. Educators and families can find the resource at heart.org/KidsDay and register for the live event here.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Charlotte, NC — Wyoming’s Holy Name Catholic School (HNCS) today announced a new multi-year partnership with global edtech leader Discovery Education. Discovery Education will help HNCS achieve this challenge by providing engaging STEM learning opportunities throughout the curriculum.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

The good news is that many teachers are finding a majority of students are participating in class at some level, says Gail Lovely, founder of the Early Learning Professional Learning Network at ISTE, which is the parent organization of EdSurge. That, she adds, is helping many students feel appreciated during a difficult time.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

20, 2018 — Illustrative Mathematics (IM) today announced it has partnered with Khan Academy to provide free practice exercises tightly aligned to its highly-regarded curriculum, IM 6–8 Math. Educators can access the IM practice exercises on Khan Academy at [link]. Learn more at www.illustrativemathematics.org. # # #.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

EL Education K–5 Language Arts. Kiddom is an easy-to-use education platform designed as a centralized hub for teaching and learning. Additionally, the curricula are refined through extensive in-classroom experiences with a focus on the equitable distribution of learning. EL Education Language Arts (Grades K-5).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021 — BetterLesson , a leading provider of high quality virtual and in-person K–12 professional learning, announces that the company’s “Empowered Algebra Learning For All” solution is one of only 11 grantees chosen for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Grand Challenge. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

…very little of the work we give students in school provides them with a sense that they are making a contribution to anything other than their own educational progress toward graduation. — Alan November, Who Owns the Learning. Traditional PD uses an attendance sheet as the primary measurement of “learning”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

Yet, in the midst of this widespread longing for school-as-we knew-it, educators are equally relishing the opportunity to reimagine education post pandemic. Certainly, it is healthy and normal to exercise feelings of nostalgia—to yearn to return to school, for many of us our home away from home.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For more creativity, exploration, and freedom, educators can incorporate play into their Coding and STEAM lessons. Why is play a forbidden word in education today?” Play can instead be structured for learning, which can benefit all involved by building relationships. Samuelson asked. Model the Workplace. Join the Community.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

Recipients shared how they will utilize grant services: Norwalk Public Schools , Connecticut — Advance student-centered STEM education. The priority focus areas are student engagement, responsive and inclusive teaching and learning, and meeting all learners’ needs. Learn more about the 2020 matching grant program here.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

It can be a useful exercise. My seniors have missed out on many milestones; but in my class, I can confidently say that the educational experience I’ve been able to give them in some ways has been better than what I would have likely delivered in a normal year. Return to the big picture, often.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 24, 2020

In an edWebinar sponsored by the Kaplan Early Learning Company, “Happy and Calm: The Best Tools for Mindfulness Now,” children’s yoga expert and award-winning recording artist Bari Koral introduced mindfulness exercises that can help children reduce the “noise” of negativity to improve their well-being over the long term. Let it out.”

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The 21st Century Principal

MAY 26, 2014

We as educators live in a field that talks a great deal about “putting students first” and “sacrificing for the benefit of the kids.” By far, the expectations that most every educator I know is that they literally “would give the shirt off their back" to a student if it would better that child’s life. Things have felt good spiritually.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2015

This January, the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities (PCAH) produced an insightful report based on the results of its Turnaround Arts initiative, a program that seeks to reform schools by implementing art-infused education. The results are astounding. You can view the PCAH’s summary of findings here.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 12, 2016

More recently, Van Meter has been diving deeply into project-based learning, standards-based grading, competency-based education, and flexible, modular schedules in which students can exercise some choice and determine how much time they need to spend on their various learning endeavors.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

A three-act task is a group exercise consisting of three videos or pictures. Throughout the three acts of the exercise, students use skills such as: thinking. In part two, the exercise is repeated except half of the data is provided by the teacher and the other half by the students. Math Task: The Three-Act Task. estimating.

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techlearning

MAY 9, 2018

The Super Health, Super You Community Health Challenge, designed to help elementary school teachers incorporate healthy lifestyle education into their curricula, inspired elementary school students to develop new ways to help their school’s community healthfully and holistically flourish. Get up and Get Movin’!

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edWeb.net

MAY 12, 2023

While the concept has been around for decades, it is increasingly being used in K-12 education to not only motivate and engage students but also to help them master concepts and content. ” The Science of Gamification and Learning At its core, gamification is about using game design principles to motivate people to take action.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

These were not collected or turned in, but rather used to create an Individualized Learning Plan (ILP) for the school year. ILPs are built into our learning management system, which is handy. However, an LMS is not a requirement for this type of professional learning to work. The ILP itself looks like a table.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

An Education Week survey found that the vast majority of educators believe that a growth-oriented mindset can help improve students’ motivation, commitment and engagement in learning. But the study found that applying those ideas to practice, and helping students shift their mindset around learning, remains an elusive challenge.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2020

It is precisely these students who are trapped in the crosshairs of both pandemics: the coronavirus having laid bare inequities in health risk , access to virtual education platforms and basic safety both in and outside of their homes—all factors compounded by the profoundly damaging effects of poverty and racism.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

In “ Art-Infused Student Leadership Projects ,” Cheri Sterman, Crayola Education director; Nancy Horvat, Multi-Tier Support Systems specialist, Arts Academy, PA; and Jessica Lura, director of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, Bullis Charter School, CA discussed how to develop leadership qualities in students through art activities.

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edWeb.net

JULY 29, 2022

Over the last year, Digital Promise, a national education nonprofit, teamed up with workers in frontline sectors along with leaders in higher education, business, and technology to center end-user experiences and mitigate biases in the design of LERs. Eliminating Inequities in the Hiring Process.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Tell us about some of those learning beliefs, about what you want your classrooms to look like. Tell us about your learning beliefs. So we actually learned through Education Reimagined. We read their white paper for transforming teaching and Learning. We invited teachers to uncover the uncommon dots in education.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

For more creativity, exploration, and freedom, educators can incorporate play into their coding and STEAM lessons. Why is play a forbidden word in education today?” Play can instead be structured for learning, which builds relationships, benefitting all involved. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenter.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Through yoga, mindfulness and social-emotional learning exercises, educators at Lapham, including ThompsonKapp, learned strategies to help reduce stress, prioritize self-care, cultivate resilience and enhance their well-being. What advice do you have for other education leaders who want to improve teachers' well-being?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

In today’s K-12 education ecosystem, most classroom management tools have moved online. This includes typical LMS (Learning Management Systems) functions like homework, classwork, schedules, quizzes, resources, and gradebooks so stakeholders–teachers and students–can access them from any location and any digital device.

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