eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Charlotte, NC — In celebration of Earth Day 2023, Discovery Education presents K-12 teachers and students a diverse array of cross-curricular digital resources inspiring exploration of the natural world and environmental stewardship. This resource is part of the Celebrations collection in the Sesame Learning channel.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 30, 2020

Educators have taken a critical lens as to why they teach the way they do and how it can be done more effectively. While it is excellent that educators now have a variety of options at their disposal, there is a growing concern that has to be addressed if learning is the goal. Be sure to check out my entire #remotelearning series.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 7, 2021

When I made the decision to leave the classroom to become a learning strategist at my school, there was no training, workshops, or support for my role. In addition to creating and facilitating a variety of other workshops and providing professional learning opportunities to schools, I mentor 10 strategists or coaches and five teacher leaders.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2022

As an educator parent, I’m constantly juggling my commitments to my students and to my own children and I’m not alone. The dual role of educator and parent is a precarious balance to maintain and often feels impossible. Parent involvement connotes family participation in the school’s community. But that isn’t always the case.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

Through our co-design work , we partnered with public preschool teachers and families from culturally diverse, low-income communities and together explored how CT could be meaningfully introduced to young children to support their learning more broadly. Playdough tree created to engage children in problem decomposition.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Jeromie Heath on episode 573 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Families want to engage in classrooms but as students get older, it can be challenging. In today’s episode, Jeromie Heath helps teachers understand how to engage families in the classroom in positive, proactive ways.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place—has announced a host of exciting updates to the company’s award-winning services. Together, these new enhancements drive deeper student engagement and offer even greater support to educators.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

The kids were so thoughtful in what they said,” reflects Rana Hafiz, the veteran math teacher and former administrator who took time to engage her students in this ethical discussion. “I Hafiz has been thinking about what it means to educate the whole child for many years. But for Hafiz, these efforts aren’t enough.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Last summer, not far from the doorsteps of Oakland Unified School District, a group of parents came together to build an academic program from scratch in an effort to close the gap between the education their children were getting in school and the education they deserved. She called it the Hub. That is the Hub,” says Young.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For both educators and students, safeguarding mental health is important to promoting a positive, supportive, and successful educational environment. Administrators can incorporate mental health support into teacher training programs, allowing educators to identify signs of stress in themselves and their students.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

While educators, families, and community partners genuinely care about student success and well-being, they often approach both with different ideas and methodologies. That means the majority of the work involved in breaking down barriers to community engagement in schools often falls to educators.

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Discovery Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Equity in education. But what about about equity in early childhood education and how does this affect engaging early learners? According to them, true equity in education starts with investment in early education programs and innovative ways to bring those programs to underserved communities.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education and its social impact partners present teachers and families nationwide a curated collection of engaging, no-cost digital learning resources designed to engage today’s students in Engineers Week. Taking place February 19-25 with the theme “Creating the Future!”

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2020

High-quality resources and curricula can help educators bring science to life through authentic and challenging activities. What research do we need to bring standards-aligned science learning to more students and support educators in implementing these resources effectively? Unique Benefits of OpenSciEd.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2020

Using technology effectively in any environment—education or otherwise—necessitates a human-centered and needs-based approach. Back when we were in classrooms, The Workshop Model was a critical component of my pedagogy. The workshop concludes with a whole-class debrief about what worked, what didn’t, and what students learned.

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Hubbli

JULY 7, 2023

Today’s private educational institutions understand the pivotal role parent engagement plays in a child’s academic journey. Engaging parents in their children’s schooling process is more than a mere public relations exercise.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

However, a year ago she would not have known how to use a visual cue to engage a non-verbal child. The demands of raising her daughter made it challenging for Terrero, who has a high school education, to find stable work that fit her child care schedule. In fact, a year ago, she wasn’t even a teacher.

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Hubbli

JULY 27, 2023

With families actively researching educational options during this period, it’s crucial for schools to optimize their outreach efforts to stand out from the competition. Optimize the website content with relevant keywords like ‘private school,’ ‘quality education,’ and ‘academic excellence.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

“Cartwheel has been a game-changer for us, allowing our students and families to access evidence-based mental health care quickly. Cartwheel is collaborative and responsive to the needs of our students and families and empowers our social workers to have a true partner in the community.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2022

Thrive Alliance Group , a nationally-recognized expert in fostering K–12 mental wellness, announces their new Mental Wellness Professional Development Course Series , helping educators create a school climate and culture that supports students’ mental health and contributes to greater academic outcomes. While the U.S.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 1, 2020

A few weeks ago, I watched the movie “Night at the Museum” with my family again, and I realized that one of the fondest memories I have from school years is a visit to the museum. Education shouldn’t be limited to the classroom experience, and museums are an excellent solution for engaging learning experiences with K-12 students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. Meghan McCormack, whose job is to visit families in their homes, pulls on her own coat as she hurries outside to meet a mom whose kids aren't old enough for school yet. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2022

BB2C fosters student, business, and civic relationships to inspire career choice through experience, entrepreneurship, and education. With BB2C’s first micro-credential, they verify the educator’s skill in developing and implementing real world, problem-based learning with community partners.*. Delaware Department of Education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2017

Something you can do to prep your students for college is to have one day where you host a workshop on using Google Docs,” suggested Alejandra Cervantes, a junior at UCLA, in response to a question from an educator about the best way to support high school students heading to college. It’s a point the students at NMC echoed.

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Hubbli

JULY 10, 2023

As educators, we fully appreciate that parent communication is a cornerstone of the PreK-12 private school system. When conducted effectively, communication between schools and families can profoundly influence students’ academic, social, and emotional growth.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Gus is a kindergartener, and his parents don’t have the luxury of being able to work from home, so my recently retired mother has become his education supervisor. Our family has become an ad hoc over-the-phone IT support unit. My family is fortunate to be able to accommodate and support the new paradigm of distance learning.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

The series explores the powerful impact of local nonprofits and community-based organizations that provide adult learning and workforce development opportunities to families and communities. Our organization has a unique opportunity to engage non-traditional learners in acquiring the digital skills they need.”. Connection Literacies.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

To help facilitate collaboration between public libraries and the communities they serve, Kanopy is adding a dozen Spanish-language videos from Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit organization behind Sesame Street, and 30 films from Highlights to Kanopy Kids. Sample titles in the series include: Listos a jugar: A que jugaban papa y mama.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Distance learning began March 23.

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Discovery Education

MAY 27, 2022

Check out the Summer of Learning Channel for tons of subject-specific content and engaging at-home resources that get the whole family involved! Virtual Field Trips are wonderful ways to keep students engaged in summer learning, no matter where they are, while introducing new places and interests. Get Started with DE. -->.

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N2Y

AUGUST 10, 2020

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) parent engagement in schools as “parents and school staff working together to support and improve the learning, development, and health of children and adolescents.” Sometimes it’s hard to reach families. Instead, assume the best about students’ families. Assume the Best.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2020

Several years ago, officials in the San Francisco Unified School District realized their attempt to engage parents in their child’s literacy development was falling flat. Not all families could attend the training workshops and those that did were presented with an overwhelming amount of information. Credit: Screenshot/Ready4K.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history. To some degree, our education system still perpetuates this flat and one-dimensional idea about the fragility of Black life.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

School Psychologist Dani Roquett greets Anne and James Hutt with their daughters, Ellison, 5, and Quinn, 10 months, at the “Zone Check-In” at the GET Together family educational event in January. The school calls the events, held twice a year, GET Togethers — Guaranteed Education Teams. LOVELAND, Colo.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

NPF is awarding grants to 32 National Park Service (NPS) sites and their partners to implement or enhance innovative distance learning programs to better serve educators and students, especially in under-resourced communities. With more than 400 parks across all fifty states and the U.S. million students.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2019

They were at a family coding event and had been working together to brainstorm an idea for a story, draw it on paper and try out different ways to recreate it using KIBO , a tangible robotics platform programmed using interlocking wooden blocks. KIBO Family Coding Day Protocol. ScratchJr Family Coding Day Protocol.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The abrupt transition to remote learning was a shock to our national education system. Districts, schools, educators, and families scrambled to get plans in place for distance learning. While many districts figured out ways to support educators in their schools, others did not. Bridging the Digital Learning Gap.

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