ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

These days, almost every math curriculum in early childhood and elementary school includes games, usually a board or dice game, says Yvonne Liu-Constant, a practitioner specialist for Project Zero. Some also wonder if emphasizing play in math too strenuously can transmit an unintended message. Another Word for Fun?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Caitlin Smith, the director of technology, has been in the K-12 educational technology space for 10 years.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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Edthena

MARCH 25, 2025

Acton serves as a co-principal investigator (co-PI) on the project and has already engineered AI breakthroughs in human action detection technology , applying neural networks to video analysis with remarkable precision. This partnership reflects our ongoing commitment to research-validated educational technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. The goal was to provide a quick guide for teachers and school leaders during remote instruction.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female. Thus, math anxiety greets our students as soon as they enter school. It is true of parents and it is true of teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While they are completing digital worksheets, their peers in better-resourced schools are coding, collaborating, and designing and building tech tools. The newly released National Education Technology Plan from the U.S. The report also offers ways that those digital divides can be mitigated. “We

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ED Surge

MAY 21, 2024

Heidi Rose, an elementary school teacher in Denver, Colorado, knows that all too well. I was having a hard time functioning and just continually thinking about how far past the point of no return we are,” she says, sitting on a too-small stool at a shared table in her first grade classroom at Lincoln Elementary School.

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ED Surge

MAY 25, 2023

When he was a first grader at Rivermont Elementary School, Mason was overwhelmed by his emotions. But that was before Mason was introduced to a program at school that focuses on student well-being. Evans started the mindfulness program in 2019 at the elementary school in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. Director of Technology and Innovation.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

Facing a teacher shortage, Littleton Elementary School District had to hire many new teachers from outside of Arizona. Now, because principals have Swivl Teams + Robot , they can help a teacher who needs support and have them work on self-reflection,” observes Aracely Vazquez, Littleton Educational Technology Specialist.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2017

“I am overwhelmed with joy for my students because I know now they each stand a better chance of being a successful student,” said Regina Trout, who teaches the second-year kindergarteners at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown. It can look a little different in every school, in every classroom and for each student.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2024

It was 2022 and I had recently been hired as the principal of an all-girls elementary school in New York, and it was my first visit to the school to meet students, staff and families. Having worked primarily with middle and high schoolers, I wasn’t yet used to the blunt inquisitiveness of our younger students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2019

This past semester I had the opportunity to observe two elementary classrooms using technology in new and exciting ways. One was a fifth-grade class at Whelan Elementary School in North Providence, Rhode Island, that had just agreed to begin a commercial personalized learning program. Sign up here for our newsletter.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to. She was a special education teacher.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. So there's an elementary school in Stockton, California.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Without a significant change in the economics of education, changing the grammar of schooling is actually the most realistic approach. How could school work if teachers only taught 4 days out of a 5 day school week? At elementary schools, we’d have to get rid of the 1 teacher/1 class/5 days equation.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Elementary school girls make up nearly half of computer science students, but that percentage falls to 44 percent in middle school and 32 percent in high school. The report found that disparities in participation are the lowest in K-8 classes.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

This path seemed like the best way to blend his love of linguistics with his interest in teaching — that is, until he took a job as a paraprofessional at an elementary school in his hometown of Corona, California. CGU has a teacher residency program that let him stay in the elementary school he was already in.

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ED Surge

MARCH 30, 2022

She spent the money as she earned it, investing in her education so that she could pursue her dream of becoming an elementary school teacher, just like her mom and dad before her. Courtesy of Polly's Freeze After graduation, she landed a teaching position close to home.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2022

There have been plenty of adjustments to the classroom due to continued health precautions, and that has meant differences in what school supplies are needed. It’s the little things, like crayons, says Christine Slayton, a bilingual first grade teacher at Frank Del Olmo Elementary School in Los Angeles.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

The stereotypical library can seem like a vestige, making it an easy target when budgets are tight, according to Mark Ray, Vancouver’s director of innovation and library services, “but we want libraries to be the lynchpin of education transformation.” based education advocacy group. “It And if it bombs, it’s not on you.”.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school. In 10th grade, for some extra cash, Campbell signed up to tutor elementary school students through a literacy program in her hometown of Washington, D.C.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Meanwhile, paras were nearly three times as effective as volunteer, non-professional tutors with struggling elementary school readers. But in the studies he reviewed, the paras typically had bachelor’s degrees —considerably more education than the job requires in most school districts.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. During one of the sessions, a seasoned teacher's candid remarks struck a chord.

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ED Surge

MAY 19, 2022

where elementary school students can select adventures and collect gifts as a result of learning core skills. Recently, LEF partnered with LEGO Foundation to create a gamified learning experience, called SuperSkills!

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ED Surge

JULY 29, 2024

As a school counselor, Leighanne Mainguy can never be sure what’s in store for her each day. Some days, she arrives at her elementary school to learn that a student is in crisis and needs her full attention; she’ll clear her schedule. Now we're in elementary schools, we're in middle schools, we're in high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Students generally learn about moles, atoms, compounds and the intricacies of the periodic table in college, but Daniel Fried is convinced kids can learn complex biochemistry topics as early as elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2020

Children and teachers were familiar with a variety of learning apps and other educational software. Educators had years of experience integrating technology into their teaching. schools spend more than $10 billion a year on educational technology. Now, with New York Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

I can’t imagine having to do both,” said Abby Bjornson, a fourth-grade teacher at Munford Elementary School in Talladega County. Bjornson didn’t know what to expect when she volunteered to teach students remotely last August; she was motivated, she said, by an interest in learning new technology. Leaning on existing expertise.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Photo courtesy of Montgomery County Public Schools. Name : Chaula Butterworth Age : 54 Location : Rockville, Maryland Role : Paraeducator, general education Current age group : Elementary school, all grades (K-5) Years in the field : Four EdSurge: How did you get here? What brought you to your role as a paraeducator?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In high school, I participated in Teacher Cadets , a program that allows high school students to explore the education field as a possible career, in part by having them go into local elementary and middle schools and by serving and observing in the field. But I did enjoy teaching.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Few had early learning experiences prior to starting school, she adds, and even concepts like which direction to turn the pages in a book are foreign to many of them. Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

During the drive, Jenkins used her experience in education, public safety and health care to help me tell my own children, who are 9 and 12 years old, and who both have a sibling-like relationship with my godson. The elementary school my younger son attends was incredibly supportive. In 2013, Mary C. Teachers at Mary C.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

Jacobs said he decided in elementary school, after seeing the passion that his mother — another teacher — had for her students. Janae Montgomery, of Brusly, Louisiana, can’t recall a singular moment but says she always remembers wanting to be a teacher when she grew up.

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