k-8 Archives

Do screens help or hurt K-8 learning? Lessons from the UK’s OPAL program

January 14, 2026October 22, 2025 by Nesreen El-Baz, ESL Educator

In education, we don’t have to choose between tech and tradition--the real challenge is finding balance in learning.

When our leadership team at Firthmoor Primary met with an OPAL (Outdoor Play and Learning) representative, one message came through clearly: “Play isn’t a break from learning, it…

A FREE Year-Round Reading & Writing Toolkit for Your K-8 Teachers

May 15, 2025April 7, 2025 by Jeff Festa

In this Toolkit, you’ll find a collection of high-leverage tools to distribute to K-8 teams. Print the tools and ... Read more

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Newsela Acquires Generation Genius to Enhance Real-World Connections in Science and Math

February 5, 2025 by ESchool News Staff

NEW YORK (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Newsela, a leading provider of high-quality instructional and assessment products for K-12, announced today that ... Read more

Literacy

Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers now

December 20, 2024 by Ian Hartigan, Chalkbeat

Post-COVID, with reading challenges, we must catch our older students up on second grade literacy skills without infantilizing the content.

Literacy is a foundational skill for learning new content and as an upper elementary science teacher, my soon-to-be middle schoolers have ideally made the vital transition from “learning…

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ISTELive news: LEGO Education previews student engagement data

June 26, 2024 by Laura Ascione

LEGO Education’s Dr. Jenny Nash, Head of Education Impact, previewed compelling and surprising data on the U.S. student disengagement crisis. ... Read more

Literacy

Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers now

June 17, 2024 by Ian Hartigan, Chalkbeat

Literacy is a foundational skill for learning new content and as an upper elementary science teacher, my soon-to-be middle schoolers have ideally made the vital transition from “learning…

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Massachusetts Students Double Literacy Growth In Ignite Reading’s Tutoring Program

April 5, 2024 by ESchool News Staff

BOSTON – Ignite Reading, a national tutoring program serving 20 districts in Massachusetts, announced significant literacy gains for 4,300 K-8 ... Read more

Teaching Trends

Purposeful play helps kids learn–here’s how to integrate it

October 27, 2023 by Laura Ascione

Many teachers feel they can’t easily incorporate purposeful play into the classroom--but doing so is surprisingly easy

A new survey of K-8 teachers and students from LEGO Education found that nearly all (98 percent) of students say purposeful play helps them learn and the majority…

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Learning Through Play Is Powerful – and Students and Teachers Agree!

October 12, 2023 by ESchool News Staff

BILLUND, Denmark — To celebrate the second annual World Play Day, LEGO® Education is inspiring teachers to experience purposeful play firsthand ... Read more

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Savvas Learning Company Acquires Rubicon Publishing, Canada’s Leading Digital Learning Provider for Math

March 3, 2022 by ESchool News Staff

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — March 3, 2022 — Savvas Learning Company, a leading provider of next-generation learning solutions across all ... Read more

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Football Star Jonathan Jones Inspires Kids to Code and Get Active with Unruly Splats

December 3, 2021 by ESchool News Staff

This December, students are pushing their desks out of the way for the Get Active Coding Challenge during Hour of ... Read more

SEL & Well-Being

10 SEL activities for K-8 students

November 17, 2021November 17, 2021 by Taylor Perkins, Aperture Education

Incorporating SEL activities in classrooms can make lessons more engaging and help students find deeper meaning in core subjects

Did you know that social and emotional learning (SEL) skills can easily be taught to students in grades K-8 right alongside core academic instruction in classrooms or afterschool…

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Sourcewell’s Technology Division Kicks off 2021-22 School Year with Launch of SpringMath and Proliftic

September 24, 2021 by ESchool News Staff

ST. PAUL, MINN. (SEPTEMBER 24, 2021)— In an effort to extend the benefits of its evidence-based solutions to more schools ... Read more

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The Council of State Science Supervisors and Flinn Scientific Collaborate to Support Safe Practices in Science Classrooms

June 24, 2021 by ESchool News Staff

Batavia, Illinois, June 23, 2021 — The Council of State Science Supervisors (CSSS) and Flinn Scientific, a flagship provider of ... Read more

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Leading K-8 Educational Company Introduces Middle School Science Solution

May 17, 2021 by ESchool News Staff

BrainPOP Science helps teachers inspire the next generation of scientific thinkerswhile navigating fundamental shifts in teaching and learning science, technology,and ... Read more

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South Carolina Department of Education Selects DreamBox Learning® to Support COVID-19 Academic Recovery

February 11, 2021 by ESchool News Staff

Predictive analytics can help improve students' academic prospects.

DreamBox Learning®, the K-8 digital math company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning™ technology, announced today that the South Carolina Department ... Read more

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Math Expert Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell Endorses Hand2Mind’S Hands-On Standards

February 5, 2021 by ESchool News Staff

$an adorable pigtailed girl looking up at a bunch of math equations$

Today hand2mind, an award-winning educational resource company, has announced a new partnership with the former president of the National Council ... Read more

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Newark Public Schools Expands Use of Lexia Core5 and PowerUp to All of its Elementary Schools

November 20, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

Newark Public Schools (NPS) has approved expanding implementation of Lexia Learning’s Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) and Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® (PowerUp) ... Read more

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Carolina Biological Launches Remote Learning Add-Ons to Award Winning K-8 Science Curriculum Kits with Teacher Planning Features

August 20, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

Leading school science supplier Carolina Biological launched three new sets of K-8 digital resources for remote teaching this fall: Smithsonian ... Read more

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Activities to keep kids engaged and learning during the summer

June 30, 2020June 18, 2020 by ESchool News

Family tech nights can help schools narrow the digital divide.

BrainPOP, the online educational solution that makes rigorous learning experiences accessible and engaging for all students, today announced a new product ... Read more

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Free online resources to help address “summer slide”

June 30, 2020May 20, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

Miacademy.co, the online homeschooling website, is proud to collaborate with ASU in offering fun, free online resources to help address ... Read more

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Digital Skills Playlist – a free resource for K-8 students

June 30, 2020May 12, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

Assessing students over time using digital tools also helps save teachers' time, like this little girl on a laptop.

Learning.com is offering the Digital Skills Playlist – a free resource for K-8 students. It consists of grade-specific digital literacy ... Read more

Ancillary

Diagnostic assessments and instructional strategies

April 7, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

A bunch of images showing technology and tests

CenterPoint has made its entire suite of products free for schools and individual teachers through the end of the school ... Read more

Ancillary

Activity packs and guidance for educators and families

March 26, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

Curriculum Associates is offering printable activity packs and guidance for educators and student families to support learning at home. The ... Read more

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Dreambox Learning Math provides 90 day free trial

March 26, 2020March 26, 2020 by ESchool News Staff

DreamBox Learning Math is an award winning K-8 online math program. Our truly adaptive engine looks beyond the answer at ... Read more

STEM & STEAM

9 ways to create better makerspaces

December 7, 2022February 24, 2020 by Laura Ascione

Children sit at a makerspace table and create things with art and science to demonstrate the importance of makerspaces.

Makerspaces and maker culture have quickly become a favorite of STEAM advocates, and new research shows that makerspaces can be highly effective at helping elementary students develop skills…

STEM & STEAM

Here’s how to put coding and robotics programs in K-8 classrooms

August 26, 2019July 26, 2019 by Eileen Belastock, CETL

Coding and robotics programs are easily manageable if educators follow certain strategies.

Coding and robotics programs in classrooms reflect how integral technology is in our lives. Educators like Angie Kalthoff, a technology integrationist in St. Cloud, MN, and Ann Bartel,…

District Management

Adaptive literacy? 3 must-knows for teachers and admin about adaptive learning

December 1, 2017October 12, 2017 by Meris Stansbury

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of…

District Management

14 surprising facts about educators’ social media use

December 12, 2016July 29, 2016 by Laura Devaney, Director of News, <a href='https://twitter.com/esn_laura' target='_blank'>@eSN_Laura</a>

Social media has fast become an educator's dream, with almost immediate responses to questions about teaching strategies, resources, and professional development opportunities. But how are educators really using…

District Management

Groups partner to leverage open tech standards

July 5, 2016July 5, 2016 by Laura Ascione

ClassLink announced a new single sign-on connection to Mackin Educational Resources, an adaptive learning platform for grades K-8. This new partnership will provide users with secure, OneClick access…

STEM & STEAM

How to make elementary teachers stronger in STEM

March 9, 2015 by By Stephen Noonoo, Editor, <a href='https://twitter.com/stephenoonoo' target='_blank'>@stephenoonoo</a>

It's no secret elementary teachers are often weakest in STEM. A targeted PD program out of one university may help, according to these school leaders.

Do screens help or hurt K-8 learning? Lessons from the UK’s OPAL program

Newsela Acquires Generation Genius to Enhance Real-World Connections in Science and Math

Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers now

ISTELive news: LEGO Education previews student engagement data

Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers now

Massachusetts Students Double Literacy Growth In Ignite Reading’s Tutoring Program

Purposeful play helps kids learn–here’s how to integrate it

Learning Through Play Is Powerful – and Students and Teachers Agree!

Savvas Learning Company Acquires Rubicon Publishing, Canada’s Leading Digital Learning Provider for Math

Football Star Jonathan Jones Inspires Kids to Code and Get Active with Unruly Splats

10 SEL activities for K-8 students

Sourcewell’s Technology Division Kicks off 2021-22 School Year with Launch of SpringMath and Proliftic

The Council of State Science Supervisors and Flinn Scientific Collaborate to Support Safe Practices in Science Classrooms

Leading K-8 Educational Company Introduces Middle School Science Solution

South Carolina Department of Education Selects DreamBox Learning® to Support COVID-19 Academic Recovery

Math Expert Dr. Francis (Skip) Fennell Endorses Hand2Mind’S Hands-On Standards

Newark Public Schools Expands Use of Lexia Core5 and PowerUp to All of its Elementary Schools

Carolina Biological Launches Remote Learning Add-Ons to Award Winning K-8 Science Curriculum Kits with Teacher Planning Features

Activities to keep kids engaged and learning during the summer

Free online resources to help address “summer slide”

Digital Skills Playlist – a free resource for K-8 students

Diagnostic assessments and instructional strategies

Activity packs and guidance for educators and families

Dreambox Learning Math provides 90 day free trial

9 ways to create better makerspaces

Adaptive literacy? 3 must-knows for teachers and admin about adaptive learning

How to make elementary teachers stronger in STEM

Why interactive solutions are a smarter investment for schools

Lerner Publishing Group Launches Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s Genius and Joy Curriculum

School Specialty LLC Announces Acquisition of Nasco Education U.S.

100 Learning Spaces Transformed, $5 Million Invested: School Specialty and College Football Playoff Foundation Celebrate Impact Across Schools Nationwide

ACT and Texas Instruments Collaborate to Enhance Student Success in Mathematics

Big Ideas Start Young: Games for Change Opens 2026 Student Challenge to Game Creators and Innovators Ages 10–25

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