Byrnes, USC star Lattimore pays visit to Wellford school Running back competes with students in game of “Are You Smarter Than a Third-Grader?” Marcus Lattimore has been winning football games in a No. 21 jersey since his sophomore year at Byrnes. Maybe that’s why he didn’t have quite as much luck against Kara Gillespie’s third-grade [...]
ABC affiliate KYMA News Team 11 went to Calexico High School in Imperial Valley to see first hand how Qwizdom is working in the classroom.
Congratulations to Angela Brotherton, 4th Grade Reading and Social Studies Teacher from Pittsburg ISD, Texas. She is a winner of our Teacher Appreciation Week giveaway on Facebook! Angela posted the following winning entry on our Facebook Wall: “I want Qtopia so I have a fun, engaging, and efficient way for ALL my students to practice [...]
Calexico High School Using Technology to Improve Academic Achievement Calexico High School takes a new direction using technology to improve academic achievement at the district. Calexico High School teacher Eliseo Cerros’ U.S. History Class has joined the transformation of a normal U.S. History review into a fun and interactive experience using integrated technology, engaging questions, [...]
In honor of Teacher Appreciation Week, Qtopia is giving away a one year subscription to Qtopia Plus to 5 educators – one each day beginning Monday May 2, through Friday May 6. Qtopia Plus for educators provides access to additional reporting features, state-aligned curriculum, unique avatars for student and teacher use, and other enhancements to [...]
If you walk by a classroom at Brownstown Elementary School and hear the sound of race cars, it doesn’t mean that students in the class are watching a NASCAR race. It’s all of the students finding out how they completed a class exercise. That’s one of the fun ways that students at the school are [...]
Calexico High School is expanding its use of technology in the classrooms this year through a federal grant and is the only school in the district using digital learning at its level, schoolofficials said.
There’s no homework to turn in at the beginning of Don Eggart’s math class at Cheney Middle School. Instead, Eggart’s 23 students are at work within a minute after the bell rings, solving “warm up” problems and entering their answers on a remote control. A lot has changed in the classroom from Eggart’s middle school [...]
Fourth-graders at Gray Elementary School are participating in innovative computer programs that allow students to learn while having fun. Teacher Marty Harrington said she actually found the Qwizdom software in a closet at the school where it had set for several years and quickly found out that it was a good teaching resource. Qwizdom is [...]
“Over the past six to eight weeks, the improvement in the overall view of everything they are doing has just been tremendous. It only makes them better.” says Marty Harrington of Gray Elementary School. Teachers using Qtopia at Gray are hoping that this improvement in understanding math skills will carry over to CRCT test scores.