eSchool News

JULY 7, 2025

We would go to one platform to look at their reading data, another for their behavior data, and yet another for math. We knew that providing our teachers and principals with one place to access data in one location gives educators time back and improves their ability to make essential improvement decisions.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

“We are proud to partner with school districts across the Commonwealth, ensuring every child has access to the support they need to become confident, capable readers.” During the 2023–2024 school year, seven public school districts in Massachusetts partnered with Catapult Learning to improve early literacy.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2025

Another critical aspect of tech integration is expanding access through online and blended learning. These platforms often come with features like automatic grading and analytics, which free up teachers’ time to focus more on hands-on instruction and one-on-one mentoring. The results of leveraging technology in CTE are impressive.

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2025

It even offers instant grading, using AI to assess multiple‑choice, gap‑fill, and written responses. Diffit helps teachers effortlessly craft accessible, engaging learning materials tailored to every student’s level. Next, they’ll choose a grade level and language, and Diffit creates complete, differentiated resources.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

Kibeam is redefining early childhood literacy education with the launch of Kibeam Wand : a first-of-its-kind, screen-free, AI-powered handheld device that reinforces foundational reading skills through immersive storytelling and play-based learning. children struggle to read proficiently. Nearly two-thirds of U.S.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Reading before bed? But not everybody feels this way about reading. My own brother — who is incredibly intelligent, younger than I am, and has already paid off his house (what?!?!) — once told me, “I never read anything unless I absolutely have to.” Every single day we seem to move closer to a society that simply doesn’t read.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2025

But what’s most interesting is the set of skills that are now more accessible for students to add to their toolkit — the kinds of things AI is surprisingly good at helping students develop. With AI, it’s the same: We need to teach students to “read the nutrition label” before they consume AI content. Who built the model?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

Block out time for reading and writing 3. Preschool: Full Year Curriculum {Plans and Printables} BUNDLE By Mrs Plemons Kindergarten Grades: PreK-K This bundle focuses on exposure to core subjects with summary pages, printables, and activity overviews. A good program should cover phonics, grammar, spelling, reading, and composition.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. There is a notable drop off in the reading and conversations.In

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

I walked into classrooms where ninth graders were reading at a third-grade level. Some just want to read a good book and be seen for who they are, not as a stereotype waiting to be saved. Their brilliance wasn’t dimmed by ability, but by systems too broken — or too indifferent to see them. Where intervention was nonexistent.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

The mentor has access to a shared platform that is also accessible and regularly updated by faculty and advisors at the educational institution. Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! Welcome to psychology.

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The Applicious Teacher

MAY 25, 2025

Teaching UFLI in 2nd grade? After a full year of using the UFLI Phonics program in my second grade classroom, (and for two years prior in small group!) Must-Have UFLI Resources- Quick Links No time to read the whole post, but want to quickly grab a few of my must-have resources for implementing UFLI in your classroom?

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Two of these authors Dr. Michelle Rivers and Dr. Janell Blunt shared theirs on the podcast you can listen to our conversation in the player above or read the full transcript. And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. The strategies are summarized below.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2025

If a child is learning about animals, they start by playing with toy models of animals, matching them to cards and reading books on them. Nowadays, teachers can use technology to share grades with parents, organize their lesson plans through apps and track a child’s progress. Access is the other issue. What About Teachers?

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 8, 2025

Most of that work has been driven by a focus on access — working to ensure that students with disabilities aren’t left behind academically. While these efforts have succeeded in improving access, they still position disabled students as lacking in some way. Even student government can get involved.

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Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? In fact, in addition to concepts like backward design and power standards, they are one of the most useful tools a teacher-as-learning-designer has access to.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) Do you like it when someone reads a book to you, or do you prefer reading independently? Something very unexpected happened at 8th grade graduation. faster than they can say “Where’s the hall pass?”

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

Instead of overwhelming students with lengthy video lectures or dense readings, microlearning delivers short, focused modules that concentrate on single learning objectives. This data is accessible to both teachers and students through visual dashboards, which serve as powerful motivators and intervention tools. Flipped Classroom 2.0

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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 18, 2025

Read Alouds with Purpose Books anchor us. In those first wobbly days of a new school year — when names are unfamiliar, routines are rough, and every hallway trip feels like a parade — read alouds ground us in something shared. Books spark conversation, diffuse tension, and help a class of strangers start to become a community.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

Instead of overwhelming students with lengthy video lectures or dense readings, microlearning delivers short, focused modules that concentrate on single learning objectives. This data is accessible to both teachers and students through visual dashboards, which serve as powerful motivators and intervention tools. Flipped Classroom 2.0

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Elevate k12

JUNE 30, 2025

Without access to consistent, individualized instruction aligned to their IEPs, students with disabilities risk falling further behind academically, emotionally, and developmentally. It provides noncredit-bearing instruction that is directly aligned to students’ academic IEP goals , typically in areas like reading, writing, or math.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Name all of your files in a consistent manner, for example “Reading 1, Week 1.” In this example below, Dr. Gray created a “Put your pets here” discussion posting topic that encouraged students to learn the skills of the LMS, such as posting an image, responding to classmates, reading the responses, in a low-stakes approach.

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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

By fourth and fifth grade, students encounter thousands of new words across content areas—many of them multisyllabic, abstract, and Greek or Latin in origin. Why Morphology Instruction Is Essential in Upper Grades By upper elementary, phonics-based decoding alone won’t cut it. These are not “sight words.”

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Name all of your files in a consistent manner, for example “Reading 1, Week 1.” In this example below, Dr. Gray created a “Put your pets here” discussion posting topic that encouraged students to learn the skills of the LMS, such as posting an image, responding to classmates, reading the responses, in a low-stakes approach.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 72

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

The mentor has access to a shared platform that is also accessible and regularly updated by faculty and advisors at the educational institution. Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! Welcome to psychology.

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Syllabus Education Ethics Instructors 96

Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

We tag-teamed – every morning, I taught all the math, reading, and writing, and in the afternoon he would teach science and social studies. We read approximately 5,000 picture books together during snack time, finished 10+ novel studies together, and I even created an entire unit based on going to four different Pumpkin Patches.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 18, 2025

Veterans Day Craft By TNB Creations Grades: K-6th This seven-page craft takes about an hour to complete and includes a picture for students to color, along with space to write a letter. You might read The Poppy Lady by Barbara E. Once finished, they can cut out the pieces and assemble them to create a meaningful bulletin board display.

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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

It makes learning more accessible by setting the stage and giving students the context they need to engage with confidence. Try This: Imagine youre teaching a new ecology unit to your 8 th grade science class. Background building is the process of helping students connect new content to what they already know.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The case reveals insights about a question relevant to a marathon course or an academic course: How can the integrity of results be ensured when there is easy access to technology that can be used to cheat? Morrow was surprised to read that Ruiz had finished in 11th place in the New York Marathon. Miller, Murdock, Grotewiel, 2017).

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 21, 2025

Fun Experiments for Kindergarten and 1st Grade Stir up some wiggles and wide-eyed wonder through inquiry-based learning where elementary students will marvel their way to big ideas and critical thinking. Simple 2nd and 3rd Grade Science Experiments Grab your goggles; it’s time to explore.

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

JULY 21, 2025

And your grade-level standards don’t show you the before steps either. For example, if you look at the 6th-grade writing Common Core standards, you’ll see clusters of related standards. These skill areas include key details and ideas, craft and structure, range of reading, and more. #2 Here’s an example from sixth grade ( PS.

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Teacher Mood

JULY 6, 2025

You’ll also find decodable stories paired with comprehension questions —a powerful way to give students authentic reading practice, even with a substitute. One year, I asked to move from first grade to an open fourth grade math position. My amazing first grade team stepped in without hesitation. I never asked them to.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Leveraging Technology One of the most significant advantages of online learning is access to various digital tools that go far beyond what’s available in a traditional classroom. Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Whether its reinforcing math concepts, improving reading comprehension, or learning a new language, these resources make learning more engaging and effective. Here, learning goes beyond grades and test scores.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

During lockdown students weren’t able to bond and build connections to the institution, or even access support structures,” she said. Some high school seniors graduated at the time with stellar grades but below-average test scores in math and English, she said. Their academic shortfalls and social isolation took a toll.

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Edsurge

MAY 19, 2025

According to the Read by 4th coalition , 71 percent of fourth graders in Philadelphia, the sixth largest U.S. city by population, are reading below grade level. The [agency] funds allowed schools to gain access to these vetted, reliably curated information sources for students to use for research.

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