eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Inclusivity and Belonging : Creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all students, particularly in diverse and rural areas, is vital for student success. Access to Resources : Providing students with access to educational tools and extracurricular activities helps bridge the gap caused by socio-economic disparities.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Among the new content and resources now available to users of Discovery Education Experience are: Ready-To-Teach Lessons Enhancing Curriculum Built around research-based instructional strategies, these new ready-to-teach lessons and activities target critical classroom needs and help teachers create unique learning opportunities for each student.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Recently, I met with two education leaders to discuss how to improve teacher and student engagement through creativity. Assessment is more involved as projects being graded for creativity are more challenging than just checking a worksheet to see what answers the student got right or wrong. Why does creativity matter?

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

This renewed collaboration ensures students and teachers in the district’s K-5 classrooms will continue to use the company’s award-winning Mystery Science service to drive deeper student engagement in science instruction. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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Student Engagement Science Schools Elementary School 242

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Based on the reading data I’ve collected from my students, the percentage of students reading well below grade level is rising. Just four years ago, approximately 10% of my students were reading below grade level. Today, an alarming 30% are below grade level, with 25% scoring well below grade level.

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Culture Reading Assignments Blended Learning 499

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

NASA STEM @ Home For Students Grades K-4. STEM Activities for Kids. 18 Stay at Home STEM Activity Sites for Learning and Fun. I’m also seeing students start to build their own little pods. FIRST @ Home Activities & Resources. Research proves FIRST drives STEM engagement and outcomes.

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Student Engagement STEM Students Quizzes 211

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

That’s when it hit medespite years of teaching experience, I’m still searching for ways to spark the same level of engagement whether I’m interacting with students face-to-face or through carefully designed asynchronous activities. Yet simply abandoning these proven engagement strategies isn’t the answer.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2023

CHARLOTTE, NC — Wisconsin’s Stevens Point Area Public School District today announced it has renewed its multiyear partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in grades K-5. Each lesson begins by posing a question commonly asked by young students.

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Science Grades Education Schools 240

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

For example, a playlist that covers a single topic or concept may take a few days to complete, while a playlist that guides students through a unit, multi-step task, or inquiry may take a couple of weeks to finish. The number of learning activities and complexity of the playlist will also affect the time needed to complete it.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

Mystery Science , which joined the family of Discovery Education services in 2020 and recently won SIIA’s Best Science Instructional Solution CODiE award for Grades PK – 8, provides K-5 educators simple to use, open-and-go, hands-on lessons that inspire students to love science.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Key points: When learning is linked to career opportunities, student engagement increases i What data is necessary to help students succeed? About half of students say while at school, they learned about a job or career they previously did not know about.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Mystery Science , which joined the family of Discovery Education services in 2020 and recently won SIIA’s Best Science Instructional Solution CODiE award for Grades PK – 8, provides K-5 educators simple to use, open-and-go, hands-on lessons that inspire students to love science.

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Science Student Engagement Social Studies English 241

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2021

Design a mix of 4-6 online and offline activities that correlate with what you usually cover in the first few weeks of the school year. Note : This station rotation series pictured above is designed for a 6th grade English Language Arts class. Create an overview of the rotations with links to resources and documents.

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Blended Learning Teachers Assignments Language 521

Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

Jenn is a first-grade teacher at Desert Sands Unified School District. They are designed to combine educational technology with specific teaching protocols that promote active learning, student engagement, and collaboration in the classroom. She has her M.A. in Early Childhood Education and an M.S.

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Writing Feedback Learning Spaces Activities 383

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 3, 2024

14 Essential Digital Tools for Educators to Streamline Daily Activities In 2024’s fast-paced educational environment, teachers and all those in the academe face the daily challenge of managing their school or course’s efficiency. They make educators’ lives a whole lot easier, aside from improving the learning experiences for their students.

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Activities Quizzes Education Feedback 158

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

As students rotate to this station, they receive focused attention and resources that address their unique learning challenges or advanced needs, ensuring that each student is supported where they are in their learning journey. Group 2 (On Grade Level): Students read a standard-level folktale and discuss the central message.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

Mystery Writing engages students in grades K-5 with “wow!” Featuring no prep, open-and-go lessons, Mystery Writing helps multi-subject elementary educators quickly and easily provide students with differentiated lessons that explicitly teach the writing process.

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Writing Feedback Schools Science 312

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2021

At first, I worried that my students might not fully grasp the film’s deeper meaning, but I was pleasantly surprised that they did. Students who generally struggle to read at grade level could engage with this assignment in ways equal to their classmates who read at or above grade level.

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Blended Learning Multiple Choice Questions Learning Discussions 397

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Students can see what their peers have done or created. Teachers can design a follow-up activity in which students post comments to each other’s Padlet Wall images, videos, or explanations. Plus, the students’ scores on a “quick check” are not something I would put into a grade book.

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Coaching Learning Students Knowledge 419

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

Teachers learn so much from listening to their students engaging in conversation or observing them as they work through a problem or task. It can also help teachers to understand what students already know or can do, so they don’t dedicate too much time to repeat instruction or practice. #3 3 Design Learning Experiences.

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Learning Knowledge Writing Discussions 543

eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading. These students are often reluctant readers because they find the process complicated, and they lack confidence in their abilities. The camp also yielded noteworthy results on the DIBELS 8th Edition Reading Assessment.

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Failure Motivation Gamification Cognitive Development 326

Catlin Tucker

JULY 20, 2015

Smaller learning communities also provide students with more opportunities to work collaboratively and engage in a variety of activities that appeal to different learning modalities (auditory, visual, tactile and kinesthetic). My classes are usually composed of 30 students, so I tend to design a minimum of 6 stations.

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Blended Learning Learning Online Learning Feedback 420

eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

From their focus on hands-on learning to a lack of district-provided devices in the lower grades, the reasons are both pedagogical and budgetary. 3 strategies we use to turn struggling students into confident readers. Use tech to focus on your students. Take advantage of tech’s ability to track progress and suggest activities.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Meanwhile, educators across regions and grade levels estimate roughly half (47 percent) of their students are using AI for schoolwork. However, educators dont seem to connect those time savings to more time to tackle the social-emotional or student engagement support they struggle to adequately provide.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

Often, my colleagues will come to me with requests for resources to overcome a certain classroom issue, and like in many school systems, among the biggest issues right now is a lack of student engagement. As educators, it is incumbent upon us to spark students’ curiosity so that they will engage with instruction.

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Art Students Culture Coaching 332

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2015

Online icebreakers give students an opportunity get to know one another and build a community online. Note: For educators interested in incorporating online discussions into their curriculum, my first book Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 provides resources and strategies to support this shift.

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Discussions Achievement Students Participation 419

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. Conversation Cards. Accountability Audits.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? According to the study, learners who only received teacher training and did not engage with the online learning tools had poorer achievement scores. Teachers enjoy a boost in student engagement The use of interactive technology helps make lessons fascinating.

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Math Student Engagement Teachers Mobile Devices 147

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Here’s how educators across the country are using tools–from Minecraft: Education Edition to Roblox and easy-to-access online resources–to gamify their lessons and help students engage with learning. According to ISTE, “gamification is about transforming the classroom environment and regular activities into a game.”

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Education Art 294

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

To design effectively for a diverse group of students, teachers must find out where everyone is beginning in relation to the material we plan to teach. He can then use a model, like the station rotation, to circulate students through a series of learning activities, including a needs-based teacher-led station.

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Learning Students Knowledge Math 457

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

LEGO Education’s State of Classroom Engagement Report: Science Edition surveyed more than 6,000 global teachers, parents, students, and U.S. administrators to gather data that can offer insight to support educators as they strive to engage their students in science learning.

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Science Education STEM Critical Thinking 295

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Inclusivity and Belonging : Creating a welcoming and inclusive environment for all students, particularly in diverse and rural areas, is vital for student success. Access to Resources : Providing students with access to educational tools and extracurricular activities helps bridge the gap caused by socio-economic disparities.

Student Engagement 130

Student Engagement Students Coaching Teaching Methods 130

eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2022

Teachers are only human, and trying to become familiarized with a new world of online technology and new teaching techniques while trying to keep students engaged–well, it was difficult, to say the least. Maybe that means grading only two evenings a week. We keep our lesson plans and classroom activities to ourselves.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2025

Established in 2005, Agora Cyber Charter School is an online public school for Pennsylvania students in kindergarten through 12th grade that is accredited by the Middle States Association. This is especially felt in the 5 th grade science and math classes I teach. Gizmo is an interactive STEM learning experience for grades 3-12.

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Teachers Learning Science STEM 305

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

But it’s not all bad–educators found success as they dedicated their efforts to improving student engagement and achievement, creating community-based approaches to learning, and inspiring students to become lifelong learners. I get my students fired up about digital storytelling.

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Education Schools Math Science 310

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

Fully Web-Based Curriculum for Grades K–5 is Intuitively Designed for Modern Classrooms. With student well-being declining after a year of school closures, the need for connection and social-emotional recovery is critical, especially for our nation’s youngest learners.

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Learning Culture Grades Elementary School 306

eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

The NEA encourages teachers to bring physical activity into the classroom by incorporating brain breaks in students daily routines or taking classroom activities outside. Learning and physical activity also work well because of the fun factor. When students are moving, they are having fun.

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