eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

high school students have been quick to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), with 46 percent saying they use AI tools to help them with their school work. He went on to explain each piece of art in great detail, showing his understanding of the assignment. This example highlights that using an AI tool isn’t “bad.”

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot. Only about half reported doing something interesting in school everyday.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

In my classroom, I usually teach English language arts in 70-minute blocks. During virtual learning from 2020 to 2021, that was condensed to 60 minutes and we spent much of our time focused on reading texts, answering text dependent questions and writing essays. With assistance, he was able to produce a five-paragraph essay.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 172

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus. Adam has School Building Leadership and Education Technology Specialist certifications, and he acts as Public School 101’s Promethean Panel and ClassFlow Lead and Certified Teacher.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays! What were your goals?

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. To what end?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 25, 2024

Sites that can lend you an APA essay writer or a PhD researcher can elevate your paper. Master the Art of Skimming Here’s a practical truth: there’s simply not enough caffeine to get you through reading every word of every research paper you find. The foundation of any good paper is solid research.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. High school students, especially, can feel singled out and embarrassed, even when you do something meant to help.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

As much as it was my job to teach students to write, I also felt the grading system disadvantaged those students who came in with subpar high school educations and less writing experience. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, University of Iowa, 2024, [link]. As a TA, I even received rubrics with that language. Gannon, Kevin.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. Once teachers choose a lesson, the program provides a six-step process to help students analyze the readings and produce a cohesive essay.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Kind Words, Thanks and Acknowledgement Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: Gabriel Vogel, 11th grade teacher at Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, Va.: Alexandria Adams, 10th grade teacher at Woodside High School in Newport News, Va.: “I

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

In it, ACT researchers found evidence of grade inflation over the past decade—namely, that the average high school GPA increased 0.19 The implication is that students are not learning as much as their transcripts indicate, hampering their ability to succeed in challenging environments after high school. “We

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

Year by year, these adults have gathered threads of wisdom, which the university now invites them to weave into the great tapestry of the liberal arts. At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student. Should their essays have a thesis statement?

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 176

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

But, we still don’t know enough about the benefits that education beyond high school brings,” said Desmond-Hellmann, during a conference call with reporters. “We That led Nicholas Tampio, a professor of political science at Fordham University, to ask in an essay in The Conversation whether that spelled trouble for the liberal arts. “By

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 7, 2025

The high school years are all about new experiences, self-reflection, and building skills to use throughout life. Well-crafted journal prompts for high schoolers accomplish all of these goals and they arent just for English class! What was the best thing that happened today? What about the worst? 3a, 3d, 3e; W.9-10.10,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Yet most high school and middle school students are illiterate when it comes to online texts, and can’t discern real information from fake news. Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. We can not omit digital literacy from our curriculum.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

Performance assessment varies, with students submitting essays, videos or presentations to demonstrate they’ve learned the material. Some traditional professors have opposed the model as too great a departure from the classic liberal arts college. WGU offers us a vision of the university without intellectuals,” wrote Johann N.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

With college admissions more competitive than ever, a team of Harvard and Johns Hopkins graduates has created a new online consultant that uses artificial intelligence to help high school students get accepted into their dream colleges — for just $10 per month.

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I was a certified high school math teacher, but like so many of my peers, I also taught advisory—working with students to develop their social skills and help them explore college and career options. I rarely felt underprepared teaching math, but in advisory I perfected the art of improvising. “Mister, why do we have to do this?

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. Assess the assessment Kevin Allardice is an English teacher at Mercy High School in Burlingame, CA and the author of the novels Any Resemblance to Actual Persons and Family, Genus, Species.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Even so, students spend much of their time in an environment where authorship is not held in high regard. In surveys of more than 70,000 high school students by the International Center for Academic Integrity, 58% admitted to plagiarism. Writing a good essay requires a great deal of analyzing and thinking outside the box.

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Plagiarism Essay Internet Assignments 124

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction High school is a defining period in a teenagers life. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

When I left the classroom in 2017 for a job as an events curator for a community arts organization, it was the middle of spring semester during my seventh year as a teacher. We held Socratic seminars rooted in essays by Amy Tan and Daniel José Older. We analyzed Beyoncé’s Formation video.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Lisa DiMichele has taught writing to all kinds of high schoolers—from inclusion students to honors students, from kids struggling to finish a sentence to future Faulkners. Some of her students had never finished an essay, let alone crafted sparkling prose. And that recipe succeeded again with her summer school class.

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Essay Feedback Writing English 102

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Prompts, Essays and More. Revision Assistant's Secondary Education Prompt Library —middle and high school writing prompts organized by grade level. Exemplar Essays (and ways to use them) —created by Patti's team, sample essays for emerging, developing, proficient and advanced writers Learn more about Revision Assistant.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 141

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

McClarin Success Academy in College Park, GA is an alternative high school and many of our students have never passed a standardized test. The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative. My students were writing one essay a week, and I was collecting them in a Google Drive folder.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 134

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

James Kim, co-founder and executive director of BEAT (short for Bridging Education & Art Together), is on a mission to “take the ‘speech’ and the ‘therapy’ out of speech therapy,” he says. Tony Weaver, founder and CEO of Weird Enough Productions, dons a superhero’s cape (Photo Credit: Chloe Jackman for Camelback Ventures). Crete Academy.

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Counselling Education Coaching Essay 146

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 135

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Move This World (New York) uses multimedia content to develop social skills and strengthen emotional intelligence in Pre-K through high school. Substantial (501(c)3/Oakland, California) creates training, resources and information customized for each school to help substitute teachers be successful.

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Counselling Quizzes Essay Beliefs 124

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Some schools, in their initial attempts to use technology, focused more on choosing devices and apps than on preparing teachers. Anya Kamenetz, journalist and author , “The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life” : I'm not seeing any trend away from devices in the classroom.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 16, 2025

A few weeks ago, I went to my daughters open house at her high school and had a chance to meet her teachers. Who I am in that space is simply one version of mejust as I’m a different version of myself at a family gathering, my daughter’s high school open house, or even waiting in line at the DMV. Parini, Jay.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Our English programs are often centered around what we deem worthy—classic, can’t-leave-high-school-without-reading titles. In elementary school, we often insist that students have a chapter book with them at all times.

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Reading Essay Assignments Fairness 167

Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

High school student Jeff Bliss famously said in 2013 , “If you would just get up and teach them instead of handing them a freakin’ packet, yo. Unfortunately, too many alternative high schools are just about worksheet packets and self-paced online courses. It’s kids in here that don’t learn like that.

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Students Essay Textbooks Lecturing 76

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

In my first teaching job back in 2006, at Campbell High School in Smyrna, Georgia, teachers were expected to collect data at the beginning and end of each semester for every student on their rosters. I’m at a new school, but the problem is the same. Flash forward five years.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

A students GPA, course rigor, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, essays, and recommendations matter far more than whether they studied online or in-person. The Power of Personal Essays for Online Students Perhaps the biggest tool in an online student’s arsenal is the college essay.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

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