eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

The assignment? They werent just completing an assignment–they were crafting their voices, practicing communication skills, and taking pride in their ability to share something they loved in a second language. Students were given creative freedom to shape their presentations.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

Teachers havent stopped assigning projects on wolves, genetic engineering, drug abuse, or the Harlem Renaissance, but the way students approach those assignments has changed dramatically. Encouraging assignments that require diverse sources and source types helps to build research resilience. They no longer just surf the web.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2025

Students can collaboratively create a video-recorded presentation for their assigned workshop mini-lesson. Jigsaw: Using this peer-to-peer learning approach, students collaborate within groups to develop their expert understanding. They then share their screencast via LMS, Padlet, or a similar tool for other groups to use as a reference.

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Students Discussions Evaluation Lecturing 306

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

” I disagree, especially when it comes to assignments designed to provide students with opportunities to review concepts and practice specific skills. Second, asking students to do something meaningful with their work creates accountability and can motivate them to complete assignments. Each student completes the assignment.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2025

student (full disclosure–she’s my granddaughter) said, “On a lot of my assignments I do use AI even though it’s not allowed. AI education remains confined to pilot grants, ad hoc workshops, or optional electives. One independent-minded 10-year-old U.S. I do it because I know it’s the future.

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Essay Language Languages Intelligence 317

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Booklist Assignment. The Booklist Assignment is designed to help students select a book they’ll enjoy. Reading and Response Assignment. As you build a reading culture, you can assign the “Reading and Response” as classwork, homework, or a combination of the two.

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Culture Reading Assignments Blended Learning 499

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. When teachers provide students with the rubric at the start of any assignment or task that will be assessed, the rubric serves as a roadmap. How does using rubrics benefit students?

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Fairness Assignments Feedback Language 545

eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

Teachers and parents can assign grade-level texts, paired with vocabulary lessons and comprehension questions. ReadWorks : Reading skills are among the most vulnerable to decline during the summer, especially for students who do not have regular access to books or structured reading activities.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

Teachers can integrate SEL strategies directly into academic instruction, such as modeling emotional regulation during challenging tasks or building communication skills through collaborative assignments. These small modifications can significantly improve comprehension and reduce a students frustration.

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Students Learning Styles Assignments Intelligence 240

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 27, 2021

Assignment Checklist. These are often the same things that teachers outline in the initial description of the assignment, task, or project. I believe rubrics should be provided at the start of any assignment, task, or project that will be assessed using a rubric. but to avoid making notes on the other student’s work.

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Feedback Peer Review Assignments Online Learning 546

EdTech Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

Engaging students goes beyond pushing them to participate in lessons and assignments. Allowing K–12 students to take agency of their learning gives them the opportunity to share their voices and flex their creativity.

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Technology Intelligence Learning Assignments 164

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2021

Create an assignment in your learning management system (LMS) and post the slideshow overview with instructions. Post separate assignments for each online station, so students can access all of the resources and digital documents they need to complete the assignments.

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Blended Learning Teachers Assignments Language 521

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Do they feel the work assigned is interesting, engaging, and relevant? They are navigating the experiences, assignments, routines, and workflows that we are assigning and using. What has been your favorite activity, assignment, or routine? So, if students are not doing the asynchronous work, we need to ask them why.

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Learning Blended Learning Assignments Feedback 544

eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

This includes: Verifying AI responses with trusted sources Asking students to explain how AI supported their thinking Designing assignments that prioritize reflection and originality Yes, students might misuse it. Just as we teach responsible use of the internet and social media, we must teach responsible use of AI.

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Ethics Plagiarism Math Communication 263

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. The benefit of assigning video instruction for homework is that students can control the time, place, and pace of the learning experience when they watch the video at home.

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Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 467

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2025

Still, AI adoption and use remains high, with 70 percent of surveyed students reported that they use AI at least occasionally for their assignments. In addition to feeling they are shortcutting learning, 50 percent of students report not knowing how to get the most benefit from AI in their studies.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

Students who would have been performing below standards and assigned intervention support are now being told they are passing. That means students this year did not need to achieve the same mastery of knowledge and skills as kids in previous years.

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Education Math Exams English 288

eSchool News

JULY 7, 2025

When taking inventory of all the programs and platforms, our data was scattered everywhere like luggage on a cruise ship that had never been assigned cabin numbers–everyone’s bags were out, but no one knew where anything belonged or how to get it to the right cabin.

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Counselling English Disabilities Coaching 263

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 23, 2021

As I support teachers navigating this teaching assignment, I’m honest about the challenges that the concurrent classroom presents. I am also solution-oriented, so this webinar is about making it work. After all, education is one “make it work” moment after another!

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Teaching Blended Learning Assignments Online Learning 532

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

Ability to maintain one calendar for teachers who share the same students, which helps to avoid assigning “big assignments” like assessments and essays at the same time. Events must be copied by hand. It can be easily shared with other teachers or administrators.

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Essay Assignments Writing Middle School 545

eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

worksheet materials) However, most AI tools in education today are not designed with curriculum integrity in mind. The result? Teachers may unknowingly generate content that conflicts with their district’s curriculum, eroding the consistency and effectiveness of HQIM, and unintentionally widening learning gaps rather than closing them.

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Education Quizzes Ethics Academic Integrity 302

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Wiggins says the best feedback is: Goal-oriented or referenced: Feedback should clarify the goals of the assignment or task, guiding students toward a clear desired result or outcome. Teachers still play a central role, inputting assignments, selecting or creating rubrics, and determining how many attempts a student has to submit an answer.

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Feedback Coaching Assignments Motivation 348

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Self-assessing Practice and Review Too often, when teachers assign review and practice in class or for homework, the responsibility for checking the accuracy of that work falls on the teacher. As a result, students miss out on the opportunity to recognize their strengths, identify their limitations, and target areas for growth.

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Evaluation Assignments Failure Participation 428

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They can use Google Classroom to create an assignment and “make a copy” for each student. That way, teachers can pull individual students into a breakout room to check-in about progress, provide feedback on student work, or conduct a side-by-side assessment to grade an assignment that students have already completed.

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Learning Assignments Universal Design Feedback 546

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

A recent Google blog post outlines how four different school districts are leveraging Google AI tools, like Gemini and NotebookLM, for innovative teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Sometimes they will cold call students, while other times they will ask students to share what they learned after theyve had a chance to read the assigned material or discuss it with their classmates in groups. Multiple times in any class period, teachers call on students to contribute to the lesson of the day.

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Culture Feedback Language Languages 276

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

One way to help students prepare for an online discussion is with a planning document that is shared like any other assignment at the start of the week. Anything else I need to communicate to them can come in an email, assignment post, or screencast. Students may be shy or need more time to process the questions.

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Discussions Participation Questions Assignments 546

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment. offers a tool to make assignments AI-resistant.) MagicSchool.AI

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2025

Gimkit offers so much more than just a game-based learning experience for students–it can be used as an introduction to a lesson, as assigned homework, or as a tool for reviewing. Building a Gimkit From the teacher’s side of Gimkit, the platform makes it extremely easy to build lessons for the students to use.

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Multiple Choice Questions Game-Based Learning Students Fairness 204

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

Assessment resources, including rubrics, assignments, and performance-based assessments to help teachersmeasure content mastery. Ready-to-use resources, including Google Slides, project information sheets, project supply lists, downloadable materials such as printable handouts, and websites to share with students.

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Teaching Middle School Middle School Social Studies 172

k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

These aren’t just assignments. One of the participating students put it this way: “We weren’t just creating a marketing campaign; we were solving a real-world problem that mattered. That made all the difference.” They’re moments where students feel seen, heard, and empowered.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can even tap student enthusiasm for new technology by assigning–and assessing student learning using–multimedia projects. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. These types of assignments are also harder to farm out to AI! Motivate students to act by incorporating action planning into assignments.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. A red use would be inappropriate or unethical, such as asking ChatGPT to write an essay based on an assigned prompt. At UC Irvine, for example, one faculty member assigns oral exams to computer science students.

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Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 167

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. It seems as if a quick scan of one of the assigned pages is the best effort.

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Instructors Assignments Participation Students 87

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As I’ve said in previous blog posts, teaching in a concurrent classroom is the most challenging teaching assignment I can imagine. Unfortunately, an increasing number of teachers are navigating this challenging teaching assignment.

Evaluation 546

Evaluation Feedback Writing Assignments 546

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

instruction, scaffolds, practice, assignments). Teachers can create a playlist around a unit of study, a formal writing assignment, or a project. Benefits of the station rotation model: Create smaller learning communities within the larger class. Spend time working directly with small groups of students. Differentiate learning (e.g.,

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Blended Learning Teaching Learning Students 545

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments. That detector first became popular among professors when the internet made it easy for students to copy and paste information from websites into their assignments.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 112