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78 Scholarly & Creative 7th Grade Writing Prompts

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They’re literary detectives, diving into research and using evidence to create well-organized essays. Informational Writing Choice Board (Distance Learning) By Swain in the Middle Grades: 5th-8th Standards: CCSS W5.2, These prompts are perfect for opinion essays, silly debates, or creative what-if scenarios.

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What do teachers want to see in automated writing evaluation systems?

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Providing substantive comments on stacks of student essays, however, is highly time-consuming for busy teachers. As a result, teachers can be reluctant to assign many essays that require students to produce multiple drafts or provide extensive comments on early drafts of students’ writing.

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With Innovation and Empathy, Remote Learning Becomes Accessible for All Students

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Social and emotional learning (SEL) can support us in reframing how we think about the challenges created by the pandemic and provide us with the tools we need to navigate those challenges effectively. When our school buildings closed, districts and teachers were tasked with creating remote learning plans for their students.

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Rosetta Stone Announces Winners of the Emergent Bilingual Educators of the Year Award Program

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Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students. Machado had the student tell the story of the journey through an assignment and took the story to a local dentist’s office where his wife worked as a dental assistant. About Rosetta Stone.

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Should Educators Put Disclosures on Teaching Materials When They Use AI?

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It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. So as teachers are learning to use generative AI tools themselves, they’re also wrestling with when and how to communicate what they’re trying. Should they disclose that to students?

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SEL Can Help Special Educators Address Rapidly Evolving Remote Learning Requirements

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Educators and administrators across the country took the blank slate created by the absence of a playbook as an opportunity to lean into their social and emotional learning (SEL) training, think flexibly and evolve their practice—in the interest of all their students. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

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Understanding why students cheat and use AI: Insights for meaningful assessments

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When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content. This lack of relevance can make assessments feel like an obstacle rather than a learning opportunity. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments?