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Faculty Focus
JULY 15, 2025
Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. Aside from promoting positive interdependence and individual accountability, students participate equally through simultaneous interactions.
Faculty Focus
JULY 15, 2025
Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. Aside from promoting positive interdependence and individual accountability, students participate equally through simultaneous interactions.
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Faculty Focus
JUNE 1, 2025
I failed to appreciate the value of clear expectations and the inescapable necessity that my students needed to walk out of my class with a grade. For the next four years, I used Kevin Gannons grading contract to implement more structure and Barbara Schapiros third space to reflect on what worked for me and my students.
k12 Digest
JULY 1, 2025
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. These aren’t just assignments. We use clear rubrics, reflective feedback, and skill progression models that prioritize growth over grades. That made all the difference.”
eSchool News
APRIL 24, 2025
The survey polled 1,500 11th and 12th grade students from across the U.S. The 16- to 18-year-old students queried are participants in this years MathWorks Math Modeling Challenge (M3 Challenge), an annual internet-based, intensive math modeling contest organized by SIAM. level mathematicians.
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.
k12 Digest
JULY 1, 2025
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. These aren’t just assignments. We use clear rubrics, reflective feedback, and skill progression models that prioritize growth over grades. That made all the difference.”
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