eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

Key points: Students need more than digital access; they need guidance 5 AI tools for classroom creativity A new era for teachers as AI disrupts instruction For more news on navigating AI, visit eSNs Digital Learning hub Finding accurate information has long been a cornerstone skill of librarianship and classroom research instruction.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

The platform’s customization options enable me to design assignments that cater to each student’s unique learning needs, promoting a more inclusive and effective educational experience. This practical activity allows me to visually assess their understanding of interview dress code and making this a practical skill for real life.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. Maybe they forget to turn in assignments, have trouble organizing their thoughts, or feel overwhelmed by fast-paced lessons.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

These arent just soft skills–they are essential for navigating school and life. In many schools, SEL is integrated into daily instruction through explicit lessons or classroom routines that focus on self-awareness, emotional management, and relationship skills. Thoughtful classroom design can make a meaningful difference.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Britannica School is user-friendly and comprehensive, which makes it an ideal tool for building student confidence in their research skills. They need to develop their research skills before they are ready to evaluate content from across the world wide web. Whether you are teaching U.S. Government or A.P.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Key points: Dyslexic students often incur additional stress in the classroom Using different learning tools and regular communication can help students’ comfort levels See related article: The intersection of the science of reading and edtech Reading-based learning differences such as dyslexia can pose unique challenges for students in school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Then there’s the sudden temptation of ChatGPT and other new AI tools, which can make cheating on assignments easy and often undetectable. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. Some students don’t understand how important assignments are, Beckett says.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

may have fallen critically behind in the basic skills they need to become good readers and be successful in school. The HearBuilder online, research-based, foundational literacy program provides an excellent way for students to build their early education and literacy skills. Sequencing. Auditory/Listening Memory and Comprehension.

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Skills Disabilities Learning Disabilities Language 246

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 29, 2016

Instead, there are multiple stations designed to challenge students at various skill levels. I typically design a One Stop Differentiated Station Rotation Lesson if we are focusing on a specific skill, like reading, writing or grammar, where there is a large degree of variation in the skills or abilities within a single class.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. Sure, the skills of writing may have been practiced, but so what? To what end?

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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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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. Students benefit from the freedom to read at their own pace, ensuring they fully comprehend the material before moving on.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. Instead of creating readers, this approach can alienate students who struggle to access books at a particular reading level or do not care for the genre of the books on their class reading list. Here is the template you can copy: bit.ly/HSbookclub.

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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. During the discussion, I encourage teachers to project the slide with a discussion question, give students a minute or two to read the question and brainstorm their ideas in the chat window.

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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. There is a notable drop off in the reading and conversations.In

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 2, 2018

When I work with elementary teachers, one of the biggest challenges they face is the wide range of reading skills in their classrooms. A first-grade class may have students who are struggling to decode while other students are reading at a third-grade level. To create the book club project, we created two Google Slide decks.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At

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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. It’s intimidating.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2019

It’s my job to help them develop the skills and confidence needed to design and drive their learning. They rate the texts in the order they would like to read them. Then as a group, they must agree on a reading schedule, design standard-aligned performance tasks and decide how they want to use their class time. Yes and no.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

It provides an avenue for students to request additional help, instruction, practice, or support before moving on to the next batch of information or a new skill. A learning log or ongoing learning blog is a strategy you can use to encourage your students to spend time thinking about a particular assignment. Sketchnotes. Tell Me How.

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Learning Assignments Students Knowledge 420

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 24, 2018

I want them reading, thinking about, and discussing hot topics that impact their lives; however, engaging students around online articles hasn’t always been easy. This makes it possible to work with students in real time on their online active reading skills. Teaching students active online reading strategies.

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Discussions Critical Thinking Reading Assignments 419

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 19, 2016

I use StudySync to extend learning online, differentiate my instruction for various skill levels, encourage active reading in the digital space, teach the Common Core Standards, and engage students in a range of activities to develop their reading and writing skills.

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English Writing Assignments Reading 380

eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Developed to address the decades-long gap in reading proficiency across the nation, Lexia PowerUp Literacy is designed to enhance core English language arts instruction for struggling readers in grades 6-12. The study focused on 122 sixth-grade students enrolled in six supplemental reading classes at two district middle schools.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2023

Read our blog about why English teachers will love Gale In Context: Literature. Educators can easily connect students to standards-based resources that provide the literary context necessary to ensure student understanding of the texts they’re reading in ELA lessons. Download/view screenshots of Gale In Context: Literature.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 9, 2020

Teachers can make annotating a piece of reading, which is typically an individual endeavor, and make it more engaging by simply grouping students on a shared document to annotate collaboratively. This adds a social component to the learning task, which can help students who are working on the assignment at home feel connected to their peers.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Students 546

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

I’ve blogged about grading for mastery of skills instead of the accumulation of points and ditching my traditional grade book in favor of an ongoing assessment document. I identify target skills and assess these critical skills over the course of the grading period. Grade Interviews.

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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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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When I volunteer in my children’s elementary classrooms (1st and 3rd grade), I am struck by how frequently the teacher finds time to work directly with small groups of students to offer additional support, review concepts, assess understanding, and practice skills. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 12, 2019

A simple approach is to think about the what, how, and why of a lesson, assignment, or project and give students the opportunity to answer one of those questions. Can you allow students to decide what aspect of a subject or topic they want to focus on for a lesson, assignment, or project?

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Assignments Students Blended Learning Motivation 420

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 3, 2016

. ” My goal was to shift the conversation away from the accumulation of points and, instead, focus on the development of skills. Although I appreciated the immediate change that took place when I began grading based on my students’ ability to master specific skills, I knew I wanted to go even further this year as I began N.E.W.

Grades 420

Grades Feedback English Evaluation 420

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If the learning objective is for students to craft a strong argument, you can provide them with different levels of support and different ways of demonstrating that skill. First, when designing any learning experience or learning cycle, I encourage teachers to identify target standards or skills that will frame and focus their design work.

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Essay Blended Learning Feedback Writing 520

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In a previous post, I described how blended learning models could make this challenging teaching assignment more manageable ; however, that post assumes that teachers are familiar with blended learning. A present–pause–discuss format allows the teacher to focus on introducing one concept or skill at a time.

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2018

I wanted to shift the conversation from points to the development of skills. I wanted students to take ownership of their progress and skill development. That’s why my students spend time each week reflecting on the skills they are developing in our class. I do not believe grades should happen to students.

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Students Grades Achievement Evaluation 420

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 12, 2016

There are several different approaches to designing a choice board, but the goal is to allow students an opportunity to select the activities they will complete to practice a skill or demonstrate understanding. Teachers can organize a choice board so that each column focuses on a particular skill or standard.

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Blended Learning Activities Assignments Math 419

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Key points: Literacy is critical for students–and elementary years are a pivotal time These online tools help students develop essential literacy skills See related article: How efficacy studies improve literacy instruction For more news on literacy, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Fall is the best time of year in Montana.

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Quizzes 339

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Who wants to read a depressing newsletter about a year fraught with challenges? 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?

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Learning Blended Learning Assignments Feedback 544

eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

While novels are engrossing for some students, teachers who use a variety of texts and media sources engage more students and address a broader range of topics and reading standards. These connections make students more interested in the stories they read, enhancing their overall classroom engagement. This novel by S.

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