eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete. For me it was Ms. This same approach would work in other classes as well.

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Teaching English Students History 304

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in participating states are invited to submit a 500-word essay addressing a community issue. A panel of judges will review the essay submissions and the top 20 students will move on to their local competition to show off their civics knowledge. .”

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Math Middle School Middle School Essay 257

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Instead I’m encouraging them to think of those essays as an important step in a more authentic process.

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

No matter what grade level they taught in middle or high school, teachers had students who struggled to use a digital learning platform or to type without painstaking hunt-and-pecking at the keyboard. “It Some [teachers] have students who have written full essays on their phones.”

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Essay Writing Attention Feedback 213

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Schools must support teachers as humans; AI can help them reduce preparation time and act as an instruction supplement. “We’re We’re seeing a major shortage of substitute teachers,” says David McGrath, headmaster of Paragon Prep, a high school in Austin, TX. But with AI, that is simply not the case.

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 281

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. Students who spent formative years learning online may be too nervous to raise a hand in class or have trouble paying attention. That was one of my favorite classes.”

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 200

eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2018

Check out the following four videos for help with your professional learning network (PLN), to supplement lessons about video essays, to help students self-assess, and more. You may want to use these videos with existing lessons next school year, or you may find yourself creating new lessons around the video content.

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Essay Critical Thinking Attention High School 140

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones. They are disconnecting and disengaging.

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Motivation Grades Students Essay 218

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s not a mastery-based standard and it hasn’t been given the same weight as crafting a clear argument in an essay or explaining the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. In an essay penned in 1935, which has become one of the anchor texts I’ve drawn from throughout my career, W.E.B.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 191

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We produced a three-part series on the issue called “ Attention Please ,” and two of those episodes made our list. How to Best Teach Immigrant and Refugee Students, and Why It Matters Schools are finding better ways to teach recent immigrant and refugee students. Another big theme that emerged was a spike in student disengagement.

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Instructors Lecturing Attention Essay 139

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Many institutions still rely on Turnitin, but the professionals who must check dozens of essays on a daily basis know that this expensive service can be way too slow. . Copyleaks is the second plagiarism checker similar to Turnitin that caught our attention. This process can definitely take a lot of time without optimizing anything.

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. I can’t love an essay, but I can love my food,” he says.

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Schools Students Counselling Special Education 195

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

in the thick of filling out college applications, that might mean putting off writing an admissions essay or sending in a transcript. It takes approximately four hours to complete all six “zones” in the course, including those that explore attention, idea expression, memory, organization and time management.

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Essay Students Quizzes Writing 156

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. We had a lot of conversations in the hallway, which is about as private as it gets in a public high school, but none of our chats led him to put his best foot forward.

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Testing Essay Writing Motivation 137

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. Although some have taken computer classes and other tech courses offered by their high schools, others may find themselves floundering when given simple tasks.

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Teaching Culture Internet Students 203

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

“Teachers dedicate a huge amount of time and energy to helping students learn and love reading, but it’s tough to give each student one-on-one attention in a busy classroom,” said Ray Lyons, eSpark’s VP of Product. Personalized profiles help determine target schools based on professional goals and grades.

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. Attention feels more frayed and fragile during live video lessons for all of us. Let’s be frank.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

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 99

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

The opening to this essay , penned by Finck, sheds some light on why I find her work so entertaining. “A I was struck by the tight argumentation in the recent Vox essay, “ The incredible shrinking future of college ,” written by New America’s Kevin Carey. Read more from Emily here.

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Reading Essay History Science 170

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

A dozen or so students are gathered virtually in a Zoom room, inhaling and exhaling and summoning their attention for a brisk lunchtime lesson filled with music and poetry. At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student. Fascinating,” Charlotte says.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 178

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. Work smarter, not harder.”

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Schools Language Languages Reading 246

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Missed Signals Shed Cheated in Her Previous Marathon The press coverage from Boston caught the attention of a New Yorker named Susan Morrow. Evaluating the detectability of AI-generated texts among student essays. AI with intention: Principles and action steps for teachers and school leaders. link] Fleckenstein, J., Keller, S.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

Today in the 21st Century schools, they’d be wrong. Middle and High School. Elementary-High School. Consider these two statistics: The average person’s attention span is 8.8 The average goldfish attention span is 9 seconds. Elementary-High School. Instead, try something new.

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Writing Teaching Essay Plagiarism 92

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper? link] Nguyen, T., link] Nolan, B.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper? link] Nguyen, T., link] Nolan, B.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Disabilities 98

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. Informally, I paid attention to test-taking behaviors.

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Failure Learning Testing Assignments 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

When ChatGPT was first released, questions swirled around higher ed about it stoking an increase in plagiarism, promoting a lack of critical thinking, and what the future would hold for classic functions like the college admission essay. But with AI in schools, that is simply not the case. AI could transform tutoring. newsletters.

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Plagiarism Education Intelligence Textbooks 130

EAB

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In an effort to improve the admissions process, “direct admissions” programs have gained widespread attention as a potential solution. Most importantly they still require students to submit applications, often including essays and other materials. But these programs do not go far enough.

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Essay High School High School Attention 59

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school. And so then I moved to a comprehensive high school with a really, Dr. Brandee Ramirez Dr. Brandee Ramirez A major need for intervention. We have to think, you know, is an essay the right thing?

Schools 195

Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 195

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Have students type a school project (such as a book report or essay) while paying attention to keyboarding skills. Cyberbullying is a critical topic that most schools try to cover with a one-and-done sort of approach. This is a free technology curriculum for Middle/High School and adults from Google.

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Activities Schools Ethics Writing 88

Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

And once she had the attention of the conference goers, she used the opportunity to announce the crowdfunding campaign for Wayfinding Academy. And Jones admits that guidance counselors at high schools she’s approached have been reluctant to recommend the unusual college with no accreditation.

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Grades Discussions Assignments Curriculum 120

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Surprise and novelty, too, activate attention centers in the brain, helping information stick. Real School Example A teacher introduced the Cold War by comparing it to a dramatic “high school friendship breakup.” Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. The result?

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And a significant portion of my work revolves around engaging these institutions and being more effective in terms of, one, recruiting these students, but also marketing to the community’s organizations, the advocates, the advisors, the counselors, high school teachers who might be also engaged in this work, too. But Penn is hard.

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Culture History Questions Essay 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph essays. The five-paragraph essay is a topic long debated by educators, and strong opinions abound. Lee High School in Baytown, Texas.

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Essay English Writing Art 147

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

to ensure that students were paying attention. My high school students were sometimes doodling on the paper, staring out the window, or hoping to just get the answers at the end from myself or a friend. I would call out helpful reminders like “Number 3 is coming up!” They were not. But the content was so good and so relevant!

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Active Learning Activities Feedback Learning 279

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2015

to ensure that students were paying attention. My high school students were sometimes doodling on the paper, staring out the window, or hoping to just get the answers at the end from myself or a friend. It was truly wonderful to see such a consistently high level of engagement throughout the project. They were not.

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Learning Feedback Essay Lecturing 279

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

If we narrowly target academics, and we don’t pay attention to how children become learners in the first place—the barriers to that, the accelerants to do that—children won’t be able to do what we are asking them to do,” she said. At Chelsea Pascua’s high school, students have stepped up by forming a peer counseling club, she said.

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Counselling Education Essay Achievement 168