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JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. In this blog post, we’ll unlock the secrets to successful essay writing and share 10 proven tips to help you level up your writing game. What is Effective Essay Writing?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

Student engagement is “ the degree of attention, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that students show when they are learning or being taught.” When students leave high school, they will be expected to successfully navigate myriad challenges and novel situations.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2024

By inspiring the next generation of educators, we can build up this honorable profession to ensure all students are receiving the attention and support they need to thrive. To help, here are six ways school leaders can encourage students to consider careers in teaching, which will benefit K-12 education in the long term.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

From elementary students investigating attractions and writing to the Mayor to high school students considering what makes memorials important to society, there is no lack of authenticity and collaboration.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

And that’s just one example of using technology to enhance writing skills, public speaking skills, and stimulating imagination while learning about a critical historical moment.”. Casey Foundation shows that students who were not proficient readers by the end of third grade were four times more likely to drop out of high school.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2023

However, somewhere along the way, they captured my attention. I set off on a year-long journey to implement them into the academic writing process. Excitements-Worries-Needs-Stance We had been working through the stages of writing a research paper. There were other exposures to VTR but nothing as notable.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Kristina Stratton, principal, Westside Elementary School, Florida. “In In the new year, when we receive our mid-year i-Ready results, I want to celebrate our students’ growth, paying particular attention to those who were below grade level on their fall assessment and have worked hard to make meaningful progress since then.”.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the program director and co-founder of Pioneer Academics , which identifies and empowers high-achieving students with university professors so they can take part in challenging and creative research opportunities across a wide range of disciplines while still in high school.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

There are plenty of reasons that K–3 teachers tend to be less likely than their middle and high school peers to use technology in the classroom. From their focus on hands-on learning to a lack of district-provided devices in the lower grades, the reasons are both pedagogical and budgetary. Use tech to focus on your students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With college application season in full swing and the competition for acceptance into top schools more competitive than ever, students are turning to AI-powered tools for application support, reveals a new survey from Brainly. It can give suggestions for how to write a college application essay for those who lack writing skills, too.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

She was part of a team researching how to build a better writing feedback tool. Think of programs that can automatically generate suggestions or scores for students based on their writing. Sometimes it’s not even that actual writing process that’s causing students the challenge.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

By breaking up your course into smaller, separate modules you make it easier for students to retain knowledge and pay better attention to your lesson. Instead of just reading and writing weekly assignments from a book, students read and write in service of completing a larger project. Establish good course practices.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I credit my old high school Spanish classroom for my discovery. I got a small whiteboard and filled a cardboard box with dry-erase markers and extra writing utensils. Outdoor school was a causal part of their success. Improved attention and cognitive function. I “discovered” it as a teacher in 2011. Reduced stress.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

What is ‘writing’? Today in the 21st Century schools, they’d be wrong. What they have defined as ‘writing’ is actually writing conventions, tools, and activities rather than its purpose, goals, and definition. This focuses on recording words that are then communicated to others.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2021

And that’s just one example of using technology to enhance writing skills, public speaking skills, and stimulating imagination while learning about a critical historical moment.”. Casey Foundation shows that students who were not proficient readers by the end of third grade were four times more likely to drop out of high school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

However, not everyone feels the same about the famous (or in some people’s opinion, infamous) writing style guide, which is over 50 years old. Writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education in 2009, Geoffrey K. She says her school is literature-based—grammar is not “the essence” of English classes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

So now students in elementary and middle schools have to keep devices off and put away during the school day, though high school students can use their smartphones or watches between classes and at lunch. And she says there are fewer fights at the school, too. In general, students are ready to learn,” she says. “In

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2023

However, somewhere along the way, they captured my attention. I set off on a year-long journey to implement them into the academic writing process. Excitements-Worries-Needs-Stance We had been working through the stages of writing a research paper. There were other exposures to VTR but nothing as notable.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. Or when they ask, “So if I’m writing to this senator, I have to actually find out what she thinks first, right?”

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Yet, this concept often receives insufficient attention in teacher training standards, which prioritize state assessments over skills related to cultural responsiveness. Cultural competency–the ability to recognize, respect, and address the diverse backgrounds of students–is essential to student engagement and success.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class. At 19, John was behind in school and still trying to graduate. Since traditional brick-and-mortar classes clearly weren’t working for him, John attempted online courses through his local high school. Sparking a love of learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 9, 2018

I know the difference but write them wrong when I’m not paying attention. It seems everyone equates good writing mechanics with quality whether from a teacher, in her/his lesson plans, or on notes to parents. Analyze My Writing. Free; best for high school and older. Slick Write.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. Students learn best when they study real ballot initiatives during an election year or work with journalism professors to write their own editorials for the local paper.

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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. Teaching The Why Sarah Z. Is it essential by the end of the term?

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2021

When Carlo Diy throws out a question to his high school entrepreneurship and marketing students, he steels himself for an uncomfortable few moments ahead. It's just crickets,” says Diy, a second-year teacher at Durham Public Schools in North Carolina. To spark engagement, Diy has had to get creative. So he put it to the test.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

High school transcripts indicated that STAR students who were in smaller classes for a minimum of three years were substantially more likely to graduate from high school. For a student, individual attention can make the difference between effectively developing skills and just coasting along.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I was a designated English learner in the first grade, primarily due to my inability to read at the expected fluency levels determined by the California English Language Development Test (CELDT), an English reading, writing, and speaking assessment.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We produced a three-part series on the issue called “ Attention Please ,” and two of those episodes made our list. Joyce Carol Oates Says Teaching Creative Writing Is Like Training Boxers Acclaimed author Joyce Carol Oates has a passion for working with students, but it’s one she has trouble putting into words. Thanks for listening!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. I also teach cursive writing, which is a lost art.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2020

Students mark an emoji on a 5-point scale (pictured) and then write reflections on their progress in academics and emotional well-being. The week that most schools closed across the nation saw an acute drop in the emotional well-being of students. Pay attention to student responses and the tone of written work.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2019

According to company officials, Naviance is used by about 40 percent of high schools in the U.S. Naviance scattergrams show prospective college students how their peers at their high school fared with individual colleges and universities—and helps provide a sense of how they can expect to perform in the admissions process.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2020

“The spectrum of crisis distance learning ranged from ‘drive-by’ course material pickups to telephone check-ins to haphazard online lesson plans and ad-hoc video conferences, all of which can be considered a low-fidelity migration to support continuity,” the authors write. Below are summaries of the four scenarios the authors lay out.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

How does paying attention to their surroundings at the mall equate to paying attention on websites? Now that students have thought through these characteristics, have them write a blog post about what it means to be a citizen of the Internet. What morals and obligations are expected of them there? What dangers lurk in each?

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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. It’s a strategy that I used as a high school history teacher years ago. This rang true with me.

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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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