Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

With speeches, music and drumming, they mourned the long history of American slavery and racism that began on Virginia’s shores, but also celebrated the myriad cultural contributions African Americans have made to the nation. “It Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. Put us to work for you. He was very poor.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Approaches described in a study from the Stanford History Education Group were referenced several times. The report says that to assess claims made online, reading laterally (where you seek context and perspective from other sites) is more effective than reading vertically (which involves deeply investigating the reliability of the source).

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

From poor reading skills to chaotic classrooms, the stubbornly high rate at which kids are absent from school makes it harder to solve every other problem in education. In grades 3-8, if a student was chronically absent, they scored 18% lower in reading on average, and 25% lower in mathematics. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Not being able to read has a profound effect on our self-esteem, social-emotional skills and imagination.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2019

I’ve read dozens and dozens of books filled with characters I can relate to: white, middle class females. I’ve also read many novels that have stretched my mind, opened my heart and shown me what it’s like to live in someone else’s world. I’m middle class. My outer body matches my inner gender.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

Check back on Monday, January 23rd for the next must-read post!]. “At Stanford History Education Group, 2016. That means paying less attention to what we should be blocking in our schools—and more attention to teaching students how to be smart consumers of information.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

NAEP state-level findings of drops in math and reading scores were followed by the release of the Education Recovery Scorecard , which leveraged NAEP data to offer the first comparable view of district level learning loss during the pandemic. State and district-level learning loss data is critical.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

The course, titled “The Reading Experiment: The Power of the Book,” takes place every other Friday beginning at 9:30 a.m. Students put away their technology and read for four hours. It’s a rediscovery of uninterrupted reading,” Peña-Guzman said last Friday while pulling up slides about the assigned readings.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2025

Despite some improvements notably in fourth-grade math the national results were pockmarked by widening gaps in student performance and declines in reading scores, including the largest share of eighth graders who did not meet basic reading proficiency in the assessments history.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2024

For the assessment, I simulate a conversation in which I play the role of the doctor, asking questions related to their symptoms and medical history using the audio recorder in Classkick. This hands-on approach captured the student’s attention and made abstract concepts more tangible.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2015

For all the hand-wringing, media attention, and proposed legislation over data and student privacy the academic research on the topic may just now be starting to catch up. I read about the Student Information Systems. The history of some of them is that they were started out primarily from a compliance perspective.

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Teach Hub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When it comes to fostering a love for reading in students, there’s a powerful tool that goes underappreciated: the read-aloud. Read-alouds have the power to transform how students perceive books and reading. Benefits of Read-Alouds Read-alouds offer many benefits. Here are a few.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2022

But we couldn’t bear to leave you without some worthwhile reading and listening material during this wintery week, filled with short days and long nights. Read more from Marisa here. Read more from Daniel here. Read more from Emily here. Like educators and students across the U.S., Maybe you will, too.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

Teacher prep programs are failing to pay attention to the content knowledge teacher candidates need, and an astonishingly high number of elementary teacher candidates fail professional licensing tests teach year, according to a new report. Read more: 5 big ideas for innovation in 2019.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. But in 2024, reading scores declined even more for both fourth and eighth graders. newsletters.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

But Lang admits that holding students’ attention is now harder than it’s been in the past, and he offers some practical suggestions on how to respond. We talked about his tips for holding attention during online classes, his thoughts on banning devices in the classroom and how he got into writing about teaching in the first place.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Kognity is also a useful resource for reading and review material, because each lesson includes several different sections that are easy to hide or highlight, depending on where I want my students to focus their attention.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 19, 2025

As I considered how to introduce this post, I started by looking for statistics that could paint a picture of where modern-day students are with their reading skills. I typed “Kids Can’t Read” into my search bar, looked at the results, and realized I could skip this step. “You need a lesson structure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2019

The list covers books aimed at fourth- through sixth-grade, with reading levels that vary widely within that range. The kids push beyond their comfort zone, seeking to meet the challenge issued by me: Read six of the ten books and at the end of the year we’ll gather for a pizza party to celebrate your accomplishment.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Library innovations in the 21 st century include building a space that students actually want to inhabi, whicht is imperative to facilitating their learning and curiosity when it comes to reading. During the 2021-2022 school year, the Reading School District saw over 13,000 ebooks and audiobooks checked out through the Sora K-12 reading app.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Whether your role is as an administrator, teacher, parent, or student leader, if you’re reading this, you are probably interested in helping other school community stakeholders understand the power of technology in a teaching and learning environment. Are they connecting literature or history to the present day?

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Guided lectures with Pear Deck or Apple’s Classroom iPad app can keep students’ attention on the topic at hand by ensuring that their screens will display exactly what the teacher needs them to see. As a teacher coach, I’m not encouraging teachers to throw out the practice of assigning, reading, giving feedback on and correcting essays.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Read about the three 2023 winners here. Beyond book distribution, Dr. Bedden’s efforts have fostered a genuine love for reading and learning that will undoubtedly brighten Centennial’s future for years to come. reading intervention program. Jump to: Tamiko Hatcher , Michelle Kruse , Dr. Dana T.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

00:00:23 Speaker 2 So in the state of Missouri, we have a history of of using growth data to inform our accountability decisions. So all those kids get get paid very close attention to and all teachers pay attention to every kid. 00:00:45 Speaker 2 And that’s really where it’s at. 00:06:04 Speaker 2 State level when?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. All too often, the books on these reading centered traumatizing and marginalizing protagonists.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

He passed away the other day, and you can read an essay looking back at his life and work that we published at EdSurge. From everything we’ve read about Christensen, we’re guessing he’d be happy to see his ideas debated and engaged with. Or read the partial transcript, which has been lightly edited for clarity.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I pay close attention to classroom solutions that can meet these students exactly where they are. Or about the ones who act out in class because they’re embarrassed that they can’t read; they’d rather get in trouble than lose face. I pay close attention to classroom solutions that can meet these students exactly where they are.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2018

She called attention to the “ Moral Machine ,” an ethical quandary posed by MIT professor Iyad Rahwan. I’ve not read any history books where whole societies were not working. This is why it’s so important to have history and philosophy as part of the curriculum for somebody who's being educated as an engineer.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2019

Now, I’ve got their attention, and students start thinking, ‘Wow, this science stuff is interesting. Maybe an auditory learner doesn't mind the long article but needs to hear it, not read it. history students, and I want to insert questions for students to think about while reading.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Amazon Polly supports SSML, which helps you create lifelike speech that will attract and hold the attention of your audience. A good example is a type of assistive technology called Read Aloud, where content that is viewed on a screen is also read aloud via text-to-speech synthesis. Sample audio: This is how I speak normally.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2020

At the end of every year, EdSurge rounds up a collection of its top stories based on clicks, shares and website traffic—and no year in our short history has been quite as dramatic as this one. And what can teachers do to make sure that their students are paying attention? Can Teachers Read Books Out Loud Online? Actually, Yes.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Kris Astle, Global Education Strategist, SMART Technologies Far too many students continue to struggle with reading, with post-pandemic recovery remaining slow—and in some cases, stagnant—among our young readers. Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Kids, to introduce young children to foundational skills and concepts like social-emotional learning, math and reading. For starters, most 3-year-olds can’t read. But they’re learning through songs, poems and dance” related to Black history and Black life. In one reading class, the lesson is built around 10 Stevie Wonder songs.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 10, 2019

For students who do poorly on math word problems, a teacher may need to address not only their algebra skills but also their reading comprehension. . Using this approach, students have improved their math and reading scores by 151 and 198 percent respectively. . Personalized education requires cross-curriculum communication.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2019

When we weren’t paying attention, she’d count down, “3… 2… 4” and we’d all giggle and immediately pay attention. Overstreet asked me to start coming in after school to practice my spelling and reading. Without her, I wouldn’t have gotten special reading comprehension therapy that allowed me to become a straight-A student.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’d already read many stories about ChatGPT in the news, and initially, I wasn’t concerned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) would impact my teaching. She learned to pay attention to others and practiced kindness, empathy and gratitude. I chuckled because I knew him well enough that he wouldn’t follow through.

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