Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

While thoughtful assessment design and implementation are necessary for student success, building a strong assessment culture in schools is often overlooked but equally important. ISTE is collaborating with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA) to explore the characteristics of a healthy assessment culture.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Reimagining Curriculum to Foster Engagement and Identity Over the years, fellows have noted how hard it has become to not only create engaging curriculum for students but also find ways to foster community and identity development in the classroom. This lack of belief in Black students potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. We want a curriculum to be multidimensional—to have kids experience maths in lots of different ways.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Specifically, she’s launched Reconstruction , a collection of online courses and curriculum focused on Black contributions to American and world history, targeted specifically at Black students. It is an online platform that focuses on providing a culturally-affirming identity development classes for African-American young people.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Create a school culture that teachers won’t want to leave. Research shows that a positive school culture is associated with higher attendance rates and deeper engagement for both students and faculty. They also need high-quality curriculum materials, apps, and programs that empower them to do their jobs more effectively.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A group of Virginia parents demanded to review their school’s online social-emotional learning curriculum, convinced the school was hiding something. From halted curriculums to debates at school board meetings, social-emotional learning, or SEL, has quickly become the newest target of America’s ongoing education culture wars.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

We needed to foster a growth culture that fostered high expectations and support for the whole child. The foundational belief that intelligence is malleable and that each child’s “true potential is unknown and unknowable.” This curriculum is based off current neuro-research about developing brains and positive psychology.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

New AI tools are emerging daily for educators and students; from AI tutors to curriculum creators, the AI education market is surging. Similarly, if we were to use AI to generate a leadership curriculum, it would be prone to create content that aligns with this stereotype. However, the long-term impact of AI use on students is unknown.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

For any educational institution, adopting the best curriculum available is one of the most important precursors to ensuring the highest-quality teaching and most effective learning. The current analog curriculum procurement process is outdated and inefficient. The process must be made less complex.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

The Academy Program, on the other hand, serves students who benefit from a highly customized curriculum with a strong emphasis on life skills, vocational training, and independent living. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2017

Participants freely brainstormed and spitballed ideas for professional learning, campus initiatives, curriculum focus, data points, student progress—you know, the foundational elements of school. While many of us agree that’s a step in the right direction, “whats” typically compartmentalize efforts and building tasks instead of culture.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2019

These misconceptions are having a detrimental impact on struggling readers, and school leaders need to set the tone and build a school culture where best practices and evidence-based research are shared to create a system of support for all readers. Our curriculum needs to embed leveled reading no matter the goal.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Instead of snuffing out the doom scroll at its source, educators should lean into it, learn, and apply takeaways to their curriculum. This leads to a culture of experimentation, creation, and inquiry. Is there a lesson in that? Inquiry-based learning encourages students to ask questions, seek answers, and explore the world around them.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Z enny Ulloa, a curriculum support specialist at Miami-Dade County public schools, told me at ISTELive 24 that part of this creative learning process should require students to explain how they used ChatGPT or other AI tools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Mercy’s curriculum requires at least 75 percent of a course’s assessment points to be for performance tasks addressing real-world problems. GE Appliances has also developed curriculum for that class and helped us develop our new recommendations of course pathways for STEM careers. The nonprofit already served as our accrediting agency.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2019

According to Jeff Goelitz, Director of Education at HeartMath Institute, during a recent edWebinar , SEL affects everything from systems and structure to climate, culture, and academics. No matter what curriculum campuses are using there is value in having principals talk to other principals, and teachers talk to other teachers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

One of my most eye-opening experiences was watching a teacher use technology to point out the parts of a leaf on screen rather than taking her first-graders outside to explore the pile of leaves right outside her window–all because the district ingrained in her the belief that technology was a non-negotiable.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2020

You have so much culture and tradition. The speaker asked participants to partner up and share stories about our personal experience of our race, within a cultural context. That means that an understanding of context is key—whether it is one’s family, community or the broader cultural and sociopolitical environment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Mini Hu is weeks away from delivering a daughter. The new mother has a lot on her mind.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Traveling Science Workshops (TSW) are state curriculum-aligned, small group, in-classroom workshops that use simple, everyday materials and a hands-on approach to allow students to be scientists: exploring, observing, asking questions, and sharing discoveries. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. About MathWorks.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Digital curriculum provides both the content and the data to establish personalized learning pathways for each student to accelerate learning progress and close gaps. We must convey our belief in our students as learners, and with our help and support, encourage them to stretch beyond what they believe they can accomplish.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 11, 2024

The hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is psychosis, such as experiencing auditory hallucinations (voices) and delusions (fixed false beliefs)” (Frankenburg 2024, para. Auditory Hallucination Simulation To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Yet as confident as they may seem, many are yearning for guidance and a way in which to align their beliefs with the pull of popular culture. For many students, high school and college are times of tremendous personal growth and experimentation. This is especially apparent during an election cycle.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Adaptive Educators By constantly adapting our curriculum, we have the ability to critically examine the culture we’re sharing and work to change the beliefs and messages schools transmit. I could pour even more energy into helping kids learn how to build community if AI helped them build their academic skills.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 11, 2024

The hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is psychosis, such as experiencing auditory hallucinations (voices) and delusions (fixed false beliefs)” (Frankenburg 2024, para. Auditory Hallucination Simulation To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. They needed a cohesive core math curriculum that they could roll out districtwide. Joey carefully tailored curriculum pathways to meet students’ needs.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

Quijada said his teacher’s belief that he could succeed allowed him to challenge himself in ways he might not have otherwise considered. Another teacher and I saw many students who excelled in mathematics, so we wanted to bring an accelerated version of the seventh grade curriculum. I did the research to find the right curriculum.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The question is: How do I empower our white teachers to be their most authentic selves while creating culturally responsive experiences for our students of color? What beliefs or values do you hold that may show up in unproductive ways during instruction? What came up for you as you read about the character’s experience or feelings?

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. in effect transferring local knowledge into the realms of math and computing.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

However, as books like “ Brotopia ” by Emily Chang and “ Race after Technology ” by Ruha Benjamin indicate, the culture of tech companies can be misogynistic and racist and therefore unwelcoming to many people. I am actively learning about people across the globe who have different religious and cultural ways of life than I do.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

It took me wading in and really examining how the course modules aligned with my own Social Studies curriculum to figure out how to incorporate it best. Encourage confidence through preparation I set high expectations in my classroom, creating a culture where students rise to the challenge.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

STEM Career Coalition partners underwrite critical academic and career content available through the award-winning, flexible K-12 learning platform Discovery Education Experience and STEM Connect , an interdisciplinary K-8 resource blending dynamic digital content with ready-to-use lessons and hands-on activities to enhance core curriculum.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system. Conversely, I also have settler students who push back and say “it is not their culture.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2011, there was little research on SEL, and very slim pickings if a school hoped to adopt an SEL curriculum. With an increased interest in social-emotional learning, comes the need for teachers, administrators, and staff to be trained in culturally responsive practices.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2016

These districts represent culturally and economically diverse demographics, and the research findings solidify DreamBox’s belief that with the right tools and support, all children can succeed and pursue rewarding subjects, including math. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

One can see school reform, and actual schools, continue to reflect society’s dominant cultural tropes regarding modernity. Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. His dedication to excellence and steady support have created a culture of achievement and growth at Clover High School.

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