Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

Now, you and your PLC can learn together online at a time, place, and pace that works for you! Explore how blended learning can help you partner with students to reimagine learning and find a realistic work-life balance! Consider bringing Balance with Blended Learning into your professional learning community.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Feedback is critical for helping students enhance their conceptual knowledge and skills. Despite its value, with the time constraints and the large number of students in classrooms, providing focused, actionable, and timely feedback often feels unattainable. It avoids language that might confuse learners.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 28, 2020

I want students to know that their teachers are there to support them as they work because learning is a process and everyone needs feedback and help to improve. I want students to be intrinsically motivated to revisit and improve their work because they feel like active agents in the learning process.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Feedback is a powerful tool that can profoundly impact student learning and success. However, not all feedback is created equal; some approaches to feedback can propel students toward growth, while others may hinder their progress. What is the secret to effective feedback?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

These traditional workflows do not position the students to be active agents or help them to develop into expert learners, who are resourceful, strategic, motivated, and self-aware. Katie Novak to write a follow-up to our book UDL and Blended Learning. Want to learn more about blended learning and UDL?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In fact, the switch to hybrid and fully virtual learning during the pandemic highlighted how students can become distracted and lose motivation when they are seemingly hiding behind a screen, causing many frustrated parents and teachers to loathe the use of technology in learning. Start giving your students real time feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

As an advocate of blended learning, my focus is on helping teachers design and facilitate learning experiences that are differentiated for specific groups of students and personalized for individual learners. 3 Students are capable of self-directed learning. If not, what would they enjoy learning? This is not new.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Student agency, or a students’ ability to make key decisions about their learning experience, is an essential aspect of blended learning. Choice boards fall within the umbrella of blended learning when we combine active, engaged learning online with active, engaged learning offline.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

When I lead blended learning workshops or coach teachers implementing blended learning, I get a lot of questions about classroom management. When humans are given the autonomy, especially in a learning environment, it yields higher levels of interest, engagement, and motivation. Niestradt, J. &

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In the early days of my transition to blended learning, I had one Chromebook, which I received after writing a Donor’s Choose project. It is a series of stations, or learning activities, that students rotate through. To be considered a blended learning model, at least one station must be an online learning station.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In our newest book, Shift Writing into the Classroom with UDL and Blended Learning , Dr. Katie Novak and I guide teachers in creating the time and space to support all parts of the writing process in the classroom. Relatedness: At home, students do not have the support of their learning community.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 20, 2023

It provides immediate and ongoing feedback to both the teacher and the student. It provides evidence of progress over time, which can be motivating for students and informative for teachers and parents. It helps to identify a student’s strengths and limitations. It can be used to promote self-reflection and self-assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Every time I lead a blended learning workshop, teachers ask me the same question. When students, or anyone for that matter, experience input that feels controlling or puts pressure on them to think or act in a specific way, the result is lower levels of self-determination that can negatively impact motivation. Click To Tweet.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

In my Art of Blended Learning Online Course this week, we continued our work on the playlist model. Additionally, using a digital format creates space for students to document their learning and for teachers to provide feedback. Does your school have a team of teachers interested in blended learning?

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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. Targeted Skill Development: Focus on specific skills that individual students or groups need to develop, guiding practice and providing feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

PLCs group teachers into learning teams that pursue their professional learning through a lens of interest. The learning teams that enjoy high levels of autonomy and agency tend to be more motivated and engaged. Elaborate: Apply Your Learning. Evaluate: Assess the Effectiveness. What did they enjoy?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It is the educators who understand this truth and design and facilitate learning experiences that align with this truth who have had the most success navigating this challenging moment in education. Human connection and the feeling of being seen and supported are most likely to motivate students to lean into learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Real-time assessment tools Digital assessment tools give teachers immediate feedback about student comprehension, enabling quick adjustments to lesson plans and teaching strategies. Students track progress, share resources, and receive feedback in a single, accessible space that captures their complete learning experience.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

This twist on the station rotation model combines the strategic collection and use of data with student agency to create a more personalized and student-centered approach to this blended learning model. In a traditional station rotation, all students rotate through the same sequence of learning activities or stations.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 17, 2023

As discussed in the previous blog, teachers can leverage AI to drastically reduce the time it takes to design differentiated learning experiences and provide feedback. That places them in a powerless position and can negatively impact their motivation over time. read, watch, listen).

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

Achieve3000 offers innovative new ways to empower blended learning and accelerate student literacy gains through differentiated instruction in the 2016-2017 school year. The program continuously evaluates each student’s exact skill level, learning temperament and learning pace. State-Customized Solutions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Almost 10 years ago, I served as the principal of a blended learning pilot school. Then, rather unexpectedly, we were awarded a big grant to test out a hot new topic: personalized learning. Our teachers and students thrived; every single student received individual support and feedback every single day in both math and reading.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 6, 2025

We talk about her passion for integrating service learning, graphic organizers, and play-based strategies in early years classrooms to foster both academic and emotional growth. If youre looking to make learning more meaningful and inclusive, this conversation is full of insight and inspiration. Catlin: That makes sense.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2021

Recipients receive services from BetterLesson to ensure continuity of learning and resilient pedagogy implementation. are motivated to improve teaching and learning in new environments and adopt strategies that promote social justice,” said Matt Kennard, CEO of BetterLesson.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 3, 2024

Not every student enjoys the same task, so giving them options is critical to maximizing their motivation and focus in a lesson. Choice boards allow us to honor our students’ preferences, needs, and interests, making their learning experience more engaging and effective. Want To Learn More About Choice Boards?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Personalized learning takes center stage, tailoring educational content to individual student needs and learning styles. Smart K-12 platforms use algorithms to analyze student performance and provide real-time feedback, allowing educators to tailor their teaching strategies and interventions accordingly.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

moving away from just using the word “grades” has been an important piece of keeping students motivated in the program. The program follows six key tenets: project-based learning, learner agency, whole person development, blended learning and competency-based assessment.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

However, John was especially motivated to graduate so that he could get a well-paying job and be able to live on his own. To fix this problem, I used the “sandwich approach” in the feedback I gave him. This feedback was usually something simple like, “I love your idea here!”. The path to success.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Conversations around personalized learning are nothing new for the staff at the M.S.D. Teachers in our virtual high school and blended learning programs, which I help direct, have been having them for a few years now via webinars and seminars. Based on this feedback, we decided to scale back some of the options.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2024

Barriers to Student-led Meaning-Making Whole-group instruction often limits students’ opportunities to interact meaningfully with each other and their teacher, reducing the chances for collaborative learning, peer discussions, and immediate feedback, all of which are crucial for making meaning.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

The common factor of crucial importance in the above theories of learning is that cognition and intelligence were malleable as affected by emotional states. Certain emotional states invited motivational sustained effort, while others led to relinquishment of effort. Feedback that praised inherent ability, for example, “Good work!

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Another reason for the concern is that as educators increasingly use digital tools to personalize learning for students, some have struggled to ensure that the environments they create are not isolating. The real magic of blended learning occurs when teachers use technology to boost human interaction, in both frequency and impact.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

The common factor of crucial importance in the above theories of learning is that cognition and intelligence were malleable as affected by emotional states. Certain emotional states invited motivational sustained effort, while others led to relinquishment of effort. Feedback that praised inherent ability, for example, “Good work!

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Online platforms and learning management systems are other examples of technologies that improve student learning and enable teachers to share resources, assignments, and feedback seamlessly. This fosters a more connected and collaborative learning environment, even beyond the physical classroom.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Key to making this model work is student motivation, and an internal drive for students to take more ownership of their work. Students need to feel safe and accepted into the classroom culture before academic learning could occur, and that to do this they needed to learn how to take ownership over their work and their actions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

They have two master’s degrees and they’ve gone to every training they can get their hands on, but that’s still not enough to keep them challenged and motivated. This type of learning is really important to people working their way toward mastery and beyond, and an LMS is the best way to deliver it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

The feedback I often get on these sorts of sites is that students do improve speed and accuracy but only on the site. There’s a better way to learn keyboarding: Blended Learning. Here are some of the methods I mix up in my classes: Finger Exercises (unplugged learning). That’s Typing Tournament.

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