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Teacher Engagement Part I: Understanging Cognitive Engagement in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

In my research on teacher engagement in blended learning environments, the most significant factor impacting cognitive engagement was a teacher’s work as a designer of learning experiences. Teachers as Architects of Learning Experiences. I have yet to meet a teacher who enjoys grading.

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Rethink Your Grading Practices

Catlin Tucker

This year I have posted several blogs about grading and assessment. I encouraged teachers to stop taking grading home for two simple reasons: Grading in isolation robs us of the opportunity to have conversations with students as we assess their work and, ultimately, makes feedback one-sided and less effective.

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How a small school in Sierra Leone uses remote learning to offer high school

eSchool News

Key points: Online learning is critical for connecting students to opportunities Where does blended learning fit in post-pandemic classrooms? AISF does not have a certified high school but does have 11 high school-aged students who have no other options for an international education in town.

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Avoid the One-Size-Fits-All Classroom

Catlin Tucker

When I volunteer in my children’s elementary classrooms (1st and 3rd grade), I am struck by how frequently the teacher finds time to work directly with small groups of students to offer additional support, review concepts, assess understanding, and practice skills. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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Online learning is helping students pursue their passions

eSchool News

As a high school principal at an international school, I want students to successful and well supported if they journey into online learning. Our students in grades 11 and 12 can take online classes for the IB Diploma Program (DP), and we partner with The Virtual High School (VHS, Inc.)

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Blended learning is key to reading success for adolescents in correctional facilities

eSchool News

In this time students are able to attain a high school diploma, a GED, take online college courses, or get certifications leading into a trade. The classes are grouped by age (13-20) instead of by grade level with 6-8 students in a class. Related content: How we turned around our reading program.

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Want to personalize learning? Try personalizing PD first

eSchool News

At a special Blended Learning Summit, Connecticut’s Meriden Public Schools shared its keys to ed-tech success. school district leaders are rethinking traditional approaches to instruction. For the past five years, the district has had a “no zero” grading policy to encourage the completion of all student work.