Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Three years ago, with the help of the education agency the Grant Wood Area Education Agency (GWAEA), Iowa rolled out its initiative to implement blended learning as a model for the state. In a competency based system, students advance upon proficiency and receive rapid differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Most teachers groan at the mention of “articulation.” In my role as a blended learning coach, I value clear goals. When teachers know what they are trying to achieve, they design lessons with intention and a clear sense of purpose. 2 Teachers interpret the standards differently.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 20, 2018

In my book Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 , I shared the following elementary writing rubrics with my readers. Unfortunately, the short links I provided in my book have timed out, so I wanted to share these on my blog so any elementary teachers interested in using them have access! Feel free to make a copy and adjust as needed.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In order to address these equity concerns, the district is increasingly turning to technology--in particular, blended learning--to allow all students to succeed. Embracing Blended Learning. The districtwide shift towards blended learning began in 2015 when Erica Hartman was hired as Supervisor of Technology Integration.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

The teacher explains the model, the students understand the expectations, and the class moves into stations smoothly. When introducing station rotation, I encourage teachers to embrace a couple of routines to make the experience run more smoothly. Once students understand the objective, they practice moving from station to station.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Every Wednesday from 2:45-6:45, the fresh aroma of “personalized” coffee choices from the Keurig fills the air and our teachers settle in to work individually or with their colleagues at the Technology CAFÉ. Next page: How teachers use the CAFÉ.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2017

And when blended learning gets thrown into the mix, the situation gets even more complicated—what happens when educators seem afraid of products? Who should deliver PD, the administrators or the teachers? Steve Kong: I think that's completely true in that teachers have to experience what you're expecting them to do.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

Time management is a constant struggle for teachers since they spend most of their days working directly with students. That leaves a small window of time for all of the other tasks and responsibilities that teachers have to juggle, including planning and designing lessons. . The robust digital tools inside of my Google Calendar (e.g.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2018

Using the organization’s personalized learning implementation framework, we diagnosed areas of need and focus while further workshops exposed our teams to design thinking and innovative approaches to personalized learning so that each school team could ultimately create its own instructional model.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2015

The ELL programs are modeled after Middlebury Interactive’s world language courses and, like those programs, integrate research-based learning techniques, cultural awareness and project-based activities into blended learning classrooms. Digital Learning and Tools News Online Learning Top News'

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

With help from Rosetta Stone’s language learning solutions, Boone County Schools is providing students with access to programs that it hopes will enhance college and career readiness and global competence. Each school in the district has its own language learning goals and implementation plans tailored to its needs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Teacher turnover has an impact on all stakeholders in the school environment, and research shows that students struggle to perform well in schools with turnover year after year. Retaining effective staff can be a big challenge for schools and districts, as can figuring out how to solve the issues around this problem.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

However, a recent study on the Lexia® PowerUp Literacy® (PowerUp) adaptive blended learning program found that PowerUp users outgained non-users by nearly 30 points. times more effective than typical interventions for both EL and non-EL middle school students. In fact, the program was more than 2.5

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

In a previous post titled Save Your Sanity with a Things to Revamp for Next Year List , Catlin shared her “things to revamp for next year” document, which is another format teachers can use to reflect and capture their thoughts. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

This is especially true for sixth graders, they said, who are managing a challenging transition to middle school and lack independence. It turns out young adolescents are extremely capable of engaging in self-paced, blended learning. Before, our students were completely dependent on the teacher.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2021

Many families were unsure of how their local districts would handle new guidelines brought by COVID-19, and others felt most comfortable going with an existing virtual school with years of experience. With these sudden changes in their lives, students may feel more anxious and unmotivated to learn.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Well, in one region—the Local District Northwest sector of the district—administrators, schools and teachers have been busy expanding efforts for blended learning implementation in collaboration with Stepan Mekhitarian. Stepan Mekhitarian: Well, I do professional development for 129 schools in our local district.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2023

Even the most experienced teachers find themselves teaching “that one class” that needs extra support and structure when implementing the station rotation model. Assigned Seats at Student-Led Stations As a teacher, I always had seating charts for whole-group instruction.

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eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2015

Digital Compass, a new gaming platform, helps educators teach middle school students about pitfalls and opportunities of the digital world. Common Sense Education has released Digital Compass, an interactive gaming platform to help 6th through 9th graders learn critical skills of digital literacy and citizenship.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. Knowing this, we opted to pilot the Lexia Core5 Reading adaptive blended learning literacy program a few years ago.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2017

Middle school students across the U.S. are learning how the body works by studying the anatomy of a frog, a vertebrate with an organ system similar to that of humans. Blended reality can be used in other ways. Video of One Blended Learning Technology.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2020

Read to Lead is a 100% free and proven blended learning solution that leverages game-based learning to help students in grades 5-9 build reading, writing, and leadership skills. If students read their way through 12 episodes, that’s equivalent to completing a middle school chapter book!

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Blended learning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. Sweat the school culture Culture matters more than technology.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2018

million English language learners (ELLs) in elementary and middle school classrooms, learning and understanding the language of mathematics can be a challenge. Supporting ELLs requires a commitment to a shift in practices that involves the entire school and also branches out to the community. For many of the 4.5

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Middle school students are still at the elementary level, and upper elementary students are still figuring out the basics of numeracy. Classroom teachers often do not have the time to spend on individual math tutoring to bring each student up to proficiency. ELL teachers are focused on reading and writing.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Today, I’m amazed at the impact technology can have on the learning process—especially when it enables teachers to personalize learning. And I never tire of hearing stories from educators who are successfully implementing personalized approaches to provide their students a truly unique learning experience.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

The NEA encourages teachers to bring physical activity into the classroom by incorporating brain breaks in students daily routines or taking classroom activities outside. We installed L systems , featuring Epson laser projectors , in every elementary and middle school gymnasium. For the students and teachers, its just plain fun.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

If this is the case, although it’s better than the alternative—no teacher at all—it’s also a missed opportunity for deeper innovation. As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. Only about half of high schools offer calculus.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

As schools across the country reopen for the new academic year, students will be greeted by more than teachers, administrators and their peers. . For many IT leaders, administrators and teachers, the technology also fuels their excitement and inspiration for the new school year.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2017

What never ceases to surprise people is the sheer scale of the New York City school system, a district made up of 1,800 schools, 76,000 teachers and over a million students. Every teacher needs access to high-quality resources and learning experiences that meet their personal needs. In designing the library, Ms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 14, 2020

Chris Landry, an eighth-grade science teacher at Memorial Middle School , said he’s been able to continue teaching students amid the closures through videos and has even provided them with fun activities to do at home. More on flipped classroom: Why flipped and blended learning are making waves. SentAndEnt.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Teachers and students are meeting in the cloud and our school has opened in a fully virtual model for the start of the school year with the expectation of a slow reentry by the end of the first quarter. Limited exposure by assigning 1-2 teachers for each learning group. Use of outside spaces wherever possible.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2020

Across Carrollton-Farmers Branch Independent School District in Texas, teachers used a “hodgepodge” of learning management systems—Canvas, Google Classroom, Google Sites, Seesaw, Schoology and other tools—recalls Khadijah Gordy, the district’s digital learning specialist. All the teachers were using something different.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Technology remains–still–a love-hate relationship between teachers and teaching. Yes, it enriches learning but at the price of too many problems, preparation required, and confusion. Digital resources can save teachers innumerable hours of planning, grading, assigning, and assessing in the classroom.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Vidalia City Schools selected Fuel Education because of their proven ability to partner with schools to help them effectively launch, grow, manage, teach, and support successful online learning programs,” said Randy Rodgers, Director of Virtual Education for Vidalia Academy. “As

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2021

Over the course of three years working together, Ohio teacher Heather Nesler and her co-teacher perfected a smoothly choreographed approach to co-teaching inclusive eighth-grade math classes. Over the course of three years working together, Ohio teacher Heather Nesler and her co-teacher perfected a smoothly choreographed approach.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2016

The goal of the event was to focus on the practical elements of blended and personalized learning by surfacing the tactics that practitioners were deploying in the trenches. All too often, new approaches to instruction are designed in isolation from the teachers who will be implementing those approaches. Open doors.

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