eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

There is a fair amount of research into the impact of classroom design on student learning. Spaces flooded with natural light that allow for a variety of learning methods and activities, and spaces that let students feel a sense of ownership over the classroom, demonstrably affect how well students learn.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The answer is not necessarily a new one, but it is a concept that needs more attention from educators in our modern-day classrooms: Design thinking. What is design thinking? The idea of design thinking has been around since the 1960s (Dam & Teo, 2022) but has continued to change in both name and shape over the last 60 years.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

For some teachers, the paperless classroom might seem a bit scary, but I’ve found it’s actually less work. I don’t have to grade papers one at a time or store them in a file cabinet. I don’t even have a teacher’s desk in the classroom. When there’s a test or a project due, they know there’s no excuse for not knowing about it.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

But despite the school’s high test scores, its growth was stagnating. The pilot involved five classrooms, one at each grade level from first through fifth. Schoolwide implementation then brought these changes to more than 500 students in grades K-8 in fall of 2015. CICS West Belden was one of them.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The new suite of offerings – which includes a range of AI tools, interactive lessons, and curriculum-supporting content – takes Canva from a classroom design tool to an end-to-end education platform capable of producing and teaching complete lessons with ease. Teachers can browse lessons by grade, subject and topic.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

During my eight years as an instrumental music conductor for students in grades 4-8, differentiation—and in many cases individualization—were necessities. These four lessons from my conducting years are guiding my current work with educators who are implementing personalized learning in their classrooms.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Not finding anything he liked, he enlisted a handful of veteran Montessorians who, together, created the outline for the micro-school, which has locations serving kids as young as three-months old through to grade 12. That is well below the necessary sample size for a test score based accountability,” Kramer says.

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