Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2023

A similar truth applies to the adopted curriculum many teachers use. While initially, it’s beneficial to have a clear roadmap to follow when implementing a new curriculum; as teachers gain confidence using it, they will desire to exercise their creativity to tailor the learning experience to the unique needs of their students.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2015

Denver makes district-wide commitment to curriculum and teacher professional development. Denver Public Schools (DPS) has selected Expeditionary Learning (EL) to provide the curriculum for grades 4-8 in the coming academic year. EL’s curriculum is in use in 465 school districts across 36 states and the District of Columbia.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Last week in Palm Springs, I had the pleasure of coaching a 9th-grade math teacher. When I coach math teachers using the station rotation model, I suggest that they think about the whole week instead of focusing myopically on a single lesson. Math instruction tends to be linear with each lesson building on the one before.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2015

Program is intended to help product stronger math coaches for elementary grades. A new graduate program designed to prepare math coaches for elementary schools and help raise student math skills is being launched at the University of Maine at Farmington. Curriculum McClatchy News Professional Development (PD) Top News'

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

BOSTON — Adaptive learning company HMH today announced the launch of HMH Coachly , an innovative service that provides educators with unlimited access to dedicated instructional coaches. Coaches offer strategies to teachers at all stages in their professional and implementation journey, ensuring their success every step of the way.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. While coaching a teacher in Palm Springs, I developed a digital notebook using Google Slides that teachers can use to facilitate a book club or literature circle unit. .” It’s the book that grabs them and pulls them into the story.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In a coaching session last week, it became clear that teachers could use basic templates to help them conceptualize how to take strategies they have used in the past to create lessons that will work in a concurrent classroom (or in an online learning scenario).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Building foundational literacy skills through systematic writing instruction in the early grades is critical for students long-term success. As the Wall Street Journal reports , kindergarten students tested in 2023 were about 2 percentage points less likely to begin school at grade level in reading, compared to 2019 data.

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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. The free web-based curriculum is modular so students can move at their own pace, logging in any time of day for any length of time. Read to Lead Website.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

However, there are three reasons I’d argue we should NOT spend our time outside of class grading: Our prep time is better spent designing creative and engaging lessons. We don’t get paid for the time we spend grading outside of class. Real-time feedback and assessment are way more effective.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 6, 2020

As a blended learning coach, I spend a lot of time in classrooms observing lessons. I cannot count the number of coaching sessions that have begun with a teacher explaining that they don’t have time to try a new strategy, technology tool, or instructional model. This job is tough.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 9, 2019

In a coaching session last month, I had a teacher ask me how to create a final exam that complements a standards-based approach to assessing students. It also saves teachers time because they do not have to grade every question they develop for every child. .” I never had a clear sense of what content would appear on the final.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

And when you combine strong values with smart tech and a global curriculum, you get more than a good education. Athletes take the lead as captains or student coaches. From Prekindergarten to Grade 12, students learn social-emotional skills through a carefully structured curriculum. At Elmwood, learning is never static.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For example, I was asked to demonstrate a model lesson during a district professional development day and represented my subject and grade level on a curriculum vertical alignment committee. Their primary role is to support the coach in diffusing innovative instructional practices across the campus.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

We take a comprehensive approach beginning with our foundational curriculum. It is imperative that all of our teachers, instructional coaches , and administrators share a common language and instructional practices to support all students in the area of literacy. We have a number of students with gaps in literacy.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

To close achievement gaps that have disproportionately affected our students of color, we knew we needed to improve instruction and the quality of our curriculum materials. We standardized our use of instructional materials and implemented math and literacy coaches at every school.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

Creative Coding in the Classroom: From Game Design to Storytelling One example of creative coding comes from a curriculum that introduces computer science through game design and storytelling in Minecraft, a game-based learning platform used by millions of students worldwide. This inclusivity is intentional.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

“As we talked with EmpowerU students, we realized how much they valued the daily support of their EmpowerU coach—and they wanted an integrated way to access their feedback and encouragement. Integrated communication tools create close collaboration between the school team and the EmpowerU coach. Our new platform does just that.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

In 1995, I became the Educational Technology Coach for the Verona Area High School. As the Educational Technology Coach, I support the classroom teachers I serve by modeling innovative technology strategies, co-planning lessons, co-teaching, curating research and resources, analyzing student usage data, and many other strategies.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

As a result, our district, Worthington City Schools in Ohio, has narrowed the amount of topics we cover at each grade level, diving deeper into each topic in order to gain solid conceptual understanding, a high degree of procedural skill and fluency, and the ability to apply math to solve problems inside and outside the classroom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Teachers, parents, counselors, administrators, coaches, and other loved ones have faced an unprecedented challenge in this regard. –David Cisneros, National Director for Content and Implementation, Curriculum Associates. Districts will see the value in data-driven instructional coaching. public schools.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2015

Teachers are using 3D printing across the curriculum in an expanded pilot. Students at a Massachusetts charter school are getting a first-hand look at what it’s like to integrate 3D printing into their curriculum. The 3D printer is now incorporated into teachers’ lesson plans on a larger scale. “The

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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. To address this, AEF integrates executive functioning coaching into daily instruction.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2018

At the beginning of the year, when we have the opportunity to assess students through observation and district benchmark assessments, I determine the areas of greatest need and work with our interventionist, coaches, and my other grade-level teachers to determine how best to meet the needs of my struggling students. Monitor progress.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Reading coaches and teachers say the decline in reading proficiency and scores among kindergarten through third grade students was well underway before the pandemic. Illinois reading coach Katie James began her career in education as a teacher spanning first, second, and third grades.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Teachers enter this profession determined to do it all – design and facilitate lessons, communicate with parents, monitor and track student progress, provide timely feedback, and grade everything. As an educator with 16 years of teaching experience, I have dedicated the last several years to training, coaching, and supporting teachers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

iMentor, along with a growing supply of online and virtual college access programs, provides a platform and curriculum that blends virtual and face-to-face mentoring. For example, iMentor’s curriculum provides recommendations and specific prompts for what each party should be sharing and doing at each point in its scope and sequence.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

As another school year approaches, teachers are scrambling to set up classrooms, make photocopies of syllabi, attend mandatory meetings, and prepare their curriculum. It is tempting to dive right into the curriculum given how much we have to cover in a year. What are you grading and why ?

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2023

Or as a gymnastics coach, how would you react if you were asked to score your own team’s performances in a competition? Or as a gymnastics coach, how would you react if you were asked to score your own team’s performances in a competition? Inaccurate grading.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

Dr. Norah Barney, EdD, Director of Special Education and Curriculum, Anaconda School District #10, Montana. Jennifer Pastor, Fourth Grade Math Teacher, Tioga Elementary School , Rapides Parish Schools, Louisiana & a 2022 Curriculum Associates Extraordinary Educator. “As Courtney Groskin, Learning Coach, St.

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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. Data released at the end of the 2021-22 school year showed the district increased math scores by double digits in grades 3-8, outperforming pre-COVID levels.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

When students fall behind in the earliest years of their education, around ages 5–7, it becomes much more difficult to bring them to grade-level reading as they grow. Simply put, the biggest bang for our buck in developing strong students across grade levels comes from starting early and making sure they have a solid foundation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It was clear that a new approach to literacy instruction was needed–one that leveraged every teacher in our building and gave us ways to catch our older students up on second grade skills without infantilizing the content. But how could I do this without making my fifth graders feel like they were back in first grade?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Earlier in my career, my daily grading process amounted to little more than trading beans. In New Tech Network schools, grades are weighted according to five categories. With the revelation that we would have weighted categories of grades, my first reaction was, “Why wouldn’t we have weighted grades? It’s simple, really.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

I started building an esports curriculum and, every time, I got shot down, I would add an element to the curriculum addressing the reasons I was told we couldn’t have a team. That transfers to school , giving them a reason to show up every day and improving attendance, behavior, and even their grades. That’s not true, either.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s a look at each winner: Winner: John Arthur, 6th Grade Teacher, Meadowlark Elementary School Nominated by: Follett John Arthur was the 2021 Utah Teacher of the Year and one of four finalists for 2021 National Teacher of the Year. In grades 3-5, students completing at least 16 skills had the biggest improvement overall, growing 8.7

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Our goals in creating this ecosystem were to increase reading achievement, help students succeed on their third-grade state assessments, and, most important, inspire our students to become lifelong learners through reading. The platform had to use integrated literacy units to complement our current curriculum.

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