eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Consider, for example, essay grading. But software cannot give feedback on many of the qualities that really define great writing—such as whether the students’ rhetoric and logic will resonate with her intended audience. Software is great for generating immediate, automated feedback on students’ mastery of basic knowledge and skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can take it up a notch by emphasizing the diversity of local cultures in any community or classroom and coaching students to listen for and to value different perspectives. References Understanding AI Writing Tools and Their Uses for Teaching and Learning at UC Berkeley | Center for Teaching & Learning.

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Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 13, 2022

On the first day of classes two years ago, I had students in my professional and technical writing course send me an email with their goals for the semester. Their attempt to write specific goals demonstrates an inability to effectively move from essay and reflective language to professional language. © Magna Publications.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

This is perhaps the greatest misconception about my goals as a teacher coach and, after speaking with colleagues in similar roles at schools around the country, I know I’m not the only one who wants to debunk this assumption. Instead I’m encouraging them to think of those essays as an important step in a more authentic process.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It can handle a variety of language tasks, including answering questions, writing essays, generating creative content, offering explanations, giving advice, and engaging in natural-sounding conversations” (as explained by ChatGPT itself).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Brainfuse offers a comprehensive suite of services, including math, science, reading, writing assistance, and college prep, all available online from anywhere with an internet connection. Services include: Live Tutoring One-on-one academic support in math, science, reading, writing, and more.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Training educators is top of mind for leaders like Daniel-Hardy, though the Gulfport district hasn’t launched any formal coaching yet. “We Ready or Not To coach or coax educators into using generative AI tools, there is a consensus among the trainers that it first needs to be demystified.

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Coaching Teachers Schools Ethics 148

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. But if you’re teaching creative writing in a K–12 classroom or a community college, at the end of the day you’re most likely required to stamp a letter grade—or at least a percentage score—on your students’ work.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

For example, to become better writers, readers, and critical thinkers, Quill.org offers low-income students an AI-powered literacy tutor that provides students real-time coaching and feedback on literacy activities that pair nonfiction reading with informational writing.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

That’s the premise of the Voices of Change Writing Fellowship, which EdSurge kicked off last year. Three of the educators from our inaugural cohort of writing fellows recently shared the lessons they learned and some challenges they faced—and they encouraged other educators to raise their voices as well. Who am I to write this?

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Teachers Writing Coaching Essay 196

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2021

Students pay tuition to the colleges, which then share revenue with the nonprofits, which use the funds to pay for services that students access in person, including coaching, career advising and assistance with basic needs, such as meals and child care.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2023

Our readers’ favorite stories included some of the aforementioned pieces plus some others, spanning first-person essays from classroom teachers to deeply reported stories from our staff journalists. But rather than helping them to cope, she writes that her hope for every educator is to find a community of resistance when they need it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2025

Why Early Childhood Teachers Require a Unique Approach to Tech Coaching By Debbie Tannenbaum I have found that there are many ways to empower even the youngest students to get creative with digital tools, writes Debbie Tannenbaum, a school-based technology coach, in an essay. He lays out a better approach.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Student success is more often defined by whether a learner demonstrates achievement on what my grandmother called the “3 R's: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic” — the core academic skills needed to illustrate mastery on standardized assessments. This is a dilemma. That’s likely because self-love is difficult to assess and measure.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 191

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Khanmigo was launched last year in grades 5-8 and used in core content areas, which are typically math, reading, writing, and science, according to the district. It can also assist teachers with tasks such as planning lessons, tailoring instruction, creating texts and images, and providing recommendations on what students could work on next.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

In February, instructional coach Jacquelyn Whiting shared how she helped a math teacher at her school modify a remote lesson about building and measuring blanket forts into one that celebrated giving students a safe, personal space to learn that restored a little bit of agency after a year when they had lost so much.

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Education Essay Ethics Coaching 178

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

However, Davis discovered new constants when he moved out of the classroom and into his current role as instructional technology coach at Downey Unified School District in California. They take notes from their research in OneNote, write out their debate arguments in Google Docs and then record their stance with Flipgrid.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly emerges: 2024 was the year of the personal essay. Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. Talented Students Are Kept From Early Algebra.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2018

NIXON-SAINTIL: The first thing we do is make sure there is a learning coach embedded in every single school in our program to offer ongoing assistance. . A single learning coach can provide that support for all of the teachers in the school throughout the duration of this initiative. .

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Revision Assistant , part of the Turnitin family, is a comprehensive virtual writing assistant for students that allows them to digitally edit and rewrite documents for any class. Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing. We decided to give it a try.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! Here’s what Chris Aviles, edtech coach for for Fair Haven school district , had to say. What is the hardest part of being a teenager now?

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Essay Fairness Coaching Writing 143

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

To that last question, Sean Arnold, a STEM coach and special educator for the New York City Department of Education, has a suggestion. About 14 percent of all public school students receive special education services, and for many of them the switch to remote learning has been difficult on families and the schools that teach them every day.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So, she may have her students type in Google Docs with their tablets instead of writing by hand, to offer them the instant feedback of the platform’s interactive built-in spelling and grammar checker. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The essay, in particular, appeared to be key in distinguishing between students who finished and didn’t finish their applications. Out of the students who eventually applied, 94 percent wrote at least 100 characters for their essay; whereas just 43 percent of students who did not write at least that much ended up applying.

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Counselling Essay Students Study 210

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2023

And in 2012, the group started working with high schools, coaching students to turn their stories into polished orations. They might think that they're there for a writing program or a poetry program, or they haven't maybe heard of The Moth. EdSurge: Why does storytelling matter for young people? And I think it's really different.

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Essay Feedback Writing Coaching 148

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Is someone coaching you or advising you? The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. Gather baseline evidence of writing skills across academic disciplines using a simple, in-class prompt that requires students to provide a claim and supporting evidence in a full paragraph. What are they?

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2022

It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. They want to read and write and think. They write brief papers and give short oral reports, building skills and stamina they eventually will need to complete and present a capstone research project, their final assignment before they graduate.

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Students Art Essay Interdisciplinary 178

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The assignment, “Write a Style Guide and Use GenAI to Write Social Media Posts,” is an engaging way for students to apply marketing principles in a real-world context. I interviewed the owners of Fitness Formula MN and learned they were struggling with how much time it takes to write and post social media content.

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Teaching Ethics Assignments Students 110

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

Doctor Ramirez earned her doctorate in educational leadership from USC with a focus on instructional coaching and technology integration. She has worked with almost every age level of student in a variety of capacities as a teacher, as a coach. We followed the coaching cycle. She has over 25 years of education experience.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The assignment, “Write a Style Guide and Use GenAI to Write Social Media Posts,” is an engaging way for students to apply marketing principles in a real-world context. I interviewed the owners of Fitness Formula MN and learned they were struggling with how much time it takes to write and post social media content.

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Teaching Ethics Assignments Students 105

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 29, 2018

Using analytics allows us to modify assignments or input alternate information ,” says Lauren Michener, the organization’s learning coach. “It Now, teachers can use a tool and, based on how well each student does, ask one student to write an essay for a test while another student takes on a short answer.

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Exams Testing Schools Students 140

Edsurge

MAY 29, 2017

Just like we can teach a five-paragraph essay, we can teach students to write a great LinkedIn profile, interview in a way that lets them shine, and communicate professionally. Students from lower income backgrounds often have no such supports. And, on average, there are 3000 students per college career services adviser.

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Students Essay Feedback Fairness 138

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Politicians are using ChatGPT to write bills (e.g., “ AI wrote a bill to regulate AI. It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI.

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

This tool can write as well as humans”) and fear (“Wow…this tool can write as well as humans”). Politicians are using ChatGPT to write bills (e.g., “ AI wrote a bill to regulate AI. It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI.

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2023

Drawing on our experiences as faculty developers, faculty coaches, and faculty members, we recognize an ongoing need to examine the ways we are still grappling with the impact of the myriad of events that continue to impact our campus communities. In Lenin and Philosophy and other Essays, 121-176. References Althusser, Louis.

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Faculty Development Coaching Essay Ethics 110

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Here are a few assessment strategies that fit the above criteria: Student demonstrations : Students can conduct science experiments, write short stories, create models and prototypes, and perform plays based on scripts they wrote. Dr. Amal Farhat has experience in teaching and instructional coaching at K-12 schools and higher education.

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Authentic Assessment Counselling Learning Outcomes Faculty Development 133

eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2025

Ascend now is an online education platform focused on providing personalized, academic and beyond academic coaching and mentoring to students aged 7 to 17. Teacher saying we don’t have time for essay and I always. That they don’t have to write a whole Lesson plan or learning sequence, right? You know, I really Don.

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