eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for comprehensive, proven literacy solutions, launched 95 Phonics Core Program® Word Study, Grades 4 and 5. It also includes professional learning and ongoing coaching at the district and building level to support teachers in mastering phonics-based instruction. Lincolnshire, Ill. –

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2022

As a fifth grade math teacher and instructional coach in New Orleans, Gibson has become increasingly interested in effective teaching informed by cognitive science —otherwise known as learning science—and how it can help teachers improve their practice. Matt Gibson spends a lot of his time thinking about how people learn.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

is using MobyMax to identify and fill the gaps in students’ skills as part of its Response to Intervention program. MobyMax … finds the holes in my students’ academic experience and fills them, contributing to a rock-solid foundation,” said Tim Swanson, a second-grade teacher who is also the school’s technology coach.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

SAN FRANCISCO (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ello , developer of the world’s most advanced AI reading coach, announced today that Common Sense Media rated the Ello app as one of its top 10 AI products for ethical use, transparency, safety and impact. It listens, understands, and engages with children to teach them critical reading skills.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

In my role as a blended learning coach, I value clear goals. Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. The basic idea is that teachers identify 5 “outs” or skills students will master by the time they leave their class.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

One culprit is the mentality that, “If I don’t grade it, the students won’t do it.” ” I disagree, especially when it comes to assignments designed to provide students with opportunities to review concepts and practice specific skills. Then they enter the points or grades into their online grade books.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Its something anyone can develop with practice and coaching, and my radar used to be terrible. And that made it harder to help new teachers grow their own skills when they asked for help. My birding skills improved by moving beyond my backyard, to lakeshores and prairies and thickets. That was until I got into birdwatching.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

Before I started teaching ninth grade Algebra in D.C. Therefore, despite all the reforms aimed at building a corps of skilled career educators, teachers are still quitting at alarming rates—a vast and expensive problem that disproportionately affects our most vulnerable students. Public Schools, I had a career in global health.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

What skills, abilities, language proficiencies, interests, and/or learning preferences are present in a class? Grading is the most time-consuming task teachers are responsible for beyond the classroom. Most of the teachers I know spend hours of their evenings and weekends grading student work. The answer did not surprise me.

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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). admitting students into a video conferencing session and taking attendance).

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In addition to determining where each student is starting in terms of their content knowledge or skills, teachers should collect data during the lesson to gauge what students know. Plus, the students’ scores on a “quick check” are not something I would put into a grade book. Poll the Class with Mentimeter.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

While reading Adam Grant’s new book, Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things , I was struck by his distinction between teaching and coaching. But it’s coaching others that elevates our confidence.” The students in the study assumed the role of a peer coach.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 2, 2018

When I work with elementary teachers, one of the biggest challenges they face is the wide range of reading skills in their classrooms. A first-grade class may have students who are struggling to decode while other students are reading at a third-grade level. To create the book club project, we created two Google Slide decks.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2017

being a student in a student-centered classroom is hard & some kids just don't want to work that hard Click To Tweet I teach 9th and 10th grade, so my students have been in school for 10 years before they walk through my classroom door. ” These soft skills are developed and honed when people work together and face challenges.

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EdTech Magazine

JULY 18, 2022

“If you play video games, you are welcome,” says Jacob Dees, instructional technology and esports coach for Apollo Junior High School in Richardson, Texas. Their online gameplay was so successful that when participants returned to campus full time, educators at the school doubled down on esports.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

This method uses inquiry-based observation skills to determine an artist’s intention and message. Lura noted that her students recognized that they also used these “life skills” in other areas, like providing evidence in English or giving an explanation in math. Art for Communication Skills. Art for Different POVs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

In my role as a technology specialist — or tech coach — at an elementary school, I support teachers of students in pre-K through second grade and I often hear comments like these. When I became a school-based tech coach six years ago, I faced these same struggles. “It’s exhausting to get them all logged in.” “Our It makes sense.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2022

Aside from the cool factor K-12 coding and robotics offers, students will learn a number of skills they’ll take with them well into adulthood, including creativity, problem solving, and the ability to fail without quitting. These skills stick around even if students don’t pursue STEM-related study paths or careers later in their lives.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

These arent just digital skillstheyre life skills. They begin tackling real problems, building research skills, and learning how to think for themselves. Athletes take the lead as captains or student coaches. Girls who know how to lead, who understand their strengths, and who carry those skills with them into the world.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

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. Even though the books are different, the skills they are developing are the same. Here is the template you can copy: bit.ly/HSbookclub. HSbookclub.

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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. Students meet with their teacher in advance of finals week to decide which skills they want to focus on and have the teacher reassess. Students no longer feel powerless.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2022

For instance, the latest test results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) show that fourth graders’ average reading skills have dropped by five points on a 500-point scale since the start of the pandemic—the biggest decline in more than 30 years.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2020

To better support shared learning, I’ve partnered with Learning Innovation Catalyst (LINC) to offer learning modules through LINCspring , their online coaching and professional development platform. In Tinker , you’ll be given templates to design how you’ll implement the skill with students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Yet, this omission has a profound effect on students literacy skills. Not only does this affect their ability to communicate effectively, it also affects their reading skills, because writing and literacy are closely linked. According to one analysis ,half of U.S. eighth gradersstruggle with long-form writing on tests and classwork.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2025

Educators ranked supporting students mental health and social skill development among the issues that have the lowest potential for AI to have a positive impact, according to the survey of more than 1,300 K-12 and higher education educators in 19 countries, including the U.S., What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At Mira Mesa High School in San Diego, California, which has launched an esports program, teacher Brandon Trieu has proven through the success of the team he coaches, the Mira Mesa Marauders, that esports are a valuable addition to the classroom. I’ve seen kids be more attentive to their grades. I haven’t seen any drawbacks to it.

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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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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While coaching teachers this month, several expressed a desire to include review and practice activities in their station rotation lessons to help students prepare for end-of-the-semester assessments. Helping students review for an exam often takes the form of a study guide or review game. Student-created Kahoot! Teachers who love Kahoot!

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Students are grouped based on their skill or ability levels and rotate through all the stations. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels. Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels.

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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. Districts will see the value in data-driven instructional coaching. One practice that we will see gaining popularity is instructional coaching. — Russ Davis, Founder and CEO, SchoolStatus.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Most of the schools where I coach have a wonky Wednesday schedule that I have to navigate with teachers when we co-lesson plan together. Metacognitive skills must be taught. They need to set academic goals, monitor and track their progress and reflect regularly on the work they are doing and what it reveals about their skill set.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

We standardized our use of instructional materials and implemented math and literacy coaches at every school. We chose to focus on improving the quality of instruction by adopting a single, high-quality math and reading program for each grade level and training our teachers in high-impact instructional strategies.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

He took that proclivity to the next level a few years ago, when he accepted a position as a K-12 technology coach in a small school district in western Michigan. I don't do the grading and the discipline anymore.” What brought you to your role as a technology coach? I just get to do the fun part now: teach,” he shares. “I

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2020

Fifth-grade teacher Kim Voge has had students literally beg her to give them more writing assignments. Teaching students how to learn independently — and giving them the practice they need to develop this skill — can alleviate this concern.

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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. It’s writing and skilled questioning.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

The “must-do” activities are critical to mastering grade-level content and skills. The “may-do” activities are useful for mastering grade-level content and skills but not essential. This allows students to work at their own pace and provides them with a range of activities to choose from.

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