eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Wisconsin is creating a new literacy office and hiring reading coaches. Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world.

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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. A few things became clear: #1 Teachers used different language to describe similar strategies.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Ello , developer of the world’s most advanced AI reading app, announced a new partnership with Civic Suds to promote reading by donating hundreds of children’s books while families are at laundromats this summer. This is not acceptable,” said Allister Chang, Founder of Civic Suds.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Pittsburgh, PA– Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, announced today that elementary students from Buchanan County, Virginia School District achieved unprecedented reading gains using Carnegie Learning’s Fast ForWord ® reading and language program. That’s major.

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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. ElemBookClubTemplate.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2019

Biggest challenge: Results on standardized tests revealed that about a quarter of our 9th- and 10th-grade students weren’t reading at grade level. Many of those struggling were English-language learners (ELLs) whose English proficiency wasn’t at the level needed to comprehend challenging texts within these exams.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. Instead of creating readers, this approach can alienate students who struggle to access books at a particular reading level or do not care for the genre of the books on their class reading list.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2020

If your student or child had to rapidly transition to an at-home learning environment as a struggling reader, an English language learner, or one with dyslexia, there are many ways that the support they were receiving in school can transfer to their home. This builds metacognition, which is key for comprehension and reading success.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The statistics are well known: only 35 percent of students are reading proficiently by grade 4, and NAEP reading scores are the lowest in decades. Although most students can learn to read, the majority are not reaching their full potential. Coaching that provides content-specific individual support. “At As Louisa C.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Teachers can use this data to design subsequent lessons to ensure individual students get exactly what they need in terms of follow up instruction, coaching, scaffolds, and personalized practice. When I was coaching a second-grade teacher, we used FlipGrid to capture a sample of each student reading to assess their fluency.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Other components of the RPS literacy framework include Integrated Literacy which integrates English language arts standards, Next Generation Science Standards, C3 standards, and some health standards. Extended transfer beyond the Daily Core 4 is embedded within the framework as well. We have a number of students with gaps in literacy.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2024

Like, if someone's talking to me and I'm reading a book, I wouldn't hear them,” says Aylynn, an eighth grader in Pendergast Elementary District in Phoenix, Arizona. Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2020

If your student or child had to rapidly transition to an at-home learning environment as a struggling reader, an English language learner, or one with dyslexia, there are many ways that the support they were receiving in school can transfer to their home. This builds metacognition, which is key for comprehension and reading success.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Data literacy in a school context means more than reading charts or calculating averages. Why it matters for K-12 teachers As educators, we regularly interact with data, benchmark scores, reading levels, engagement analytics from edtech tools, and state test results. What is data literacy for K-12 learners? The same goes for students.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. And while the science of reading is currently in the forefront of media cycles, many other areas of education are being informed by cognitive neuroscience research.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

Practice Reading or Watching Station Directions One of the challenges that teachers encounter when first implementing station rotation is that students don’t read the station directions at the independent and student-led collaborative stations. Do you feel that you met the objectives? Provide evidence to support your score.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Our school is one of just 12 “Science of Reading Spotlight Schools” in Alabama this year, but getting here wasn’t easy. Rewind the clock back to the fall of 2021 and just 15 percent of our kindergarten students were proficient in reading. I especially like the platform’s expansive video library and science of reading approach.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

But, in the famous words of college football insider and former coach Lee Corso, “Not so fast my friend!”. As an example, reading passages are available within portions of units, and can easily be printed by the teacher, they can be offered to the students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

BOSTON In 2024, more than 2,600 districts, schools, and state departments purchased or renewed licenses to Lexia Aspire Professional Learning or the Lexia LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling) professional learning programs. Strength of reading is so important. Its the door to everything.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Rather, Stinky Feet Day is the students’ hard-earned reward for reaching new benchmarks in silent reading. Silent reading is sometimes referred to as the “other fluency,” with oral fluency being the traditional standard-bearer. Yet, silent reading is a critical, albeit often overlooked, aspect of literacy development.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2025

However, in 2019, nearly half our students scored below proficiency in math and reading as measured by state test scores. We standardized our use of instructional materials and implemented math and literacy coaches at every school.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif., Details about the new program are available at [link].

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As an educator with 16 years of teaching experience, I have dedicated the last several years to training, coaching, and supporting teachers. When and where do you learn–school organized professional development, engaging on social media, listening to podcasts, online courses, reading books or blogs? How do you currently use technology?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2019

This article is part of the guide, What Does Reading Well Looks Like? “I In this discussion of the benefits of Sustained Silent Reading, it’s apparent that encouraging his students’ love of reading was an effort to extend his curious nature to them—an effort that, after almost four decades in the classroom, clearly paid off.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

Hundreds of schools, ranging from Boston Public to the small coastal town of Ipswich and the diverse city of Brockton, used Lexia’s literacy offerings to help learners read and speak with confidence. Lexia believes that literacy can and should be for all regardless of ability, heritage language, or zip code. About Lexia Learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

In this case, AI can essentially serve as an on-demand instructional coach for special education teachers. Creating reading level-appropriate text can be another tedious task for special education teachers. This can be used for students with either higher- or lower-level reading needs. MagicSchool.ai

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2023

ATLANTA – Cox Campus, the online learning community of the Rollins Center for Language & Literacy at the Atlanta Speech School, has been selected by the Ohio Department of Education (DOE) to create a customized early learning credential to transform teaching practices and child literacy outcomes throughout Ohio.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

“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. It covers reading, writing, vocabulary, language, math, fact fluency, number sense, and science.

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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

JUNE 5, 2023

From Teacher-led to Student-centered with Blended Learning As a blended learning coach and professional learning facilitator, I assist teachers in transitioning from traditional, teacher-led instruction to more student-centric approaches using blended learning models. Teachers are often intrigued by the station rotation model specifically.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2024

It enhances learning experiences with tailored learning paths and immediate feedback, improves accessibility and inclusivity through assistive and adaptive technologies and language translation, and boosts efficiency and administrative support by automating routine tasks and improving data management.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2024

The district uses NWEA’s MAP Growth , part of NWEA’s Growth Activation Solution, to measure achievement and growth in K–12 math, reading, language usage, and science. Teachers in Schiller Park receive MAP Growth coaching and see it modeled regularly. We have outstanding instructional coaches.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

As part of the professional development offerings at Adams 12 Five Star Schools , we are implementing video coaching via the Edthena VC3 platform to add another layer of job-embedded support for our teachers, specifically for new teachers and special service providers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Like many educators, Christy Stanley wants her students to practice close reading and deep learning. They don’t know how to slow down their reading.” Three years ago, Stanley’s district discovered a powerful ally in its quest to get kids to pause and really process what they’re reading. I was impressed,” says Stanley.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

For example, suppose small groups of students are discussing a text they’ve read, a video they watched, or a podcast they listened to. In that case, the teacher can move around the room observing students and circling language on the rubric to informally assess their participation in the discussion or their understanding of the content.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2019

Approximately one in seven of our students are English language learners. When we looked at our reading and math scores a few years back, we found that we weren’t seeing the growth we were hoping to see. Instead, we designed our own units of study and pulled in supplemental materials to align to our state’s standards.

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