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JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. In this blog post, we’ll unlock the secrets to successful essay writing and share 10 proven tips to help you level up your writing game. What is Effective Essay Writing?

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JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. To close the skills gap, there are a number of practices, strategies and ideas that any high school can draw from the CTE model.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It’s generally easy to determine if students have used an AI tool to generate a response to a writing assignment or to generate an entire essay. We have to rethink the full-length essay as the end-all, be-all for assessing student writing skills,” Miller said. It’s intimidating.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay. He set a high bar for clearly articulated theses, well-structured paragraphs, well-crafted sentences, and supporting quotes from the text.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Victor Machado, an ESL teacher at East Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, won the $10,000 grand prize, along with a schoolwide semester’s subscription to Rosetta Stone English. Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Whether they go on to college or begin a career immediately after high school, they will no longer have somebody telling them what to do and when to do it. They might write an essay, compile a slideshow presentation, or create a video, for instance. These are skills that will serve students well once they graduate.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. 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

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Shmoop introduced a new service through which experts will read a student’s college application essay and provide detailed feedback and overall suggestions. All the student has to do is subscribe to Shmoop’s 12-month student plan between November 1, 2016 and January 15, 2017, and then email their essay to Shmoop HQ.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. Solution for teachers : Teachers can foster a culture of integrity by establishing trust and open communication.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. Instead, college instructors need to change how they assign and communicate their homework assignments. But complaining about students isn’t the answer, Cohn and other teaching experts say.

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MAY 31, 2023

Riley Mulcahy, founder of the RILEY Project , provides a unique perspective as a former student and current administrative assistant at Compass High School. Compass High teachers aim to provide a personalized learning environment for every student as much as possible.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Twice a week, Rofiat Olasunkanmi, 22, heads back to Brooklyn to her alma mater, Kurt Hahn Expeditionary Learning School. Rofiat Olasunkanmi helps high school seniors apply to college. Further, rates varied by school type. Photo courtesy of Olasunkanmi.

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Counselling Essay Students High School 210

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Yet most high school and middle school students are illiterate when it comes to online texts, and can’t discern real information from fake news. Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. We can not omit digital literacy from our curriculum.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2018

It might seem strange to squeeze in lessons on coping with trauma or resolving political disputes in between frog dissections and persuasive essay writing, but students today say they want to be as prepared socially and emotionally as they are academically when they leave high school.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones. They are disconnecting and disengaging.

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OCTOBER 17, 2016

I was a certified high school math teacher, but like so many of my peers, I also taught advisory—working with students to develop their social skills and help them explore college and career options. That year, my students would learn how to listen actively, communicate clearly, and control outbursts. Or anything else.”

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Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 167

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DECEMBER 16, 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! in 1990, the world was just awakening to the massive communications revolution ushered in by the Internet.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2025

The first curriculum to meet educators demands for high quality instructional materials for SEL and life skills readiness. The curriculum helps students cultivate communication, problem solving and self-awareness, as well as essential life skills like entrepreneurs. Teacher saying we don’t have time for essay and I always.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

The AtomicMind Foundation Scholar Program will provide comprehensive support throughout a student’s college admissions journey, starting as early as the freshman year of high school. Essay crafting. ? Navigating relevant relationships and communications at the high school and college levels. ?

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. We had a lot of conversations in the hallway, which is about as private as it gets in a public high school, but none of our chats led him to put his best foot forward.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

And professors report that some students even have trouble using more fundamental computer programs to write essays or run calculations. Their understanding of memes, social media platforms and other ways of communicating come from an adolescence where the default mode of socializing has been online. “My

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JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. Special educator Kareem Neal uses empathy as a tool to improve communication and connection with the students in his self-contained classroom and their families.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

During her years in the classroom, West-Smith developed a conviction that every student, not just those headed to college, can be an effective communicator. Prompts, Essays and More. Revision Assistant's Secondary Education Prompt Library —middle and high school writing prompts organized by grade level.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 135

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APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction High school is a defining period in a teenagers life. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education.

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JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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JUNE 12, 2018

The transition raised multiple challenges including course placement, grading, and community communications. I embarked on this journey along with the foreign language department and the one other Chinese teacher at my school believing in the effectiveness of this student-centered approach. Can we have one more essay practice?”

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2024

The New York City high school senior has even received incorrect emails telling him his application was canceled. With college decision deadlines looming, thousands of high school seniors have been stuck in limbo due to the bungled rollout of the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid. newsletters.

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DECEMBER 10, 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 Philip Hickman, superintendent at Columbus Municipal School District , had to say.

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JULY 7, 2022

At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student. By March 2000, during her senior year of high school, Ruth Cady was chatting with her assigned freshman roommate. Should their essays have a thesis statement? Fascinating,” Charlotte says.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 140

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OCTOBER 31, 2017

McClarin Success Academy in College Park, GA is an alternative high school and many of our students have never passed a standardized test. The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative. My students were writing one essay a week, and I was collecting them in a Google Drive folder.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. 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 75

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

This focuses on recording words that are then communicated to others. Today in the 21st Century schools, they’d be wrong. Middle and High School. Elementary-High School. assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. Twitter Novel.

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Writing Teaching Essay Plagiarism 84

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

Connective uses of technology are for communication purposes, which range from gaining fluency with social media, to composing an essay or a presentation, to writing an email. Creative uses of technology include audio and visual recording and mixing, coding, web and app design, word processing, drawing, robotics and 3D modeling.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A. Evolve your programming.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

ChatGPT was just the first in a wave of new AI tools designed to mimic human communication via text. 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. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper?

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