Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Understanding that not all students express or communicate their understanding in the same way is crucial. By offering meaningful choices, we can ensure that every student has the opportunity to successfully apply and communicate their learning, accommodating their unique strengths and preferences.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. And that's how people learn math. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. How do you prepare for that?

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Available within Discovery Education Experience, the essential companion for engaged K-12 classrooms, this new content supports instruction in a variety of disciplines including ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Careers Exploration.

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Laboratory Social Studies Education Middle School 195

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

YummyMath asks students to apply math to real-world situations involving food, sports, weather, movies and entertainment, and art. Information and “ knowledge needs to be presented in authentic contexts — settings and situations that would normally involve that knowledge.”

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

Math Skills Reinforcement: For math classes, must-do stations could focus on foundational math skills that need reinforcement, as identified by assessment data, while may-do stations could offer problem-solving activities, collaborative real-world math challenges, or math games that stimulate critical thinking and application.

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Metacognitive Skills Math Blended Learning Quizzes 344

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

The overall quality of students’ work also suffers when they do not have the time and space needed to fully engage with academic tasks or produce artifacts to express and communicate their learning. Each student progresses differently based on prior knowledge, learning preferences, and exposure to the language.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In my previous post, I focused on strategies teachers can use before a lesson to assess prior knowledge. 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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Key points: Improving family engagement methods can be challenging, but not impossible See article: 5 tips to increase parent engagement See article: 3 tips to cultivate meaningful parent engagement For more news on school communication, see eSN’s Educational Leadership page As a school administrator, I thought a lot about family engagement.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

The pandemic has created urgency to move beyond the status quo, and community-generated portraits of a graduate have swept the nation, highlighting the knowledge and skills many Americans want their young people to possess upon graduation. Advanced technology can now support more ambitious modes of teaching, learning, and assessment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Meeting the Growing Demand for CS Skills Alexis Johnson First Grade Teacher, Canyons School District Computing and technology shape how we communicate, work and learn. For Stacey King, a secondary math and computer science teacher, the appeal was clear: “I love PD and am always looking for ways to help me be better.”

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Science Teachers Critical Thinking STEM 137

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2019

PLTW creates an engaging, hands-on classroom environment and empowers students to develop in-demand knowledge and skills they need to thrive. Form a student perspective, it’s not just learning math for the sake of it but understanding the relevance of math and science in an applied way. That’s how new knowledge is created.’.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education. work with a partner to light a bulb using the materials provided for you).

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2024

From lesson planning and resource creating to parent communication–all improved because of Canva. Materials While I tend to shy away from creating many worksheets for my students to complete, there are times when they have a worksheet, notetaker, and ditto of some sort that is used to show what knowledge they have gained.

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Education Communication Grades Motivation 275

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

AI translation systems process languages separately, making it difficult to replicate the fluidity of real-world multilingual communication. Generating truly new ideas (instead of just remixing old ones) AI is great at rearranging existing knowledge, but it doesnt create truly original ideas.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.

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Math Quizzes Instructors Students 176

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As the CEO of Woot Math and previously of Kerpoof, I have spent the last ten years grappling with questions like these. Sometimes that path involves a deep dive into specific aspects of practice or pedagogy, such as the recent conversations I had with several math teachers that we work with closely. Woot Math in an Algebra 1 Classroom.

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Math Middle School Middle School Quizzes 164

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Now reread the same cartoon, substituting “math” for “reading.” As a society ever more reliant on technology and STEM-based careers, we must shatter the myth that math skill is inborn and reinforce that it is the result of intention and practice. Suddenly it doesn’t seem so absurd. But it should!

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Math Beliefs STEM Motivation 167

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

For example, before a math test, I create a Quizizz game with problems covering the key concepts. Ive used Gimkit for math and science review. Each group members device displayed different options, requiring students to communicate and decide together. This choice element gets students invested in the activity.

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Gamification Multiple Choice Questions Motivation Social Studies 303

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Just as EdTech innovators need common terminology, we then need to be able to communicate it with leadership. And then, what workload that we can eliminate from districts from an already full agenda, asked Andrew Fekete (Community Consolidated School District 93, Illinois).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

It increased their knowledge in bullying prevention, and it increased their willingness to intervene when they see bullying happening,” Rose said. One of the easiest, fastest, simplest and most effective things teachers can do is implement social and communication skills as a learning objective into their already-made lesson plans.

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Disabilities Teachers Curriculum Study 338

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

But the tools were also targeted at math teaching. Yet so far these tools have not really affected K-12 math classrooms. In math classes before digital technology, he says, it was actually rare to write out how you think about a problem at length. Instead, math classes involve sketching a lot of graphs and shorthand.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Regardless of home language, students who don’t understand terms such as numerator or denominator , for example, might start to think that fractions are “too hard” or that they’re “just not a math person,” despite their ability. Give students opportunities to communicate their STEM thinking. Encourage collaboration and peer support.

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STEM English Language Languages 332

eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2023

See related article: Khan Academy Boosts National Civics Bee At this point, we have all heard about the learning gaps in math and reading scores these past few years. Establish an open, inclusive process for parent and community input in the curriculum through panels, surveys, and regional meetings. Restoring the City on a Hill: U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

members, can implement our well-structured and inclusive curriculum with the knowledge that the program meets and exceeds the requirements to become an integral component of a school’s STEM implementation.”. DERRY, N.H. – consortium. “We We are extremely honored to be selected as a preferred provider,” said CoderZ CEO, Ido Yerushalmi.

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Interdisciplinary STEM Math Science 246

eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2023

As an educator, I know that we are asking individual teachers to be a content area expert, instructional designer, academic coach, family communicator, interior designer, and social-emotional monitor with limited support. Technology can remove barriers to hiring teachers with expertise.

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Teachers Coaching Learning Spaces Math 297

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Students are better equipped to think logically, communicate effectively, and to be scientifically and mathematically literate. Students would need to apply their knowledge of the events of the conflict to determine which type of device to create and why it would help their respective party. According to the U.S.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

“With this name change, we want to make it clear that we’re dedicated to using our experience in science education to partner with educators and communities to develop the next generation of knowledgeable citizens who can solve problems, contribute to their communities, and drive innovation.”. About Vernier Science Education.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Having never viewed myself as an expert and periodically believed I’m an imposter just waiting to be found out, I went a long time without worrying about the so-called curse of knowledge. I couldn’t possibly know too much math and chemistry, the content I teach. I had the curse: my knowledge had created a bias.

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Knowledge Beliefs Communication Feedback 96

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

Students are naturally curious, and its normal for them to wonder about the knowledge that theyre acquiring. This strategy has the additional benefit of helping teachers learn more about their students, creating opportunities to build communication and rapport. This is a question every educator has faced before.

STEM 316

STEM Fairness Testing Critical Thinking 316

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

In my previous post, I focused on strategies teachers can use before a lesson to assess prior knowledge. 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.

Coaching 285

Coaching Learning Students Knowledge 285

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

AI can help students write stronger essays, solve tricky math problems, and even manage their stress levels, all while giving TAs more time to focus on what matters most–building meaningful connections with students. Such software can help with parental communications as well.

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Teaching Assistants Teaching Quizzes Intelligence 298

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

It is anchored in exploring new ideas, testing our knowledge, and applying information in new contexts. To help my students develop essential skills like critical thinking, collaborative teamwork, effective communication, and creativity, I actively promote various small-group activities. Learning can happen in many ways!

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Education Schools Math Science 308

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

There’s imparting the necessary technology skills students will need to thrive in their careers, as well as interpersonal skills such as collaboration and communication and making sure students can function in an increasingly globalized world. Then, students practiced the math concept using a link in their Google Classroom.

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Technology Language Languages Internet 189

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Approaches to handle bullying: Enforcing rules around behavior in schools, establishing communications between families and schools, and having open conversations about bullying with children have been shown to decrease bullying. The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

In a time when we are expecting students to graduate with authentic learning experiences and real-world skills in addition to academic knowledge, vibrant learning projects like this will become much more popular and widespread. Students are engaged and invested in a project that has local benefits!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Emmersion has striven to close the global communication gap through exceptional services that assess employees, check academic knowledge and certify language abilities. With a mission to close the global communication gap, the company focuses on helping organizations be smarter with their global language strategy.

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Language Languages Exams English 241

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Every time you feel an inkling of math anxiety, math phobia, or are reminded of math trauma, you brush it away, like you might a pesky mosquito. By acknowledging the individual experiences PSTs bring, we hope to foster a sense of community where co-construction of knowledge can take place. References.

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