Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

I’ve trained many teachers who use choice boards and ask, “What’s the difference between a choice board and a playlist?” Despite this reality, most learning is teacher-paced, not student-paced. The focus is on the teacher covering content and moving students through lessons on a strict timeline.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2022

With more than 15,000 students across 25 different schools in central Washington state, one of our biggest goals coming into this past school year was to develop a feature-rich communications system that was the same for teachers, schools, and the district.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Having conducted well over a thousand observations of K-12 teachers over the last 15 years, I have noticed there is one piece of feedback I have given more than any other–and it involves a seemingly minor word change. Multiple times in any class period, teachers call on students to contribute to the lesson of the day.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

Project overview: Reading, recording, and reaching the world As an ESL teacher, Ive always looked for ways to make literacy feel meaningful and empowering, especially for students navigating a new language and culture. She communicated them in a way that was both thoughtful and relatable.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2024

Could better communication between schools and parents alleviate the problem? It partnered with Google for a massive, AI-powered analysis of 40 million messages in its app to find how parents and teachers are exchanging information. To Lim, that means there’s a lot of room for improvement in how educators and parents are communicating.

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2024

Unfortunately, developing a communications plan is time- and resource-intensive, especially if the approach is fragmented and disjointed. For best results, a district communications strategic plan should identify key stakeholders, the outcomes you want to achieve with them, and the channels you’ll use for communication.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2022

With 3,300 students across three different schools, our district was using a variety of diverse applications for school-to-home communications. They all handled separate aspects of our teacher-parent communications, but they weren’t cohesive. The timing was ideal. Equity and Integration Made Simple.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

I asked myself: If a teachers role is to prepare students for the real world, shouldnt we be helping them solve the climate crisis? My goal became connecting students to nature through their passions and connecting teachers standards-driven curriculum to nature through environmental literacy.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

What if you were a teacher but had no voice to speak your knowledge? What if you had no language at all and yet there was something you needed to say? How we define communication makes a difference. Kimmerer asserts, "Plants teach the universal language." Wouldn't you dance it? Wouldn't you act it out?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

We’d been using a number of applications to maintain open lines of communications with our parents and guardians. We knew that some were working, and others weren’t, and we wanted to create a more unified school-home communications approach. Speak their language. Related : Has your district unified school-to-home communications?

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2025

teachers work with diverse groups, often with varying language backgrounds and ability levels, in both indoor and outdoor settings. Clear verbal and nonverbal communication build trust and respect, making students feel heard and helping them more effectively develop motor skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Communication as a student in a foreign land depends heavily on knowledge of the language. The Ask a Tech Teacher international team has a few broader issues to think about when considering what barriers face students in foreign lands: Language: The Biggest Communication Barrier for Foreign Students?

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Why should teachers use rubrics to assess student work? Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

The acquisition of TeachBoost further accelerates SchoolStatus’ strong momentum and supports its strategy to build a K12 communications and operations ecosystem that leverages the power of its data and engagement platform to drive better user experiences and student outcomes. RIDGELAND, Miss. RIDGELAND, Miss.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2022

Teachers can use story coding to bring history, science, world languages, ELA, and even math into their lessons. Doing it in a cross-curricular manner [means] teachers who aren’t computer science teachers can incorporate it without having to add an additional subject into what they teach,” Besthoff said.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

One of the most common at the moment is mitigating the negative impacts of teacher shortages. Therefore, it’s important to examine the elements that affect teacher retention. It’s no wonder, then, that establishing methods to prioritize teacher well-being can help your school retain talent. Encouraging Communication.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

When we were in the middle of the pandemic and everything in education was turned on its head, we realized that we needed a better way to communicate with parents and caregivers quickly and efficiently. This transition has proven to be one of the best decisions our district has made to enhance school-home communications.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2023

To help educators increase the support that both students and teachers receive from family engagement, ParentSquare , the award-winning unified school-home engagement platform for K12 education, has compiled resources for improving school-home communications in the upcoming school year. preferred languages and channels) 4.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

SchoolStatus , announced this month the acquisition of ClassTag , a unified family communication and engagement platform for educators, schools, and districts. ClassTag’s smart messages reach all families based on their preferred channel (SMS, email, app, web or paper) automatically translated into 100+ languages.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2023

. — SchoolStatus , a leader in K-12 data and communications, announced today the acquisition of ClassTag , a unified family communication and engagement platform for educators, schools, and districts. Seeing all relevant student information in one place helps families stay informed and get involved. Are they on track?”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2022

PowerSchool (NYSE: PWSC), the leading provider of cloud-based software for K-12 education, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Kinvolved, a leading provider of K-12 communications, attendance, and engagement solutions supporting over 250,000 students and used within three of the top four school districts in the U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2023

As research reveals that relational trust leads to engagement and success, we are reminded that teachers hold our students’ stories and hopes—and here’s how school leaders can lay the foundation for relational trust so that school communities flourish. Insights About Teachers’ Work.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

17, 2022— ParentSquare , the award-winning unified school-home communications platform for K-12 education, has been named a vendor partner by the Educational Service Centers of Indiana (ESC of I). School staff and parents can also participate in one-to-one and group messaging with real-time language translation. Stevens said. “We

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

School-to-home communications is a fairly common sticking point for elementary school districts. Were both former teachers, and we largely relied on catching parents in the school drop-off line or sending reminders home with students when sharing vital school-to-home communications. Facilitates communication and engagement.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

There are at least four languages spoken by the students I currently teach, so people are often surprised to learn that I’m monolingual. Nearly 4,500 students are eligible to receive direct language support services this year in Hamilton County Schools, the district where I teach in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

MADISON, WI – Today, Open Up Resources and Kiddom announced Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD ) has selected its top-rated EL Education K-5 Education Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for its 31 elementary schools in support of the district’s efforts to prioritize early literacy and beyond. Share assignments digitally; ?

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2024

Key points: Solutions to the teacher shortage will require innovative thinking and new practices How are you attracting and retaining teachers of color? Through our district’s “teacher induction program,” we’ve created new and flexible pathways for individuals of all educational and experiential backgrounds to become certified.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

One of the persistent challenges in second language acquisition (SLA), especially within the communicative approach, is how to incorporate writing in a way that feels meaningful and beneficial to students. As a result, writing often takes a backseat, seen as an isolated, academic exercise rather than a communicative act.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 20, 2025

Surprisingly, learning a foreign language has a set of guidelines that–if followed–are pretty good predictors of success. The Ask a Tech Teacher international team has put together a list for you. Immersion: Surround Yourself with the Language One of the most effective ways to learn a new language is through immersion.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 27, 2021

It is also how we communicate to our students that we value the process over the product. Teachers want to give students timely, focused, and actionable feedback, yet it is easy to neglect. Teachers want to give students timely, focused, and actionable feedback, yet it is easy to neglect.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

CPS uses NotebookLM for clear communication and understanding around the district’s guidance and policies, ensuring they’re following district mandates. Teachers can use Gemini to create personalized lesson plans in a much shorter amount of time. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Key points: Virtual reality offers learning beyond just verbal communications 3 AR/VR resources that nurture student curiosity Reaching the 4Cs with 3D and virtual reality For more on VR in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Multilingual students face unique challenges that can hurt their performance in school. In the U.S.

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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. Dr. DiTullio was a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) and is an esteemed member of both PDK International and the Pi Lambda Theta International Honor Society.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

When schools moved to remote instruction, communication between parents and educators soared. Teachers and administrators worked with students’ families to try to establish stability and continuity. Parents have become used to increased information and communication from schools.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

They designed their game using Canva, and they presented their work to a panel of parents and teachers, much like the show Shark Tank. Additionally, the students broadened their vocabulary by learning language thats critical to their academic success. It was a good experience for both the kids and the teachers.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Recently, a teacher posted a comment to my blog lamenting that direct instruction consumed much of the class period. Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. This is not unusual.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. The good days, she says, are abundant thanks in great part to her ongoing enthusiasm for and belief in the power of communication in the lives of children and adults. For this installment, we spoke with Debi Ryan.

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