eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

and anchored in schools by Discovery Education – is connecting students to a curated collection of dynamic careers content celebrating Black leaders in STEM during Black History Month and beyond. The array of on-demand resources and an engaging event both introduce and deepen students’ connections to STEM through real-world content.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

How can we create a learning environment where each student feels confident applying the knowledge and skills they’re acquiring? These activities can also be used to encourage collaboration and communication as students work with peers, which can result in the development of interpersonal skills.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

These latest archives from Gale promote open dialogue and teach critical thinking skills that inspire change and cross-cultural awareness. “No We are actively working on several projects that will provide a greater representation of the history of minority groups like these.”.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2024

By honoring and embracing our students’ cultural backgrounds, we not only create a sense of belonging but also enhance their educational journey. When schools actively honor students’ cultures and identities, they fulfill these basic safety needs, allowing students to focus more fully on their academic and personal growth.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The consistent use of rubrics can help to promote higher levels of self-awareness, a culture of learning and growth, and ensure that assessments are accurate, transparent, and meaningful. This helps them to focus their efforts on the skills and knowledge that are most important.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Activity, context, and culture are central to this learning theory, which emphasizes the practical over the abstract. Learning must prioritize the application, not retention, of information and skills in a real-world setting. ” When learning happens in context, it reflects a time, place, and culture. Community of Practice.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This process reinforces scientific inquiry and builds critical thinking skills as students see, touch, and analyze real results from their experiments. Even incorporating history, such as the evolution of technology or major scientific breakthroughs, can contextualize STEM subjects in ways that feel relatable and meaningful.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

Esports programs provide students opportunities to develop teamwork, strategic thinking, and leadership skills in a collaborative environment. These tools help students visualize and interact with abstract ideas, leading to deeper comprehension and retention of the material, while also fostering critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2023

Instead, the study reported, today’s parents would like to see their children develop practical skills “for both life and career” (p. 10), critical thinking skills that allow them “to problem solve and make decisions” (p. A Brief History Educating our youth has been an American priority since our country’s beginnings.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Instead of letting folks create yet another math application or student gradebook add-on, we challenged participants to focus on a timely topic that not enough entrepreneurs are currently tackling: cultural relevance in schools. But we rarely see novel education technology or human capital innovations built to address this challenge.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Part V: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part five of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Teachers often use this routine to deepen students’ engagement with material and to foster complex, critical thinking skills.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

And in September 2024, history took a bold turn as Kiski welcomed young women into its ranks and opened a new chapter in its storied legacy. With a rich history, an eye on the future, and a commitment to academic and athletic achievement, Kiski continues to redefine what it means to be a boarding school in the 21st century.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Contest winners get to participate in behind-the-scenes experiences at iconic American historical and cultural sites as part of America’s Field Trip. I specifically love the contest as it’s a chance for students to tap into their individual interests and emphasize their skills and talents in their submission.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

This is a significant gap in AIs ability to support language learners and culturally diverse classrooms. Understanding context in texts and conversations AI can summarize a passage or analyze a text, but it often misses the deeper meaning, tone, and cultural nuance, especially in literature and history.

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Intelligence Education Language Languages 286

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Part III: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part three of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. This helps students become aware of different strategies and their evolving problem-solving skills. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2022

PISA , the OECD’s Programme for International Student Assessment, measures 15-year-olds’ ability to use their reading, mathematics, and science knowledge and skills to meet real-life challenges. It’s also about respecting other cultures and religions–something that can be lacking in our schools and wider society.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

When and how should students learn social and emotional skills—between first-period biology and third-period English literature? There seems to be a climate and culture that is enhancing anxiety. The survey asked students whether they felt they’d been taught the SEL skills they would need to be successful after high school.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

A growing number of educators around the world believe that project-based learning (PBL) is an important instructional approach that allows students to master academic skills and content knowledge, develop skills necessary for future success, and build the personal agency needed to tackle life’s and the world’s challenges.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

After several years of disrupted learning, schools are taking stock of the range of challenges that need to be addressed—challenges resulting from the most significant disruption to K-12 education in history. The workforce of the future requires that schools equip students with the right skills for the jobs of the future.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In his widely discussed 2024 book “The Anxious Generation,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt details how the cultural shift from a “play-based childhood” to a “phone-based childhood” corresponds to the spike in adolescent mental illness. History and was embarrassingly eager to participate in class debates and discussions.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In education, role-play-as-learning is a unique experience which enhances student engagement, social skills, interest, and mastery of subject matter. Learning engineering techniques and history concurrently as students build their own shaduf. It’s an approach that can have some major benefits for students. First, let’s look at LARPs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Her charge was a daunting but critical one: to safely navigate, using traditional skills and knowledge, around the globe to connect us like a lei (garland) of aloha (love), so we as a global community can heal and care for the only island we have: Earth. They learn about the history, current impact and challenges facing the land and water.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

It can teach them important skills for the future, like working well with others and using new technologies effectively. Using AI playfully in the classrooms helps students construct an understanding of the technology while they build soft skills. So what might playful learning with AI tools look like in practice?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

It covered a range of insights about body piercings, including how different religious cultures apply them and how they may benefit migraine sufferers. The moon landing, the Vietnam War, the explosion of youth culture, Woodstock, and the Civil Rights Movement all contribute to the novel’s background.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2023

Featuring a dynamic and diverse group of educators, episodes offer age-appropriate content focusing on foundational reading, writing and literacy skills, with literacy coaches modeling best practices for using science of reading-based pedagogy. The series also focuses on math, science, social studies, arts and social-emotional learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

With neurodiverse and SEL practices at the forefront, advanced use of adaptive technology, and nature-based programming, we develop the love of the arts, literacy, numeracy, and inquiry skills in authentic ways to prepare our learners for lifelong success. We must know their story, history, and how they are showing up to us.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park that I grew up in, there were no murals of Filipino American history or dynamic swing sets anchored to poured-in-place rubber child safe surfaces. There was, after all, no evidence from the history books, nor from the teaching, that offered evidence otherwise.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This has always been the case, but in a prevailing learning culture that promotes outside-the-box problem solving, these activities are growing more common in the 21st-century school library. Moreover, school library faculty must partner with administrators and teachers to ensure students adopt effective critical thinking and research skills.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Advancements in education technology History has taught us that innovation is inevitable. Higher test scores are often used to measure student achievement, but we know true meaning-making and application of skills are measured in different ways. The technology is only going to permeate more of our everyday lives.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Consequently, the use of discovery—a loaded term if there ever was one—in older history texts is one of the most common examples of how bias can creep into social studies classrooms and can inform (or warp) our worldview. EdSurge: Is it possible to teach politics and history as a centrist? History is very complex.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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History Education Social Studies Essay 198

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

If I go into my history class and my history teacher knows that I need an accommodation, how does that make me feel as a learner? They can then share those practices across the districts using teacher champions as trainers. Ensure Proper PD. It makes me feel like that teacher gets me,” said Noland. Going Forward.

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Assistive Technology Learning Disabilities Schools Disabilities 238

eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2022

Fairlamb has a 24-year history of leading sales and marketing functions for SaaS business in the K-12 educational technology market. The repertoire of expertise and skills that these three bring to the table will enhance our efforts exponentially.”. For more information go to [link] and follow 7 Mindsets on Twitter @7Mindsets.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

These efforts are often described as attempts to “ help non-computer science students build the tech skills required for today’s jobs ” so that they are ultimately “ more employable. ” It’s an approach that suggests the fields of literature, history and philosophy have as much to teach programming as they do to learn from it.

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Art Interdisciplinary History Essay 213

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Part II: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part two of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Geography and Culture Connect: After studying a foreign country, ask students to find similarities between their own community and the one they studied.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Yet there is another additional skill that is often overlooked in the implementation of case studies—the opportunity to develop questioning skills. Yet there is another additional skill that is often overlooked in the implementation of case studies—the opportunity to develop questioning skills.

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