Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Complex Problem Solving: Tasks that involve higher-order thinking and problem-solving, such as math word problems, scientific experiments, or coding projects, often require different amounts of time for students to analyze, understand, and solve. Below is a list of academic tasks that benefit from variable time on task.

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A Place Called Kindergarten

MAY 31, 2025

If you're a kindergarten teacher looking to build strong number sense, encourage mathematical thinking, and foster classroom discussion, KINDERGARTEN MATH TALKS are your secret weapon. These quick, engaging prompts are the perfect way to kick off your math block with purpose and routine. What Are Kindergarten Math Talks?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

I told my supervisor the design and language used in the activity were not accessible to my students. Given Spanish was my home language, I said mesero. All assignments are scaffolded in groups while students translate questions and vocabulary into languages they can read and write.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

These biases manifest in various ways, such as underestimating Black students math abilities and providing less encouragement. Hind Haddad, an Arabic language teacher in Columbus, Ohio, experienced many microaggressions as a Muslim educator. Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

They learn that math isnt just numbersits problem-solving. Elmwood encourages students to create and lead clubs that reflect their passionswhether thats robotics, creative writing, or cultural heritage. Thats why the school has built a culture where care isnt an afterthoughtits a foundation. But its not all theory.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2024

Can you create online resources that help parents and guardians teach their kids strategies for solving math problems or improving reading at home? A family member can share with a class how they use math in their medical career, for example. Families engage with schools in different ways, and this can be partly due to their cultures.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Math Problem Solving: After introducing a new problem-solving strategy in math class, the teacher could ask students to share how their approach to solving math problems has shifted. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness. This promotes critical thinking and historical empathy.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For English learners, acquiring language proficiency opens the door to thrive across all subjects. However, learning a new language can be a long, difficult process that requires courage, resilience and trust from students who initially might feel vulnerable and out of place.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Switching seamlessly between languages like many bilingual learners do AI-powered translation tools are improving, but they dont match the way multilingual individuals naturally switch between languages in real life. Bilingual students often engage in code-switching, blending languages based on context, audience, and emotion.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For math, measurement and geometry activities like building models or plotting data can turn abstract numbers into something students can visualize and manipulate. Teachers can guide students in designing their own models related to class lessons, from creating geometric shapes in math to building replicas of simple molecules in chemistry.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2017

Estrada fell for a girl who only spoke English his freshman year in high school but refused to let a language barrier divide them. After moving to the United States from Guatemala a little more than a year ago, love, not a new app or platform, propelled him to pick up a new language. Nonprofit organizations, including the.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Data is an essential aspect of a school’s culture. The same way algebra can suddenly present a unique challenge for even the most savvy math student, data can be the obstacle that even the most skilled leader finds themself struggling with. It is easier to move forward as a school when we’re all speaking the same data language.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

When Dr. Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. We want a curriculum to be multidimensional—to have kids experience maths in lots of different ways.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Close to 30 percent of Providence students are English Language Learners, and yet most of them are being taught by teachers who don’t speak their native language. We need solutions that empower students to bring their culture, race, and socioeconomic status to classroom projects and discussions. Enter F.E.E.D.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

On Thursday, the organization announced the launch of #ISeeMe, a campaign aimed at boosting the amount of culturally responsive materials in U.S. Wondwossen is a former elementary school ESL teacher, and when she was in the classroom, she used to tell her students they were “language superheroes.” “The classrooms.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

IM 360 is the organization’s largest-scale curriculum upgrade to date, designed in response to the expressed needs of educators and learners in the K–12 math community. ” The IM 360 curriculum continues to be coherent and accessible to all. . ” The IM 360 curriculum continues to be coherent and accessible to all.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

” Our classrooms are composed of diverse groups of students with different skills, abilities, preferences, language proficiencies, and academic needs. A teacher recently asked me whether students always need to attend every station in a rotation. The short answer is “no.”

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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

AUGUST 29, 2024

Imagine a world where attendance is taught with the same rigor and methodology as math or science. students speak a language other than English at home, and approximately 16 percent of children live in poverty. Spiral curriculum structure : Like learning a language, attendance education should follow a spiral, iterative structure.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

Additionally, students can use ChatGPT to learn new languages, receive personalized tutoring, and explore new subjects at their own pace. Augmented and virtual reality (AR/VR) Using VR and AR in the classroom offers numerous educational benefits across various subjects such as math, science, and history. Plus, students LOVE AR/VR!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

STEM can help with English language development by allowing students to engage with language in a variety of ways. Part of “doing STEM” means learning to speak the language of STEM. For MLs, grappling with STEM terms while also navigating a new language can make it extra challenging.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools. Yet, some math teachers, eager to help a struggling student at the first sight of frustration, deprive the learner of a productive struggle.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

The United Kingdom-based DoodleLearning’s Math and English Language Arts products create personalized learning experiences that help improve students’ academic achievement and confidence. Prior to founding DoodleLearning, Chief Executive Officer Nicola Chilman and Chief Operating Officer Tom Minor taught Math in Great Britain.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. The result was a large achievement gap in math. “We Pilot Study Brief from Digital Promise.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. There was a lot of fear around math and a lot of kids’ mindsets shifted to ‘I’m not good at math,’” explains Perez.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

During the pandemic, anxieties about math instruction have grown. Fueling them is the most recent results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed historical losses in math education. Falling behind in math can have long term consequences, since the subject can function as a gateway into STEM careers.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Students could discuss topics like the importance of friendship or how birthdays are celebrated differently in various cultures. We: The class explores the cultural or historical significance, discussing the work’s impact on society or a particular community.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

The following selection of no-cost digital resources created with social impact partners connect families to engaging learning experiences: Inspire the next generation of solution seekers with STEM and math-specific family activities from the STEM Careers Coalition.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

The work we are doing with Google is about trying to help people find a culture of innovation. The visit to Google, then, was one of her strategies for cultivating an innovative culture in the state. The work we are doing with Google is about trying to help people find a culture of innovation.”. Erin O'Briant.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2024

McGraw Hill: The global education leader is rolling out Spanish-language versions of all 30 McGraw Hill AR activities on Verizon Innovative Learning HQ. All 30 activities across math, science and social studies subject areas are now available via app and web.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2023

The series also focuses on math, science, social studies, arts and social-emotional learning. American Sign Language (ASL) translations will be added to a collection of story segments that will live on the website. Educators can also access guidance on how to use Let’s Learn in the classroom on PBS LearningMedia.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2023

Educators Pick Best of STEM® 2023 Awards Winners Best Educator Support for Teaching & Learning BrainPOP Science Best Freebies for STEM Careers STEM Careers Coalition (Discovery Education) Best Freebies for STEM Curriculum Integration FILTERED (HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology) Best Innovation for 2023 ExploreLearning Frax Best Integration (..)

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

the developer of Canada’s most widely used all-digital math program. Headquartered near Toronto, Rubicon is the provider of MathUP, an inquiry-based math program for students in grades K-8 that has become the best-selling online math product in Canada. To learn more, visit Rubicon.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The Center for Interactive Learning and Collaboration (CILC) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that provides equal access to educational and cultural opportunities for all communities by supporting K-5 educators with authentic, relevant, interactive learning experiences.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Last year, I presented a paper on using technology in my Arabic class at the Ohio Foreign Language Association summer conference. At the end of my session, a Spanish language teacher opened the discussion by talking about students dismissing her work because it is not an essential subject in the state.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

Wouldn’t teaching fluency a foreign language be the ultimate means to prepare students for a diverse and multicultural world? The internet provides resources for our students to learn a second language, and it also facilitates the teachers’ processes of evaluation. She told the students about her culture and showed them her home.

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