Curriculum Design, High School and Testing

Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

When school leadership made this announcement in August during our staff training, I immediately felt overwhelmed and confused. I was a first year math teacher placed at a brand new, alternative high school serving at-risk youth in New York City. If that sounds like a lot of work, it was.

Curriculum Design

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Are gifted students now an underserved population?

eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2017

He is the program director and co-founder of Pioneer Academics , which identifies and empowers high-achieving students with university professors so they can take part in challenging and creative research opportunities across a wide range of disciplines while still in high school.

Students

Students Testing Achievement Curriculum Design

Prepared for tomorrow: Reimagining readiness in Indiana education

eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

The other, from the president and CEO of Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a national nonprofit organization that provides schools with innovative, hands-on, project-based STEM curriculum designed to develop critical skills and knowledge, while preparing students for careers beyond the classroom.

Education

Education STEM Knowledge Skills

Friday 5: STEAM education in action

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

An integrated STEAM education also puts students on the path to success with higher test scores, stronger attendance records, better disciplinary records, and increased engagement and graduation rates.

STEM

STEM Education Laboratory Art

What Student Leaders Think About the Future of Education

Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. When you attend a rural public high school like I did, no one explains to you that you are creating a resume that you will use when you apply to colleges,” she wrote.

Fairness

Fairness Education Students Disabilities

These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Six Massachusetts colleges and universities, alongside the state’s Department of Higher Education, are testing their hypothesis that free, culturally relevant textbooks can improve student performance. It’s a good combination of community and equity and purposeful curriculum design,” Egan says.

Textbooks

Textbooks Culture Students Participation

Spaced Practice Works. A Learning Scientist Helped Me Understand Why.

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

I passed the fraction test back to my pre-algebra class and an awkward silence filled the room. The rest were lost and stuffed the tests into their binders immediately after glancing at their grade. High school math curriculum is bullet-pointed into units, chapters, subheadings and indicators. My heart sank.

Learning

Learning Math Testing Exams

Saga Education and Littera Education Partner to Boost Student Achievement in Mathematics

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

The Littera platform provides technology enabling districts to design, deliver and evaluate customized tutoring programs offering real-time, face-to-face instruction, in person or virtually. “Tutoring, when done well, can do more than help students catch up.

Achievement

Achievement Education Math Failure

The All-Black and Latino School Where Every Kid Can Code

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

In early May, students were finishing up a website design unit in their computer science class, which follows the curriculum designed by RePublic Schools , a charter school network based in Nashville, Tenn. The curriculum, which is aligned to the AP Computer Science framework, is free, but teacher training is not.

Schools

Schools Science Middle School Middle School

How Valor Collegiate Academy is Rethinking SEL

Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

Newly designed schools have the advantage of considering the challenges established schools may face when it comes to educating students in the era of accountability, high stakes academic testing, and college and career preparation.

Testing

Testing Beliefs Curriculum Achievement

?Tressie McMillan Cottom on For-Profit Higher Ed, Purdue, and Dream Data Sets

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

You start seeing this really interesting data and research design come out about how to move away from testing what students are doing online to how they were learning, and that was a huge boon, mostly because people who had been doing online didn’t have the money to do that kind of high level research.

Curriculum Design

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A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

She focuses on using immersive technologies to improve curriculum design and learning outcomes. Impact of immersing university and high school students in educational linear narratives using virtual reality technology. Mixed-reality learning environments: Integrating mobile interfaces with laboratory test-beds.

Language

Language Languages Laboratory Learning Outcomes

A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

She focuses on using immersive technologies to improve curriculum design and learning outcomes. Impact of immersing university and high school students in educational linear narratives using virtual reality technology. Mixed-reality learning environments: Integrating mobile interfaces with laboratory test-beds.

Language

Language Languages Laboratory Learning Outcomes

10 Ways to Make School Fun Again

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example A teacher introduced the Cold War by comparing it to a dramatic “high school friendship breakup.” Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. Learning is inherently social, and online school must make room for peer-to-peer connection. The result?

Schools

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay

From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They entered the program with a real desire to focus deeply on what it meant to have a more effective personalized learning experience in math—including everything from curriculum design and the use of technology to the roles of teachers and students in the classroom and the adoption of “passion projects.”

Math

Math Schools Coaching Learning

Teaching Vanguard

Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Are gifted students now an underserved population?

Trending Sources

Prepared for tomorrow: Reimagining readiness in Indiana education

Friday 5: STEAM education in action

What Student Leaders Think About the Future of Education

These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

Spaced Practice Works. A Learning Scientist Helped Me Understand Why.

Saga Education and Littera Education Partner to Boost Student Achievement in Mathematics

The All-Black and Latino School Where Every Kid Can Code

How Valor Collegiate Academy is Rethinking SEL

?Tressie McMillan Cottom on For-Profit Higher Ed, Purdue, and Dream Data Sets

A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

A Multipronged Approach to Harnessing Virtual Reality to Advance the HBCU Mission

10 Ways to Make School Fun Again

From Personalized Math to Micro-Schools, This NewSchools Cohort Is Reimagining Learning

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