Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

We invited diverse perspectives into curriculum design, which led to unexpected partnerships and richer learning experiences. This also prompted us to continually examine the structural and individual barriers that make participation harder for some. Embrace complexity. Focus on human values.

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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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

Before exploring how technology can alleviate pressure from teachers to deliver the right teaching and learning environment that accommodates various learning styles, it’s important to home in on Merrill’s Principles of Instruction. Five Principles of Learning. Visual Learners.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

Despite my lack of experience, I was tasked with teaching Algebra 1, a course culminating in a standardized test all New York high school students must pass to graduate. I knew three days of planning wouldn’t be enough to design flexible curriculum that could empower every student to have an “aha!”

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Curriculum Design Curriculum Teachers Textbooks 155

eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2015

A new STEM teaching toolkit from the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) aims to improve curriculum design through authentic, collaborative, project-based learning experiences. New NCTAF toolkit intends to help educators integrate instruction with new science standards, STEM concepts.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

Teaching metacognitive skills that encourage students to become more aware of their learning can help them shift from passive to active participants in the classroom. If the teacher is the only person thinking critically about learning goals, progress, skill development, curriculum design, and assessment, that is a missed opportunity.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

In her 10 years of teaching, she has been a special education teacher, and ELL teacher, and a STEM specialist. Listen in as she updates her POV on the state of classroom robotics: Sessions: 14-Jan-2025 08:30 AMComputer Science Curriculum Design for the Creative Thinker 14-Jan-2025 01:30 PMCircuits, Circuits, Circuits!

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Laboratory STEM Special Education Curriculum Design 258

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Instead of asking for the usual feedback on curriculum, I posed a different question. What was surprising about this takeaway is that the responsibility for classroom management often falls entirely on the teacher, with little consideration that the curriculum could support them in this area.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The science can and should guide curriculum design. This research study and others the company has conducted point to significant gains among learners with teachers who understand and apply a marking system designed to help students learn how to pronounce and build words.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

There are many cases in which we make subtle changes to our strategy or curriculum based on MBE research to improve teaching and learning. While we gradually help our teachers understand its importance, we know that our students are already benefiting from the use of MBE built in to the curriculum design and materials.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2016

School leaders focus on closing the technology gender gap by teaching female students to code and build websites and apps. “Part of our curriculum design is project-based learning. Some of ChiTech’s success lies in its partnership with the local tech industry.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

In your non-teaching role, you can encourage, normalize, support, and demand a critical conversation about grades, and to provide the inspiration, the incentives, the resources, and the “cover” to those who are part of that conversation.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

Key points: For tutoring to work, students have to show up Finding a curriculum designed for tutoring is important to program success As educators continue to work to accelerate learning for students following the pandemic, many are turning to tutoring to provide support.

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Curriculum Design Math Motivation Curriculum 285

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Waltham, MA – KinderLab Robotics , a leader in educational STEAM robotics for grades pre-K–5, has launched Thinking with KIBO: Introducing Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Early Grades , a free curriculum designed to help students understand how AI tools work and think critically about how these tools can improve lives in their communities.

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Curriculum Intelligence Science Grades 278

eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Next, Keith explored how engineering curriculum design parameters, as codified by Dr. Christine Cunningham, EiE founding director at Museum of Science, Boston, can be adapted for early education. Keith calls it a creative process, on in which even the youngest students can engage in problem solving and asking themselves, “What if?”.

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Failure Learning STEM Curriculum Design 280

eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

The suite includes scaffolded and leveled, standards-aligned curriculum designed to support STEM, computer science, coding, robotics, and SEL in engaging ways, and to embrace all learners from any and every background. The courses and curriculum engage students in solving gamified challenges by coding a virtual robot.

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Interdisciplinary STEM Math Science 246

Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

University faculty members are usually immersed in various tasks related to teaching, research, committees, and office hours. This isolation can hinder their professional development and growth, especially if they do not take the time to reflect on their own teaching methods and practices.

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Evaluation Teaching Teaching Methods Faculty Development 101

eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

I want our school librarians to be seen as experts in new tools and resources, so I teach all of them these three essential skills: 1) How to Introduce New Technology. During monthly department meetings, we spend time discussing how to implement new tools and technologies into our schools.

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Skills Curriculum Design Discussions Grades 231

eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2017

I want our school librarians to be seen as experts in new tools and resources, so I teach all of them these three essential skills: 1) How to Introduce New Technology. During monthly department meetings, we spend time discussing how to implement new tools and technologies into our schools.

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Skills Curriculum Design Discussions Grades 231

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Nursing instructors put in a lot of hours with employers, from instructing, curriculum design, committee work, office hours, advising, and trying to balance their school life with their private lives. Attend professional development opportunities to help “reenergize” a passion for teaching. Finally, maintain boundaries.

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Teaching Education Counselling Motivation 111

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

It enables the development of intelligent content creation tools, revolutionizing how educational materials are generated, curated, and adapted to diverse teaching methodologies. AI-powered tools can aid in identifying gaps in curriculum design, helping institutions refine their teaching strategies.

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Intelligence Ethics Education Teaching Methods 246

Faculty Focus

APRIL 1, 2025

University faculty members are usually immersed in various tasks related to teaching, research, committees, and office hours. This isolation can hinder their professional development and growth, especially if they do not take the time to reflect on their own teaching methods and practices.

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Evaluation Teaching Teaching Methods Faculty Development 96

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2015

Teachers are encouraged to use the new standards as their guide for what to teach and are expected to gather and develop instructional resources to determine how. Curriculum resources of any kind are viewed as unnecessary, redundant to what teachers already do or should be doing. This myth has great appeal.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2015

This agreement will allow schools to take advantage of tools for curriculum design and planning with the confidence that the information will flow into their learning management system, providing the opportunity for further connections. said Jason Mendenhall, Partner at Rubicon International.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The biggest change for Coursetune happened last week, when Academic Partnerships, a company that helps colleges set up online degree programs, acquired the curriculum-design company. Coursetune, she adds, “helps faculty be able to demonstrate that they’re teaching what they’re aiming to teach.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Nursing instructors put in a lot of hours with employers, from instructing, curriculum design, committee work, office hours, advising, and trying to balance their school life with their private lives. Attend professional development opportunities to help “reenergize” a passion for teaching. Finally, maintain boundaries.

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Teaching Education Counselling Motivation 98

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Tech-savvy educators know they must stay on top of the myriad changes and trends in education to learn how teaching and learning can best benefit from technology’s near-constant change.

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English Education Social Studies Achievement 206

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2015

Read about how Hartford Public Schools and Middlebury Interactive Languages are partnering to close the achievement gap for English Language Learners through an innovative digital curriculum designed to teach academic English to non-native speakers. Retired Whitepapers Middlebury Interactive'

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English Language Languages Curriculum Design 143

k12 Digest

MAY 14, 2025

Kim is an IB Educator and has led national teaching and learning projects in New Zealand. Kim holds a Master’s in Educational Leadership, Bachelor’s Degrees in both Education and Social Science, and Diplomas in Teaching and Management, is an Independent Concept-Based Curriculum and Instruction Consultant, and a Cognitive Coach.

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Achievement Learning Outcomes Culture Universal Design 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I didn't have any background in games and learning, but I did have a background in curriculum design, school design and educational technology. It's not unlike the way that we teach game design to kids, at the beginning: “How could you mod this game to be able to teach something?” So, I joined her team.

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Game-Based Learning Learning Curriculum Design Curriculum 180

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Cavazos , The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Ryan McBride , The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley Key Statement: Student-faculty partnerships can foster asset-based approaches in teaching and learning that challenge implicit linguistic bias and enhance students’ linguistically diverse resources. 2024; Cook-Sather, 2020).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

When I started teaching in the early 90s, I was an eager and very green third grade teacher ready to change the world, one class at a time. Since then, I have served in various roles in public education and the private sector and have witnessed innovations in curriculum, instructional design, classroom design, and more.

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Teachers Classroom Design Curriculum Study 317

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated.

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Culture Motivation Classroom Management Teaching Assistants 205

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Teachers who can spend more time with each student is able to tailor their teaching to specific students’ needs and, in turn, learning outcomes improve. Teachers don’t necessarily change what they are doing, they are just able to increase their efficacy. Classrooms Become More Collaborative.

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Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 268

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

Teach in Three Dimensions In order to more effectively reach my students during distance teaching, I made sure to keep my whole-group lessons as short as possible. Complex instruction leverages open-ended tasks, specifically designed for diverse groups of learners. After all, learning within the whole group is important.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

An SEL program that has impacted the lives of over one million students across 35 states, Move This World provides educators and students with a robust, daily curriculum designed to strengthen social and emotional wellbeing in order to create and maintain healthy environments where effective teaching and learning can thrive.

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Education Learning Skills Curriculum Design 206

eSchool News

MAY 2, 2016

Through a partnership with American College of Education, teachers earning the National Certificate for STEM Teaching with NISE gain access to an affordable, accelerated master’s degree in STEM Leadership. As science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) jobs continue to grow, the U.S.

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STEM Participation Coaching Curriculum Design 152