eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

With 25+ years of practice and research behind him, Joe Feldman—a former teacher, principal and district administrator—speaks from experience when it comes to the ongoing inequities and challenges that districts and schools have with grading. To download the first chapter of Grading for Equity, click here.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

members, can implement our well-structured and inclusive curriculum with the knowledge that the program meets and exceeds the requirements to become an integral component of a school’s STEM implementation.”. The courses and curriculum engage students in solving gamified challenges by coding a virtual robot. consortium. “We

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

STEAM education is trending at an opportune time: The COVID-19 pandemic caused learning loss across the board, and a STEAM-centered curriculum that engages students while weaving important 21st-century education principles into real-world lessons is critical for success. Here’s why creativity is essential in today’s curriculum.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2017

With all of the focus on helping struggling students achieve grade-level proficiency, students at the very top end of the academic spectrum often aren’t getting the challenges they need to stay engaged in school or tap their full potential. Matthew Jaskol aims to change that.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

It’s an honor to have our coding and robotics curriculum and its game-based design and instructional model chosen as a solution that is positively impacting teaching and learning—and this has never been more important than during this unprecedented time of COVID-19.”. About CoderZ.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

The school librarian is no longer just the manager of a room full of books, but a resource and technology expert, reading teacher, curriculum designer, program administrator, professional development coordinator, information literacy teacher, and a school leader with a finger on the pulse of every classroom.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Aperture Education’s DESSA Comprehensive SEL System provides assessments to measure the social-emotional competence of students in grades K-12. Its Growth Strategies are research-informed social emotional learning interventions, lesson plans and activities created for teachers, by teachers for grades K-8.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2017

The school librarian is no longer just the manager of a room full of books, but a resource and technology expert, reading teacher, curriculum designer, program administrator, professional development coordinator, information literacy teacher, and a school leader with a finger on the pulse of every classroom.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AI facilitates efficient administrative tasks, reducing the burden on educators by handling routine processes such as scheduling, grading, and resource management. AI-powered tools can aid in identifying gaps in curriculum design, helping institutions refine their teaching strategies.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2022

million grant from the Bezos Family Foundation to design an innovative social studies and civics curriculum that uses a Project Based Learning (PBL) model. The new PBL units are being designed for teachers of grades 4-12 and will be available free as Open Educational Resources (OER). .

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Learning Upgrade , an ed-tech company providing digital, differentiated literacy curriculum designed for English language learners (ELLs), launched a mobile app to increase accessibility and expand offerings to a wide range of English learners. ELLs of all ages are now able to work through lessons anytime and anywhere.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Even with some disagreement about the cost effectiveness of chasing the benefits of small class size, most researches agree that it does have a positive impact, particularly on students in younger grades. The NEA examined the research on STAR students and focused on the long-term results from the follow-up studies.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

The district is in the midst of navigating another drastic shift: rolling out custom, teacher-curated curriculum designed with free, openly licensed material, district technology director Ed Eimiller said. Department of Education in efforts to provide schools with quality online material. image via AP ].

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2019

There’s a lot that goes into innovation efforts on campus—think curriculum design, technology training for instructors, and bureaucracy. Curriculum and Teaching Curriculum and teaching is top of mind for students curious about educational technology, and this was the most frequent topic that students have written about about so far.

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Edsurge

MAY 17, 2021

It starts with studying and discussing identity, and then using students’ understanding of identity as a foundation for infusing it into the entire curriculum. When studying the history of Chicago with my third-grade students, understanding identity was critical to understanding Chicago’s long-standing inequality.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The criteria were established by the Arizona Department of Education as part of its Move On When Reading initiative, an effort to provide all readers with specific, targeted instruction and interventions so that they are reading at or above grade level by the end of the 3rd grade. “95

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

It is for this very reason that SEL hasn’t traditionally played a prominent role in curriculum design. Of course, it’s one thing to recognize the value and necessity of SEL, and another thing entirely to integrate these non-academic skills seamlessly into the curriculum, rather than treat them as a standalone consideration.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code. James Mills (left) and Kaiya Everett (right), two sixth grade students at DPA designing websites to host their original trivia games. Senora Akoma, a sixth grade student at DPA and the vice president of her class.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

March 24, 2022 – A newly announced partnership between Saga Education and Littera Education means that schools will be able to offer students one of the most effective personalized tutoring programs in the country via a platform designed to make delivery easy. “Tutoring, when done well, can do more than help students catch up.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

some of the principles being stripped out of the curriculum are why we’re here,” she says. “We It’s a good combination of community and equity and purposeful curriculum design,” Egan says. The majority of commercial textbooks are produced in Texas or Florida, Egan says, and their cultural references reflect their origins.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I struggled with classroom management, curriculum design and the pressures of working in a high-poverty school. Hoover, a fellow first-grade teacher who had also moved to Jacksonville for the job. Fortunately, I wasn’t alone. One particularly meaningful relationship was with Ms.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

These educators work directly with teachers and administrators, serving as mentors, curriculum writers, and professional learning facilitators for our workforce. There are many cases in which we make subtle changes to our strategy or curriculum based on MBE research to improve teaching and learning. What do we need to start doing?

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

The 20 students in my class received a wide range of grades, causing a mixture of satisfaction and dismay. 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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The classroom program, which began in fall 2018 and runs through the spring, pairs Nintendo technology with a curriculum designed by the Institute of Play to create a STEM-focused, hands-on learning experience that combines digital and physical elements. He remembers hearing about it and eagerly submitting an application.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

How “hard fun” that integrate math, writing, design and art in a programming project captivated students previously bored with the curriculum, and developed in them new confidence and significantly improved their scores on standardized math tests. What is best about the best games is that they draw kids into some very hard learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

With Kolibri, we provide a free and open-source learning platform that's really designed for learners with limited digital literacy skills, so there aren’t as many barriers to adoption.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Since last fall they’ve already submitted digital data about their demographics, household income, ethnicity and legal status, food intolerances, medical profiles, grades and socio-emotional skills. My three children—aged six, eight, and nine—enrolled in a US public school last year (having moved from Europe).

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score. She obtained her PhD in chemistry education from Bremen University/Germany.

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

That’s exactly what the leadership team has done at Valor Collegiate Academies in Nashville, Tennessee, a school network committed to balancing academic content with non academic skills and habits in the curriculum to help better prepare students for their future. Work towards all three goals is underway. What’s Next for Valor?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The new suite of offerings – which includes a range of AI tools, interactive lessons, and curriculum-supporting content – takes Canva from a classroom design tool to an end-to-end education platform capable of producing and teaching complete lessons with ease. Teachers can browse lessons by grade, subject and topic.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2019

Student assessments, Rasmussen says, are graded by “robots.” A prominently posted badge reminds students they must earn a 70 percent minimum grade to receive credit. Instructors who recorded the lectures came from institutions including Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Yale University, New York University and Davidson College.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In doing so, we should design assessments as an engaging, ongoing process for students, helping them learn and achieve their learning outcomes rather than considering it as a one-shot test or quiz and focusing merely on the score.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AI is also employed in automating administrative tasks, streamlining processes such as grading and attendance tracking. Administratively, AI automates routine tasks, such as grading and attendance tracking, freeing up educators to focus on more interactive and creative teaching strategies.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

In 2016 - 2017, grades K-6 will be housed in the same building and a decision will be made in fall 2016 about whether to move forward at multiple sites or a single site. Transcend is supporting the network with planning, design, implementation and iteration for the Greenfield Schools.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

To better understand implicit linguistic biases in our teaching, we must partner with others, especially students, to gain perspectives on how we can model critical consciousness in curriculum design (Cavazos, 2024). 2024; Montenegro & Jankowski, 2017; Tinto, 2017; Winklemes, 2016).

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 10, 2025

The greater the access to higher education, the more dynamic a curriculum must be to effectively and equitably educate and elevate the learning experiences of all students. Two Forms of Curriculum in Higher Education There are two forms of curriculum in higher education.

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