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

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

High school transcripts indicated that STAR students who were in smaller classes for a minimum of three years were substantially more likely to graduate from high school. More positivity reported about participating in learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure. By and large, it’s working.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Public Schools for six years. Specifically, she’s launched Reconstruction , a collection of online courses and curriculum focused on Black contributions to American and world history, targeted specifically at Black students. What would a national Black curriculum look like? I don’t want to be “school.”

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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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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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Achievement Education Math Failure 141

Teach Thought

MARCH 17, 2025

The Heick Learning Taxonomy can be used to guide planning, assessment, curriculum design, and self-directed learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Schools in Arizona can now find 95 Percent Group’s evidence-based products on their state list of reading improvement programs and begin using them immediately. . Schools were randomly assigned to use the 95PCP or continue using another curriculum. The half-year study of the 95PCP in Missouri met ESSA Level 1 criteria.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

The pressure of keeping up with our district’s curriculum map, getting through all the standards and preparing these struggling math students for Algebra I, led me to utter the worst possible sentence in that moment: “Time to start our next unit: Percents, Proportions and Ratios.” My heart sank.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The most popular edtech job category doesn’t relate to design or administration—it’s all about curriculum writing. While edtech “sales” jobs do garner an admirable amount of attentions, over the past twelve months, “curriculum writer” has risen to the top, capturing more than a fourth of all pageviews. There’s a caveat, however.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

“I think until you see it, until you see 120 African American and Latino students building websites, creating games, creating apps,” it’s hard to capture the “tremendous potential” that the school is harnessing, Ashton said during EdSurge's visit to the school earlier this month. Trenisha Goslee is a STEM teacher at DPA.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In high school, I played sports, but another important part of my life was band and musical theatre. By marrying those two things together—the curriculum design, which is very engineering-like, and the classroom performance, which is very artistic—you get the John Branch combination. I think the students are entertained.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

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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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2016

In 2012 I, along with a group of like-minded colleagues, signed up to take on an audacious goal: we helped open New York City’s first public high school focused on computing. Our advisory program ensures that each student has a teacher who knows his or her family and tracks academic progress throughout their high school career.

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Science Math Schools Interdisciplinary 84

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2017

It will last only one calendar year, feature a curriculum designed in close coordination with well-known employers, and cost nothing—at least at the outset. The whole model seems designed to scale easily, and he says the amount and speed of growth will depend on student demand. Her hope is that MissionU adds another option.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

Bolstering the technological advances necessitated by COVID-19 imperatives, the initiative’s primary purpose was to build knowledge on VR and encourage a multipronged approach in teaching and learning to enhance curriculum conceptualization and the entire education life cycle. billion by 2028 (Fortune Business Insights, 2022).

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Language Languages Laboratory Learning Outcomes 114

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

For Penn Foster, which offers online high school and college programs, CreatorUp professionals have developed videos for health courses. Often times, and especially with schools building online courses, they may be very familiar with curriculum design, but very unfamiliar with video production,” Tringe notes. “We

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Curriculum Design History Skills High School 80

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Crisp noted, “most analytics right now just show engagement, which is one measure, but strategically placed Q&A could tell curriculum designers a lot about what knowledge, skills and abilities are sticking and where the instruction misses the mark.”. DLNchat [link] — Keith Bevacqua (@keithbevacqua) August 14, 2018.

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Authentic Assessment Education Curriculum Design Knowledge 83

Faculty Focus

MARCH 3, 2024

Bolstering the technological advances necessitated by COVID-19 imperatives, the initiative’s primary purpose was to build knowledge on VR and encourage a multipronged approach in teaching and learning to enhance curriculum conceptualization and the entire education life cycle. billion by 2028 (Fortune Business Insights, 2022).

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Language Languages Laboratory Learning Outcomes 103

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

There is this whole world of open access communities out there that have built a plethora of tools that really do everything that they say they needed Kaplan to do, everything from the design of curriculum design to delivery. You have to cobble them together from like four or five providers, but they’re there.

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Curriculum Design Research Design Motivation Accessibility 141

k12 Online Schools

JUNE 28, 2024

K12 Schools While traditional schools have been the foundation of education for decades, online school programs offer distinct advantages that are hard to ignore. From customized curriculums to self-paced learning, students in K12 virtual schools can now experience a tailored approach to their education.

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Schools Disabilities Exams Learning Styles 52

Teach Your Kids

MAY 6, 2025

It’s not just unschoolers, it’s 18 year olds graduating from high school, who sat through 5 hours a day x 5 days a week times 40 weeks a year times 13 years, at least 13,000 hours of compulsory schooling and can’t read. But guess what? And they can’t navigate the world they live in.

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Reading Writing Language Languages 96

k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

The Cultural Ecosystem of Traditional Schools Physical schools have always served dual purposes. But equally important is the less visible curriculum: the transmission of norms, values, customs, and shared identity. In many online schools, the curriculum takes precedence over context. Lessons are compressed.

Culture 52

Culture Schools Language Languages 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Project-Based Learning: Allow students to select their own research topics related to curriculum goals. Real School Example In a virtual science class, students at a K12 schools were asked to submit final projects on any topic connected to the environment. This improves communication and accountability. The result?

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

A STEM curriculum introduces students to real-world engineering. Berrien Springs Public Schools in rural Michigan started off with a modest enough goal: to add an engineering component to their curriculum in order to draw out-of-district students to their schools and to meet anticipated state standards.

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STEM Curriculum Middle School Middle School 189

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

I wish you understood the essence of great curriculum and appreciated how lesson construction makes or breaks the student experience every school day. This conviction is born out of my 30 years in and around classrooms, first as a social studies teacher at Milpitas High, and then as co-founder of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI).

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Social Studies History Curriculum Textbooks 136

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.”

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Math Schools Coaching Learning 122

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2022

“A space where teachers can share their methods and experiences drastically boosts educational outcomes,” says Anuradha Handa, principal of GD Goenka Public School, a private high school in Delhi. hours to 10 minutes.

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Technology Teachers Quizzes Textbooks 189