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

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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Skills Curriculum Design Discussions Grades 233

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. subsidiary.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

The curriculum is adaptive in real-time, and technology is used intuitively to ensure every aspect of student life is safe, connected, efficient, and supportive. For example, during reading or studying, cooler, brighter lighting can help increase alertness and focus.

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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 Languages Language Curriculum Design 141

Faculty Focus

MAY 25, 2023

The difficulties in student engagement with instructor-directed reading, both in terms of the amount of reading undertaken and the participation and benefit from in-class discussion around readings, can be a prevalent problem. Bovill et al., academic journal article or specific industry press).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

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? And by May, we had hired close to 30 curriculum writers.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. The NEA examined the research on STAR students and focused on the long-term results from the follow-up studies.

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Achievement Students Instructors Ethics 257

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

BEGiN is best known for offering a pair of early-education apps: Learn & Grow, which offers digital reading activities for kids ages 2 to 8, and Learn & Play, which provides games, stories and songs that introduce foundational skills to children up to age 3. To date, the New York-based company has raised $93 million.

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Education Curriculum Design Critical Thinking Study 183

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Instead, they power up glowing iPad screens and swipe and tap their way through math problems, the day’s reading or interactive content. 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.

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Textbooks Fairness Social Studies Math 144

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Most people with “instructional design” in their job title are involved in converting “traditional” written curriculum or in-person teaching into an online course. Lesson 3: Determine the “powerful ideas” you want to teach and build your curriculum using backwards design.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2020

Look for STEM programs and online resources that provide step-by-step curriculum designed for the classroom or PD opportunities for teachers. In-person and virtual learning experiences give teachers confidence to coach STEM and robotics programs. Need help finding funds? Find additional funding for STEM.

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STEM Coaching Students Participation 191

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

The curriculum, designed to serve the school’s exclusively Native population, emphasizes Navajo language and culture as much as it does the Common Core standards. His team works with schools like STAR to provide rigorous, place-based curriculum, focusing on small, rural districts. McClennen explains.

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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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Knowledge Curriculum Design Intelligence Math 129

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. Share your story with us via the Community Forum or send us an email at stories@learningequality.org.

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Education Internet Accessibility Feedback 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

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. That’s the engineering side of my brain. Tell me about your Armchair Anthropologist assignment.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

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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English Curriculum Design Attention Curriculum 100

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2018

When it comes to teaching, it is a practice that many of them have cultivated over years of experience that is separate from their research or their identity as a researcher So they don't feel as comfortable even reading the research about it? I understand that you have a PhD in curriculum design, but I don't really need that.”

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2019

The computer science curriculum is doing more than teaching underserved middle school students how to code. Around that time, Ashton read about the high demand for skilled workers in computer science—a growing field that offers high-paying jobs, with a starting salary around $65,000 per year.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

A few folks mentioned the importance of institutional partnerships in curriculum development. We then (re)design the curriculum to match, then go through a curriculum review” - and this process is iterated over time. Entangled Solutions felt, “Educators should develop the curriculum - they are curriculum design experts.

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Skills Discussions Language Languages 78

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2018

Reading “Increased test scores by 14% year over year” is far more impressive than “Managed a class of 28 students.” Your resume should be personalized for the hiring manager, easy to read, organized , and have quality details about what makes you an ideal candidate. Are you looking to expand as a Curriculum Designer?

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Writing Fairness Curriculum Design Testing 80

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): W ho is and what languages are overrepresented/underrepresented in readings, guest speakers, collaborations?

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2016

All of the curriculum we have developed has followed a similar principle: ensure that all students are connected, acquiring new knowledge and building confidence as they progress through concrete steps. For computer science , this means we have done a tremendous amount of in-house curriculum design.

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Science Math Schools Interdisciplinary 84

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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Tunstalls Teaching Tidbits

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

More About Total Math Total Math is a comprehensive, standards-aligned curriculum designed to support teachers in delivering effective and engaging math instruction. Don’t forget to share your graphing fun with us! Tag #TotalMath on social media–we love seeing math in action!

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Math Curriculum Design Interactive Teaching Activities 52

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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Course Design Students Active Learning Activities 58

The Applicious Teacher

JUNE 18, 2024

Read (for Pleasure!) I think not, and summertime is the perfect time to catch up on your reading! This presents a perfect opportunity to read books and discuss them with other people! I have two kids, a curriculum design business, and a full-time career. These are some of my favorites! I laughedwas she joking?

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Art Reading Writing Activities 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Badges and Levels: Acknowledge milestones like mastering a math topic or reading five books in a month. Project-Based Learning: Allow students to select their own research topics related to curriculum goals. When given the space, students can be the most imaginative curriculum designers in the room.

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2022

This impact is consistent with the average student using the Amplify Science curriculum moving up 14 percentiles compared to their peers who used other materials. More than 80 percent of teachers agreed that they and their students benefited from using Amplify Science curriculum.

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Study Science Middle School Middle School 271

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.” Number one, listening.

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Math Schools Coaching Learning 122

Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

After arriving in a new school, her mental health cratered as she struggled to adjust to a new curriculum and the relentless demands of frequent testing, designed to help students make up for ground lost in the pandemic. Today she works as an instructional designer for a company unrelated to education. Others want a fresh start.

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Teachers Coaching Testing Middle School 216

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. But most entrepreneurs and funders overlook the thing that matters most—equipping teachers with the recipes and ingredients, in the form of quality curriculum, to light that fire for students.

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Social Studies History Curriculum Textbooks 136