eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

MindLabs by Explore Interactive brings state-of-the-art technology that, combined with award-winning EiE curricula, will provide teachers with standards-aligned, engaging activities to help students build skills in problem-solving, critical thinking, engineering design, and team collaboration — all skills required for jobs in the 21st century.

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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. Next page: 2 more skills for today’s librarians). We hear from each other about best practices, new ideas, and about what is working—and what isn’t.

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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. Next page: 2 more skills for today’s librarians). We hear from each other about best practices, new ideas, and about what is working—and what isn’t.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

The ability to think about what we are learning, how we are learning, what we want to learn in the future are important skills that must be explicitly taught in classrooms. 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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Back in 2017, a startup named Coursetune began selling software tailored to a very particular niche: designing curriculum. 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.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Education.com , an online education destination for teachers, parents, and homeschoolers looking to help their kids succeed in school, announced a new guided curriculum that changes the way they help their preschool and elementary children develop essential skills.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Across the country, more and more schools are implementing project-based learning and forging partnerships with businesses to help students build real-world skills to succeed in college and the workforce. Professionals mentor students and guide them as they innovate, develop entrepreneurial skills and real-world experience.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

As schools, districts, and policymakers grapple with the realities of a rapidly evolving workforce that requires discipline-specific knowledge, high-tech know-how, and hands-on skills, there is a growing recognition that the traditional approaches to preparing students for the real world no longer suffice.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

The forced disruption was also the catalyst for students and teachers to quickly acquire digital skills that are ripe to be amplified, taking them from consuming skills to creating skills. For example, a visual demonstration of the task that outlines each step, and explores associated behaviors and skills.

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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

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The science can and should guide curriculum design. school districts that have adopted Reading Horizons Discovery , their foundational literacy curriculum for grades K–3. Those teachers observed implementing the curriculum with high degrees of fidelity are seeing the fastest results for their students.”

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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 2, 2023

“Expanding our phonics ecosystem to support fourth and fifth grade is the direct result of educators asking us for a solution to fill the continued, growing need for explicit Tier 1 phonics and word study skill development beyond the third grade,” said Stewart. is a 30-week curriculum designed for daily 30-minute instruction.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2017

A: For decades now, the federal government has required public school teachers to implement “full inclusion” classrooms, where students of all levels and abilities are taught the same curriculum and lessons and given the same tests. As a result, gifted students can end up as an underserved population.

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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.”. For more information go to www.gocoderz.com.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Social-emotional learning (SEL) companies Aperture Education and Move T his World have partnered to provide Aperture’s customers with additional resources to support the development of students’ social-emotional skills. Move This World is a foundational social emotional learning program designed for PreK-12 educators and students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2018

and Kelly Urlacher, senior curriculum designer at DreamBox Learning, had a conversation of essential approaches for supporting these students in “ Key Strategies to Making Access and Equity a Reality for ELL Students.”. Michele Dawson, senior director of instructional technology in Compton Unified School District in Calif.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

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. But amid all this change, one area has remained relatively static in public education.

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k12 Digest

MAY 14, 2025

As a leader of IB World schools, Kim Green is committed to creating strong connections across the learning continuum through impactful leadership, a strong curriculum that leads to mastery, and mindful and inclusive practices. In 2014, she published Re-thinking Leadership Development in Schools . Who is your role model in life and why?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

She has dedicated much of her career to helping educators integrate technology with purpose into their curriculum. 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 the same way you would start any kind of curriculum design.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

AI-powered tools can aid in identifying gaps in curriculum design, helping institutions refine their teaching strategies. Additionally, AI contributes to the evolution of assessment methods, offering new ways to measure students’ understanding and skills beyond traditional testing.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Is the skills gap real or has it been blown out of proportion? That was the first question posed by special guest and former EdSurgent Mary Jo Madda at #DLNchat on December 12 when we discussed The Skills Gap—Fact or Fantasy? with fellow instructional designers, faculty, administrators and entrepreneurs.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For a student, individual attention can make the difference between effectively developing skills and just coasting along. Our online master’s degree in educational leadership program features a curriculum designed around the needs of working educators and builds on your current knowledge to help you advance your career.

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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

Students will be entering classrooms with varied experiences during the pandemic, entering classrooms with uneven skill sets and knowledge levels. It starts with studying and discussing identity, and then using students’ understanding of identity as a foundation for infusing it into the entire curriculum.

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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. Both are sold under the brand name Homer, acquired by BEGiN in 2017.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

The Arizona Department of Education has been a key partner for us for many years, and today’s news will only strengthen our ability to support educators state-wide in promoting the development of early reading skills for all students. Schools were randomly assigned to use the 95PCP or continue using another curriculum.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2020

Success in our modern economy demands a wide set of skills, including content knowledge, digital literacy, leadership and strong problem-solving abilities. All students need to develop these skills. Creating opportunities for young people to teach one other builds skills, confidence and relationships among both mentors and mentees.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

A quarter of them had mastered the skills and were ready to apply what they had learned about fractions to solving linear equations. About half showed competency with the skills, but were still making numerous errors. High school math curriculum is bullet-pointed into units, chapters, subheadings and indicators. My heart sank.

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2020

These services will support colleges and universities in their efforts to better understand and utilize the technology solutions across campus, access more timely and insightful performance data, enhance accreditation and compliance practices, give students better visibility into their mastery of key skills, and much more. “At

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

The gaming devices aren’t being treated as contraband anymore, at least not in the 100 K-12 schools that have welcomed Nintendo products into their classrooms this year to help students develop collaboration, creativity, critical thinking and problem-solving skills.

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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. But another important aspect is thinking about digital literacy skills and digital rights.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

SuperDville is a mission driven woman and minority owned and operated company which produces a video based social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum designed to empower 7-13-year-olds with learning differences. Themes include SEL skills like self-advocacy, confidence, and resilience while promoting a peer-to-peer model.

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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. They can add chapters as new skills become in-demand by employers or choose the format that works best for their classes.

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k12 Digest

MAY 14, 2025

As a leader of IB World schools, Kim Green is committed to creating strong connections across the learning continuum through impactful leadership, a strong curriculum that leads to mastery, and mindful and inclusive practices. In 2014, she published Re-thinking Leadership Development in Schools . Who is your role model in life and why?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

The primary way the nonprofit is doing this is through an AI curriculum it launched in May in Akron Public Schools in Ohio but which has already spread to six states and more than 2,500 students. Students need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills required to navigate what’s being called “the new electricity.”

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