Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2025

We invited diverse perspectives into curriculum design, which led to unexpected partnerships and richer learning experiences. We pressure-tested curriculum components and designed an accelerated offering to learn and adjust. Embrace complexity. Focus on human values. Take action to learn. Low-risk experimentation was key.

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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

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Instead of asking for the usual feedback on curriculum, I posed a different question. Here are the passionate and clear responses educators provided when I asked, “What does your ideal math curriculum look like?” Most teachers want to feel some level of creativity in their teaching. It’s student-centered and flexible.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

“We’ve blocked three days off leading up to the first day of school for curriculum and lesson planning. 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. You’ve got time to plan ahead.” moment every day.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 18, 2023

With many of today’s educators already feeling overwhelmed with the responsibilities of teaching, finding ways to seamlessly integrate engineering into the curriculum is essential for both teacher and student success. Here are just a few strategies that teachers can use to build engineering into their classroom curriculum: 1.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2015

The myth that good teachers have the Midas touch and therefore don’t need curriculum programs has been around for decades. Some packages simply did not have much to offer, while others talked down to teachers, as the oft-used phrase “teacher-proof curriculum” suggests. Expecting teachers to go it alone hurts school improvement.

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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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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Its pre-K-8 curriculum encourages all children, including those from underrepresented groups, to see themselves as engineers. The guided engineering challenges teach concepts while the open-ended design space provides a venue for collaborative projects even for remote learners.

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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2015

Rubicon International, the creator of the curriculum management software platform Atlas, has announced a partnership with the learning management system (LMS) Schoolbox, created by Alaress. Having an effective curriculum directly connected to individual student outcomes is critical to improving teaching and learning.

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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

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

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. . “Part of our curriculum design is project-based learning.

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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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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

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Building on 25 years of math learning research and proven results with the PreK-8 visual instructional program ST Math, InsightMath was co-designed in collaboration with neuroscientists, researchers, educators, students, and families to give meaning to math for all students. to, ‘How do kids learn?’”

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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

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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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.

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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

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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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

The art and technology teacher initially designed a curriculum around digital storytelling and then transformed it into a multimedia art curriculum that included iMovie, storyboarding, illustration, children’s books, and front-end web design. So she created her own.

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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.”.

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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. During monthly department meetings, we spend time discussing how to implement new tools and technologies into our schools.

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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. Kim is an IB Educator and has led national teaching and learning projects in New Zealand.

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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. 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

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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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

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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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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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. 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.

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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. Teachers can modify and redistribute the materials without violating copyright laws. Pushes like the U.S.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

She has served as a teacher, worked with Teach For America and the New Teacher Project, and served as the Chancellor of D.C. 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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Move This World is a foundational social emotional learning program designed for PreK-12 educators and students. Its curriculum is delivered through short videos, allowing teachers to prioritize social emotional learning with consistency. The strategies can be administered at school or at home.

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