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Real talk: What it really takes to lead successful grading reform

eSchool News

Grading reform is messy, but it’s worth it. That was the central message from Jessica Espinoza and Alice Opperman of Emerson Public Schools (NJ), who shared their decade-long journey implementing standards-based grading during their session at ISTELive+ASCD 2025. We will never see a letter grade again.

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AI in education needs more than innovation–it needs intention

eSchool News

These platforms offer unprecedented opportunities to personalize learning, refine curriculum development, and support teaching. These platforms offer unprecedented opportunities to personalize learning, refine curriculum development, and support teaching.

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How to integrate environmental concepts into every subject

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My goal became connecting students to nature through their passions and connecting teachers standards-driven curriculum to nature through environmental literacy. One of my earliest projects as the Director of Environmental Education for a public school district in New York was in a middle school English Language Arts classroom.

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The Basics of Making a Curriculum for Homeschool Students

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Homeschooling offers a unique opportunity to tailor your child’s education to their specific needs and interests. Making a curriculum for homeschool students that’s engaging and tailored to their learning style is key to helping them succeed. Creating a year-long curriculum for your learners from scratch is no easy task.

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Showfloor News: PBLWorks creates PBLWorks TEACH to help scale project based learning

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The Buck Institute for Education (dba PBLWorks ), a national provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), is launching PBLWorks TEACH , a web-based application with ready-to-use, standards-aligned, Gold-Standard PBL projects for middle school math, science, English Language Arts, and social studies.

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5 AI tools that offer more than hype

eSchool News

Key points: Useful AI in education often goes beyond surface-level automation Building an educator’s AI toolbox You’re using ChatGPT? But as AI becomes a marketing must-have, educators and school leaders must separate meaningful functionality from superficial hype. Not all AI is created equal.

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How our district turned a sea of data into a compass for change

eSchool News

Likewise, one type of data is not sufficient either, so our educators consider both quantitative and qualitative reference points. But when educators have abundant reports that are not interconnected, they are data rich and information poor, which can result in less-than-optimal decisions. We look at it.