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From school year to summer: Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy

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With the adoption of the new Bluebonnet Elementary RLA and math curriculum, our team created companion guides that link World Book and other premium resources to each unit’s nonfiction content. Integrate them into curriculum planning. For my district, that enduring solution has been World Book.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

Edsurge

When students establish a career identity, the material they learn that relates to that identity becomes more personally meaningful than just passing a test or earning a graduation credit, Christine Rodriguez told EdSurge in an email interview. But how are curriculum publishers responding to this insistence on career readiness?

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Why I Believe We Need to Redesign Schools Around Decision-Making

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In grade school, I was a confident student who knew how to ace tests and please my teachers. As a founding school leader, I’ve helped design systems and a student-initiated promotion process that gives students a voice in their education. Once I got to college, however, my A-student record failed me.

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Why I Left the Classroom to Build a School Black Children Deserve

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One time, I even begged to include more African American literature in the curriculum. A space where test scores didn’t define worth. It’s a buzzword I hear often these days on social media, especially in teacher groups where educators are reimagining their futures. That quiet defiance — teaching banned literature — changed me.

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Why Giving My Students More Choice Was the Most Punk Rock Thing I Could Do

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Of course, as a teacher, I know now that some of the answer lies in state standards and curriculum, but there is still room for choice and understanding in what our students learn and how they demonstrate that learning. Some students opted for a good old-fashioned test. Some students created Canva presentations and Google Slides.

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Practical Strategies for Interdisciplinary Teaching in Today’s University

Faculty Focus

Checking How Well Students Blend Ideas Checking student learning in an interdisciplinary course brings special challenges, as the goal is to test knowledge of single subjects and the ability to blend and use information from many fields. In our college, old testing methods, like exams on facts from one field, do not work well.

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An Edtech Pioneer Considers the Mixed Record of Her Field

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Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” In “Teacher in the Machine,” Trumbore traces edtech’s beginnings to three professors at distinct schools: Suppes, who founded the Computer Curriculum Corp.

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