eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

the prepackaged curriculum and the advice of more experienced colleagues was the go-to resource. Largely, we were advised that teaching writing was a simple matter of having students walk through and complete organizers, spending about one day for each “stage” of the writing process.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2025

Instead of looking at each new technology as a tool that must be integrated in the curriculum, why not determine what is missing from current instruction and identify what prevents integration from occurring naturally? Why do school districts feel the need to ‘reinvent the wheel’ every time a new technology is released?

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Learning Lecturing Internet Fairness 275

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Today, I serve as Vice-Principal of B.School, where I lead efforts to integrate well-being, sustainability, and equity into our core curriculum. Within my own schools, one of the most defining moments was leading the integration of social-emotional learning and well-being into the core academic curriculum. I am also pursuing a Ph.D.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2025

Technology is not neutral,” says Joshua Jonas, a curriculum and instruction researcher at Baylor University and former high school teacher. “It We ask vendors to take our survey for curriculum tools that specifically looks at accessibility,” says Samantha Reid, educational technology coordinator. Tannenbaum teaches icons first.

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Culture Multidisciplinary Evaluation English 146

eSchool News

JULY 21, 2025

IT teams should also map enterprise traffic and evaluate unusual or unnecessary connections: Which servers are communicating externally? Make it part of the culture: Integrate cybersecurity topics and trainings into teacher workshop days and, where appropriate, into curriculum for students. Should they be?

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eSchool News

APRIL 28, 2025

A survey of over 100 teachers, 125 parents, and 50 district and private school curriculum leaders uncovered a stark contrast between administrative optimism and the realities faced by educators and families when using multiple ad hoc or even officially-sanctioned edtech applications. .”

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

Our study evaluated Core5’s impact on more than one million California elementary students’ ELA achievement during the 2022-23 school year. The research-proven program provides students with a systematic and structured approach to phonological awareness, oral language, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Critical thinking is defined by Paul and Elder as “the art of analyzing and evaluating thought processes with a view to improving them” (Paul and Elder 2020, 9). As always, use your critical thinking skills to evaluate the rubric and edit it to best meet your needs before sharing it with students.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Today, I serve as Vice-Principal of B.School, where I lead efforts to integrate well-being, sustainability, and equity into our core curriculum. Within my own schools, one of the most defining moments was leading the integration of social-emotional learning and well-being into the core academic curriculum. I am also pursuing a Ph.D.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

k12 Digest

JUNE 24, 2025

This philosophy is embedded in the British Curriculum, which offers both structure and flexibility. ProEd Global School blends this rigorous curriculum with personalized support, ensuring that every learner gets the guidance they need to thrive, not just survive in the classroom. “Our goal is to help them define it on their own terms.”

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Exams Counselling Education Schools 137

Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Critical thinking is defined by Paul and Elder as “the art of analyzing and evaluating thought processes with a view to improving them” (Paul and Elder 2020, 9). As always, use your critical thinking skills to evaluate the rubric and edit it to best meet your needs before sharing it with students.

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Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 128

Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Gamification Learning Motivation Learning Styles 104

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

It aligns with digital literacy frameworks that emphasize critical evaluation, meaningful contribution and not just technical skills. This approach helps students see themselves as creators, not just consumers, of technology.

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Ethics Science Game-Based Learning Motivation 152

Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

As research has suggested, they can be used for assessment design, curriculum design, lesson planning, personalizing and differentiating learning , and almost any other ‘thing’ a teacher–or student–has to do.

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Critical Thinking Evaluation Knowledge Curriculum Design 52

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Feedback Analysis : Evaluate customer feedback to identify patterns in behavior and make informed decisions for service improvement. Research Evaluation : Evaluate existing psychological research or data related to elder care practices and suggest ways to improve care based on findings.

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Syllabus Education Ethics Instructors 95

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Earlier this year, I administered a survey to my students, asking them to evaluate my classroom management skills and provide feedback on our classroom. Instead of assuming this was the case for my classroom, I did what any unsure teacher does and asked my students directly.

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Multiple Choice Questions History Students Beliefs 113

Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

Assisting with lesson and curriculum planning. However, the training strongly emphasizes the need to fact-check and critically evaluate all AI-generated content before it is used. Easing the Burden: A Focus on Teacher Workload The DfE sees AI as a key to unlocking more time for what teachers do best: teaching. Planning school trips.

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Quizzes Schools Disabilities Exams 59

GovTech

JULY 7, 2025

Expecting a steep drop in federal funding next year, Denver Public Schools formed a working group of staff from IT, purchasing, curriculum and instructional departments to streamline the process for evaluating apps.

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Evaluation Schools Curriculum 51

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

When evaluating a computer science curriculum, its important to consider how it approaches artificial intelligence. All stakeholders in education, from curriculum developers to teachers, have a critical role in preparing students to navigate a rapidly evolving AI landscape with ethical awareness.

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Science Education Ethics Students 113

Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

First, decide what class is appropriate, such as a course that you expect a good deal of unexpected issues and problems due to the newness of teaching the course topics; experimenting new curriculum materials; new pedagogical approaches to a course; or improving and addressing student course evaluation and student feedback.

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Lecturing Faculty Development Knowledge Laboratory 56

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

To summarize, while hybrid learning models offer promising solutions, their success hinges on thoughtful execution and consistent evaluation. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 135

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

The Academy Program, on the other hand, serves students who benefit from a highly customized curriculum with a strong emphasis on life skills, vocational training, and independent living. This holistic approach ensures that students not only master the curriculum but also develop essential life skills for the future.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

They were split into two groups alphabetically by last name to evaluate the two “parallel” sets of items. Analyzing the results While expert input ensured strong construct validity, there was still a need to evaluate the reliability of both the items and the overall test. Students completed the pilot during their homeroom period.

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Ethics Evaluation Testing Science 113

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

In academic writing, this leads back to the text, where writers rethink, re-evaluate, and understand a detail or main idea more deeply. Because it is a critical thinking process, writing isn’t merely an act of jotting down what you have in your head. As Robert Frost points out, “All there is to writing is having ideas.

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k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning. For educators, this means consistently examining how their language, curriculum, and interactions support or hinder equity. Who is left out? Are we reinforcing or disrupting inequity?

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Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 213

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning. For educators, this means consistently examining how their language, curriculum, and interactions support or hinder equity. Who is left out? Are we reinforcing or disrupting inequity?

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Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 130

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

Summer brings the chance to slow down, evaluate what matters most, and set new goals for next year. 8 Weeks of Curriculum Guides I also created weekly tips that will leave you better prepared to teach eight key upper elementary reading and math skills all year. You can view all of my professional development options here.

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Reading Skills Teachers Classroom Management 59

Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

For many districts, these grants cover the salaries of ESL-certified teachers, language acquisition curriculum, and professional development for content-based sheltered instruction. This change may shift how districts structure their instructional models and how state agencies evaluate the use of federal dollars ( EducationCounsel ).

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Special Education English Language Languages 94

eSchool News

MAY 23, 2025

These passages are algorithmically aligned to Texas curriculum standards, offering engaging and relevant reading material to students, including those with dyslexia and other learning differences, at just the right level of challenge. Still, AI is not a silver bullet. The score is not yet finished; we are still composing.

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Multidisciplinary Evaluation Reading Feedback 293

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

PBS also brings in research evaluators, like Pasnik, who take proposed stories and present them to children, evaluating their comprehension and engagement. It’s almost like we’re educators making the curriculum in school: There’s a level of expertise that we bring.

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Fairness Study Laboratory Evaluation 187

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 22, 2025

She also let me know, kindly but firmly, that she disapproved of our play-based curriculum. Children who don't go to school," explains Dr. Fisher, "live in a state of alert awareness because they're not expecting to be told what to do and not expecting to be evaluated."

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Evaluation Attention Reading Writing 93

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 11, 2016

This is a question I get often from teachers: How do I teach my state/national/international curriculum using technology? In fact, I ended up writing my own project-based technology curriculum (now in its fifth edition). Instead, take a year to develop a curriculum map and then stick to it. Modification.

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Curriculum Plagiarism Evaluation Writing 215

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

He engaged in a fifteen-year evaluation of over 50,000 research articles and something like 240 million students — making it the biggest evidence-based education research project ever — and discovered something no one expected and few believed: Almost any approach will work if delivered well. Or not occurring.

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Learning Failure Evaluation Feedback 193

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you’re evaluating math programs at your school, a good option to consider is ORIGO Education’s Stepping Stones. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. by Dennis Pierce.

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Math Exams Coaching Language 224

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2016

It’s intended as a barometer for evaluating technology incorporation into instruction, but I’m going to suggest it be used instead as a guide for integration. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-8 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Technology Math Curriculum Evaluation 191

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Integrating data literacy into K-12 curriculum The good news? In other words, theyre not just passive consumers of information, theyre critical thinkers. Why it matters for K-12 teachers As educators, we regularly interact with data, benchmark scores, reading levels, engagement analytics from edtech tools, and state test results.

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Ethics Education Culture Social Studies 297

Cal Matters

JULY 8, 2025

New officers also have the option of attaining a “professional policing certificate” from an accredited college or university, although that curriculum has not yet been developed. I believe that people, if they want to do this job, they need to get evaluated first,” said Nisbet, though he said an associate degree shouldn’t be required.

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Exams Education Testing Critical Thinking 110