eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

the prepackaged curriculum and the advice of more experienced colleagues was the go-to resource. Standardization may improve test scores in certain situations, but does not necessarily improve learning. It allows teachers to view the funds of knowledge composers bring to a task and create entry points for support.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. These skills are honed extensively across the curriculum, within the context of increasingly challenging problems, projects, and performance standards.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

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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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

His educational philosophy is centered on nurturing students’ thirst for knowledge and preparing them to do meaningful work in the future. If education is meant to prepare students for life beyond the classroom, then we must ask: are we equipping them with knowledge or wisdom? That number should stop us in our tracks.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

Constant content reviews ensure AI stays relevant to current medical knowledge. How can schools test the accessibility of AI tools? Schools should perform usability tests with diverse student groups, including those with disabilities, to assess AI tools’ effectiveness.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world. It should extend our ability to listen, relate, and empower learners to co-create knowledge within a community of care.

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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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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Building Interdisciplinary Courses: Choosing Scope and Mixing Knowledge Creating a solid interdisciplinary course starts with a clear scope and thoughtful mixing of knowledge. The U-shaped learning model from O’Sullivan (2025) backs this kind of team learning since building people skills helps blend knowledge and put it to use.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Building Interdisciplinary Courses: Choosing Scope and Mixing Knowledge Creating a solid interdisciplinary course starts with a clear scope and thoughtful mixing of knowledge. The U-shaped learning model from O’Sullivan (2025) backs this kind of team learning since building people skills helps blend knowledge and put it to use.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

In “Teacher in the Machine,” Trumbore traces edtech’s beginnings to three professors at distinct schools: Suppes, who founded the Computer Curriculum Corp. By corporations who do very little testing to see whether or not those products are safe or effective for children. A lot of edtech programs today are aimed at the K-12 market.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

However, we are often unaware of tacit knowledge that underlies our activities and actions, especially when things do not go as planned. In the above context, I saw my pandemic classroom as a laboratory to prototype and test new pedagogical moves, and where unexpected issues are expected to come to light. what we actually do).

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

Diagnostic assessments, as opposed to summative assessments, measure students’ current knowledge and skills, helping educators identify gaps and areas for growth, and guide teachers and school leaders toward where students might need additional instruction, resources or support to meet learning outcomes. How would it be delivered?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

NGSS MS-ETS1-2, ETS1-1, ETS1-3; MS-PS2-1 Subjects: Engineering, Math, Physical Science This hands-on STEM project for middle school takes students through the steps and knowledge needed to create bottle rockets out of 2-liter soda bottles, CSs, and duct tape. Lead them through an activity that demonstrates their knowledge of heat transfer.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

Additionally, our Technology Department collaborates with the Curriculum and Assessment team to analyze data from AI tools used in our classrooms, ensuring they are not reinforcing biases or widening educational gaps. We began with a pilot program to test AI tools in targeted areas before expanding to broader use. Start small.

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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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Priceless Ponderings

MAY 18, 2025

Stay ahead of the game with MY FREE curriculum road map for science. Its a great way to build background knowledge while sneaking in some reading comprehension practice. Hand out small wand magnets and let your little scientists test what sticks and what doesnt. The Strength Showdown Lets test some muscle magnet-style!

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

National Science Foundation, aimed to solve that problem with a drone-focused curriculum for rural middle schools. At the time Take Flight lost its National Science Foundation grant, its curriculum was being tested by 1,200 students and 30 rural middle school teachers across 10 states. million from the U.S.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

Common Methods Schools Have Implemented To Tackle the Teacher Shortage School leaders across America are implementing the following strategies to address the teacher shortage crisis : Rehiring Retired Teachers Retired teachers bring a wealth of experience and knowledge to the classroom.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

To be honest, when they talk about what they do to and with the children in the name of moving them through "the curriculum," I'm struck by a kind of despair. Testing was rare and largely inconsequential. major illusion on which the school system rests is that most learning is the result of teaching. Many students.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 30, 2025

Test your students’ funny bones and critical thinking skills with these science-themed riddles and jokes. Students can work on their own or in teams to test their knowledge of facts while solving subject-specific riddles. Test their knowledge of organelles and their functions with scavenger hunt activities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. None of these have anything to do with teacher training, background, test scores, rubrics, class size, or pay scales. The same could be said of Standards and curricula adopted in my varied teaching gigs.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

There, administrators recently partnered with Carnegie Mellon to pioneer the development and pilot testing of the nation’s first coherent K-12 curriculum on computational thinking. Take the South Fayette School District for example.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2017

When I first became principal, I was compelled to explore all aspects of what it meant to be a 21 st -century learner in an international baccalaureate context: as a global citizen, as a collaborative co-creator of knowledge, as a caring human being. Tools to Support Inquiry-Driven Learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 12, 2017

There’s no set curriculum or schedule; students learn what interests them with guidance from involved adults. There are no worksheets, tests, or structure to provide evidence of learning or templates for teaching. They start where their knowledge begins and work through to completion. What is it. How to start Unschooling.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The global health crisis forced students out of the physical classroom and into a new virtual world for nearly two grades, and their initial homework and test scores reveal a significant decrease in knowledge transfer, social skills, and core learning habits across a variety of subjects.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

“I feel like if you do poorly on one test, you kinda get in your mind that maybe this isn’t the subject for you, or you go into the next test feeling less confident. After more than a year in virtual classrooms, students and their teachers have become quite familiar with digital testing and the platforms that make them possible.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Key points: In preparing students for the modern workforce, think globally A globalized curriculum helps children learn without barriers See related article: 10 things schools need to do to build students’ networks For more news on global learning, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Learning should be lifelong.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

At the Learning Counsel’s Annual Gathering and National Awards event, twelve leading districts were recognized for their vision and innovation in integrating digital curriculum and technology into their teaching and learning process. Next page: The 12 winning districts for innovative digital curriculum strategies).

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Ohio is dedicating millions to a curriculum overhaul. Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world. Don’t oversimplify this.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2022

March 17, 2022— Whether students are prepared for grade-level learning matters more to their progress over the course of the pandemic than whether they were remote or in school, according to a new report released by Curriculum Associates. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,March in school or remote) as a proxy for learning location.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While classrooms focus on theoretical knowledge, they may fail to prepare students for the real-life challenges they will inevitably face. It’s one thing to score well on a test; it’s another to see a project you worked on come to fruition and make a real impact.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2024

No one denies it can make student testing more efficient, faster, possibly leading to better educational outcomes for all learners. While experts acknowledge risks such as bias and access disparities, they foresee AI-driven assessments reshaping education by tailoring tests to individual needs and promoting deeper learning.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Testing a solution involves investigating how well it performs under a range of likely conditions. When teachers include too many criteria in a rubric, they may unintentionally assess skills or knowledge they do not spend significant time helping students master.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2024

Such preliminary insights, whether through pre-assessments, diagnostics, or activities aimed at accessing prior knowledge, can illuminate the diverse range of skills, abilities, and needs within a classroom. Teachers can quickly generate a pre-test or quiz using an AI-powered education tool like MagicSchool.ai.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Learning, on the other hand, is defined as “the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.” Due to the rigidity of curriculum, standardized tests and the controlling nature of compulsory education, playfulness and unstructured time are seen as detrimental to a student’s learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Despite massive changes in society and technology since colonial times, one thing hasn’t changed much: the way we teach , test, and pass our students along to the next level—or into their adult working lives. It tends to promote memorization rather than the application of knowledge.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

In short, Merrill’s principles highlight that learning is promoted when: Learners are engaged in solving real-world problems; Existing knowledge is activated as a foundation for new knowledge; New knowledge is demonstrated to the learner; New knowledge is applied by the learner; New knowledge is integrated into the learner’s world.

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