eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Online learning platforms and other edtech tools gained traction. More assessments moved online. Teachers taught using materials they copied or posted online, sometimes under paid or free licenses, sometimes under fair use, and sometimes by committing infringements that rightsholders were willing to ignore.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

STEM fields—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—are highly technical, which is one reason that the education system is changing to further incorporate these subjects into the curriculum. As more and more fields require technical knowledge, it is a good idea to equip our young learners with basic STEM skills early on.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2021

During a recent edWebinar , Jill Olson, the Director of Operations and Professional Development for EiE, a curriculum developed by Boston’s Museum of Science, provided a framework for integrating hands-on, interactive STEM projects with distance learning. Related content: A device in every hand during COVID-19.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Related content: 5 things you don’t know about online learning. Checking off all of these boxes isn’t always easy in traditional educational settings, where many schools have yet to tap into the value of online, blended, and/or personalized learning. How online learning promotes equality and equity in schools.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2020

Related content: 5 things you don’t know about online learning. Checking off all of these boxes isn’t always easy in traditional educational settings, where many schools have yet to tap into the value of online, blended, and/or personalized learning. How online learning promotes equality and equity in schools.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

Is the prevailing takeaway from this brutal, oppressive year a shared aversion toward online learning? For faculty members who had not received professional development in online teaching, it felt just as stressful as if they had been suddenly forced to teach in a foreign language. That should give us all pause.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2024

Online learning offers unmatched flexibility and accessibility, enabling both students and educators to manage their schedules effectively and break down geographical barriers. Online learning offers flexibility and accessibility that traditional classrooms were never capable of.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2020

This has presented challenges for all secondary schools, but even more so for Jewish day schools with an already full day of dual curriculum courses. Consequently, we embraced VHS Learning (VHS) option early on. Related content: 6 things I learned bringing online learning to international schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2024

Cloud security boosts online learning by protecting student data while they share their thoughts and submit their assignments. But in leveling the playing field in terms of providing access to learning resources, they also throw up new concerns from a security perspective. Why Cloud-Based Incident Response?

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

Online learning has moved to the front stage as 90 percent of high-income countries are using it as the primary means of educational continuity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Department of Education, Richard is a go-to person for exploring the shift we are experiencing in learning today. It’s painful to watch.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 3, 2020

What I want to avoid is a situation where teachers are presented with an alternative schedule in August and given a handful of professional development days to figure out how to adjust a semester’s worth of curriculum for a hybrid schedule. This schedule reserves Wednesdays for teacher preparation and deep cleaning.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

How can we maximize our time together while also leveraging the affordances of self-paced learning to ensure the asynchronous work is interesting and engaging? How do we stagger the two groups’ progress through the curriculum to avoid creating an online and offline version of every lesson?

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

Amy is a Google certified educator adept at designing engaging, student-centered digital curriculum and learning opportunities.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 19, 2020

If we take a step back and think about the benefits and challenges of asynchronous learning and synchronous learning, that can provide clarity about how to think about the design of our curriculum in an online or blended learning course.

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eSchool News

MAY 19, 2021

Boston — May 18, 2021 — VHS Learning, a nonprofit empowering schools with the industry’s best online learning programs, is celebrating its 25 th year helping schools expand curriculum and provide engaging learning experiences for students. In 2021, VHS Learning received a $1.4 Statewide Partnerships.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2021

As teachers navigate online learning, hybrid schedules, or the demands of the concurrent classroom, I’ve recommended the station rotation model. In our current situation, it is necessary to emphasize that a “station” does not need to be a physical location in a classroom, but rather it is a learning activity.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2023

The #WinAtSocial curriculum is available for students in grades 3 – 12, and the online platform includes a save and exit feature so that teachers can facilitate a lesson over multiple sessions as needed.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The program’s tri-credit approach enables students to receive high school credit, industry-recognized micro-credentials, and eligibility for college credit toward U.S. bachelor’s degree programs.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

From a UDL perspective, student agency also creates opportunities for diverse groups of learners to decide how they want to learn, engage with information, or demonstrate their learning. #8 8 Projects can turn the world into our curriculum. She said, “The world is our curriculum.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2021

Since the start of the pandemic, it’s increasingly important to protect our students’ emotional well-being, so that it is conducive to learning the curriculum we work so hard to provide them. Below are some ways schools can help ease the stress level and improve the emotional health of students navigating online learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Elementary education is the foundation for early learning, providing students with the skills and community they need for future success in school and life. Thanks to today’s technology, helping them start on the right foot is easier than ever – especially with online learning opportunities. The sky’s the limit.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In a coaching session last week, it became clear that teachers could use basic templates to help them conceptualize how to take strategies they have used in the past to create lessons that will work in a concurrent classroom (or in an online learning scenario). Present-Pause-Discuss.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Top must-have: Standards alignment Digital courses must align with state standards to ensure they meet learning goals and maintain accountability. Students learn differently and are unique, with varying interests and academic needs, and a comprehensive digital curriculum should reflect that.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

CoderZ , an online learning environment where students learn robotics and STEM by coding virtual robots, has been named a 2020 Tech Edvocate Award winner in the Best Coding App or Tool category. CoderZ is an innovative and engaging online learning environment. About CoderZ.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2021

VHS Learning will also use the grant to provide supplemental curriculum and instruction services to schools in rural and high-needs areas. “In VHS Learning’s will use a portion of the grant funding to help enhance its student information system (SIS). We are very thankful for the support given to us by The Manton Foundation.

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eSchool News

JULY 6, 2022

The Institute undertook a two-year series of nationally-representative surveys to track the adoption of online learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic to better understand its various uses and associated instructional practices. How are teachers blending and personalizing learning in post-pandemic education settings?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Can teachers who are teaching an AP course use blended learning models and cover the extensive curriculum? I get asked this question frequently as a blended learning coach. In this guest post, Cori Schwarzrock shares her experience using blended learning models in her AP psychology course.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

Join eSchool News for a panel discussion with leaders and educators who share a passion for the bold new vision of blended and hybrid learning as the future of education.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 2, 2023

Sustaining high quality online teaching and learning is best achieved through professional development derived from collegial relationships among online teaching faculty and high touch faculty support provided through an online mentoring model, the Online Learning Community (Pearson & Kirby, 2018).

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2024

Here are three ways school administrators can use remaining ESSER III funds to add or enhance a digital learning program in their school or district. To promptly address these staffing challenges, I propose school and district leaders leverage remaining ESSER III funds by forming partnerships with reputable online learning providers.

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eSchool News

JULY 13, 2022

Elementary education is the foundation for early learning, providing students with the skills and community they need for future success in school and life. Thanks to today’s technology, helping them start on the right foot is easier than ever – especially with online learning opportunities.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This starts with taking useful courses whilst still in high school, so that you have to right credentials to get into the university you like, then it’s getting used to online learning, just in case you want to visit an online university and then understanding the future of what you need beyond a BA undergraduate degree like a masters.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 4, 2024

Although Lightboard videos have also been useful in traditional brick-and-mortar settings for students as just in time review after classroom sessions (Schweiker, Griggs, Levonis, 2020), online learning presents a different challenge because the instructor is not available in real-time to answer questions or elaborate on difficult concepts.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2020

Related content: 5 reasons to integrate STEM into online learning. STEM learning is all about designing creative solutions for real-world problems. Problem-based STEM curriculum allows students to see the impact of their learning. That kind of authenticity builds engagement.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2020

However, if students learning online are trapped in virtually conferencing sessions for most of their school day or required to join a physical class virtually and follow along with what is happening there, they have lost the flexibility and agency over time, place, and pace that makes online learning effective.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

What innovations might redefine the learning environment? The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. You might wonder why this preference exists.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 29, 2018

Given that an increasing number of students have access to devices in their classrooms, thanks to 1:1 initiatives and mobile device carts, it is not necessary to send students to a lab, or separate space, for online learning. Instead, an entire class can rotation between online and offline activities together in a single space.

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