Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

The grades in the course honor the on-the-job learning with at least a third of the points dedicated to the tasks Tara and Tim can accomplish at their place of employment. These assignments are not “additional” but are a core part of the curriculum. Generative AI is changing education as we speak.

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k12

JUNE 11, 2025

Online learning has come a long way, but outdated myths still pop up—especially if you’re just starting to explore virtual school options. Through the Reel Me video competition, K12-powered students are busting the most common myths about online school and sharing what it’s really like to learn online.

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k12

JULY 18, 2025

Essential Computer Skills for Online Learning There’s no perfect age to start teaching kids computer skills. In many public schools, keyboard and computer navigational skills have been a standard part of the curriculum since the 90s. At the very least, kids entering middle school should have foundational computer skills.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 5, 2025

In your district, you may refer to them as IT specialists, Coordinators for Instructional Technology, Technology Facilitators, Curriculum Specialists, or something else that infers big brains, quick minds, and the ability to talk to digital devices. That I’ll save for a different article.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

The other, from the president and CEO of Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a national nonprofit organization that provides schools with innovative, hands-on, project-based STEM curriculum designed to develop critical skills and knowledge, while preparing students for careers beyond the classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2016

Successful online and blended learning programs in a recent survey are those that prioritized better teacher-student relationships, used an online curriculum as a primary instructional source, and used a combination of in-person and virtual instructional support.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 19, 2020

Module 1: Teaching Presence–Designing Your Blended/Online Course. Lesson 1: Design Your Course Syllabus Lesson 2: Set Up Your Virtual Classroom Lesson 3: Curriculum Mapping for First Semester Lesson 4: Helping Students Get (and Stay) Organized. Module 2: Teaching Presence–Designing Blended/Online Lessons.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2016

Many educators turn to online and blended learning solutions to offer alternative solutions for at-risk students. The most important attribute of a successful online or blended learning program is a “rigorous and engaging curriculum,” according to participants in a recent study.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2020

COVID-19 has shown us that online learning is beneficial in many ways. There’s a lot of uncertainty in the air as teachers and administrators adjust to this “new normal” and strive to maintain nurturing, engaging learning environments. Related content: A data-driven look at COVID learning loss.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2020

As a high school principal at an international school, I want students to successful and well supported if they journey into online learning. Our students in grades 11 and 12 can take online classes for the IB Diploma Program (DP), and we partner with The Virtual High School (VHS, Inc.)

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2020

As schools across the country make the hurried transition from in-person learning to online classes, edtech companies are stepping up to help by offering free curriculum, PD, and other tools. Here are eight no-cost resources to keep the learning going. Related Content: eSchool News Online and Blended Learning Guide.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Furthermore, many students are struggling to reacclimate to in-person classes after extended periods of online learning, and attendance rates have dropped as a result. The answer lies in the inclusion of arts in a STEM-centered curriculum. A STEAM learning approach encourages collaboration to understand and distill new concepts.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2019

As a high school principal at an international school, I want students to successful and well supported if they journey into online learning. Our students in grades 11 and 12 can take online classes for the IB Diploma Program (DP), and we partner with The Virtual High School (VHS, Inc.)

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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

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

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Responding to a critical gap in technology education, CompTIA Spark has launched free technology curriculum specifically for middle grade classrooms, grades 5-8. The nonprofit organization worked with educators across the country to develop the curriculum.

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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

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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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2020

Art of Problem Solving (AoPS) is offering one free month or a $15 discount on a yearly subscription to Beast Academy Online , the complete web-based math curriculum designed to help students ages 8-13 deepen their understanding of math. Alcumus : This free adaptive online learning system has more than 13,000 problems and solutions.

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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 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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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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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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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

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

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

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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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

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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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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