eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Ohio is dedicating millions to a curriculum overhaul. A similar number of states administer weak licensure tests, the report said, creating uncertainty about how well prepared teachers are. Meanwhile, just nine states require that districts adopt high-quality reading curriculum, NCTQ’s analysis found. newsletters.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Kiana Pendleton, principal of Laurel Magnet School of the Arts in the Laurel School District in Laurel, MS, was recently named the winner of Curriculum Associates’ 2023 Inspire Award. The recognition from Curriculum Associates is evidence of a dreamer who is dedicated to doing the work for children,” said Pendleton.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2025

.–( BUSINESS WIRE )– The Smithsonian Science Education Center and Carolina Biological announced new independent study results showing the Smithsonian Science for the Classroom curriculum improved students scores in N.C. For information, visit Carolinas website , call (800) 334-5551, or e-mail curriculum@carolina.com.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

EiE currently develops research-based, classroom-tested programs that empower children to become lifelong STEM learners. Its pre-K-8 curriculum encourages all children, including those from underrepresented groups, to see themselves as engineers.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

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. Real-life work experiences provide students like Sarah with tangible accomplishments. They see the direct impact of their efforts, which is profoundly empowering.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

Government eBook curriculum, Bell Ringers, and digital media clips feature lessons and historical content to help high school students understand why the debt ceiling is important, what is involved in the federal budgeting process, and how today’s deficit spending negatively impacts future generations. Poptential’s free U.S.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

Poptential’s American History Volume II curriculum, Bell Ringers, and digital media clips feature the accomplishments of African American leaders and civil rights activists as they fought for racial equality. They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

Poptential , a free curriculum that infuses lessons with digital storytelling using pop culture references, also uses SpongeBob SquarePants. They include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests. the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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. What if we centered playfulness and unstructured time in our classrooms, even when it has nothing to do with the curriculum?

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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.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Before I adopted phenomena-based instruction, most of the questions students asked were some variation on, “Is this going to be on the test?” They were focused on whether they would have to memorize this fact or that process to pass a test. Instead, they are constantly asking themselves, “How does this connect to my driving question?”

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. The Preparatory Programs support students who thrive in a structured setting without the added stress of homework or standardized testing.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

There is currently no standardized cyber safety curriculum being taught in primary, elementary or intermediate schools. Cyber Legends intends to change that with engaging, curriculum-aligned lessons, masked as a fun video game. There is currently no standardized cyber safety curriculum being taught in educational systems.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

With cost and resource savings, more time can be dedicated to improving the quality of these texts, ultimately improving how the curriculum in languages other than English flows into and improves English learning, to create truly bilingual students. Take today’s state standardized tests as an example.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 9, 2019

This personalized approach to final exams does require that teachers anchor their test questions and tasks in specific skills/standards so that students are answering questions that target the skills they’ve identified in their conversation with the teacher.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2025

Comprehensive digital curriculum is designed with the end goal in mind, based on Understanding by Design, an award-winning book and theory by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe that focuses on the benefits of backward planning. Other items to consider include your instructional model, quizzes and tests, and supplemental materials for teachers.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Every test score, attendance log, learning app, or digital assignment generates data. 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. Integrating data literacy into K-12 curriculum The good news?

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2023

In general, through-year assessment refers to testing that takes place throughout the school year to provide feedback on student progress and ultimately make a proficiency determination. The interim assessment is given in the fall and winter, while the summative test is given in the spring, to make a proficiency determination.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

The strategies covered in education pretraining programs and professional development sessions may not necessarily be consistent with best available evidence – making it all the more important to think critically before investing in a new curriculum or supplemental resource.

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eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2021

Results in the form of grades, standardized test scores, and student performance. That’s why many curriculums — understandably so — have been geared toward achieving certain benchmarks for each grade level. How did we get here? Why executive functioning is overlooked.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Those children, who were ages 1 to 4 at the start of the pandemic, are coming to school less prepared and lagging behind expectations with signs of a slow recovery,” said Dr. Kristen Huff, vice president of assessment and research at Curriculum Associates. Average test scores dropped 2.8 points and 9.1

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2024

Ungraded Quiz or Pre-test: Before designing a unit or sequence of lessons, ask students to complete a quiz or pre-test to identify what they know and can do. Teachers can quickly generate a pre-test or quiz using an AI-powered education tool like MagicSchool.ai.

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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. Competency-based education is starting to take hold.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

An integrated STEAM education also puts students on the path to success with higher test scores, stronger attendance records, better disciplinary records, and increased engagement and graduation rates. In order to provide a rich, robust, and inclusive curriculum for youth, STEM needs to evolve to STEAM. What is STEAM and STEM activity?

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2022

This year’s K-12 Hero Awards Program, sponsored by JAR Systems and SAP Concur , will recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The nomination period runs from June 27 – September 1, 2022.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2025

Prepare career-ready students Adopt engaging, career-focused curriculum that connects learning to real-world applications Create clear pathways with industry-recognized certifications Integrate essential workplace skills into technical training Provide hands-on and digital learning experiences A3.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

And we did not teach to the test. In fact, she continues, “There were a couple of kids who said they had never passed the math SBAC test in the history of their schooling, and that 6th grade was the first time.” The SBAC scores support Tracy’s observation that the math curriculum helped all students achieve academic excellence.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

New AI tools are emerging daily for educators and students; from AI tutors to curriculum creators, the AI education market is surging. Similarly, if we were to use AI to generate a leadership curriculum, it would be prone to create content that aligns with this stereotype. However, the long-term impact of AI use on students is unknown.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

eighth gradersstruggle with long-form writing on tests and classwork. As the Wall Street Journal reports , kindergarten students tested in 2023 were about 2 percentage points less likely to begin school at grade level in reading, compared to 2019 data. Yet, this omission has a profound effect on students literacy skills.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Standardized tests are an important part of a linguistic profile, but we need to also consider a student’s background and exposure – what languages they speak at home and with whom do they speak those languages – in order to build a more comprehensive picture. Plot can mean the theme of a story, an area of land or a marking a spot on a graph.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

Fully Web-Based Curriculum for Grades K–5 is Intuitively Designed for Modern Classrooms. With our new web-based elementary program, educators now have the choice of a digital option designed for e-learning or our long-standing, evidence-based print curriculum. Visit cfchildren.org to learn more. About Second Step® Programs.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Test-optional and test-blind admissions in recent years could mean a radical expansion of access to selective colleges. The patchwork of admission test policies in college admissions underscores a larger challenge—and opportunity—for both K-12 and higher education.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

NWEA has released new research findings that examine to what degree students’ reading and math test scores have become more variable during the pandemic, and how achievement gains across the pandemic compare to pre-pandemic trends for students who were low- or high-achieving before the pandemic started.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Hyper-focused on standardized testing. Because of the way the education system is structured, a lot of curriculum is centered around standardized testing—passing AP exams, getting into colleges, etc. While these tests are important, they limit the ability to put the scientific method in action.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

And while the curriculum was structured in a logical manner, it also includes engaging design elements and leaves plenty of room for students to ask questions, solve problems, and troubleshoot. They had to find the parameters for those conditions and test out various scenarios. It helps students develop motor skills.

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