Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

UDL provides a framework for designing and delivering lessons that address the diverse needs of all learners, including those with disabilities and other learning challenges. For example, one common barrier for students at Compass High School is the inability to read grade-level text.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

More focus on grades than learning When students are preoccupied with grades, they often lose sight of the learning process itself. The pressure to perform well on assessments can create a situation where the grade becomes more important than the actual knowledge being gained. World Bank. National Center on Educational Outcomes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. We can recognize the intersectional needs of all learners.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2025

As we look back at the K-12 stories that resonated the most with our readers last year, a trend quickly emerges: 2024 was the year of the personal essay. Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. By Daniel Mollenkamp In April, the U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

In addition to assessing students’ grades and essays, admissions officers have long looked to the SAT and ACT to help them decide who will make it in their campus settings, and beyond. But good high school grades don’t always predict timely college completion.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Both tests were given on computer to every student in grades three through eight plus high school juniors. Smarter Balanced, by contrast, required students to manipulate some shapes and objects with a computer mouse and to type in some of their own answers, including numbers, phrases, sentences and whole essays.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

For example, design a lesson for a fifth grade boy with a reading learning disability who is interested in sports. Kevin Hogan In in AI and what it means to write a hundred word essay as well as just kind of the bigger the bigger picture ramifications. Now you get. He’s interested in sports. You know you know what?

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2019

I do not imagine that our program is their only or top priority, but I also do not imagine that it is fair to let some make up months of past due work to improve a grade from a previous semester or give extra time on evaluations without medical justification. I have 22 students all on the exact same schedule. They probably want to do well.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

It has disabled our education system, creating challenges to educational access, barriers to student academic progress and strains on teachers’ and students’ physical and emotional well-being. You can read part one here. The COVID-19 outbreak disrupted daily life for virtually every educator, parent, and student in the U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

After a long weekend of grading essays, I submitted the final grades for English 101. After college, I got my first job as a sixth grade humanities teacher in south Los Angeles. Then I got an email from the scheduling coordinator. Just a heads up, she wrote, likely you’ll have just one course next semester.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

I was diagnosed in 5th grade. There were complications in my birth, and so they've kind of always known, but it wasn't formally a learning disability until about 4th or 5th grade. So, I think having these learning disabilities has played a tremendous part in my experiences. Excruciating. What worked for you? Ben Gurewitz.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 22, 2019

Furthermore, recent tech advancements are facilitating the inclusion of kids with different sorts of disabilities, allowing them to attend regular classes without any trouble. The benefits of technology usage in schools are vast, including everything from grading tests to analyzing weak spots in courses, providing improvement suggestions.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper?

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Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

It might be tempting to turn to low-tech options for assessments, such as oral exams and handwritten essays, as a way to prevent cheating with AI. Or, an English language learner who relies on an app to translate words as they write essays. Or, use ChatGPT to rewrite some of the paragraphs in a paper?

Academic Integrity 98

Academic Integrity Plagiarism Exams Syllabus 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Virtual book club Why : Extends reading beyond the library, creates a community of readers, connects students across classes, grade levels, and schools How : Flipgrid, Padlet, Wakelet, Jamboard A digital reading journal is a great way to sustain a virtual book club.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

There are no grades, for instance. My role as a faculty member was more about sorting and grading and checking boxes than it was about helping students find out who they wanted to be,” she argues. Since Wayfinding has no grades, students end up as their own toughest judge of whether they are making progress. says Jones.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

Private schools often are serving different populations than public schools because they’re not under any legal obligation to serve, say, children with disabilities. Fitzpatrick : It would be difficult to create a system where you could really, really compare. So already it would be difficult.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

The lawsuit argues that DoDEA has pulled books without considering the caliber of the texts or their grade-level appropriateness since award-winning childrens books are among those singled out. The administration has now made that verboten in DoDEA schools.

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