Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen firsthand the anxiety that students experience when it comes to writing their college essays.

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Essay Writing Beliefs High School 187

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2024

Creative writing techniques can make essays more engaging and original while maintaining the required objective structure. However, it’s possible to use creative writing ideas to help you come up with a unique essay. Creative writing focuses on originality and encourages you to use your imagination to express ideas uniquely.

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Essay Writing Attention Feedback 173

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Many middle school and high school teachers feel immense pressure to move quickly through the curriculum. Group 1 researched the Great Depression and discussed its impact on the novel. Group 3 practiced writing and critiquing theme statements on the whiteboard in the back of the room.

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Blended Learning Middle School Middle School STEM 420

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 20, 2020

to write a series of blogs about how she is using the Station Rotation Model in her math class. How could I get the students to have discussions about mathematical concepts? Even if you don’t have a career focus at your school, you can still encourage students to make real-life connections. I invited Sarah Dunn, M.Ed

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Math Blended Learning Questions Coaching 545

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Students engage in face-to-face conversations, asynchronous online discussions, and 140 character Twitter-style interactions. I record a screencast taking parents on a virtual tour of our class website, shared Google calendar, flipped YouTube videos , StudySync site, Google Classroom , and Schoology online discussions.

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Teaching Philosophy Schools Blended Learning Discussions 420

eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2021

I’ve spent about a decade as the chair of the social studies department at Wissahickon High School, where I teach grades 9-12. I write teacher guides and curriculum for graphic novels for publishers like Macmillan and Scholastic, and I have a book about teaching with comics coming out this summer.

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Teaching Teachers Social Studies Culture 363

Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2019

Lian had learned to read and write in English while living in Malaysia, where her family waited for two years to immigrate to the U.S., She has strong, thoughtful opinions, and often writes her ideas first, before sharing them in class. A2G is a yearlong high school acceleration program designed for immigrant students.

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Art High School High School English 167

eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

Aperture was on hand to demonstrate its scalable SEL solution for K-12 that grows with students and staff, from teacher-based ratings and strategies at the elementary level, to student- and teacher-facing assessment and strategy software for high school students and staff.

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STEM Distance Learning Science Writing 330

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2022

But they recently got an unusual invitation: Would they be up for writing a book about inequality in computer science aimed at kids—at the very students who are getting such unequal offerings in their schools? And when they do exist in those schools, they're mostly covering the most basic rudimentary skills, like typing.

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Science Discussions Culture Ethics 186

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

It’s a statistic no educator—or student—would boast about: Half a million high school graduates , or about one in four, can’t perform math or write English well enough to avoid having to take remedial classes when they get to community college. In Tennessee, the seeds for success were planted in 2011, when a study showed.

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High School High School English Education 141

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Tools include Canva Magic Write for creative writing, Eduaide.ai While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI? Here’s how to counteract the disruptive influence of AI writing on learning. How is AI beneficial in education?

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 298

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

Education 120

Education Essay Culture Math 120

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

I write one to share with students, so they get a sense of who I am as a person, and it serves as a model they can reference as they write their own. In high school, I was the lead in the musicals Little Shop of Horrors and Bye, Bye Birdie. I was on the varsity soccer, track, and cross-country teams in high school.

Teachers 365

Teachers Blended Learning Classroom Management Discussions 365

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

My kids love it whenever they get the chance to use technology as part of the writing process. Jill Weber, Cheney Middle School. We all strive to develop students with the skills necessary to be successful after high school graduation. We all want our students to write more.

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Writing Social Studies Middle School Middle School 153

eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

Whether it’s multiple times a week or every day, using communication tools such as discussion boards or announcements will help keep students from feeling isolated. Discussion boards encourage critical and creative thinking and supports students in their own reflections and inquiries. Establish good course practices.

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Education Syllabus Instructors Feedback 279

eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

Key points: Tech tools can create more engaging and effective learning experiences A critical shift in digital instruction in 2025 How multimedia and interactive tech transform engagement For more news on digital tools, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In 2010, I began my teaching career as a high school English teacher.

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Technology Middle School Middle School Assignments 229

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Databases are essential for helping middle and high school students understand the value of research, appreciate the importance of validating sources, and make connections between different topics — all of which are necessary for building information literacy skills. They are also valuable teaching tools.

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 280

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

In order to meet these goals while also responding to testing demands, I needed a new resource: one that would provide my students with a strong framework for writing and use technology as the primary composing tool. Fortunately, I found everything I was looking for (and more) in the online reading and writing program ThinkCERCA.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 127

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Although important to the employee experience, both workload and total pay have less of an impact on teachers engagement than whether they feel their job gives them the opportunity to do what they do best every day, the researchers write. One much-discussed technology offers a potential solution: artificial intelligence.

Teachers 137

Teachers Intelligence Motivation Writing 137

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2023

I set off on a year-long journey to implement them into the academic writing process. They were instructed to write key facts from each article on note cards, sort the note cards into categories, name the categories, and synthesize the information into a few salient thoughts. Here are four of the VTRs I used and their outcomes.

Writing 130

Writing Plagiarism English Languages 130

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

According to a survey , as many as 58 percent of high school students have plagiarized work, and 95 percent admitted to some form of cheating. Guidelines could include what stage of writing an essay students can use AI–for example, using it to brainstorm a topic, conduct research, or to revise a conclusion.

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Plagiarism Education Assignments Essay 332

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 4, 2025

By high school, students have probably heard What do you want to be when you grow up? Its one of the reasons why high school (and increasingly middle school!) Use these meaningful career exploration activities for high school students to help students discover their interests, skills, and passions.

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High School High School Activities Schools 90

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Oftentimes the learners fail to understand the vocabulary of the book that sets the obstacles for the reading comprehension, or fail to discuss the topic because they lack active vocabulary. The classroom can be a perfect ground for discussions, imagination training, and language improving activities. Forming the Arguments.

Art 226

Art Languages Language Plagiarism 226

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

After completing the debate, have the class determine which side made a better case,” Ribble writes. Spend time after the debate discussing the issues raised by both groups.”. Teaching digital citizenship across the curriculum is a practice that Jennifer Scheffer is working to bring to the Burlington Public Schools in Massachusetts.

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Curriculum Teaching Mobile Devices Ethics 279

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete. For me it was Ms. This same approach would work in other classes as well.

Teaching 304

Teaching English Students History 304

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

I recently discussed these questions with two education experts on my podcast, What I Want to Know. And that’s just one example of using technology to enhance writing skills, public speaking skills, and stimulating imagination while learning about a critical historical moment.”. They directed it. They did the sound on it.

Technology 363

Technology Reading Skills Critical Thinking 363

Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

Recently, EdSurge met with field experts, all part of the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA), to discuss how they leverage edtech to provide an inclusive learning environment for all students. Compass High teachers aim to provide a personalized learning environment for every student as much as possible.

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Universal Design Disabilities Mobile Devices Students 212

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. We were discussing the agenda when the topic of ChatGPT elicited a collective groan. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. Can I start over?”

Essay 216

Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 216

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

They will have some amazing successes–and some failures–as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. Read more about Ross-Kleinmann’s thoughts on AI in schools. PBL isn’t used enough–let’s change that.

Teaching 324

Teaching STEM Education Cognitive Development 324

eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Megan Schlagel, a high school math teacher in St. Vrain Valley Schools in Longmont, Colo., Last year, I was a mentor to a first-year teacher at my school , and my mentee had to record a lesson of her teaching as part of the induction program. Professional development needs to be relevant, engaging, and personalized.

Teachers 281

Teachers Coaching Math Intelligence 281

Edsurge

JULY 19, 2022

When teachers tell their authentic stories it can lead to powerful insights and spark discussions about how to solve the many problems facing school communities. That’s the premise of the Voices of Change Writing Fellowship, which EdSurge kicked off last year. Deitra Colquitt, co-principal at Pershing Elementary School in St.

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Teachers Writing Coaching Essay 196

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2023

They like that it’s online, with lots of multimedia options, and a focus not on writing but communication. When I started, I had seven, but as I continued, it exploded to this long list that I’m adding to even as I write this post. A perfect spot to use them that continues the discussion is the blog profile.

Skills 189

Skills Teaching Writing Communication 189

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2023

I set off on a year-long journey to implement them into the academic writing process. They were instructed to write key facts from each article on note cards, sort the note cards into categories, name the categories, and synthesize the information into a few salient thoughts. Here are four of the VTRs I used and their outcomes.

Writing 104

Writing Plagiarism English Languages 104

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2021

I recently discussed these questions with two education experts on my podcast, What I Want to Know. And that’s just one example of using technology to enhance writing skills, public speaking skills, and stimulating imagination while learning about a critical historical moment.”. They directed it. They did the sound on it.

Technology 304

Technology Hybrid Learning Reading Critical Thinking 304

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 21, 2019

” As I was responding to Andi’s comment, I realized that I had to write this blog post and share some of the myriad ways that teachers can use a wonky Wednesday. At the high school level, I had students email their parents and CC me. 1 Passion Projects. I provided templates to guide their communication to parents.

Metacognitive Skills 336

Metacognitive Skills Blended Learning Coaching Feedback 336

eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2023

With a mission to enhance teaching practices and foster collaboration, Gale Community For Educators offers a platform that encourages literature, English, history, and civics high school teachers to connect, share ideas and access valuable resources. Members can make their voices heard in regular opinion checks, prompts and surveys.

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Education English Secondary Education History 169

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

When Salvador Quijada, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School, thinks back on his own journey as a mathematician, he gives credit to one high school math teacher who pushed him to take on AP calculus. They are collaborating, discussing, and working hard. It has been the best decision.

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Middle School Middle School Math Teachers 262