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Would You Rather: Designing with Choice in Mind

Catlin Tucker

When I work with teachers, I encourage them to treat their classrooms (physical or virtual) like a laboratory. A student’s sense of autonomy and agency are enhanced when they are given a choice about how to engage with the content, learning activities, and each other. An Experiment.

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The Balance with Catlin Tucker: Featuring Lisa Highfill

Catlin Tucker

” We discuss the importance of viewing our classrooms as laboratories, designing lessons that help us maximize our minutes with students, and escaping the traditional role as the disseminator of information at the front of the classroom. Think about your daily or weekly routines (e.g.,

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New Slate of Inspiring and Engaging Standards-Aligned Content Added to Discovery Education Experience for Back-to-School 2025

eSchool News

Highlights include new Math Talks for grades 3-5, which feature activities focused on making sense of mathematics through open-ended prompts and rich student discussions, Daily Fix-Its and Weekly Edits, which are teacher-led presentations targeting common student grammar errors, and more.

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Effective Learning with Pre-Laboratory Videos: A Practical Teaching Strategy 

Faculty Focus

Much like a carpenter meticulously plans and measures before cutting into wood, pre-laboratory videos provide students with a detailed and visual understanding, serving as an outline to help prepare for upcoming laboratory sessions. 2022; Ouyang et al., 2022; Ouyang et al., 2006; Saxena et al.,

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How to flip the classroom and create avid learners

eSchool News

The traditional sequence of teaching using lectures, discussion, projects, and testing was upended during the pandemic as teachers adapted to digital classrooms and students took on more responsibility for their learning. In many traditional classrooms, the majority of class time is spent in a lecture-and-listen format.

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For Pi day, a free virtual field trip all about 3.14159

eSchool News

To help celebrate Pi day, Discovery Education will host a live virtual field trip to the laboratories of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) featuring mathematicians and scientists demonstrating practical uses of the numerical value of the ratio of the circumference of a circle on March 13 — Pi day eve. (3/14

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Effective Learning with Pre-Laboratory Videos: A Practical Teaching Strategy 

Faculty Focus

Much like a carpenter meticulously plans and measures before cutting into wood, pre-laboratory videos provide students with a detailed and visual understanding, serving as an outline to help prepare for upcoming laboratory sessions. 2022; Ouyang et al., 2022; Ouyang et al., 2006; Saxena et al.,