eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2023

It encompasses more than 1,850 meta-analyses, comprising more than 108,000 studies involving more than 300 million students to date. With i-Ready , educators can gain deep insight into student growth based on industry-leading assessment and instructional design concepts backed by extensive validity evidence.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. At the same time, educators face difficulty identifying edtech products that meet their needs and improve student learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In September, a teacher in the Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District, in Southeast Texas, was fired when district leaders learned that an eighth grade class was reading a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank. The novel had not been approved and was deemed inappropriate, and the firing made headlines.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

By creating more flexible, student-centered classrooms, personalized learning empowers students to take ownership of their education, developing the skills they need to thrive both academically and personally. Additionally, my administrators studied innovative school models at various locations.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

From that day forward, she voraciously educated herself and, as of today, has started her own plastic recycling project (building eco bricks), and began an environmental awareness club at her school. Take one of my grade 9 students, Siya, for example. We want them to think hard about what the end goal of learning really is.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

Now, with nearly 20 years of teaching experience, and nine working as an educational developer, I know that while those planning steps are needed, they are not the most important. Connect to students Study after study shows that key to a student’s success is their connection to a faculty member. Use formative assessment.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 18, 2024

Now, with nearly 20 years of teaching experience, and nine working as an educational developer, I know that while those planning steps are needed, they are not the most important. Connect to students Study after study shows that key to a student’s success is their connection to a faculty member. Use formative assessment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

We’ve discovered that the five-part working definition of competency education developed by 100 innovators six years ago hasn’t protected us from misunderstandings. So is enabling students to advance above grade level. However, that’s not the reason that competency education is valuable.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

As English professors and educational developers, we think this question is essential when creating a sense of belonging for all students. And lastly, we should also consider the assumptions we hold about our student audiences—their grade level, motivations, abilities, goals, backgrounds, and more. References: Bogost, I.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

Educators may benefit from using AI for inspiration on inclusive lesson planning that adopts UDL. AI can also help with case study write ups, generating reflection questions, gathering up-to-date facts, and providing examples of real-life applications of certain concepts. Educational Developments, SEDA Ltd, Issue 7.4,

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

However, what we describe as partnerships commonly entail little more than developers listening to teachers before designing technologies for the classroom. Read the full Clayton Christensen Institute case study here.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 16, 2023

Educators may benefit from using AI for inspiration on inclusive lesson planning that adopts UDL. AI can also help with case study write ups, generating reflection questions, gathering up-to-date facts, and providing examples of real-life applications of certain concepts. Educational Developments, SEDA Ltd, Issue 7.4,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

As English professors and educational developers, we think this question is essential when creating a sense of belonging for all students. And lastly, we should also consider the assumptions we hold about our student audiences—their grade level, motivations, abilities, goals, backgrounds, and more. References: Bogost, I.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

We learned that feedback related to linguistic implicit biases usually centered on: assumptions about relevant real-world contexts, misconceptions about knowledge and abilities, and rubric grading for grammar vs rhetorical intentions. To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development , 42 (2), 7. link] Cook-Sather, A.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The majority of students never have a Black teacher at all from kindergarten to 12th grade, which is a travesty. Multiple rigorous studies have shown the positive impact of teacher diversity on all learners, but especially Black students. With two Black teachers, they are 32 percent more likely to go to college.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

For districts like De Queen, similar fairs do more than expose students to science and engineering , says Abigail Jurist Levy, co-director of the science and mathematics programs for Education Development Center, which recently completed a nationwide study of middle school science fairs, funded by the National Science Foundation.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

Antonieta Avila, sixth grade teacher in Los Angeles Los Angeles-based sixth grade teacher Antonieta Avila put it another way: “Students come to us regularly and share the trauma that they have gone through this past year and a half. Where do I go to share it? Where do I go to leave it?

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