Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

In the past two academic years, Idaho Digital Learning Academy (IDLA), an online state school created by the Idaho Legislature, has taken proactive steps to fix a key problem: losing English Language Learner (ELL) students before high school graduation, and losing them from highly technical and content-driven courses like biology.

Hybrid Courses 81

Hybrid Courses Language Languages English 81

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

In an earlier essay, we discussed how teachers are leaning into SEL to adapt student services and unlock opportunities that, just months ago, may have seemed impossible. As she shifted to remote instruction, Strassman knew she’d have to pivot her lesson plans to engage her students from afar.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Our English programs are often centered around what we deem worthy—classic, can’t-leave-high-school-without-reading titles. And to be fair, in a true reading community, if there’s a kid who suggests that I’m missing out if I don’t explore a nonfiction book they’re over the moon about, then perhaps I should be willing to give it a go?

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Reading Essay Assignments Fairness 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

Last year, Sammy Spencer, a High School English teacher in Southern California, ran a pilot program using Revision Assistant in her school. In 2016-17, I was the new English department chair at ECRCHS, which is a large public charter school in Los Angeles. It also gave us our initial essay scores to compare pre- and post-performance.

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Testing Essay English Writing 71

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

This opens up some problems, said Jessica Breheny, an English professor and the unions vice president. As part of the class, she has to study a career, write a short essay about it and present it at a career fair. Im sure there are 12-year-olds that are college-ready, but there are just less of them and its less likely.

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Middle School Middle School Counselling Schools 113

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Example: An English teacher leads a group discussion on empathy and perspective-taking after reading a novel, fostering emotional intelligence skills that AI cannot replicate. The Review | Essay. Stay Informed: Keep abreast of AI advancements and their potential applications in education. 2024, July 1). 2024, June 5). link] Hooker, C.

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Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 109

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 18, 2024

Example: An English teacher leads a group discussion on empathy and perspective-taking after reading a novel, fostering emotional intelligence skills that AI cannot replicate. The Review | Essay. Stay Informed: Keep abreast of AI advancements and their potential applications in education. 2024, July 1). 2024, June 5). link] Hooker, C.

Ethics 109

Ethics Instructors Intelligence Critical Thinking 109

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2016

You can search online for companies hiring motivated educators to teach English as a second language, for example, and the chance to live in a different country for a few months will be well worth it. Some publishers require you to pitch an idea before you write the entire article or essay, so do your research first.

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Teachers Instructors Education Essay 66

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 28, 2025

A students GPA, course rigor, extracurricular activities, leadership roles, essays, and recommendations matter far more than whether they studied online or in-person. The Power of Personal Essays for Online Students Perhaps the biggest tool in an online student’s arsenal is the college essay.

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Essay Students Testing Participation 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”).

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 216

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

Take grammar: Many students come into my classroom unable to tell me what a predicate or preposition is, and yet they are able to intuitively use both in the production of wonderful stories and essays. When it comes to grammar and language, the reward for learning it is captured well in that first English grammar book by Robert Lowth in 1762.

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Languages Language English Writing 71