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How a Professor of Hip-Hop Is Breaking Boundaries With First Peer-Reviewed Rap Album

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His career path took him from a K-12 English teacher to doctoral student at Clemson University, then to his current role as a professor of hip-hop at the University of Virginia. He’s no stranger to working in a mix of media. “My

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Using AI to teach persuasive writing to English learners

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Encouraging peer review supported by AI Pairing students for peer review with AI support combines AIs assistance with peer insights. Example : Nour and Ammar used AI to review each others work. Example : A student might aim to Reduce grammar errors by 20 percent in the next essay.

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Peer Feedback: Making It Meaningful

Catlin Tucker

For example, English teachers may have expectations around font size and type, spacing, indentation, quotes, and citations. As students move through the writing process, they may forget some of these requirements and benefit from a peer editor who can review their work to ensure it complies with the stated guidelines for the assignment.

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Florida Department of Education Approves Lexia Learning for ELA Intervention Courses

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Developed to address the decades-long gap in reading proficiency across the nation, PowerUp is designed to enhance core English language arts instruction for struggling readers in grades six and above. The Florida Department of Education reviews instructional materials by subject on a five-year adoption cycle.

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My Greatest Teaching Problem Was Feedback. Here’s How Research Helped Me Solve It.

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Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. Having a snapshot of real-time peer review data gave me more insight into how students were using teacher-developed criteria to evaluate one another.

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Gale’s Political Extremism and Radicalism Series Wins 2022 SIIA CODiE Award

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The company currently serves the K-12, higher education, professional, library, English language teaching and workforce training markets worldwide. About the CODiE Awards The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services.

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How to Bring to Life the Science of Reading

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I spoke to Aylynn as part of a visit to Pendergast with my colleagues from Imagine Learning to hear about educators’ and students’ experiences using the Imagine Learning EL (English Learner) Education curriculum. Reading requires building connections in the brain that wouldn’t exist without explicit instruction.

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