eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The deal provides 83 elementary schools and 17 high schools with access to IXL’s award-winning program to supplement instruction in math and English language arts. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. Taking Textbooks Online: Rowan Cabarrus Community College. The digital textbooks are available at a discounted price through. The proof is in the numbers.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

In 2010, my state, Mississippi, joined the growing list of states adopting the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math. I teach sixth-grade reading to four classes of 20 students, most of whom have no internet access at home. Open resources can help design attractive, engaging lessons with a Common Core twist.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2016

eBooks and digital audiobooks have become a vital component to promote reading and support literacy goals in nearly 13,000 schools and districts in 50 countries. In addition, advancements to OverDrive’s popular app allows students with dyslexia to read in a dyslexic font. “The Book Thief” (Random House Children’s Books).

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

July 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by more than 12 million students, announced that the IXL platform won two SIIA CODiE Awards in the Best Advanced Mathematics and Best Foundational English Language Arts (ELA) categories. SAN MATEO, Calif.,

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

Mandarin Chinese is challenging on many levels for English speakers,” says H. To put it another way, to gain the same proficiency level in Spanish would require 24 weeks, according to the FSI, whose website includes Mandarin on its list of “super-hard languages” for native English speakers, along with Arabic, Cantonese, Japanese and Korean.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

English teachers can ask students to share an image of an annotated poem. When I was coaching a second-grade teacher, we used FlipGrid to capture a sample of each student reading to assess their fluency. FlipGrid made it possible for the teacher to collect reading samples from every student in a single class period.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. In some cases college instructors assign multiple readings about the same idea, which can feel redundant to students. I've tried to help faculty think about, ‘What are you gonna have students do with this?

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2025

Americas schools are facing a crisis in reading achievement. The recently released National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that only 31 percent of 4th graders and 30 percent of 8th graders were reading at or above a proficient level. Evans observed, an engaged reader will learn more from reading. Dr. Julie A.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Schools are no longer reliant on years-old (or decades-old) textbooks written for the average student, whoever that is. They are offered through Bloomboard ( click to read my review ), a well-respected pioneer in the micro-credential field. How Micro-credentials Support English learners . is supported by research.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

But “there’s an even more basic level of literacy that people need to pick up,” notes the former English teacher and administrator. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes. According to her, the education industry looks at “reading and writing as two separate kinds of tools.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

In cohorts of six to eight people, they spend seven hours a day in class learning from native speakers how to read, listen and speak, interpret news reports from other nations and understand the practices of foreign cultures. We can’t just use a college textbook, we go through it so fast.” Gary Hausman, who runs the institute. “We

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

For example, after reading through the Ohio Department of Education standards , I noticed disparities in budget allocations that limit the availability of Arabic textbooks and materials. It wasn't just about them getting a better grade or future job prospects, though that's certainly a big part.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Instead, they power up glowing iPad screens and swipe and tap their way through math problems, the day’s reading or interactive content. Central Valley School District administrators envisioned such a shift when they decided to begin swapping paper textbooks for iPads in the 2012-13 school year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Students didn’t like the traditional textbook-and-worksheet-centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada’s Ottawa Catholic School Board’s (OCSB) high schools. Grade 9 Geography was in trouble.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Soon after, I fell in love with education by volunteering to teach English as a Second Language outside my classes. Due to my background in engineering, I was selected for a physics teaching credential program instead of my first choice of English. This led me to wonder: What’s so fun about science?

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2023

He says initial results show that students responded more positively to computer-generated instructors that read as female. For example, Sarin grew up with parents who spoke a mix of Hindi and English, which AI models largely trained on standard American English may have trouble emulating.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2016

Reading Horizons has introduced Reading Horizons Accelerate, an educator platform designed to provide free resources for teachers and implementation support for Reading Horizons products in a blended learning environment. Read more. This August, Subaru of America, Inc.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2019

Lemma Shomali: Our research tells us that as K-12 education moves away from scripted textbooks, teachers must evaluate digital resources from many sources: the open web, content providers, etc. Maybe an auditory learner doesn't mind the long article but needs to hear it, not read it. Often, they become overwhelmed by too much content.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This decade has not been kind to traditional textbook publishers, as many have struggled to transition their business from print to digital. Our core curriculum for reading and literature, and our core curriculum for math. And in reading, we were able to win 56 percent share of the Texas [English Language Arts] adoption.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12. Textbook Alignment Courses.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook. I can go to former students who read primary sources from Jamestown of people’s personal perspectives and ask those students about the emotions those colonists went through and what they wrote about.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Instead of teaching with a math textbook, it’s way more fun to teach with Chrome Music lab, he added.” showed off three Chrome extensions useful for those with reading difficulties. For students with dyslexia, the OpenDyslexic extension converts web page text into a special font designed to make reading simpler, said Monica M.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. With their advanced degrees and English-language skills, they represent a selective set of perspectives. Other observers read between the lines and discern another motivation.

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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. She interviewed 14 teachers, mostly in English language arts and history, from around the country.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2017

This is where they should test out technology—at the university,” says Cannady, a former English teacher. Some of the augmented books in UTSA’s collection also have capabilities to be read aloud. In addition to the sheer lack of options available, the books do not have reading levels and vary widely in terms of their usefulness.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

For students who had previously been told to sit at their desks and open their textbooks to page 37, these choices could feel overwhelming, Watkins shared. Though everyone involved in the initiative had read the same research and case studies, “when we sat at the table, we couldn’t figure out how to talk about it,” Watkins says.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Additional student features include Spanish/English text-to-speech, leveled reading tools, note-taking and highlighting capabilities. Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Designed for all K-12 students and educators, the Center features multi-modal, student-facing digital content aligned to the five SEL competencies from Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) and includes Virtual Field Trips, videos, podcasts, mindfulness exercises, songs, and reading passages.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

News literacy—the ability to determine what is credible and what is not, to identify different types of information, and to use the standards of authoritative, fact-based journalism as an aspirational measure in determining what to trust—is a fundamental life skill, as essential to success in the classroom and in life as reading or math.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

The result is LearnZillion , serving up teacher-developed math and English Language Arts curriculum through an innovative curriculum-as-a-service model. High school lessons about close reading of Macbeth and The Gift of the Magi. Newark Public Schools recognized their teachers were struggling with teaching reading.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The project, funded from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and housed at Educause, prioritizes 20 key gateway courses, including introductory classes in biology, chemistry, English, economics and psychology, as well as math classes like algebra and calculus, and U.S. history surveys.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The increasing availability, accessibility and quality of OER materials offer districts the opportunity to move away from textbook publishers and develop their own curriculum. A focus on these specific content areas could be a “way in” for investors in an otherwise crowded English language arts market.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2018

Clutch Prep calls themselves “the video version of textbooks” but really, that doesn’t give you the full flavor of what they offer. Their academic how-to videos are textbook-specific so you pick the ones used in your classes, even by your teacher. Videos cover each chapter and can be used as a preview or review.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

She thinks it’s “kind of seen as old-fashioned,” and most college and university campuses would go with composition and writing textbooks such as “The Little Seagull Handbook,” “The Everyday Writer” or “The Writer’s Reference.” She says her school is literature-based—grammar is not “the essence” of English classes. “If

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Instead of snapping selfies, a student makes a BookSnap by taking a photo of a passage from a book, article, or other source and adding images and text to interpret and reflect on what they read (Figure 1). These can be emotions, thoughts, or feelings provoked by their reading. For one, learning retention.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

She struggled through the whole year, could not read or write and it was really, really hard for this little girl to focus. One day I was working with her using a website that helps teach the alphabet, and suddenly she turned around and made this loud noise with joy, saying, “I know how to read!” And she was just so excited about it.

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