eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Every month, my Advanced English teacher, Mr. Johnson, assigned our class one of the classics of English literature and expected us to demonstrate what we had learned with an accompanying essay. He set a high bar for clearly articulated theses, well-structured paragraphs, well-crafted sentences, and supporting quotes from the text.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

ChatGPT is likely the first to come to mind, but AI is woven into so many tools and helps automate tedious tasks, connects student progress with personalized recommendations, and improved PD feedback. While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI?

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

But that creates a dilemma for the teachers tasked with helping students improve their writing skills: How can they build more opportunities into the curriculum for students to practice writing, while still giving students both timely and meaningful feedback? Revision Assistant isn’t just essay grading software.

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Writing Technology Essay Feedback 175

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While it traditionally is an assessment tool for college-bound seniors, more and more high schools are choosing it as an exit exam for graduating seniors (such as these changes in Ohio and the State of Washington ). In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. take practice tests.

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Essay Mobile Devices Exams Writing 98

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

“TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Pearson Edgington, a high school senior who piloted TeachTap, shared his experience: “TeachTap made studying for my AP exams actually fun and interesting. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

For example, to become better writers, readers, and critical thinkers, Quill.org offers low-income students an AI-powered literacy tutor that provides students real-time coaching and feedback on literacy activities that pair nonfiction reading with informational writing.

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Education Testing Feedback English 296

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In high school, wrote one student on an anonymous survey I give at the start of the semester, I stayed far away from the tool because it was emphasized to me as a way of cheating rather than a study tool. It can help with everything from brainstorming to outlining to feedback. Feedback Am I making the right argument?

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Teachers Writing Critical Thinking Feedback 246

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. Research supports the use of formative assessments–ongoing checks for understanding that provide both teachers and students with timely feedback.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 206

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

“We started by collaboratively planning our classes together and letting our students interact to some degree,” says Morris, “all with an eye on coordinating as much as possible from two very different schools and classes.”. Thomasson, who teaches English at Forestview High School in Gastonia, N.C., Starting from scratch.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Shmoop introduced a new service through which experts will read a student’s college application essay and provide detailed feedback and overall suggestions. All the student has to do is subscribe to Shmoop’s 12-month student plan between November 1, 2016 and January 15, 2017, and then email their essay to Shmoop HQ.

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Science Achievement Essay Textbooks 168

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. To what end?

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 205

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Instead I’m encouraging them to think of those essays as an important step in a more authentic process.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

She was part of a team researching how to build a better writing feedback tool. No matter what grade level they taught in middle or high school, teachers had students who struggled to use a digital learning platform or to type without painstaking hunt-and-pecking at the keyboard.

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Essay Writing Attention Feedback 213

Teach Hub

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As an educator , you have the unique opportunity to guide your students through crafting a compelling college essay that truly resonates with the reader. By helping students reflect on their past experiences and offering your feedback, you can inspire students to tell their stories in an impactful way. So, where do you start?

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Essay Beliefs Feedback Students 59

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). Schools must support teachers as humans; AI can help them reduce preparation time and act as an instruction supplement. “We’re Only 49 percent of this time involves direct student interaction.

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 281

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. It also allows teachers to give real-time, one-on-one feedback without singling out a student in front of the class. That goes a long way in building relationships.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. We had a lot of conversations in the hallway, which is about as private as it gets in a public high school, but none of our chats led him to put his best foot forward.

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Testing Essay Writing Motivation 137

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

“To think about having a sentence on the screen, a child reading that, and eSpark providing immediate feedback and instruction on individual sounds and putting those sounds together…That’s basically teaching [my students] how to read,” said Michigan teacher Michelle VanGilder.

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Provide feedback that works. West-Smith is impassioned about the importance of appropriate feedback, which she says must be timely, relevant, accessible—using language that the student understands, and actionable. Feedback is more helpful on an early draft than on a final one, she adds. Prompts, Essays and More.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 138

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

She harnesses the power of many platforms, devices, and peripherals to offer her students personalized instruction, inclusivity, data-driven feedback, cross-cultural exchanges, and the support of other educators at their school. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

For example, if you want students to support claims with relevant details, that expectation should be stated on a rubric that is given to students well in advance of when the assignment is due, and should be the focus of lessons, formative feedback, and student reflection. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

Blum (2020) argues that grades provide minimal feedback, they deemphasize learning, and what they actually measure is inconsistent (10-14). As much as it was my job to teach students to write, I also felt the grading system disadvantaged those students who came in with subpar high school educations and less writing experience.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 75

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Whether it’s a group of retirees who cluster in the back of your corner coffee shop or the so-called Ponzi schemes of MFA programs like the famed Iowa Writers’ Workshop, assessment comes in the form of peer feedback—marginalia and discussion. How good are they at integrating feedback? Grading on process is much more than that.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Lisa DiMichele has taught writing to all kinds of high schoolers—from inclusion students to honors students, from kids struggling to finish a sentence to future Faulkners. Some of her students had never finished an essay, let alone crafted sparkling prose. And that recipe succeeded again with her summer school class.

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Essay Feedback Writing English 99

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

in the thick of filling out college applications, that might mean putting off writing an admissions essay or sending in a transcript. He and about 150 other middle and high school students not only took the course but provided feedback about their learning experience.

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Essay Students Quizzes Writing 156

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. When he transitioned his high school classroom in Phoenix to distance learning, Neal was already using ClassDojo as a way to track positive behaviors.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. Once teachers choose a lesson, the program provides a six-step process to help students analyze the readings and produce a cohesive essay.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 127

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 25, 2022

Many institutions still rely on Turnitin, but the professionals who must check dozens of essays on a daily basis know that this expensive service can be way too slow. . After all, no machine can evaluate like humans do, considering all the factors in the rubric and beyond, giving every student personalized feedback. .

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Plagiarism Essay Instructors Peer Review 158

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It’s a typical weekday afternoon and I’m sitting down with one of my students to begin brainstorming ideas for her essay. On to the second essay option. Believe me, I’m guilty too. Yes, that’s it.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 119

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2023

Used by educators from Pre-K through High School, Book Creator offers hundreds of accessibility features to engage even the most reluctant learners. As you plan for creating an inclusive classroom this school year, here are some techniques and resources that teachers have shared with me that have worked wonders for them.

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Education Essay Feedback Curriculum 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2023

And in 2012, the group started working with high schools, coaching students to turn their stories into polished orations. When she was 17, she went through a Moth workshop at her high school in New York City. This year the nonprofit has started sharing those student stories in a new spin-off podcast, called Grown.

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Essay Feedback Writing Coaching 148

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

In it, ACT researchers found evidence of grade inflation over the past decade—namely, that the average high school GPA increased 0.19 The implication is that students are not learning as much as their transcripts indicate, hampering their ability to succeed in challenging environments after high school. “We

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Grades Testing Interdisciplinary STEM 162

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It’s a typical weekday afternoon and I’m sitting down with one of my students to begin brainstorming ideas for her essay. On to the second essay option. Believe me, I’m guilty too. Yes, that’s it.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 111

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction High school is a defining period in a teenagers life. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education.

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High School High School Exams Schools 52

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. Here’s her story: Last Fall, my El Camino Real High School colleagues and I set out to change the way we teach writing. We decided to give it a try.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

After a while, we began to film both ourselves and our students, shared the videos and tagged particular teacher/student moves in the classroom, and offered critical feedback. In addition, students share their written essay work via Pathbrite , an e-portfolio platform perfectly designed for classrooms through their unique feedback tools.

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Teaching Social Studies Essay Exams 146