Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The students in our academy are motivated, passionate and dedicated to learning more about the field they are interested in.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Agency is a key element in personalizing education, and research has found that students who have agency in their learning are happier in school and more likely to achieve success. The benefits of student agency Students are more engaged and motivated. These are skills that will serve students well once they graduate.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With college application season in full swing and the competition for acceptance into top schools more competitive than ever, students are turning to AI-powered tools for application support, reveals a new survey from Brainly. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay.

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Essay Exams Testing Reading 284

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It’s generally easy to determine if students have used an AI tool to generate a response to a writing assignment or to generate an entire essay. We have to rethink the full-length essay as the end-all, be-all for assessing student writing skills,” Miller said. It’s important to make the writing process less intimidating.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The initiative, called Genius, Joy and Love: A Focus on Black Students, is the brainchild of Valerie Kinloch, dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Education. They worked on telling their own unique stories, something they’ll need to do as they write essays for their college applications. They visited university campuses.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Demographics: Hillsboro High School is part of the Hillsboro Independent School District in Hillsboro, Texas. Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Sixth, seventh, and eighth graders in participating states are invited to submit a 500-word essay addressing a community issue. A panel of judges will review the essay submissions and the top 20 students will move on to their local competition to show off their civics knowledge. .”

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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. When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 206

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. Even though she feels like this can put her behind in class, it’s difficult to be motivated to complete an assignment that feels like busy work and won’t impact her grade. That was one of my favorite classes.”

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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 203

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

They are similar to essays but usually more detailed and longer. This will help to keep you motivated throughout the drafting phase. Check out the free sample essays from PapersOwl , where you’ll find a wide range of ideas from which you can choose the most fascinating one for yourself.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Study 158

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot. Only about half reported doing something interesting in school everyday.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

It’s not a mastery-based standard and it hasn’t been given the same weight as crafting a clear argument in an essay or explaining the relationship between photosynthesis and cellular respiration. In an essay penned in 1935, which has become one of the anchor texts I’ve drawn from throughout my career, W.E.B.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 191

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. I tried desperately to motivate him to do his classwork but he refused and always had an excuse: he was tired, his computer wasn’t working or he just wasn’t in the mood.

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Testing Essay Writing Motivation 132

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. To develop innovative solutions to accessibility challenges, we need to be motivated and energized to problem-solve. We can innovate. We can empathize.

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Accessibility Distance Learning Learning Students 218

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. I am, unfortunately, quite familiar with this sensation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks. This summer, after she had just finished her freshman year in high school, I saw her at our annual Juneteenth celebration.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

I was a senior in high school when the pandemic started. And we were watching old teaching videos from, like, 2005, and they were expecting us to write essays about what we learned, how we can integrate that with our teaching. And what motivates me is seeing the students. I'm excited to go into the schools.

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Teachers Elementary School Elementary School Students 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Once my family moved to the mainland from Honolulu when I was in third grade, I don’t remember ever having any Asian or biracial teachers through elementary, middle or high school, or even in college or graduate school. We held Socratic seminars rooted in essays by Amy Tan and Daniel José Older.

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Culture Teachers Schools Syllabus 167

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

The stress Rohan Pasari feels running a startup with 25 full-time employees still doesn’t quite compare with how he felt during his final two years of high school. As Pasari approached graduation from a private school in Kolkata, India, he worried about which college would accept him and couldn’t decide a major. “I

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Counselling Essay Motivation Testing 126

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 159

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

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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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 16, 2025

So grab your pens and get ready to write down some smart resources specifically geared toward financial literacy for high school students. What might be a good goal for high school with finances might not be the same when they become adults. The key is to keep it real and relatable so students stay engaged.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

McClarin Success Academy in College Park, GA is an alternative high school and many of our students have never passed a standardized test. Many of our students are victims of societal neglect and discrimination—and that happens even inside school buildings. Student apathy is one of my greatest frustrations.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. Assess the assessment Kevin Allardice is an English teacher at Mercy High School in Burlingame, CA and the author of the novels Any Resemblance to Actual Persons and Family, Genus, Species.

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

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

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! Here’s what Suzette Duncan, lower school teacher at AltSchool, had to say.

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STEM Essay Math History 111

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss , a high school educational technology enrichment specialist librarian, shared her tips to help school librarians engage with students, support teachers , and make their school libraries dynamic and welcoming learning spaces. During an ISTELive session , Kristina A.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

Middle schoolers have long been eligible to enroll in college classes in California, though only a few, high-achieving students actually do it. Navigating (college) as early as middle school is unheard of in their community, she said. So when they experience success, it really motivates them to continue. Chaidez disagrees.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Now, students are wondering why they have to do assignments that AI chatbots could do for them, especially when AI could do the work, like write an essay or research paper, in just a few seconds. Students are rarely told why they have to do papers, projects, essays, discussion forum posts, or other assignments other than “to get a good grade.”

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Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Move This World (New York) uses multimedia content to develop social skills and strengthen emotional intelligence in Pre-K through high school. Substantial (501(c)3/Oakland, California) creates training, resources and information customized for each school to help substitute teachers be successful. Words Liive (Washington, D.C.)

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Counselling Quizzes Essay Beliefs 118

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

I went to a small high school there in the city, and yeah, that's a little bit about me. But, I was able to transfer schools to a school here on the Peninsula (in the Bay Area) where I was really able to get the support I needed. I learned things like metacognition, self advocacy, motivation, determination, resiliency.

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Disabilities Lecturing Learning Disabilities Learning 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

Today in the 21st Century schools, they’d be wrong. Middle and High School. They are motivated to test their writing skill. Elementary-High School. Elementary-High School. Two of my favorites are comics and Minecraft , but three more fresh options are listed below. Twitter Novel.

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Writing Teaching Essay Plagiarism 79

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

These web-based classes offer motivated students a self-paced, self-directed path to achieving their college dreams in an affordable, flexible, quality ecosystem that prepares them for future careers in fields they love. How to Prepare for the SAT Essay. Push out Study.com videos to specific students as intervention or enrichment.

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Exams Quizzes Textbooks Mobile Devices 74

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. In fact, online learners often demonstrate a level of self-motivation, time management, and initiative that traditional students may not have needed to develop so early.

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