eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2017

Certain teacher professional development could have a positive impact on academic writing by English learners in grades 7-12, according to a study from the University of California, Irvine. During the academic writing assessment, secondary school students composed timed, on-demand essays interpreting themes from fiction and nonfiction texts.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

As with any skill, the key to better writing is more practice. 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?

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

Perris Union School District in Riverside, Calif., has partnered with Story2 , a company that teaches students to tell their stories out loud and write authentic admission essays, to use the Story2 EssayBuilder Plus platform to improve college access and readiness among its high school students.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

They want to know exactly how I have managed that as a high school English teacher. If students are working 0n an essay, I dedicate one station each day to providing real-time feedback as they write. Then on the second argumentative essay, I may focus on 1) quality of their evidence and 2) analysis.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 30, 2024

8 Crucial Steps for University Admission Success for High School Students Applying for university is a significant milestone for high school students. Here are eight crucial steps to help high school students navigate the university admission process effectively. GPA, check out colleges that accept a 3.5

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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. To close the skills gap, there are a number of practices, strategies and ideas that any high school can draw from the CTE model.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As a former high school teacher and current content author for AP History and Social Sciences, I’ve learned several key strategies to help your students earn the AP scores they need to assist them in their academic careers—and retain the material that they have learned.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As another survey conducted on September 3, 2024, by Brainly.com of 1,500 students revealed, 72 percent of high school students are stressed about returning to school this year. percent), and writing papers or essays (44.1 The most common stressors include homework (55.1 percent), studying for tests (48.8

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

This post will introduce you to some quick tips for writing a research paper along with the importance of samples. Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Together, the companies will offer a comprehensive CCR platform that will support all students, regardless of their preferred path after high school. Today, most high schools and CCR programs are focused primarily on college preparation, despite the U.S. parents want more non-college paths for their high school students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Tools include Canva Magic Write for creative writing, Eduaide.ai While the fears of using AI to cheat aren’t unfounded, how many educators have actually tried writing an essay using just AI? Here’s how to counteract the disruptive influence of AI writing on learning. How is AI beneficial in education?

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 304

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Whether text, video or something else entirely, each of these mediums encompasses a form of writing. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. engagement and passion.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. That’s the only way to get around this.”

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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. Focus on growth, not scores.

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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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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.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

According to a survey , as many as 58 percent of high school students have plagiarized work, and 95 percent admitted to some form of cheating. Guidelines could include what stage of writing an essay students can use AI–for example, using it to brainstorm a topic, conduct research, or to revise a conclusion.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Victor Machado, an ESL teacher at East Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, won the $10,000 grand prize, along with a schoolwide semester’s subscription to Rosetta Stone English. Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2021

After launching Magnolia High School’s innovative Magnolia Cybersecurity Institute at Anaheim Union High School District, English Teacher Lindsay Paananen soon realized that participating students loved hardcore gaming as much as they loved tech – so much so that it was coming through in their writing.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

An upgrade from our previous Essay Review product, Paper users can now submit more than traditional essay assignments; lab reports, assignments, short-answer questions, and bibliographies are all accepted types of content. Today’s students take many different paths after high school. Launch your Career with Paper Hired.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As Pink writes in the book: “Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.” In surveys conducted earlier this year , one-third third of educators characterized students as unmotivated to do their best work academically—and 14 percent of students agreed they were unmotivated in school. A partner like VHS Learning can help.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Databases are essential for helping middle and high school students understand the value of research, appreciate the importance of validating sources, and make connections between different topics — all of which are necessary for building information literacy skills. They are also valuable teaching tools.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

In order to meet these goals while also responding to testing demands, I needed a new resource: one that would provide my students with a strong framework for writing and use technology as the primary composing tool. Fortunately, I found everything I was looking for (and more) in the online reading and writing program ThinkCERCA.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

And while these programs attempt to arm students will the ability to code, they sometimes overlook a critical skill that developers, computer science scholars and tech recruiters say is key to landing a job in their field: writing. Writing] also comes as the form of fundraising and grant writing.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

students to write well goes back decades. Newsweek published its ballyhooed screed Why Johnny Can’t Write in 1975. This past summer, The New York Times chimed in with Why Kids Can’t Write. Who says Americans can’t write?) So West-Smith has tried to give her teachers the write stuff. “A Turnitin , an Oakland, Calif.-based

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 134

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. Level of AI Use Key Concept Example No AI Cognitive autonomy student independently writes the assignment.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

high school students have been quick to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), with 46 percent saying they use AI tools to help them with their school work. Turnitin recently launched an AI writing detection tool to help educators identify text that may have been prepared by Bard, Gemini, and other AI tools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Shawn McCusker has been teaching high school social studies for nearly two decades. For years, he would have his students demonstrate their understanding of the great industrial philosophers by writing a comparative essay. They empower students through creativity.

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Technology Essay Teachers Social Studies 185

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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. But if you’re teaching creative writing in a K–12 classroom or a community college, at the end of the day you’re most likely required to stamp a letter grade—or at least a percentage score—on your students’ work.

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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 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Teaching The Why Sarah Z. Is it essential by the end of the term?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. In math, James could be tasked to analyze basketball stats, or in English, he could write an essay on his favorite athlete. For me it was Ms. This same approach would work in other classes as well.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

But he was reading and writing at a kindergarten level, according to diagnostic tests. John, whose name has been changed, is dyslexic and had been struggling with reading and writing for years. One day, I asked my students to write an exit ticket responding to a section of “A Raisin in the Sun,” and John submitted a full paragraph.

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