eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

In the Baldwin Union Free School District , educators and leaders are working diligently to avoid brain rot as they strive to teach students how to ask questions, evaluate information sources, and become actively involved in their communities. News and media literacy studies are embedded into grades 6-12 ELA and social studies curricula.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

In social studies , students can interpret historical or demographic data, question sources, and discuss how data is used to shape policy. In other words, theyre not just passive consumers of information, theyre critical thinkers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

There are four teachers that work in the evening that teach the courses for English, math, science, and social studies. Each strategy was evaluated and ranked based on several characteristics (ease, training necessary, cost, predicted success, etc.).

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Are employees evaluated using bubble-in tests to prove they know the ins and outs of their job? Indeed, since my first year in the classroom I’ve used a project-based model with my science and social studies classes. Do they learn and use new skills one at a time in a vacuum?

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

While primarily a geography resource, interactive maps can be used across various subjects within the social studies domain. Teachers can integrate maps into lessons related to history, cultural studies, and geopolitics. Interactive maps help students develop a more comprehensive understanding of spatial relationships.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

. — The vast majority of high school students are not financially literate but respond well to economics and personal finance courses that include digital tools in their curriculum, according to a new study by Project Tomorrow and Certell, creator of the Poptential family of free, award-winning social studies course packages.

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eSchool News

JULY 17, 2017

According to a Gallup survey, one-half of K-12 principals say that computer science is taught at their school, but upon evaluation of the courses, only one-half of those courses include programming and coding. Data source: US Bureau of Labor Statistics Employment Projections 2008-2018.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Here’s a great question I got from Melissa: I have heard repeatedly from many of my high school social studies students that they rarely use teacher websites. My Principal tasked me with evaluating faculty websites to see if it was a content issue rather than user disinterest. For your privacy, I use only first names.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Currently, the company’s Social Studies Techbooks are used in middle school classrooms districtwide. Both the TEKS-aligned Mystery Science and the Social Studies Techbook are accessed through the Discovery Education platform. . In addition, the Discovery Education K-12 learning platform is used in all CCISD classrooms. 

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Before adding IXL Math to the state’s grant list, the Action Center and Utah Education Policy Center (UEPC) rigorously evaluated the platform to determine its efficacy. IXL’s end-to-end teaching and learning solution supports personalized instruction in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

BALTIMORE, Maryland — IXL Learning , developer of personalized learning products used by millions of people globally, has unveiled the findings of a Johns Hopkins University study that affirms IXL Math’s effectiveness in boosting student achievement. About IXL Currently used by 15 million students and in 95 of the top 100 U.S.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

IXL’s adaptive assessment, the Real-Time Diagnostic , evaluates students across every concept in the K-12 curriculum, generating an accurate portrait of students’ knowledge levels in math and language arts. IXL is built on over 8,000 interactive skills that are highly targeted and adjust to each student’s level of understanding.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Are employees evaluated using bubble-in tests to prove they know the ins and outs of their job? Indeed, since my first year in the classroom I’ve used a project-based model with my science and social studies classes. The countdown continues tomorrow with #1, so be sure to check back!].

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eSchool News

JUNE 16, 2022

As the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place, Discovery Education has previously won CODiE awards for STEM Connect , social impact educational initiatives , Science Techbook , and the Social Studies Techbook Series.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2022

Social Studies?Techbooks. Featuring standards-aligned, core-curricular resources that use an inquiry-based approach to enhance literacy and critical thinking skills, Discovery Education’s Social Studies?Techbook? Discovery Education’s?Social

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For social studies educators, a presidential election year is a big deal. I’ve always relished these times because they’re part of what makes social studies special. Social studies teachers must support their students as they encounter: Major attacks on journalism. Evolving forms of media delivery.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2021

Schools need technology that paints vivid pictures of student knowledge levels so they can meaningfully evaluate and teach every learner,” said Paul Mishkin, CEO of IXL Learning. RIDE’s adoption of the Real-Time Diagnostic clears a path for educators to make significant strides towards boosting learning outcomes.”.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2022

We are on a mission to elevate the potential of every learner by helping evaluators and educators understand each student’s aptitude, skills and strengths,” said Dr. Sarah Holman, a former EL teacher and bilingual evaluator who now serves as a director for Riverside Insights.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Through this partnership, all 33 schools in the district will use IXL to supplement math, English language arts, science and social studies instruction. Laredo ISD is located in Laredo, Texas , on the border with Mexico. The IXL family of products also includes Education.com , ABCya and Vocabulary.com.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Its learners receive all of their core academic content—English, history, social studies, and math—through competency-based online courses. The grading model in electives is also different—closer to a workplace evaluation than to conventional points earned on assignments and tests.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

The adaptive content system automatically evaluates each student’s skills and preferences to deliver the “just-right” level of instruction to maximize learning gains. Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Its learners receive all of their core academic content–English, history, social studies, and math–through mastery-based online courses. The grading model in electives is also different–closer to a workplace evaluation than to conventional points earned on assignments and tests.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

As a high school social studies teacher, my job includes helping students learn to use evidence to present arguments, engage in civil discourse and take informed action to bring about change. This idea has been critical for me as a social studies teacher, but it goes beyond the social studies classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

Right now, the demand for their solutions is very strong, particularly with English, social studies, and journalism teachers, as well as with librarians who teach information literacy.”. Ultimately, students need to be able to critically think and evaluate the veracity of all news content themselves.”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

I think a lot of teachers are evaluating resources by how easy it is to use, how cute and how fun it is. I think a lot of teachers are evaluating resources by how easy it is to use, how cute and how fun it is,” she says. Founded in 2006, the company estimates more than two-thirds of U.S. There isn’t necessarily a level of criticality.

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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. The chatbot is getting trained on the same rubric to instantly give students feedback on their ability to critically evaluate historical text.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

The program helps my district by bringing teachers together to engage transdisciplinary lessons for our students and evaluate their current content and practices to ultimately change how and what we teach and learn with students through the hands on and engaging lessons that IMFIS provides.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

Every McGraw Hill AR app activity takes an observe-explore-evaluate approach, where you watch a narrated animation do it first, then you have an interactive component where the student can perform the actions themselves.” The McGraw Hill program is releasing a social studies and language arts component that integrates the two content areas.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Oklahoma City, OK —Students and teachers in classrooms across Oklahoma’s Millwood Public Schools (MPS) now have access to a host of dynamic digital resources supporting science and social studies instruction thanks to a new partnership with Discovery Education.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

In the latest phase of this multiyear collaboration, all district middle school students will receive access to a dynamic digital social studies textbook. Social Studies?Techbook.?Featuring aids teachers and students as they approach inquiry through the 5Es: Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, and Evaluate framework.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This student, in her direct, unflinching and logical assessment, identified my responsibility to gather data, to evaluate and assess each learner, to deeply understand their abilities across languages, and to plan strategies to provide instruction so all students can learn. But there are also other steps I’ve taken to change my practice.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Sam Texeira, a high school history and social studies teacher in Illinois, participated in the study, teaching the Knowledge in Action curriculum in AP U.S. “When teachers participate in curriculum-aligned PD, it improves their implementation of the curriculum in the classroom, which then supports student outcomes.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Carranza began his career as a high school social studies teacher and principal in Tucson, Arizona. IXL’s adaptive assessment, the Real-Time Diagnostic, evaluates students across every concept in the K-12 curriculum, generating an accurate portrait of students’ knowledge levels in math and language arts.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2022

New York evaluates the impact educators, schools and districts have on student achievement through Student Learning Objectives (SLOs) and Annual Professional Performance Reviews (APPRs). To evaluate teachers and principals in the state, districts and Boards of Cooperative Educational Services are required to conduct APPRs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For further support, AMNH also provides a rubric that science teachers can use to evaluate the proficiency of a student’s written explanation. Social Studies / Current Events. Essentially, the tool functions as a guide to the scientific method, but with a small dose of mind mapping inspiration. Art / Music.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2020

Educators ranked OER above commercial publishers in nine of the 10 “deeper learning dimensions” the survey asked about, including how well the curriculum helped students to understand key principles of the content, apply their knowledge to situations, communicate complex ideas, collaborate with others and evaluate multiple sources of information.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

This is done exactly as you would normally develop assessments during a unit of inquiry to evaluate progress and — at the end of the unit — to evaluate success with one big difference: Curriculum based assessments evaluate progress toward broad learning goals rather than textbook chapters or lesson plans.

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