Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

With Advanced Placement exams starting this month, the past weeks have kept Amanda DoAmaral working around the clock. The company’s name is a reference to the best score possible on the AP exam. On Fiveable, visitors can watch livestreams of AP exam review for free. And she’s starting with subjects that she knows best.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 27, 2023

And when you start preparing early, you can effectively build the resilience, confidence, and independence you need to handle independent living, set study goals, gain time management skills, establish positive habits, and learn how to create a social life. Learn how to work in a team, ask questions, and do presentations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

That’s the approach the College Board is taking this spring with its adapted AP exams. Because students would be watching the shows at home without guidance from teachers, the stations created learning prompts and questions—similar to those found in textbooks—to run before and after shows. LA schools did indeed close.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

The ACT skill, which provides general information about the exam and can help students prepare for the test, will be available to the public this fall. So parents and learners—their children—who are having conversations about, ‘It’s time to take the ACT’ … can ask questions” right from where the conversation is taking place.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2016

Kids Discover , a provider of engaging science and social studies curriculum, announced that its interactive digital library, Kids Discover Online, now includes custom assessment capabilities. The Assessments feature includes more than 5,000 pre-built questions covering more than 1,200 science and social studies topics.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

That might mean juggling students who have test anxiety while supporting others who have varying levels of understanding and comprehension—all while fielding questions from parents and administrators. Study Island New Game-Based Group Sessions. Edmentum is currently running special pricing on Study Island for new customers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2022

The study investigated hundreds of public schools in Pennsylvania that used IXL Math or IXL ELA. Using data from the Pennsylvania System of School Assessment and Keystone Exams, the study found that schools using IXL outperformed schools not using IXL in math and ELA on each exam.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For 14 years, Laura Johnson has taught a variety of subjects, including social studies, psychology, and music and art appreciation–all virtually within ALVS. What’s more, Mira reached out to Debbie and she gave her own feedback on the books and answered the questions!

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my confusion, I began reading for curiosity rather than exams. My Teaching Journey: Cultivating a Growth Mindset Through Ungrading For the past 11 years, I have been a professor of social studies education, working with both pre-service and in-service teachers. I had no clear direction or career. Where was my future?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

According to recent research from the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), 20 states have created their own version of a portrait of a graduate that lays out skills that students must demonstrate before graduation–and critical thinking is the most commonly required skill in all 20 states.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Then, they worked through an intensive course-mapping process that included asking big questions like, “What does learning look like?” As teachers at Bentley implement the courses, they’re able to reach out to the educators who wrote the content to ask questions and discuss improvements.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

It’s an age-old question pinched straight from the ‘90s: Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? Perhaps the question isn’t where she is so much as where she can help the most. asked my daughter Sunny—a genuine question to which I still don’t have a good answer. The answer today might be, well, everywhere.

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History Exams Culture Knowledge 166

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Each unit of study is centered on a common essential question in which we assess via a structured socratic method. Justin Taylor is a social studies teacher in the Humanities Studies Program at Bulkeley High School in Hartford, Connecticut. Who will be next to join us?

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Teaching Social Studies Essay Exams 146

EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

Those applications are fine, but I talk a lot about h ow to integrate technology in cool ways for engagement purposes , like during social studies or math lessons or science. So much of it is not even reliant on the teacher, which can take the pressure off for teachers who feel like they need to be the expert. .

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

I had one big question: Would using games as a primary learning tool actually improve my students’ performance? We embarked on research that not only answered my question, but also provided the genesis of our education start-up Legends of Learning. We took our question to. How We Did It.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Parents today face a complex question: Is the K12 Online Education Model right for my teen? Students attend live classes or access pre-recorded lessons, submit assignments electronically, take exams online, and engage in digital collaboration with peers and teachers. Answering these questions honestly can offer valuable clarity.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

While these students — a group we’re calling experienced multilinguals — are probably quite comfortable and fluent with speaking English socially, they may still be unfamiliar with the academic language used in science, social studies, math, and other content areas. I’ve had mostly A’s and B’s on most of my exams.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

For example, she says, the civics exam asks a question about what the longest river in the U.S. The questions mostly probe facts, including the names of one of the state’s senators and the length of a presidential term. Even some who feel lucky question how handy their education was for real civic life.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Photo Credit: Jenny Abamu Despite a relatively new building, constructed in 2003 as part of a former superintendent’s turnaround project, Fisher has suffered from consistent low performance—falling far below state standards on exams and adjusted growth targets designed specifically for the school. During the 2015-16 school year, only 0.7

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2021

“Political socialization, a lot of that happens online,” says Ioana Literat, professor of communication, media and learning technologies design at Columbia University’s Teachers College. “We We like to think that it happens in school in civics class, or the social studies classroom. and AP World History exams.

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