Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. I studied relentlessly under immense pressure, and my hard work paid off when I was accepted to my desired university. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments.

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 93

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

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Built-in instructional resources, including nearly 2,000 math video tutorials , step-by-step lessons and corrective feedback, assist students and give them confidence when working independently. To further target instruction, the diagnostic provides educators with personalized action plans for each student.

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Math STEM Learning Art 286

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

It’s more abysmal in the younger grades, with only six states giving all K-12 students access. Related: 20 ideas for teaching coding in math, science, social studies, and ELA. Lauren Marrone, 11th-grade physics & zoology teacher, North Paulding High School, Dallas, Georgia. They especially love dancing with him.

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Elementary School Elementary School Science Social Studies 279

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. About IXL Learning Currently used by 14 million students and in 95 of the top 100 U.S.

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Achievement English Math Art 246

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

Unfortunately, my students’ work — and the inkblots which carried my feedback — would never get into the hands of readers who could make change. So, the hours students spent writing and the time I spent grading would have no impact outside the four walls of my classroom. It was a maddening moment of clarity for me. To what end?

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 205

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Brunswick City educators in grades K-12 will accelerate the creation of authentic digital classrooms by integrating Discovery Education’s Science Techbook into instruction, while middle school educators will begin integrating Discovery Education’s Social Studies Techbook into teaching and learning. Read more.

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English Education Social Studies Achievement 192

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

We spoke with ninth-grade History Teacher Nick Pant, from Dayton Regional STEM School, about successfully implementing Unreal Engine in the classroom. I am a social studies teacher who got introduced to game design as a result of trying to motivate students to study history. I am by no means a game designer.

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Teachers History Social Studies Learning 186

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Their definition of competency-based education is based on empowering students with agency, providing relevant and timely assessments and feedback and providing personalized learning with varied pacing.

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Social Studies Learning English Students 217

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Social studies teacher Ben McCray had a similar experience: “I've learned to have things available by doing a recording, a screencast, something that is captured for later.” Give them spaces where they can work at their own pace and teachers can offer support and targeted feedback.

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Teachers Social Studies Learning Schools 208

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

Videos that teachers create or curate—individually or as grade-level or departmental teams—can provide effective coverage of basic content. Quizzes and adaptive learning software give students opportunities to review content and practice basic skills with immediate feedback.

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Blended Learning Learning Schools Quizzes 216

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Education Science 208

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017. Feedback from experts and peers is essential for an active and practice-rich professional learning model.

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Learning Coaching Feedback Distance Learning 199

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

According to national social studies teacher education guidelines , infusing technology into instruction should: Extend learning beyond what could be done without technology. Contribute to the research and evaluation of social studies and technology. Introduce technology in context.

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Teachers Feedback Social Studies Schools 140

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Written by Theodora , a 5th grade teacher from California. I have 1:1 iPads in my Fifth Grade classroom and CueThink has an App that the students use. Written by Darren, a 6th grade teacher from California.

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Social Studies Teachers STEM Fairness 126

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Students used peer feedback to create graphics and videos showcasing the many ways the library has impacted them. Adobe Spark allowed us to design, collaborate and get feedback easily among our group. Magazine covers demonstrating understanding of various social studies topics.

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Instructors Education Social Studies Coaching 168

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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Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Social Studies Exams 108

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

If you’d like to be featured in our S’Cool Tools column, click here to leave your very own Teacher Case Study. Written by Doug , a high school social studies teacher from Illinois. We have a 1:1 ipad initiative in grades 4 and 5. Teachers then mark assignments, grade assessments, and record video feedback.

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Reading Teachers Assignments Schools 131

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

The Odeum games focus on Social Studies, Language Arts, and Foreign Languages for grades 6 through 12. An educator can choose a game based on the grade and subject, and either use it as-is or customize it to better suit the class needs.

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Failure Schools Social Studies Elementary School 133

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Doing what normal teachers do, we commiserated around the unstable workload that we each experienced in our own contexts: grading, lesson planning, data analysis, ad hoc administrative requirements, and an assortment of additional educational woes. We both grew tremendously. Who will be next to join us?

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Teaching Social Studies Essay Exams 146

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“I think every child needs to have some kind of reading intervention,” says Ballone, a former seventh-grade English teacher. “It If it means we need to give students material one, two or three grade levels above what they are reading in order for them to progress, that’s what we do.” By grade five, they were reading on grade level.

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English Reading Achievement Grades 161

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Due to the expectation that teachers can cover unrealistic grade-level standards, they are often strapped for time. Moving the Needle My perspective as a history teacher is that service learning and social-emotional learning are competing initiatives.

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Learning Local Government History Coaching 209

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

” Montgomery County Public Schools, home to 211 K -12 schools and 160,000 students, initially adopted IXL Math in 2023 to support 36,000 students in grades 6-8. Students also receive immediate feedback while working on any IXL skill. Additionally, IXL offers a wealth of instructional resources that keep students engaged.

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Math Education Schools Art 143

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

According to Evidence for ESSA, a group headed by Johns Hopkins researchers, Achieve3000 has shown “ significant positive effects ” in a study of sixth- and ninth-grade students using the product. Through this deal, we’ll make a bigger impact,” says Goyal.

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Active Learning Activities Learning English 154

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes.

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Textbooks Essay Writing English 274

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

Ariana Garcia doesn’t take a break as she goes from tutoring a small group of students to teaching a social studies class at the Great Oak Charter middle school in New York City. She uses the video system to offer comments and feedback to students regularly since she cannot meet them all in person.

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Teaching Social Studies Teaching Assistants Participation 139

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Although it is still a work in progress, using growth mindset principles to frame dialogue in my classroom has given rise to increased agency in my students and decreased grade-inspired compliance. As a result of these efforts, I now use a pass | fail grading policy for a part of the year; I have adapted. Carol Dweck.

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Learning Beliefs Social Studies Curriculum 166

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

In particular, my district, JCPS, wanted to boost reading and math for students who were at least one year below the norm for their grade level, and give teachers an opportunity to try new approaches, such as project-based learning. Students selected their adventures in advance from among dozens of choices.

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Learning Art Students Math 154

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. The study looked at US students ranging from 7th to 12th grade taking the Big History Project course. Over sandwiches and iced tea, we talked about the challenges of OER.

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History Writing Social Studies Peer Review 144

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

I teach third grade, when young readers typically transition from developing readers to fluent ones, and it’s at this stage that they’re ready to begin to analyze texts on a deeper level. Circulate the room, monitoring and offering feedback. Giving feedback in real time adds encouragement and reinforces desired reading behaviors.

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Art Teaching Feedback Reading 145

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. With real-time collaboration in Book Creator, the teachers were able to keep in touch with students and post feedback in their books.

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Education Exams Motivation Elementary School 271

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

I joined a cohort of 13 eighth grade teachers, representing 1,000 students participating in the research study. One of our biggest challenges was integrating the games into eighth grade curriculum lessons about Jacksonian Democracy. The other teachers reported similar feedback.

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Game-Based Learning Middle School Middle School Learning 134

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Feedback@edsurge.com. Conversations about the role of privacy and digital citizenship wash into social studies and current events. Parents can digitally tap into not just grades but assignments. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Class Dojo-2011. Clever-2012. Desmos-2011. Google Classroom-2014. Kahoot-2013.

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Testing Learning Social Studies Evaluation 145

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12.

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Blended Learning Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Learning 100

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

And it wasn't just happening in one class, but it was like happening in English, happening in social studies, happening in science. They were describing these new practices of revision and collaborative writing. And I was like, ‘Oh, this is pretty cool.’

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Schools History Writing Feedback 157

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Stanley, a former ninth-grade English teacher, often thinks about how different her pedagogy might have been—or, as a student, how much deeper her learning might have gone—with access to Actively Learn’s sequenced sets of texts and other materials designed to provide historical context and achieve depth in a particular topic.

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Reading Teachers Learning English 150

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

They include features specifically designed to help teachers seamlessly shift between in-person and remote learning, easily identify both learning gaps and the critical content from the previous grade to close them, as well as increase student engagement with immersive activities and simplified access to their digital content.

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Distance Learning Teachers History Schools 133