Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

In summary Five years after COVID shut down most California high schools, today’s college students describe a difficult transition to adulthood, marked by fear, loss and a lack of preparation. The 2021 class of high school graduates saw the percentage of low-performing math students tick up even more, to 22%.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Two of the four elementary schools in our district have a higher percentage of economically disadvantaged students. Often it is a challenge to provide a balanced, digital curriculum to all four schools in a consistent manner especially when some students do not have reliable Internet access at home.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2020

To help address an acute shortage of accredited teachers , even under these extraordinary circumstances, Alliant University’s California School of Education (CSOE) has been forming partnerships to appropriately provide alternative approaches for teacher candidates to meet clinical practice, field experience, and performance assessment requirements.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

The journalism instructor at the University of Minnesota keeps the process simple, with brief questions similar to these: What should keep happening in this class? Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. Students were getting the feedback they needed faster.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2020

elementary school classrooms, announced the launch of Osmo Live, a new interactive platform for live learning that offers engaging, hands-on Bootcamps for children in grades K-5. Taught by some of the best elementary instructors in the U.S., Taught by some of the best elementary instructors in the U.S., Personalized Feedback.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

When I work with schools that have already adopted the UDL framework, they immediately recognize how blended learning can help teachers to implement many of the principles of UDL more effectively. These routines can help students to develop critical self-regulation skills necessary to succeed both in and beyond school.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

First Educational Version of a Programming Language Enables Middle School Code Education – Bridging the Middle School Gap. Blackbird’s integrated LMS enables instructors to easily track student progress, review code and make direct comments. Traditionally, code teaching systems use unmodified programming languages.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I believed that team teaching and sharing the same population of students in a shared space would allow us to make important cross-curricular connections, delve into more meaningful project-based learning, and provide more individualized support and feedback. School that makes it so powerful. #1 1 Learning from Another Perspective.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

Additionally, using a digital format creates space for students to document their learning and for teachers to provide feedback. Teachers can also use the document or slide deck to provide feedback by commenting directly on the document or recording audio notes with Mote and attaching them to the document or slide deck.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2023

To facilitate effective teaching and learning, modern schools must equip every classroom with interactive touchscreens and utilize gamification techniques. So, by adding gamification elements during teaching sessions, schools can significantly increase their participation and engagement levels.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. Tutoring can make writing less of an isolating process because students can access different audiences and, as a result, receive feedback that is in the function of its message and not only for the sake of a grade. To help writers grow, feedback doesn’t have to be only evaluative.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Newark Public Schools wants to see a districtwide expansion of an artificial intelligence tutoring tool after it was piloted at First Avenue School last year, as the district searches for ways to help students catch up from pandemic learning loss. The strategy here is not to do it in any one school only,” León added.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Here’s what educators have to say about the 2023-2024 school year: Improving engagement and test scores with phenomena-based curricula April Pence, Edison High School Last year was my first time using phenomena-based units aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) in chemistry. Learning can happen in many ways!

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 18, 2023

In a face-to-face class, students see the instructor and other students and, even if not interacting with them directly, know they are not alone. But asynchronous courses, and especially asynchronous independent study courses, present a different scenario with challenges for both instructors and students. Who is my instructor?”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 7, 2015

It’s no secret that virtual education has become more and more widespread, with new online schools popping up regularly and brick-and-mortar institutions adding a blended component. Encourage substantive feedback from students, to students. Check for questions frequently and provide timely feedback on progress. Popp, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key points: What priorities will be a focal point in the new school year? Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. . This year at St.

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2018

Do your school’s students submit their school assignments by uploading PDFs or other files within a learning management system? Instructors can then use Drive and Google Docs to grade assignments and share course materials. The first allows instructors to embed their course materials from Google Drive directly into the LMS.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

Turnitin ’s Feedback Studio for iPad app has merged the benefits of mobile technology with the power of learning and engagement through feedback. This release gives students the power to submit papers, analyze similarity reports (to check for originality), and review instructor feedback on the go.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2022

As Covid-19’s Omicron variant is pushing some school districts back into distance learning, teachers may be frustrated at the return of video meetings. Remote learning meant classrooms were shut down, with preservice teachers not only unable to be in schools, but also unable to observe more experienced teachers.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

Targeted assistance and adaptive feedback AI tutoring systems do an excellent job of delivering customizable support and feedback that align with student patterns in need. AI tutoring systems give students immediate feedback and guidance, addressing these problem areas before they become more severe.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2020

To help empower schools and educators with secure e-learning solutions right now, Windstream Enterprise is offering OfficeSuite UC and HD Meeting® virtual classrooms free for 90 days to education customers. OfficeSuite UC e-Learning solutions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

million students on the Paper platform just in time for the 2022-2023 school year. From the beginning, we have always relied on student and teacher feedback to help us build and improve Paper,” said Philip Cutler, Paper co-founder and CEO. Unlimited Feedback with Paper’s New Asynchronous Review Center.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

From STEM to general education, the lessons weve learned through student and instructor feedback have proved universal. The democratization of learning is closer than ever thanks to the tools being developed alongside the feedback from students and expertise of teachers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2015

Are any of us better than Google as an instructor? Or, is there high-quality feedback that deepens and furthers learning – something arguably Google still does not do? Is there anything value-added vis-à-vis your classroom teaching? Might one contribute a unique understanding, or presentation, of content? area similar questions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

And if incoming students do not see the difference between the online instruction offered by their community college and by a traditional four-year residential school, many university administrators should be nervous indeed. To stave off this potential defection, how can we instructors promote virtual community?

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Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

I ’m a writing instructor in higher education. Tutoring can make writing less of an isolating process because students can access different audiences and, as a result, receive feedback that is in the function of its message and not only for the sake of a grade. To help writers grow, feedback doesn’t have to be only evaluative.

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Evaluation Feedback Writing Languages 98

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Teaching students about critical thinking: Geetha Venugopal, a high school computer science teacher at the American International School in Chennai, India, likens teaching students about AI tools to teaching students how to use the internet responsibly. How can ChatGPT be used for assessment and feedback?

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

As he visited school computer labs for one research project, he says, “I found that a lot of the kids, they alt-tab off the education program and start watching YouTube for an hour.” McNabb says one major challenge at colleges is that many instructors have never been trained in how to teach, much less how to design learning materials.

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eSchool News

MARCH 29, 2025

Florida Virtual School (FLVS) is partnering with the University of Florida (UF) and the Concord Consortium to introduce a groundbreaking year-long Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Math supplemental certification for FLVS middle and high school students enrolled in the schools Flex option. ORLANDO, Fla.

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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. Click to tweet.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Founded in 2016, Writable offers tools and templates that scaffold the writing and feedback process to help students become stronger writers. Teachers can select how the feedback process will unfold. The system guides pupils through how to offer constructive feedback to their peers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

MathCrunch offers a 360-degree tutor rating system, whereby tutors are reviewed both by students and by senior tutors who evaluate the tutors teaching performance on a nine-point system and provide in‐depth feedback. This mimics a virtual whiteboard for both students and instructors, creating for a more interactive and efficient dialogue.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

Even when students are all in the same time zone—such as for most K-12 schools and community colleges—getting to a live online class on time can be challenging for those who live in households where there aren’t enough computers or tablets for every learner, or where the internet connection isn’t robust enough.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

It sounds like a drastic measure: moving every school to online learning in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. But for thousands of so-called international schools in Asia, many of which follow American curriculum and employ American teachers, it’s already daily life. Some schools were better prepared. Well, sort of.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Teachers videotape themselves and then share it with their colleagues asking for specific feedback. Northwood Elementary School, Napa, Calif. Education Elements has been a vital partner as we work toward our mission of flattening the district so we’re not a district of schools, but a cohesive school district.”.

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