eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2023

These skill-building, multi-player games help students build critical skills in math, language arts, and social studies in a fun and entertaining way.   10 new learning games from Arcademics. Randomized questions. To support academic integrity, randomized questions ensure each student is assigned unique problems to work on. “The

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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. IXL also provides test preparation skill plans and personalized study plans for the SAT and ACT.

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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. About IXL Currently used by 14 million students and in 95 of the top 100 U.S.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

Code.org ’s free online courses teach programming languages or how to create games, apps, and websites. Related: 20 ideas for teaching coding in math, science, social studies, and ELA. Milo has also provided us a common language to use with students that we are starting to use throughout the school.”.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2022

The partnership will provide teachers the ability to utilize the ELA curriculum on Kiddom’s platform to share assignments digitally, communicate with students, and deliver personalized feedback on submissions, while prioritizing student reading proficiency and content knowledge of science and social studies.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2023

The ANTON learning app and online learning portal are part of a standards-aligned curriculum available in multiple languages. Boasting over 100,000 exercises and 200 exercise types, it contains interactive elements, feedback, games, and explanations aimed at supporting and engaging young people in learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Learning Upgrade , an ed-tech company providing digital, differentiated literacy curriculum designed for English language learners (ELLs), launched a mobile app to increase accessibility and expand offerings to a wide range of English learners.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Research shows that to become proficient readers, students need early literacy instruction in both word recognition and language comprehension. What’s the difference between word recognition and language comprehension? Why does phonics receive more attention than language comprehension?

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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. I fully support the model and know it works after piloting a competency based learning program for the past few years.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2020

Quizzes and adaptive learning software give students opportunities to review content and practice basic skills with immediate feedback. Top priority activities include things like class discussions, group collaboration on projects, feedback on higher-order thinking, and targeted instruction to address misconceptions.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Recently, Education Week published an article describing culturally-questionable activities and language found in Studies Weekly , a social studies curriculum used by more than 13,000 schools across the country. Create Feedback Loops Our team spends countless hours vetting every source and activity.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

The Odeum games focus on Social Studies, Language Arts, and Foreign Languages for grades 6 through 12. The company’s name, Odeum, is originated in the Ancient World, from Greek ōideion – a theater where ancients of Greece and Rome hosted music and poetry competitions.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

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. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. Instead, I provide rich feedback. Why or why not?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Language is an important vehicle to help children understand and learn. In one scenario, trained human adults read storybooks to kids ages three to six, pausing occasionally to ask questions and seek feedback from the children. In another study group, adults read books without pausing to ask guided questions.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Founded in 2000, Achieve3000 offers online literacy tools for a range of students, from English language learners in schools to working adults. Actively Learn’s library includes 30,000 digital texts on subjects covering topics across English language arts, science and social studies subjects.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In school, this means that a student’s performance in one subject area, such as algebra, does not correlate to his performance in another, such as foreign languages. In writing instruction, context comes into play whenever feedback is offered. To begin, feedback should be personalized to the individual student. Design lessons.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

And it allows them to assess and provide feedback in real time around the metacognitive strategies kids are using—or not using. Students in Actively Learn have access to a variety of support features such as scaffolding notes, embedded media, translation into more than 30 languages, an embedded dictionary, text-to-speech and dyslexic mode.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Students also receive immediate feedback while working on any IXL skill. Available in 54 languages, 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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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 goal is to not give readers a list of words and definitions to memorize, but rather to get them familiar with words and their place in language and knowledge. Full size image here.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

Amid all the changes, Renaissance executives sought to address a common customer feedback for improvements to Renaissance’s Accelerated Math tool for math practice and progress monitoring. The company had bought the myON digital reading platform that March to beef up their company’s literacy offerings.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

At the point in the year that we start this process, I’ve already taught all the literacy concepts they’ll need for this activity, such as theme, figurative language, text structures, and more. Circulate the room, monitoring and offering feedback. Giving feedback in real time adds encouragement and reinforces desired reading behaviors.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

But ThinkCERCA is more than just a traditional framework; the online program provides a lesson library with texts related to literature, math, science, and social studies. I find when students can use the CERCA rubric to see their growth, give themselves feedback, and set future goals, they gain a sense of confidence and self-efficacy.

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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. I’m thinking of the criticisms of whole language instruction in teaching reading to little kids, and interventions that seemed to hold kids back rather than push them forward.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

It’s an approach that students can use in any subject (yes, even English Language Arts). After they taught the lesson and had the evidence, we came back together to review their submission with the group, get feedback, and make tweaks before submitting it. Students are collecting and analyzing data in science and social studies.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

What kind of feedback do you get from educators? Our science teachers use it, our social studies teachers use it. We begin the year with about 65 percent of our kids reading on grade level, and by the end of the year, that number shoots up beyond 80 percent. But that’s no longer the case. Literacy is everywhere.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

It changed our day-to-day writing instruction practices, gave students more power over their own learning, and happily, made writing exercises more real and applicable for other departments like social studies. The exemplars gave students models and explained the language and meaning of the rubrics. We decided to give it a try.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Savvas One provides a one-year digital license to the company’s most popular, national K-12 math, literacy, science, and social studies programs, for one all-inclusive price per student, per grade level. Students receive a custom learning path where they experience scaffolded practice with detailed feedback on that priority skill.

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Elevate k12

APRIL 8, 2025

Add-Ons: Custom Support to Maximize Impact Weve also expanded our menu of add-on services based on direct feedback from districts. These educators are trained to deliver accessible, standards-aligned core content instruction that also help students develop their English language skills. ELL LIVE was built to help solve this challenge.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Individualized Support and Detailed Feedback Contrary to the misconception that K12 online education is isolating, many of the best online schools provide personalized support systems. Slower Feedback and Less Spontaneity In a physical classroom, a teacher can see confusion on a students face and offer immediate clarification.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 26, 2025

Specialized Programs: Online schools often offer a wider variety of courses, including advanced placement (AP), STEM, languages, and arts, compared to some traditional schools. Teaching Approach Traditional: Teacher-led instruction with real-time feedback. What if my child struggles with staying motivated in an online school?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

When Dr. Novak and I started writing our new book, Shift Writing into the Classroom, we anticipated that teachers outside of English Language Arts would take one look at the title and assume that the book was not intended for them. All of these aspects of writing benefit from dedicated class time, access to peer support, and teacher feedback.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Teachers have also expressed positive feedback using the technology, underscoring how it led to more collaborative learning experiences for students. Ready for a change, they started to broaden their understanding of the science of reading and did a book study on Shifting the Balance by Jan Burkins and Kari Yates.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

percent met English Language Arts standards. Carl Brownlee, a former United States Marine officer, is a middle school social studies teacher at Fisher Magnet Upper Academy. He constantly walks around the room, refocusing off-task students and offering feedback on their work. During the 2015-16 school year, only 0.7

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2025

Enhancing instruction and feedback What it means : Prompt engineering allows teachers to generate standards-aligned, scaffolded, and differentiated content in seconds. ” Feedback generation: AI can help draft detailed formative feedback aligned to rubrics. Highlight strengths and next steps in a warm, constructive tone.”

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

Popularized by educator and author Chris Emdin and built into the Street Data protocol, these are informal conversations between a teacher and a small group of students with the goal of giving feedback to the teacher and co-generating a plan of action, often around a focused topic or set of questions.

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