Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

To guide this transformative learning process, critical thinking will become an invaluable commodity. Ultimately, our students look up to us and use our guidance in their learning. For example, type “Use this learning outcome to create an activity: (add learning outcome)”.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

Next, test some small changes Key Action: Pilot changes and gather feedback from students and educators A current partner school that is focusing on cell phone policies this school year is taking a deliberately slow approach to developing a policy. Student librarians help monitor and gather feedback.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

To guide this transformative learning process, critical thinking will become an invaluable commodity. Ultimately, our students look up to us and use our guidance in their learning. For example, type “Use this learning outcome to create an activity: (add learning outcome)”.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

These parallel yet distinct teaching environments demand intentional strategies that can adapt while maintaining their power to actively engage students in the learning process. Instead, we need to reimagine active learning for both spaces, maintaining the core principles while adapting the execution.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

What routines supported a positive learning environment, and which caused friction? Instead of cutting back, they’re designing forward: expanding career-connected learning, investing in inclusive models, and building ecosystems where education, industry, and community intersect. When did students seem most connected?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. There are multiple pathways to holding students accountable for their evidence of learning; one is to focus on cheating, the other is to focus on integrity. Ruiz learned in New York that amidst the crowds, race officials cant keep track of individuals.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 27, 2025

As adults, we’ve learned that life can throw curveballs, and sometimes, we’ve to push ourselves to overcome the challenges that lie ahead. Talk about how famous people like Albert Einstein, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Lennon all had learning disabilities but overcame them with hard work and dedication and still made history.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 67

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Charlotte, NC Discovery Education , the creators of indispensable K-12 learning solutions used in classrooms around the world, today announced an exciting new slate of standards-aligned educational content and instructional resources for Back-to-School 2025 that will inspire teachers and engage students.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

Paper pockets held fun incentives like extra recess, sitting in the teachers chair, or the rare treat of writing with a pen. It provides immediate feedback and fosters a sense of community and achievement, all while giving students autonomy in their reading choices. A bulletin board reading Want a bright idea?

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Writing is used to assess student learning more often than it is used to facilitate learning. We talk about writing as a product for assessment, a subject where paragraphs and commas are taught, or a skill that one either has developed or lacks. Writing is how we think our way into a subject and make it our own.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

My Journey in Alternative Grading: From Curiosity to Clarity The first time I stood in front of 20 bored freshmen, all alone, teaching a course I had designed, also all alone, I was teaching a general education writing and speaking course at the University of Iowa. You cant learn without laboring (76).

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Teach Your Kids

JULY 7, 2025

I’m excited to introduce a few of the tutors I’m most enthusiastic about right now and I’d love your honest feedback on how we’re presenting them on Modulo. She is also a gifted creative writing teacher who can support children in creating their own narrative. Why or why not?

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

For many families, online learning opened the door to new possibilities in education. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. Supporting your child’s engagement helps them thrive academically and strengthens their enthusiasm for learning.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

As scholar-teachers, we know that the habit of reflectioncan be a powerful tool for workplace learning and performance, which can separate high-performance professionals from mediocre ones. During the Covid-19 pandemic, I set a before-action directive in my international business for students to engage in a virtual consulting-based learning.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

The schools Lifted and Unstoppable philosophy ensures every girl learns to trust her voice, take risks, and lead with confidence. There’s a hum of excitement, the kind that comes when learning feels more like discovery than obligation. The recently reimagined Learning Commons is a perfect example. Its lively. Its hands-on.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 8, 2025

.” To fill that gap, Tondreau and Rabinowitz followed Ladson-Billings’ approach of learning from teachers who shared the same identities as the students they served. These conversations don’t just affirm students with disabilities; they deepen everyone’s understanding of how learning happens.

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Disabilities Teaching Culture Special Education 91

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Ready to ignite your students’ imaginations and sharpen their writing skills? With these engaging 7th grade writing prompts, students will dive into a world of self-expression. They’re developing the skills to investigate real-world topics, explain ideas clearly, and write with purpose.

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

But with the advent of technology, the internet, and cell phones, it seemed like reading for pleasure (not to mention the requisite attention span) had gone the way of buggy whips, writing quills, and powdered wigs. The irony, of course, is that when they learn to enjoy the practice, the Lexile scores will improve as a matter of course.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

UC Riverside found that math and writing skills were lower among the students who graduated from high school during the pandemic than for previous high school graduates. Those students had spent half their junior year and nearly all their senior year in remote learning. I had to learn on my own,” said Banda, now 22. “I

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

The birth of generative AI is a bit like the arrival of electricity, says Beth Rabbitt, CEO of education innovation nonprofit The Learning Accelerator, explaining that the technology has the potential to change the world for the better and, if were not careful with it, also to spark fires.

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Intelligence Schools Science Math 215

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

Schools increasingly find themselves on the front lines of managing the ripple effects of students’ online lives — from digital distractions that interfere with learning to online bullying and harmful content — leaving educators to address these challenges without the tools or authority to intervene effectively.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 16, 2025

One of the best ways to get good at a complex action (such as playing a musical instrument or pitching a baseball game) is to practice it until it becomes a motor plan," writes movement expert and psychologist Christine Caldwell. This is why young children must move as they learn.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 4, 2025

Intuition has a maligned reputation as one of the lesser kinds of reasoning," writes neuroscientist Patrick House, "but is, in fact, second only to consciousness itself as the mammalian brain's greatest feat. And as Kimmerer says, "(Y)ou just need to learn how to ask," which requires us to observe and reflect. I've written since 2009.

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Languages Language Communication Writing 91

Teach Hub

JUNE 10, 2025

Think About Summer Learning Take a few minutes to review your child’s report cards and teacher feedback. If you have insights about your child’s learning style or social needs, this is the time to share them. It’s also a great way to learn how to make and manage their own money.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

However, what we really should be striving to develop are self-sufficient classrooms where students are driving the learning. Ideally, by surpassing compliance goals and student-driven learning, we can get to an even more important goal — critical thinking. As teachers and administrators, our goal is compliance.

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Reading Technology Feedback Instructors 413

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Fun Debate Topics Persuasive Speaking Activity Middle School, High School By Lindsay Ann Learning Grades: 6th-9th Subjects: English Language Arts, Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS SL.9-10.4, Is it more important to learn a sport or an instrument? Are field trips a good use of learning time?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

“Everyone’s worried about people having to learn how to code,” notes Eileen Murphy. Like how to write an email.” Helping students write and reason clearly, critically and concisely is the central mission at her company, ThinkCERCA. What we’ve found to be one of the biggest challenges is to help teachers teach writing.”

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Textbooks Essay English Writing 268

Teach Hub

MAY 19, 2025

Assessment is an essential part of instruction and plays a key role in every students learning journey. However, its a powerful tool for guiding instruction, providing feedback, and helping students grow. When used intentionally and thoughtfully, assessments can do so much more than measure learning; they can improve it.

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Learning Outcomes Learning Feedback Essay 78

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

When I facilitate blended learning workshops, I ask participants to think about these three roles and identify the role they spend the most time and energy in. Hattie’s and Timperley’s (2007) research on feedback identified it as having a significant impact on student achievement and learning.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 27, 2021

Feedback is how students feel seen and supported. When we give feedback as students work, we signal that the work they are doing is important, and we care about their progress. Teachers want to give students timely, focused, and actionable feedback, yet it is easy to neglect. Peer Feedback Choice Board. I really liked __.

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Feedback Peer Review Assignments Online Learning 546

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Feedback is one of the most powerful tools teachers have in their “teaching toolbelts” for guiding learners toward mastery. Without feedback, students do not have a clear sense of what they are doing well, what they need to focus on, and what they can do to improve.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 4, 2017

Since I published “ Stop Taking Grading Home ,” I’ve had a ton of teachers ask me how I am able to give feedback on Google Docs so quickly. I give real-time feedback to ~8 students in a 25-minute station. Here’s how… I hope this tip helps other teachers provide feedback on student writing more efficiently!

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Feedback Grades Writing Skills 420

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Feedback is critical for helping students enhance their conceptual knowledge and skills. Despite its value, with the time constraints and the large number of students in classrooms, providing focused, actionable, and timely feedback often feels unattainable. It avoids language that might confuse learners.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 29, 2021

The art of writing, invented roughly 5,000 years ago, represents a blip in human history. In short: Writing remains a new feat of technology. Despite its relative youth, writing has evolved into a vital skill. Despite its relative youth, writing has evolved into a vital skill. The Value of Peer-to-Peer Writing Feedback.

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