Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

For example, if you want students to support claims with relevant details, that expectation should be stated on a rubric that is given to students well in advance of when the assignment is due, and should be the focus of lessons, formative feedback, and student reflection. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 92

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Its about building understanding through firsthand experiences, not just textbooks. Elmwood supports its teachers through a unique coaching program that encourages peer feedback and shared learning. The sense of community at Elmwood is something you feel the moment you walk through the doors. Faculty growth is just as important.

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Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Beliefs 209

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. They envisioned a school where children who didnt fit the standard mold could still succeed, not just academically but socially and emotionally.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes. ThinkCERCA jostles with major textbook providers, such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, to be the provider of core ELA instructional materials.

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Textbooks Essay English Writing 271

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Millie González and her colleagues aren’t here to argue about whether open educational resources are on par with traditional textbooks?she culturally relevant textbooks? Usually when you hear any discussion about free textbooks, it really talks about just the cost, and what we’re saying is, it goes way beyond that.”

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Textbooks Culture Students Participation 187

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. Formative Assessment Strategies There are different categories of formative assessment, including observational assessments, checks for understanding, and formative feedback.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook We must—quite literally—throw out the book on how we create and deliver curriculum to teachers and students. Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook.

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Textbooks Culture Curriculum Feedback 165

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received. This practice is called early-term feedback. In general, faculty and instructors are really responsive to student feedback. Collecting feedback can be as easy as passing out index cards.

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Feedback Instructors Students Syllabus 195

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The textbook that Delmar Larsen assigned his students was full of errors, and he knew it. The textbook, written by a well-known author, had cost each of his students $200. “I I can write a physical chemistry for life sciences textbook,” says Larsen. The professor felt like an accomplice. Once it’s fixed, it’s never a problem.”

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Textbooks Writing Accessibility Peer Review 163

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

I asked a variety of questions about their perception of the instruction and assessment practices we had shifted to, the types of feedback they received and how they felt about the class. This was the toughest feedback I have ever received, but it helped me define the problem so I could figure out what to do about it.

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Feedback Culture Science Teaching 167

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. Today, Top Hat announced it has reached an agreement to acquire more than 400 higher education textbooks from Nelson, one of the biggest educational publishers in Canada. And it just may have found a key piece to make that strategy click.

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Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Quizzes Fairness 153

eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2016

New milestone marks first time that more digital units are sold than print textbooks. For its fiscal year 2016, Cengage Learning reported that digital unit sales outpaced print textbook sales for the first time. For the 12 months ending March 31, 2016, Cengage Learning activated 3.5

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Textbooks Mobile Devices Feedback Critical Thinking 139

eSchool News

JULY 18, 2022

Along with that, the curriculum supplement that came with our new textbooks was starting to replace some of the traditional paper-and-pencil work that we had been doing. Providing resources such as these, and implementing them successfully has a number of benefits for your learners, immediate feedback being right at the top of that list.

Math 265

Math Curriculum Hybrid Learning Feedback 265

eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

enlightenAI , San Francisco, CA Enlighten AI is creating an AI-powered personalized teacher’s assistant designed to enhance educators’ impact while making their work more sustainable, including grading and giving feedback. Perlego , London, UK Perlego is an online subscription for more than one million academic textbooks. Oblio, Inc.

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Textbooks Education Intelligence Quizzes 294

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

When I first started, on July 28, 2014, the superintendent before me had ordered close to a million dollars’ worth of textbooks. At my first board meeting, I said that we have to take back all these textbooks. They had no correlation to the standards that we had just switched to, which was Common Core.

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Textbooks Technology Middle School Middle School 154

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

What we’ve discovered from feedback provided by both students and employers is that when youth engage in real-world work experiences, they emerge with higher self-esteem, a greater sense of responsibility, and newfound independence, all of which set the foundation for professional and personal success.

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High School High School Curriculum Ethics 306

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Indeed, the time spent on teaching class is less than the time spent on preparation, evaluation, and feedback (grading). By simply sharing a link to a textbook or by uploading a PDF, the AI then auto-creates well-designed slides that teachers tweak to use for sleek lesson presentations. That’s over ten hours a week.

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 273

eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Feedback mechanisms : Create opportunities for students, staff, parents, and community members to provide feedback. Clear communication : Ensure that all stakeholders are well-informed about end-of-year procedures, such as exams, grading, and returning textbooks. Clear communication helps to reduce confusion and stress.

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Achievement Schools Counselling Feedback 296

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

When Jenny Billings piloted a digital textbook class and saw an immediate increase in engagement and retention after just one semester, she thought it must be a fluke. Taking Textbooks Online: Rowan Cabarrus Community College. The digital textbooks are available at a discounted price through. percent to 76.6

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Textbooks Lecturing English Internet 111

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

After all, a free or inexpensive alternative to a pricey commercial textbook can make a big difference for students at institutions like Salt Lake Community College, who are “mostly not affluent,” Hardy says. If she wants to add or change anything along the way, she can. Every course should be better every time it’s taught,” he says.

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Textbooks Instructors Laboratory Education 209

eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

It guides students from simple to complex skills, adapting to individual student needs and offering explicit instruction with real-time feedback. Schools can also leverage IXL’s Learn to Read and Reading Intervention skill plans that align perfectly to popular textbooks so educators can steadily and methodically narrow reading gaps.

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Secondary Education Grades Art Languages 256

eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2025

AI can make complex topics more accessible, personalize instruction, and provide real-time feedback. The system provides explanations and visualizations, helping students grasp abstract concepts more effectively than static textbook diagrams. Here are five examples of how AI can be used effectively in high school science classes: 1.

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High School High School Science Textbooks 196

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL skills also match popular textbooks used in the state, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons. 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.

Math 285

Math STEM Learning Textbooks 285

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Our resources are unlike any you’ve seen before, and a departure from the traditional basal textbook paradigm. We take a “worktext” approach, combining the very best features of a traditional textbook with the utility of an interactive workbook.

High School 245

High School High School Achievement Confidentiality 245

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Participants access learning via textbooks, video clips, interactive learning tasks, and webinars and have opportunities to practice skills via weekly online discussion forums, webinars, collaboration activities, self-check exercises, and homework assignments. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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Teachers Coaching Textbooks Participation 256

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Traditional textbooks are being replaced by interactive e-books and online resources, giving students dynamic and multimedia-rich content that can be updated as the world changes. Online resources, educational websites, and digital libraries have expanded the scope of learning beyond the confines of textbooks.

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Technology Education Textbooks Learning Styles 239

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

Already, mobile has shown to yield tremendous results in student recruiting , and leading colleges and universities are creating mobile apps to communicate campus messages , curb sexual assault , gain instant student feedback on classes and events, create inclusive social experiences , and provide unprecedented access to student-based services.

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Mobile Devices Schools Students Textbooks 264

Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

Greeting students at the door each morning, chatting with them about their weekend, providing in-person feedback on projects, and facilitating student-led conversations are among the many joys we miss during this pandemic. Less Testing, More Feedback When we finally do recover, we should throw out what the pandemic showed us wasn’t important.

Feedback 218

Feedback Schools Internet Testing 218

eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2018

Districts around the country are moving away from teaching models based on lectures and textbooks—but transition isn’t always simple. Creating a competency-based or mastery-based environment requires re-thinking everything, including teaching methods, assessments, and how to best prepare students for life after school.

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Lecturing Teaching Methods Textbooks STEM 203

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

And he says K-12 teachers frequently use materials from a range of sources including curriculum and textbooks from their schools and districts, resources they’ve gotten from colleagues or found on websites, and materials they’ve purchased from marketplaces such as Teachers Pay Teachers.

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Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Imagine opening your chemistry textbook and being able to use an interactive periodic table to create complex chlorofluorocarbon compounds. EPUB 3 interactive e-textbooks, absolutely not. Since founding the company more than 20 years ago, he has seen the digital textbook industry change greatly. Far fetched? With today’s.

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Textbooks Instructors Students Quizzes 136

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

DreamBox Learning’s products complement Discovery Education’s other digital solutions, which include Discovery Education Experience , the company’s award-winning K-12 platform, the Techbook series of digital textbooks, Mystery Science , and more, in supporting student achievement.

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Communication Curriculum Textbooks Math 264

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

Both were focused on enhancing the learning and knowledge that their textbooks covered, and also on making their curriculums better and more engaging. Thomasson, who teaches English at Forestview High School in Gastonia, N.C., said neither teacher knew much about making videos back in 2012.

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Course Outline English Middle School Middle School 279

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Until recently, the use of OER—digital educational materials that are both more easily adaptable by instructors and more affordable than traditional textbooks—was being led by early-adopter professors driven by a desire to improve teaching and an interest in new technology. Those days are over: 2017 was OER’s breakthrough year.

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Textbooks Teaching Instructors Testing 156

eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The app also breaks new ground with its inclusion of flash cards powered by AI-based speech analysis that enables kids to practice pronunciation and receive instant feedback. To continuously measure each child’s reading ability, BOOKR Class employs Lexile® Framework for Reading learning measurement technology.

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English Attention Languages Language 246

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Shmoop introduced a new service through which experts will read a student’s college application essay and provide detailed feedback and overall suggestions. Shmoop will offer feedback on everything: topic, coherence, organization, and even nitpicky things like sentence structure and grammar.

Science 182

Science Achievement Essay Textbooks 182

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2018

Gone were the days of handwritten flashcards and ten-pound textbooks. A third loaded up a digital textbook filled with circuits, transistors, and other assorted electronics diagrams. A recent visit to my old high school library left me disappointed. But the technology itself was not my concern.

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Textbooks Evaluation Feedback Languages 146