Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

When students leave high school, they will be expected to successfully navigate myriad challenges and novel situations. Then groups worked together to write a project proposal explaining how they were going to execute this project. Wouldn’t figuring it out be more interesting and engaging?”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

There are plenty of reasons that K–3 teachers tend to be less likely than their middle and high school peers to use technology in the classroom. The most effective technology works with you to enable or extend the instruction you’re providing. Related : The phonics fix?

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Between 2011 and 2019, the number of high school students reporting persistent feelings of sadness and hopelessness increased nearly 10 percent, from 28 percent to 37 percent. Giving students choices also helps them find more purpose in the work they complete. Such sharing should not be for students only.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2018

Stephen Independent School District, located in central Minnesota, is one of many school districts across the country that recognized a need to dramatically evolve traditional classrooms to create a variety of specialized and flexible learning environments to meet the needs of next-century learners.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Because students control their learning in the PBL approach, differentiation is simple, if needed at all, as students conduct their own learning at their own pace and present their learning in a mode that makes sense to them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 9, 2018

Sara Stringer, Ask a Tech Teacher contributor, has a list of great websites for high school students. I don’t post enough about high school so I’m thrilled with her article: Some students study more productively in groups, working with their peers. More for high school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I credit my old high school Spanish classroom for my discovery. This gave way to more movement, flexible group work, and games. I “discovered” it as a teacher in 2011. Many educators deployed it in fall 2020. But it’s hardly new. It was apparent even in the early 20th century. Teach students outdoors.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

However, at Cristo Rey San Jose Jesuit High School in San Jose, I observed a teacher who “chunked” her curriculum into smaller pieces to establish a streamlined system of instruction. Team Accountability Another area of concern for the teachers at my school was establishing a precedent for efficient and collaborative group work.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Students didn’t like the traditional textbook-and-worksheet-centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada’s Ottawa Catholic School Board’s (OCSB) high schools. who is being left behind.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

The center’s first floor will provide flexible learning spaces, including a Skype room for video conferencing with outside experts, a quiet zone for research and a talking zone with soft furniture for group work and discussions. One spot will house tables where students can connect their tablets to a large video monitor.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

If they are working from home, parents may still not be available to help their children with coursework during the school day; if they are working outside the home, students are often attending class from a grandparent or other caregiver’s house.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. There is a direct relationship between executive function development and the effectiveness of different types of learning activities.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2017

Current statistics show that scholars of color and females are underrepresented in STEM fields across the country, and so FWPS is actively taking steps to provide STEM and STEAM (STEM with an emphasis on the arts) opportunities for each scholar from kindergarten through high school graduation. STEM Exploration Night.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

But by exposing them to different career paths, we can get them thinking about their life after high school before it’s too late. With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning. Having a job may seem a lifetime away for a child.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 25, 2021

Most traditional schools are locked into static time blocks, whether they have a traditional 7- or 8-period daily schedule or an alternating-day block schedule with longer class times. Outside of the main classrooms are numerous flexible spaces that allow for individual work and small group collaboration.

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k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

He currently serves as the Proud Superintendent of the Texarkana Arkansas School District, where he is committed to making a lasting impact on students, educators, and the community. He later became the Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership for Kansas City Public Schools before taking the helm in Texarkana.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

This way, spaces would change depending on need — a library, a lab or group working environment. Most technology leaders at schools don’t control finances, but a few have arrived at creative solutions. Instead of the rank-and-file spaces they had before, new rooms became modular with technology carts and bookshelves on wheels.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2018

That commitment includes building state-of-the-art labs at its middle and high schools, where students can work on projects as part of their engineering courses or after-school clubs. Charlottesville standardized on Lenovo ThinkCentre All-In-One desktop computers in its middle and high school tech labs.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

It took a long time to get [past] the feeling of being ashamed of my background—ashamed that my parents didn’t finish high school. That said, he says there is a shift in attitude among the students his group works with, and colleges are working to help celebrate first-generation students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Collecting data, making meaning of it, and using it to take action and inform instruction is already a difficult task in a whole-group setting. In my first teaching job back in 2006, at Campbell High School in Smyrna, Georgia, teachers were expected to collect data at the beginning and end of each semester for every student on their rosters.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

At the end of next school year, thousands of high school students will sit down at individual workstations, laptops in hand, for an end-of-course exam. There is real work on real problems, which are going to be much more transferable to the real-world situations that we want kids to be prepared for,” Darling-Hammond says.

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Organized Classroom

APRIL 7, 2025

Even if the conference can’t be completed at school due to parent no-shows or work schedules, they can be completed at home. With few options in some cases, this is the best solution to try and form those connections with students and parents, whether you are teaching Kindergarten or High School. Attendance 1.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

We do it through data, we do it through focus group work, we do it through storytelling through our publications, and we do it through resources and tools and through our presentation, keynotes, workshops, and institutes. Mentioned was focus group work. So we give voice to the data through our focus group work.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 7, 2025

Many online learners, especially in middle and high school, are checking Instagram during breaks, watching study tips on TikTok, and discussing class projects in WhatsApp groups. But online schools have to work harder to build this same community. Education doesnt stop when the Zoom call ends.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 23, 2025

From gym class to brain breaks, these PE games for high school will have your students laughing, learning, and moving toward a healthier future. Leave the inside voices behind with invigorating indoor PE games for high school Going outdoors is more of a privilege than an everyday option.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A flexible classroom is a learning environment that utilizes an “agile physical setup that will accommodate both independent and group work,” according to a CDW white paper on constructing modern classrooms. After Kelly Almer, an elementary school teacher for Littleton (Colo.) What Is a Flexible Classroom? Photo: Nick Hagen.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2024

A Student and a Teacher Try to Untangle Why Group Work Is, Well, Terrible By Nadia Tamez-Robledo This one hits close to home, and it’s thrilling to see that the topic of group work resonated with so many readers. Here are the most popular K-12 stories from 2023. My Students Deserve a Classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Even with limited resources, school districts can harness the growth of online tools and internet-enabled devices to find more creative solutions to address the substitute-teacher problem. This year, at Lexington High School (LHS) when teachers are absent, an “ELF” now greets students in a collaborative learning space.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2017

Dr. Rand Hindi, CEO of Snips (a machine learning device company), is part of a research group working with the French government to prepare their country for AI. When he is not teaching at Carnegie Mellon, he spends time teaching an AP computer science in a local high school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

In 2012, I transferred to McClarin Success Academy in Fulton County School District. The high school is in College Park, Georgia which, according to FBI crime statistics, is the fifth most violent city in the United States. It wasn’t “Dead Poets Society” but it could possibly be “Dangerous Minds,” so I leapt at it.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School. he says with a laugh, referring to the hit ABC sitcom about spirited teachers who make do with lean resources in a Philadelphia public school. So I'd much rather they build for Abbott Elementary than for Palo Alto High School.”

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