Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In high school, I played sports, but another important part of my life was band and musical theatre. At Course Hero, we’ve interviewed hundreds of instructors from around the country to share their best lessons. John Branch: I’d say it’s my entertaining style. I think the students are entertained.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

“We are excited to help students practice for the National Civics Bee through quizzing and conversations with Khanmigo,” said Kristen DiCerbo, Khan Academy’s chief learning officer. High school students in need of advanced mathematics courses need look no further than Stanford University.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Many instructors describe accommodations they’ve tried, like loosening homework deadlines or offering asynchronous alternatives to class conversations, but some now wonder whether this kind of leniency actually makes the situation worse. In their anecdotes, fewer students are showing up to class and turning work in on time (or at all).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, explores the historical significance of global trade in its World History curriculum, equipping high school educators with media-rich content to help students gain a deeper understanding of the importance of free trade. the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Additionally, Certell introduced a powerful new dashboard for teachers called Engauge , which helps instructors understand student engagement with Poptential e-books in real time. The integration of American Principles into Poptential social studies courses is a significant milestone.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2022

I NDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — (June 3, 2022) — Millions of high school students are expected to hit the books in summer school to help close the pandemic education gap, get a head start on a jam-packed schedule, or to repeat a failed class. s Poptential family of free social studies courses.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. For some educators, digital forms have been a productive way to achieve this.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Below is a machine-generated transcript of the interview: 00:00:20 Speaker 1 Because nobody goes to learn how to be a computer science teacher and then goes to to, to, to elementary schools. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. 00:00:35 Speaker 1 The math teacher. In the end.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Mary’s Academy (SMA), an all-girls high school located in the heart of Portland, Ore., or GoFormative quizzes. My favorite example of the power of blended learning happened this winter, when snow forced Portland schools to close 10 days over two months, threatening to undermine learning. It’s a mission we live by at St.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

One Shanghai school she knows asks teachers to give students their lessons and 48 hours to complete them. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., Some of the teachers we know, who teach first and second grade, for the first couple of weeks were working 18 hour days,” says Robin Shawver, a librarian at the school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If it sounds like a typical chemistry lesson at any school in the country, in some ways it is. Olivia is currently enrolled part-time in one of the most unique high school models in the country. The challenging thing is the social aspect,” Olivia says of her school, before describing herself as a little shy.

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Edsurge

JULY 19, 2017

It’s actually quite challenging as an instructor,” he says. He’ll design short quizzes to test each concept, and make a menu of choices for students to turn to when the results show they need to learn more. It’s kind of like one of those questions like ‘Why is the sky blue?’ When you go to actually answer it it gets complicated.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

In the sixteen years she’s taught high school English at Wilmington High School in Wilmington, Massachusetts, Lisa Desberg has never used Strunk and White. She says her school is literature-based—grammar is not “the essence” of English classes. She says they do a great job of giving a grammar in “small bites.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

By Rebecca Koenig In Pursuit of Personalized Learning Baraniuk played electric guitar in high school rock bands while growing up in Winnipeg, Canada—the same city, he notes, that spawned The Guess Who. That’s when we really started getting calls from frustrated instructors at community colleges who said, ‘I have a big problem.

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k12

JUNE 19, 2025

Online summer classes are typically reasonably priced because they don’t put the same demands on the instructors and don’t require a brick-and-mortar location. By choosing online summer school, your student is not limited to the courses taught in their town or city. What’s the point of summer school? Affordability.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. Review all your reading quizzes (or any other small assignments). Ungrading may not lighten an instructor’s workload, however, the effort I invested in this approach has proven immensely rewarding.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 21, 2025

Five to fifteenminute segments blend video, animation, and interactive quizzes. This mirrors how we consume information on social media or streaming platforms, keeping engagement high. Top virtual schools recruit educators who combine deep subject expertise with digital fluency. They redesign lessons around digital strengths.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

This helped make school fun for students. Recommended Tools Kahoot and Quizizz: Great for quizzes that feel like competitive games. Why It Works A study published in the journal Learning and Instruction showed that humor used by instructors can improve knowledge retention and student satisfaction. The result?

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 3, 2025

Traditional schools often teach a national curriculum designed to align with the values, history, and priorities of a specific country. Online schools, in contrast, tend to adopt international programs like the U.S. High School Diploma, IB, or British curricula. With structure, it becomes the heartbeat of the school.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

While today’s high school students weren’t yet born when the United States was attacked on 9/11, the War on Terror resulting from that day has been in the news for most of their lives,” said Julie Smitherman, a former social studies teacher and director of content at Certell, Inc. involvement in 21st-century wars. Click to tweet.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2025

We are the generation that spent important years of our lives in the COVID-19 lockdown, then released back into the world without the tools to cope, high school senior Adonte DaCosta told New York City Council members at a hearing last fall. Relaxed expectations for high school students have become a habit thats hard to break.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

Brooks acknowledges she has more leeway with her approach teaching at an independent school in the Bay Area. But instructors in traditional districts across the country are grappling with these lessons as well. She estimates there are roughly five million students who have played a game since the start of the 2016-17 school year.

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