eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Lessons on these events and others are included in Common Sense Economics from Poptential , a comprehensive and free high school digital curriculum. Poptential course packages include everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers , quizzes, and tests. Click to tweet.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

With inflation reaching a 40-year high and talk of a looming recession, high school students are coming of age during one of the most challenging economies in recent history. Poptential curriculum includes everything instructors need to teach a subject, including lessons, e-books, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

According to Code.org, the majority of Americans want schools to teach computer science , but only 35 percent of high schools teach it. And even though 15 states have adopted a policy to give all high school students access to computer science courses, universities prepare way fewer computer science teachers than we need.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Some of the long-term results of the students who were in the smaller classes include: Higher student achievement levels in grade seven language, reading, science, math, and social studies classes. Generally, in smaller classes, students can establish stronger relationships with their instructors.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Martha Bongiorno, Media and Educational Technology Instructor, Innovation Academy I taught my fifth graders how to use Adobe Spark, and they created culminating projects about how to carefully evaluate information found on the web. Magazine covers demonstrating understanding of various social studies topics.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. The instructor was really supportive. I'm doing them a disservice if I don’t learn about AI.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

While it got its start as a way to help computer scientists think more logically about data analysis, lately it’s been catching on with instructors in a diverse number of subjects—from science to math to social studies. So I don’t use that word when I bring it into social studies. It’s engaging.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2022

Tom and Emily describe how students can make positive impacts in their local, online, and global communities NOW, not later after they graduate from high school or college. We need more learning opportunities like these because they help our learners find meaning and relevance in their schooling experience.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2024

The new program operates out of the former campus of Sheldon Jackson, a religious boarding school and later a college, both now closed, that were founded to educate Alaska Native students as part of “a deeply assimilationist institution ,” says Yeidikook’áa Dionne Brady-Howard, who is Tlingit and grew up in Sitka.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Esther was my student five years ago at my former school, where I taught in an accelerated learning pilot program designed to service students in danger of aging out of high school due to their age at enrollment. schools for less than two years. It’s just my students and I, without a live interpreter.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. I studied relentlessly under immense pressure, and my hard work paid off when I was accepted to my desired university. After taking this course, what profound insights have you gained about social studies education?

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

Introduction High school is a defining period in a teenagers life. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education. But over the last decadeand especially in recent yearsan alternative model has emerged: online high schools education.

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eSchool News

MAY 17, 2023

INDIANAPOLIS (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages from Certell, provides rich content to teach the importance of Memorial Day, including material on the U.S. involvement in 21st-century wars. Click to tweet. More than 7,000 U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This take on document-based questions turns students into mentors and instructors. My high school students were sometimes doodling on the paper, staring out the window, or hoping to just get the answers at the end from myself or a friend. Kelly Grotrian teaches social studies at East Brunswick High School in New Jersey.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

When you ask people what the flipped classroom is, they automatically go to the videos,” says Ryan Hull, a Kansas middle school teacher who has been flipping his social studies classes for the past six years. “I It has become hard to pin down as it finally begins to shake off the stigma of an online video fad.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

These days innovation seems just as likely to come from a state school, a small liberal arts college, or even an upstart from outside the traditional system. The former high school teacher is also a blogger, and he runs a podcast of his own, called MoonshotEDU. I started in the K-12 space. This was '93-'94.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

One of the first things students learn about in social studies class is the pilgrims, and how different people fled to a new land to start new lives. Brooks acknowledges she has more leeway with her approach teaching at an independent school in the Bay Area. Yet many are stepping up to the challenge. immigration.

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