eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions provider for K-12 education, today announced the release of its new print and digital high school history series, US History Interactive ©2022 and World History Interactive ©2022 , that promotes a deeper investigation of the past and connects history to the present.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. In high school math teacher Joe Sowinski’s classes, technology has changed class structure. By and large, it’s working.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

So how do we prepare today’s high school journalists (and tomorrow’s mainstream reporters) for such an era? I propose teachers do the traditional lecture, textbook method for 80 percent of the time. We have it hanging up around Palo Alto High School. And it could be offered at the middle school level.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Ignite My Future brought this vision to life by adopting a transdisciplinary approach and integrating computational thinking concepts into all core subjects, including math, science, language arts, and social studies. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projections. currently teach computer science.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? Elementary math textbooks claim to be aligned with Common Core standards, but they’re sometimes not, Copur-Gencturk says.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But he says colleagues have also adapted the platform for other traditional subjects including science and social studies. Quest objectives include reading chapters in the textbook, and students can complete formative assessments in the form of “battles.” You’re taking out all the sterile school stuff.”

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2019

It is incredible, because lot of schools have invested a lot of money in Chromebooks and they are limited their uses to strictly Google Classroom or when they're typing. . So, when I look at that, I think every elementary, middle and high school should have an esports team. . Students do not love just reading a textbook. .

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. Heather Brantley, an instructional technologist and teacher at a Texas junior high school, recognizes the value of integrating augmented reality tools into her lessons.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

This effort will accelerate learning for 67,000 middle and high school students, and give more educators across the district resources to differentiate daily instruction. IXL is currently used by more than 60 percent of K-12 school districts in Maryland , reaching approximately 280,000 learners.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Yet, news literacy is not universally taught, largely because of systemic obstacles: It is not commonly part of curriculum standards, districts tend to focus on standardized testing and STEM, and lessons may be greatly limited or built around a textbook. government to high school students. But these challenges are surmountable.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2019

In Jill Armstrong’s social studies classes, when students learn about other countries, they don’t just learn from textbooks and news articles, which she says can seem abstract and elusive to teenagers. Ghenwah Kharbeet, a Syrian refugee living in Turkey, tells high school students in Greenup, Ky.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP, dubbed a “social studies course that runs on jet fuel”, covers nearly 14 billion years of history for middle and high school students. Tools like TextGenome create new opportunities for OER to resemble more traditional textbooks without placing more demands on the teacher.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. The absence of elephants from middle and high school curricula limits intellectual representation for students.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

IXL’s skills are aligned to content in 21 popular textbooks, making lesson planning easier. Develop a deeper understanding of math IXL guides high school students beyond “drill and practice” learning to help them master algebra, geometry, precalculus and calculus.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Ignite My Future brought this vision to life by adopting a transdisciplinary approach and integrating computational thinking concepts into all core subjects, including math, science, language arts, and social studies. according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics employment projections. currently teach computer science.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

“What was really unique about the property was that it was equally popular at school and at home, and you can say that about very few brands.” That makes it especially valuable to an education company like HMH, which is best known among teachers and students as a textbook publisher. Physical geography is important,” Keller says.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

Unlike traditional textbooks and library resources, Kiddom content providers are internet-based making them accessible from anywhere, on desktops and mobile devices, and easily blended into classroom lesson plans. .” ” — Anna Marie Sossong, High School Teacher. More about Kiddom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

I have a list of eight research sites that walk the line between stodgy (textbooks) and out-there (Twitter and Facebook), designed by their developers with an eye toward enticing students in and then keeping their interest. Because of the sophistication of its approach, it is probably best-suited to middle and high school learners.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest. This is one of the visual sources that former high school world history teacher Amy Ernenwein used in a “gallery walk” to introduce a unit on industrialization. The workmen were draped across the machinery. That’s no surprise.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2018

This conviction is born out of my 30 years in and around classrooms, first as a social studies teacher at Milpitas High, and then as co-founder of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI). TCI created the History Alive! I wish you wouldn’t pin all hope on OER or content marketplaces or playlists as curriculum solutions.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. One of Trumps first executive orders claimed schools use radical indoctrination to imprint anti-American, subversive, harmful, and false ideologies on children. Textbooks clearly are diminishing in influence, the AHA report states.

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