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. About Certell, Inc.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

Teachers can integrate maps into lessons related to history, cultural studies, and geopolitics. These maps go beyond traditional static maps, allowing students to investigate, evaluate, and engage with spatial information. Interactive maps help students develop a more comprehensive understanding of spatial relationships.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

It doesn’t matter whether a student reads a story for English, a chapter in a textbook for science or math, or an online article for history; they need to be actively thinking about what they are reading. The more effectively they engage their higher-order thinking skills, the more likely they are to make meaning as they read.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Teachers in rural areas are exceptionally creative, working around limited library access, funding restrictions, and the ever-present battle with scaling best practices to support their students. Finding interesting resources goes a long way in boosting my students’ engagement with the material, better positioning them for lifelong success.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

In investigating the cause, we discovered that a middle school student who didn’t like history class had paid $30 to a company to attack the network every day before history. We realized then that we needed a more robust system for protecting the network and the teachers and students who were using it.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

During this professional development, I was able to further my understanding of AI and how to best implement its capabilities into my classroom to increase student engagement in instruction. ChatGPT is the AI tool I use in the classroom, and I have discovered that it can serve as a powerful tool for engaging students in learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

HistoryMaker VR is an immersive content creation tool that helps students learn history in an entertaining and engaging way. history, including Benjamin Franklin, Harriet Tubman, Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, and more.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

AI empowers educators to provide students with tailored learning paths, immersive experiences, and real-time feedback—elements that boost engagement and facilitate deeper learning. AI’s potential to revolutionize the education space goes beyond merely enhancing student engagement.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

Poptential course packages boost student engagement by using a variety of pop culture media to illustrate concepts, including those taken from sitcoms, movies, animations, cartoons, late-night shows, and other sources. Course packages in American History, World History, U.S. Click to tweet. About Certell, Inc.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In the downtown Los Angeles neighborhood of Echo Park that I grew up in, there were no murals of Filipino American history or dynamic swing sets anchored to poured-in-place rubber child safe surfaces. There was, after all, no evidence from the history books, nor from the teaching, that offered evidence otherwise.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

What are the main factors of student success? Teachers must build strong, trusting, and collaborative relationships with their students in order to ensure student engagement increases and to boost their student success rate. Why is student success important?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

We all have unique interests, learning preferences, histories and life experiences, family dynamics, strengths, and weaknesses. What is new is that the pandemic has shone a light on the ineffectiveness of a one-size-fits-all approach to educating a diverse group of students. . #7 Every person is different. This is not new.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you then encourage students to research topics that interest them, they’ll be even more motivated to read and write–and they may even have some fun. Here are four fun ways to get students engaged that worked for me in my classroom: 1.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Organizations such as MIT , the Museum of Natural History , and the Museum of Science in Boston contributed hands-on STEM courses for students. In 2015, teachers working at the camps observed a high level of student engagement, but noted one drawback: the STEM camps only attracted students who were already interested in the topic.

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Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

AI empowers educators to provide students with tailored learning paths, immersive experiences, and real-time feedback—elements that boost engagement and facilitate deeper learning. AI’s potential to revolutionize the education space goes beyond merely enhancing student engagement.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You must have enough teachers, the right technology, and lessons that infuse STEM into all classes including history and English/language arts, just to name a few. A history teacher can take their students to virtually explore a battlefield, versus simply having them read accounts and examine photos.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Critical thinking empowers students to care about their learning because they are a part of it. They are figuring out mysteries of history and science and math rather than simply being passive receptacles of data handed over to them wholesale.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

With more than 16,000 ClassVR headsets deployed, this collaboration supports Los Angeles Unified’s Instructional Technology Initiative and is designed to provide the district’s students with access to cutting-edge VR and AR tools to enhance student engagement and enrich academic instruction.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Each generation has sought to make the transfer of information faster and more efficient than the generation before them, but the world today is changing at a faster and more immediate pace than at any time in our history. The power of Artificial intelligence (AI).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

In education, role-play-as-learning is a unique experience which enhances student engagement, social skills, interest, and mastery of subject matter. It’s an approach that can have some major benefits for students. Learning engineering techniques and history concurrently as students build their own shaduf.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Incorporate hands-on activities and experiments Hands-on activities let students engage directly with STEM concepts, making learning tangible and memorable. STEM storytelling combines language arts with STEM, enhancing students’ understanding of scientific impact through a historical or personal lens.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2018

A student who isn’t overly interested in science but loves history may have little interest in looking for dominant and recessive genes, until she examines more closely the links between her grandmother’s brown eyes and her own blue eyes.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Women have been underrepresented in tech-forward fields throughout history. Many female students know the value they can bring to the tech table, but need that extra push to ensure they know their voices will be heard. Innovative solutions to get female tech students engaged include hands-on events.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And at the helm of these spaces, school librarians must negotiate how best to support students with library resources, adapt to new technological advancements in education and pass on the fundamental tenets of digital and information literacy to students. As the U.S. The Evolution of the School Library.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

And in September 2024, history took a bold turn as Kiski welcomed young women into its ranks and opened a new chapter in its storied legacy. With a rich history, an eye on the future, and a commitment to academic and athletic achievement, Kiski continues to redefine what it means to be a boarding school in the 21st century.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Interactive Lectures : Incorporating interactive activities like polls, quizzes, or discussions into lectures keeps students engaged and reinforces key concepts. Students would observe, hypothesize, and conduct experiments, actively engaging with the material.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Key points: Harnessing the power of video games can foster a deeper, more meaningful educational experience 3 ways educators leverage gamification strategies The future of gamification For more news on gaming principles, visit eCN’s Teaching & Learning page Student engagement is vital for any educator throughout the length of a course.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But it provided them an engaging way to learn firsthand the difficulties of creating and sustaining a government structure. Students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S. history and civics for the first time as upperclassmen.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2017

Small groups of students are clustered at tables examining a set of artifacts. Each set contains images, maps, and primary source documents that illustrate how geography impacted the history of the United States. Students use the artifacts to examine the essential question, how do the Earth’s features impact people over time?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Thinglink : Although Thinglink keeps most of the learning activity in the digital realm, it is a great resource for teachers to use to increase student engagement. If you do a Goosechase on campus, be sure to let administrators and hall monitors know if you are sending kids around the school, and absolutely set a time limit.

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Quizzes Lecturing Learning Styles High School 312

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. This pivot changed everything for students. Who would read their work?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

When we challenge the system and take students out of their boxes and see them as individuals with unique backgrounds, dreams, and potential–despite challenges they may be facing–something amazing happens: they start taking charge of their own education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

I would highly encourage any teacher looking to revamp their curriculum and classroom in an engaging and relevant way to start looking at ways to implement design thinking. The History of Design Thinking. Using Design Thinking to create a new education paradigm for elementary level children for higher student engagement and success.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

In order to make students discuss the learned material in the class, it is important to provide them with encouragement and help that gives a good stimulus to learn and discover more. The idea is the main component in argument forming, and actively learn teaches students how to communicate by asking and answering questions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2021

VHS Learning has a distinguished 25-year history of supplementing face-to-face education with quality online learning that provides high school students expanded curriculum offerings.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

She spent eleven years teaching English Language Arts and History at the middle school level. She then worked as an Instructional Coach for seven years, training and coaching secondary teachers in student engagement, standard-based strategies, curriculum development, and blended learning.

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Coaching Blended Learning Assignments Middle School 339

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. When students can understand how one topic might be covered in English, History and Science, they’re able to grasp it more deeply.

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