Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

As a learning designer in a centralized teaching and learning unit, it’s my job to explore new technologies, particularly AI. I create original work as a learning designer, as well as personally as a writer and artist, and I don’t want GenAI to train on my work. But I’ll admit, I didn’t jump right in.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. What innovations might redefine the learning environment? Data indicates that online learning offers flexibility that traditional classrooms often can’t match. A study from the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

As a learning designer in a centralized teaching and learning unit, it’s my job to explore new technologies, particularly AI. I create original work as a learning designer, as well as personally as a writer and artist, and I don’t want GenAI to train on my work. But I’ll admit, I didn’t jump right in.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice. In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Inclusivity and feelings of psychological safety in the classroom should not be reserved solely for K-12 learning environments. Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

Working in the College of Interdisciplinary Studies has shown me firsthand that our students face a world full of messy, tangled problems. At our college, we have learned that it means weaving ideas, theories, and methods from many fields to examine a shared theme or question. They need tools from many fields to tackle these issues.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

For 60 years, SkillsUSA has provided these types of hands-on learning opportunities for students in the form of regional, state, and national competitions–and participants in these contests have gained valuable career experience.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Inclusivity and feelings of psychological safety in the classroom should not be reserved solely for K-12 learning environments. Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

And they entered college with gaps in study skills and anxiety about social interactions. Those students had spent half their junior year and nearly all their senior year in remote learning. billion and spent some of that on technology to accommodate remote learning. I had to learn on my own,” said Banda, now 22. “I

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. We were all there to learn, make mistakes, and create a trusting community. But a few years ago, I removed the slide. Eventually, I brought it back.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. We were all there to learn, make mistakes, and create a trusting community. But a few years ago, I removed the slide. Eventually, I brought it back.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

10 8th Grade Social-Emotional Writing Prompts Social-emotional learning is a way for students to find their place in the world around them while staying in touch with their own wants and needs. Describe your study process or homework routine. Write a newspaper article about a historical event you’ve studied this year.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

Like some of my peers, I began to feel that physically going to class did not help facilitate my learning. Factor in the chances that I am going to be ready to learn at precisely 4-5:30 p.m. Online education and improved access to resources are changing the learning landscape. each Tuesday and it's an easy decision.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2016

Many educators turn to online and blended learning solutions to offer alternative solutions for at-risk students. The most important attribute of a successful online or blended learning program is a “rigorous and engaging curriculum,” according to participants in a recent study.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Engagement. Self-Regulation.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. When I facilitate blended learning workshops, I ask participants to think about these three roles and identify the role they spend the most time and energy in. Blended learning can help! The responses always yield the same results.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Students who spent formative years learning online may be too nervous to raise a hand in class or have trouble paying attention. Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. Teaching The Why Sarah Z.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

. — The vast majority of high school students are not financially literate but respond well to economics and personal finance courses that include digital tools in their curriculum, according to a new study by Project Tomorrow and Certell, creator of the Poptential family of free, award-winning social studies course packages.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2022

Many students –– and instructors –– were abruptly forced to transition from traditional classroom learning to adopt a new remote format. It accelerated the emergence of a new dynamic learning environment, where students learn in innovative ways far different from how education systems were originally designed.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

At least, that’s according to a randomized study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal Science. The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Once upon a time, educators worried about the dangers of CliffsNotes — study guides that rendered great works of literature as a series of bullet points that many students used as a replacement for actually doing the reading. It’s not as simple as assuming that students are all cheaters, the instructor stresses.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In education, case studies are widely used as a pedagogical tool to encourage critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and the application of theoretical knowledge. They serve as a bridge between theory and practice, promote active learning and the development of practical skills that improve their teaching methods.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Lifelong Learning Report: Trends & Insights from K-12 to Career is a comprehensive study analyzing the evolving landscape of education and the role technology plays in shaping the future of learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Wow, you guys are quick studies.” Our purpose is twofold: (1) provide our students with unique experiential learning opportunities; and (2) expand their understanding of the STEAM careers of the future. Our instructors are subject matter experts who help guide their exploration by providing them with scenarios and simulations to solve.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

AI tutoring systems spearhead this learning revolution by reimagining the tutoring concept, offering interactive and adaptive learning experiences customized to each individual’s learning capabilities. A significant advantage of AI tutoring systems is the personalized learning experiences they can offer students.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Boston – July 28, 2022 – Two VHS Learning students earned top honors on the 2022 National Latin Exam (NLE), with one achieving a perfect score and earning a gold medal. Both students took VHS Learning’s Advanced Placement® Latin course, which is the equivalent of a first semester college Latin course. About VHS Learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2021

Hybrid-remote learning provides the flexibility and freedom schools, parents, and students need in the current pandemic. In the study, the school employed a classroom setup with the focus on offering all students — whether they were in the classroom or joining online — comparable learning experiences. The model classroom.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2023

Boston – Schools around the world and across the United States have launched partnerships with VHS Learning this year to provide their students with rich, engaging online courses in a variety of disciplines. an accredited private school specializing in blended learning and providing personalized learning experiences.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, has expanded and enhanced its Bell Ringer content with the goal of providing a bell ringer for every day of the school year. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. Bell Ringers are brief conversation starters for use at the beginning of class to get students thinking.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2023

Catholic schools have renewed their partnerships with VHS Learning to provide their students with continued access to high-quality, teacher-led online classes. Catholic schools that have extended their long-time partnerships with VHS Learning for the 2023-24 school year, include: Pope Francis Preparatory School in Springfield, Mass.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Year after year and in study after study, we see the same thing: Confident students are better students. In another survey , this one from 2020, more than 80 percent of students said that the thing they missed most in online learning was being able to see and collaborate with other students and their instructors in person.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Partnering with an experienced provider to offer high-quality online learning is one way traditional schools can give students more options—and it’s an important strategy for attracting and retaining families. Choices in modality Although some students fell behind during the shift to remote learning, others thrived.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. The researchers do think that flipped learning has merit — if it is done carefully.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. Students are simply judged on whether they meet the standard.

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