Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

The traditional flipped classroom model, which reverses the conventional lecture-homework structure, has evolved significantly since its inception. In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Flipped Classroom 2.0:

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

After 13 years of testing higher-order active learning modalities in the classroom, collecting data, building a database, and analyzing student learning results in bi-annual principles of marketing classes, my colleague and I saw two important results emerge.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. This knowledge is deepened by engaging with significant, both contemporary and enduring, real-world problems.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Jeff LeBlanc (image courtesy of Jeff LeBlanc) I’m a business and leadership lecturer, and I’ve worked with Gen Z since the earliest wave entered higher education. The same traits tend to rise to the top: kindness, strong communication and knowledge/expertise. It’s a neat storyline — and it makes for a great headline.

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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. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. With transparent directions, every student knows exactly what to do.

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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. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Assume that students are capable and possess knowledge and skills. Refer to people how they refer to themselves.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

As scholar-teachers, we know that the habit of reflectioncan be a powerful tool for workplace learning and performance, which can separate high-performance professionals from mediocre ones. However, we are often unaware of tacit knowledge that underlies our activities and actions, especially when things do not go as planned.

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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. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led. With transparent directions, every student knows exactly what to do.

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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. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods. That class always has a wait list now.”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

that comprise of a lot of traditional lecturing. What college instructors are needed for, he said, is to motivate our students to learn. We cannot compete with the other resources available to our students in our fundamental content knowledge. Our role is to inspire our students to learn that content. Saucier, Ph.D.

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Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

We have all seen the stereotypical portrayal of the traditional school setting where a teacher stands at the front of the classroom and spends the entirety of class time giving a lecture and asking questions of the students. No matter how interesting the teacher, sometimes it can be hard for students to focus for very long on a lecture.

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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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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Build up foundational knowledge 4. Build a learning team 11.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

Your ringtone blasts in class, or you start snoring mid-lecture? It includes 20 prompts that help students learn Spanish and immerse themselves in the culture. Bite into these delicious Would You Rather food questions Teenagers are roaming vending machines of knowledge. Skip deodorant for a day or realize your shoes dont match?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

I had a very knowledgeable teacher, but lecture slides were available online, and they covered almost all of the material for the course. 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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Public school districts can move to online learning in incremental steps — just one day a week. These days it seems most school-wide blended learning programs are taking place not in traditional public education, but in charter schools—for one big reason: Charter schools are able to essentially start from scratch.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

I like to compare the teacher’s work designing learning experiences to the work of an architect. In my new book with Dr. Katie Novak, UDL and Blended Learning , I share a story about working with an architect to design a new home after my family lost our house in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. 1 Get To Know Your Students.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. There is often a tension created by the pressure put on teachers to cover content with the student-centered approach to learning described by UDL and blended learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options , educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning. What’s the Use of Lectures? In his 1971 book “ What’s the Use of Lectures?

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Teachers Find their Role as Designer of Learning Experiences Cognitively Engaging. In my research on teacher engagement in blended learning environments, the most significant factor impacting cognitive engagement was a teacher’s work as a designer of learning experiences. Teachers as Architects of Learning Experiences.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2021

You might feel that way about Brilliant –a site that helps users learn not through lecture videos, but through hands-on, interactive learning. It also provides instant feedback so that learners can improve their knowledge through problem solving. In all, 8 principles guide the learning offered on Brilliant.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2018

Rather than watch a lecture in class and complete homework at home, students would watch a video lecture at home and do the “homework” in class. Students are still learning via direct instruction, still having to work outside of school on their own time, and still receiving virtually the same pedagogy.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2024

As educators, our responsibility lies not only in disseminating knowledge but also in understanding and accommodating the diverse learning styles present among our students. Learning styles refer to the preferred methods individuals use to absorb, process, and retain information.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

As the landscape of education continues to evolve in response to global disruptions and digital advancements, blended learning models have surged in popularity. Moreover, the pacing of these live presentations is unlikely to accommodate all students’ learning needs. Some teachers do not assign homework.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2018

Ubiquitous access to technology means that acquiring knowledge is no longer dependent solely on a classroom teacher. Consequently, students are not interested in sitting through lectures only to be required to regurgitate information back to the teacher on a test. The case for blending and online learning.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Gabriele Pinto , Baylor University Key Statement: Implementing elements of active learning into a large course may seem daunting task, but think-pair-share aided by quizzing and clickers can be done in any size classroom. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Image courtesy of This Is Engineering, Unsplash.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

Key points: A love of learning can lead to a lifetime of learning How to use PBL with makerspaces across your curriculum Here’s how schools can better support neurodiverse students For more news on instruction, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Curiosity is a fountain of opportunity for all educators.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2020

AuraNexus has partnered with the Marymount School of New York to debut its EdTech interactive video platform providing students and teachers with personalized learning at scale. The goal here is to empower students to be curious and learn without limitations. What we are doing now is only scratching the surface,” said Kimmel.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

There is no question that edtech has brought new ways to support the learning process and was used extensively by schools to connect remotely to students who could not attend classes in-person during the worst parts of the pandemic. The data on this is clear.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In fact, many district technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. Imperative 2: Raise the bar with rigorous, transformative, and innovative learning and skills. Schools need to throw out that.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

Districts and schools are increasingly adopting active learning practices in order to address businesses’ demand for employees capable of creative and collaborative work. However, research shows that the physical space that supports active learning is quite different from one designed for lecture-focused teaching.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation K-12 learning solutions leader, is excited to introduce Savvas PathMaker, a brand-new, all-in-one solution for college and career readiness that gives students a head start on post-high school success.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

There is a dearth of evidence to help teachers make informed choices on how to allocate time to asynchronous vs. synchronous online learning. By looking at research into online learning and human development, we can begin to grapple with the advantages and disadvantages of each approach. Let’s start with the basics.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

First, let’s establish the value of the flipped classroom in case you have never used this blended learning model. Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., They can pause, rewind, or rewatch a video.

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