eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Available within Discovery Education Experience, the essential companion for engaged K-12 classrooms, this new content supports instruction in a variety of disciplines including ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Careers Exploration.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2024

The culture and climate of the social studies classroom has changed, and the way teachers teach social studies has to change with it. The modern social studies classroom should now be a classroom full of student inquiry and choice.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This quiz is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to ReInvest Social studies is an ever-evolving discipline. Think you’re up to date on the current state of social studies curriculum? Take our quiz, and put your knowledge to the test. Having trouble viewing?

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

Actively Learn, Achieve3000’s research-based, standards-aligned curriculum platform, announces the release of new sequenced curricular units: Actively Learn ELA, Actively Learn Social Studies, and Actively Learn Science. Beginning fall 2020, assignments will be aligned to all state standards for ELA, science, and social studies.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Social studies is poised for a comeback in U.S. While ELA and math priorities have long enjoyed top billing on many district agendas, the importance of investing more in social studies instruction is now coming to the forefront, especially in an era when students are having to decode increasingly complex political and social issues.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2025

Bringing this learning to students offers a unique and individualized experience that equips students with skills and a foundational knowledge of different vocational careers. Theyll get to explore if they want to be an auto mechanic, Howard said.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR) provide deeper engagement, opportunities for collaboration, and hands-on learning that places newly acquired knowledge and skills in context. The app makes complex concepts in algebra, social studies, and ELA more tangible through powerful, interactive visuals.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Creative projects help students connect new information to prior knowledge through critical thinking and problem solving. With the use of technology, students are better able to apply their knowledge in different ways and be creative in their learning. Why creativity? Creativity is an essential skill for all students to have.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This article is part of our upcoming guide, Social Studies: It's Time to Reinvest. What’s at stake in social studies education? The content of modern social studies curricula is highly contested, and evolving rapidly and sometimes radically.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2023

Key points: SEL teaches students to think and behave like healthy, mature adults SEL helps students become better learners and take ownership of that learning Every educator hopes to equip their students with the knowledge they need to thrive as a healthy adult.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR) provide deeper engagement, opportunities for collaboration, and hands-on learning that places newly acquired knowledge and skills in context. The app makes complex concepts in algebra, social studies, and ELA more tangible through powerful, interactive visuals.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR and VR) provide deeper engagement, opportunities for collaboration, and hands-on learning that places newly acquired knowledge and skills in context. The app makes complex concepts in algebra, social studies, and ELA more tangible through powerful, interactive visuals.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Instead of defaulting to translations, it’s important to consider a range of scaffolding strategies that build both language and content knowledge. Social studies Social studies classrooms are vocabulary-heavy and context-dependent, which can pose a challenge for ELLs.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This innovative application allows learners to display their knowledge of history, civics, and social studies, while offering educators and parents a new way to improve student engagement, increase lesson retention, and introduce an exciting alternative to textbooks and Zoom lectures.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

. “Empirical research has shown that students in gamified classrooms tend to participate more actively in lessons, leading to improved academic performance and retention of knowledge” (Dehghanzadeh et al., During a social studies unit on the U.S. While engaging, the free version of Gimkit is quite limited.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2016

MCSD narrowed the gap between its test scores and the state averages on 12 tests this year: third-grade English language arts, science, and social studies. fourth-grade science and social studies. fifth-grade English language arts, math, science, and social studies. eighth-grade social studies.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

The company is offering a limited number of invitations to educators to engage students in knowledge building and understanding through creative agency and inclusion. Through multimedia projects, students assemble language and general knowledge that helps them to become stronger readers, writers, listeners, and speakers.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2024

Because AI machine learning breaks down student learning patterns and habits, the tutoring systems fire off explanations, examples, and practice targeting a student’s most significant areas of need when the software recognizes the student’s knowledge gap or struggles with mastery.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Licensure exams, if rigorous and aligned to the science of reading, can serve as an important guardrail for making sure teachers have this critical knowledge. The majority of states (29 states and the District of Columbia) use “weak” tests that do not signal whether teachers have the knowledge they need to teach students to read.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It was with great trepidation — knowing that I could not live up to this model but wanting to do my best — that I took my job teaching social studies at a small public high school in the Bronx. Watching “To Sir, With Love” was even a course requirement in my teacher residency program.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S. Yet despite my success using reenactments and roleplaying, students routinely arrive in my classroom lacking even a basic understanding of civic principles, constitutional knowledge and U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL’s first-of-its-kind assessment suite works in concert with its math curriculum to give educators real-time insight into performance, pinpoint gaps in knowledge and provide specific next steps to help each student grow. To further target instruction, the diagnostic provides educators with personalized action plans for each student.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2015

With an emphasis on creating connections to elementary science and social studies curricula, the program draws on global and domestic news to build on students’ existing knowledge while introducing new themes and concepts, from countries and cultures, to innovations and discoveries.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Through this partnership, all 33 schools in the district will use IXL to supplement math, English language arts, science and social studies instruction. One of the district’s priorities was to fill knowledge gaps that arose during school closures. Laredo ISD is located in Laredo, Texas , on the border with Mexico.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

IXL is already being used by 1 in 3 students and 88% of school districts in the state to accurately measure performance, close knowledge gaps and facilitate growth. The IXL Diagnostic fills in those gaps: Students spend as little as 10 minutes a week answering questions that reveal their current knowledge levels.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

As part of the collaboration, the state’s second-largest K-12 school system will now use IXL’s award-winning platform district-wide to boost academic achievement in math, English language arts, science, social studies and Spanish. About IXL Learning Currently used by 14 million students and in 95 of the top 100 U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. He has long argued that U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2021

Schools and districts in the state can now support blended learning with IXL and implement the Real-Time Diagnostic to assess students’ knowledge levels in math and reading. Pinpoint knowledge with the Real-Time Diagnostic. The IXL family of products also includes Education.com , ABCya and Vocabulary.com.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To close knowledge gaps and support every student, IXL equips Missouri educators with its award-winning PK-5 ELA curriculum, which personalizes learning and is grounded in the Science of Reading methodology. About IXL Currently used by 16 million students and in 96 of the top 100 U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2024

Ultimately, the group’s common goal is to ensure students aren’t lagging behind a rapidly evolving workforce that is increasingly centered around AI knowledge. Everyone here, from diverse perspectives, recognizes the importance and the critical nature of this technology.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Leveraging the power of technology One tool I’ve used in this journey is Lexia LETRS (Language Essentials for Teachers of Reading and Spelling), a structured literacy training course based on the science of reading that provides knowledge and tools teachers can use with any reading program.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2023

They are building in Minecraft Education to demonstrate skills and knowledge, Brooks said. Building structures or settings can also bring social studies lessons to life. Brooks goes through learning standards to find something that will lend itself well to building in Minecraft. Start small, with teachers and kids.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Designed for family fun, these activities offer engaging and informal learning opportunities that provide the tools and knowledge for kids to grow up knowing how to earn, save, spend, and donate. Created by Jackson Charitable Foundation and Discovery Education, the Cha-Ching Money Smart Kids!

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

IXL offers a comprehensive K-12 curriculum aligned to Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), as well as skill plans that prepare students for the high-stakes STAAR exams and cover the Texas College and Career Readiness Standards. IXL’s TEKS alignment has been independently reviewed by Learning List.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Seventeen characters with diverse backgrounds help students practice speaking skills by engaging with content in academic subjects such as math, science, social studies, and general knowledge. For more information, visit lexialearning.com.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Specifically, district leaders and teachers sought a digital resource aligned to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) standards, supportive of hands-on learning, and accessible to the district’s English Language Learners. Currently, the company’s Social Studies Techbooks are used in middle school classrooms districtwide.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Grounded in the Science of Reading, 95 Phonics Core Program® Word Study, Grades 4 and 5. is a 30-week curriculum designed for daily 30-minute instruction. It contains easy-to-follow instructional dialogue to support teacher-directed phonics instruction.

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