Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. The accuser needs to support a claim about cheating with evidence that cheating occurred.

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k12

JUNE 10, 2025

First, I love my teachers and value their expertise. I wanted a school where I could reach my full academic potential with good teachers who would challenge me and grow with me. My teachers are where my success starts. My Teachers & Classmates How do your teachers support you in online school?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

But “there’s an even more basic level of literacy that people need to pick up,” notes the former English teacher and administrator. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes. What we’ve found to be one of the biggest challenges is to help teachers teach writing.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

In more traditional K-12 public schools on the other hand, there’s a long history of the way teachers teach and the way students learn—stretching back to the 19 th century—that can make innovation difficult. And when the teacher can provide more options than one large group activity, what sorts of deep, authentic learning can occur?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The move to digital textbooks and resources is spreading as more companies partner with open education efforts. More than 100,000 teacher-created digital textbooks are now available online through the CK-12 Foundation’s free STEM content and tools platform. Digital Learning and Tools News STEM Top News'

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2015

Expecting teachers to go it alone hurts school improvement. The myth that good teachers have the Midas touch and therefore don’t need curriculum programs has been around for decades. This myth paints teachers as curricular experts who are best positioned to create instructional plans tailored to particular students.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

They must be willing to invest the time and resources necessary to support teachers as they critically examine and develop their practice. Traditional curriculum—not surprisingly—has promoted a direct instructional model in which the teacher or text is the ultimate source of knowledge.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2015

The move to digital textbooks and resources is spreading as more companies partner with open education efforts. More than 100,000 teacher-created digital textbooks are now available online through the CK-12 Foundation’s free STEM content and tools platform. website traffic) to No.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Following a comprehensive evaluation, the Oklahoma State Textbook Committee has unanimously approved the Elementary and Middle School editions of Discovery Education’s Science Techbook for statewide use as core instructional resources. Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

A shortage of trained teachers in Oregon is leaving school districts short-handed, so replacements without educational backgrounds are being recruited from other professions to fill the gap. This school year at Umatilla School District, two science teachers are embarking on a new career after years of real-world experience in the subject.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. But Barclay — a former Virginia math educator of the year — thought back to his own experience with a discouraging middle school teacher and decided to think through what the student was saying rather than dismiss it.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Teachers often focus on what students will learn during a lesson. ” This is a critical question that teachers should ask themselves as they design the parts of their lesson. In my previous post, I focused on strategies teachers can use before a lesson to assess prior knowledge. Post a Picture on Padlet.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

When I was growing up, I assumed that my teachers knew everything, including all of the “right answers.” Now that I’ve been a teacher for 15 years, I know this simply isn’t true. Having used OpenSciEd for five years now, I’m confident that I’ll never go back to teaching with a traditional textbook.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

As a fourth-grade English/language arts and social studies teacher in an elementary collaborative learning magnet program–which is also a NASA Explorer School–I get the challenge of unlocking the minds of 9- and 10-year-olds who are more at home in the STEM subjects than in exploring literature or our country’s history.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

And for many teachers, the ongoing collision of racial, economic and health crises provide a visceral backdrop to such lessons. Berry is the CEO of Composer , a civics education project that aims to help teachers find, combine and share resources to create engaging lesson plans for students.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

These subject area products make it possible to make tight budgets go further while addressing the specific needs of core content area teachers and facilitating an enhanced search experience. This new focus enables Actively Learn to better address the distinct needs of ELA, social studies, and science teachers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2020

Long gone are the days when librarians were simply the “keeper of books,” and the administrators who have grown to realize this have found it much easier to accomplish their strategic vision by mobilizing this dedicated and knowledgeable part of their staff. Here’s how many are doing it.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2018

Is it by asking them to passively read a textbook or listen to a teacher lecture? We want to increase their knowledge, skills, and interest in STEM, and balance student-centered teaching with state and national standards. In our middle and high schools, students work with their teachers to choose their projects.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2019

The fast pace of innovation makes it an ongoing challenge for teachers to stay on top of the latest developments, so they can include the newest topics in their curriculum, particularly in the areas of science, technology, and engineering. The session was offered as part of a grant that Atlantis Charter School in Fall River, Mass.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2023

During a session at FETC 2023 , Samuel explored how blockchain can be used in real world to solve problems like knowledge gaps, student motivation, attendance, teacher compensation. If you aren’t there, you can’t learn what you need to learn and build on previous knowledge. Each time a student shows up, they earn points.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

Long gone are the days when librarians were simply the “keeper of books,” and the administrators who have grown to realize this have found it much easier to accomplish their strategic vision by mobilizing this dedicated and knowledgeable part of their staff. Here’s how many are doing it. Librarians are ninjas in digital citizenship.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Under these more rigorous standards, students are expected to read more complex texts and reach greater depths of knowledge than before. Teachers use this information to differentiate instruction in small group settings in order to enrich, remediate, or reinforce grade-level skills. 60” referred to the same number.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

Hilight , New Orleans, LA Hilight empowers teachers and school staff to post highlights and share the many small wins happening across their schools and districts every day. Hilight helps users capture the meaningful moments that often go unnoticed to enhance educator satisfaction, well-being, collective teacher efficacy, and retention.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2018

In the midst of the ed-tech revolution, teachers are need to make informed decisions about what brings value to the classroom. As a geography teacher at Monrovia High School in California, I’m interested in finding ways to prepare students for the 21st century while teaching them about the complexities of the world around us.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

In the classroom, AR technology can enhance learning by providing students with interactive and immersive experiences, improving their understanding of complex concepts and enabling them to apply their knowledge in real-world scenarios. AR lets students see things up close or gather background knowledge of topics; it promotes deeper learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

What we built in was a kind of project-based learning where kids not only have book knowledge, but also learn about real-life activities relevant to that profession and also meet professionals who do such work. When I first started, on July 28, 2014, the superintendent before me had ordered close to a million dollars’ worth of textbooks.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

While classrooms focus on theoretical knowledge, they may fail to prepare students for the real-life challenges they will inevitably face. Marcus’s teachers noticed his improved focus and discipline, which are directly attributable to his work experience. Yet, a vital component of education remains overlooked.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

IXL skills also match popular textbooks used in the state, helping teachers easily incorporate IXL’s curriculum into daily lessons. Action plans link to specific IXL math skills and give teachers a simple way to differentiate instruction, fill knowledge gaps and facilitate meaningful progress.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2019

Outdated instructional practices and a lack of standards have made it difficult for teachers to easily incorporate this crucial topic in the classroom. In previous years, I focused solely on topics out of a textbook. Effective and accessible financial education has historically been absent in U.S. Having a pedagogically sound approach.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Chalkboards, heavy textbooks, and other analog tools of the past have no place in today’s schools. School administrators should be continually on the lookout for emerging technologies that can increase student engagement, retain knowledge, and make learning more accessible. Hybrid classes offer numerous benefits.

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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. History can be so vast, one concern that always weighs heavily on new teachers is getting through all the content for everyone. Because the curriculum in a class like AP U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

In response to these new tools becoming available to the public, many teachers found themselves resisting AI, considering the ways in which it could complicate verifying academic honesty in student writing and artwork, acknowledging the inaccuracies that AI can generate, the human biases that impact the dataset AI uses, and more.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In September, a teacher in the Hamshire-Fannett Independent School District, in Southeast Texas, was fired when district leaders learned that an eighth grade class was reading a graphic novel based on the diary of Anne Frank. It was an extreme example of the political strain public school teachers are under from parents and activists.

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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.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

In recent years, educators who want to provide digital content to their students choose among three instructional models: the teacher-directed instructional model, the software-directed instructional model, or a hybrid of the two. Teacher-directed Instructional Model In this model, teachers create the curriculum themselves.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 260

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

Instead of forbidding generative AI tools, it’s critical that teachers show students how and when it’s appropriate to use AI in student writing. Then, teachers can demonstrate how and when it’s appropriate for students to use AI to their benefit. MagicSchool.AI offers a tool to make assignments AI-resistant.)

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