Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 18, 2025

Through stories, we model empathy, boundaries, kindness, and even how to navigate tricky moments — all without turning it into a lecture. Books spark conversation, diffuse tension, and help a class of strangers start to become a community.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

UC Riverside found that math and writing skills were lower among the students who graduated from high school during the pandemic than for previous high school graduates. In 2019, before COVID, about 13% of incoming freshmen entered UC Riverside at the lowest math level. Their academic shortfalls and social isolation took a toll.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 25, 2025

Then they make this ludicrous assertion: "The idea of integrating science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) into learning centers is relatively new." It's a game that involves science, technology, engineering, and math, among other things. In fact, almost everything any human has ever learned has come through play.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2015

They can be designed around pre-packaged online curricula or the sorts of adaptive software that are being developed to support learning in math and language arts. If some of the more rote sorts of lessons (think lectures, reviewing math facts, etc.) What other experiences can students have?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A national mathematics panel has not been convened to lay out the science of how students most effectively learn math, but there is a large body of research available. Unfortunately, the math instruction most students receive is not based in the science of math—but it could be. Being Lectured at Doesn’t Work.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2016

However, in high school, my science classes were primarily comprised of lectures and worksheets. Yet, many girls enter my science classes lacking confidence in their abilities or expressing that they’re just “not good at science.”. I, too, used to have that mindset. I enjoyed science in elementary and middle school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Math is everywhere around us, whether we realize it or not. Every time we conduct an internet search, order something online, or automatically get recommendations for products that we are looking for, there is math at play behind the scenes. Where my love of math began. I have been a math educator since my university days.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

. “This course follows a high level curriculum developed in my department to prepare Stanford undergraduate students for math, data science, AI, engineering, and all other quantitative disciplines. They must also submit a recommendation letter from a math instructor, and be under the age of 18.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play. Too often, math teachers present information through lecturing and worksheets to students, forcing learners to decipher the context and usefulness on their own. I mean, its fun!

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2024

The ninth-graders in my classes and the preservice teachers I teach have one thing in common: math has not always come easy for them, and for many in both groups, learning math can be overwhelming. My answer: an immersive, 15-credit-hour semester of math. As Boaler asserts, “Everyone can learn math to high levels.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in subjects like math, reading, and writing. Another may be a natural artist but find abstract math concepts confusing. But we havent gone far enough.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

At times, however, that stone may feel like a boulder, especially to research faculty who are used to delivering lectures and to whom the switch to activity-based learning may seem like a daunting and demanding venture into unfamiliar territory. 2023; Hsu & Goldsmith, 2021; Venus & Sharma, 2024). Two birds with one stone.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

From gamifying popular works of literature, to pitching invention ideas in “Shark Tank” productions, school districts are rethinking how to get beyond homework and traditional lectures to engage students. Though it all can’t be fun and games, even the nuts and bolts of mathematics can be made more captivating.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Yet, most classrooms today are still dependent on live lectures and fixed-paced learning. In my high school math classroom, I struggled to meet my students’ needs using an obsolete, one-size-fits-all instructional model. I learned how to leverage technology to improve the student learning experience.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As highlighted in our report—published by Just Equations and the California Education Learning Lab—forward-thinking math departments across the country are implementing promising instructional approaches to make calculus classes more engaging and effective for students from various backgrounds.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

This is tantamount to a lecture series on anything from space exploration, artificial intelligence, or even telephone scams. Math teachers showed how parabolas were effectively used for space exploration. For example, my 5 th grade math teacher, Mrs. Perkins, identified my affinity for the subject and fostered it.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

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. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models. Its conclusion?

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2025

Many teachers changed their approach, moving from longer lessons and lectures to shorter spurts of content delivery, prompting students to engage with learning materials and demonstrate their learning before moving on. And no look at edtechs evolution post-pandemic would be complete without at least mentioning AI.

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eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

In 2010, my state, Mississippi, joined the growing list of states adopting the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math. Open resources can help design attractive, engaging lessons with a Common Core twist. This academic year has been especially pivotal, as we are now in full implementation.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2017

Although the classic literacy or math center takes time to organize physically in the classroom, technology makes it easy for students to get to work quickly. Technology: The Key Ingredient in Successful Learning Centers.

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eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2024

STEM is incredibly important, specifically for skills like critical thinking and problem solving,” said Dr. Erika Neuman, CEO of iSTEMmentors and a lecturer at the University of Texas at San Antonio, during an ISTELive 24 session. Build, based on design, given certain parameters and a specific set of materials 5.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

My classroom teachers have been so impressed with student engagement with the lock boxes that I have been recruited to help set up math, history, and science lessons using Breakout EDU. Choices in this area address anatomy, order of operations in math, and many other topics.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Between budgetary constraints, bandwidth crunches, and a constantly changing syllabus, teachers have their hands full when it comes to structuring and building their class’s lessons and lectures. By distilling a lecture’s knowledge into a set of handy flashcards, teachers can ensure their students’ progress and performance.

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eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2019

The winning entries will be judged on how well the children’s book series was used to teach subjects such as history, math, and science. The Magic Tree House 2019 Educator of the Year Award honors a teacher who creatively and successfully incorporates Magic Tree House fiction and nonfiction into the classroom curriculum.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Research shows fewer students are starting the year prepared for math and ELA, fewer are on target to learn to read, and there are more gaps in phonics, and sophisticated math skill comprehension. The digital pen allows teachers to enhance lectures and maintain eye contact with students while working remotely.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2025

Chronic absenteeism accounted for 27 percent of the drop in math scores and 45 percent of the decline in reading scores from 2019 to 2022. With lectures recorded and assignments posted online, attending class began to feel optional. During the Covid-19 pandemic, this narrative flipped.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2017

Research has shown repeatedly that humans learn more rapidly and deeply from experiences, rather than from a lecture or a book. However, many institutions struggle with the resources needed to meet this new mandate for personalized instruction, thanks to lack of funding and widespread teacher shortages.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

But despite their best efforts, online learning failed to live up to in-person education, with students whose schools met mostly in person performing significantly better on math and reading tests compared to their peers who received instruction online. But it’s not the fault of teachers – they weren’t trained for remote instruction.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

“After a family discussion, we decided he would repeat Algebra 1 in ninth grade,” Lynem, a journalism lecturer, wrote in CalMatters. When he later won an achievement award in math, Lynem determined that the decision had been a good one. Last July, California adopted a new K-12 math framework.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2024

It’s a game-changing shift,” says Marc Watkins, a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing. New AI tools can make audio recordings of lectures and automatically create summaries and flashcards of the material.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Building skills and confidence As I had hoped, the class learned more efficiently and enthusiastically about STEAM topics through this hands-on learning approach than they would have from my standard PowerPoint presentations and lectures.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

And it's more than just reading and math. But Socrates knew that having a conversation, a dialogue and experience, is so much better than being lectured at. How many times has your audience been lectured at and how much do they remember about the lectures they got? That's not what real learning is about.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2020

You can record lectures. And more lectures. It can be even more nefarious when you’re teaching online because the online world is built to hold and move information. You can share reams of text and bucket loads of data. You can stack links on links on links, embedding hypertexts in between.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

Whether launching school projects, openly exploring math and science concepts, constructing novel inventions or imagining innovative companies; this kind of a space symbolizes birth. In this space, educators are not positioned as lecturers, at the front of a class. A room for adventure. What follows birth?

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

At Purdue University, leaders have famously announced they are installing plexiglass barriers in some classrooms that teachers will stand behind to lecture. And they'll be pretty isolated from each other during the lecture experience. So I was wondering if anyone has really started to rethink lecturing as an effective way of teaching?

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