Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2021

Teachers may find the template below a useful resource as they plan their station rotation lessons, especially if they teach online or in a concurrent classroom where the teacher-led stations are likely happening via video conferencing. Math: Station Rotation Ideas. Science curriculum, like math, can be very linear.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 13, 2024

Second, teaching students how to engage with media in a meaningful way can free teachers from the front of the room. What if they don’t understand what they are reading? The reciprocal teaching strategy is one of my favorite ways to drive student engagement around media and provide peer support as they engage with information!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company is excited to announce new and enhanced math and reading solutions that engage and inspire students to learn, while giving educators the evidence-based instructional resources they need to accelerate learning and help all students achieve. “At

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Maybe it’s an early-elementary teacher facilitating small group math learning. And libraries of teaching videos support high-quality and personalized professional learning in a number of ways, too. Teaching video libraries tap districts’ existing expertise. Pick any high-priority instructional initiative in your district.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

This shift has led to the growing adoption of co-teaching models, where general and special education teachers collaborate to meet the diverse needs of their students. First, let’s explore the benefits of using the station rotation model to enhance co-teaching and create more inclusive classrooms.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Our first look at long-term trends in reading and math assessments since the pandemic began affirm what many education professionals were anticipating. . NAEP’s 2022 data shows that “average scores at both grades [eighth and fourth] were not significantly different in comparison to the first reading assessment [20 years prior] in 1992.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Reading, writing, math, art, movement—everything should be taught holistically. We’re also huge believers in hands-on learning: we have about 25 different animals in each building to help us teach life science. The same is true of teaching skills like robotics, coding, and computational learning. It has to happen early.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2025

Key points: Technology works in service of teaching, not the other way around Teaching ethical edtech for future innovators Leveraging edtech to help students, teachers stay connected through illness For more news on AI, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Artificial intelligence brings opportunities and questions to classrooms worldwide.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2020

From the moment I learned to read, I loved it. Sometimes I read to learn. But most often, I read because I love it. The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), otherwise known as The Nation’s Report Card, indicates that students scoring in the lowest percentiles in reading and math are dipping noticeably.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Math is a fundamental part of K-12 education, but students often face significant challenges in mastering increasingly challenging math concepts. Many students suffer from math anxiety, which can lead to a lack of confidence and motivation.

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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. References: Caine, R. McClintic, C., & Klimek, K. link] Gozuyesil, E., & Dikici, A.

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eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2021

In the last year alone, the company has made more than 100 new enhancements to the online program–including adding more than 170 new reading and math lessons and 160-plus lessons in Spanish.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) is supporting the creation of powerful tool suites that can enhance the teaching and learning process, it seems reasonable to identify some ways that teacher assistants can use these tools as well. The nationwide shortage of teachers has caused a similar shortage in the ranks of teacher assistants.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

We asked educators to share their views about teaching and learning in 2025 (find industry predictions for 2025 here ). By embracing interdisciplinary learning, NGSS weaves math, language arts, and social science concepts into the science classroom, creating a richer, more connected educational experience for students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. So I feel like I have to apologize: Sorry, Im talking to you about math. Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject. Math As Humanities?

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2025

And yet, we are facing yet another heartbreaking report on student performance in reading. While most, if not all, of these are likely factors, and the analyses of why will continue, the prominent question for many of us is: Why, with so many states now signed on to the science of reading, do we still have this significant literacy crisis?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The 90-minute Science of Reading-based training is now available for download at no cost to teachers, administrators, tutors, and other teachers of reading. The 90-minute Science of Reading-based training is now available for download at no cost to teachers, administrators, tutors, and other teachers of reading.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Key points: All students are math language learners, regardless of their home language Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs How to support multilingual learners in STEM For more news on language learners, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Math isnt just about numbers. Post the terms on math walls.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

Games are part of many people’s lives–so why not use them to benefit students when teaching? There are a variety of reading and math apps and websites that cater to gamification, and even provide the opportunity for differentiation. Let’s start off with reading apps and websites.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s using robot arms to make french fries, so even a job as straightforward as fry cook will be performed by a human-robot team–even if the human’s part is only maintaining the robot.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Complex Problem Solving: Tasks that involve higher-order thinking and problem-solving, such as math word problems, scientific experiments, or coding projects, often require different amounts of time for students to analyze, understand, and solve. I’ve built project playlists, close-reading playlists, and writing playlists.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Students, too, interact with data daily, whether analyzing graphs in math class or using feedback from educational platforms to guide their learning. Data literacy in a school context means more than reading charts or calculating averages. You dont need to be a data scientist to teach data literacy. The same goes for students.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. You don't become a skilled mountain climber by just reading or watching others climb. And that's how people learn math.

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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2024

Students’ academic achievement and test scores remain flat or tend to drop during summer break, with greater losses in math than in reading, according to research by Meghan Kuhfeld, PhD, a research scientist for the Collaborative for Student Growth at NWEA and Andrew McEachin, PhD, director of the Collaborative for Student Growth at NWEA.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

While novels are engrossing for some students, teachers who use a variety of texts and media sources engage more students and address a broader range of topics and reading standards. These connections make students more interested in the stories they read, enhancing their overall classroom engagement.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2020

As a language arts teacher at a partial STEM Magnet middle school in Southern Georgia, I have the opportunity to teach an amazing group of students; their willingness to expand their educational horizons amazes me every day. So, how do I keep my math, science, and STEM-minded students engaged in the language arts?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As the back-to-school season unfolded in New York, the city’s teachers set up their classrooms how they usually do: by putting up posters, reading through curriculums, sharpening pencils, and, for roughly a decade , charging Chromebooks. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. newsletters.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

The pandemic has put students well behind in their education, with millions of children achieving below grade level in reading and math. students in grades 3-8 revealed that reading and math test scores dropped significantly from fall 2019 to fall 2021. A study by the Brookings Institution of data from 5.4 million U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. Common Core–Math Lesson Plans 141 pages, 20 projects, over 114 Common Core standards, for K-8. Common Core–Math Lesson Plans 141 pages, 20 projects, over 114 Common Core standards, for K-8.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

Cabin John MD – Early learning leader, Learning Without Tears, today affirmed that equity and access are at the core of Phonics, Reading, and Me —its K–3 supplemental literacy program designed to help students learn the skills they need to become proficient readers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Not only does this affect their ability to communicate effectively, it also affects their reading skills, because writing and literacy are closely linked. Writing improves students reading fluency. What systematic writing instruction looks like Learning how to write should go hand-in-hand with learning how to read.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

These experiences have been the best thing to happen to my teaching practice. I simply cannot get enough of new teaching ideas and technologies. I always search out ways to present math vocabulary to my students in innovative ways at these events, and identify what I can take back to share with my students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. But in 2024, reading scores declined even more for both fourth and eighth graders. newsletters.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Yet, professional development is often overlooked and considered an afterthought—especially with pressing concerns around students’ mental health and well-being, gaps in reading and math skills, and so much more. When a teacher watches themselves teach through video, they often notice things they missed in real-time.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2023

The Georgia Department of Education (GA DOE) recently added the Classworks Reading Universal Screener assessment to two state-approved lists. The Classworks screener is now approved by the state as a Universal Reading Screener and a Qualified Dyslexia Screening Tool for Grades K–3.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2022

Yet, professional development is often overlooked and considered an afterthought—especially with pressing concerns around students’ mental health and well-being, gaps in reading and math skills, and so much more. When a teacher watches themselves teach through video, they often notice things they missed in real-time.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

When teachers turn a lesson or tough-to-teach concept into a motivational gamed or use a fun competition to teach new concepts, students become immersed in their learning and are often more engaged–meaning they’re more likely to retain information. Discover how she integrates these gamified tools into her classroom.

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