eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

. — IXL , the personalized learning platform used by more than 14 million students, announced that it has been added to Utah’s K-12 Math Personalized Learning Software Grant list by the state’s STEM Action Center.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

Let’s say the objective of a learning cycle is to help students to craft a strong argument, compare and contrast a plant and an animal cell, or use the formula for volume to solve real-world math problems. Second, once they have their target standards or skills, we craft clear learning objectives.

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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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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 4, 2024

In my last blog post, Using the Station Rotation Model in Math , I wrote about the benefits of shifting from a whole group, teacher-led lesson design to small-group differentiated instructional sessions. Math is no different! When coaching teachers, I encourage them to consider a math journal at that offline station.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Albuquerque Public Schools is focusing on grant writing and lesson planning. With Gemini’s help, the district won four grants totaling $100,000, all by using Gemini to aid in grant research and writing. Teachers can use Gemini to create personalized lesson plans in a much shorter amount of time.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

How can we create a learning environment where each student feels confident applying the knowledge and skills they’re acquiring? These activities can also be used to encourage collaboration and communication as students work with peers, which can result in the development of interpersonal skills.

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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. Write the terms on a whiteboard.

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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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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

Yet, reading is like any skill that we can improve with practice. In their new book, Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making , my friend, Jay McTighe , and his co-author, Harvey Silver , write about an active reading strategy that encourages students to engage with texts before, during, and after reading.

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Tunstalls Teaching Tidbits

JUNE 1, 2025

Differentiated Skill Pages for Math and Literacy Looking for a simple, effective way to keep learning engaging throughout the school year? The Monthly Skill Pages Bundle was created with busy teachers in mind, offering differentiated skill pages for K-2: Seasonal math and literacy.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. It’ll start with a plot of land and students will write the story, cast the characters, create the entire 1776 world. Game playing develops reading skills. On the surface, it’s not so surprising. That’s fun.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

With Immersive Reader, they go back day after day, and then they get mad at you when the project is over because they want more time to add to their writing. We sat down with Felix to learn exactly how Immersive Reader helps her students and why it’s led them to demand more reading and writing time. They want you to read and rate them.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2020

While most of my students choose to come to our school because we focus on math, science, and STEM—the subjects they enjoy—I am tasked with helping them develop their reading and writing skills. So, how do I keep my math, science, and STEM-minded students engaged in the language arts?

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Students are grouped based on their skill or ability levels and rotate through all the stations. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels. Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Using AI to Generate Pre-Assessments Imagine a high school math teacher is about to embark on a new unit about algebraic equations. Will the AI-generated questions effectively gauge students’ knowledge and skills related to the subject or topic? How reliable is the data generated by the AI tool? MagicSchool.ai

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Her diverse background in teaching writing, science and coding positioned her well to participate in the Project Topeka pilot, a multifaceted AI program that gave real-time feedback to students to support the development of argumentative writing skills. Through this writing process, they can have their own epiphanies.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

So, where does this come into play for me as a math teacher? For as long as I can remember, I have loved everything about math—especially teaching young people and seeing the lightbulb come on in their eyes. But, sadly, after 20 years teaching math to middle and high schoolers, I have experienced the pain of watching students struggle.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The global health crisis forced students out of the physical classroom and into a new virtual world for nearly two grades, and their initial homework and test scores reveal a significant decrease in knowledge transfer, social skills, and core learning habits across a variety of subjects.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

When it comes to math, students are struggling. The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. That has consequences.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2022

When coding merges with storytelling, you have story coding, in which students use computational skills and design thinking as they demonstrate creativity across core curricular areas. Teachers can use story coding to bring history, science, world languages, ELA, and even math into their lessons.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Looking at these projects, it’s clear that some kids have been so motivated to make beautiful graphs that they’re going out to learn math that most kids don’t learn until college,” says von Oy. “We These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. Math isn’t just the regurgitation of formulas.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

The ability to think about what we are learning, how we are learning, what we want to learn in the future are important skills that must be explicitly taught in classrooms. Teaching metacognitive skills that encourage students to become more aware of their learning can help them shift from passive to active participants in the classroom.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 12, 2016

There are several different approaches to designing a choice board, but the goal is to allow students an opportunity to select the activities they will complete to practice a skill or demonstrate understanding. Teachers can organize a choice board so that each column focuses on a particular skill or standard.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. We want a curriculum to be multidimensional—to have kids experience maths in lots of different ways.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

True leadership involves not only encouraging teachers to reconnect with their purpose but also ensuring that they are seen, heard and supported, writes Ryan Burns, an instructional coach and adjunct professor in Warwick, Rhode Island, and a 2024-2025 fellow of the EdSurge Voices of Change Writing Fellowship.

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eSchool News

JULY 30, 2024

Putting the ‘E’ in integrative STEM instruction For more news on STEAM, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub According to the National Math and Science Initiative , STEM education helps students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, fosters communication, and bolsters teamwork.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Key points: Asking the right questions is more than just a skill–its a mindset We are all digital immigrants now 25 AI predictions for 2025 For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Several years ago, during a flight from Houston to Paris, I had a conversation with the CEO of a prominent Houston-based company.

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From the Pond

MAY 26, 2025

Looking for a low-prep, high-impact math warm-up that gets your students talking, thinking, and collaborating? This activity is simple to set up, fun for students, and packed with opportunities for meaningful math talk. It also uses just a few materials from your Math Kitmaking it easy to weave into your daily math routine.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

” Our classrooms are composed of diverse groups of students with different skills, abilities, preferences, language proficiencies, and academic needs. Differentiated Learning Needs: In a class with diverse skill levels, a teacher uses assessment data to identify critical areas where individual students need extra support.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. What makes someone admirable?

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

These arent just digital skillstheyre life skills. They begin tackling real problems, building research skills, and learning how to think for themselves. They learn that math isnt just numbersits problem-solving. Whats remarkable is how seamlessly all of this blends with the schools academic rigour.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2020

Osmo’s latest parent survey reinforces what most parents already knew–that coding skills and STEAM education are a desirable means to future-proof kids and will help them become successful. retail; kids 6 to 10; VIDEO ); and Little Genius Starter Kit + Early Math Adventure ($119.99 million homes. workbooks, flashcards).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

In recent years, the focus in math education has shifted from the traditional priority of answering the problem to one of understanding and articulating the process. And high school math teacher Krystina Wood might have discovered the secret sauce to do just that. Math is moving away from “kill and drill.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2023

Classworks has cut their IEP writing time in half!” ‍ How it Works The comprehensive SPED solution has always included reading and math assessments validated by the National Center on Intensive Intervention (NCII) to identify present levels of performance by domain.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you then encourage students to research topics that interest them, they’ll be even more motivated to read and write–and they may even have some fun. Helping students uncover their passions I once had a student who insisted on writing her research paper on body piercings.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Creativity is an essential skill for all students to have. This builds emotional development and lifelong skills that will help them in any future career they may have. Why creativity? Creative projects help students connect new information to prior knowledge through critical thinking and problem solving.

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