Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

This article will share practical tips to help faculty support their wellbeing and improve student engagement in the online environment, especially at the stressful end of a semester. A focus on engagement is a beloved concept that educators have embraced for decades.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 30, 2025

It provides noncredit-bearing instruction that is directly aligned to students’ academic IEP goals , typically in areas like reading, writing, or math. Instruction is delivered synchronously, in-classroom by certified virtual special education teachers, either in a 1:1 setting or in a small group of up to four students.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Shift to a student-centered classroom 8. Reward the journey, not the result How to Identify Reluctant Learners What Does Student Engagement Look Like? Create an engaging learning environment for all abilities 1. Begin with a fresh start No student wants to enter your classroom with their reputation already on your mind.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 12, 2025

Some guests might read a picture book, share a hobby, discuss their career, etc. Once the notes are ready, you can buy local postcards or allow your students to design their own. As the postcards arrive, read them together. Discuss what your students have learned about the other communities, compare traditions, landscapes, etc.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. Why Online Student Engagement Matters Online learning offers a host of unique opportunities that empower students to learn in ways that work best for them.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

These platforms allow students to practice skills at their own pace while giving teachers real-time insights into their progress. Whether its reinforcing math concepts, improving reading comprehension, or learning a new language, these resources make learning more engaging and effective.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 18, 2025

Be Present and Participate When it comes to online professional development programs, it’s easy to treat them like background noise while you get your chores done or grade papers. But if you really stay present and actively participate in the program, you’ll get so much more out of it. That’s the point, isn’t it?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 18, 2025

Veterans Day Craft in English and Spanish Manualidad del Día de los Veteranos By Bilingual Scrapbook Grades: K-2nd Available in both English and Spanish, this resource allows students to create a pants-and-boots craft, explore pages about the different branches of the military, or participate in writing prompts.

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k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

School leaders can support this safety by co-creating group agreements that promote active listening, confidentiality, and respectful participation. Reading texts from underrepresented voices or analyzing real-world issues through a critical lens helps normalize equity conversations.

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k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

School leaders can support this safety by co-creating group agreements that promote active listening, confidentiality, and respectful participation. Reading texts from underrepresented voices or analyzing real-world issues through a critical lens helps normalize equity conversations.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on innovative ways to engage students, digital resources, and online and hybrid learning strategies related to post-pandemic teaching. 1: Teacher-student relationships. 4: Hands-on learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As classroom teachers, one of the many challenges we face is student engagement. With the changing landscape of education, how do we keep students focused and provide them with a foundation to learn our varied subject areas? What is student engagement? Before we begin, let’s define student engagement.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

NEW YORK — North Carolina Virtual Academy (NCVA) and 3P Learning announced new results from an online summer learning camp focused on improving reading proficiency among third grade students. The camp also yielded noteworthy results on the DIBELS 8th Edition Reading Assessment.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Here are 5 must-read stories about digital learning trends and developments to help your school leadership team determine which digital learning resources and edtech tools can best benefit students: 1. In an AI-driven world, how can students maintain their own voices?

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Online discussions offer an avenue to connect students online and facilitate knowledge construction; however, many teachers are frustrated by a lack of student engagement online. In training sessions, teachers often ask, “How can I increase engagement and participation in synchronous online discussions?”

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2024

Wisconsin is creating a new literacy office and hiring reading coaches. Dozens of states are moving to align their teaching practices with the science of reading, a body of research on how children learn that emphasizes explicit phonics instruction alongside helping students build vocabulary and knowledge about the world.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

And almost every conversation I have with educators regardless of whether they are classroom teachers, instructional specialists or administrators is around student engagement. All of them are asking, with some urgency, about how we can boost student engagement under these difficult and fluctuating circumstances.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

If you regularly engage students in discussions about the reading, videos, or current events, leverage your LMS’s functionality to create that experience online. For example, in a real-time class discussion, students share what comes to mind at the moment and only a fraction of the class will likely participate.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2015

.” I count students off by 4, and each group goes to one of the four corners of our classroom to engage in a smaller group conversation. Groups revisit the points made in our online conversations and discuss the reading. This is much harder to do in a whole class conversation with 25 or 30 students competing for air time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

“What we are hearing is students are personally overwhelmed, emotionally overwhelmed—and facing financial hardship, technology issues and difficulties with child care that are preventing them from logging on,” says Tim Renick, founding executive director of the National Institute for Student Success at Georgia State University.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Below are the benefits and challenges of being a student in a whole group lesson. Blended Learning Benefit #1: Student Agency. What: Student agency is the students’ ability to make key decisions in the learning experience. Pain Point: Teachers are frustrated by a lack of student engagement and motivation.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 9, 2020

A big issue for many teachers was a general lack of student engagement online. I cannot say I am surprised given the lack of clarity about expectations for participation online, the “no harm” grading policies adopted by many districts during school closures, and issues around equity and access.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading. These students are often reluctant readers because they find the process complicated, and they lack confidence in their abilities. Educators need creative and authentic ways to engage students in reading without it seeming forced or gimmicky.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

We hear and read a lot about engaging students in technology facilitated learning challenges, but when it comes right down to it, how do we define student engagement, and how do we know what it looks and sounds like? More importantly, how do we know how engaged our students really are.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2020

On any given day, you’ll find Felix and her students using iReady Math, making FlipGrid videos, or participating in a Skype Class virtual field trip to learn from rangers in places like Dinosaur National Monument and Grand Teton National Park. They want to know you can read their writing. They want you to read and rate them.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

As teachers, we know that the physical environment of a classroom can have a significant impact on how students engage with the material and each other. From the color of the walls to the lighting and temperature, every aspect of the room can contribute to a student’s ability to feel comfortable and stay focused.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The Board wanted to help teachers better engage students; to do this effectively, it needed clearer insight into teacher needs. Leveraging its technology investments, OCSB got that insight—as well as a brand new geography curriculum that increased student engagement and collaboration. .

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 13, 2024

What if they don’t understand what they are reading? In addition to those questions, teachers may not want students staring at a screen all class period (legitimate concern!). Note: If your class is not divisible by four, you can strategically pair students for a particular role to provide more peer support.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 25, 2023

Wondering how to get your students upbeat about learning math? According to the study, learners who only received teacher training and did not engage with the online learning tools had poorer achievement scores. Teachers enjoy a boost in student engagement The use of interactive technology helps make lessons fascinating.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

These words, after all, are important to students’ ultimate reading success. Luckily, there is a plethora of best practice research and engaging, tech-enabled activities on teaching high frequency words to help teachers make it both a fun and interesting learning experience for young students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

However, studies suggest that a significant percentage of students feel disengaged in their learning, posing a challenge for educators. As teachers strive to adapt their instructional methods to nurture student curiosity and drive deeper student engagement, the principles outlined in Teach Like A Pirate offer valuable insights.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Eight years ago, our district began training teachers in cooperative learning as a strategy to maximize student engagement. Individual accountability : each student is accountable and cannot hide from the learning. Equal participation : everyone must participate somewhat close to equally.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2024

I was thrilled when these two inspiring educators provided me with an early copy of their book and asked if I would read it and write the forward. They are designed to combine educational technology with specific teaching protocols that promote active learning, student engagement, and collaboration in the classroom.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on student engagement and online or hybrid learning strategies related to pandemic teaching. This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on strategies for impactful remote learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Thorndike Press from Gale, a Cengage company, has teamed up with Beanstack and Mark Cuban to bring schools a national K-12 summer reading challenge, ‘Level Up.’ The challenge was designed to lessen the impact of summer slide and keep students engaged and reading all summer long.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2021

Many schools are opening or converting to hybrid, so in a push for a strong finish, it’s important for educators to keep students motivated during the final stretch. I recently participated in virtual events through my local library for the Big Read celebration.

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