eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Activities like creating portfolios, writing reflective essays, or presenting on their learning journey can be very effective. Clear communication : Ensure that all stakeholders are well-informed about end-of-year procedures, such as exams, grading, and returning textbooks. Clear communication helps to reduce confusion and stress.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

In language arts classes, students can write papers or create presentations on their laptops, uploading the file to the web to work on at home and at school. The district has also bought digital textbooks in science and social studies classes. In August, CMS finished bringing Wi-Fi to every mobile classroom.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The district turned to IXL because of its ability to align perfectly to Austin ISD’s textbooks and curriculum, plus IXL’s broad range of skills that individualize instruction and empower every student. Austin ISD is the fifth-largest school district in Texas and serves a diverse student body.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

Through this new collaboration, Wilson County educators will, beginning in the 2016-2017 school year, integrate Discovery Education’s Science Techbook (Grades K-12), Social Studies Techbook (Grades 6-8) and Math Techbook (Grades 6-12) into classroom instruction.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 27, 2017

Ask a Tech Teacher guest blogger, Karen Dikson, has put together a collection of online gamified sites that will help your students with their writing: You think the textbooks for today’s generations of students are way more interesting than the once you had? Well, organize a quiz and write the results on the board.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. And they argue that teachers at the college level should now essentially teach the study skills that students might not have learned in school before arriving on campuses. Teaching The Why Sarah Z.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. Students learn best when they study real ballot initiatives during an election year or work with journalism professors to write their own editorials for the local paper. This is especially evident in the elementary grades, which on average only teach social studies 30 minutes a week.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Providing content beyond the typical textbook, Project Imagine allows students to become active participants as they step into the past with compelling primary sources and immersive activities such as 360° virtual-reality explorations, role playing, maps, timelines, decision trees, and opinion polls. Hook & Inspire!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Like how to write an email.” Helping students write and reason clearly, critically and concisely is the central mission at her company, ThinkCERCA. 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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Priceless Ponderings

APRIL 14, 2025

Priceless Ponderings The Best Homeschool Social Studies Curriculum for Busy Parents Finding the perfect homeschool social studies curriculum can feel overwhelming. If you’re a busy parent, you need a curriculum that simplifies your life while making social studies exciting for your child.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

The tests will be device-agnostic, meaning students will be able to complete them at home using computers, tablets or mobile phones , or even write their responses by hand and take a photo of them to submit. That’s the approach the College Board is taking this spring with its adapted AP exams. LA schools did indeed close.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Along the way, there is a heavy focus on writing. Finding time to do that work is even harder.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

These will be beyond what is required of the State or National standards and may or may not align perfectly with the textbooks you use. Students write a short two-four minute piece. You record how much they produced in a minute, how many errors, and possible quantification of how they applied their writing knowledge.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. These seemingly ordinary people made reading, writing, discussion, and debate a part of their everyday lives, knowing they could use their education as a tool to pursue justice.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2021

.” Cultivate literacy skills IXL brings reading, writing and grammar to life for students and helps educators effectively personalize English language arts instruction. IXL’s skills are aligned to content in 21 popular textbooks, making lesson planning easier.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

The increasing availability, accessibility and quality of OER materials offer districts the opportunity to move away from textbook publishers and develop their own curriculum. That can give them pause when it comes to investing in propriety K-12 curriculum products. With OERs, educators can become curriculum makers. Source: EdSurge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2019

Study.com is an online distance learning portal that provides over 70,000 lessons in fifteen subjects (including algebra, calculus, chemistry, macro- and microeconomics, and physics) aligned with many popular textbooks. Resources include not only videos but study tools, guides, quizzes, and more. Sample Lesson Plans.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

Now she returns with three other educators — Fatma Elsamra, math, Reem Fakhry, science, and Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi, social studies — to focus more specifically on the curriculum piece of this work, approaches we can take to integrate Arab narratives into our teaching and curriculum. “They tend to be overlooked. . at that time.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

In an earlier article on computational thinking , I offered teasers of how CT could be integrated into language arts and social studies, in addition to math and science. In a similar vein, another computer scientist, David Jones, famously wrote , “Get your data structures correct first, and the rest of the program will write itself.”

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