article thumbnail

Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016). Writing-to-learn activities incorporated in math, science, and social science improved the quality of learning in those subjects (Graham, Kiuhara & MacKay, 2020). Plus, it works across all subject areas! Graham, S., & Hebert, M. Kiuhara, S.

Classroom 259
article thumbnail

More than a passion project, literacy advocacy takes a village

eSchool News

I had retired at the end of the 2020 school year and had been praying for God to show me my next adventure.” So, Cox began organizing the books into a library and established a Makerspace for the students at Youth Haven. .” ” Teaching students to read happens in the classroom and library every day.

Advocacy 125
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

ACT Says Grade Inflation Is a Serious Problem. It’s Probably Not.

Edsurge

in 2010 to 3.36 The implication is that students are not learning as much as their transcripts indicate, hampering their ability to succeed in challenging environments after high school. The report examined data from more than 4 million high school students from 2010 to 2021 who took the ACT. grade points, from 3.17

Policies 152
article thumbnail

Blended Learning Best Practices (with Catlin Tucker) – SULS085

Shake Up Learning

That applies to teachers feeling that they have the professional latitude to make the decisions they think are right for their students and their subject area. And for students as well, giving them more voice and choice in their learning. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2010 in Sonoma County, where she taught for 16 years.

article thumbnail

A little-known program has lifted 9th grade performance in virtually every type of school

The Hechinger Report

An impressive track record of hard evidence has made it the only program to earn three levels of competitive grant funding from the federal government since 2010. Since 2010, its creator, Angela Jerabek, has sought research support to test the BARR program in other schools. But you’ve probably never heard of it.

Meeting 108
article thumbnail

What Makes the BARR Program Effective in Helping Ninth Graders in Virtually Every Type of School?

MindShift

An impressive track record of hard evidence has made it the only program to earn three levels of competitive grant funding from the federal government since 2010. Since 2010, its creator, Angela Jerabek, has sought research support to test the BARR program in other schools. But you’ve probably never heard of it.

Meeting 35
article thumbnail

Flipped learning: Extinct or endemic?

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

Cases and deaths were on the decline, vaccines and boosters were readily available, and so this event was planned to be in person -- it was going to be the first in-person talk I'd given since March 2020, about 10 days before everything shut down. I had been blogging about flipped learning ever since 2010. More learning happened.