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4 Critical Characteristics of High-Quality Instructional Content

Edsurge

Teachers Know Best: What Educators Want from Digital Instruction Tools. Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. In fact, whereas teachers’ use of textbooks remained approximately the same from 2015 to 2017, their use of digital resources for standards-aligned teaching greatly increased.

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Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds

The Hechinger Report

One of the most popular English lessons in the instructional marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers is a unit on how to teach William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” and claims to explain how to teach the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers in a fun-filled way while hitting almost 50 Common Core standards in five weeks.

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Rationalizing Those 'Irrational' Fears of inBloom

Hack Education

This article first appeared on Points, a Data & Society publication in February 2017. ” “The promise was that [inBloom] was supposed to be adaptive differentiated instruction for individual students, based on test results and other data that the states had. That’s what made inBloom revolutionary.”

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