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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling. Graham, S., & Hebert, M. Kiuhara, S. A., & MacKay, M.

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Data really is the secret sauce in the K-12 classroom

eSchool News

This is especially true with literacy, where it’s all too easy to lose track of student progress and performance as students make their way through elementary and middle school. Knowing this, we opted to pilot the Lexia Core5 Reading adaptive blended learning literacy program a few years ago.

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Florida Department of Education Approves Lexia Learning for ELA Intervention Courses

eSchool News

BOSTON (June 8, 2021) – Lexia Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, announced today that Florida’s Commissioner of Education has approved Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) as curriculum in elementary intervention courses. K-12 English language arts materials were the focus of the 2020-2021 year.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. For educators that may mean working with students in a face to face, elearning, or a blended environment. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible.

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How Districts Can Develop a Comprehensive Plan for Remote Learning Come Fall

Edsurge

The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. Staggering student schedules helps with social distancing, but class sizes in Clark County were as high as 40 in some elementary schools before the coronavirus emerged.

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Districts Leverage $300,000 Matching Grant Program to Improve Flexible Learning and Address Social Justice

eSchool News

The priority focus areas are student engagement, responsive and inclusive teaching and learning, and meeting all learners’ needs. Provo City School District , Utah — Improve literacy outcomes for students in K-3 through 1:1 coaching for teachers and leaders at four elementary schools. About BetterLesson.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. In mid-March 2020, schools in Lindsay Unified shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic.