eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

In fact, their national high-dosage tutoring services originated when Maryland district Prince George’s County Public Schools approached Carnegie Learning with a need for remote tutoring in 2020 during school closures, and Carnegie Learning built a tutoring team from scratch. Bilingual and multilingual tutors are available.

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Learning Instructional Materials Professional Learning Meeting 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Only 53 percent of teacher education programs “provide sufficient coverage of early reading components,” the National Council on Teacher Quality found in their 2020 review of elementary teacher training programs. If we are truly to reconsider efforts to improve reading instruction, I offer two ideas.

Instructional Materials 117

Instructional Materials Training Advocacy Elementary 117

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

Five years ago, I ditched whole-class lectures in my fifth grade brick-and-mortar classroom in favor of small group rotations. I taught that way for three years before switching to a model in which I served more like a facilitator for students as they worked through material independently. Consider a flipped classroom approach.

Learning 218

Learning Software Blended Learning Flipped Classroom 218

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Makers of knowledge-building curricula say their lessons are based on research, but the truth is that there is scant classroom evidence that building knowledge first increases future reading comprehension. When schools shut down in the spring of 2020, the researchers scrapped the planned social studies units for second graders.

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Learning Study Elementary Comparison 145

eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Further detail about its development can be found in Digital Promise’s reports, Designing Edtech that Matters for Learning: Research-Based Design Product Certifications (2020) and An Overlooked Indicator of Edtech Quality: The Use of Learning Sciences Research (2022). About 95 Percent Group.

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Competency Based Learning EdTech Instructional Materials Company 62

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2020

based think tank New America , the three authors—an instructional designer and two former teachers—lay out four possible scenarios for what school will look like in the 2020-21 school year, based on present understanding of the COVID-19 virus and health experts’ advice for school re-openings.

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Blended Learning Online Learning Training Guidelines 218

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. 2020 has been called a dumpster fire, the worst year in recent memory, and more. education system.

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EdTech Digital Divide Broadband PresenceLearning 145

ExcelinEd

MAY 12, 2020

for the 2019-2020 school year. The 2019-2020 school year began with business as usual. Review current instructional materials for alignment to state standards and for meeting the criteria for high-quality instructional materials. Missing State End-of-year Assessment Data. Because of COVID-19, the U.S.

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Instructional Materials Assessment Learning Strategy 69

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

September 14, 2020—The New York State Education Department has approved Curriculum Associates as a Continuing Teacher and Leader Education (CTLE) sponsor. Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools.

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Education Instructional Materials Course Data 52

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Kiddom , a startup based in San Francisco, will offer core curriculum materials from the nonprofit publisher on its curriculum management system. Both executives said more specific pricing will be finalized in 2020. The reality, she adds, is that every district prefers to use different tools—digital or otherwise.

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 89

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

It’s that most conversations about a school’s expenses don’t sync up to what’s happening in the classroom—the instruction, materials, and tools that shape the educational experience for teachers and students. The problem is not that these conversations are dry. That’s soon to change. This will not be a trouble-free process.

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Data Program Evaluation Report Instructional Materials 112

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

The process saw education experts review the materials and ensure they aligned with Florida’s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) In addition, each school district superintendent nominated a classroom teacher or district-level content supervisor to perform independent reviews.

Course 104

Course Differentiated Instruction Blended Learning Education 104

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

When students fail a required high school course, they can retake a prepackaged version of it in a classroom or computer lab, clicking through screens and multiple choice questions to “recover” the credit. “I Journalists discovered cheating scandals and evidence of low-quality instructional materials. But there was a downside.

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Software Course Instructional Materials Blended Learning 97

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Avantis Education , producer of ClassVR , demonstrated its AR and VR content along with its ClassVR Premium Headset, designed for classrooms and available in sets of 8 or 30. ClassVR, the company’s solution, is a full turnkey VR and AR offering for classrooms, teachers, and education. Sandbox AR is available for download here.

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EdTech Resources Tools Robotics 135

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Scotty Matthews took a seat on a small bookshelf and peered at a page of poems held by a third-grader in his southeast Alabama classroom. From there, he might work with smaller groups of students on specific skills in the classroom, or literacy coaches will designate some students for outside tutoring — or both. “If

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Training Elementary Groups Report 95

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. AVID also launched a website, “Open Access,” that curates digital instructional materials from nine content providers including Code.org, Microsoft and MIT.

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EdTech Company Training Guidelines 180

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Historically there has been a limit to seamless integration across various technology solutions within today’s classrooms.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

That’s a lesson that the team behind Edmodo, a classroom management and collaboration platform, quickly learned. The most notable is Teachers Pay Teachers, an online destination where educators can sell lesson plans and instructional materials. But a large teacher following is no guarantee of success.

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Pearson Kaplan Company Education 96

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

in English literature and was the lead reviewer in a December 2019 study of online instructional materials. “But you have to have the excitement of digging into the text. ” A majority of the materials were rated 0 or 1 on a 0-3 quality scale. “This is a huge phenomenon that is woefully understudied.

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Study Common Core Company Differentiated Instruction 112

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

Home may be the new classroom, but instructional approaches are slower to change. The new report did a bit of compare and contrast, asking nearly 1,000 K-12 public school teachers in October 2020 the same questions that were asked for the 2018 report while adding a few new ones. Oh, don’t feel bad for Google Classroom.

EdTech 175

EdTech LMS Survey Classroom 175

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 21, 2016

Even the layout of the classroom will look different, he said. Another instructional model, the work of New Classrooms, personalizes middle school math in a way that Gates said is “far more engaging than a typical textbook.” The market for digital instruction materials will likely grow by $1.1

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Industry Personalized Learning Instructional Materials Blended Learning 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

As an integral part of learning today, educators and students deserve new and improved ways to display and interact with classroom content, but to be successful, these tools need to be flexible and user-friendly. Historically there has been a limit to seamless integration across various technology solutions within today’s classrooms.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

Teachers—with the vast majority of schools still organized as one teacher for every 15 to 35 students—mediate students’ classroom experiences in myriad ways. Each prompt offered aligned information sources, and instructional materials and other teacher supports accompanied the tool.

Tools 143

Tools EdTech Instructional Materials Survey 143

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

during the early months of 2020, we all wondered how—or if—students would continue to learn amid the turbulence. Seemingly overnight, educators, parents and edtech companies churned out crisis plans for remote instruction in hopes of carrying on, at the very least, until summer break. But not all hope is lost.

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Data LMS EdTech Accessibility 212

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Ebert, Superintendent of Public Instruction, State of Nevada Department of Education Nominated by: Discovery Education The shift to distance education precipitated by the COVID pandemic highlighted challenges including access to technology, professional learning for educators, and high-quality instructional materials.

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Edmentum Digital Divide Professional Learning Industry 96

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

She harnesses the power of many platforms, devices, and peripherals to offer her students personalized instruction, inclusivity, data-driven feedback, cross-cultural exchanges, and the support of other educators at their school. Joey empowers students and teachers to achieve great success in the classroom and in the future.

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Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 131

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 7, 2021

During a recent edWebinar , sponsored by Scholastic Magazines+ , the presenters offered strategies for helping students ease back into the classroom and get engaged in learning again. However, the pandemic also took away a lot of choice, so look for places in the schedule and the classroom protocols where students get to make some decisions.

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Broadband Instructional Materials System Professional Learning 89

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 14, 2019

According to Kathy Mickey, Senior Analyst of Simba Information, all of these could impact the instructional materials marker. This means that when administrators make purchasing decisions, their goal is to get materials to facilitate learning for all students and their individualized education needs. Report highlights.

Instructional Materials 40

Instructional Materials OER Student Data Privacy Industry 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

Those who have been fighting to reopen schools since Fall 2020 knew that school was essential, that children faced the lowest risk of severe illness, and that children faced the most severe consequences of the prolonged shutdown. What matters next, though, is what happens in after-school and tutoring programs, in homes and in classrooms. “We

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Report System Assessment Instructional Materials 100

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Your classroom libraries, core texts, optional reading, and on-the-fly suggestions have great power in developing your students’ love of reading, leading them to new understanding, and nurturing their empathy. For your classroom libraries and your optional reading list, there should be more flexibility for challenging or more mature books.

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Libraries Handbook Policies Study 93

edWeb.net

MARCH 15, 2021

The 2020 Teaching K-12 Science and Engineering During a Crisis report said 88% of teachers indicated that students spent less time learning science remotely than in a face-to-face situation; only 38% had been involved in experiments and investigations while learning remotely. What the Pandemic Revealed: Policy-Level Challenges. Assessment.

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Education Assessment Professional Learning Policies 84