article thumbnail

ThinkCERCA Raises $10.1 Million to Build Critical Thinkers, Readers and Writers

Edsurge

This framework informs how ThinkCERCA designs its literacy instructional materials and lessons. Teachers can choose a lesson in the program, which guides students through a multi-step process to analyze the reading materials and write a response essay. That’s a mistake, she believes.

article thumbnail

3 Tips for Easily Implementing Social-Emotional Learning – by John Gamba

ViewSonic Education

Sixty-three percent said the use of video helped increase the relevancy and quality of instructional materials. 2 Ensure SEL Curriculum is Based on Industry-Recognized Academic Standards. Most of them claim some kind of pedagogical or academic alignment. Pedagogical alignment is equally critical.

Learning 392
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

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

article thumbnail

Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

Edsurge

A follow-up post will explore what’s changed (or not) on the supply side—both industry and investment. The State of the K-12 Sector The edtech boom of the past two decades promised efficacy and new instructional models. Many teachers instead experience it as “clutter.”

article thumbnail

Standardized tests in their current format are ‘incredibly antiquated’

The Hechinger Report

” Sternberg said the answer is to push the testing industry, which “has been so uncreative and doing the same thing for over a century,” to use “problems that look anything at all like the problems we face in our lives.”.