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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

Video puts the student in control of the pace at which they consume and process new information. Students have more control over the way information is presented in a video. Screencastify allows you to insert multiple-choice questions to check for understanding and collective formative assessment.

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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. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016).

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Strengthening Schools’ Writing Instruction Through the Use of Data

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Yet writing well has become an increasingly important 21st century skill due to online college and job applications, as well as the reliance on email and collaborative documents in many 21st century careers. Informing the Instruction of Writing. Compiling and Using Data About Writing.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Engagement

Catlin Tucker

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Engagement.

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Technology Removes Obstructed Writers’ Barriers to Learning

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High school senior at Newton North High School in Newton, MA, Yishai Barth, feels strongly about the importance of Universal Design Language (UDL). According to CAST, the association working to increase opportunities for everyone to learn, the way we all absorb information is as unique as our fingerprint.

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Embrace Flexibility with Universally Designed Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

This works particularly well for a series of stations designed to help students review key vocabulary, concepts, or skills before an assessment. Teachers may also use formative assessment data to identify a “must-do” station for each student and ask them to start the rotation at their “must-do” station.

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Choice Boards: Benefits, Design Tips & Differentiation

Catlin Tucker

These choices can help us universally design learning experiences that strive to remove barriers and invite students to decide how to engage with information, make meaning, and demonstrate their learning. As students prepare for an assessment, create a board with activities that target key vocabulary, concepts, and skills.