The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Students were also given related books to read during the summer.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Instructional material for student reading is often very didactic. However, when we started the next book, a fantasy novel, I finished it independently that same day.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

From making classrooms safer to providing high-quality instructional materials to ensuring schools leverage the most current digital tools, grant money can make all the difference. But when it comes to applying for the grants, finding out what kind of funding is available is only the first step.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 21, 2023

The idea of “zero textbook costs” makes a kind of sense when you believe that the ideal instructional materials are books. Books contain static, unchanging words and pictures on a page. They’re perfect for printing or exporting as a PDF.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2021

The Delaware Department of Education (DDOE) announced an agreement with OverDrive Education to provide access to online books to every K-12 student in the state. Students use their school credentials to read required and recreational digital books in the Sora student reading app. Sora was named one of TIME ’s Best Inventions of 2019.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2023

And among educators from 14 different schools studied by a Harvard researcher for the 2019 book “ Where Teachers Thrive ,” most teachers said they did not have enough time to accomplish the “essential” duties of their jobs. on Teachers Pay Teachers,” a popular platform that educators use to buy educational materials from each other.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2023

UDL is based on the principle that there is no one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning and that instructional materials and methods should be flexible and adaptable to the needs of all students. If I decide to read a book as my method for learning the content, I can use the text-to-speech tool simultaneously.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 21, 2017

Almost 60 percent of technology leaders say that one-quarter of instructional materials in their schools today are digital—not paper-based—and 26 percent say that their level of paperlessness is 50 percent. •

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Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 2, 2023

Blatantly, demonstrably untrue: the GPT3 dataset is a little over 600GB, primarily Wikipedia, Books corpuses, WebText and 2016-2019 CommonCrawl. Recently there’s been a fairly heated conversation about whether AI should be allowed to train on copyrighted materials.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Schools generally elected to spend most of the settlement money on salaries for new staff and extra compensation for current teachers to undergo retraining and less on new instructional materials, such as books or curriculums.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools. Strategic supports for English Learners are additionally embedded throughout the reading. To learn more about Magnetic Reading and view a sample lesson, visit [link].

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

Insights that derive from dialog between K-12, higher education, and online-learning providers could well shape instructional practices for the better as students return to school, whether in a classroom or over Zoom. Yet that discomfort also raises opportunities to question prevailing assumptions about how teaching and learning occurs.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2021

She is also the author of numerous books, including How to Set Worthy Goals and Rhymes of the Times: Black Nursery Rhymes , and is the publisher of the inspirational Virtue Today Magazine. “It During this time, she served as a high school English teacher, mentor teacher, and facilitator of various education workshops.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The method teaches children to read by providing training and direction instruction materials for teachers and individualized software instruction for students. Another said, “When I came here, I could only read picture books, and now I can read chapter books, and my cellmate knows I can.”.

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Hapara

JUNE 16, 2022

para built itself upon a robust pedagogical foundation that is designed to support differentiated instruction. Differentiation is the adjustment of teaching methodologies, instructional materials, the classroom environment, means of assessment, and content to match the interests and needs of learners to achieve the targeted learning outcomes.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

During a tour of updates to SETDA’s Digital Instructional Materials Acquisition Policies for States (DMAPS) , which showcases state policies in support of digital materials, Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director for SETDA, discussed new features like professional development information.

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Students are more interested in exciting activities, and they’re more likely to pay attention when they watch videos instead of having read walls of text in books and notes. YouTube has more instructional videos than the LC. Because of COVID-19, our present educational system has transformed into a remote setting.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The company says it is working with outside researchers to keep improving the instructional materials it sells to schools. Because many schools cannot afford to buy a new instructional program, Heggerty says it also explains how teachers can modify older auditory lessons.

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Tom Murray

JUNE 21, 2017

Almost 60 percent of technology leaders say that one-quarter of instructional materials in their schools today are digital—not paper-based—and 26 percent say that their level of paperlessness is 50 percent. •

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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

I very clearly remember my teacher standing at the front of the classroom, math book in hand, reading, “The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of the triangle,” then scribbling the formula across the blackboard. Ensure the sustainability of digital learning initiatives.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2017

Encouraged by Dr. Orton, she compiled and published instructional materials which provided the foundation for what became known as the Orton-Gillingham Method. Rather than picking any book, students advance through levels, mastering one before moving on. As early as 1925 he identified dyslexia as an educational problem.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

I am really proud that in partnership with IMPress Books , we have just released a new book by my good friend and someone who pushes my thinking continuously, AJ Juliani. For the next few days, you can get his book online for one dollar on the following sites: Adaptable on Amazon. ” Below is a snippet from the book!

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

In a flipped classroom, students review instructional materials, such as videos or readings, outside of class, allowing for more interactive and application-focused activities during class time. Furthermore, online learning platforms offer a wealth of educational resources, including video tutorials, e-books, and educational games.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

But district leaders, administrators and teachers have incredible demands placed on them, which were exacerbated by the pandemic and while there are high-quality materials available, they’re not compiled. The working group also developed sample scope and sequences for both the elementary and secondary level.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

She has been a member of various consortiums such as Web Access Initiative (WAI), National Instructional Materials Accessibility Standard (NIMAS) and Open eBook Forum. series of books. Sheela has also been a podcaster for the Stanford Business School’s Center for Social Innovation. Join the Community.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2019

Culturally-responsive curriculum can’t be delivered by an algorithm any more than it can by a static textbook We must—quite literally—throw out the book on how we create and deliver curriculum to teachers and students. To do this, educational companies need to rise to several key challenges. We must also reflect the work.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The app also offers a wide variety of instructional materials and lessons covering 10 levels from complete novice to professional. For MIDI pianos, connect via USB or Bluetooth MIDI and for acoustic pianos, use Book Mode to play along'. You can use it to play your favourite songs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 5, 2016

To earn these, teachers view the required materials, answer a set of questions, and then submit evidence of impact on practice such as lesson plans, instructional materials, and videos. On the administrator side , BloomBoard offers the ability to look at reports and recommend resources for professional development.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

I very clearly remember my teacher standing at the front of the classroom, math book in hand, reading, “The square of the hypotenuse is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides of the triangle,” then scribbling the formula across the blackboard. One of my many high school memories is learning the Pythagorean Theorem.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Kids can get lost because they don’t have the right book or they’re reluctant to speak up when everyone around them is so quiet. Commonlit is a source for free, high-quality instructional materials designed to support literacy development (grades 3-12.). Dr. Kristin Gehsmann’s go-to resources Books Dr. Kristin Gehsmann.

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Buncee

MARCH 26, 2021

My correspondence and instructional materials are very text heavy and visually overwhelming, and I’ve struggled to improve until I found Buncee. I learned how it worked, became comfortable, and sent out “New books!” I am extremely unskilled at presenting content in a visually appealing way; bulletin boards?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. Pearson reported that its revenues from e-book rentals have grown by 22 percent, after reducing the rental price for 2,000 titles in fall 2017. He added: “The Spotify generation—they want to rent, not own.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2022

The program comes with a Teacher’s Guide that includes the standards-aligned curriculum, content roadmap, scaffolded activities, and assessments; Student Books with the scaffolded supports and grade-level lessons and content; and access to the online Teacher Toolbox with a digital collection of lessons, activities, and instructional supports.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

Mohannad then used his experience scoring perfect scores on the SAT I and SAT II to write the first English language learner SAT Prep Book and bootstrap his first education company prior to ChalkTalk from $300 to a franchise operating across 3 countries by the time he was a senior in college.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

I typically start by developing an Empathy Guide like the one put together by the Stanford d.school or reviewing the free book by Giff Constable, “ Talking to Humans ” to structure productive conversations. To be a good instructional designer, you should steep yourself in the research on learning and teaching.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But good teaching is good teaching and without higher-level uses of technology, it becomes just another dusty book on a shelf. Because each school has access to varying quantities and qualities of technology, current curricular programs do not rely on technology as a constant in their unit planning and instructional materials.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Previously , I wrote about the tension surrounding book choice in schools from four main parties: parents, teachers, students, and admin. Guiding students in book choices is not an administrator’s role, as I understand it; we trust the mentors directly speaking into students’ lives for that. Maybe you’re angry about book bans.

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