eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2022

Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, April 21, 2022) — In celebration of Earth Day 2022, observed on April 22nd, Discovery Education and partners are proud to present educators, students, and families a diverse array of dynamic digital resources inspiring students to explore the natural phenomena in the world around them.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Charlotte, NC — Global edtech leader Discovery Education today announced the addition of new games, interactives, career resources and more to its award-winning K-12 learning platform, Discove ry Education Experience. All educators using Discovery Education’s products enjoy access to the Discovery Education Network.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

MADISON, WI – Today, Open Up Resources and Kiddom announced Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD ) has selected its top-rated EL Education K-5 Education Language Arts (ELA) curriculum for its 31 elementary schools in support of the district’s efforts to prioritize early literacy and beyond. ABOUT OPEN UP RESOURCES. ABOUT KIDDOM.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 8, 2022

The post The FREE Lesson Plans and Resources You Aren’t Using! but should be) – SULS0148 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, Kasey chats with Rich Dixon, Senior Director of Innovative Learning at H?para. The FREE Lesson Plans and Resources You Aren’t Using! Learn more about H?para.

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Discovery Education

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Dive into December with resources from Discovery Education to honor December holidays, explore digital citizenship, and keep students engaged as you head toward winter break!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2022

Through this new collaboration, HCPS’s educators gain access to an award-winning suite of digital resources supporting the school’s mission to provide students with an individualized academic experience that is a catalyst for confidence and curiosity. . Social Studies?Techbooks. interdisciplinary K-8 resource,?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information. According to video documentation in the study, U.S. According to video documentation in the study, U.S. So what makes PBL different?

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2022

The partnership will provide teachers the ability to utilize the ELA curriculum on Kiddom’s platform to share assignments digitally, communicate with students, and deliver personalized feedback on submissions, while prioritizing student reading proficiency and content knowledge of science and social studies.

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Discovery Education

MAY 27, 2022

Summer is supposed to be fun—and summer learning should be, too! Whether you’re looking for curriculum support, at-home activities for students, or professional learning resources, we’ll help you make this a summer to remember! Explore the Summer of Learning Channel. Learn More. Learn More. -->.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

in this post, I share with you my perspectives, drawn from my experiences as a blogger, educator, and academic with a PhD in educational studies, on what constitutes the quintessential characteristics of 21st century teachers. It’s a conduit for staying abreast of the latest educational trends, resources, and technologies.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA recently released results of a yearlong study examining the effectiveness of a reading fluency intervention targeting struggling middle school readers from historically marginalized populations or those living in poverty. school district in 2022-23. school district in 2022-23.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Silver Spring, MD (Wednesday, December 1, 2021) — To support continued student engagement anywhere during the winter holiday breaks, Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are introducing new flexible and engaging learning resources. Ready-to-Use Resources.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2021

In the latest phase of this multiyear collaboration, all district middle school students will receive access to a dynamic digital social studies textbook. To empower educators to provide middle school students these essential skills, the district selected Discovery Education’s? Social Studies?Techbook.?Featuring

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Powerful learning must be collaborative and connected.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities. Leadership is second only to teaching among school-related factors that can improve student achievement, and it tends to show greatest impact in traditionally underserved schools ( Leithwood, Seashore Louis, Anderson, and Wahlstrom, 2004 ).

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edWeb.net

MARCH 2, 2021

This strategy will enable students to use their critical-thinking skills to evaluate the latest information with curiosity and not rejection. There are many resources available to both administrators and educators to help support students as they navigate a world riddled with information that can be damaging and dangerous.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

(September 13, 2018) – Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, announced today it has added new digital assets to its services that boost teachers’ ability to engage students in a variety of subjects including Science, STEM, and Social Studies.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 27, 2019

; connected learning audit (personal analysis of our analog and digital learning connections); our connectedness outside of school; connected learning in schools (lots of examples!), crowdsourced learning and resource production. This allows them to see innovations in action without having to drive too far.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

Recent studies, including the Gates Foundation, the TNTP Project and Harvard research, all report failing grades from administrators and teachers alike, which is one certainty we can begin with. Professional Learning (skills, knowledge, theory). Professional Learning is moving toward a competency based approach.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

At the Institute for Teaching and Leading , a professional learning organization that I co-founded, many of our partner districts are focused less on deficits and more on active learning, which we call the asset-based mindset.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Through this multi-year collaboration, educators and students in the district’s elementary and middle schools will return to the classroom this fall with access to award-winning digital resources supporting science instruction. STEM Connect. Mystery Science.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Recently, I had to educate myself on the current trends in helping students who are anxious, depressed, worried, or just need guidance about the future. Research note: As Wall (2021) indicates, there is a definite connection between trauma and student behavior as well as student learning. Look at this course.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2021

Train for transformation with professional learning focused on cultural competency and implicit bias. Provide mental health and behavioral support for students and teachers. Resources: Provide more support at the central level to implement the framework districtwide. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development, whose research team worked with us to produce a controlled study that would conclusively report whether game based-learning increased student achievement. Student Engagement. My students were so incredibly engaged because of the games.”.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio – it’s truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in. Teaching Resources.

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Discovery Education

MAY 10, 2022

As this school year comes to a close, we’ve added brand-new May learning resources to help you wrap up the month and engage students in exciting adventures over the summer and beyond. If you or your students love Minecraft, you’ll be happy to know we just launched a new Minecraft: Education Edition Channel !

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2018

In a colorful space adjacent to where teachers receive regular professional development training, Rowan-Salisbury Schools has created an Educators’ Playground of edtech where teachers can tinker and test new products. Learn more: ISTE Feature. Professional learning is embedded, protected, valued, and seen as ongoing.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

To help ensure there’s data to back up a request for edtech, Desjarlais says VPS has “a phenomenal researcher on staff” who will “conduct research on a product or pull studies from vendors or third parties” to verify the research alignment of any given product before moving on to next steps in the edtech purchasing process.

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Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

The headings I use to organize my thinking come from Appendix A of Regie Routman’s excellent resource Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success (ASCD, 2014). It is a process that respects both the teacher and students. We posted our thinking on a Padlet (www.padlet.com) during the article study.

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Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

The headings I use to organize my thinking come from Appendix A of Regie Routman’s excellent resource Read, Write, Lead: Breakthrough Strategies for Schoolwide Literacy Success (ASCD, 2014). It is a process that respects both the teacher and students. We posted our thinking on a Padlet (www.padlet.com) during the article study.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2019

Discovery Education , a leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms, announced the acquisition of leading virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) provider Inspyro. Terms were not disclosed.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

They include features specifically designed to help teachers seamlessly shift between in-person and remote learning, easily identify both learning gaps and the critical content from the previous grade to close them, as well as increase student engagement with immersive activities and simplified access to their digital content.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 9, 2022

This shift often began during remote learning, when the students had more time and freedom to work on projects that were personally meaningful. She mentioned one teacher who posted students’ questions on a classroom wall and then would refer to the questions when lessons or classroom discussions overlapped with them.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The presenters on this panel think not and recommend that schools begin to look beyond the traditional definition of attendance and measure attendance through the lens of student engagement and participation. Focusing on how to engage students more fully has the potential to reduce chronic absenteeism significantly.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

It is created, for example, through authentic problems or tasks, simulations, service learning, connecting concepts to current issues and teaching others. Another fantastic resource in addition to the definitions above is the Rigor/Relevance Framework by the International Center for Leadership in Education. Added 3 new A.P.

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EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 8, 2020

Most of the current research and classroom innovation around deeper learning point to a recurring, if not central theme: authenticity and real-world experience. Let’s begin with a quick overview of these findings, then dive into practical resources and technologies that can help us enhance authentic experiences to deeper student learning.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

The introduction of digital resources, coupled with sustained, job-embedded professional development also provided by Discovery Education, will help create a vibrant culture of STEM teaching and learning in participating schools. Discovery Education’s STEM Connect enhances core curriculum and brings STEM to life in classrooms.

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