eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The concept of microschooling gained traction throughout the 2010s, then saw a huge uptick in both interest and new examples during the pandemic. Some of the better-known examples of microschools include national name brands like the Acton Academy schools, Wildflower Schools , Prenda microschools and the Khan Lab School. Microschools.

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Policies Libraries Instructional Materials Secondary 107

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Errors in materials cannot be corrected in a timely manner. More effective local examples cannot be integrated directly into materials. Materials inevitably speak from a single perspective, and multiple viewpoints cannot be integrated directly into materials.

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OER Accessibility Pearson MOOC 249

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Refocusing classrooms around up-and-coming digital materials requires more than just adding a new tech-based product or two as many processes for reviewing and purchasing instructional materials are still built around print textbooks. Pinellas County, for example, has a blended model working towards 1-to-1.

Instructional Materials 40

Instructional Materials Case Study Policies OER 40

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Casey O’Brien, Executive Director, National CyberWatch Center, and Jim Kowatch, CEO, Infosec Learning, underscored that to fill the demand for cybersecurity experts, secondary and higher education should focus their attention on developing cybersecurity courses that are rooted in IT operations and applications.

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Pearson Training Instructional Materials Course 59

EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

For example, fines for errors need to be restructured to give time for correction (these corrections were not as feasable with print textbooks). Will be effective September 1 - Appropriation is end of May so the timeline will be very compressed for getting materials to classrooms in the Fall. Also need time for PD.

Instructional Materials 45

Instructional Materials Pearson Mobility Secondary 45

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 12, 2018

How about a few fresh strategies for energizing your information literacy instruction and preparing your secondary learners for their academic experience? A recent instructional example is Sara Davidson Squibb’s Where Should I Search? Need a little inspiration for the coming school year?

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Secondary Libraries Assessment Outcomes 42

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 29, 2016

A growing number of peer-reviewed studies and other research reports are demonstrating that when faculty who previously used commercial products as their core instructional materials replace them with OER, student learning either stays the same or increases. But who chooses the core instructional resources students will use?

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OER Instructional Materials Pearson Resources 60

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Students are able to manipulate very large items or very small items a typical classroom would not have access to (the sun and stars, for example). The use of AR allows students to interact and problem solve in a space that is free of the constraints of budgets and in some instances time.

EdTech 135

EdTech Industry Data Tools 135

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

JANUARY 26, 2020

The Instruction Tab is where you can see classes (either fed from your student information system or custom created groups), as well as create and assign instructional materials like Activities and Quizzes. Example of a test class/group (with a single student) and a sample gradebook with one standard shown.

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System Trends Assessment Course 52

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

Angela Baker, a digital content manager for the Georgia Department of Education, shared examples of how her state’s system has aided students and teachers. Weeks, is to understand how data can be used to support the school and classroom, rather than just viewing it as a reporting object.

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Data Report OER Policies 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Schools have relied on those funds for the creation or expansion of summer programs and tutoring services, the purchase of high-quality curriculum and instructional materials, and a plethora of other efforts to address learning gaps students experienced through the COVID-19 pandemic.

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. Is 8th grade too young to look at police brutality?

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Libraries Handbook Policies Study 98

Iterating Toward Openness

AUGUST 3, 2015

Take Murder, Madness and Mayhem , Project Management for Instructional Designers , and Emerging Perspectives on Learning, Teaching, and Technology as examples. Providing a solution to the OER supply problem is a happy secondary benefit that just makes it that much more worth doing.

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OER Education Course Instructional Materials 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But it doesnt have to be, says Phonisha Hawkins, director of instructional excellence for secondary math at KIPP Texas Public Schools, a branch of the national KIPP charter network. I was put in charge of leading the curriculum implementation of high-quality instructional materials, so from training, calendars, assessments, everything.

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Training Instructional Materials Secondary Data 175

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The standards refer to the “indelible stain” of slavery and require that in fourth grade students be taught that slavery was the cause of the Civil War, along with secondary factors. Douglass’s love of America was in no way complicated,” Newby-Alexander said.

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Policies Elementary Outcomes Study 94

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year. Some of these areas that are popular for investment do coincide with the popular narratives about “the future of education” – “everyone should learn to code,” for example.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

The K-12 communication and family engagement category is a prime example. In a recent RAND study , commissioned by AERDF, we found that grade 38 teachers estimate that 44 percent of their students always or nearly always experience difficulty reading the written content within their instructional materials.

EdTech 142

EdTech Industry System Assessment 142