District 11 in Colorado Springs adopted Achieve3000, which provides precision differentiated instruction, six years ago to improve literacy and college and career readiness.
StudySync is collaborating with The News Literacy Project (NLP), a nonprofit organization that helps educate middle and high school students about how to separate fact from opinion in media reports. NLP will provide articles and video content for StudySync’s SyncBlasts product. StudySync is partnering with The News Literacy Project (NLP), a non-profit organization that helps […]
Carnegie Learning’s EMC School division announced that the Texas State Board of Education approved Texas Mirrors and Windows for the 2019 language arts state adoption for grades 6-8, giving middle school educators statewide the opportunity to review the program for implementation starting in the 2019-20 school year. Carnegie Learning’s EMC School (EMC) division, a leading […]
The Texas State Board of Education has approved ThinkCERCA’s core curriculum for English language arts and reading for grades 6-8. It is designed to support Texas districts and schools in meeting 100 percent of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills and English Language Proficiency Standards. ThinkCERCA, a recognized industry leader in student reading and writing […]
Embedding language instruction into CTE programs can help close what some educators see as an “opportunity gap” faced by students learning English. And participating in the hands-on projects of CTE can be an effective way of accelerating language acquisition. In October 2017, 30 percent of the students in Boston Public Schools’ CTE programs qualified as […]
Pizitz Middle School, located in a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, committed to raise enough money to build a well in Uganda. Working with a local nonprofit, school leaders kicked off the project during the first week of school in 2017 and spent the year connecting classroom instruction to this service goal. “We needed to raise […]
New approaches to elementary mathematics curriculum, instruction, technology and assessment are providing opportunities to personalize learning for each student, creating highly effective, student-centered learning environments. In this web seminar, the director of curriculum at McGraw-Hill discussed ideas, strategies and resources for delivering a positive, measurable impact on student outcomes through personalized learning in K6 math […]
How do you ensure students who excel at math remain engaged? Heidi Williams intended to solve that challenge by starting an after-school coding club while she was a gifted-and-talented teacher at Bayside Middle School near Milwaukee. Instead of using pen and paper, her students created an interactive children’s book on Scratch, the MIT Media Lab […]
After the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, Matthew Mayer and Shane Jimerson knew they had some work to do. Mayer, from the Rutgers Graduate School of Education, and Jimerson, from the University of California, Santa Barbara, both specialize in studying school violence. “In 2006, there were several school shootings, and we […]
