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Personalizing Learning through Digital Reading Platforms

By Adam Galvan

Digital reading platforms can enable more personalized learning by providing engaging, interactive and customizable digital content to both students and educators in all subject areas, as well as supplemental curriculum materials, professional development resources, ELL and special education titles, and more. In this web seminar, presenters discussed ways to use digital reading platforms effectively. Highlights […]

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January 22, 2018

Climate education confidence

Environmental science teacher Jamie Esler takes his Idaho high school students outdoors for hands-on learning about climate science and climate change. They take core samples from trees, measure declining snowpack and calculate carbon dioxide levels. This hands-on field work is more impactful than a slideshow packed with data and graphs, Esler says. Before students step […]

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October 12, 2017

Engaging students with primary sources to drive social studies education

Talk about using primary sources to drive students' content knowledge and build critical-thinking skills. I'm a huge proponent of using primary sources to support social studies instruction. Primary sources make history real and relevant and help students understand multiple perspectives. When teachers use primary sources, students don't just hear facts and figures or read an […]

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October 03, 2017

Schools are teaching, not preaching

Teaching religion in public schools has been illegal for decades. Teaching about religion, however, is not only permissible, but is gaining traction as a way to promote greater understanding in a world of conflicting dogmas. The National Council for the Social Studies in June published guidelines on how to study religion "in ways that are […]

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September 12, 2017

PD moves toward mastery in K12

Teachers today have more control over how and when they receive professional development. Whether the learning is self-paced, online or partially in-person, more districts measure PD based on the new skills teachers can display in their classrooms rather than on how long they spend listening to an instructor. For example, veteran social studies teacher Kurt […]

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August 28, 2017

States begin shedding standardized tests in K12

In just the last few months, several districts and states have eliminated tests and cut assessment time to make room for instruction and reduce stress. The average student takes 112 mandated standardized tests from pre-K through grade 12, according to the Council of the Great City Schools. "It allows superintendents and other policymakers to experiment […]

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August 22, 2017

NCSS offers new guidelines for religious studies in schools

Whether and how religion should be taught in public schools is one of those perennial hot buttons in America that seems to defy consensus. So when the National Council for the Social Studies this past June released new guidelines for teaching religion in schools, it raised questions. The council's goal, however, was not to simply […]

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August 20, 2017

Maine schools move toward proficiency-based assessment

Eighth-graders in Maine in the 2017-18 school year will be the first to adhere to proficiency-based standards. The initiative is the latest implementation phase of a 2012 state law requiring standards-based assessment by 2021. Under the law, districts have leeway in how to best provide support for students in achieving proficiency. Students can expect to […]

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Personalizing Learning through Digital Reading Platforms

K12 districts bring life to learning

Making virtual connections

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Social Studies Stories

Climate education confidence

Engaging students with primary sources to drive social studies education

Schools are teaching, not preaching

PD moves toward mastery in K12

States begin shedding standardized tests in K12

NCSS offers new guidelines for religious studies in schools

Maine schools move toward proficiency-based assessment