rigor Archives

Reimagining attendance: A curriculum approach for K-12 students and parents

August 29, 2024August 29, 2024 by Dr. Kara Stern, SchoolStatus

Regular attendance means students have the opportunity to be present, engaged, and successful in their educational journey.

In the landscape of K-12 education, attendance has long been viewed as a logistical issue—a checkbox to be marked, a statistic to be tracked. But what if we…

Teaching Trends

4 ways to balance rigor and fun in the ELA classroom

August 20, 2024 by Hannah Roudebush, Gale/Cengage Group

A former teacher shares key tips to student engagement in ELA: offering a variety of sources, classroom experiences, and ways to show learning

As a former teacher and current teacher trainer, I have seen first-hand how challenging it can be to create English language arts (ELA) lessons that deeply engage students.

AI in Education

Balancing Bloom, assessment, and AI

May 27, 2024 by Steven M. Baule, Ed.D., Ph.D.

As AI becomes more embedded in learning, assessments can occur in diverse contexts and students develop practical skills.

Early this school year, faculty had a conversation about student teachers pulling all-nighters in order to complete their lesson plans. Most of the faculty commiserated their own experiences…

SEL Trends

How data empowers our district to align teaching with student needs

February 29, 2024January 16, 2024 by Dr. Michael Mallery Jr., District Administrator - Social Emotional Learning, Windsor Public Schools

Teachers can model responsible decision making, positive relationship building and other SEL skills in everyday interactions using data.

Everyone had that favorite teacher; the one who inspired your confidence to succeed or fostered love of a certain subject. For me it was Ms. Pierre, my high…

Newsline

Aperture Education Expands its Research and Development Team

January 28, 2022 by ESchool News Staff

Charlotte N.C. (Jan. 28, 2022) — Aperture Education, the leading provider of research-based social and emotional learning (SEL) assessments for ... Read more

SEL & Well-Being

Rigor and joy: SEL and academics go hand-in-hand

June 28, 2019June 18, 2019 by Kourtney Ferrua

A paper airplane's shadow is a rocketship, showing a growth mindset and how SEL and academics go hand in hand.

Demographics McMinnville School District serves 6,800 students across 9 schools Biggest challenge We are a Title 1 school in rural Oregon with over 60 percent of our students…

STEM & STEAM

The project-based STEM curriculum that’s big on real-world rigor

February 8, 2016 by Diane Curtis

Project Lead the Way is a STEM-centered curriculum that introduces students to engineering and robotics with a real-world twist..

IT Management

11 ed-tech buzzwords and phrases to think about

January 11, 2016January 11, 2016 by Stephen Noonoo

Grit? Voice and choice? Future ready? Do these ed-tech buzzwords have meaning or are they just empty edubabble?

IT Management

Smarter Balanced tests demand more of students

February 18, 2015 by Susan Parrish, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.

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District Management

4 steps to making rigorous discussion a routine

February 6, 2014 by Staff and wire services reports

For many of us who are intimidated by the idea of "rigor" and exactly what it means to make our lessons more rigorous, thinking about it as a…

Reimagining attendance: A curriculum approach for K-12 students and parents

4 ways to balance rigor and fun in the ELA classroom

Balancing Bloom, assessment, and AI

The project-based STEM curriculum that’s big on real-world rigor

Smarter Balanced tests demand more of students

4 steps to making rigorous discussion a routine

Avantis Education’s ClassVR Wins Educators Pick Best of STEM® 2024 Award

IXL and Montgomery County Public Schools Expand Partnership to Enhance Secondary Math Education

Stride Tutoring Moves Families into the Future with Affordable Online Tutoring

MIND Education Enhances Flagship Math Program ST Math with Transformative Back-to-School Upgrades

Outstanding Health Science Students Recognized by HOSA – Future Health Professionals and iCEV

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