Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This is the first in a series of five blog posts elevating key learnings from this set of investments. Today’s blog explores how three grantees centered teachers in the use of GenAI in teaching and learning. For example, teachers might learn to use ChatGPT to generate lesson plans or to compose feedback on student writing.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

Teachers have to do countless tasks—including lesson planning, teaching, grading, mentoring, classroom management, as well as keeping up with technology and new pedagogical practices, monitoring progress, and other administrative work—all while keeping students’ social and emotional needs in mind. Looking ahead. Educator CIRCLS.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

For teachers using StudySync in combination with Google Classroom, I’ve described three strategies that educators can use to capitalize on the activities in the StudySync First Read lesson plans to engage students in online discussions, collaborative research projects, and online vocabulary review. #1

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

This is the fourth in a series of five blog posts elevating key learnings from this set of investments. Today’s blog explores how three grantees centered equity and reduced bias in education-based AI. Researchers at OpenStax developed two prototypes for finding high-quality, free teaching materials within OpenStax’s content library.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

President’s Day Lesson Plan Our preferred President’s Day lesson plan is having students make a selection of historical baseball cards about past Presidents of their choice. If your students need more context about the government, check out our blog post about teaching the U.S. Constitution here.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2024

Additionally, it contains an interactive research project, video tutorials, and a syllabus. They allow them to express their thoughts, do their own research, and put something together they are proud of. Therefore, lesson plans and required resources are ready to go. Sociology Projects Students love projects!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

According to the latest survey data from the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of adults have broadband internet at home. For the kids in their homes, that means trying to read assignments, write papers, do research and take quizzes with tiny screens and tinier keyboards. But Holland is not optimistic.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 26, 2019

Not long ago, many schools required teachers to include the use of technology in their daily lesson plans. Read edtech-focused blogs. Reading the posts on these blogs can help you uncover many good ideas. The infusion of technology into our culture is the greatest change that our educational system has ever experienced.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Recent research shows that people in marginalized groups feel the most vulnerable online. Teachers can find more information and lesson plans for digital safety and digital citizenship at Common Sense Media Digital Citizenship. Rita Fennelly-Atkinson, Stef Mills, and Farheen Mohammad contributed to this blog post.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 17, 2025

Thats because rewriting all your lesson plans is a lot of work, and the Four Question Method takes practice to learn; its a discipline that you dont master after a day at a conference. Each lesson has a complete lesson plan, slides, student handouts, and teacher exemplars for everything. Its all there.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

This blog post is the first of a two-part series discussing relationship building in edtech selection and purchasing. In this first blog post, we’ll address how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. Ask about the learning sciences research used to design and build edtech products.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

AUGUST 18, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll delve into how Web 2.0 Think blogs, social media hubs, wikis, and other interactive online tools that form the heart of Web 2.0. Through blogs, podcasts, and webinars, educators can dive into topics that align with their professional goals. Enter Web 2.0, The Evolution of Web 2.0:

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

They will then research the case and trace federal, state, and local responses to it. If you do not want to miss any of the upcoming lessons, join my email list to be notified of all the interactive lessons coming up! By joining the email list, you will receive freebies for blog exclusive subscribers!

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Digital Promise

APRIL 30, 2019

Drawing from both learning sciences research and feedback from educators, we developed this framework to support teachers in identifying where their students can leverage computational thinking. Be the first to know when new computational thinking resources are released by subscribing to the Digital Promise Action Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! For instance, we could use the Civilization video games to learn and blog about political power and civics. Washington University in St.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

of the population, according to research from New American Economy, and are the fastest-growing ethnic minority group in the United States, according to Pew Research. Read our blog, Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month , to learn more about other Asian/Pacific historical figures you can spotlight.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Because of this, teachers weren’t able to assign homework that required students to use technology or conduct internet research outside of school. Teachers can expand their lesson planning and free up valuable classroom time for discussion or group work when students are able to complete assignments and independent parts of a project at home.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

They understood the need to prioritise and advocate for lesson planning as an important aspect of beginning teacher’s training despite it being in conflict with wider school developments. A review of US research. 2009; McCormack et al. Asia-Pacific Journal of Teacher Education , 34 (1), 95–113. 10.1108/JPCC-12-2018-0032.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

While every school is unique, research has identified several elements that can almost universally increase the chances for successful teacher development and create a powerful and positive school community. Research shows that the following features of effective leadership can improve student achievement (Leithwood et al.,

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Edthena

AUGUST 23, 2023

Micro-teaching has one of the highest measured impacts on improving teachers’ practice for stronger student achievement, according to John Hattie’s Visible Learning research. This blog post outlines what you need to consider for effective micro-teaching, as well as two concrete ways to implement this research-backed technique.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2020

When schools interview a candidate for a teaching position, they ask for a lesson plan that makes clear what the teacher is doing in a demo lesson and why. Without lesson plans and curriculum maps, a teacher’s effectiveness is deeply undermined. research alignment. predicted outcomes based on research.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Supporting research. Dr. McLeod blogs regularly about technology leadership issues at Dangerously Irrelevant and is a frequent keynote speaker and workshop facilitator at regional, state, national, and international conferences. In 2011 he was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

In the intervening years, I realized that Nic’s particular strength is well researched. There is also a course for teachers , as well as a guide for how to use the course in their classrooms with lesson plan ideas and conversation starters. The research shows that agency is something teachers can cultivate.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

In my last blog post, I shared with you a description of my pedagogical approach and provided an example. What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

OER Commons defines them more eloquently as, “teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.”. Teachers have been surfing the Web for lesson plans and ideas for their classroom for years.

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The lesson plan provides examples that you can discuss with students to show them how to track income and expenses as well as how to create short and long terms savings plans. They evaluate earning potentials and various salaries and research the cost of living around the United States.

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Letters and Ink Blog

JULY 26, 2022

It also means that I’m not writing lesson plans on Sunday afternoons, and when I was out for a week with COVID last year the lessons were already essentially ready to go – I just had to send them to my principal. Then, I’ll print it out and use it as my planning guide. This gives us a lot of flexibility!

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Leah Cleary

JULY 9, 2023

It’s generating blog posts (not this one–sorry, I like to write), jingles, and images. Command: DOK Level 3 Explanation + Generate 3 DOK Level 3 Multiple Choice Questions appropriate for senior psychology students studying the psychological research process. AI is everywhere. For better or worse, AI is here to stay.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Some passionately believe that it can and must, while skeptics fear that personalized-learning hype has outpaced research into if and, importantly, how it helps students. Shortly after leaving that post, Riley planted his skeptic’s flag with an oft-cited blog post titled, “Don’t Personalize Learning.”. “We

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The tools educators can use to guide viewing of instructional practice videos are called Focusing Techniques, and they are synthesized from research on teacher learning, self-reflection, and accelerated improvement. Less often mentioned are the tools we use in our approach to viewing and responding to these videos of instructional practice.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 17, 2016

The best results will come from vendors and district leaders working side-by-side to build research-based tools driven by efficacy. more engagement, use of data, strategic lesson planning, etc.). But, in order do that, we also need to figure out the nuts and bolts of implementation so the best solutions can scale faster.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

There is a long history of research looking into the importance of spoken language as foundational for learning to read and write. This is backed up both by science of reading research and by neurobiological research (Hong et al., For more information, download our free lesson plan describing how to use Matching Cards.

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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

Since 2011, Adam has overseen the evolution of Edthena from a paper-based prototype into a research informed and patented platform used by schools districts, teacher training programs, and professional development providers. So I mentioned the lesson plan before. Steve Miletto: Adam Geller is the founder and CEO of Edthena.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

As post-pandemic reading success has declined across the United States, more schools are embracing The Science of Reading, a body of research and scientific evidence based on five main pillars, help us understand how children learn to read. In this blog series, we will look at these pillars. How important is Phonological Awareness?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Teachers typically had designated blocks for instruction; planning and preparation; supervisory tasks (such as monitoring bus arrivals or lunch in the cafeteria); as well as after-school staff meetings and professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

And yet, the research backs up the more rigorous Common Core approach, according to Timothy Shanahan, distinguished professor emeritus of urban education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In general, I think the common core approach is the right one,” wrote Shanahan in a blog.

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