A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Research in cognitive science has shown that eliciting prior understandings is a necessary component of the learning process. Time must be set aside for closure, and efforts should be made to include it in lesson plans. Below are some general closure examples: Explain one thing you learned today.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

Two University of California, Berkeley, researchers documented how they tamed AI hallucinations in math by asking ChatGPT to solve the same problem 10 times. I also worry about teachers using ChatGPT and other generative AI models to write quizzes or lesson plans. Researchers grouped similar answers together.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2018

If it is absent from any activity or lesson, many, if not all, students are less motivated to learn and ultimately achieve. Research on the underlying elements that drive student motivation validates how essential it is to establish relevant contexts. In a nutshell, relevance is the purpose of learning. Kember et al.

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Additionally, they will research why low voter turnout is a problem, even though it is essential to maintaining our democracy. This includes detailed lesson plans, PowerPoints, URLs to videos, and all activities. Luckily, these 11 lesson plans help make that happen! Students will even learn how to register to vote!

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

This will provide all teachers with consistent, concrete elements to focus on when developing lessons. If lesson plans are still collected, ask for them to demonstrate what will be done two weeks into the future. Consider less of a focus on lesson plans and more on assessment.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 10, 2018

More often than not I do not see opportunities for student reflections through countless walk-throughs, lesson plan reviews, or audits of how digital tools are being used. A great deal of research reviewed by Lew & Schmidt (2011) in their study suggests the positive impact of reflective writing on cognitive development.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Chronos , on the other hand, represents chronological, structured time in education, focusing on scheduled periods, lesson plans, and the pacing of material delivery. Chronos , on the other hand, represents chronological, structured time in education, focusing on scheduled periods, lesson plans, and the pacing of material delivery.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

We live in amazing times where readily accessible research and connectivity converge to not only transform practices but also provide the means to share them for the benefit of others. Artifacts such as assessments, lesson plans, unit plans, projects, and examples of student work can easily be converted to a sharable link using Google Docs.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Step 3 : The data and evidence are tightly aligned to ICLE’s research-based rubrics to provide a detailed view of where a district or school is with their digital transformation.The data and artifacts are analyzed, leading to a summary report that details the current state of practice at each school or in the district.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 12, 2020

These can be detailed lesson plans, assessments, performance tasks, student work, use of data to improve instruction, modifications for ELL/SPED learners, portfolios, or professional learning opportunities. Align research and pedagogical evidence to recommendations for growth and improvement (see point above).

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Vocabulary Lesson Plan Sept. Vocabulary instruction aligns with well-being because the research shows a strong relationship between vocabulary and intelligence, one’s ability to comprehend new information, and one’s ability to succeed. 2010) A Review of the Current Research on Vocabulary Instruction. Urrutia, K.,

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As the CEO of Aspire Change EDU , I'm dedicated to research-driven, data-enhanced, and evidence-based services and resources to aid districts, schools, and organizations in transforming teaching, learning, and leadership. This got me thinking about what might be missing to ensure efficacy.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 1, 2019

In the schools I have the honor of coaching in, I see more and more evidence of co-planning and sharing of resources both within the school and across the district as a means to lessen the load. I am all for teachers selling lesson plans, assessments, support materials, and other resources to their peers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. So research skills, those foundational skills, are a part of it, and that involves parts of a book.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

“It’s making things too hot,” he said.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Many claim that scientific research proves their wares work. “Education technology is an area where innovation has outpaced rigorous research,” said Vincent Quan, who runs the North American education unit at J-PAL. Teachers didn’t have to change their existing lesson plans or textbooks to incorporate it.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

With all the many state mandates and district directed professional development, as well as time after school devoted to grading and lesson planning, in her mind and many others, time was not readily available. Who was I to disagree, as her words were stark fact.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2025

For schools that have made a commitment to reducing or ending streaming, one useful tool has been to bring mathematics teachers in different schools together so they can work through challenges, such as lesson planning, and share successes. The research into the benefits or harms of academic tracking or streaming show mixed results.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 1, 2013

Educators are invited to join their peers for Common Core Academies that are: Research-based: Their professional development integrates proven curriculum, instruction, and assessment practices from expert practitioners and thought leaders. In particular, leaders will focus on the CCSS classroom and what it looks like.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

As I met with global educators and researchers over the course of several days, a few key themes emerged as ones to keep an eye on in the early childhood space this year: 1. These include writing culturally relevant lesson plans, automating report cards and helping translate communication with parents.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Teacher Support Materials: Lesson plans, pacing guides, and professional development resources are often included. Common features across many social studies curricula include: Standards Alignment: Most curricula claim alignment with state and national standards.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 9, 2020

He shares what he has learned as an educator and researcher about working in this context. In this episode, Dr. Woodly speaks specifically about working with culturally diverse schools and schools in urban areas. Thank you to StudySync for producing and sponsoring this podcast!

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ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

Research shows that children from low-income families often start school with fewer numeracy skills than their peers, putting them at an academic disadvantage. High-quality, research-based numeracy programs offer an opportunity to bridge these gaps.

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History Tech

MARCH 15, 2023

I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of people who work at the Library of Congress. And they’ve all been awesome. I’m sure there’s probably one or two who work over there who are Las Vegas Raiders fans or who will tell you that they don’t like Kansas City Joe’s burnt ends. And other […]

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. In 2023, University of Virginia researchers promoted a study of Colorado charter schools that had adopted E.D. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension.

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The Effortful Educator

MARCH 17, 2025

I believe the last few monthly professional development offerings at my school have had a portion of time dedicated to different AI tools available to teachers to assist with writing lesson plans or developing questions from text or organizing and presenting content. He stated that it took him about an hour and a half to write.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

As a Colorado secondary school history teacher and former English teacher, I believe, and research shows, that student achievement improves when learners are personally engaged. I see them clamor for Zheng He, Simon Bolivar, Cesar Chavez, Mary Wollstonecraft and Haile Selassie when they choose research topics.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. Related: Education research, condensed.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

For context, some researchers believe that a gap of just 10 points equates to a full school year of learning. This isn’t the fault of teachers, but rather of the system and the systemic choices we have made to date that heavily constrain classroom time.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

Allowing students to research, discuss, and share their findings takes time. How did having more time impact your lesson planning? They know they have limited time to get through x, y, and z. Too often the default in this scenario is to lecture or verbally present information because it is faster. into your shorter periods?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Respectively, we work at Teaching Lab , the Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL) , and The Calculus Project , three projects that participated in the Gates Foundation’s K-12 AI Pilot Cohort. For example, teachers might learn to use ChatGPT to generate lesson plans or to compose feedback on student writing.

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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. This is a great way to teach students about the election process and the importance of voting.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Students created detailed trip itineraries, after conducting research, and used Google Docs to put together their itineraries. The World Language teachers are currently collaborating and working on different lesson plans using Voki Classroom and plan to implement them within the next month.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

It recruited a group of around 30 teachers who hail from places where conflicts over science during the pandemic have been especially heated, including Florida and Mississippi, to field-test a series of lesson plans on the nature of science — along with a series of climate change lesson plans that had been delayed by the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2024

An AI instructional coach designed to help English teachers create lesson plans and project ideas. Over five weeks this spring, about 300 people – teachers, school and district leaders, higher ed faculty, education consultants and AI researchers – came together to learn how to use AI and develop their own basic AI tools and resources.

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