DANBURY -- Rachel Saunders, a 29-year-old math teacher at Danbury High School, has been chosen for this year's LearnZillion "dream team." She is one of 200 educators from 41 states -- selected to from ...
(CNN) On any given Sunday night, your child’s teacher might face this problem: How do you come up with a lesson plan for 20 or more students for an entire week when all your students are learning at a ...
CONTENT FOR TABLETS: Here's an interesting deal: LearnZillion, which offers free video lesson plans for K-12 schools, has teamed up with NearPod, which offers free software for managing tablets in a ...
One school day a few years ago, Eric Westendorf, then-principal at E.L. Haynes Public Charter School in Northwest Washington, realized he didn’t fully understand a basic middle-school math concept: ...
I’m intrigued by any effort to reduce our perpetual re-invention of the wheel in education, so it’s with great interest that I’ve followed the progress of LearnZillion over the past few months.
A trip to Hiroshima, Japan early in his teaching career set Eric Westendorf on a path to revolutionize curriculum. “I spent two weeks in schools observing teachers planning and teaching," he says. "It ...
Mary Jane Custy, a GT (gifted and talented) teacher from the Barley Sheaf School in the Flemington-Raritan school district, has been selected to the 2013 LearnZillion Dream Team. More than 3,000 ...
In an effort to improve the quality of K-12 public education, schools across the country have begun to adopt the Common Core State Standards, which are designed to align the diversity of state ...
Kai Ryssdal: For those who haven’t been in a modern public school classroom lately, there have been some changes since the days you had to whack the erasers together after class to clean them out.
An education technology company that provides free digital lessons aligned to the Common Core has restructured its site to better address the unique needs of its two constituents: teachers and ...