I recall sitting at my desk one sunny morning back in June, frowning at my computer screen as I reread the first two paragraphs of a blog I had been laboring over for the last hour. This is not working at all, I remember thinking. I’m not saying what I
As they go bakc to school, do you wish you had more time and resources (and patience?!) to help your children with their homework? Perhaps they’re struggling in a certain subject, need a little extra practice at home, or want additional activities to keep them busy? SAS Curriculum Pathways might be just
Let me start by stating the obvious: teaching students to write well is hard. Yet teachers who have had success at the elementary level know that young writers can thrive when certain conditions and practices exist in the classroom. For instance, they know students need to be given time to
Two of our most powerful interactive tools—Writing Reviser and Punctuation Rules!—become even more powerful when used in tandem. Indeed they are designed to be used that way. Both products use natural language processing, so they respond to each student’s own work, not generic examples in which the student has no investment.
Editor's Note: The Savannah-Chatham County (Savannah, GA) school system is in the second year of a 1-to-1 laptop initiative that has shown some terrific results . Along the way, Instructional Technology/Media Manager Wendy Marshall learned a few things that would be applicable to any school system considering this type of
As educators, we all need to grow. While not in the classroom anymore, I want to keep in touch with new teaching approaches and the needs of students and teachers. For me, two new ways of doing that are by using social media and attending my first Edcamp. On Saturday,
**Editor’s Note** While we have plans to retire Curriculum Pathways, we want to ensure that teachers have high quality resources to get them through the COVID crisis. Curriculum Pathways will continue to be available through the end of the 2020-2021 school year. Curriculum Pathways started 23 years ago to meet
Have you heard of the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals? These goals were developed in 2015 with a vision of collaboratively creating solutions for the world's most pressing global issues, such as ending poverty and having quality education for all. Teaching through the lens of the Global Goals allows
Crio, the free, online lesson-building tool from Curriculum Pathways, now enables you to incorporate graphic organizers into your Crio lessons! Graphic organizers allow students to interact even further with the content of your Crio lessons. Within the organizers, they can visually organize thoughts, brainstorm concepts, classify ideas, and demonstrate relationships between
If you're reading this—from your phone, tablet, PC, etc.—you know that technology makes up a huge part of our daily lives. It's ubiquitous and transcends domains. Are you a musician? Fashionista? Artist? Doctor? Lawyer? Historian? Great! They all link to some component of computer science! That means being able to code will enrich
