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Purchasing in 2022: School Districts Continue to Prioritize Standards Alignment

Author: CSA Staff - May 6, 2022

Throughout the pandemic, the challenge of distance learning required teachers to learn and integrate a whole host of educational technologies into their daily routines, and high-quality materials and the ability to identify them have become more important than ever.

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Creating Effective Educational Multimedia Content

Author: Andrea Woudenberg-Harvey - April 6, 2022

Whether they know it or not, influencers often produce multimedia content that aligns with e-learning theories and strategies. How can educators harness these same theories to make educational multimedia materials engaging and effective?

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Making Science Relevant for All Students

Author: CSA Staff - March 2, 2022

Making authentic connections between content and students’ lives will engage students and make learning more relevant to their lives.

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Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs in Schools

Author: Lisa Panka - February 3, 2022

Ask most teachers, and they will tell you that they want their students to be working at that self-actualization level, striving to become the people they want to be. What can teachers, schools, and communities do to help students reach that level?

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What Is Curriculum and What Goes into Making It?

Author: Jonathan Schmalzbach - January 4, 2022

What Is Curriculum and What Goes into Making It?

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Benefits of Freelancing While Teaching

Author: Emily Baier - December 8, 2021

Many of our freelance writers and editors also teach in the classroom. Before working full-time at CSA, I was a classroom teacher who also freelanced for seven years. I often found out that many people assumed that educational content was always developed in-house by big brand companies. I, personally, had not heard about freelance writing […]

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Nanolearning: A Little Content Goes a Long Way

Author: Kimberly Gier - November 1, 2021

The idea that shorter lessons might increase retention is not new. Successful nanolearning takes advantage of technology to individualize learning by delivering content that students need or want to know when they need or want it.

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Strategies for Planning Challenges Many Teachers Face

Author: Lisa Panka - October 6, 2021

School administrators and teachers can work together to build a collaborative environment for sharing ideas.

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Setting Learning Goals with Students

Author: Laura Cunningham - September 1, 2021

Setting achievable learning goals with students can be a great tool to increase motivation.

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Health and Wellness: Eliminate Stress

Author: Corrie Thompson - August 4, 2021

You can cut off ties to the social projection of life and stay present in the moment.

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Health and Wellness: Fighting Off Screen Fatigue

Author: Corrie Thompson - July 7, 2021

With classes, administration meetings, and off-hour social hangouts all being online, you can be tired of the screen.

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Health and Wellness: An Introduction

Author: Corrie Thompson - June 1, 2021

Teaching kids to incorporate health and wellness practices can support them by fulfilling their social-emotional needs, encouraging creative expression, and validating mental health realities.

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Rethinking Grammar Instruction

Author: Joanna Merrithey - May 5, 2021

When students are shown how to analyze grammar and develop an understanding of how grammar works, they can use it express precise meaning in their own writing. When students see how authors use grammar for specific purposes, they can apply grammar in their own writing.

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Equity and Inclusion in Civics Instruction

Author: Ron Watson - April 13, 2021

A rise in awareness in regard to diversity, equity, inclusion, and representation is driving an evolution in social studies instruction, particularly civics instruction.

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Student Engagement Is Often Missing During Online Learning

Author: Kim Doele - March 3, 2021

How we teach virtually is going to look and feel different than classroom teaching, but planning for engaging students remains essential.

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Writing Specs for Stock Images

Author: Peter Reid - February 3, 2021

Whether you are producing print or digital content or writing specifications for stock images, video, or commissioned illustration, it can be a challenge for designers and editors. For publishers, the goal is to have art approved quickly, ideally within the third pass. This allows the image to be placed on page and approved in context. […]

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Don’t Forget to Encourage Kids to Play!

Author: Joanna Merrithey - January 6, 2021

Everything can be playful with the right mindset—even cleaning! Play is essential for every child’s development, whether it be social play, independent play, or guided play.

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New Realities in Education

Author: Eric Placek - December 2, 2020

Instead of looking at illustrations of dinosaurs in a textbook, students can use AR technology to get an up-close look at three-dimensional dinosaurs in action.

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Resources For Teaching Tolerance

Author: CSA Education - November 16, 2020

We’ve put together a list of resources on teaching tolerance. Will you join us on this International Day for Tolerance as we continue to listen and learn?

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Copy Editing

Author: Fran Jacobs - November 4, 2020

The word itself, copyedit, is ambivalent. As a verb, it’s one word (preferred), but as a noun, it’s two words, copy editor, according to Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, so don’t believe everything your spellchecker tells you.

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Every Student Succeeds Act in a Pandemic

Author: Lisa Panka - October 7, 2020

Just as many states were getting their footing, the world was faced with a pandemic. States questioned how they could possibly meet their ESSA and ESEA requirements while trying to find a way to provide the most basic services to students at home.

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Fact-Checking You Can Count On

Author: Corrie Thompson - September 2, 2020

Fact-checking information is instrumental to assuring your audience that the knowledge shared is credible and timely.

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Dogs of CSA Education!

Author: Penny Stamp - August 25, 2020

It’s National Dog Day! We love our dogs here at CSA Education.

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Representation in Education

Author: Lisa Panka - July 1, 2020

Recent events have shone a spotlight on some dramatic inequalities in our society. What can we as educators and curriculum developers do to be part of the solution?

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COVID-19 and Learning Loss

Author: Lisa Panka & Joanna Merrithey - June 25, 2020

This year’s learning loss may be more drastic because of the students’ absence from their schools for an extended period of time. How can educators and parents lessen the impact of extended stay-at-home orders on student growth?

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Guided Reading: The Writing Process

Author: CSA Staff - May 29, 2020

“I think it would be amazing to have the kids watch the writing process happen in real life. We teach the writing process, but kids don’t really understand that writers use it too,” said Ann, a guided reading specialist. Let’s do it. Let’s develop a series of leveled readers that goes through the entire writing process.

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Guided Reading: What Students and Teachers Want

Author: CSA Staff - May 29, 2020

If we want to make our guided reading programs really shine and meet teachers’ and kids’ needs, we should give them what they want: cool books, reading suggestions, fun facts, and video links!

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UDL as an “Adaptable” Curriculum

Author: CSA Staff - May 29, 2020

Students should not have to adapt to the curriculum; the curriculum should adapt to the student. UDL may be the solution to that problem.

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Five Ways to Incorporate Social-Emotional Learning in the Classroom or at Home

Author: Joanna Merrithey - May 29, 2020

Many educators are advocating prioritizing students’ social and emotional wellness over grades and assignments. What are some activities you can do with children that focus on social-emotional learning?

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NCTM: Adapting to Change in Centennial Year

Author: Lisa Panka - May 29, 2020

With their 2020 conference cancelled, NCTM found a creative way to provide professional development to educators around the world.

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Virtual Adventures for Children (and Parents!) Stuck at Home

Author: Teresa Roberts - May 28, 2020

Sparking your child’s curiosity and encouraging engagement with learning has never been more critical. A wide variety of educational and cultural institutions offer virtual resources that can help.

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