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Archived posts from the category "Curriculum"

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Crowdsourcing the Muddiest Point in a Large Lecture Bio Class

What is endosymbiotic theory? How does the flipase enzyme affect molecules in the cell membrane? How do you distinguish between saturated and unsaturated chains? How will two amino acids interact […]

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Start with How and Why

Start your Eli Review course by explaining why peer feedback matters and how to give helpful feedback.  This video shows how to load from Eli’s task library a write-review-revise cycle […]

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Peer Learning Leads to Impressive Gains on ACT

It’s rare to see impressive gains year-over-year on standardized tests. Cohorts of students can be quite different; learning is gradual; and assessments focus on a narrow set of issues. But […]

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Teaching Feedback Changes How High School Students Talk to Each Other About Writing

For the past two years, several high school teachers have been teaching writing differently. Through the Statewide Writing Research Project, 30 teacher-researchers and 1,400 students in the Oakland ISD have […]

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Evidence-Based Teaching: Where You Look Matters

Melissa Meeks is the Director of Professional Development for Drawbridge, Eli Review’s parent company. In this post, she reflects on how she recently stepped back into teaching and what she’s […]

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