Category: News
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Poptential™ Expands Bell Ringer Content in Free Social Studies Curriculum
Poptential™, an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, has expanded and enhanced its Bell Ringer content with the goal of providing a bell ringer for every day of the school year.
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Poptential™ Free World History Content Tackles Latin American Independence
Poptential™, a family of award-winning social studies course packages that infuse lessons with digital storytelling using pop culture references, offers an array of engaging content to help World History instructors address National Hispanic Heritage Month and Latin American Independence.
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3 Ways an Honest History Education Can Heal a Fractured Country
When done right, American history instruction creates independent thinkers and respectful debaters.
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Blending Socratic discussion with modern tech
One of the most effective teaching methods for the past 2,500 years has been the Socratic method, which encourages learning and critical thinking through fruitful dialogue and debate. When digital learning tools and curricula came on the scene, it appeared that classrooms fueled by Socratic discussions would go the way of dinosaurs — or Socrates.…
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Poptential™ Free Personal Finance Curriculum Makes Financial Literacy Engaging and Fun
Rising gas prices, soaring inflation, and the sky-high cost of attending college are three economic challenges impacting high schoolers, and a recent survey conducted by Junior Achievement and Citizens Financial Group shows that majority of them feel unprepared to deal with these financial issues. Poptential™ offers a free curriculum designed to make learning about personal…
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Poptential™ Digital Storytelling Makes Summer School Fun
Courses like Poptential, which infuse course content with pop culture media, really appeal to digital-native students and make learning fun and effective…
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Poptential™ Free Curriculum Brings History Alive for Independence Day
Poptential courses, used by more than 30,000 teachers in 50 states, include everything instructors need to teach a subject, digitally accessible in one place, including lessons, ebooks, bell ringers, quizzes, and tests, as well as pop culture media to make lessons interesting and relatable to students. Curriculum packages are standards-based and developed by social studies…
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Finalist for Two EdTech 2022 Awards
Certell, Inc., a nonprofit online curriculum developer, announced it was named a Finalist for two EdTech 2022 Awards sponsored by EdTech Digest. Certell’s Poptential™ social studies curriculum was recognized as a Finalist for Curriculum and Instruction Solution, and Certell CEO Fred Fransen was named a Finalist for the EdTech Leadership Award.
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Poptential™ Teacher-Base Sees Growth of 70% in 2021
Certell, Inc., a nonprofit online curriculum developer, announced that the number of teachers using its Poptential™ social studies curriculum packages grew by 70% in 2021, a sign that teachers are looking for ways to infuse lessons with popular culture and digital storytelling to reach digital native students.
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Poptential™ Teacher-Base Sees 70% Growth in 2021
Certell, Inc., a nonprofit online curriculum developer, announced that the number of teachers using its Poptential™ social studies curriculum packages grew by 70% in 2021, a sign that teachers are looking for ways to infuse lessons with popular culture and digital storytelling to reach digital native students.