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districts
The Power of District-Based Tutoring Initiatives
To address the challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic has leveled against educators and students, school districts around the country are…
partnerships
Partnership Spotlight: Yup and ASSISTments
Yup is excited to share our partnership with ASSISTments. Together, we are committed to expanding teacher capacity and accelerating student…
Learning Support
Reducing Homework Headaches
Homework has been a mainstay of our educational experiences, but it is a practice that has been the subject of much debate. Elsewhere on Yup…
Academic Insight
Supporting students just-in-case versus just-in-time
Scaffolding - supports provided to students to assist them in meeting a learning goal - is a universally beneficial pedagogical tool, right…
Learning Support
How Robotics Can Help Learning
Robots have always been the poster child for technology, and nothing excites the imagination quite like the thought of a mechanical sentient…
EdTech
The Impact of EdTech on Homeschooling
Homeschooling has been an alternative to traditional classroom-based education since, well, forever. In recent years, homeschooling has…
EdTech
How EdTech is Transforming Learning Management
Learning management is the name given to all the different tools and systems that help make education more efficient and organized. It…
EdTech
5 EdTech Pioneers To Know
EdTech is still a relatively new industry, and in many ways is still in its infancy. However, there are some established and influential…
EdTech
6 EdTech Startups to Watch in 2022
2021 has been a big year for EdTech. As the world continues its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re left with a legacy of fascinating…
Learning Support
The Benefits of Subscription-Based Learning for Education
Subscription services are skyrocketing in popularity. The subscription economy is predicted to grow from $650 billion to to $1.5 trillion by…
Academic Insight
Differentiation During the Pandemic
“Differentiation is a journey that all teachers must take,” writes Sally Reis, Distinguished Professor and Education Psychology Chair at the…
Academic Insight
Yup Webinar Announcement!
We’re so excited to announce that Yup (that’s us!) is hosting an Education Week Webinar on “Addressing Unfinished Learning in Math…
Math Learning
TikTok-ing about Math
Who knew TikTok could be harnessed to improve your math skills? Teens, of course. One teen in particular has used the popular short-form…
Academic Insight
The Power of Teachers' Words
“I am giving you this feedback because I believe in you.” This simple sentence was the focus of a study on teacher messaging in 2013. In…
EdTech
4 Emerging Technologies that are Shaping the Future of EdTech
The last decade has seen an explosion in new technologies. In just a few years, we’ve seen tech shift from the realm of sci-fi to everyday…
Learning Support
Finding Equity in After School Programs
Though sometimes overlooked, after-school programming represents a significant segment of the K-12 education landscape. Just last week, the…
EdTech
4 Unexpected Advantages of Digital Learning Over Traditional Classroom Instruction
As digital learning has exploded into the mainstream over the last few years, there’s been a lot of very public talk about the many benefits…
Math Learning
Metacognition in Math Classrooms
Many people might think that in math classrooms the key question is, “What’s the correct answer?” However, Sam Rhodes, a professor of math…
Academic Insight
Danger of Emphasizing Speed
Dr. Eugene Geist, an early childhood development researcher and author of Children are Born Mathematicians, describes a discouraging moment…
Academic Insight
How Can Digital Education Platforms Create Fairer Learning Outcomes for STEM?
The phenomenon of the "opportunity gap” is a persistent challenge in the world of education. Data consistently shows achievement disparities…
Learning Support
The Struggle is Real: Supporting your Child in Math
Elsewhere on Yup’s blog we have written about debates around homework within the field of education. For families, homework can be a…
Academic Insight
The Power of Feedback
Grant Wiggins, a giant in education circles as co-author of Understanding by Design, underscores what many teachers come to learn when he…
Math Learning
The Importance of Building on Students' Prior Knowledge
Whenever a student is faced with a new problem, topic, or challenge, they fall back on prior knowledge to formulate an initial response. By…
EdTech
5 Countries Nailing EdTech
An increasing reliance on digital learning and EdTech tools seems sure to be one of the lasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The…
Academic Insight
Why Don't More Students Ask For Help
“Speak up” or “raise your hand if you need help” is easier said than done. Although teachers urge their students to ask for help if they are…
Learning Support
Supporting Teachers When They Are Overwhelmed
The report by the EdSurge research team “Education in the Face of Unprecedented Challenges” does not mince words in its conclusions about…
Academic Insight
Math Teacher Shortage Crisis: Insight and Possible Solutions
“I think we are in a critical situation,” said Joe Siano, Superintendent of Schools in Norman, Oklahoma, as he discussed the teacher…
EdTech
4 Important Ways COVID-19 Accelerated EdTech
The education technology industry was growing fast even before COVID-19 came along. In 2019 global EdTech investments reached US$18.6…
Academic Insight
The Never-Ending Homework Debate: Insight and Solution
“I hate homework,” asserts author and mother Ayelet Waldman in a 2005 opinion piece for Salon titled “Homework hell.” Similarly strong…
Learning Support
Unpacking Teacher Burnout
A RAND survey conducted in January 2021 found that nearly one in four teachers were considering leaving their jobs, compared with one in six…
Math Achievement
Math Achievement as a Predictor of College Persistence
Math Achievement: A Building Block to Future Success When students progress through their math education, they mobilize concepts and skills…
Math Learning
How to Promote Productive Struggle In Math and Raise Math Rigor
The definition of “productive struggle” is effortful learning that empowers students to attempt solving new math problems using logic and…
Learning
Learning Acceleration: The Key To Resolving Unfinished Learning?
Unfinished learning is a hot topic in 2021. This phrase refers to concepts students have not yet mastered that will be key to grasping…
learning
How COVID Accelerated Unfinished Learning in Students
The “Summer Slide” is a phenomenon well-known to educators and administrators. This term refers to the seemingly inevitable slump in…
Learning
Growth Mindset In Classrooms
Scientific research shows that brains are malleable and can grow through learning. According to Carol Dweck, professor of psychology at…
algebra
Importance of Algebra I
“Algebra has often been referred to as a ‘gatekeeper’ to higher learning — both in mathematics and in other fields,” writes Linda M. Gojak…
math learning
Closing the Mathematics Opportunity Gap
STEM is one of the most rewarding career paths available today. It’s a fast-growing field packed full of opportunities and high-paying jobs…
math learning
The Role of Rigor in the Mathematics Classroom
“Rigor” has become a buzzword in math education, and an often misunderstood one if we stop at the dictionary definition of rigor as simply…
math learning
The Puzzling Persistence of Tracking
“So we have a practice that’s very popular [and] very common, that’s based on a flawed theory and for which there’s almost no evidence of…
data science
Making Space for Data Science in High School Mathematics
Making Space for Data Science in High School Mathematics Teaching math is not just geared towards helping students expand their professional…
digital education
COVID-19 and High Dosage Tutoring (HDT)
Educators and administrators across the country are facing higher rates of learning loss than ever before due to the destabilizing impact of…
digital education
BayTech Receives EduJedi Award
The Yup Team strives to help every student thrive! This means that an award for a partner school recognizing their ability to help students…
education best practices
Learning Loss In The Time Of Coronavirus: An Update
"This is not a typical year. We could see an entire semester of learning disappear for millions of students! What will we do when we have…
digital education
e-Learning in 2021
As an e-Learning platform, Yup takes pride in keeping tabs on exciting developments happening in the online education world. In prior…
education best practices
How to be a working parent during COVID
Supporting working parents during COVID It’s no secret that working parents are struggling during the COVID 19 pandemic. On top of the…
education best practices
What We’ve Learned About Distance Learning
It’s been incredible to see how quickly educators and families have adapted to distance learning. Curriculum, technologies, and ways of…
interview
Ask an Educator: Bradley Conrad, Ph.D.
20-minute read At Yup, we never stop learning! That's why we’ve been taking time to chat with fellow educators on the subjects we're most…
education news
Your Weekly Education News Roundup
The Latest Education News, Picked for You Do a quick Google search for school news. Reopening plans for the fall! Remote education apps…
school stories
Success Story: Collegiate Charter High School of Los Angeles
Meet Collegiate Charter High School Collegiate Charter (CCHS) is a small and mighty high school located in East Los Angeles, California. The…
interview
We Can Make Strides Towards Education Equity Now
"We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else…
education best practices
Learning Loss in the Time of Coronavirus
Update Jan. 2021: An update on the Learning Loss has been published here. Summer has arrived, bringing an end to our hectic, 3-month…
education best practices
eBook Download: How You Can Teach for Long-Term Learning
Yup’s teaching methods form the backbone of our tutoring process. They were developed by education experts with collective decades of…
digital education
Online Resources to Supplement Learning at Home
Schools across the country will continue to take necessary precautions to keep students and educators safe and prevent the spread of COVID…
education best practices
How to Make the Most of Distance Learning
Over the past few months, teachers and students have been adjusting their daily routines, schedules, and mindsets in order to make the most…
yup news
Yup for Schools Brings Math Tutoring to Students at Scale
At Yup, our mission is to empower every student to learn. In these unprecedented and uncertain times, we look to our mission as a North Star…
education best practices
Math Skills Can Help Your Child Navigate Life
Off the top of your head, some subjects might seem easier to connect to "real life" than others. Reading and writing are an obvious example…
digital education
Why Virtual Tutoring Apps May Be the Best Fit for Your Student
Virtual Tutoring Apps The popularity of virtual tutoring applications has skyrocketed in recent years. In fact, the supplemental education…
digital education
Popular e-Learning Tips and Tools in 2020
In 2020, technology is on every proverbial corner. For educators and parents, it may feel like technology is also permanently glued to the…
education best practices
Building Respect in the Classroom
Respect is essential to every healthy dynamic. It should come as no shock that this is also true when building relationships with students…
education best practices
Readying Students for Rigor in the Modern Classroom
Welcome to the Modern Math Classroom We spoke with several teachers, tutors, and education journalists, and they all agree: teaching math in…
student stories
Meet the High Schooler Using Yup to Master Geometry
Meet Mya and Michelle Michelle watched her daughter Mya grapple with math from an early age. “Math was hard for her, even when she was…
resources
Parents, Let's Talk Math Challenges
We've spoken to hundreds of parents about the challenges they face when trying to help their children with math. "They teach math…
education best practices
How Concept Mastery In Math Helps Students Succeed
Concept mastery learning is an increasingly popular educational strategy that has been linked to exceptional learning outcomes compared to…
digital education
Mobile math tutoring for students
Picture this. It’s 9:30 on a Wednesday night and you just cracked the cover of your Algebra textbook to start homework. It’s been a long day…
education best practices
Personalized learning strategies for educators
Personalized learning can be incredibly useful for all students, whether they're excelling or working hard to not fall behind in class. By…
white paper
Yup White Paper: Why learn math
Welcome to the second installment in a series of resources from Yup’s Student Success Team! In this next white paper, we provide parents…
white paper
Yup White Paper: Bringing empathy to the digital space through app-based tutoring
The Yup Student Success Team has been hard at work researching and writing comprehensive resources for parents, their children, and…
yup news
Welcoming Professor Judah Schwartz to Our Education Advisory Board
The Yup team is thrilled to announce that Professor Judah Schwartz has joined as the head of our growing Education Advisory Board! Professor…
yup on yup
Meet a Yupper: Kreg Moccia, Director of Academics Part 2
We recently sat down with our Director of Academics Kreg Moccia to pick his brain and learn about his background in education. In this next…
yup on yup
Meet a Yupper: Kreg Moccia, Director of Academics
Everyone at Yup shares a deep passion for education and improving access to learning resources. Many of us are also former teachers and…
digital education
Math Tutoring Technology
In our last post, we took a deeper look at some of the teaching methods central to Yup tutoring: building Growth Mindset and using Socratic…
education best practices
Every Brain is a Math Brain
At Yup, we know that no two students learn the same way! Some students are visual learners who process information with help from images and…
artificial intelligence
What AI needs before it can teach math like we do
Software is already teaching math, but in the same way telephone poles are teaching us to look up every now and then when we text and walk…
students
In the arms race for student attention, no side is winning
Attention is practically solid. It has a span. People request, hold, lose, and pay it. You can be its center. In a very real sense, we…
edtech
The science of learning in 4 words
After quietly piling up for more than a century, memory research recently went nuts. There’s now a buffet of pop-science books, online…