The Juice Spent 2024 Improving Our Platform for Teachers Across Subject Areas
2024 was all about innovation and empowering teachers with The Juice. Our mission to improve literacy and critical thinking skills inspired us to develop features that make teaching with informational texts and current events for students even more effective. This year, we launched new tools for progress monitoring, enhanced our database of articles so teachers of every subject could find articles to anchor their lessons, and made our platform more accessible than ever.
Here’s a look at the updates we made in 2024 to support teachers in every subject, ensuring every student gets the most out of their daily time with The Juice.
Enhanced Data Tracking with Progress Reports
We know how important it is for teachers to have actionable insights into their students’ progress. That’s why we added Progress Reports to the Class Tab.
What’s New?
- Track Reading Time: Teachers can see how much time students spend reading ELA news articles versus how much time they should be spending, making it easy to see who is reading closely and who is skimming.
- Adjust Reading Levels: The new Progress Report helps teachers make data-driven decisions to adjust individual student reading levels, ensuring content stays accessible yet challenging. Teachers can individually accept or reject reading level adjustment recommendations or turn on auto-adjust and let our algorithm keep track of student reading levels.
- Improve Daily Reading Practice: The Progress Report is especially valuable for teachers using The Juice as a formative assessment tool for tracking progress on reading standards. Teachers can use the Progress Report to track what percent of comprehension questions students are answering correctly.
For more information on Progress Reports, read the full feature update.
Social Studies Content Tags: Aligned with the C3 Framework
Teaching social studies is seamless with the introduction of social studies content tags. Now, teachers can easily search for informational texts aligned with the C3 Social Studies Framework.
Content Tags for Social Studies Include:
- Economics: Use current event lesson plans to connect classroom discussions to global markets.
- Civics: Explore articles about government systems and civic engagement to teach current events effectively.
- Geography: Help students understand the relationship between culture and place using current events lesson plan templates with geography tags.
- History: Relate past events to the present with engaging, factual content.
For more information on Social Studies Content Tags, read the full feature update.
Science Content Tags for STEM-Based Learning
Science teachers can now search for informational text lessons using tags aligned with key STEM standards. These tags simplify the process of integrating informative reading into science courses like physics, biology, chemistry, and health.
Content Tags for Science Include:
- Earth & Space: Articles on climate change, space exploration, and geological events.
- Engineering: Content highlighting innovation and problem-solving in technology.
- Life Science: Dive into biology topics like ecosystems, genetics, and medical advancements.
- Physics: Explore articles about energy, forces, and the physical laws of nature.
These tags make it easier for educators to combine news for students with hands-on STEM activities for deeper engagement.
For more information on Science Content Tags, read the full feature update.
Math Content Tags: Linking Math to Real-Life
Making math relevant to students just got easier. Our math content tags connect math concepts to everyday situations through informational texts and current events for students.
Content Tags for Math Include:
- Reasoning Mathematically: Articles that challenge students to solve real-world problems.
- Representing Data: Visual aids like graphs and charts to support teaching newspaper headlines with data analysis.
- Statistical Analysis: Resources for understanding trends in global issues.
- Probability: Articles exploring the likelihood of events, from weather patterns to elections.
By using these math content tags to search for relevant articles, math teachers can easily anchor their lessons to real-life situations and build student reading skills at the same time. Math teachers can make abstract concepts tangible and engaging for students who struggle with number sense.
For more information on Math Content Tags, read the full feature update.
Score Reports for Individual Student Success
Our new score reports provide teachers with a snapshot of student progress, which is especially useful for teachers who use the Juice for daily reading practice or as a homework or bellwork grade.
How Teachers Use Score Reports:
- Assess how students are progressing with reading ELA news articles in The Daily Juice.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of current event lesson plans in engaging students to read daily and adjust instruction accordingly.
Whether used for bellwork, homework, or formative assessments, these reports make it easier to foster consistent growth.
For more information on Score Reports, read the full feature update.
The Juice App: Learning On-the-Go
This year, we launched The Juice App! Now available on both Apple and Android devices. This new platform brings informational texts and current events for students to a mobile-friendly format, making learning accessible anywhere, anytime.
App Features Include:
- Seamless integration with classroom tools including The Daily Juice, article assignments, and teacher resources like current events lesson plan templates.
- Accommodations for reading the news for ESL students like translations and read-aloud options.
- Quick access to informational text articles for students on the go.
The app ensures that students and teachers alike can stay connected to learning wherever they are.
For more information on The Juice App, read the full update.
Looking Ahead to 2025
The Juice is proud to be the only platform that delivers original news for students every day. We’ve loved working with teachers to make the platform better and better every year, and we can’t wait for users to see what we have in store for 2025.
In 2025, we’re excited to continue improving our platform, expanding our resources, and empowering educators to create impactful classroom experiences through current events for students.
If you’d like to see any new features on The Juice in 2025, send your thoughts to info@thejuice.news. Thank you for being a Juicer!
