eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

When we personalize support, structure the environment thoughtfully, and teach with clarity and empathy, we give students the best chance to reach their full potential. This might mean clearly outlining what is expected in an assignment, breaking down large tasks into smaller steps, or organizing test questions in a logical, grouped format.

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Students Learning Styles Assignments Communication 220

eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

Key points: Students need more than digital access; they need guidance 5 AI tools for classroom creativity A new era for teachers as AI disrupts instruction For more news on navigating AI, visit eSNs Digital Learning hub Finding accurate information has long been a cornerstone skill of librarianship and classroom research instruction.

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Evaluation Ethics Academic Integrity Internet 247

eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

These platforms offer unprecedented opportunities to personalize learning, refine curriculum development, and support teaching. To benefit K-12 teaching and learning, it is essential that we find ways to propel innovation while minimizing risk. The result?

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Education Quizzes Ethics Academic Integrity 290

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2025

Fast forward to today, where we can access all the information we could ever need from the device in our pocket. Could we be teaching students about prompt engineering so AI can help them find holes in the arguments? AI can be a powerful tool in making learning accessible to all students. Consider different viewpoints?

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Critical Thinking Essay Ethics Exams 161

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

A recent Google blog post outlines how four different school districts are leveraging Google AI tools, like Gemini and NotebookLM, for innovative teaching and learning. Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is using NotebookLM and Gemini for curriculum review and district guidance.

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Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 202

k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

For example, mobile flashcards and microlearning videos- short, focused lessons accessible via smartphones- allow students to review and reinforce knowledge in brief intervals, boosting retention and engagement [2]. Students in remote areas can access the same quality of instruction as those in educational hubs.

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Education Learning Knowledge Feedback 152

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

One in five educators believe that AI is the way of the future and both teachers and students will need to embrace it to succeed, while 17 percent stated that AI can be as valuable as textbooks to teach students concepts. How could or should the math teachers role change as a result of student AI use?

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Math Participation Feedback High School 233

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. It seems as if a quick scan of one of the assigned pages is the best effort.

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Instructors Assignments Participation Students 86

Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. That kind of insight changes how we teach. I also let students revise one major assignment. These weren’t just different schools—they were different worlds. Often, it’s a preparedness gap.

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Teaching Elementary School Elementary School Failure 53

Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. That kind of insight changes how we teach. I also let students revise one major assignment. These weren’t just different schools—they were different worlds. Often, it’s a preparedness gap.

Teaching 53

Teaching Elementary School Elementary School Failure 53

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. Experts often hope that new technology will close achievement gaps and improve access for students in rural communities and those from lower income families or in other marginalized groups, Hayes says.

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Essay Ethics Fairness Assignments 165

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

The mentor has access to a shared platform that is also accessible and regularly updated by faculty and advisors at the educational institution. Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! These assignments are not “additional” but are a core part of the curriculum. How does that work?

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Syllabus Education Ethics Instructors 88

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

These disparities don’t reflect differences in ability, they reflect differences in access. Housing discrimination from the 1930s to 1960s led to generational wealth disparities , unequal access to resources and residential segregation. And if that weren’t enough, I’m now navigating this very system as a parent. Black and Latinx.

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Elementary School Elementary School Testing Accessibility 132

Teach Hub

APRIL 30, 2025

If youre looking for something new to try, one simple yet powerful strategy might surprise you: take your teaching outside. So instead of trying to overhaul your entire teaching approach to make outdoor learning work, with a little planning and flexibility, you can incorporate outdoor teaching in a manageable and fun way.

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Activities Teaching Learning Attention 85

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Kids teach themselves astonishingly complex things through trial, error, iteration, and YouTube. They’ll memorize elaborate lore, master mechanics, mimic skills, and explain them to others—all without being assigned a single worksheet. Our job isn’t to teach them how to learn. Or makeup tutorials. Or skateboarding.

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Motivation Learning Students Achievement 269

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

The mentor has access to a shared platform that is also accessible and regularly updated by faculty and advisors at the educational institution. Tara’s first assignment in general psychology reads as follows: “Hi Tara! These assignments are not “additional” but are a core part of the curriculum. How does that work?

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Syllabus Education Ethics Instructors 89

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

In higher education, we see our students use AI in many ways, to provide both authorized and unauthorized aid in their completion of assignments. He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. As instructors, our role is not just to provide access to content.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 95

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Since the public release of ChatGPT in December 2022, educators have faced the challenge of effectively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their teaching. Strategic Approaches to AI Integration One effective strategy is to intentionally redesign classroom activities and assignments to incorporate AI tools.

Ethics 81

Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 81

Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

As classrooms across the country become more linguistically diverse, educators face a growing challenge: ensuring that every student, regardless of English proficiency, can access learning, participate fully and feel included. Today, emergent bilingual (EB) students, also known as English learners, account for 10.6 percent of U.S.

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English Languages Language Assignments 128

Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

Not only is it okay to stop grading every single assignment , but there’s also a smarter way to ensure your students are learning and growing: self-checking student work. Math Fluency Practice Without the Grading Drain You assign a daily math warm-up with 50 addition facts. Thats where self-checking student work comes in.

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Students Peer Review Math Assignments 52

Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Gamification Motivation Learning Learning Styles 102

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom. Many faculty are often unprepared for the volume of work that comes with teaching online.

eLearning 63

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 63

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Similarly, we think Chickering and Gamson’s approach to teaching applies to the modern day online classroom. Many faculty are often unprepared for the volume of work that comes with teaching online.

eLearning 62

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 62

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Actionable Tip : Assign a dedicated AI governance team to monitor adherence to policies. His work is grounded in a belief that great design and strategy should serve access, equity, and outcomes.

Ethics 110

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 110

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. After years of teaching, I noticed how often students carried academic, emotional, and personal burdens without sharing them. Their contributions werent theoretical.

Disabilities 53

Disabilities Course Design Students Lecturing 53

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The case reveals insights about a question relevant to a marathon course or an academic course: How can the integrity of results be ensured when there is easy access to technology that can be used to cheat? In other words, regardless of students access to AI tools, cheating has been and continues to be endemic.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

These data-driven approaches make it possible to transition from reactive teaching to proactive guidance. This data is accessible to both teachers and students through visual dashboards, which serve as powerful motivators and intervention tools. Flipped Classroom 2.0 In-class activities should build directly on pre-class efforts.

Critical Thinking 80

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 80

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

These data-driven approaches make it possible to transition from reactive teaching to proactive guidance. This data is accessible to both teachers and students through visual dashboards, which serve as powerful motivators and intervention tools. Flipped Classroom 2.0 In-class activities should build directly on pre-class efforts.

Critical Thinking 89

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 89

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Actionable Tip : Assign a dedicated AI governance team to monitor adherence to policies. His work is grounded in a belief that great design and strategy should serve access, equity, and outcomes.

Ethics 71

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 71

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This is something that you should keep in mind when looking for where you want to study, as you can find an electrical and computer engineering online degree that gives you access to excellent information, whilst staying at home and being able to engage from all over the world. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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Lecturing Motivation Essay High School 82

Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

Funding for “Grow Your Own” initiatives, emergency credentialing programs, and university-district partnerships has been reduced in several states, undermining efforts to build sustainable local pathways into teaching ( Brookings ). This frames the conversation around compliance and student access, not just HR shortages.

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Special Education English Languages Language 94

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Every student deserves access; its a fundamental part of literacy. Just as we teach the alphabet, structure, vocabulary and syntax, we must teach the language of computers. Every student deserves access; its a fundamental part of literacy. Computer science is essential, not optional.

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Science Education Ethics Students 111

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Maybe they forget to turn in assignments, have trouble organizing their thoughts, or feel overwhelmed by fast-paced lessons. This program helps students turn frustration into achievement by teaching them how to manage tasks effectively and approach learning with a problem-solving mindset.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Assigned seats in a grid pattern aren’t your only option for an engaging classroom setup anymore! Flexible Seating Choice Charts – Editable by Shannon Maree Teaching Grades: 2nd-5th Have your students use these easy clip choice charts for smart decisions without the arguing.

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Classroom Management Discussions Grades Lecturing 98

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Leveraging Technology One of the most significant advantages of online learning is access to various digital tools that go far beyond what’s available in a traditional classroom. Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. These conversations foster independence and improve the overall learning experience.

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Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Teacher Mood

JUNE 11, 2025

It helps you: Stay organized without relying on Wi-Fi Track changes over time Spot missing assignments at a glance Handle mid-year program changes with less stress Let’s take a closer look at some real-life teacher situations where a paper gradebook saves the day. Situation 1: “Is This Assignment Missing?” You’re standing at your desk.

Grades 52

Grades Special Education Assignments Testing 52