eSchool News

JULY 23, 2025

Sidekick also helps teachers write thank-you notes, respond to messages, create multiple-choice assessments, write story posts, and more. Diffit helps teachers effortlessly craft accessible, engaging learning materials tailored to every student’s level.

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A Place Called Kindergarten

JULY 24, 2025

A YEAR OF KINDERGARTEN WRITING FROM DRAWING TO CONFIDENT WRITERS Teaching writing in kindergarten can feel like chasing a moving target. Some students come in writing full sentences. Kids love writing about their favorite foods, animals, or things in their backpack. Others are still learning how to hold a pencil.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

While Gemini is providing our employees with access to generative AI, Gemini for teens will provide our high school students with the focused support of AI in a safer environment with appropriate safeguards, said superintendent Dr. Jose L. Albuquerque Public Schools is focusing on grant writing and lesson planning.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

In a case study, we saw students collaborating with multinational companies and startups, with access to authentic design challenges and meaningful engagement with real-world professionals. And we have to make sure it’s equitable, that all students get access, support, and the chance to succeed. It’s contagious.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

In a case study, we saw students collaborating with multinational companies and startups, with access to authentic design challenges and meaningful engagement with real-world professionals. And we have to make sure it’s equitable, that all students get access, support, and the chance to succeed. It’s contagious.

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Learning Critical Thinking History Secondary Education 130

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. But it does.

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Elementary School Elementary School Testing Accessibility 132

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

Block out time for reading and writing 3. It also comes with monthly activities and printables focused on fine motor skills like writing and coloring. Block out time for reading and writing Reading and writing are core components of any strong homeschool curriculum. Table of Contents 1. Start with core concepts 2.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Nationwide, high-quality CS education programs and equitable access lag behind demand. At the heart of the plan was a bold goal: provide every student with access to computer science education. These moments made computational thinking visible and accessible, even for the youngest learners.

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k12 Digest

JULY 24, 2025

Creating fun and accessible chemistry stories has been a labor of love for Colleen as a retired University of Arizona chemistry professor and author of a series of kids’ chemistry comic books. This vision transforms chemistry from a “weed-out” course into an accessible, engaging, and essential component of lifelong learning.

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Education Cognitive Development Languages Language 130

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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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Blunt says her use of whiteboards includes “anything they want and anything I want,” she has four frequently-used prompts for making retrieval a regular part of her classes: brain dump: Ask students to write down everything they remember about a topic for 2 minutes. “It doesn’t have that fun feeling. ” she says.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 13, 2025

From digital literacy tools to interactive learning platforms, access to reliable technology helps level the educational playing field. For many students, school may be the only place where they have access to reliable internet, a quiet space to learn, or even a working device.

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Technology Internet Intelligence STEM 137

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Course Context I teach a required, writing-intensive course for students in their junior year of their undergraduate studies. In addition to a heavy writing component, there is also a heavy reading component. While students enjoy the subject matter, they are not terribly thrilled by the amount of reading they are expected to complete.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 247

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Launching with four exciting episodes featuring lessons on run-on sentences, context clues, and writing purpose, the series is a go-to resource for differentiated ELA instruction. These resources map to 14 National Career Clusters and connect classrooms with Career Connect , which offers students virtual access to industry professionals.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

All you need is designated time in your class, the right writing materials, and a prompt that really inspires them. This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) ” You’ll also find tips for getting middle schoolers to write in every class. Yes, even math!

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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. I wanted to change thatnot just by asking better questions, but by building an open-access platform that would amplify student voices and inform actionable change.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives” (p. Simple Course Design Supports Student Success Darby (2019) writes about how students can easily become overwhelmed by online classes and may struggle using the institution’s portal or LMS. Dr. Jennifer P.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 70

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

They must talk about what they are learning, write about it, relate it to past experiences, and apply it to their daily lives” (p. Simple Course Design Supports Student Success Darby (2019) writes about how students can easily become overwhelmed by online classes and may struggle using the institution’s portal or LMS. Dr. Jennifer P.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 68

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

It makes learning more accessible by setting the stage and giving students the context they need to engage with confidence. By organizing ideas visually, students can structure their thinking, make connections, and build confidence before they start writing or speaking. A synonym for is.

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Languages Language Participation Writing 52

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

I imagined a space where parents could access tools, attend workshops and learn how to advocate for their children in schools that often silenced or sidelined them. Writing handbooks. My original vision was simply to help Black students and their families better navigate the public education system. Absolutely. It’s managing cash flow.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” Anne Trumbore “I have been an ensemble player in the transformation of online education from experimental and low status to ‘innovative’ and ‘disruptive,’” she writes. “I

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Getting Meta with AI in the Classroom: A Reflective Approach In a junior-level education course, I assigned students the task of writing a reflective paper on the various uses of AI tools, such as ChatGPT, in the classroom. link] (translation accessed at: [link] ) Gates, B. 2023, March 21). The Age of AI has Begun. GatesNotes.

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Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 89

Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

In fact, in addition to concepts like backward design and power standards, they are one of the most useful tools a teacher-as-learning-designer has access to. Though the chart below reads left to right, it’s ideal to imagine it as a kind of incline, with Knowledge at the bottom, and Create at the top.

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Critical Thinking Evaluation Knowledge Curriculum Design 52

Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

‘Writing,’ for example, can become ‘Expert and self-initiated application of the ‘revision’ step of the writing process.’ Even sticking a push-pin into the map of every traveling destination you’ve ever visited is a form of ‘gamification.’ ’ As are Boy Scout Badges.

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Gamification Learning Motivation Learning Styles 104

Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 8, 2025

Most of that work has been driven by a focus on access — working to ensure that students with disabilities aren’t left behind academically. While these efforts have succeeded in improving access, they still position disabled students as lacking in some way. Even student government can get involved.

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Disabilities Teaching Culture Special Education 91

Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

With a team of experts, I guide instructors through the process of brainstorming, outlining, and developing academic materials that we organize into a guided, accessible experience. Therefore, I won’t assume what GenAI writes or cites is accurate, and I will do my own research. I value sustainability. References Bali, M.

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Instructors Critical Thinking Plagiarism Intelligence 82

Faculty Focus

JUNE 10, 2025

With a team of experts, I guide instructors through the process of brainstorming, outlining, and developing academic materials that we organize into a guided, accessible experience. Therefore, I won’t assume what GenAI writes or cites is accurate, and I will do my own research. I value sustainability. References Bali, M.

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Instructors Critical Thinking Plagiarism Intelligence 67

Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

Even if a student has never seen the word, they can reason: autobiographer is a person who writes the story of their own life. Word building, sentence writing, vocabulary mapping, and word detective tasks build fluency. Take the word autobiographer. That’s the power of morphology.

Teaching 52

Teaching Languages Language Writing 52

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

Interdisciplinary 145

Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 145

Teach Thought

MAY 27, 2025

Integrating AI Into Bloom’s Taxonomy AI tools like ChatGPT are reshaping how students access and interact with knowledge—but where do they fit within Bloom’s framework? Prompting it to generate interview questions may fall under Applying , while using it to design a project or co-write a podcast script can reach Creating.

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Evaluation Critical Thinking Knowledge Reading 52

Elevate k12

JUNE 30, 2025

Without access to consistent, individualized instruction aligned to their IEPs, students with disabilities risk falling further behind academically, emotionally, and developmentally. It provides noncredit-bearing instruction that is directly aligned to students’ academic IEP goals , typically in areas like reading, writing, or math.

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Special Education Teachers Disabilities Coaching 97

Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 18, 2025

They make us laugh, offer familiar language we can all borrow (“It was a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day”), and give us instant access to emotions and situations our students may not yet have words for.

Schools 52

Schools Lecturing Activities Reading 52

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

As AI automates many of the mechanical aspects of programming, the value of CS education is shifting, from writing perfect code to shaping systems, telling stories through logic and designing ethical, human-centered solutions. The gap between CS instruction and creative exploration is a pressing challenge.

Ethics 150

Ethics Science Game-Based Learning Motivation 150

Tim Manson

JULY 10, 2025

See [link] Access of teachers to research is minimal Again, something that I have highlighted often is that it is nearly impossible for teachers to get access to recent research. How do we expect teachers in NI to stay up to date with recent research if they cannot get access to it? Write a Comment. Log in now.

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Curriculum Blended Learning Knowledge Discussions 96

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 18, 2025

Veterans Day Craft By TNB Creations Grades: K-6th This seven-page craft takes about an hour to complete and includes a picture for students to color, along with space to write a letter. They can even write thank-you cards to veterans. With so many creative possibilities, your class is sure to find a project that inspires.

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Activities Teaching History Writing 97

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? The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. The time put Ruiz in 11th place. Im here to help!

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92