eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2025

Research shows that productive struggle in math leads to better learning. In the eighth grade, he started working on a math program that uses AI to provide just-in-time feedback and contextual hints. Providing too much help can sometimes interfere with learning. When tasks are too difficult, frustration takes over.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

To guide this transformative learning process, critical thinking will become an invaluable commodity. Ultimately, our students look up to us and use our guidance in their learning. Once you begin practicing with an AI chatbot, achieving your desired outcomes will become second nature.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2025

At one point, our high school students were learning in a church because we didn’t have a traditional classroom set-up. As we went through the steps of designing the Empowerment Center, we learned a lot about architecture, planning, and construction. We also lacked the equipment that a traditional high school might have.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

To guide this transformative learning process, critical thinking will become an invaluable commodity. Ultimately, our students look up to us and use our guidance in their learning. Once you begin practicing with an AI chatbot, achieving your desired outcomes will become second nature.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Today’s modern liberal education typically encompasses a general education curriculum that offers extensive learning across various multiple disciplines and perspectives, paired with focused study in a chosen major. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 27, 2025

Schools across the country use various versions of quality assurance (walkthroughs, observations, evaluations, learning walks, etc.) It is also often the biggest area of concern for our school leaders, students, and parents when it comes to learning in a virtual teaching modality. Why Classroom Engagement Audits?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Today’s modern liberal education typically encompasses a general education curriculum that offers extensive learning across various multiple disciplines and perspectives, paired with focused study in a chosen major. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2025

Otus earned the certification by demonstrating how its product team consistently partners with K-12 educators to guide product design, test new features, and provide direct feedback that shapes future updates. The result is an intuitive, educator-informed tool that reflects JCPS’ commitment to vibrant learning and student-driven progress.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. Learning That Works for Every Student Imagine a student who is bright, curious, and eager to learn but constantly struggles in a traditional classroom.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Monitor and Adapt : Use feedback from experiments to refine policies and practices. Actionable Tip : Develop a stakeholder engagement plan with regular feedback sessions.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

There are multiple pathways to holding students accountable for their evidence of learning; one is to focus on cheating, the other is to focus on integrity. A claim about integrity is supported by a learners ability to transparently document and reflect on the learning process and explain or expand on their results.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

Research by Guthrie and Klauda (2014) supports the idea that high expectations, paired with motivational strategies, can boost student achievement. It provides immediate feedback and fosters a sense of community and achievement, all while giving students autonomy in their reading choices. Why it works One-Two-Three-Read!

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Charlotte, NC Discovery Education , the creators of indispensable K-12 learning solutions used in classrooms around the world, today announced an exciting new slate of standards-aligned educational content and instructional resources for Back-to-School 2025 that will inspire teachers and engage students.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Ask a colleague to informally observe your teaching and provide constructive feedback on your work of being an inclusive teacher.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Making Math Fun for Young Students Turn Math into Learning Stations Textbooks alone wont cut it for young learners, they need movement, hands-on activities, and variety. Learning stations are a great way to keep them engaged. Apps like these help kids explore math concepts at their own pace while making learning an adventure.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Monitor and Adapt : Use feedback from experiments to refine policies and practices. Actionable Tip : Develop a stakeholder engagement plan with regular feedback sessions.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

Blum (2020) argues that grades provide minimal feedback, they deemphasize learning, and what they actually measure is inconsistent (10-14). In Gannons model, students begin with a B- and achieving, or failing to achieve, specific requirements raise or lower their grade. You cant learn without laboring (76).

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

As students increasingly seek flexible and interactive learning experiences, the conventional approach may not meet their needs any longer. What innovations might redefine the learning environment? Data indicates that online learning offers flexibility that traditional classrooms often can’t match. A study from the U.S.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 24, 2025

As scholar-teachers, we know that the habit of reflectioncan be a powerful tool for workplace learning and performance, which can separate high-performance professionals from mediocre ones. During the Covid-19 pandemic, I set a before-action directive in my international business for students to engage in a virtual consulting-based learning.

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Organized Classroom

JUNE 11, 2025

Exciting Ways to Involve Students in Fundraising Engaging students in fundraising can be achieved through interactive and exciting initiatives such as a “DIY Craft Sale Fundraiser.” I list some type of question in which I would love your input and feedback.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

There was no fanfarejust a vision, a small classroom, and a deep belief in what girls could achieve when given the right environment to grow. The schools Lifted and Unstoppable philosophy ensures every girl learns to trust her voice, take risks, and lead with confidence. The recently reimagined Learning Commons is a perfect example.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Find new ways to assess learning 5. Build a learning team 11.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2025

Zachery-Ross: Ypsilanti Community High School has been selected as the first HP AI Spotlight School , an initiative focused on powerful teaching and learning with technology, especially artificial intelligence. This designation recognizes our commitment to leveraging AI for enhanced student learning and career readiness.

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Ethics Intelligence Critical Thinking Feedback 99

k12

JULY 18, 2025

Essential Computer Skills for Online Learning There’s no perfect age to start teaching kids computer skills. Basic Computer Skills Students finding their way around computers and learning common programs is a great place to start. Learning management systems. Here are some basic skills to build your child’s computer confidence.

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Skills Internet Students Assignments 52

eSchool News

MAY 23, 2025

For them, learning can feel like trying to play an instrument that was never built for them. For neurodiverse students–those with ADHD, dyslexia, autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and other learning differences–this need is especially acute. Success stories from the classroom Across the U.S.,

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Multidisciplinary Evaluation Reading Feedback 284

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2025

Use of AI in schools, the order states, demystifies this powerful technology but also sparks curiosity and creativity, preparing students to become active and responsible participants in the workforce of the future and nurturing the next generation of American AI innovators to propel our Nation to new heights of scientific and economic achievement.

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Intelligence Schools Science Math 215

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Our education community across the country is still working to overcome setbacks in student achievement and learning progress , all while facing ongoing challenges such as chronic absenteeism, teacher shortages and burnout, and a noticeable increase in student mental health and behavioral concerns. Heres how: 1.

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Grades Evaluation Students Achievement 152

Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

High workload: Besides teaching classes, grading assignments and exams, and providing feedback, full-time teachers must plan lessons, attend meetings and professional development programs, and organize extracurricular activities. States that paid the highest salaries were Washington ($72.3k), California($73.2k), and New York ($76.4k).

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

As professionals at all levels confront this disruption, career survival now demands we continuously learn, embrace the discomfort of being beginners again, and boldly step into the unknown. The acceleration of innovation, feedback gathering, and iteration creates pathways for solutions we couldn’t previously imagine.

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High School High School Science Feedback 263

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Informational Writing Choice Board (Distance Learning) By Swain in the Middle Grades: 5th-8th Standards: CCSS W5.2, Should video game creators focus more on player feedback when developing new games? Do students lose a lot of what they’ve learned over summer break? Imagine you are a plant seed learning how to grow.

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

However, what we really should be striving to develop are self-sufficient classrooms where students are driving the learning. Ideally, by surpassing compliance goals and student-driven learning, we can get to an even more important goal — critical thinking. But achieving that goal isn’t easy.

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Reading Technology Feedback Instructors 413

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Teacher effectiveness is an essential factor to ensure that each student is achieving their highest potential in school. If you’ve been out of the classroom for five years coaching, teachers may become skeptical about whether you really understand their experience, and may not take your feedback as seriously.

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Coaching Teachers Feedback Achievement 340

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. That’s when I heard about John Hattie at an education conference I attended and his concept of Visible Learning. Visible refers to making student learning visible to teachers so both parties know it’s working.

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Learning Failure Evaluation Feedback 193

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

By establishing our AI Advisory Board, we are creating a space to listen to and learn from educatorsensuring our innovations align with the real needs of those we serve. The Otus AI Advisory Board meets monthly, providing valuable insights and feedback on AI-related initiatives and tools. Learn more at Otus.com.

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Feedback Testing Participation Achievement 239

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

When I facilitate blended learning workshops, I ask participants to think about these three roles and identify the role they spend the most time and energy in. Hattie’s and Timperley’s (2007) research on feedback identified it as having a significant impact on student achievement and learning.

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