eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

One student might master a new language with ease but struggle with scientific concepts. In courses like band, art, and performing arts, students refine their skills over time, receiving continuous feedback as they progress. Ask any teacher, and they will tell you that the pace of learning is not universal.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

These tools offer interactive lessons, personalized learning paths, and fun activities that reinforce what students learned during the school year–without making summer feel like school. Its summer learning programs provide structured plans for students in grades K-12, including daily activities tailored by grade level.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2019

They read stories aloud, have table time, engage in the latest STEAM activities, and follow the general curriculum. While immersive learning spaces are becoming a must-have for school districts, the Allegheny Intermediate Unit’s (AIU) Speech-Language program has been doing it for two decades. It all sounds so familiar, doesn’t it?

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

English Language Arts Graphic Organizers. Digital graphic organizers make it possible to give students the option to complete their work offline and insert an image of their work or use the features inside of a digital document or slide deck to complete the activity. Daily Reading Record.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

A playlist is a sequence of learning activities designed to move students toward a desired result. Art Projects: In the visual arts, students often work on projects that require creativity, experimentation, and refinement. These processes cannot be rushed, and allowing variable time ensures students can produce their best work.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

For example, in my coursework, I introduce a collaborative, screen-free robotics activity that aligns with the ISTE Standards for Students. Teams document their final code with a photograph before progressing to the next part of the activity. ISTE Standard for Students 1.1 ISTE Standard for Students 1.4.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2021

Design a mix of 4-6 online and offline activities that correlate with what you usually cover in the first few weeks of the school year. Note : This station rotation series pictured above is designed for a 6th grade English Language Arts class. Create an overview of the rotations with links to resources and documents.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

Whether you did or didn’t make a planning guide, you can use this document to record your favorite activities of the year, reflect on the outcomes, and record your thoughts about what changes you want to make next year. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 20, 2015

The word research appears 80 times in the English language arts section of the Common Core Standards. Crowdsourcing – Shift students from passive receivers to active generators of information. It’s clear the ability to find, evaluate and apply information is a crucial life skill.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

Mission Move’s standards-based video program utilizes kinesthetic movement to make math, language arts, and nutrition fun for elementary-aged students. Mission Move incorporates movement with lessons in math, English language arts (ELA), and nutrition to make learning fun and engaging for kids.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2025

Yet, in the art room, where images are the universal language, his talent shines, allowing his classmates to see his strengths, not just his struggles. I believe in the power of the artsits ability to transcend language barriers and how it helps all students, especially multilingual learners, thrive in school.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

The standards guide teachers as they design learning experiences for students; however, the standards are not written in student-friendly language. Teachers working with older students may want to challenge them to work collaboratively to discuss specific standards or learning goals and rewrite them in student-friendly language.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

When she needed a fun end-of-year activity for her first-grade students incorporating Candyland, gummy bears and phonics, Irene Farmer turned to ChatGPT. “It That’s a game-changer for differentiation,” says Kim Zajac, a speech and language pathologist at Norton Public School in Massachusetts. asks Manahan. “AI

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

If a learning activity helps you become someone of value in your social group—if it earns you the respect and belonging you crave—you’ll throw yourself into it. At Khan World School, a partnership between ASU Prep and Khan Academy, students have shown learning growth as high as 2 to 5 times national norms in math, reading, and language arts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Students also experience the same frustrations, whether they’re conducting research in a science classroom or looking for the perfect picture for the book trailer they are making in English language arts. The Activity Teachers can model this process by thinking aloud after conducting a search.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

From a 5th grade teacher lens, it is evident that students are more likely to engage in an educational activity when it is “gamified,” and even more so when it is gamified with technology. IXL language arts also incorporates gamification, but it is a paid subscription (free 30-day trial).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Customized resources, small group activities, and resource organization are all made a bit easier with a little help from lesson planning tools, leaving teachers to spend more active time teaching, giving real-time feedback, and supporting students on an individual basis. Lesson planning doesn’t have to be daunting.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Still, there’s an art to gamifying a lesson and ensuring that students are actually learning instead of just playing a game for points. According to ISTE, “gamification is about transforming the classroom environment and regular activities into a game.” Rosenberg uses Gimkit , Kahoot! ,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Here are seven I use during the pre-Thanksgiving season: ASCII Art Comics Holiday Widget Team Challenge Thanksgiving Poll Thinking Games Themed ASCII Art Time required: Less than one class ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

At Spokane Public Schools (SPS), educators and administrators are reversing the side effects of social media by re-connecting with students through school-based extracurricular activities. A lot of them wanted an art club. Engaging with students was a top priority for workgroup members.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

STEAM learning can help schools ensure students are combining creativity with critical thinking and other key skills, and librarians are uniquely positioned to take an active role in designing STEAM programs and maker spaces. Roughly 32 percent of maker activities are tied directly to the curriculum. What do maker spaces look like?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Incorporate hands-on activities and experiments Hands-on activities let students engage directly with STEM concepts, making learning tangible and memorable. For math, measurement and geometry activities like building models or plotting data can turn abstract numbers into something students can visualize and manipulate.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2022

Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art K-12 digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. . Family members can join in as students get hands-on with ready-to-use activities promoting self-guided learning and career success. Twitter and LinkedIn.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Its active, collaborative, and forward-looking. Alongside the Prefect system, Elmwoods student-led councils offer focused leadership experiences in areas like academics, arts, athletics, and service. For students drawn to the arts, Elmwood shines just as brightly. Think art meets science. Innovation meets social change.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2021

More than a year into the pandemic, parents are still turning to online resources to find activities for their children–but social media can be a challenging place when it comes to choosing content.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Educators throughout the state can now administer the diagnostic as a beginning-of-year and mid-year assessment to measure students’ overall grade-level proficiency in math and English language arts based on Virginia’s Standards of Learning. To learn more about the IXL Diagnostic, please visit [link].

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2021

When I was a gifted English Language Arts teacher, I used project choice boards for all my units. As an ETS, I collaborate with teachers and assist in developing technology-infused standards-based lessons and activities. Here are five way educators can foster student voice and creativity: Get creative with Adobe Spark.

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Organized Classroom

JUNE 13, 2025

Reading and Language Arts Power Pack 11 reading and language arts resource sets that pack a punch! While this is probably more suited for students in grades 3 and up, I could see even a Kinder teacher use this as a group project to start talking about story elements.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

For English learners, acquiring language proficiency opens the door to thrive across all subjects. However, learning a new language can be a long, difficult process that requires courage, resilience and trust from students who initially might feel vulnerable and out of place.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Here are seven I use during the pre-holiday season: ASCII Art. ASCII Art is the graphic design technique of creating images by typing the letters, numbers, and symbols defined by ASCII Standards. A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. Time required: Less than one class. Team Challenge.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

You can also celebrate this important month by showcasing Hispanic history, culture, and the Spanish language in your curriculum, no matter what class you teach. Discover ways to integrate Hispanic Heritage Month activities into your school day and honor the contributions of Hispanic leaders, artists, athletes, and icons worldwide.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2025

Showcasing art and STEM with DIY projects not only enhances learning and creativity but makes these subjects more accessible to a broader audience. These activities encourage hands-on learning and spark curiosity, making art a natural gateway into the exciting world of STEM. What is STEAM and Why Does Art Matter in STEM?

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

Teaching students to navigate text as active readers helps them make sense of what they read. Artful annotation inspires them to record their responses in their own unique ways. Note that these concepts and questions are specific to language arts study; they can be modified according to any subject or genre. Doepker, G.M.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2017

With a little creativity, educators can use Minecraft with history, math, writing and language arts, foreign language, and more. And getting students active in Minecraft makes them more likely to participate and engage, because they’re having an impact on a virtual world shared by their peers.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2023

The series also focuses on math, science, social studies, arts and social-emotional learning. The website offers playlists, new search tools to help users find segments by subjects, topics and curriculum themes, and 100+ printable activities.

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Edsurge

MARCH 29, 2020

His own lessons around that time with an English tutor inspired him to switch his company to language learning. But spikes in his platform’s traffic suggest to Bigai that some have used that time to improve on their language skills. You start by learning a language, but you really learn about a culture,” says Bigai. In the U.S.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2024

Just as we don’t become fluent in art, language, or sports through repetitive drills over a few weeks, mastering math requires a different approach. caregivers can engage their children in activities that examine the duration of time. Use simple instructions that use positional language to help them find the toy.

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