Tim Manson

JULY 10, 2025

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

Key points: Formulaic writing can constrain thinking and limit creativity Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy Video game design boosts students’ literacy skills For more news on writing instruction, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Early in our careers, when we were fresh-faced and idealistic (we still are!)

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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. These features empower teams to enhance their robots’ actions with sound effects, character voices, or background music, deepening the storytelling experience while building additional technical skills.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2025

Here are 5 high-caliber digital resources that can help K-5 educators connect their curriculum to the imagination of their students. This tool is especially powerful for developing creativity and communication skills. The multimedia lessons come with interactive activities, quizzes, and printable resources.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Today, I serve as Vice-Principal of B.School, where I lead efforts to integrate well-being, sustainability, and equity into our core curriculum. Within my own schools, one of the most defining moments was leading the integration of social-emotional learning and well-being into the core academic curriculum. I am also pursuing a Ph.D.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Chicago Public Schools (CPS) is using NotebookLM and Gemini for curriculum review and district guidance. CPS staff are creating Gems (custom AI experts in Google Gemini) when they upload the district’s curriculum development evidence guides and rubrics. What are you using AI for in your school/classroom?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 16, 2025

Skills that are essential in college and the workforce. Traditional schools offer constant interaction with peers, which helps students build communication skills, form friendships, and learn to navigate group dynamics. Others may need to actively seek out social opportunities through sports, volunteer work, or community programs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

Keep an eye out for daily activities with local artists who will lead drop-in workshops to get the creative juices flowing. Igniting STEM Learning Across the Elementary Curriculum : Explore our innovative unit planning approach that ignites student creativity and problem-solving through engineering design.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

The critical thinking model developed by Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder is pragmatic and fosters the critical thinking skills needed to navigate AI. Determining fact from fiction will be a skill that dedicated educators will train their students to harness in the work they complete.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

What if the missing ingredient in student achievement isn’t better curriculum, tech, or teachers, but better motivation? 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. They are wired to care about how they’re seen.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

Whether you are mastering a skill for work, learning to cook, or training for a marathon, you adjust your pace based on progress–not the ticking of a clock. In this model, students move forward when they have demonstrated mastery of a skill or concept, not when the bell rings or the calendar flips to June.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2025

She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum. ” Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Among the new content and resources now available to users of Discovery Education Experience are: Ready-To-Teach Lessons Enhancing Curriculum Built around research-based instructional strategies, these new ready-to-teach lessons and activities target critical classroom needs and help teachers create unique learning opportunities for each student.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 24, 2025

This philosophy is embedded in the British Curriculum, which offers both structure and flexibility. ProEd Global School blends this rigorous curriculum with personalized support, ensuring that every learner gets the guidance they need to thrive, not just survive in the classroom. “Our goal is to help them define it on their own terms.”

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

The critical thinking model developed by Dr. Richard Paul and Dr. Linda Elder is pragmatic and fosters the critical thinking skills needed to navigate AI. Determining fact from fiction will be a skill that dedicated educators will train their students to harness in the work they complete.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

A follow-up study in 2025 confirmed this trend, highlighting even steeper declines where secondary students have fewer opportunities to build new skills. Creativity now ranks among the top skills employers seek , alongside analytical thinking and AI literacy. It’s about being active and engaged. This inclusivity is intentional.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

Along the way, conferencegoers will face choices that demonstrate the impact of human activity, highlighting the consequences of deforestation versus sustainable practices. Powered by the Eduverse content engine and managed through the intuitive ClassVR portal, Xplorer gives educators access to thousands of curriculum-aligned resources.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

These improvements broaden DreamBox Reading’s coverage to support all PreK-5 learners and expand educators’ abilities to develop students’ foundational skills and confidence in reading through personalized instruction. This adaptivity ensures that students are met where they are with just-right instruction and fun activities.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Today, I serve as Vice-Principal of B.School, where I lead efforts to integrate well-being, sustainability, and equity into our core curriculum. Within my own schools, one of the most defining moments was leading the integration of social-emotional learning and well-being into the core academic curriculum. I am also pursuing a Ph.D.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2025

School shouldn’t just be a place to learn academic skills, but a place for students to practice making meaningful decisions about their learning and lives. By asking these questions, we instill the importance of decision-making skills in students and a sense of responsibility for their learning that traditional school models otherwise lack.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2025

For parents and educators who follow or are interested in the Montessori approach, which emphasizes hands-on activity, self directed learning, and natural curiosity, this article will come in handy. They’re meant to help develop fine motor skills, improve concentration, problem solving skills, and help a child be self sufficient.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

Keep an eye out for daily activities with local artists who will lead drop-in workshops to get the creative juices flowing. Igniting STEM Learning Across the Elementary Curriculum : Explore our innovative unit planning approach that ignites student creativity and problem-solving through engineering design.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

From clapping catchy beats with hands and feet to singing for all the class to hear, amp up your lesson plan with music activities for elementary students that hit all the right notes. Perfect for brain breaks, indoor recess games , or circle time warm-ups, each activity can be remixed to set the right tone for your class.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

STEM isnt just the latest teaching topic: Its an innovative, cross-curricular way to strengthen problem-solving and critical thinking skills across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Check out STEM activities for middle school that are sure to catch teenagers attention and inspire them to learn more.

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 9, 2025

As a homeschooler for over 20 years with my three kids, I have seen and used a lot of homeschool curriculum. I plan to share about all of the subjects and all of the homeschool curriculum we have used over the years. It was an extra thing, not our main spelling curriculum. Do you use a spelling program I didn’t feature?

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

I’m picturing a lot of family time, slower mornings, and leisure reading in my future, but I also like to spend some time brushing up on my teaching skills each summer. Each of these titles will help you seek fresh inspiration and sharpen your skills in classroom management, student engagement, or a subject area you want to improve.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Not all online platforms deliver quality education, and the lack of face-to-face interaction can hinder social development and collaborative skills. Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning.

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k12

JULY 18, 2025

Online school students use computer skills to access classes, communicate with teachers, conduct research, review materials, and turn in assignments. This blog lays the groundwork for your child’s digital literacy (and yours too), covering everything from necessary software skills to internet safety. What are computer skills?

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k12

JUNE 27, 2025

We’re here to help you find a summer school curriculum that will leave your kid feeling confident for the upcoming year and excited to keep learning! Between camps, volunteering, and family vacations, we know many activities compete for your kids’ summer days. The summer curriculum doesn’t have to be all about the basics.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

These arent just digital skillstheyre life skills. Its active, collaborative, and forward-looking. And when you combine strong values with smart tech and a global curriculum, you get more than a good education. They begin tackling real problems, building research skills, and learning how to think for themselves.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

What curriculum should you use? Try to avoid high-traffic areas where other household activities will become a distraction. I still had my kids use binders/folders/notebooks so they were developing good organization skills. Here is my favorite daily journal, which combines thoughtful prompts with academic skills!

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

When the vision of gen ed is realized for learners, they learn the habits of mind that result in the durable skills employers are looking for – critical thinking, problem solving, communication, and curiosity. Problem Solving : Use critical thinking skills to analyze customer issues and develop appropriate solutions.

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Brown Bag Teacher

JULY 18, 2025

What Matters Most the First Week of School Before we talk about plans and pacing, here’s the foundation: the first week of school is not about jumping straight into your curriculum. That means your first week of school lesson plans should be more than a checklist of activities. These are foundational life skills.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Gamification allows broad content areas (like English-Language Arts) with few measures of performance (alphanumeric symbols) to be broken up into more granular–and achievable–concepts and skills. You’re making a game out of something that isn’t.

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Priceless Ponderings

MAY 25, 2025

Students benefit from seeing reminders daily, especially during hands-on activities. Heres how they help: Quick reference during transitions Visual support for younger learners Prompts during partner work or group activities Check out these science safety lab poster sets for quick and easy ideas for your science class.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 8, 2025

In our Day 1 workshop, we will use the free 4 Shifts Protocol to redesign lessons, units, and other instructional activities for critical thinking and problem solving, greater student agency, more real-world authentic work, and robust technology infusion. Please bring your own examples and use cases of how you’re using AI!

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Include review materials in your curriculum 3. Add accountability activities to your units 9. Include review materials in your curriculum It’s easy to assume that 8th graders know the foundations of grammar, vocabulary, and writing, but that’s not always the case. Maintain a steady stash of supplies 2. 2, 3, 4, RL.8.1,

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