eSchool News

MAY 21, 2025

In addition to awareness training, administrators need to ensure the same hosting services are being used across classrooms, grades, and schools in their district and monitor activity under one umbrella.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

In addition, the students who felt the most disengaged in math class said they wanted fewer online activities and more real-world applications in their math classes. However, the RAND study notes that routine boredom is associated with lower school performance, reduced motivation, reduced effort, and increased rates of dropping out of school.

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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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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. Discover our developed projects and strategies to bring these STEM activities into your classroom. Be sure to reserve time for the Creators Fiesta , a destination for creative discovery and hands-on making.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

A first grade teacher with no formal CS background, she jumped at the chance to explore how computer science principles could enhance early literacy instruction — and ended up transforming her classroom in the process. For Johnson, it was a love of learning that motivated her: “I just like to know things about everything. “Let’s do it!”

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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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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Since it encourages internal motivation through an outwardly-created set of circumstances, gamification sits at the awkward intersection of intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The Grade Point Average might be the most visible example of gamification in school. You’re making a game out of something that isn’t.

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Gamification Learning Motivation Learning Styles 105

eSchool News

JULY 2, 2025

This adaptivity ensures that students are met where they are with just-right instruction and fun activities. Among the latest enhancements made to DreamBox Reading are:  Expanded Access to Adaptive, Personalized Learning for Older Readers: DreamBox Reading now supports grades PreK-5, thanks to recently added content.

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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. Discover our developed projects and strategies to bring these STEM activities into your classroom. Be sure to reserve time for the Creators Fiesta , a destination for creative discovery and hands-on making.

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Art Math STEM Participation 145

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. To address this dismal response to education, we must promote inclusive and respectful learning environments that foster engagement, motivation, and active discourse.

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Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 66

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

Teaching 8th grade ELA can be a uniquely rewarding experience, as long as you’ve got the right tools. But is that enough to prepare new teenagers for 9th grade? We’ve gathered our favorite 8th grade ELA teacher essentials, including tips for brand-new teachers and seasoned veterans alike.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

By positioning code as a creative tool, educators can tap into students' intrinsic motivation while simultaneously building computational thinking skills. Designed for grades 6-8, the project-based program is beginner-friendly; no prior programming experience is required for teachers or students. It’s about being active and engaged.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Moreover, many students, especially those transitioning from traditional learning environments, may carry negative assumptions about active learning approaches.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

In the digital era, especially post-pandemic, this strategy has gained renewed importance for fostering active learning, critical thinking, and academic resilience. Moreover, many students, especially those transitioning from traditional learning environments, may carry negative assumptions about active learning approaches.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 87

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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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2025

The top 10 chat topics were the same across all ages, grades and geographic locations, according to data from more than 250,000 messages exchanged with middle and high school students spanning 19 states. Alongside recently published a report revealing what worries today’s kids are willing to share with artificial intelligence systems.

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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.

Interdisciplinary 144

Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. To address this dismal response to education, we must promote inclusive and respectful learning environments that foster engagement, motivation, and active discourse.

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Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 61

Teach Hub

APRIL 25, 2025

It could be another teacher on your team, a specialist like an art or music teacher, or even a class in a different grade. Plus, having an outside audience can be a powerful motivator. If you want to inject some new energy into a project, consider partnering up with another class. Want to take it even further?

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

The activities provide multiple entry points that allow students to utilize the tool right away. A qualitative investigation of students’ complex motivations for verbalclassroom participation. Before Class Students were introduced to three strategies to use to capture the key points of the assigned reading. Accountability Audits.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

Dr. Pooja Agarwal Dr. Michelle Rivers Dr. Janell Blunt Whiteboard Activities Dr. Janell Blunt , an associate professor of psychology at Anderson University in Indiana, uses personal mini-whiteboards with her college students in every class. And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

Back To School All About Me Flip-book Activity By Love Live Laugh TEACH Use an “all about me” activity to create your first bulletin board of the year! The resource comes with headers, editable Google Slides, and community-building activities. With the right design, you can even tie it to CCSS , like retelling a story.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2025

Researchers have found that learners’ sense of belonging enhances psychological flexibility, learner satisfaction, motivation, and professional identity, thereby increasing student success (Carter et al., Intrapersonal Level Activities within the interpersonal level are journaling, professional development, and mental health practices.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. Research indicates that active participation leads to higher retention rates, which can be upwards of 60% for students engaged in interactive learning. Something broke in American education these past years.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2025

Researchers have found that learners’ sense of belonging enhances psychological flexibility, learner satisfaction, motivation, and professional identity, thereby increasing student success (Carter et al., Intrapersonal Level Activities within the interpersonal level are journaling, professional development, and mental health practices.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. Active, engaged learners retain information better, participate more fully, and develop a deeper understanding of the material. That’s true in traditional classrooms and also true in online settings.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 12, 2025

The activities during the Mystery Guest’s visit can vary. These interactions are more than just a social studies lesson… they show students what it takes to be an active member of their community! These activities provide a way for students to pair hands-on experiences with community activism.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

Try to avoid high-traffic areas where other household activities will become a distraction. You can also hang up motivational posters, a calendar, a daily schedule, and current anchor charts to further set the tone for your homeschool space and really immerse your students in their learning. On nice days, take your space outside!

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

Classroom Management and Student Engagement Teach Like a Pirate – A motivational guide to help teachers bring creativity, passion, and engagement into their classrooms. Whole Brain Teaching – An innovative approach to classroom management that enhances student engagement and behavior using active participation techniques.

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k12 Online Schools

JUNE 24, 2025

Studies have shown that students with strong digital skills tend to have higher grades and better engagement in their educational pursuits. Children must learn to understand the motivations behind media messages and recognize bias or persuasive techniques. How can I monitor my child’s online activity?

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Teach Hub

JUNE 18, 2025

Be Present and Participate When it comes to online professional development programs, it’s easy to treat them like background noise while you get your chores done or grade papers. But if you really stay present and actively participate in the program, you’ll get so much more out of it. That’s the point, isn’t it?

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k12

JUNE 24, 2025

12th grade student and SAC intern SAC Blog Series: Each year, the K12 Marketing Department hires a cohort of high school interns known as the Student Advisory Council or SAC. I attended until 7th grade, so most of my school experience is actually with an in-person school. “I My typical day is filled with personal activities.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Photo by Louis Bryant III for CalMatters Grade inflation in high school contributed to those pandemic-era gaps, said Lesley Davidson-Boyd, associate vice president of California State University, San Bernardino. Some high school seniors graduated at the time with stellar grades but below-average test scores in math and English, she said.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Explore unique vision board ideas for students to help you individualize this activity to each of them. This can be a simple brainstorming activity, or students can do some research to find quotes from books, movies, songs, or famous people. Once all the pages are complete, students can use the information to create a vision board.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority. Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. link] Ryan, R.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority. Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being. link] Ryan, R.

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Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70

Primary Punch

JANUARY 2, 2021

iSpy is great for pre-k-1st grade and Winning Word is perfect for 1st grade and up. As most SLPs know games are super motivating to my students. With this activity we target giving effective directions, using prepositional words, describing actions, and telling a narrative. In-person we usually play Winter Wonderland.

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