eSchool News

JULY 22, 2025

According to the SIOP Model (Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol), building background and explicitly teaching vocabulary are essential steps in making content comprehensible for English Learners. These tools aren’t a replacement for good teaching, but they offer powerful scaffolds. For students like Ms. Ready to try?

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) , only 14 percent of U.S. The assignment? They werent just completing an assignment–they were crafting their voices, practicing communication skills, and taking pride in their ability to share something they loved in a second language.

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2025

Key points: Useful AI in education often goes beyond surface-level automation Building an educator’s AI toolbox You’re using ChatGPT? But as AI becomes a marketing must-have, educators and school leaders must separate meaningful functionality from superficial hype. Not all AI is created equal.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

When educators take the time to apply proven strategies, students with autism can and do thrive–academically, socially, and emotionally. When we personalize support, structure the environment thoughtfully, and teach with clarity and empathy, we give students the best chance to reach their full potential.

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k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

Carl Morris, Co-Founder of educave, draws on extensive insights gained while building and scaling other EdTech and Education businesses, such as The Online School, EDAI, and Carfax Education. Unlike traditional educational models, where feedback loops stretch across days or weeks, virtual tutors close these loops in seconds.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2025

However, educators still need to teach students the ability to be critical consumers of information, whether produced by humans or generated by AI tools. The educators role is more important than ever. That makes teaching students to trace information to original sources even more essential. The stakes are higher.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

Khan Kids , a separate app for younger learners (ages 2-8), combines educational videos, stories, and games that focus on early literacy, math, and social-emotional development. Teachers and parents can assign grade-level texts, paired with vocabulary lessons and comprehension questions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

While edtech vendors race to integrate AI into every aspect of teaching and learning, educators are drawing clearer boundaries: AI should save them time, not replace their judgment. Most of all, they want tools that align with the values and realities of teaching. They want support for differentiation, not decision-making.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Reams have been written about the challenges with general education at US colleges and universities. Students often view general education requirements (gen eds) as “hurdles” to overcome on their way to the learning that matters to them. The sentiment is especially cacophonous in online education. Why am I doing this?”

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2025

Teaching AI literacy: SEE it, model it, practice it AI literacy isn’t about coding or programming; it’s about understanding how to use AI safely, ethically, and effectively. Just as we teach responsible use of the internet and social media, we must teach responsible use of AI. Avoidance allows misuse to happen in silence.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Sometimes they will cold call students, while other times they will ask students to share what they learned after theyve had a chance to read the assigned material or discuss it with their classmates in groups. I have incorporated this particular linguistic shift into my work with other educators at Relay Graduate School of Education.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Artificial intelligence is no different, but how can we ease the minds of those educators who have trouble embracing the newest innovation in emerging technologies? A shift in the fundamental mindset of educators and learners will be vitally important as AI becomes more and more commonplace.

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2025

According to a tutorial , “Gimkit is an excellent game-based learning platform that combines fun and education, making it a highly engaging tool for both teachers and students. Unlock Data-Driven Teaching: Using Gimkit for Meaningful Assessment Insights. What is Gimkit? To begin with, what is Gimkit? Student-Centered World.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

As AI becomes more widespread in education, more than half of high school students (56 percent) polled think it can go a long way in reducing math anxiety, a new global survey shows. and sixth form students in England and Wales–as well as 250 of their teachers–to get their insights on the impact of AI on math education.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

Artificial intelligence is no different, but how can we ease the minds of those educators who have trouble embracing the newest innovation in emerging technologies? A shift in the fundamental mindset of educators and learners will be vitally important as AI becomes more and more commonplace.

Critical Thinking 126

Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 126

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

Reams have been written about the challenges with general education at US colleges and universities. Students often view general education requirements (gen eds) as “hurdles” to overcome on their way to the learning that matters to them. The sentiment is especially cacophonous in online education. Why am I doing this?”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. It seems as if a quick scan of one of the assigned pages is the best effort.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Since the public release of ChatGPT in December 2022, educators have faced the challenge of effectively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their teaching. This approach will help students better understand and utilize AI as an educational ally, enabling innovative methods for effective classroom integration.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

What if I told you the education system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly the way it was built to? But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. That kind of insight changes how we teach. I also let students revise one major assignment.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

What if I told you the education system isn’t broken—it’s working exactly the way it was built to? But what we see in higher education—missed assignments, low engagement, quiet classrooms—isn’t always a motivation issue. That kind of insight changes how we teach. I also let students revise one major assignment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Odgers, a professor of psychological science and informatics at UC Irvine, launched a national survey to investigate the use of AI among teens, parents and educators. It was OK to use AI in this scenario, the mom said, but they shouldn’t use it for writing school assignments. And they themselves also recognize this.”

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at a rapid pace, educational institutions find themselves at a crossroads. The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

Educators can adopt similar strategies to design interdisciplinary lessons that promote engagement, creativity, and foundational literacy and STEM competencies across grade levels. In the second phase of the lesson, teams rotate and are assigned to another group’s obstacle course.

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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., Tell a colleague that you are committing to the work of becoming a more inclusive educator.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

And they point to a crucial insight for education: the key to unlocking students’ motivation, especially in adolescence, is helping them see that they have value —that they are valued by the people they care about and that they are meaningful contributors to the groups where they seek belonging. All of those are real. Or makeup tutorials.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

This step was taken especially since it became more difficult for me over the years in the classroom to keep todays device-driven students focused beyond 10 seconds or less on an assigned major concept for each of my fifty-minute classes.Retained learning was there but not at the expected levels.In

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at a rapid pace, educational institutions find themselves at a crossroads. The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes.

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Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 71

Teach Hub

APRIL 30, 2025

If youre looking for something new to try, one simple yet powerful strategy might surprise you: take your teaching outside. So instead of trying to overhaul your entire teaching approach to make outdoor learning work, with a little planning and flexibility, you can incorporate outdoor teaching in a manageable and fun way.

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Edsurge

JUNE 3, 2025

Educators and researchers are becoming increasingly worried how much kids are absorbing the digital information they find online about mental health, which kids are unlikely to fully grasp even if the information is trustworthy. I think we as educators have to have our own AI literacy, said Kemble.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. Instead of resisting AI, educators should focus on integrating AI into coursework in ways that support critical thinking and intellectual engagement.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 26, 2025

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools such as ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini are increasingly prevalent in higher education, raising questions about how students can engage with AI meaningfully. Instead of resisting AI, educators should focus on integrating AI into coursework in ways that support critical thinking and intellectual engagement.

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Critical Thinking Skills Ethics Academic Integrity 74

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. Keep a copy of your teaching philosophy nearby 8th Grade ELA teacher Essentials You Didn’t Know You Needed Seamlessly transition 8th grade ELA students to high school 1. But is that enough to prepare new teenagers for 9th grade?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

Each assignment has 1-10 points, with a total of 100 points. In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester. I especially wanted students to understand that the final assignment was anything but.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

As educators and industry leaders, we must ask: What do students and their teachers need to prepare for a future that is still unfolding? Just as we teach the alphabet, structure, vocabulary and syntax, we must teach the language of computers. Computer science is essential, not optional.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

Two decades later, as an educator living in Brooklyn, I returned to visit my old elementary school, hoping for a spark of nostalgia. How Redlining and Gentrification Influence Education Policies This modern funding pattern isn’t accidental; it echoes a much older system of structural exclusion. Black and Latinx. Working-class.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Turnitin, a longtime leader in the plagiarism-detection market, released a new tool within six months of ChatGPT’s debut to identify AI-generated writing in students’ assignments. That detector first became popular among professors when the internet made it easy for students to copy and paste information from websites into their assignments.

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Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 115

Faculty Focus

JUNE 5, 2025

The initial enthusiasm for learning a foreign language may wane as other courses with demanding assignments compete for their attention. It serves as a refreshing break, allowing students to step away from the stress of assignments and refocus in a fun, interactive way. ”  Journal of language teaching and research  10, no.

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