eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

Students who would have been performing below standards and assigned intervention support are now being told they are passing. Minnesota, Florida, and North Carolina are rolling back high school math or English requirements. Now, they have proposed eliminating an Algebra II requirement.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Since 2009, he has taught History, English, and Theology in the United States, and has since expanded his expertise to the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Business studies in China. These aren’t just assignments. Sgourdos also holds CAGS from the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Business School. That made all the difference.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

Personalized learning and student resources are the focus in the Ottawa Catholic School Board , where teachers use Gemini to give students differentiated experiences for needs such as special education, English as a second language (ESL) and advanced learners.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2025

For years, parents of non-English-speaking households have struggled with fragmented translation tools that leave critical parts of school apps untranslated. 2-way translated SMS and 2-way virtual calling with assigned phone numbers drive true engagement.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2025

Steinberg says that some teachers use AI to highlight aspects of a student’s work aligned with a rubric but stop short of letting AI assign a grade. Mark Bannecker, an English teacher at North High School in Missouri, is building AI-powered learning modules that guide students through skill-building exercises.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2025

Among the most common subjects for AI use: English/language arts (42 percent), mathematics (42 percent), and history (27 percent). For history assignments, AI tools can help summarize dense material or suggest key points for essays. In fact, 80 percent of students and recent graduates say they’ve used AI during their education.

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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 118

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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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2025

This activity emphasizes computational thinking and problem-solving, incorporating Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and utilizing differentiation strategies to support diverse elementary learners. In the second phase of the lesson, teams rotate and are assigned to another group’s obstacle course.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Since 2009, he has taught History, English, and Theology in the United States, and has since expanded his expertise to the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Business studies in China. These aren’t just assignments. Sgourdos also holds CAGS from the University of Notre Dame and Harvard Business School. That made all the difference.”

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Learning Critical Thinking History Secondary Education 130

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. While the instructions are presented here in English, the activity should be conducted in the target language—whether Spanish or another language being taught. Instructions: 1.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Does a student click on a link but the logs show they only looked at the directions for a complex assignment for 30 seconds? For example, look at the log in records. Dr. Jennifer P.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students do not learn much just sitting in classes listening to teachers, memorizing pre-packaged assignments, and spitting out answers. Does a student click on a link but the logs show they only looked at the directions for a complex assignment for 30 seconds? For example, look at the log in records. Dr. Jennifer P.

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eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 68

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. While the instructions are presented here in English, the activity should be conducted in the target language—whether Spanish or another language being taught. Instructions: 1.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

In many districts, the programs at risk are the same ones that support compliance with federal education laws: Title III-supported English language services, Special Education instruction, and after-school accommodations often written into IEPs. But the mechanisms to fund those obligations are increasingly unstable.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

Like most language arts/English teachers, I always wanted to share my love of reading with my students. So my question became, “How do I encourage my students to read in a way that lights a fire for them, so that they don’t see it as just another torturous reading assignment from their dumb teacher?” I just hope he has good brakes.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 21, 2025

From enjoyable English games to interesting lessons for reluctant readers, ELA will quickly be their favorite class of the year. By making reading assignments as creative as the books they’re covering! Assign creative book reports Forget the standard five-paragraph book report format! Keep it interesting. Assess regularly.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

AI can function as an effective copy editor, potentially improving student writing beyond what many currently produce in settings like AP English classes. AI presents an opportunity to rethink assignments and raise standards by making “simple things easy to do” and thereby “making complexity possible.”

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Education English Assignments Writing 278

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Vision Board Student Workbook By Danielle Knight Grades: 4th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Students will create a 15×20 vision board using this eight-section guide. The vision boards are accompanied by a writing assignment, and then they’re all hung as a class display.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

She even worried about her English, noting that while she speaks her second language well, using it professionally every day was intimidating at first. My English was a little rough when I first came, she admitted. But Lpez Angulo said the demand for English is rising throughout her country.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Hispanic Heritage Month Bulletin Board Activity in English & Spanish- Hispanidad by La Misi de Espanol Subjects: Other (ELA), Spanish Use a collaborative bulletin board project as a beginning-of-the-year icebreaker! A clickable calendar assigns one historical figure to each day of Hispanic Heritage Month.

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Activities Culture English Language 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Reader Response Prompts Journal Middle School ELA Writing 6th 7th 8th 9th By English Oh My Grades: 6th-9th Get your students excited about reading by trying these 38 engaging worksheets, including topics like character analysis, plot structure, and author’s craft. Are classes like art, gym, and life skills as critical as math and English?

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 21, 2025

In fact, the Ancient Greek word for leisure, skhole , is the root of our English word for school. That's right, at the roots of Western civilization lies the transformative idea that school should be a place of leisure, a time to discuss and study, not what others assign you, but rather according to what gives you pleasure.

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k12

JUNE 10, 2025

For starters, my online school allows me to have flexibility in my class and assignment schedule. After geometry, I start my English III lesson. After English III, I start my world history reading. From there, I start on English III, and then I attend my 11 AM Chemistry class. It is hard to list all the things.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

School districts nationwide struggle to fill teaching positions , especially in elementary education, secondary English, and special education. But there is hope, as powerful solutions are available to help schools overcome this challenge. Why Is There a Teacher Shortage?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school. Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 2, 2025

One of the most important reading journeys of my life was Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain , a dense, difficult work, translated into English from the original German, written by a very smart man. Reading what other people assigned to me was always a slog, and not the self-selected kind. Reading a book to the end requires effort.

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k12

JUNE 17, 2025

At this different online school, I was met with confusion and an overwhelming amount of assignments mixed with an underwhelming amount of support. I’m taking English 3 honors, U.S. I started a different online school that wasn’t with K12, because I figured, what’s the difference? But I was wrong. What classes are you taking right now?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 30, 2025

2 | EDITABLE By Lana’s Classroom Grades: 6th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Fifty riddles and accompanying solutions make it easy to incorporate daily riddles into your class period. Assign riddles on the first day of school as an icebreaker for students to get to know each other in a more relaxed setting.

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High School High School Schools Math 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Fun Debate Topics Persuasive Speaking Activity Middle School, High School By Lindsay Ann Learning Grades: 6th-9th Subjects: English Language Arts, Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS SL.9-10.4, Should students be allowed to use AI on their homework assignments? Should students under 18 be allowed to have social media accounts?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Going from zero to hero Just days before our fall semester started, I learned that I’d been assigned mythology—a subject I’d not taught before and one without a syllabus. To begin, I wrote a thorough prompt, telling it: “You’re a high school English teacher who wants to teach an inquiry-based mythology class with self-directed learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. Teachers are transitioning away from question-and-answer assignments or straightforward essays — in favor of projects. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are. It’s not especially high-tech or even particularly ingenious. she says. “We

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Assignments English Teachers Essay 198

Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

Identifying the Needs of English Learners English learners (ELs) have unique needs requiring targeted instructional approaches to support their language acquisition and academic success. Because ELs come from diverse linguistic backgrounds, their English language skills may vary widely.

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English Blended Learning Language Languages 274

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2023

Assigned Seats at Student-Led Stations As a teacher, I always had seating charts for whole-group instruction. But for those classes that needed extra structure during station rotation, I found assigning seats and strategically seating students in groups was equally important.

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Assignments Coaching Blended Learning Learning 248

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. When teachers provide students with the rubric at the start of any assignment or task that will be assessed, the rubric serves as a roadmap. How does using rubrics benefit students?

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Fairness Assignments Feedback Language 546

eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Many English Learners (ELs) across the United States have gone months without exposure to the academic English they require for success in school and that they would normally receive in formal education settings. Classes were randomly assigned to one of the two programs. PowerUp users gained an average of 24.9

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