eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Key points: AI’s instant feedback may help students from feeling lost during instruction Most teachers agree AI is a time-saver With AI coaching, a math platform helps students tackle tough concepts For more news on AI and instruction, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub This press release originally appeared online.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 27, 2025

You have the power to help students tap into their full potential, even when they feel like school just isn’t clicking. You can help students build confidence, develop new habits, and keep moving forward—even when the work is hard. One way to unlock a student’s potential is to encourage a growth mindset.

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k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

The implications stretch far beyond convenience or novelty- they represent a fundamental shift in how knowledge transfers from source to student. These AI-powered assistants serve as perpetually available guides, providing instant feedback, adaptive challenges, and personalised pathways through educational content.

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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. Students who learn to create precise, open-ended, and iterative prompts can use AI to support their cognitive engagement.

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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 an EB student.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

The key is to teach your students ways to improve their thinking and using the Paul and Elder model can be an effective tool. Teaching students to analyze critically the information generated from AI chatbots will become necessary for a progressing society. Ultimately, our students look up to us and use our guidance in their learning.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), microlearning, and learning analytics provides new dimensions to this pedagogical approach, enhancing both student preparation and in-class engagement. model, the learning process is amplified by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, which help personalize student learning pathways.

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k12 Digest

JULY 1, 2025

Steven Sgourdos has a passion for fostering intellectual curiosity and critical thinking in his students. His educational philosophy is centered on nurturing students’ thirst for knowledge and preparing them to do meaningful work in the future. That number should stop us in our tracks. It’s learning that sticks because it’s meaningful.

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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. Students who learn to create precise, open-ended, and iterative prompts can use AI to support their cognitive engagement.

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Critical Thinking Skills Ethics Academic Integrity 69

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), microlearning, and learning analytics provides new dimensions to this pedagogical approach, enhancing both student preparation and in-class engagement. model, the learning process is amplified by integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, which help personalize student learning pathways.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 13, 2025

The key is to teach your students ways to improve their thinking and using the Paul and Elder model can be an effective tool. Teaching students to analyze critically the information generated from AI chatbots will become necessary for a progressing society. Ultimately, our students look up to us and use our guidance in their learning.

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Critical Thinking Intelligence Education Learning 122

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Louis school, I often point out to students that the most significant changes in America have come from people standing up to authority. Instead of assuming this was the case for my classroom, I did what any unsure teacher does and asked my students directly. They are for everyone. I have control over their actions and learning.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

A faculty vision of inclusive pedagogy informed by equity and social justice transcends bias and makes diversity functional and beneficial to all students. Start here… Adopt an asset-based approach for all students. Assume that students are capable and possess knowledge and skills. Be open and welcome student questions.

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Teacher Mood

JUNE 1, 2025

When the Grading Stack Becomes Too Much As the classroom quiets and the last student heads out the door, you finally take a breathonly to be met with the overwhelming sight of papers piled high, waiting for your attention. That in order to monitor student learning, we have to review every answer, every response, every paragraph.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

This article includes a free, open-access resource for educators: What Your Students Arent Telling You: Listening, Learning, and Leading with Empathy. The book, co-authored with students, offers actionable strategies and insights to help create more inclusive and humane learning environments.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

This article delves into the complexities of developing and implementing an AI framework that not only aligns with an institution’s unique mission but also addresses the diverse needs of its stakeholders, including faculty, students, staff, and administration.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. At the same time, COVID-19 forced many seasoned instructors to grapple with assessing their students, making alternative assessment more mainstream. Each assignment has 1-10 points, with a total of 100 points. My system improved.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. Operating three campuses in the Davie area, AEF Schools cater to a diverse student population through two Preparatory Programs and one Academy Program.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Some students struggle to see how numbers fit together, while others find it plain boring. As a teacher, that makes engaging students in math a real challenge. Here are creative strategies tailored for young students, middle schoolers, and high schoolers to make math more engaging and meaningful. The good news?

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

This article delves into the complexities of developing and implementing an AI framework that not only aligns with an institution’s unique mission but also addresses the diverse needs of its stakeholders, including faculty, students, staff, and administration.

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Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 74

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. There are multiple pathways to holding students accountable for their evidence of learning; one is to focus on cheating, the other is to focus on integrity.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Virtual classrooms are now a trusted and permanent part of the K-12 landscape, offering flexibility and customization to help students thrive. There are proven tools, techniques, and activities that can enhance the engagement and effectiveness of online learning for students. The good news?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

But their reluctance has less to do with what’s happening in class and more to do with their identities as students. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Shift to a student-centered classroom 8.

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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. When wondering how to engage my students as readers, I started by reflecting on my own reading history and what initially got me excited about the printed word. Students choose their own books, and we all read together in silence.

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Elevate k12

JULY 3, 2025

Districts across the country are facing a convergence of policy shocks that are fundamentally altering how they deliver instruction, serve students with specific needs, and ensure legal compliance. Legal obligations, such as ensuring appropriate services for students with disabilities or English learners, remain intact.

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Teach Hub

JUNE 10, 2025

Between assignments, end-of-year projects, sports practices, and planning for summer, things can become chaotic quickly—not just for teachers and students but also for parents. Maybe your child wants to boost their math grade, read a certain number of books, or finish the year with fewer missing assignments.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Our education community across the country is still working to overcome setbacks in student achievement and learning progress , all while facing ongoing challenges such as chronic absenteeism, teacher shortages and burnout, and a noticeable increase in student mental health and behavioral concerns. Heres how: 1.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

For students, this means larger class sizes, less individualized attention and support, and a lower quality of education overall. Florida faced over 5,000 teacher vacancies statewide in 2024, while West Virginia topped the list in vacancies per 10,000 students, with 59 open roles per 10,000 enrolled students.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Ready to ignite your students’ imaginations and sharpen their writing skills? With these engaging 7th grade writing prompts, students will dive into a world of self-expression. What habits help students stay focused at school and at home, and why do they work? In addition to being editable, it includes graphic organizers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2017

However, what we really should be striving to develop are self-sufficient classrooms where students are driving the learning. Ideally, by surpassing compliance goals and student-driven learning, we can get to an even more important goal — critical thinking. The instructor can leave comments for students (i.e.,

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Keep students engaged with a collection of fun debate topics and “would you rather” questions for high school students that they’ll enjoy talking about. Keep students engaged with a collection of fun debate topics and “would you rather” questions for high school students that they’ll enjoy talking about.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Georgetown’s Designing the Future(s) Initiative focuses on curricular innovation centered on educating the “whole person” and is staffed by a healthy combination of over a dozen staff, faculty and, notably, students. Some campuses succeed in empowering students, recent grads, faculty and instructional designers as founders.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

If youve ever watched a student light up after cracking a tough problem or finally connecting the dots, you know learning is personal. Every classroom is filled with students who bring their own strengths, quirks and questions to the table. Students understood what the district was trying to do for them.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Digital literacy provides foundational technical competencies, but data literacy is necessary to equip students with the analytical frameworks needed to responsibly navigate our quantified world. But as we prepare students for the future, its no longer enough for them to simply use technology. The same goes for students.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 27, 2021

Feedback is how students feel seen and supported. It is also how we communicate to our students that we value the process over the product. When we give feedback as students work, we signal that the work they are doing is important, and we care about their progress. Peer Feedback Choice Board.

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